Job Description

The Development Manager will own the full Equities post-execution technology estate, shaping roadmap, ensuring regulatory compliance, and delivering stable, high-velocity platforms for sales, middle-office, and operations. This role partners with infrastructure, security, data, and production support teams while leading a distributed engineering organization to modernize legacy systems and drive AI-assisted engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end Equities post-execution technology estate, including middle-office processing, clearing hand-off, commission, reporting, and sales-trader workflow applications.
• Define and maintain a multi-year platform roadmap, balancing business demand, regulatory change, technical debt, and cost while securing sponsorship from leadership.
• Serve as the single technology point of accountability for sales, middle-office, and operations, making delivery, stability, and prioritization decisions.
• Partner with central infrastructure, information security, data platforms, and production support to ensure compliance, resilience, and operational excellence.
• Lead evolution of sales-trader applications and order-flow migrations, guaranteeing accurate, near-real-time data hand-off from upstream systems.
• Drive Kafka-based event flows, automation, and data-quality controls to meet T+1 affirmation and settlement timelines.
• Oversee regulatory and management reporting data feeds, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and audit readiness.
• Champion AI-assisted engineering, modernize the middle-office data platform (Sybase migration), and remediate legacy OS/database components.
• Manage a distributed team of engineers, analysts, and support staff; own hiring, performance, budget, and stakeholder communication.
• Maintain the technology control environment, including change management, access controls, business continuity testing, and a risk register.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in financial technology, with 7+ years building or running middle-office or post-trade platforms at a broker-dealer or trading technology vendor.
• Deep knowledge of the sell-side equities business and post-execution trade lifecycle, including allocations (CTM/NYFIX), clearing, settlement, and regulatory reporting (CAT, trade reporting).
• Hands-on expertise in Java/JVM, strong SQL skills, Linux scripting, and ability to credibly review code and architecture.
• Experience with enterprise messaging (Kafka) and API/file integrations to counterparties and service providers.
• Proven track record leading platform migrations, legacy modernization, and operating-system/database end-of-life remediation.
• Strong leadership experience managing onshore/offshore engineering teams, budgets, and multi-workstream delivery under regulatory deadlines.
• Excellent executive-level communication skills, capable of influencing senior business and technology leaders.
• Experience driving AI-assisted development or operational tooling (preferred).
• Familiarity with post-trade service providers (FIS/Broadridge) and AWS/cloud infrastructure (preferred).
• Understanding of reference data identifiers (LEI, CUSIP/ISIN, MPID) and commission structures (preferred).

Compensation Expectations: $250,000 - $275,000 Base Salary

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