European Rates Production & Reliability Engineering lead, D

Position Overview

Location: London

Corporate Title: Director

Senior role reporting to the Head of Global Rates Production. This leader will drive European Rates Production Engineering across Fixed Income and Currencies Technology, overseeing mission‑critical rates trading systems, strengthening Site Reliability Engineering practices, and partnering with senior business and technology managers to improve architecture, automation, resilience and incident management capabilities.

What we’ll offer you

• Hybrid Working – a flexible model allowing eligible employees to work remotely part of the time.
• Competitive salary and non‑contributory pension.
• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays with the option to purchase additional days.
• Life assurance and private healthcare for you and your family.
• Flexible benefits including retail discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and gym benefits.
• Opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme and two days volunteering leave per year.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Lead production stability across the Rates business in Europe, aligning engineering priorities with business objectives, regulatory expectations and platform resilience goals.
• Embed modern Site Reliability Engineering principles, supporting the move from reactive support to a proactive, data‑determined and automation‑led engineering model.
• Strengthen platform robustness by reviewing architecture, contributing to tooling strategy and setting clear standards for incident response, post‑incident evaluation and risk reduction.
• Act as a senior partner to the Head of Rates Trading, Rates desk heads, technology executives and adjacent business stakeholders, supporting transparency, aligned priorities and shared accountability for platform performance and health.
• Develop, mentor and scale a global team aligned to Site Reliability Engineering principles, promoting ownership, technical quality, curiosity and continuous improvement.

Your Skills and Experience

• Leadership experience managing Site Reliability Engineering or Production Engineering functions in complex, high‑availability, real‑time environments, ideally within capital markets.
• Experience working in a trading environment with knowledge of pricing, trade capture, market data flows and fixed income products; exposure to foreign exchange, algorithmic trading or electronic trading is advantageous.
• Strong experience in incident management, post‑mortem practices, problem management and change governance, ideally within regulated financial environments.
• Advanced technical capability across Linux/Unix systems, SQL and programming in languages such as C++, Java or Python, with strong understanding of distributed systems and low‑latency architecture.
• Experience with observability and telemetry platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Geneos or OpenTelemetry, and infrastructure automation tooling including Ansible, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with hybrid cloud environments, containerisation technologies including Kubernetes and Docker, and modern deployment methodologies.

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career.
• Flexible working to help you balance personal priorities.
• We value diversity and, as an equal‑opportunity employer, make reasonable adjustments for employees with disabilities, such as provision of assistive equipment (screen readers, hearing devices, adapted keyboards).
• We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.