Job description
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We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Global Head of Direct Custody Tech and Head of SSv Tech, China.
Business: SecSvcs Digital Assets Tech
Principal responsibilities
Direct Custody Technology
Provide technology leadership for Direct Custody platforms supporting Asia’s sub-custody operations
Own and deliver the platform roadmap including modernization, cloud-native design, and AI/LLM tools
Drive Agile, CI/CD, and DevOps best practices
Partner with Product, Operations, and Regional Leaders
Ensure platform stability and performance
Serve as escalation and control owner
Regional Development Centre Role
Stakeholder Engagement and Collaboration: As the senior most technology representative in the region, the role ensures strong alignment between the development centre and global stakeholders-including business leaders, CIO/CTO communities, transformation programmes and enterprise product owners. The Head builds trusted partnerships to –co create roadmaps, align priorities and deliver regionally relevant solutions. The role also acts as a cultural and strategic bridge between China-based teams and global headquarters, ensuring seamless integration and mutual understanding.
Centre Governance and Compliance: The role is accountable for establishing and maintaining robust governance, risk and control frameworks within the development centre. This includes ensuring regulatory compliance, particularly with local data and cybersecurity laws and overseeing all aspects of audit readiness, internal controls and operational resilience. The regional Head leads business continuity planning and proactively manages enterprise risks associated with technology development and operations.
Talent and Capability Development: A key responsibility is leading the regions technology talent strategy. That includes attracting, developing and retaining top engineering product and QA talent while fostering a high-performance culture rooted in Agile values and continuous learning. The Head oversees leadership development, career frameworks and capability uplift initiatives and works closely with HR and global centres of excellence to build a sustainable and inclusive talent pipeline.
Technology Delivery and Engineering Excellence: The regional Head ensures the timely and high-quality of digital and technology solutions from the centre. They drive engineering excellence through adoption of Agile methodologies, DevSecOps practices, CI/CD automaton and architectural standardisation. A core accountability is ensuring delivery, velocity, platform consistency and cost efficiency across multiple product domains whilst enabling reusable capabilities and reducing technical debt.
Performance, Metrics and Value Realisation: The role defines and tracks performance metrics that reflect the value and impact of the development centre, including delivery throughput, team productivity, quality indicators and stakeholder satisfaction. The regional Head ensures the centre contributes meaningfully to enterprise-level KPIs and delivers demonstrable outcomes that support both global technology strategy and regional business goals.
Requirements
Essential
15+ years in financial services technology; 5+ years in senior leadership
Experience in custody/post-trade systems and transformation
Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD, AI/ML, and LLMs
Strong stakeholder management and global experience
Fluent in English; Mandarin a plus
Desirable
Experience scaling development centres in Asia
Familiarity with global custody platforms
Experience integrating AI/LLM into engineering workflows
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