Full Time - Senior Technology Manager - Commodity Index Platform Lead - NY

Full-Time Position Details

Location: New York, NY

Salary: $300000/Year

Job Profile Summary:

Commodity Technology is seeking a Senior Technology Manager to manage a 10 15-person engineering team supporting the global Commodities Index desk. This leader will partner directly with traders, sales, and quantitative research to design, build, and evolve the commodity index platform primarily within our proprietary Quartz platform. The ideal candidate brings deep experience in commodity index and derivatives with a track record of delivering complex, distributed systems.

Responsibilities:

• Builds and manages teams by performing financial activities to inform workforce strategy and hiring practices, setting and tracking maturity and quality objectives, and training employees/teams to address feedback and achieve quality and performance objectives
• Facilitates performance and career development of employees/teams through performance reviews, coaching, and creating development plans that are needed to build competencies and skills
• Manages solution delivery and application performance in production (app health, resiliency, performance, security, enterprise data management standards, audit exams and reviews), ensuring all relevant risk, financial, and compliance policies are met
• Manages relationships with business and technology partners and leads and creates followership in Communities of Practice in the organization
• Contributes to the technology strategy for their technical domain
• Creates an inclusive and healthy working environment and helps to resolve organizational impediments/blockers
• Ensures that execution is aligned with product strategy by working with product management and other stakeholders
• Lead & Grow a High-Performing Team (10 15 engineers): coach, set goals, and cultivate a collaborative, front-office centric culture.
• Engage the Desk Daily: partner with trading, sales, and quants to translate strategies and models into robust, production-grade systems prioritizing high-impact desk outcomes.
• Architect & Build on Quartz: drive end-to-end engineering of Commodity Index platform in partnership w/ peers and quantitative partners; modernize components and eliminate technical debt.
• Deliver Real-Time Risk: implement and support intraday risk for commodity index and derivatives.
• Support PreTrade & Client Connectivity: help define and support future strategic pre-trade and client connectivity implementations
• Production Excellence: help ensure production stability - monitoring, alerting, incident response, root-cause analysis, capacity planning, release management, and change control.

Managerial Responsibilities:

This position may also have responsibilities for managing associates. All managers at this level demonstrate the following responsibilities, in addition to those specific to the role, listed above.

• Opportunity & Inclusion Champion: Models an inclusive environment for employees and clients, aligned to company Great Place to Work goals.
• Manager of Process & Data: Demonstrates deep process knowledge, operational excellence and innovation through a focus on simplicity, data-based decision making and continuous improvement.
• Enterprise Advocate & Communicator: Communicates enterprise decisions, purpose, and results, and connects to team strategy, priorities and contributions.
• Risk Manager: Ensures proper risk discipline, controls and culture are in place to identify, escalate and debate issues.
• People Manager & Coach: Provides inspection, coaching and feedback to motivate, differentiate and improve performance.
• Financial Steward: Actively manages expenses and budgets in alignment with objectives, making sound financial decisions.
• Enterprise Talent Leader: Assesses talent and builds bench strength for roles across the organization.
• Driver of Business Outcomes: Delivers results by effectively prioritizing, inspecting and appropriately delegating teamwork.

Required Qualifications:

• Leadership: 7-10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years leading front-office facing teams delivering to trading/sales; proven people leadership across hiring, coaching, and performance management.
• Communication: the presence and clarity to engage senior business stakeholders, translate requirements, and negotiate priorities under time pressure.
• Domain Expertise: Commodities: deep knowledge of commodity index construction/maintenance and commodity derivatives (futures, options on futures, swaps), curve/term-structure dynamics, spreads/calendars, seasonality, and risk sensitivities/Greeks.
• Risk Systems: hands-on experience building real-time risk/pricing and analytics platforms used on trading desks; strong grasp of PnL, VaR, stress, scenarios, intraday limits, and pre-trade checks.
• Quartz / Python / ReactJS: extensive development experience with Python for distributed services/analytics (ideally in Quartz or a similar platforms), and ReactJS for rich, trader-focused UIs.
• Agile Development: CI/CD, automated testing, code review, secure coding, and change management in a regulated environment; familiarity with build pipelines and artifact management.