We are seeking an accomplished and highly experienced Senior Vice President (SVP), Technical Lead, to drive critical strategic initiatives within our eTrading function in Canada. The SVP will be responsible for defining and executing technical strategy, leading a team of senior developers, and providing significant site-level leadership across the broader eTrading organization.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
- 10+ years of extensive experience in software development, architecture, and technical leadership roles within the financial services industry, preferably in eTrading
- Proven track record of leading and successfully delivering complex, strategic technical initiatives
- Minimum of 5 years of experience managing and mentoring technical teams (e.g., 5+ individuals)
- Deep understanding of capital markets and financial derivatives (rates or other)
- Demonstrated experience with Fixed Income products and reference data systems is highly desirable
- Expert-level proficiency in Java and related ecosystem technologies (e.g., Spring or other dependency injection frameworks)
- Extensive experience (10+ years) in developing and maintaining highly scalable, real-time, low latency, high-volume microservices
- Deep expertise in real-time messaging middleware, specifically Solace, along with other platforms like Kafka, RabbitMQ, Tibco
- Profound experience working with multi-threaded applications and designing high-performance concurrent systems
- Strong software development fundamentals, data structures, design patterns, Object-Oriented programming, architecture, algorithms, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to lead their application
- Experience with system performance tuning and low latency Java programming
- Proficiency with application deployment and debugging on UNIX/LINUX
- Hands-on experience in database technologies, including RDBMS (Oracle, etc.) and NoSQL (MongoDB)
- Experience with In-Memory Datastore/Cache libraries (Sol cache, Redis, Apache Ignite, Gemfire, etc.)
- Extensive experience with CI/CD pipelines, test-driven development (TDD), Unit and End-to-End Testing
Benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching
- Retirement Plan
- Health Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Stock Options
- Dental and Vision Insurance
- Flexible Work Arrangements
- Professional Development Opportunities
- Recognition and Rewards Program
