Technical Project Manager

towerresearchcapital; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

HQ in Equitable Building (historic)

Job summary

Tower Research Capital seeks a Technical Project Manager to deliver projects across trading technology, exchange changes, and market access. You will work with trading, development, production engineering, networks and infra teams to drive initiatives that improve speed and accuracy.

The role emphasizes AI adoption, data centre coordination and release governance, with a focus on latency-sensitive delivery in a high‑performance environment.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years in a PM/delivery role in trading/tech/financial environment.
• Track record delivering cross-team technical projects against deadlines.
• Infrastructure and networking knowledge (servers, storage, Linux, data centres).
• Exposure to FPGA, hardware-accelerated or latency-sensitive delivery is an advantage.
• Familiarity with exchange connectivity and market data across assets.
• Experience using AI tools to improve workflows; ML deployment understanding is a plus.
• Strong judgement and ability to challenge and escalate when needed.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Run full lifecycle of software and infrastructure projects.
• Deliver and monitor FPGA project workstreams with stakeholders.
• Manage exchange and venue changes (protocols, upgrades, market access).
• Coordinate delivery for global trading strategies across regions and time zones.
• Plan data, connectivity, environment and tooling for new strategies into production.
• Coordinate data centre and colocation work, migrations and capacity changes.
• Run release governance: reviews, meetings, checklists, support coordination.
• Gather requirements from exchanges, vendors and brokers; summarize for teams.
• Maintain plans and docs in Jira/Confluence; report risks and decisions.
• Participate in retrospectives and propose process improvements.
• Use AI tools to automate repeatable workflows and refine guardrails.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional delivery

Trading technology

Latency-sensitive delivery

AI tool usage

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's in engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Python

Shell scripting

C++

Git

Databases

Kibana

Elasticsearch

AWS

Azure

Job description

Tower Research Capital is a leading quantitative trading firm founded in 1998. Tower has built its business on a high-performance platform and independent trading teams. We have a 25+ year track record of innovation and a reputation for discovering unique market opportunities.

Tower is home to some of the world's best systematic trading and engineering talent. We empower portfolio managers to build their teams and strategies independently while providing the economies of scale that come from a large, global organization.

Engineers thrive at Tower while developing electronic trading infrastructure at a world class level. Our engineers solve challenging problems in the realms of low-latency programming, FPGA technology, hardware acceleration and machine learning. Our ongoing investment in top engineering talent and technology ensures our platform remains unmatched in terms of functionality, scalability and performance.

At Tower, every employee plays a role in our success. Our Business Support teams are essential to building and maintaining the platform that powers everything we do - combining market access, data, compute, and research infrastructure with risk management, compliance, and a full suite of business services. Our Business Support teams enable our trading and engineering teams to perform at their best.

At Tower, employees will find a stimulating, results-oriented environment where highly intelligent and motivated colleagues inspire each other to reach their greatest potential.

Tower is hiring a Technical Project Manager to deliver projects within larger programmes across trading technology, exchange and venue change, and market access. The Technical Project Manager will work with trading, development, production engineering, network and infrastructure teams, and will help the team adopt AI to run projects faster and with accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Running software and infrastructure projects through the full lifecycleDelivering and monitoring workstreams of FPGA projects with hardware, firmware, software and trading stakeholders
• Managing individual exchange and venue-driven changes (protocol and feed upgrades, matching-engine changes, new market access, regulatory deadlines) against deadlines
• Coordinating delivery for global trading strategies across regions and time zones, keeping trading, development, risk, compliance and operations aligned on sequencing and readiness
• Supporting the move into MFT and asset management by planning the data, connectivity, environment and tooling needed to bring new strategies into production
• Coordinating data centre and colocation work, including hardware and network installations, migrations and capacity changes
• Running release governance for your projects: release reviews, pre-deployment meetings, checklists and coordination of support groups during release windows, escalating issues
• Gathering requirements in internal and external meetings (exchanges, vendors, brokers) and turning them into clear summaries for engineering, operations and trading
• Maintaining accurate plans and documentation in Jira, and Confluence, and reporting on progress, risks and decisions
• Participating in retrospectives and proposing process improvements
• Using AI tools in day-to-day delivery and identifying opportunities to automate repeatable workflows
• Following and refining the team's AI guardrails
• Collaborating with the wider project management group and flagging uses that add risk without saving time

Qualifications

• At least 3 to 5 years in a project management or delivery role in a trading, technology or financial environment; a high-frequency or low-latency setting is preferred.
• Track record delivering cross-team technical projects against firm deadlines, with growing scope.
• Working knowledge of infrastructure and networking (servers, storage, Linux, colocation and data centre concepts) and of how trading systems reach the market. Depth can be built on the job.
• Exposure to FPGA, hardware-accelerated or other latency-sensitive delivery is an advantage.
• Familiarity with exchange connectivity, market data and market access in equities, futures, FX or crypto.
• Hands‑on use of AI tools to improve how you work, with examples of time saved, quality improved or process changed. Understanding of how ML models are built, deployed and monitored is a plus.
• Sound judgement, and the confidence to challenge and elevate into traders and technical leads when delivery is at risk.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with strong attention to detail and the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Project management certification (PMP, PRINCE2 or Six Sigma Green Belt) is a plus.
• A bachelor's degree in engineering or a related field; A master's degree preferred.
• Experience in scripting (Python or shell), C++, git, databases, Kibana and Elasticsearch, or cloud platforms (AWS or Azure) is a plus

Benefits

• Tower's headquarters are in the historic Equitable Building, right in t