Lead of Trading Operations
# Lead of Trading Operations **torchinsky** · United States · `Remote` · `Full Time` 💼 **Уровень роли:** `Senior` 🕒 **Статус:** *Опубликовано: сегодня* · *Источник: Himalayas (JSON API)* --- ### Top Skills & Match 🎯 **Ключевой стек роли:** `[FinTech-And-Trading]` `[Trading-Operations]` `[Trade-Support]` `[Electronic-Trading]` `[Operations-Leadership]` `[Trading-Operations-Manager]` `[Head-Of-Trading]` `[Trading-Strategy-Lead]` `[Market-Operations-Lead]` `[Trading-Technology-Team-Lead]` `[International-Trade-Operations-Leader]` --- ### About the Role This is a remote position. We are looking for a Lead of Trading Operations to build, lead, and evolve our global Trading Operations function. This role sits at the intersection of trading, technology, and risk management, and is mission-critical for ensuring resilient and scalable execution processes across markets and time zones. You’ll lead a team that owns operational integrity end-to-end: from pre-market checks to intraday monitoring and post-trade reconciliations, managing tooling and SLAs, and collaborating with trading, dev, quant, and compliance teams. Key Responsibilities Operational Ownership - Design and continuously refine pre-/post-session checklists, intraday monitoring protocols, and post-trade processes - Build and enforce intrasession controls and real-time invariants across trading systems - Develop and execute escalation playbooks for operational incidents Performance & Capacity Management - Monitor capacity trends across venues, instruments, and internal systems - Define KPIs and maintain SLAs (latency, fill rates, reconciliation windows) - Identify and resolve operational bottlenecks Anomaly Detection & Incident Response - Oversee systems and workflows for anomaly detection (latency spikes, data mismatches, P&L gaps) - Lead structured post-mortems, track root causes and remediation Continuous Improvement - Drive automation across key workflows - Evolve internal dashboards, monitoring systems, and alerting infrastructure - Build a culture of proactivity and robustness over reactivity Team Leadership - Build and lead a globally distributed ops team - Define clear growth paths and mentor junior team members - Balance tactical execution with strategic planning Cross-functional Collaboration - Align workflows with trading strategies and market structure - Partner with engineering for deployment/rollback reliability - Work with quant teams to understand model behavior and failure modes - Ensure audit-readiness and compliance with relevant regulations Requirements Experience - 7+ years in trading operations, execution support, or trading infrastructure roles at a prop shop, hedge fund, or electronic market-maker - Proven track record managing trading operations across multiple asset classes (equities, futures, FX, options) - Experience building and scaling ops processes in high-uptime, low-latency environments Technical & Functional Skills - Deep understanding of electronic execution flows: order lifecycle, market connectivity, clearing & settlement - Familiarity with FIX, proprietary APIs, drop copies, and post-trade reconciliation tooling - Strong grasp of infrastructure monitoring concepts (latency tracking, failover, system health) - Ability to define and implement intrasession checks, automated alerting, and risk controls - Comfortable working with dashboards (Grafana, Kibana, etc.) and scripting languages (Python, Bash, etc.) is a plus Leadership & Communication - Experience leading globally distributed teams and managing through follow-the-sun workflows - Clear communicator — able to synthesize incidents and drive postmortems with traders, engineers, and executives - Operational mindset with a bias for process design, reliability, and ownership under pressure Mindset - Hands-on, low-ego operator with a high bar for quality - Comfortable in fast-paced, dynamic environments with limited structure - Proactive, curious, and deeply invested in building scalable systems that “just work” Benefits - Highly competitive base salary , benchmarked against leading trading firms - Remote-first policy with optional relocation support for Dubai HQ - Flexible time off , including market holidays coverage structure - Home office stipend and equipment coverage - Regular offsites and team gatherings in global locations - Flat structure with direct access to trading, tech, and leadership Originally posted on Himalayas
- FinTech-And-Trading
- Trading-Operations
- Trade-Support
- Electronic-Trading
- Operations-Leadership
- Trading-Operations-Manager
- Head-Of-Trading
- Trading-Strategy-Lead
- Market-Operations-Lead
- Trading-Technology-Team-Lead
- International-Trade-Operations-Leader
Наблюдалась 2026-10-19, впервые 2026-10-19, источник — Himalayas (JSON API).