Engineering Manager, Corp Tech

About Us

MarketAxess is on a journey to digitally transform one of the world’s largest financial markets, enabling the shift from analog, phone-based trading to a fully electronic marketplace. Our platform makes trading fixed-income more accessible, ultimately improving transparency, efficiency, and competition in the marketplace. Changing the way an established industry transacts is no easy feat. There will be twists and turns, because no one’s ever done this before. But now, more than 2,000 clients around the world rely on our solutions, and that number is only expected to grow in the years ahead.

The Role

The Corporate Technology Engineering Manager is a hands-on engineering leader and solution architect responsible for designing, building, and scaling firmwide platforms that support corporate functions (Finance, HR, Legal & Compliance, Risk, and Marketing). You will own end-to-end delivery—from architecture and vendor selection through implementation, integration, and production operations, working closely with corporate stakeholders and technology teams to modernize platforms, consolidate tooling, and raise the bar on reliability, security, and controls.

This role leads delivery across key services such as workflow and case management, reconciliations, regulatory reporting enablement, client lifecycle platforms, and operational controls. You will translate business outcomes into pragmatic target architecture, guide engineering teams through build vs. buy decisions, and partner with vendors to deliver integrated solutions that are scalable and supportable.

How You’ll Help Take Us There

• Engineering Leadership & Solution Architecture

• Own the end-to-end technical delivery for corporate function platforms architecture, engineering execution, integration, testing, and production rollout.
• Assess the current-state landscape, identify consolidation opportunities, and define a practical target architecture (APIs, data flows, controls, and operating model).
• Lead firmwide implementations (vendor platforms), including technical design reviews, cutover planning, and post-go-live stabilization.
• Partner day-to-day with Finance, HR, Legal & Compliance, Risk, Marketing, Operations, and InfoSec to prioritize work, manage dependencies, and deliver measurable outcomes.
• Be the “hands-on” escalation point, debug complex issues, unblock teams, and make architecture trade-offs quickly and transparently.

• Build, Run & Improve (Delivery Excellence)

• Lead a small number of high-performing engineering squads; set clear technical direction, review designs, and coach engineers through delivery.
• Own production health: incident management, root-cause analysis, remediation plans, and performance/capacity improvements.
• Implement modern engineering standards: API-first services, CI/CD, automated testing, observability (logs/metrics/traces), and SLOs.
• Design and deliver workflow orchestration using BPM/workflow engines, decision services, and microservices to reduce manual effort and exceptions.
• Apply AI/ML where it is proven and measurable (e.g., exception triage, document classification, anomaly detection), with strong controls and monitoring.
• Run vendor technical evaluations and implementations: due diligence, reference architectures, integration patterns, data/security requirements, and delivery governance.

• Controls, Risk & Enterprise Governance

• Ensure solutions meet enterprise standards for security, privacy, resiliency, and supportability in partnership with InfoSec, Risk, and Compliance.
• Present architecture, delivery status, and risk decisions to governance forums; communicate trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical leaders.
• Deliver audit-ready platforms: access controls, SDLC evidence, data retention/residency, operational controls, and change management.

• Vendor Management

• Own senior relationships with key vendors and internal procurement/third-party risk partners; align roadmaps, escalation paths, and delivery expectations.
• Lead contract and delivery governance (SOWs, milestones, SLAs, support model, release cadence) and ensure integrations land cleanly in production.
• Measure vendor outcomes (stability, throughput, defects, cost) and drive continuous improvement with joint remediation and roadmap plans.

What We’re Looking For

• 10+ years in technology with experience leading engineering teams delivering platforms for corporate functions and/or operations in financial services.
• Proven solution architecture experience designing integrated enterprise systems (build and buy), including data, APIs, and integration patterns.
• Strong grasp of modern engineering practices: cloud, microservices, REST/event-driven APIs, CI/CD, automated testing, and monitoring.
• Experience using automation and developer productivity tools to improve delivery speed and quality (e.g., test automation, code scanning, workflow automation).
• Hands-on software engineering background (Java, C++, or similar) with ability to dive into code and architecture when needed.
• Deep experience implementing vendor platforms firmwide, including technical due diligence, integration delivery, and service management.
• Cloud and integration experience (AWS/Azure/GCP), microservices, and enterprise integration pattern.

What You Can Expect From Us

• Central Location: based at our city offices near St Paul’s.
• Free Food: We provide lunch each day of the week when the employee attends the office via our vendor Feedr as well as breakfast cereals, office snacks and drinks from our free vending machines.
• Paid Time Off: 25 days annual leave entitlement plus 2 charity days.
• Reward for your service: We offer a two-week bonus holiday after completing each 5 years of service.
• Core benefits: Besides competitive standard benefits package we offer private medical (PMI) for family, Cash Plan, health screenings, dental cover, 6X life assurance, critical illness cover, income protection, pension, car leasing (Tusker electronic cars), reimbursement for wellness stipend, interest free season ticket loan and a “Share Incentive” plan.
• Tuition Assistance and Professional Training: Benefit from on-demand learning, boot camps, and opportunities to attend conferences.

Collaboration and innovation are integral to our success – it’s how we got to where we are and how we’ll maintain and grow our competitive advantage. We believe this best happens in an office environment. Employees in Technology work in the office 2 or more days a week. This approach still allows for flexibility depending on the business function you work within but also helps us maintain a collaborative office environment long-term.