Director - Front Office Engineering Lead (Full-stack) - Buy side trading solutions
In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:
- Architecture & Design Leadership: Play a lead role in the design, architecture and implementation of trading, sales, and operations workflows, ensuring alignment with business goals and engineering best practices.
- Trade-Flow Platform Development: Design and build flexible, scalable trade-flow software capable of handling diverse client-side and OMS-side integration patterns and high-throughput scenarios.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product, Trading, Operations, and Engineering teams to translate complex business requirements into robust, scalable technical solutions.
- Technology Innovation: Work alongside a cross-functional engineering team to evaluate and adopt emerging technologies, contributing to a modern, high-performance technology stack.
- AI-Driven Automation: Champion an AI-first mindset by driving automation initiatives, intelligent code refactoring, and the adoption of AI tooling to improve developer productivity and system efficiency.
- Engineering Excellence: Deliver well-designed, testable, secure, and performant code through hands‑on programming, rigorous code reviews, and adherence to engineering standards.
- Production Support: Provide second‑level production support, troubleshoot complex system issues, and contribute to incident resolution and post‑mortem processes.
- Mentorship & Technical Leadership: Mentor and coach junior and mid‑level engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning, technical growth, and engineering craftsmanship.
To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience required, advanced degree preferred.
- Industry Experience: 14 plus years of experience designing, building, and delivering real‑time, scalable, and resilient software applications within Financial Services or similarly complex, high-throughput domains.
- Data & Persistence: Strong command of relational and analytical database technologies, e.g., KDB / ClickHouse / Oracle, with experience in data modelling, query optimization, and large‑scale data management.
- Messaging & Middleware: Hands‑on experience with messaging and middleware technologies such as Apache Kafka, IBM MQ, FIX protocol, with an understanding of event‑driven and asynchronous system design.
- Agile Delivery: Solid understanding of Scrum and Agile methodologies, with a proven ability to deliver in fast‑paced, rapidly evolving environments with shifting priorities.
- Communication & Leadership: Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to clearly articulate technical concepts to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders. Strong organizational skills to coordinate, influence, and drive cross‑team initiatives.
- Problem Solving & Innovation: Demonstrated ability to analyze complex, ambiguous problems and devise pragmatic, innovative solutions — balancing technical rigor with delivery speed.
- AI-Augmented Development: Familiarity with one or more AI coding and productivity tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code), with a willingness to leverage AI‑assisted workflows to accelerate development and improve code quality.
- Experience working with Execution Management Systems (EMS) and Order Management Systems (OMS).
BNY is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer - Underrepresented racial and ethnic groups/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.
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