Global Banking & Markets Network Engineering Vice President London

Electronic Trading Platform (ETP) team provides tailored infrastructure solutions for the firms global markets businesses; we engineer and operate low latency trading environments globally. We leverage modern infrastructure automation and observability to optimize performance and manage risk on behalf of our clients. The teams areas of responsibility encompass server hardware Linux networking configuration management and packet capture analytics. The team directly interfaces with senior business stakeholders and external clients of the firm.

Your Role

• Architect and deliver high-performance large-scale distributed trading networks setting technical direction and driving adoption of automation at scale
• Own senior stakeholder relationships across trading desks technology leadership and external clients translating business requirements into robust network solutions and driving commercial outcomes
• Lead incident response and operational excellence for mission-critical network infrastructure establishing best practices for change management capacity planning and risk mitigation
• Drive strategic initiatives including network architecture evolution vendor and technology evaluation and cross-regional standardisation across global data centre and exchange connectivity footprints
• Use AI-assisted tools to support network automation configuration management and observability workflows
• Operate in a dynamic working environment with fluid priorities; requires the ability to context switch exercise sound judgement under pressure and prioritise competing demands
• Expand beyond your domain. We have broad engineering remits affording opportunities to explore innovative hardware software and emerging tooling

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors in Computer Science Engineering or related field
• CCNP or equivalent accreditation with deep expertise in end-to-end infrastructure delivery including BGP multicast routing switching and network design at scale
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex cross-functional technical initiatives from design through production delivery
• Strong communication and analytical problem-solving skills with the ability to influence at senior levels

Preferred Qualifications

• 7 years supporting mission-critical latency-sensitive production environments
• Extensive experience with colocation connectivity cross-connect provisioning carrier diversity and exchange/venue connectivity models across multiple regions
• Proven track record with production change management practices and strong knowledge of SDLC
• Advanced scripting (bash/python) and configuration management (Ansible Salt) experience building tooling and driving automation with an Infrastructure-as-Code mindset
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development and automation tools
• Experience with open source monitoring and metrics collection (Nagios TICK Prometheus Grafana etc.) with the ability to define and drive observability strategy
• Comfortable operating in and optimising Linux-based environments
• Production operations: leading incident response triaging and troubleshooting complex multi-layered network issues with a focus on root cause elimination
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills as the role interfaces directly with senior stakeholders external clients and internal technology stakeholders across regions
• Securities/trading domain exposure a plus