You will provide strategic and operational leadership across multiple engineering and IT teams, ensuring reliable platform operations, high engineering standards, and consistent delivery against business objectives.

• Lead multiple engineering and IT teams through Engineering Managers and IT Managers, overseeing recruitment, team development, performance management, and organizational effectiveness.

• Take ownership of production reliability and operational excellence across the trading platform, ensuring high availability, effective incident management, and continuous service improvement.

• Drive end-to-end trading performance optimization, focusing on order execution latency, system throughput, and market data delivery.

• Oversee 24/7 production operations and incident response, establishing effective escalation procedures and ensuring timely service recovery.

• Manage delivery across the engineering group, aligning priorities, resources, project timelines, and commitments with business objectives.

• Build and maintain strategic relationships with key technology vendors, including trading platform providers, liquidity bridge providers, and colocation partners.

• Ensure technology platforms and operations comply with applicable regulatory, security, and risk management requirements in collaboration with Security and Compliance teams.

• Monitor engineering, IT operations, and reliability metrics to identify performance gaps and drive measurable improvements.

• Promote a culture of accountability, operational discipline, technical excellence, and continuous improvement across all engineering squads.

• Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to balance platform stability, performance requirements, and evolving business needs.

Requirements:

The ideal candidate is an experienced engineering leader with a strong background in high-reliability systems, large-scale team management, and production operations within a demanding technology environment.

• 10+ years of experience building, managing, and operating high-reliability technology systems.

• At least 5 years of experience leading multiple engineering or IT teams through Engineering Managers or IT Managers.

• Proven experience managing 24/7 production operations, incident response, escalation processes, and service recovery.

• Strong technical understanding and experience with low-latency, high-throughput systems.

• Professional experience in fintech, trading, financial services, or another regulated industry.

• Demonstrated leadership capabilities, including team development, performance management, and organizational planning.

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to coordinate cross-functional teams and drive complex delivery initiatives.

• Proven ability to balance operational reliability, engineering performance, and business priorities.

• Advanced proficiency in Ukrainian.

• Upper-intermediate English proficiency.

Additional qualifications that would be considered an advantage:

• Experience leading the development and operation of customer-facing trading applications, including web and mobile platforms.

• Familiarity with IT Service Management practices and frameworks, particularly ITIL 4.

Benefits:

• 20 paid vacation days per year.

• 10 paid sick leave days per year.

• Public holidays in accordance with the approved company holiday calendar.

• Medical insurance coverage.

• Fully remote working opportunities.

• Professional development budget to support training, courses, and industry-related education.

• Language learning budget to improve communication and professional skills.

• Wellness budget covering gym memberships, sports equipment, and other fitness-related expenses.