London (hybrid) | Up to £175k base + £45k bonus, 35 days holiday · full family health · 15% pension
This isn't a build-from-scratch or a single vendor rollout. There's a real, complex front-office stack already in place. Your job is to upgrade it, rationalise it, and turn it into a scalable platform the investment floor actually wants to use.
You will own and build front-office Equity and Fixed Income investment platform capabilities used by portfolio managers, traders and researchers, with modern engineering, data and AI/analytics capability
This is a business-facing technology leadership role where the successful candidate will work directly with investment teams to understand how portfolios are researched, constructed, implemented, traded, monitored and controlled then translate those requirements into scalable data, technology and operating-model solutions.
You will set the strategic direction, define the roadmap, shape the operating model and ensure the right technology, data and delivery priorities are in place and operate confidently with portfolio managers, traders, researchers, operations, risk, compliance, architects, engineers, vendors and senior leadership.
WHAT YOU'LL OWN
- Strategy, roadmap and target operating model for the E&FI platform
- Equities & Fixed Income Platform product strategy, data platforms, APIs, real-time data architecture and AI-adjacent workflow solutions
- Prioritisation across investment, technology, data, risk and ops
- Budget, headcount, delivery capacity and third-party contributions
- Target-state architecture: data flows, integrations and analytics
- End-to-end delivery with the controls a regulated environment demands
- A seat in senior governance, reporting on outcomes not activity
WHAT YOU'LL BRING
- Deep Equities and/or Fixed Income workflow knowledge at a business level
- Equity & Fixed Income PM/trader/research workflows knowledge
- AI, Modern Engineering & data platform build-out.
- Real credibility with portfolio managers, traders and researchers
- A track record turning investment workflows into data and technology
- Platform strategy, roadmap and prioritisation ownership
- Experience rationalising complex application landscapes (OMS/PMS/EMS, data platforms)
- Commercial grip on budget and vendors, plus the political nous to land change
