Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. We are a technology and data driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing. Combining data, research, technology, and trading expertise has shaped our collaborative mindset, which enables us to solve the most complex challenges. QRT’s culture of innovation continuously drives our ambition to deliver high-quality returns for our investors. The global infrastructure team ensures the stability, performance, and optimization of QRT’s technology environment. The team collaborates with engineers, business stakeholders, and end users to troubleshoot issues, improve monitoring and instrumentation, and deliver solutions that support latency-sensitive trading platforms. Who we are looking for We are seeking an exceptional Technical Program Manager to join the QRT IT infrastructure team tasked with driving the innovation of its next generation systems infrastructure. This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to help facilitate QRTs’ growth. The successful candidate will be accountable for the end-to-end delivery of multiple parallel infrastructure projects to support our growing trading venues footprint. You will be working closely with QRTs compute, network engineering and data center operations teams as well as QRT’s partners and financial exchanges.
As part of the role, you will be exposed to trading and enterprise projects - working in a fast paced, collaborative and supportive environment delivering best in class infrastructure for the business. Your future role within QRT
- Plan and manage the infrastructure delivery of new trading sites in colocation at proximity venues through effective project/task management and resource planning • Assist the networking team in gathering requirements and coordinating with vendors, brokers and exchanges for new connectivity/access to markets • Manage infrastructure provisioning and deployment across colocation and regional data centres, ensuring performance and scalability • Assist QRT infrastructure team in managing allocation of compute resources across all QRTs colocations and datacentres. • Build up working knowledge of QRT’s business and technology stack • Ensure project stakeholders are kept up to date on status / timelines / project blockers using the Atlassian JIRA system • Ensuring infrastructure projects are delivered on time and to the highest quality Your present skillset
- At least 10 years’ experience delivering electronic trading infrastructure implementations • Previous experience of the financial technology industry is a must • Knowledge of trading colocation environments is a must • Strong knowledge of trading infrastructure (Linux, Networking) • Good working knowledge of exchange connectivity (market data/order entry) • Effective project management skills and practices. • An analytical thinker with excellent problem-solving abilities. • Excellent communication & collaboration skills QRT is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome diversity as essential to our success. QRT empowers employees to work openly and respectfully to achieve collective success. In addition to professional achievement, we are offering initiatives and programs to enable employees achieve a healthy work-life balance.