Engineering Lead - Platform

About the Role

As the Head of Engineering - Platform, you will lead teams building and maintaining the backoffice and trading data platform systems critical to Keyrock's operations. This role is for a hands-on leader who thrives in fast-paced environments, fosters collaboration, and drives technical excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, and maintain large-scale, high-performance trading data platforms with a focus on low latency and high availability.
• Apply data engineering principles to design efficient, scalable, and fault-tolerant data pipelines.
• Ensure seamless integration between trading operations and backoffice systems, improving efficiency and automation.
• Lead cloud-native infrastructure initiatives using AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
• Implement GitOps-driven workflows for deployment automation, observability, and system governance.
• Foster a DevSecFinOps culture, ensuring security, compliance, and financial accountability.
• Optimise data storage and retrieval strategies balancing performance, cost, and compliance.
• Collaborate with engineering leads, risk managers, product managers, and engineering teams to enhance platform capabilities.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship, fostering innovation and professional growth.
• Stay ahead of emerging trends in cloud infrastructure, security, and blockchain technologies.

Technical Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Proven experience building and maintaining data-intensive, large-scale, high-performance trading data platforms.
• Strong expertise in Rust (or C++), Python, and TypeScript for system development and automation in financial services.
• Deep understanding of data engineering principles.