JavaEngineeringLead-SeniorVicePresident

**Role Overview** Our FX Technology platform underpins the world’s largest Markets FX business, operating continuously 24/7 across more than 87 countries globally. The stability, scalability, and evolution of this platform are critical to the firm’s clients, markets, and reputation. We are undertaking a once-in-a-generation re-engineering of the FX Trade Services platform, creating a highly resilient, always-on, and globally scalable platform designed to support the business over the next 15+ years. A core pillar of this transformation is the adoption of an Agentic AI Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) — a cutting-edge, persona-driven engineering model. This approach fundamentally changes how software is designed, built, tested, and supported. We are seeking a visionary, hands-on engineering leader, and AI evangelist to lead this transformation. The successful candidate will champion and operationalise an AI-first engineering culture, making the Agentic SDLC a core strategic capability and the primary driver of delivery, quality, and innovation. You will lead a 35+ global engineering group and play a defining role in shaping the future of engineering within FX Technology. **Engineering Leadership & Ownership** * Lead the FX Trade Services re-engineering programme to deliver a fully resilient (RTO=0, RPO=0), highly available (24/7, 99.999%), horizontally scalable platform. * Own and drive the adoption of an AI-first engineering strategy, embedding AI-assisted and agentic development practices across the end-to-end SDLC. * Champion and evolve the Agentic AI SDLC, ensuring persona-driven development becomes the default operating model. * Define and continuously raise engineering standards across architecture, development, testing, deployment, and operational support—leveraging AI to enhance consistency, productivity, and quality. * Drive the design of scalable, resilient system architectures in partnership with business stakeholders. * Prepare and present updates to