Senior Technology Leader – Investment Technology

Fulcrum Consulting an LRS company is seeking a Senior Technology Leader Investment Technology with our client in Boston MA.

Our client is looking to bring on an experienced Senior Technology Leader in Investment Technology. This is an experienced hands-on Senior Technology Leader to join our Asset Management Investment Technology team in Boston. This role combines technical leadership with active software engineering requiring you to remain hands-on in architecture and development while leading a distributed team and shaping the technology strategy for our core investment platforms.

You will drive the modernization of cloud-native investment platforms partnering with stakeholders across Investments Operations Product and Technology to deliver scalable high-impact solutions supporting Portfolio Management and Trading. Experience with ETFs and multi-asset platforms is advantageous.

Key Responsibilities

Technology Strategy

• Define and execute technology strategy aligned with business objectives.
• Lead transformation initiatives focused on cloud-native architecture automation and engineering excellence.

Engineering & Architecture

• Design develop and maintain scalable full-stack applications and APIs.
• Build modern web applications using React or Angular.
• Manage AWS infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines (CloudFormation Lambda ECS S3 RDS etc.).
• Drive automation and engineering best practices to improve delivery and operational efficiency.

Delivery & Operations

• Own production environments release governance and application reliability.
• Partner with business and product teams to translate investment requirements into technical solutions.

Stakeholder & Vendor Management

• Collaborate with global business and technology stakeholders.
• Manage relationships with strategic technology vendors such as BlackRock Aladdin and Snowflake.

Leadership

• Lead mentor and develop a high-performing global engineering team.
• Foster a culture of collaboration innovation accountability and continuous improvement.

Required Experience

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field.
• 15 years of software engineering experience including 5 years in a senior technical leadership role.
• Strong full-stack development experience with JavaScript (React/Angular) or Python and SQL.
• Hands-on AWS experience including serverless and cloud-native services.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins GitHub Actions Terraform or CloudFormation).
• Strong API design testing (Jest Cypress Selenium) and system integration experience.
• Proven ability to lead distributed teams while remaining hands-on in architecture and development.

Preferred

• Experience in Asset Management Investment Banking or Wealth Management.
• Knowledge of OMS PMS trading platforms risk systems and ETF workflows.
• Experience with Snowflake Python event-driven architecture ESG regulatory reporting or performance attribution.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to shape the technology roadmap for a global investment platform.
• Modern cloud technologies and high-impact engineering projects.
• Collaborative growth-focused culture with strong support for professional development.
• Exposure to global investment technology and emerging technologies.

**Candidates must be in the Boston office 4 days/week 1 day/week remote.

The base range for this contract position is $80-$110 per hour depending on experience. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hires of this position across all U.S. locations. Individual pay is determined by work location and additional job-related factors.

Fulcrum Consulting an LRS company is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants for employment will receive consideration without unlawful discrimination based on race color religion creed national origin sex age disability marital status gender identity domestic partner status sexual orientation genetic information citizenship status or protected veteran status.

In some cases Fulcrum Consulting an LRS company uses generative artificial intelligence (AI) in support of our hiring processes. LRS takes steps to ensure the use of AI does not result in discrimination based on protected class(es). AI may be used in the hiring process solely in support of the assessment of candidate qualifications. All decisions in the hiring process are made by LRS employees. If AI will be used in the hiring process for the position for which you are applying you will be notified and will have the opportunity to opt out. If you have any questions please contact us by clicking here.