Vice President: Front Office / Order Management System Technology Lead
Position Summary
The Vice President will be responsible for defining and delivering strategic technology solutions across front office investment management, portfolio management, trading, order management, and investment operations. The successful candidate will combine deep investment management domain expertise with strong technology leadership capabilities to deliver scalable platforms, data solutions, analytics, and workflow automation that improve investment decision-making, operational efficiency, and client outcomes.
This role requires a strategic technology leader who can partner with investment professionals, business stakeholders, architects, and engineering teams to modernize front office platforms and leverage emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, where appropriate.
Key Responsibilities
Investment Management Solutions and Front Office Technology
- Collaborate with portfolio managers, traders, research teams, risk managers, quantitative teams, and investment operations stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into scalable technology solutions.
- Define and drive technology roadmaps supporting front office investment workflows, including portfolio management, order management, trading, analytics, and decision support.
- Design and deliver solutions supporting:
- Portfolio construction and model management
- Portfolio rebalancing and trade generation
- Order and execution management workflows
- Fixed income, equity, ETF, and derivatives trading
- ETF creation/redemption and basket management
- Security master, reference data, and investment data management
- Performance, attribution, exposure, and risk analytics
- Investment research and portfolio analytics platforms
- Support the development of quantitative, rules-based, and optimization-driven investment workflows.
- Partner with product, architecture, and engineering teams to ensure solutions are aligned with client needs, enterprise architecture standards, and long-term product strategy.
Technology Modernization and Delivery Leadership
- Lead large-scale technology modernization initiatives across investment management platforms, data services, analytics, and workflow automation.
- Provide architectural and solution leadership across multiple strategic initiatives.
- Drive adoption of modern engineering practices including Agile delivery, DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, API-first design, and cloud-native architecture.
- Partner with senior business and technology leaders to align delivery roadmaps with organizational objectives and client priorities.