Global Head of Infrastructure

Base pay range

$300,000.00/yr - $500,000.00/yr

Additional compensation types

Annual Bonus

Overview

The Global Head of Infrastructure will lead a global team responsible for networking, compute, storage, cloud, and core platform services , partnering closely with trading, quantitative research, risk, and operations groups. You will define and execute the firm’s infrastructure strategy, balancing the demands of low latency trading systems , massive data processing , and scalable research environments .

A critical responsibility will be to design and maintain a homogeneous infrastructure platform that:

• Supports multiple trading styles and diverse teams (from high-frequency execution to research-intensive systematic strategies).
• Enables cross-asset trading strategies , including equities (cash and derivatives), fixed income (relative value, futures, credit), arbitrage, macro, and event-driven strategies.
• Operates seamlessly across different operating systems (Linux, Windows) and development ecosystems (Python, C++, Java, C#, MATLAB, R).
• Ensures smooth ingestion and processing of both traditional market data and alternative/unstructured data sources .

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership: Define and drive the long-term infrastructure vision to support a large-scale, global systematic trading business.
• Homogeneous Platform Development: Architect a unified platform capable of flexibly supporting various trading styles, cross-asset strategies, and research needs.
• Cross-Technology Integration: Provide robust interoperability across OS, languages, and analytic frameworks.
• Cross-Asset Enablement: Ensure infrastructure supports multi-asset trading, from equities and derivatives to fixed income, credit, macro, arbitrage, and event-driven strategies.
• Data Infrastructure: Build scalable pipelines for ingestion and processing of structured financial data and alternative/unstructured datasets.
• High-Performance Computing: Deliver environments optimized for low-latency execution, distributed research workloads, and machine learning.
• Team Leadership: Build, mentor, and scale world-class infrastructure engineering teams across regions.
• Vendor & Tech Strategy: Manage external partnerships and evaluate new infrastructure technologies for competitive advantage.

Desired Background

• Proven leadership in global infrastructure/engineering roles within systematic/quant hedge funds or algo trading firms .
• Expertise in building homogeneous infrastructure platforms that support cross-asset, multi-strategy trading.
• Strong understanding of multi-OS and multi-language environments .
• Track record supporting both low-latency execution systems and large-scale research/data platforms .
• Experience integrating traditional and alternative data pipelines .
• Strong leadership skills, with success scaling global engineering organizations.

Personal Attributes

• Strategic Operator: Balances long-term vision with hands-on, pragmatic execution.
• Innovator: Anticipates future technology shifts and adapts accordingly.
• Execution-Focused: Prioritizes reliability, speed, and measurable business impact.
• Collaborative Partner: Works seamlessly with quant, trading, operations, and senior leadership.

Upside

• Lead the global technology backbone of a large and sophisticated systematic hedge fund.
• Architect a homogeneous infrastructure platform supporting multi-asset, cross-strategy trading and diverse research environments.
• Shape infrastructure that integrates cross-technology development, multi-OS ecosystems, and multi-source data pipelines.
• Influence firm-wide technology and trading strategy at the highest level.
• Competitive compensation with leadership incentives and long-term upside.

Seniority level

• Director

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology
• Industries
• Investment Management

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