Technologist - Broker Dealer Operations - VN2502

Marex•New York, NY

13h

About The Position

Diversified. Resilient. Dynamic. Marex is a global financial services platform, providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients in the energy, commodities and financial markets. The Group provides comprehensive breadth and depth of coverage across four core services: Market Making, Clearing, Hedging and Investment Solutions and Agency and Execution. It has a major franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, executing around 50 million trades and clearing 205 million contracts in 2022. The Group provides access to the world’s major commodity markets, covering a broad range of clients that include some of the largest commodity producers, consumers and traders, banks, hedge funds and asset managers. With more than 35 offices around the globe, and over 2,300 dedicated people enabling access to exchanges and technology-powered services. For more information visit www.marex.com Purpose of Role: The Operations Technologist, based in New York, will support Marex’s Broker Dealer, Swap Dealer, derivatives, and energy businesses by partnering with stakeholders across a broad section of the business. The role collaborates to define and implement a vision for world-class operational platforms, applying modern technology to improve trade processing, controls, reconciliations, and regulatory reporting across OTC and listed products. Acting as a key point of contact from inception through business acceptance, the Operations Technologist will capture and shape requirements for change initiatives and translate them into clear deliverables for the wider technology organization. Solutions may be delivered through bespoke in-house development or the selection and implementation of vendor platforms, with the Operations Technologist providing end-to-end oversight to ensure outcomes meet business needs and operate within a stable, well-governed control environment. Marex has unique access across markets with significant share globally both on and off exchange. The depth of knowledge amongst its teams and divisions provides its customers with clear advantage, and its technology-led service provides access to all major exchanges, order-flow management via screen, voice and DMA, plus award-winning data, insights, and analytics. The Technology Department delivers differentiation, scalability, and security for the business. Reporting to the CEO, Technology provides digital tools, software services, and infrastructure globally to all business groups. Software development and support teams work in agile ‘streams’ aligned to specific business areas. Other teams work enterprise-wide to provide critical services including the global service desk, network and system infrastructure, IT operations, network and system infrastructure, IT operations, security, enterprise architecture, and design. The Business Technology function ensures delivery of Technology services to each of Marex’s business areas by optimizing their technology stack, prioritizing their strategic technology roadmap, and driving their software delivery lifecycle. Each Business Technology team is aligned to one of Marex’s business divisions and works with a corresponding Development team and Application Support team. A global team of implementation resources coordinate and support the technology business streams with delivery.

Requirements

Competencies Demonstrates curiosity.
Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment.
Ability to take a high level of responsibility in a fast pace and high-volume environment.
Excels at building relationships, networking and influencing others.
Strategic collaborator with insight and agility, able to anticipate future challenges, ensuring operational effectiveness.
Skills and Experience Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
Good knowledge across various financial asset class products.
Deep understanding of the post-trade lifecycle, including confirmation/affirmation, allocations, settlement, clearing, collateral and margin, lifecycle events, reconciliations, and exceptions management.
Experience with post-trade platforms and integrations (e.g., trade capture feeds, confirmations, clearing brokers/CCPs, custodians/settlement systems, collateral tools, and reconciliation/break management).
Working knowledge of regulatory and reporting obligations impacting post-trade for Broker Dealer and Swap Dealer activities (e.g., transaction reporting, recordkeeping, controls, auditability).
Experience delivering change across operations technology, including requirements definition, process mapping, testing/UAT, implementation, and production readiness.
Strong project planning and coordination skills, including managing dependencies across multiple teams and vendors.
Excellent stakeholder management and business analysis skills, able to translate operational problems into clear technology deliverables.
Experience designing or supporting secure, reliable, and scalable applications, data flows, and infrastructure, with a focus on resiliency and operational controls.
Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain complex post-trade workflows and issues clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
Experience working in a regulated environment with an understanding of operational risk, compliance requirements, and control frameworks relevant to post-trade operations.

Responsibilities

Responsible for the overall architecture and design of the technology developed by the business.
Provide strategic technological direction for the business.
Innovate new solutions, ensuring the business is always one step ahead of the competition.
Contribute to the technical direction of the department, research new concepts, and technologies, and evaluate third party products and tools that are (or bay be) used by the team.
Define the development roadmap and strategy and ensure the team is adequately resourced to achieve it.
Oversee projects to ensure they are run efficiently and delivered on time and on budget.
Prioritize and drive the business requirements and give regular status updates.
Ensure delivered systems are of production quality and that software is adequately documented for handover to the business.
Familiar with the regulatory, audit, and compliance requirements that apply to the business ensuring that technology employed adheres to these.
Ensure delivered systems are secure, reliable, and scaled to meet the demands of a rapidly growing business.
Help defined best software development practices and processes and ensure they are adhered to.
Create epics that capture business deliverables with an agreed set of Acceptance Criteria (the contract), and report on the priority/progress/effort/cost of these epis/projects.
All employees are expected to understand and comply with any Sarbanes Oxley operational requirements relevant to their role.
Ensuring compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements under the SEC, FINRA, NFA, CFTC and other applicable exchanges.
Adhere to the operational risk framework for your role ensuring that all regulatory or company determined parameters are complied with.
Role model for demonstrating highest level standards of integrity and conduct and reflecting Company Values.
At all times complying with Marex’s Code of Conduct: To ensure that you are fully aware of and adhere to internal policies that relate to you, your role, or any other activities for which you have any level of responsibility. To report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/ or your supervisor as required. To escalate risk events immediately. To provide input to risk management processes, as required.
The Company may require you to carry out other duties from time to time.