Technical Project Manager — Trading Tech & AI Delivery

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 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.