Senior Product Manager, Trading Connectivity

Talos Trading; East Ham; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Talos Trading is seeking a senior connectivity and trading technology professional to own the roadmap and deliver integrations across EMS, market data, and APIs.

You will coordinate with Engineering, clients and external partners to expand into new markets, ensuring production readiness and robust performance. This role emphasizes complex project management, strong communication, and attention to detail.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in electronic trading or capital markets tech.
• Understanding of EMS/OEMS workflows and order lifecycle.
• Experience with exchange connectivity and API trading protocols.
• Comfort reading API docs, logs and production data.
• Strong collaboration with engineering and clients.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap and delivery of connectivity capabilities across Talos’ platform.
• Expand connectivity into new markets and asset classes.
• Drive end-to-end integration projects with cross-functional teams.
• Collaborate with Engineering on APIs, data, and performance.
• Ensure connectivity supports trading workflows and EMS features.
• Build relationships with exchanges and liquidity providers to enable new capabilities.

Skills

Electronic trading

Market connectivity

EMS/OEMS workflows

FIX protocols

API protocols

SQL & Python

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap, prioritization and delivery of Talos’s connectivity capabilities, balancing new integrations, client requirements and improvements to existing connections.

• Expand connectivity into new and emerging markets, including prediction markets and tokenized assets, adapting Talos’s trading capabilities to different market structures and protocols.

• Drive multiple integration projects end to end, from technical assessment through development, certification and production rollout, coordinating teams, dependencies, timelines and risks to ensure successful delivery.

• Work closely with Engineering to define and enhance connectivity capabilities across order entry, market data, FIX/REST/WebSocket APIs, security master, rate limits, resiliency and performance.

• Ensure connectivity supports Talos trading workflows, including liquidity aggregation, smart order routing, algorithms and other EMS capabilities.

• Build strong technical relationships with exchanges, liquidity providers and other external partners to deliver new capabilities and resolve production issues.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in electronic trading, capital markets technology or institutional digital assets, ideally in product management, trading technology or connectivity.

• Understanding of EMS/OEMS workflows, order lifecycle, market data and multi-venue trading.

• Demonstrated ability to organize and drive multiple complex technical projects concurrently, with strong attention to detail, follow-through and ownership.

• Experience with exchange, broker, dealer or liquidity-provider connectivity.

• Working knowledge of FIX and API-based trading protocols, including REST and WebSocket.

• Technical aptitude and comfort working with API documentation, logs, JSON messages and production data.

• Good understanding of trading concepts such as order type, liquidity aggregation, smart order routing, rate limits and execution algorithms.

• Comfortable using SQL for investigation and analysis; scripting experience such as Python is a plus.

• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with Engineering, clients and external technical partners.

Preferred

• Digital asset experience is beneficial but not required; strong electronic trading experience in FX, equities, futures or other asset classes is highly relevant.

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