Engineering Lead (Trade Surveillance)

TL;DR

Engineering Lead (Trade Surveillance, Fintech): Lead development, design, and delivery of compliance and surveillance platforms with an accent on technical leadership, capital markets surveillance, and regulatory compliance. Focus on driving innovation, mentoring engineering teams, and collaborating with stakeholders to deliver scalable surveillance solutions.

Location: Hybrid (Gurgaon, India)

Company

hirify.global is a fast-growing company transforming experiences and improving business outcomes for global brands.

What you will do

• Lead a team of engineers to design, build, and enhance trade surveillance systems for capital markets.
• Partner with Compliance, Risk, and Technology teams to define business and regulatory requirements.
• Drive the end-to-end SDLC, from architecture and design through to delivery, testing, and support.
• Ensure systems capture and analyze trade/order data across asset classes to identify potential market abuse, insider trading, and manipulation.
• Provide technical leadership in distributed systems, big data pipelines, and real-time monitoring platforms.
• Define and enforce engineering best practices, coding standards, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices.

Requirements

• 10–15 years of overall technology experience, with at least 5 years in a leadership role.
• Strong background in capital markets technology and trade surveillance platforms (e.g., NICE Actimize, SMARTS).
• Expertise in data engineering: Big Data platforms (Hadoop, Spark, Kafka), streaming technologies, ETL pipelines, and large-scale data storage.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Python, or Scala.
• Strong knowledge of cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and microservices architectures.
• Solid experience in managing agile teams, with a proven track record of delivering complex projects.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of Machine Learning/AI techniques for anomaly detection in trade surveillance.
• Familiarity with Natural Language Processing (NLP) for voice/email/chat surveillance.
• Prior experience with global investment banks, broker-dealers, or exchanges.

Culture & Benefits

• Fostering a rich and diverse work environment that fuels creativity, collaboration, and a deep sense of belonging.
• Offering personal and professional development opportunities, on-the-job mentoring from in-house experts, and assistance for ongoing learning.
• Supporting benefit choices that include personal and family needs.
• Transforming experiences and improving business outcomes for global brands.
• Flexible working: choose to work from home, work at the office, or go hybrid.
• Opportunity to be an active part of corporate social responsibility programs.