Trading Operations Manager

Overview

This role supports Trading Operations for a global blockchain and fintech platform used by more than 8 million users worldwide. The organization is seeking a Senior DevOps to help ensure stable trading operations, manage the full operational lifecycle, and drive reliability through automation, incident management, and operational controls.

Responsibilities

• Ensure stable Trading Operations and manage the full operational lifecycle of trading processes.
• Manage trade settlement and asset movements across exchanges, brokers, custodians, and counterparties.
• Ensure reconciliation of trades, positions, balances, and fund movements, with timely resolution of discrepancies.
• Oversee operational inventory, balances, margin/collateral movements, and maintain operational readiness for trading.
• Ensure operational onboarding and readiness of new exchanges, brokers, markets, products, and trading flows.
• Identify and resolve trade breaks, settlement failures, and other operational exceptions.
• Develop and maintain operational controls, procedures, runbooks, and escalation processes.
• Manage critical operational incidents and ensure root-cause remediation.
• Drive automation of manual processes to improve the scalability and reliability of Trading Operations.
• Coordinate closely with Trading, Treasury, Risk, Engineering, and external counterparties.
• Define and monitor Trading Operations KPIs/SLAs and drive process improvements.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Trading Operations, Middle Office, or Trade Support within trading, market-making, crypto, or financial services.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Business, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• Strong understanding of financial markets, the trade lifecycle, settlements, reconciliation, balances, collateral/margin, and operational risk.
• Experience working with exchanges, brokers, custodians, and trading counterparties.
• Experience building and improving operational controls, procedures, runbooks, and escalation processes.
• Experience with incident management, operational breaks, and root-cause analysis.
• Experience automating and scaling operational processes.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make independent decisions in a live trading environment.
• Experience working cross-functionally with Trading, Treasury, Risk and Engineering.
• SQL / Python is a plus.

Compensation & Benefits

• 24 calendar days of paid leave.
• Additional days off for national holidays.
• Modern equipment and comfortable working conditions.

Location

• Not specified in the provided job description.

Equal Opportunity

The employer offers equal employment opportunities to all candidates. Hiring decisions are made without regard to race, national origin, gender identity or sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, medical condition, marital status, familial status, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.