A financial services firm is hiring a Technical Applications Lead (Financial Services) to lead a critical business applications environment. This is a role for someone who understands how software is built, how live applications are supported, and how to lead both internal teams and external delivery partners in a practical, hands-on way from a management perspective. The role combines application delivery, production support, service governance, and longer-term application ownership. It does not require coding day to day.
Job Responsibilities
- Lead the team responsible for keeping a portfolio of core business applications reliable, supported, and fit for change
- Own the application portfolio - set direction on what to enhance, modernise, replace, build internally, or source externally, and shape the roadmap with the business
- Guide the team on sound development practices, structured delivery, and sensible technical decisions
- Oversee both enhancement work and day-to-day production support across in-house and outsourced resources
- Take ownership of major incidents, recurring problems, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions across the application environment
- Oversee application service quality, support performance, resilience, and ongoing improvement
- Work with business users to turn operational needs into workable application solutions
- Coordinate external developers, application vendors, and support resources to ensure delivery quality and accountability
- Bring structure, ownership, and technical judgement to how applications are run and evolved
Job Requirements
- Proven experience leading an applications or software team in a technical management capacity
- Must have a real development background, even if no longer coding day to day
- Strong understanding of software engineering principles, application change delivery, and production support
- Experience managing live application environments, including incident and problem management, release and change governance, and service improvement
- Strong experience leading major incidents, root-cause analysis, problem management, and follow-through on corrective actions
- Comfortable owning a broad application portfolio, rather than only a single product or development stream
- Experience contributing to application roadmap, sourcing, modernisation, and build-versus-buy decisions
- Experience working with external vendors or outsourced application teams
- Able to lead technical discussions, challenge weak approaches, and make practical decisions
- Financial services experience required; securities, brokerage, or capital markets technology strongly preferred, especially in operationally sensitive, front-to-back trading environments
Why You Should Join Them
- Opportunity to lead an environment that combines delivery, stability, and technical ownership
- Broad role with influence across application strategy, support quality, vendor management, service governance, and stakeholder engagement
- Good fit for someone who wants to stay close to technology without returning to a purely hands-on developer role
- Visible position within a business where application reliability genuinely matters
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