Key Responsibilities:

Technology Strategy & Architecture:

- Define and own the end-to-end technology vision, architecture, and engineering roadmap.

- Lead architecture across trading engines, transaction processing, ledgers, custody, compliance, infrastructure, security, and data platforms.

- Drive technology modernization and continuous architectural evolution.

- Evaluate and execute build vs buy vs partner decisions for critical platform capabilities.

- Ensure platform scalability, reliability, and long-term maintainability.

Engineering Leadership:

- Build, lead, and scale a high-performing engineering organization across Backend, Frontend, Infrastructure, QA, DevOps, and Security.

- Define engineering standards, architecture governance, release management, and operational excellence.

- Recruit, mentor, and develop senior engineering leaders and technical talent.

- Establish engineering best practices including design reviews, code reviews, and technical governance.

Product Delivery & Platform Execution:

- Deliver highly scalable financial products including derivatives, perpetual futures, and options platforms.

- Build risk, margin, liquidation, reconciliation, and settlement capabilities.

- Drive multi-region and multi-market platform expansion.

- Ensure engineering execution with measurable SLAs, SLOs, error budgets, and performance benchmarks.

Security & Risk Management:

- Own platform security strategy including identity, access management, key management, secrets management, custody architecture, and threat modeling.

- Lead disaster recovery, business continuity, incident response, and platform resilience initiatives.

- Ensure customer asset protection through secure architecture and operational controls.

Compliance & Regulatory Technology:

- Build scalable compliance platforms supporting regulatory reporting, surveillance, monitoring, and audit requirements.

- Partner with regulators, auditors, banking partners, and external stakeholders during audits and technical due diligence.

- Ensure compliance with global financial and data protection regulations.

Executive Leadership:

- Own engineering budgets, cloud infrastructure costs, vendor relationships, and technology investments.

- Present technology strategy, delivery plans, and risk assessments to executive leadership and the Board.

- Drive engineering investment decisions aligned with business objectives.