VP, Head of Infrastructure - Sell Side, Capital Markets (Fintech)

Location: New York, NY

Salary: $280,000–$300,000 USD annually, plus bonus eligibility.

Company

hirify.global provides technology and infrastructure supporting capital markets and trading operations.

What you will do

• Set the architecture, operating model, investment roadmap, and service levels for sell-side trading infrastructure across data centers, colocation facilities, networks, compute, storage, and cloud services.
• Improve low-latency performance across market-data receipt, order submission, and venue acknowledgment, addressing tail latency, jitter, packet loss, throughput, and peak-load capacity.
• Lead exchange and venue connectivity, cross-connects, routing, multicast market data, time synchronization, bandwidth planning, and congestion diagnosis.
• Build resilience through recovery objectives, failover engineering, realistic disaster-recovery testing, observability, capacity planning, and disciplined incident response.
• Establish governance for architecture, service ownership, change management, access, security, vendor risk, and operational controls while partnering with trading, engineering, cybersecurity, risk, compliance, operations, finance, procurement, and client-facing teams.
• Develop multidisciplinary engineering leaders, drive continuous improvement, and guide platform modernization using DevOps, data, and AI-enabled engineering practices with responsible-AI controls.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 15+ years of software, infrastructure, or platform engineering experience, preferably in fintech, sell-side trading, electronic markets, or regulated financial services.
• 10+ years managing engineering teams and leaders, including budgets, vendor relationships, organizational development, leadership pipelines, and enterprise delivery commitments.
• Working knowledge of principal and agency trading workflows, market data, FIX, order and execution management systems, exchange connectivity, and pre- and post-trade dependencies.
• Deep expertise in high-performance networks, colocation, low-latency systems, end-to-end performance measurement, tail latency, jitter, packet loss, and peak-load capacity.
• Experience leading business-critical platforms, modernization programs, production incident response, governance, operational readiness, and measurable improvements in availability, recovery, performance, and cost.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, engaging, and inclusive workplace focused on empowering associates to contribute authentically.
• Comprehensive benefits are available for the role.
• Bonus eligible.
• Human review is included in employment decisions when AI-based tools support application evaluation.