VP - Technical Lead - Equity Technology

Innovation Hub Overview 

Jefferies is creating a Technology Innovation Hub in Pune, a greenfield opportunity to build the systems that power global markets. As our first India technology center, this hub brings together hands on builders who engineer the platforms behind Jefferies’ growth across capital markets, investment banking, and institutional securities. We’re scaling toward an elite team of 500 engineers while maintaining the agility, ownership, and meritocratic spirit that defines Jefferies. From cloud and data to AI, risk, and core business technologies, teams in Pune will lead high impact work with a global mandate.
 

IT Equities Technology   
Jefferies’ Equities Technology team builds and runs global, real-time trading and risk platforms across the full equities product spectrum—cash equities, portfolio/algo trading, central risk books, listed & OTC derivatives, convertibles, swaps, and ETF/basket trading. The team supports front-office workflows end-to-end, including order management, quantitative trading, real-time position and risk, AI/ML analytics, trade lifecycle processing, and regulatory/customer reporting.  

Operating in a 24x7 follow-the-sun model across major trading hubs, the India Technology Innovation Hub will be a core engineering center working closely with New York, London, Hong Kong, and other regions to build and enhance high-performance, scalable systems using technologies such as Python, Java, C++/C#, cloud, modern visualization, low-latency messaging, and in-memory data stores.

About the Role

Job Title: Technical Lead – Securities Finance Technology

Location: Pune, India
Team: Equities – Prime Services Securities Finance Technology
Level: Senior / Team Lead

We are seeking an experienced and hands-on Technical Team Lead to join our Securities Finance Technology team in Pune. This role will be responsible for leading the India-based development team and contributing to the design, development, and delivery of strategic trading and securities finance platforms used by a global user base.

The ideal candidate will bring strong technical expertise in Java, Spring, distributed systems, cloud technologies, and enterprise application development, along with proven leadership experience in managing delivery teams. This individual will work closely with business stakeholders, technology partners, and global teams across New York, London, and Hong Kong to deliver high-quality, scalable, and resilient solutions.

 Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of developers across Java and C# technologies, ensuring high-quality engineering practices and timely delivery.
• Design, develop, and maintain core components of the Securities Finance technology platform.
• Drive the development of scalable distributed systems and enterprise-grade applications.
• Own end-to-end project delivery, including sprint planning, estimation, code reviews, testing coordination, release planning, and production rollouts.
• Collaborate closely with global technology teams and business stakeholders to align on priorities, requirements, and technical direction.
• Act as a key point of contact between the Pune team and global teams across New York, London, and Hong Kong.
• Translate business requirements into robust technical solutions while ensuring performance, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Promote engineering best practices including clean code, automation, DevOps, CI/CD, monitoring, and observability.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, retrospectives, and delivery reviews.
• Support production stability by contributing to issue analysis, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement of systems.

Required Skills and Experience

• 12 years of hands-on software development experience, primarily in Core Java and Spring / Spring Boot frameworks.
• Proven experience leading technical teams and managing end-to-end software delivery.
• Strong experience in designing and building distributed systems, microservices, and enterprise-grade applications.
• Solid understanding of SQL and relational database concepts.
• Experience with messaging, caching, and streaming technologies such as Kafka and Redis.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as EKS, EC2, S3, SQS, and SNS.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery methodologies including Scrum and Kanban.
• Ability to lead Agile ceremonies and drive predictable, high-quality delivery.
• Experience with DevOps practices including:
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Docker and Kubernetes
  • Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Ansible
  • Source control and build tools such as Jira, Bitbucket, and Bamboo
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK stack.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, global, cross-functional environment.
• Openness to adopting and promoting AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot to improve engineering productivity.

Preferred Skills

• Prior experience in financial services, capital markets, trading systems, or Securities Finance technology.
• Understanding of Securities Finance, stock borrow loan, collateral, trading workflows, or Prime Services platforms.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams across multiple time zones.
• Exposure to C# or experience managing teams working across both Java and C# stacks.
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Jefferies is a leading global, full-service investment banking and capital markets firm that provides advisory, sales and trading, research, and wealth and asset management services. With more than 40 offices around the world, we offer insights and expertise to investors, companies, and governments.

At Jefferies, we believe that diversity fosters creativity, innovation and thought leadership through the infusion of new ideas and perspectives. We have made a commitment to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live. As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients.

Jefferies is an equal employment opportunity employer, and takes affirmative action to ensure that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by applicable law. We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities, as required by applicable law.