Head of Engineering

Compensation: Competitive (Financial Services) About TradingHub Founded in 2010, TradingHub delivers uniquely intelligent trade surveillance software to world leading financial institutions. Developed by market professionals, our solutions use sophisticated modelling techniques to detect single and cross-product market manipulation. With a team of over 150 experts worldwide, TradingHub combines global reach with deep markets expertise to help our customers mitigate financial, regulatory, and reputational risk. The Role We are looking for a Head of Engineering to lead our Engineering Core department, responsible for the platforms that power TradingHub’s market-leading trade surveillance solutions. The function encompasses three principal teams: Infrastructure, Calculation and Web, covering our cloud platform, big-data processing framework and user-facing applications. The successful candidate will provide strategic and technical leadership across these teams, driving engineering excellence, platform reliability and innovation while building a high-performing organisation aligned to TradingHub’s business objectives. Responsibilities: - Define and evolve the core services and platform architecture, ensuring scalability, resilience, and a cloud-native, future-proof design - Set architectural standards and drive platform consistency to reduce complexity, duplication, and operational risk - Champion an AI-first approach, identifying and embedding agentic AI workflows to enhance engineering productivity and capability - Translate strategic business objectives into scalable, reliable engineering outcomes, owning end-to-end delivery against critical timelines - Partner cross-functionally with Product, Data, and Infrastructure teams to align platform direction, data capabilities and system reliability - Own the reliability and performance of core systems, including uptime, latency, SLOs/SLAs and continuous improvement through incident management - Ensure security, data protection, and regulatory compliance, while leading and developing a high-performing, accountable engineering organisation Requirements - Significant experience of commercial software delivery, preferably within financial technology or 'big tech' - Proven track record of owning and successfully delivering substantial transformation projects on time and with precision - Proven success in balancing competing short/medium and strategic priorities to ensure key strategic deliverables are met - Confident leading high-performing software development teams, especially through changes to working practices - AWS (or other public cloud provider) experience preferable - Experience of AI-first SDLC working practices Benefits Life at TradingHub is a rewarding journey within a fast-growing company that thrives on innovation and collaboration. By combining the best of technology and global markets, we’re able to solve complex problems together and deliver meaningful results to our customers. Everybody has value to bring, and we welcome individuality as a key driving force behind our collective success. Rooted in everything that we do are our core values: Accountability, Ambition, Partnership and Trust. These values provide the foundation for a sustainable workplace culture that empowers you to grow, contribute, and become your best self. Employee Benefits: - Annual discretionary performance bonus (permanent employees only) - Hybrid working policy - Office lunches twice a week - Private medical insurance + dental cover - Extended parental leave (up to 6 months of fully paid maternity leave) - 25 days annual leave + bank holidays - Enhanced company pension plan - 5 days study leave towards professional qualifications - Salary sacrifice schemes - Death in service coverage Don’t tick every single requirement? Research shows that candidates from under-represented groups are less likely to apply unless they meet all the criteria. We are dedicated to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace, so if this role excites you, please don't let our specification hold you back. Get in touch! TradingHub is an equal opportunities employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, ethnic or national origins, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, socio-economic background, responsibilities for dependants, physical or mental disability or other applicable legally protected characteristics. TradingHub selects candidates for interview based solely on their skills, experience and qualifications. We are committed to making our recruitment process accessible to all and we encourage candidates to inform us of any required adjustments. A full copy of our diversity, equity and inclusion policy will be made available to you upon request.