Senior Lead (Low Latency Trading Application) - Senior Vice President

• Define and articulate the technical vision and strategy for Fixed Income Reference Data strategic systems and the Solace-based middleware/messaging platform
• Provide expert architectural direction and oversight for the design, development, and implementation of robust, scalable, and high-performance systems
• Champion engineering best practices, coding standards, and rigorous testing methodologies
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies, industry trends, and architectural patterns
• Act as a critical technical escalation point, driving resolution for complex technical challenges and system performance issues
• Actively lead and contribute to significant system design decisions
• Directly lead and mentor a team of approximately 10 highly skilled developers
• Identify and nurture talent within the team
• Manage team resources effectively
• Set clear performance objectives, conduct regular reviews, and drive accountability for results across the team
• Actively participate in the recruitment of top-tier engineering talent
• Collaborate effectively with peer leaders across various eTrading functions in Canada
• Represent the technical interests and capabilities of the Fixed Income and Messaging platforms within broader site-level discussions
• Contribute to shaping a positive and high-performance culture across the eTrading Canada site
• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders
• Lead the architectural evolution, design, and implementation of next-generation reference data platforms crucial for Fixed Income trading
• Ensure data accuracy, consistency, and timely delivery across various trading systems and downstream consumers
• Drive efforts to rationalize, consolidate, and modernize existing reference data infrastructure
• Spearhead the design, development, and ongoing enhancement of the enterprise-wide Solace-based event backbone
• Oversee the development of platform capabilities that enable seamless event-driven communication across thousands of Java components within the department
• Ensure the messaging platform meets stringent requirements for low-latency, high-throughput, reliability, and security

• 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
• Exceptional leadership, communication (strong verbal and written), and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and inspire diverse teams and face off with business users
• Self-motivated individual with strong determination to achieve goals
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent team-working skills and ability to work effectively in a distributed global team environment
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• flexible and able to deliver quality results in the required timeframe
• Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities
• Ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Proven ability to drive change and innovation in a large enterprise environment
• High degree of professionalism, integrity, and personal accountability
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field

Demonstrated experience with Fixed Income products and reference data systems is highly desirable