Equities IT Production Practice Head – North America region
Vice President- Full-time Hybrid Investment Bank in NYC
Equities Technology solves some of the most interesting and complex challenges in the financial industry to help our global business and its customers succeed. Ship code early and often using Agile and DevOps principles is critical for us to deliver business value, with continuous improvement and learning at the centre of everything we do.
We are motivated by challenging each other to push the boundaries of financial and technological innovation, in an open, inclusive, and diverse environment.
About Our Team
Our team in Equities Technology lead the Production Practice globally, we partner with engineering teams, our business, product owners and other practices to ensure operational excellence and stability are at the forefront. Curiosity and a growth mind-set driven by continuous learning are key values within our team.
We are globally distributed and well connected as a group, spanning multiple product lines in Equity Derivatives, Prime Finance, Cash Equities and Electronic trading.
About the Role
We’re looking for a Production Practice Head for our North America region, based in our New York office, to lead and grow the practice, enabling engineering teams to build and operate their platforms while adhering to standards, policies, and regulatory requirements.
- Address High Profile Incidents (outages and failures of applications & infrastructure)
(a)Provide production support.
- Coach DevOps teams and cultivate a culture of learning and remediate repetitive functionality failures and build new processes to prevent recurrences.
- Address and resolve escalations from teams in US, Canada, and LATAM.
- Build strong relationships with trading desks, technology teams, and firmwide leadership.
- Willing to coach managers and staff to eliminate repetition of failures.
- Interpret raw data and convert that data into useful and meaningful information.
- Report, review, and publish standards and best practices.
You will help us continue on the journey of implementing Infrastructure as code, containerization, micro services and using cloud infrastructure, while ensuring the highest levels of stability and control of our production platforms.
Challenging existing processes and ways of working is key to the role, enabling consistent small gains to contribute to the evolution of our business and how it operates.
You will help us build high performing teams and to enable that you would relish spending small periods of time in other global offices.
About You
You’re an experienced manager, with a technical background – it would be beneficial if you have some level of experience with Equities Trading. However, it’s not mandatory for this role as we can teach this but it is important you have some financial background and have experience supporting/assisting Trading in a production environment.
Ideal candidate would have:
- Understanding of Equity trading.
- Knowledge of Cloud computing.
- Strong technical past.
- A willingness to learn, someone that genuinely cares to improve the existing processes.
- True and genuine curiosity.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Ability to learn, teach, and grow.
You are able to matrix manage within a large team, establishing solid relationships and trust built on proven delivery.