This is a Vice President position within Platform Reliability Engineering and Management leveraging SRE Principles and Practices based out of London. This role is looking for a multi skilled professional with strong technical leadership, people management skills to deliver critical services ensuring Jefferies operates a highly stable, reliable, and resilient front-to-back plant.

Responsibilities:

Provide technical leadership to high performing global team and provide oversight in plant stability across applications supporting Middle/Back office processing (Operations). Navigate global technology department and wider organization to better understand problems and to help implement solutions. Represent the stability function on associated program governance committees and working groups. Proactive risk identification, prevention and detection controls and processes, and metrics to enhance plant stability. Collaboration with other regional counterparts on technical and functional initiatives. Automate to drive efficiency. You will identify and create automation to eliminate manual day to day support activities; scope and create automation for deployment, management and visibility of our services. Extensive experience with implementing SRE principles in the organization such as SLOs/SLIs and TOIL measurement Implement best practices for building successful monitoring and alerting systems. Experience with Observability platforms like Datadog and open telemetry is desired. You will work closely with engineering/development teams to design, build, and maintain systems and help them decide on products to use, schema design and query tuning. Extensive troubleshooting abilities across the stack

QUALIFICATIONS

Required Skills:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent, ideally in an area related to technology infrastructure (e.g., engineering, computer science, etc.) 10 plus years of support experience in Post trade processing for Fixed Income and Equities. Familiarity with Broadridge a plus. Hands on experience with troubleshooting Application/Database/Data related issues. Strong organization skills with the ability to multitask and prioritize; ability to work under pressure. Experience in software development: automation-related experience desired.  Scripting languages such as PowerShell, Shell, Python or compiled languages such as C#/.Net, JAVA  are most relevant, but others are acceptable.  Extensive experience with Microsoft SQL server or any other DBMS including performance tuning. Deep understanding of operating system level concepts such as processes, memory allocation, and the network stack an understanding of how applications are affected by the above, and ability to debug same Prior experience as a developer in a large-scale financial firm The candidate must be already doing a similar role

About Us

Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (‘‘Jefferies,’’ ‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us’’ or ‘‘our’’) is a U.S.-headquartered global full service, integrated investment banking and securities firm. Our largest subsidiary, Jefferies LLC, a U.S. broker-dealer, was founded in the U.S. in 1962 and our first international operating subsidiary, Jefferies International Limited, a U.K. broker-dealer, was established in the U.K. in 1986. Our strategy focuses on continuing to build out our investment banking effort, enhancing our capital markets businesses and further developing our Leucadia Asset Management alternative asset management platform. We offer deep sector expertise across a full range of products and services in investment banking, equities, fixed income, asset and wealth management in the Americas, Europe and the Middle East and Asia.

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.