Engineering Manager

• Lead and develop cross-functional engineering teams across OMS, integrations and trading platform services, including engineers, QA and technical leads, fostering a high-performance, accountable and collaborative culture
• Own end-to-end platform performance, including order execution latency, throughput, concurrency handling and market data delivery, ensuring systems meet strict performance and reliability targets
• Drive platform stability and operational excellence, reducing incident frequency and severity, improving mean time to recovery, and embedding strong incident management, root cause analysis and continuous improvement practices
• Translate trading platform strategy and roadmap into actionable engineering deliverables, ensuring clear prioritisation, alignment and execution across multiple teams and stakeholders
• Oversee the design, development, testing and deployment of platform changes, ensuring all releases meet production readiness standards, including performance, security and resilience requirements
• Define and evolve scalable, low-latency architecture, establishing clear service boundaries across OMS, integration layers and platform orchestration services
• Lead scaling initiatives to support significant platform growth, including capacity planning, horizontal scaling strategies, performance optimisation and efficient inter-service communication patterns
• Own the build-and-run operating model, ensuring teams are accountable for both delivery and live operations, including on-call rotations, monitoring, alerting and system health
• Establish and continuously improve engineering delivery practices, including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, release management and deployment strategies
• Champion modern engineering practices and standards, including code quality, design patterns, observability, resilience engineering and secure development practices
• Partner closely with Product, SRE, Cloud, Security and Data teams, ensuring alignment between business objectives, client experience and technical execution
• Drive visibility and transparency of platform health and delivery, using metrics and dashboards to communicate performance, reliability, capacity and delivery progress to stakeholders
• Mentor and develop engineering talent, building deep capability in distributed systems, performance engineering and operational ownership, while supporting career growth and retention
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and security requirements, particularly within a global trading environment, maintaining robust controls and auditability across platform systems
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident leadership, including major incident response, stakeholder communication and post-incident reviews

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Engineering Manager – Trading Platforms