Director, Trading System Operations

Director, Trading Systems Operations

Austin, TX

We are helping our client to hire a hands-on Director of Trading Systems Operations in Austin to lead a small, high-impact trading operations team. The Trading Operations team runs mission-critical global trading systems that support our strategies across 17 countries and manage a book in excess of $1B. You’ll own both the most challenging technical problems and the development of a small, high-performing team in a fast-paced environment focused on automation and reliability.

In this role you will:

• Lead technically while remaining a senior individual contributor, setting direction and owning high-impact work.
• Oversee highly automated global trading operations in an enterprise environment.
• Set the standard for technical excellence and mentor two operations engineers.
• Advance our AI-forward culture by continuing our deeply integrated enterprise AI tools into operations, automation, and incident response to improve productivity and resilience.
• Partner with portfolio managers, quantitative researchers, and developers to reduce production risk and solve challenging systems problems.
• Coordinate with key external partners, including data providers, counterparties, and other service providers.

Successful candidates for this role have:

• A passion for technical operations and a desire to grow their impact in this area.
• Strong proficiency on the Linux command line, demonstrated scripting ability in bash and/or Python, and solid general programming skills.
• Experience as a strong operations contributor and/or technical team lead.
• Ability to think strategically, plan, and lead team projects from definition through execution.
• Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure and networked systems.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• A strong desire to continually learn and improve, and to leverage evolving technologies in day-to-day work.
• Composure under time pressure and frequent context switches.
• Thoroughness and attention to detail.
• BS in Computer Science or another technical field preferred.
• Experience in an automated trading environment is a plus but not required for exceptional candidates from adjacent domains.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please send a copy of your resume to jing@aaaglobal.co.uk.