Applications Development Group Manager - Senior Vice President

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership & Architecture
• Provide technical leadership across the OTC Clearing technology estate, ensuring solutions are scalable, resilient, secure, and aligned to strategic architecture objectives.
• Lead the design and implementation of complex technology solutions supporting new products, new CCP onboarding, business growth initiatives, and regulatory requirements.
• Drive engineering decisions across system architecture, integration patterns, data models, and application design.
• Partner with senior engineers and architects across Markets Technology and enterprise engineering teams to ensure alignment with firmwide standards and strategic direction.
• Perform technical reviews and provide guidance on architecture, design quality, performance, and maintainability.
• Program & Workstream Leadership
• Lead major delivery initiatives and technology workstreams from inception through production deployment.
• Coordinate across development, QA, production support, infrastructure, operations, and business stakeholders to ensure successful execution.
• Manage competing priorities while balancing strategic investment, technical debt reduction, platform stability, and regulatory commitments.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and delivery challenges and drive effective mitigation strategies.
• Provide regular progress updates and technical status reporting to senior management and project stakeholders.
• Engineering Excellence & Productivity
• Drive continuous improvements in engineering practices, development processes, and delivery methodologies.
• Establish and promote best practices for software engineering, code quality, testing, release management, observability, and operational readiness.
• Lead initiatives to improve the Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC), including increased automation, standardization, and reduction of manual processes.
• Champion adoption of AI-enabled development capabilities, developer productivity tooling, knowledge management solutions, and software engineering automation.
• Measure and improve engineering effectiveness through appropriate metrics and feedback mechanisms.
• Platform Stability & Operational Excellence
• Drive improvements in platform reliability, resiliency, recoverability, and operational supportability.
• Partner with production support and SRE teams to improve monitoring, alerting, incident management, and root-cause analysis practices.
• Ensure solutions meet established standards for performance, capacity, security, and availability.
• Support disaster recovery planning, testing, and operational readiness activities.
• Collaboration & Mentoring
• Develop and mentor engineers across the organization, promoting strong engineering culture and technical excellence.
• Foster effective collaboration across global teams and disciplines.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to business, operations, and technology stakeholders.
• Contribute to hiring, talent development, and succession planning efforts within the engineering organization.

Qualifications

• Required Experience
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering and application development, preferably within capital markets or clearing technology.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex engineering initiatives in large-scale, distributed environments.
• Proven track record delivering strategic technology projects from design through implementation.
• Experience leading technical teams or major project workstreams involving multiple stakeholders and delivery groups.
• Technical Expertise
• Strong software engineering background with expertise in designing and building scalable enterprise applications.
• Experience working with distributed systems, messaging technologies, event-driven architectures, APIs, and large-scale data processing solutions.
• Strong knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and modern software engineering practices.
• Experience driving engineering productivity initiatives, automation strategies, and development lifecycle improvements.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted software development tools and emerging engineering productivity technologies.
• Business & Domain Knowledge
• Experience within OTC derivatives, clearing, post-trade processing, futures, or related capital markets domains preferred.
• Understanding of clearing workflows, trade lifecycle processing, and regulatory requirements affecting financial markets technology.
• Ability to translate business requirements into practical and scalable technical solutions.
• Leadership Competencies
• Strong technical leadership with the ability to influence without direct authority.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in complex, global organizations.
• Strong problem-solving capabilities and a passion for continuous improvement.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers and elevate engineering standards across teams.
• Education:
• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master’s degree preferred

Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:

Automated Processing and AI