Lead of Trading Operations (21)

Lead Of Trading Operations

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
• 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