Applications Development Group Manager - Fx Technology Engineering – Senior Vice President

• Provide senior‑level engineering leadership across the FX Technology platform, spanning application development and core engineering capabilities
• Own the technical health, resilience, and evolution of a mission‑critical, globally distributed, 24/7 platform
• Set and continuously raise engineering standards across architecture, development, testing, deployment, and operational support
• Drive the design and development of scalable, resilient system architectures in close partnership with business stakeholders
• Lead multiple application development teams responsible for delivering core FX trading, pricing, risk, and operational systems
• Own and evolve core engineering components and shared capabilities that underpin the broader platform
• Balance delivery speed with platform stability, resilience, and regulatory compliance
• Ensure systems are designed for operability, performance, and availability at global scale
• Lead, mentor, and develop senior engineering leaders and managers across regions, with a significant and strategic technology presence in India
• Build teams that value curiosity, accountability, craftsmanship, and continuous learning
• Attract and develop engineers with strong fundamentals, great attitudes, and a passion for solving complex problems
• Create an environment where engineers are empowered to challenge, improve, and innovate
• Partner closely with Markets business leaders to align technology priorities with FX business strategy
• Contribute to the long‑term technology vision for FX, including modernisation, simplification, and scalability initiatives
• Own delivery execution across a complex portfolio—planning, prioritisation, budgeting, and progress transparency
• Prepare and present regular updates to senior technology and business leadership
• Ensure change is delivered with strong engineering discipline, governance, and controls appropriate to a global regulated business
• Maintain robust production management practices, including incident management, root‑cause analysis, and continuous improvement
• Own disaster recovery and resilience strategies, overseeing testing and readiness for all critical applications
• Proactively identify, manage, and escalate technology and operational risk
• Act as a visible and credible senior engineering leader within FX Technology
• Lead local and global forums, sharing platform vision, progress, and priorities
• Role‑model ethical behaviour, accountability, and sound judgement in all decision‑making

• 15+ years of relevant technology experience
• 8–10+ years in senior engineering or technology leadership roles
• experience in financial services, markets, or similarly complex regulated environments preferred
• strong understanding of enterprise platforms operating at global scale
• deep experience leading application development and/or core engineering teams at scale
• strong engineering fundamentals and architectural judgement
• passion for using technology to solve real business problems
• leadership philosophy that values people, potential, and culture
• experience working in or with global, distributed engineering teams, including India
• ability to balance innovation with resilience, risk management, and regulatory discipline
• End-to-End Full stack development: Design, build and maintain scalable application across frontend, backend, API’s and data layers using modern framework and could-native architecture
• AI Enabled SDLC Adoption: Actively leverage AI tools across development life cycle – requirements refinement, code generation, refactoring, testing & documentation – to improve productivity and quality
• Modern front end & backend expertise: Build responsive UI (eg: React/Angular) and robust backend services (eg: J2EE, Java, Microservices, REST/GraphQL API’s)

Master’s degree preferred