APAC Prime Services Tech Lead - Hands-On & Strategy

Jefferies Financial Group Inc.; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 1,400,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Jefferies Financial Group Inc. seeks a hands-on technology leader to head the APAC Prime Broker Services Technology team, delivering solutions across Cash Prime Brokerage, Synthetic Prime, Outsourced Trading Desk, and Securities Finance.

You will lead a small 4-6 engineer team, contribute technically, partner with APAC stakeholders, align with US-based architecture, and ensure production support across APAC hours.

Qualifications

• Experience in financial services tech and prime brokerage domains.
• Proven experience managing small engineering teams while staying hands-on.
• Ability to work across APAC and US time zones.
• Strong communication translating business needs to technical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 4-6 engineers responsible for application development and production support across all four APAC Prime Brokerage lines.
• Serve as a hands-on technical contributor - designing solutions, reviewing code, and troubleshooting production issues alongside the team.
• Partner with business stakeholders in APAC to gather requirements, prioritize initiatives, and deliver new functionality.
• Coordinate with the US-based global technology leadership on architecture decisions, release planning, and shared platform direction.
• Manage production support coverage for APAC hours, ensuring system stability and timely incident resolution.
• Mentor and develop team members, balancing workload across new development and support responsibilities.
• Drive continuous improvement in development practices, system reliability, and operational efficiency.

Skills

Strong communication

Global collaboration

Mentoring

Tools

Java

C#/.NET

SQL

Python

Scripting Languages

Job description

Jefferies Financial Group Inc. seeks a hands-on technology leader to head the APAC Prime Broker Services Technology team, delivering solutions across Cash Prime Brokerage, Synthetic Prime, Outsourced Trading Desk, and Securities Finance.

You will lead a small 4-6 engineer team, contribute technically, partner with APAC stakeholders, align with US-based architecture, and ensure production support across APAC hours.