Technology Delivery Director / Global Head of Delivery

Responsibilities

• Oversee and optimize the entire delivery lifecycle (optimization towards the decrease of TTM), ensuring alignment with business objectives and high-quality outcomes.
• Establish and monitor key performance metrics for the engineering department, ensuring transparency and accountability.
• Identify and resolve bottlenecks in engineering processes and organizational design.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and define business and technical requirements.
• Drive the efficient management of the software development lifecycle, from ideation to deployment and maintenance.
• Implement and promote data-driven strategies and agile methodologies across teams.
• Lead quality management initiatives to ensure robust and scalable solutions.
• Foster a collaborative culture and ensure smooth coordination between engineering, trading, and operations teams.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in technology management roles within Capital Markets or quantitative trading domains, preferably at buy-side firms or HFT organizations. Experience in organizations during scale-up (storming/forming) phase.
• Proven expertise in project management, delivery management, design, and optimization of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Strong technical background with hands-on experience in programming languages like C++, Rust, C#, or Java, particularly with trading platforms.
• Demonstrated ability in designing and scaling engineering organizations: team structures, processes, incentive schemes, goals, performance indicators, architecture, and tech stack management.
• Proficiency in agile methodologies and metrics-driven decision-making.
• Strong financial acumen, with the ability to evaluate development investments and measure ROI of tech decisions.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with a data-driven and structured approach to communication.
• Fluency in English (written and verbal) with experience working in global, remote-first teams.