Job Description
Assistant Vice President – Trading Technology
Firm: Jefferies
Location: Pune, India
Role Summary
Jefferies is seeking an Assistant Vice President with strong hands‑on experience in trading platforms, market data systems, and production environments within an investment bank. The role requires deep expertise in ION MarketView, electronic trading protocols, and modern automation and monitoring ecosystems, with direct exposure to live banking systems.
This is a hands‑on technical role, suited for candidates comfortable operating in production‑critical trading environments.
Mandatory Skills & Experience
Trading Platforms & Market Data
Extensive hands‑on experience with ION MarketView, including:
MMI
Connectivity gateways
Reference Data systems
Pricing systems
Extensive experience working in Banks’ Production environments, including release support and incident analysis
Trading Systems & Protocols
Strong experience testing trading solutions for investment banks
Hands‑on experience with:
FIX protocol
Market APIs
Solid understanding of electronic trading flows and trade lifecycle
Data & Backend
Strong hands‑on experience with SQL
Good understanding of RDBMS for data validation and troubleshooting
Scripting & Automation
Hands‑on experience with:
Python
Bash / Shell scripting
AI / ML Exposure
Hands‑on experience working with ML models, including training and validation of AI models
Good‑to‑Have Skills
Experience integrating trading platforms with monitoring and alerting systems, such as:
Zabbix, Geneos, Nagios
Exposure to AWS
Experience working with CI/CD pipelines
Professional Expectations
Strong ownership and accountability expected at AVP level
Ability to work effectively in high‑pressure, production environments
Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and communication skills
Proven experience collaborating with traders, technology, and infrastructure teams
Jefferies is a leading global, full-service investment banking and capital markets firm that provides advisory, sales and trading, research, and wealth and asset management services. With more than 40 offices around the world, we offer insights and expertise to investors, companies, and governments.
At Jefferies, we believe that diversity fosters creativity, innovation and thought leadership through the infusion of new ideas and perspectives. We have made a commitment to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live. As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients.
Jefferies is an equal employment opportunity employer, and takes affirmative action to ensure that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by applicable law. We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities, as required by applicable law.