Lead Technical Program Manager - Low Latency Market Trading

Leverage your deep technical expertise and leadership to guide cutting-edge projects, fostering growth and innovation in a dynamic environment.

As a Lead Technical Program Manager in Corporate Technology, you will lead the delivery of complex, high-impact technology programs supporting electronic trading across multi-asset, low-latency market environments (e.g., equities, FX, rates, credit, listed derivatives). You will apply strong technical fluency and pragmatic electronic trading domain knowledge (not "deep specialist" level) to drive measurable business outcomes-improving latency, throughput, resilience, control posture, and time-to-market. You will partner with engineering, product, trading, and operations stakeholders to deliver strategic roadmaps, manage dependencies, and ensure programs align with firm objectives. Your ability to navigate ambiguity, influence decision-making, and coordinate execution across distributed teams will be critical to success. You will help foster a culture of innovation, disciplined delivery, and continuous improvement.

Job responsibilities

• Develop and execute comprehensive program plans integrating technical requirements for electronic trading platforms (low latency, high throughput, high availability).
• Lead cross-functional teams to define program scope, objectives, milestones, and deliverables aligned with trading/business outcomes.
• Drive execution across the full trading lifecycle: market connectivity, order capture, risk checks, smart order routing / execution, market data, post-trade workflows, and observability.
• Identify and mitigate risks by proactively addressing roadblocks and implementing contingency plans across performance, resiliency, and operational readiness.
• Champion agile methodologies and pragmatic technical solutions to drive continuous learning and innovation.
• Assess program performance using data-driven metrics (e.g., delivery predictability, defect leakage, latency/throughput KPIs, stability) and implement optimizations.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders (engineering leads, product, trading, compliance/risk, operations) to influence decisions and build strong partnerships.
• Manage resources, budgets, and high-performing teams to ensure successful program delivery across multiple workstreams/vendors.
• Contribute to operational planning, incident readiness, and risk management for production trading services (including change management and release governance).

Program / Delivery

• Proven expertise delivering complex technology programs within large organizations (multiple teams, dependencies, and senior stakeholder engagement).
• Strong analytical reasoning and structured problem-solving skills; ability to translate objectives into executable plans with clear milestones and measurable outcomes.
• Ability to manage resources, budgets, and teams in an agile delivery environment.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, building productive relationships and influencing decisions across teams.

• Working knowledge of electronic trading concepts across multiple asset classes: market structure basics, trading workflows, and the end-to-end order/execution lifecycle.
• Familiarity with common trading controls and constraints: pre-trade risk checks, credit limits, kill switches, throttles, circuit breakers, and operational controls.
• Awareness of core trading system components and patterns: market data distribution, order management/execution services, gateways/adapters, persistence, and monitoring/alerting.
• Understanding of key non-functional requirements in trading: low/ultra-low latency, determinism, jitter control, capacity planning, resiliency, and disaster recovery.

• Hands-on experience delivering systems in low latency market environments, including performance engineering considerations (latency measurement, profiling, tuning, and regression prevention).
• Technical fluency including knowledge of vendor products and managing vendor relationships (connectivity, market data, execution platforms, network/hardware/software stacks).

• Experience partnering directly with front office stakeholders (trading, product, quant/strats) to prioritize roadmaps and define measurable outcomes.
• Familiarity with industry protocols and integration patterns (e.g., FIX-based order flow concepts; exchange/venue connectivity patterns; market data feed handler concepts).
• Experience with performance and resiliency practices used in trading environments (capacity tests, failover exercises, latency SLOs, post-incident reviews).
• Experience with operational planning and risk management, including release readiness, change governance, and production support models.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills; able to operate effectively in fast-paced environments with high expectations.
• Knowledge of industry-standard program/project management tools and reporting practices.

ABOUT US

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.