Director, Fixed Income Swap Desk Tech & Implementation

Mizuho Financial Group Inc.; Northern, New York (KY, NY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. seeks a Director to lead Fixed Income swap desk technology support and implementation.

You will own the stability and continuous improvement of the technology platforms enabling Rates and Swap trading, serving as the primary liaison among Front Office, technology teams, and control functions. You will drive production support, incident management, project delivery, and risk controls to maintain a high-availability trading environment and compliant technology

Qualifications

• Extensive experience supporting Fixed Income, Rates, or OTC Derivatives trading businesses.
• Strong understanding of Swap trading workflows, trade lifecycle processing, and electronic trading environments.
• Proven experience in production support, incident management, and technology operations.
• Knowledge of market connectivity, vendor platforms, and front‑office trading systems.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Experience leading cross‑functional technology initiatives in a mission‑critical environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day support for Fixed Income Rates and Swap trading platforms and monitor critical production systems.
• Lead root cause analysis and drive corrective actions following incidents.
• Act as primary technology contact for Swap traders, sales, middle office, and operations teams.
• Coordinate onboarding and certification activities with trading venues, brokers, vendors, and counterparties for electronic trading.
• Lead technology initiatives supporting new products, regulatory requirements, and platform upgrades.
• Maintain strong operational controls and support SOX, audit, and user access reviews.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to support personnel and junior team members.

Skills

Fixed Income experience

OTC derivatives

Incident management

Platform ownership

Market connectivity

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Tools

SQL

Scripting

Monitoring tools

Distributed systems

Job description

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. seeks a Director to lead Fixed Income swap desk technology support and implementation.

You will own the stability and continuous improvement of the technology platforms enabling Rates and Swap trading, serving as the primary liaison among Front Office, technology teams, and control functions. You will drive production support, incident management, project delivery, and risk controls to maintain a high-availability trading environment and compliant technology