About Marex
Marex Group plc (NASDAQ: MRX) is a diversified global financial services platform providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients across energy, commodities and financial markets. The group provides comprehensive breadth and depth of coverage across four core services: clearing, agency and execution, market making, and hedging and investment solutions. It has a leading franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, with access to 60 exchanges. The group provides access to the world’s major commodity markets, covering a broad range of clients that include some of the largest commodity producers, consumers and traders, banks, hedge funds and asset managers. With more than 40 offices worldwide, the group has over 2,300 employees across Europe, Asia and the Americas.
For more information visit https://www.marex.com/
Job Reference: VN2635
Department description
Technology provides digital tools, software services, and infrastructure globally to all business groups. Software development and support teams work in agile ‘streams’ aligned to specific business areas. Other teams work enterprise-wide to provide critical services including the global service desk, network and system infrastructure, IT operations, network and system infrastructure, IT operations, security, enterprise architecture and design.
The Business Technology function ensures delivery of Technology services to each of Marex’s business areas by optimising their technology stack, prioritising their strategic technology roadmap, and driving their software delivery lifecycle. Each Business Technology team is aligned to one of Marex’s business divisions and works with a corresponding Development team and Application Support team. A global team of implementation resources coordinate and support the technology business streams with delivery.
Role Summary
The London-based Operations Technologist will support all areas of Marex’s Operations department, with a particular focus on the derivatives, energy, Broker Dealer, and Swap Dealer businesses by partnering with stakeholders across a broad section of the business. The role collaborates to define and implement a vision for world-class operational platforms, applying modern technology to improve trade processing, controls, reconciliations, and regulatory reporting across OTC and listed products.
Acting as a key point of contact from inception through business acceptance, the Operations Technologist will capture and shape requirements for change initiatives and translate them into clear deliverables for the wider technology organisation. Solutions may be delivered through bespoke in-house development or the selection and implementation of vendor platforms, with the Operations Technologist providing end-to-end oversight to ensure outcomes meet business needs and operate within a stable, well-governed control environment.
Responsibilities
Role specific:
- Responsible for the overall architecture and design of the technology developed by the business.
- Provide strategic technological direction for the business.
- Innovate new solutions, ensuring the business is always one step ahead of the competition.
- Contribute to the technical direction of the department, research new concepts and technologies, and evaluate third party products and tools that are (or bay be) used by the team.
- Define the development roadmap and strategy and ensure the team is adequately resourced to achieve it.
- Oversee projects to ensure they are run efficiently and delivered on time and on budget.
- Prioritise and drive the business requirements and give regular status updates.
- Ensure delivered systems are of production quality and that software is adequately documented for handover to the business.
- Familiar with the regulatory, audit, and compliance requirements that apply to the business ensuring that technology employed adheres to these.
- Ensure delivered systems are secure, reliable, and scaled to meet the demands of a rapidly growing business.
- Help defined best software development practices and processes and ensure they are adhered to.
- Create epics that capture business deliverables with an agreed set of Acceptance Criteria (the contract), and report on the priority/progress/effort/cost of these epis/projects.
- Ensuring compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements under the SEC, FINRA, NFA, CFTC and other applicable exchanges.
- Adhere to the operational risk framework for your role ensuring that all regulatory or company determined parameters are complied with.
- Role model for demonstrating highest level standards of integrity and conduct and reflecting Company Values.
- At all times complying with Marex’s Code of Conduct
- To ensure that you are fully aware of and adhere to internal policies that relate to you, your role or any other activities for which you have any level of responsibility
- To report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/ or your supervisor as required
- To escalate risk events immediately
- To provide input to risk management processes, as required.
All staff:
- Ensure compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements under the FCA.
- Adhere to the operational risk framework for your role ensuring that all regulatory or company determined parameters are complied with.
- Role model for demonstrating highest level standards of integrity and conduct and reflecting Company Values.
- At all times comply with the FCA’s Code of Conduct.
- Ensure that you are fully aware of and adhere to internal policies that relate to you, your role or any other activities for which you have any level of responsibility.
- Report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/ or your supervisor as required.
- Escalate risk events immediately.
- Provide input to risk management processes, as required.
Competencies, Skills and Experience:
Competencies:
- Demonstrates curiosity.
- Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment.
- Ability to take a high level of responsibility in a fast pace and high-volume environment.
- Excels at building relationships, networking and influencing others.
- Strategic collaborator with insight and agility, able to anticipate future challenges, ensuring operational effectiveness.
Skills and Experience:
- Good knowledge across various assess class products.
- Experience with regulatory reporting regimes such as EMIR, MiFID II/ MiFIR, CFTC, MAS, ASIC, SFTR.
- Understanding of financial products across derivatives, FX, commodities, cash equities and fixed income.
- Deep understanding of the post-trade lifecycle, including confirmation/affirmation, allocations, settlement, clearing, collateral and margin, lifecycle events, reconciliations, and exceptions management.
- Experience with post-trade platforms and integrations (e.g., trade capture feeds, confirmations, clearing brokers/CCPs, custodians/settlement systems, collateral tools, and reconciliation/break management).
- Working knowledge of regulatory and reporting obligations impacting post-trade for listed derivatives, Broker Dealer and Swap Dealer activities (e.g., transaction reporting, recordkeeping, controls, auditability).
- Experience delivering change across operations technology, including requirements definition, process mapping, testing/UAT, implementation, and production readiness.
- Strong project planning and coordination skills, including managing dependencies across multiple teams and vendors.
- Excellent stakeholder management and business analysis skills, able to translate operational problems into clear technology deliverables.
- Experience designing or supporting secure, reliable, and scalable applications, data flows, and infrastructure, with a focus on resiliency and operational controls.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain complex post-trade workflows and issues clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience working in a regulated environment with an understanding of operational risk, compliance requirements, and control frameworks relevant to post-trade operations.
Conduct Rules, You must:
- Act with integrity
- Act with due skill, care and diligence
- Be open and cooperative with the FCA, the PRA and other regulators
- Pay due regard to the interests of customers and treat them fairly
- Observe proper standard of market conduct
- Act to deliver good outcomes for retail customers
Company Values
Acting as a role model for the values of the Company:
Respect - Clients are at the heart of our business, with superior execution and superb client service the foundation of the firm. We respect our clients and always treat them fairly.
Integrity- Doing business the right way is the only way. We hold ourselves to a high ethical standard in everything we do – our clients expect this and we demand it of ourselves.
Collaborative- We work in teams - open and direct communication and the willingness to work hard and collaboratively are the basis for effective teamwork. Working well with others is necessary for us to succeed at what we do.
Developing our People- Our people are the basis of our competitive advantage. We look to “grow our own” and make Marex the place ambitious, hardworking, talented people choose to build their careers.
Adaptable and Nimble- Our size and flexibility is an advantage. We are big enough to support our client’s various needs, and adaptable and nimble enough to respond quickly to changing conditions or requirements. A non-bureaucratic, but well controlled environment fosters initiative as well as employee satisfaction.
Marex is fully committed to being an inclusive employer and providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all. We will provide reasonable adjustments to remove any disadvantage to you being considered for this role. We value the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the company. We welcome applications from candidates returning to the workforce. Also, Marex is committed to avoiding circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process.
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