Engineering Head - HFT - Capital Markets/Fintech Domain

Roles and Responsibilities

• Owning the technology health of the project/account on all key metrics
• Responsible to Design & Deliver Complete Algo Trading Platform for all exchanges in all segments
• Hands-on experience on designing all components like : TBT, OMS and Strategy Engine
• Ensuring projects/accounts meet technical governance standards, technology standards, and best practices
• Make comparative analysis of trading softwares available in the market and deploy the best one in terms of cost and performance.
• Design and development of innovative tools and systems for Ultra Low Latency trading and Direct Market Access.
• Interacting with multiple projects/accounts to create innovative use cases, assessing ROI, creating rapid prototypes, and interfacing with client stakeholders to implement solutions
• Working with market leaders providing Algo-trading solutions such as (Apama/ FlexTrader/ Presto/ AlgoStudio/ Greek / Odin/ Neat+/ Neat/ uTrade Others)
• Work closely with the IT security team to deploy Secured IT Infrastructure
• Hands-on experience in handling and saving Tick by Tick Data in different formats from online to offline server
• Manage and lead a team so as to improve the reliability, accuracy, speed, and use of trading technologies.
• Mentoring and managing team members, by giving constant on-the-job feedback, and by providing guidance
• Major responsibilities involve Project Management, Change Management, Release management, Vendor Management, Test Management, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Relationship Management & Regulatory Compliance, Configuration Management, Financial and Resource Planning and Management, Performance Management & Testing, etc.
• Generating business from existing/new members/partners and achieving business targets from the FinTech domain.

Desired Skills

• Experience in capital markets or Fintech Domain
• Knowledge on large-scale C/C++ based multi-threaded applications
• Strong Entrepreneurial and Leadership skills
• Experience in designing and developing technology solutions using a variety of Trading platforms, languages, APIs and tools, with at least 12 years of software architecture experience.
• Knowledge of various IPC mechanisms on Linux/Unix-based systems.
• Depth knowledge of financial trading platforms / Algo trading.
• Preferred knowledge and interest in shares, portfolios, trading, Indian capital markets (NSE, MCX, BSE)
• Ability to influence key client stakeholders on their technology and operations strategy & Experience in handling diverse teams.
• Vast experience in owning the delivery of complex technology solutions in FinTech Platforms.
• A balanced approach that aligns technology-based solutions with customer needs.
• Visible thought leadership through technology blogs, whitepapers, presentations etc.
• Immediate joiner will be given preference. (ref:hirist.tech)