Senior Project Manager

Tower Research Capital is a leading quantitative trading firm founded in 1998. Tower has built its business on a high-performance platform and independent trading teams. We have a 25+ year track record of innovation and a reputation for discovering unique market opportunities. Tower is home to some of the world’s best systematic trading and engineering talent. We empower portfolio managers to build their teams and strategies independently while providing the economies of scale that come from a large, global organization. Engineers thrive at Tower while developing electronic trading infrastructure at a world class level. Our engineers solve challenging problems in the realms of low-latency programming, FPGA technology, hardware acceleration and machine learning. Our ongoing investment in top engineering talent and technology ensures our platform remains unmatched in terms of functionality, scalability and performance. At Tower, every employee plays a role in our success. Our Business Support teams are essential to building and maintaining the platform that powers everything we do — combining market access, data, compute, and research infrastructure with risk management, compliance, and a full suite of business services. Our Business Support teams enable our trading and engineering teams to perform at their best. At Tower, employees will find a stimulating, results-oriented environment where highly intelligent and motivated colleagues inspire each other to reach their greatest potential. Responsibilities • Managing the scope of software and hardware-driven projects through their entire lifecycle • Managing overall technical project schedules by developing and tracking project objectives, project milestones, changes, resources, and timelines • Managing risks, escalating project and task anomalies, and resolving problems identified during projects • Participating in internal and external meetings (including, but not limited to, exchanges, brokers, and other vendors) to gather project requirements and preparing detailed summaries to share with relevant stakeholders • Generating and maintaining accurate project documentation (spreadsheets, diagrams, and process maps) and project plans (MS Project/JIRA/Confluence/Visio, etc.) • Liaising between all technology departments, understanding requirements, and influencing new standards and processes • Managing mandatory market updates and changes from various exchanges, performing impact analysis, tracking work required to comply with the new changes, building and testing solutions internally and with exchanges • Planning and coordinating activities for physical work in data centers (capacity planning, physical hardware and network installations) as well as application layer and general concepts for network/server configurations • Building client relationships and appropriately managing expectations Qualifications • At least 5 years of relevant project management experience in the financial domain with around 10 years of working experience in total • Knowledge about financial markets especially Crypto exchanges would be a plus • Experience in infrastructure deployment and software development lifecycle • Knowledge of Infrastructures (data centers, server, storage platforms) and networking concepts • A highly analytical and strategic mindset with a strong ability to influence senior stakeholders • Highly organized with excellent time management skills • Excellent written and verbal communication in English • The ability to manage competing priorities • Strong networking skills within the industry and ability to build relationships with key contacts Candidates should also be: • Self-motivated, and able to work flexible hours (including night hours to cater to the demands