Lead of Trading Operations

This is a remote position.
We are looking for a Lead of Trading Operations to build, lead, and evolve our global Trading Operations function. This role sits at the intersection of trading, technology, and risk management, and is mission-critical for ensuring resilient and scalable execution processes across markets and time zones.
You’ll lead a team that owns operational integrity end-to-end: from pre-market checks to intraday monitoring and post-trade reconciliations, managing tooling and SLAs, and collaborating with trading, dev, quant, and compliance teams.

Key Responsibilities

Operational Ownership
· Design and continuously refine pre-/post-session checklists, intraday monitoring protocols, and post-trade processes

• Build and enforce intrasession controls and real-time invariants across trading systems

• Develop and execute escalation playbooks for operational incidents

Performance & Capacity Management
· Monitor capacity trends across venues, instruments, and internal systems

• Define KPIs and maintain SLAs (latency, fill rates, reconciliation windows)

• Identify and resolve operational bottlenecks

Anomaly Detection & Incident Response
· Oversee systems and workflows for anomaly detection (latency spikes, data mismatches, P&L gaps)

• Lead structured post-mortems, track root causes and remediation

Continuous Improvement
· Drive automation across key workflows

• Evolve internal dashboards, monitoring systems, and alerting infrastructure

• Build a culture of proactivity and robustness over reactivity

Team Leadership
· Build and lead a globally distributed ops team

• Define clear growth paths and mentor junior team members

• Balance tactical execution with strategic planning

Cross-functional Collaboration
· Align workflows with trading strategies and market structure

• Partner with engineering for deployment/rollback reliability

• Work with quant teams to understand model behavior and failure modes

• Ensure audit-readiness and compliance with relevant regulations

Requirements

Experience

• 7+ years in trading operations, execution support, or trading infrastructure roles at a prop shop, hedge fund, or electronic market-maker

• Proven track record managing trading operations across multiple asset classes (equities, futures, FX, options)

• Experience building and scaling ops processes in high-uptime, low-latency environments

Technical & Functional Skills
· Deep understanding of electronic execution flows: order lifecycle, market connectivity, clearing & settlement

• Familiarity with FIX, proprietary APIs, drop copies, and post-trade reconciliation tooling

• Strong grasp of infrastructure monitoring concepts (latency tracking, failover, system health)

• Ability to define and implement intrasession checks, automated alerting, and risk controls

• Comfortable working with dashboards (Grafana, Kibana, etc.) and scripting languages (Python, Bash, etc.) is a plus

Leadership & Communication
· Experience leading globally distributed teams and managing through follow-the-sun workflows

• Clear communicator — able to synthesize incidents and drive postmortems with traders, engineers, and executives

• Operational mindset with a bias for process design, reliability, and ownership under pressure

Mindset
· Hands-on, low-ego operator with a high bar for quality

• Comfortable in fast-paced, dynamic environments with limited structure

• Proactive, curious, and deeply invested in building scalable systems that “just work”

Benefits

• Highly competitive base salary, benchmarked against leading trading firms

• Remote-first policy with optional relocation support for Dubai HQ

• Flexible time off, including market holidays coverage structure

• Home office stipend and equipment coverage

• Regular offsites and team gatherings in global locations

• Flat structure with direct access to trading, tech, and leadership

Originally posted on Himalayas