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
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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
Time-zone restrictions (UTC offsets): -10, -9, -8, -7, -6, -5, 14