Pragmatic JD - Engineering Manager (Hands-on) | Treasury & Capital Markets

Location: India - Hyderabad ( preference) , Mumbai( only for right candidate with strong conviction to manage remotely)

Role Summary:

We are looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager with strong technical expertise, solutioning skills, and financial domain knowledge (Treasury, Sell-side, or Buy-side). The role demands a mix of deep engineering skills, modernization experience, and AI-driven rapid coding. This leader will architect, design, and deliver next-generation Treasury & Markets platforms with high availability, resilience, and scalability.

Key Responsibilities - Engineering Leadership:

- Lead and mentor a team of 10-20 engineers across backend, frontend, and data engineering.

- Stay hands-on in architecture, coding, and design reviews (not just people management).

- Drive engineering excellence in clean code, CI/CD pipelines, observability, performance tuning, VAPT, and cloud-native best practices.

Solutioning & Modernization:

- Translate Treasury & Markets business problems (funding, risk, liquidity, Fixed Incomes, MM/FX, ALM) into end-to-end technology solutions.

- Architect and deliver microservices-based, event-driven, API-first platforms.

- Lead modernization journeys: monolith-to-microservices migration, cloud adoption (AWS/GCP/Azure), containerization (Kubernetes, Docker), streaming (Kafka/Pulsar).

- Re-engineer legacy workflows into real-time, scalable, and modular solutions.

AI-Enabled Engineering:

- Apply GenAI tools (Cursor, Copilot, ChatGPT, Tabnine, etc.) for rapid prototyping, code generation, and test automation.

- Drive use of ML/AI in cashflow forecasting, liquidity analytics, anomaly detection, risk monitoring.

- Promote an AI-first culture to improve developer productivity and speed of delivery.

Key Qualifications:

- 12-20 years in software engineering, with 5+ years managing high-performing technology teams.

- Strong coding background in Java, Python, C++, with hands-on experience in microservices and distributed systems.

- Practical experience with modernization projects: breaking monoliths, moving to cloud-native stacks, building scalable APIs.

- Domain knowledge in Treasury, ALM, Risk, MM, FX, or Buy-side/Sell-side trading workflows.

- Exposure to GenAI-assisted coding and ML-driven solutions.

- Proven record of delivering mission-critical, low-latency, high-resilience platforms in BFSI.

- Excellent stakeholder management with product owners, risk, operations, and global engineering teams.

Good Firms to Scout in India

You'll want candidates from firms where tech + domain intersects strongly. Some relevant pools:

Global Banks / Captives (Treasury / Markets focus):

Citi, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BNY Mellon, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, HSBC, Credit Suisse (UBS now), Socit Gnrale, Nomura, Standard Chartered.

FinTech & Buy-Side Tech Shops:

BlackRock (Aladdin in Gurgaon), Fidelity, Vanguard, State Street, Franklin Templeton.

Bloomberg India, Refinitiv (LSEG), ICE Data Services.

Treasury/ALM & Risk Tech Vendors with India Dev Centers:

Murex (Pune/Bangalore), Calypso (Adenza, Pune), FIS (Pune), Finastra (Bangalore), TCS BaNCS Treasury, Oracle Financial Services (OFSS, Mumbai/Pune).

Other FinTech/Trading Tech:

Millennium, Point72, Citadel, AQR (for quant + buy-side aligned EMs, though rarer in India).

India's large BFSI tech hubs (Infosys, TCS, Wipro, Tech Mahindra) with embedded Treasury/Markets practices.

The sweet spot for sourcing in India would usually be Engineering Managers in global bank captives + Murex/Calypso/FIS-type vendors - they combine engineering leadership with strong Treasury / Markets domain exposure.