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This role combines passion for the markets, strong engineering judgment, and disciplined execution leadership to build scalable, resilient, intuitive, and high-performance technology used by traders and financial professionals every day.\nThe Associate Director will operate at both strategic and hands-on levels-partnering closely with Trading, Product, Operations, Architecture, Engineering, QA, SRE, and Compliance teams to understand real trading workflows, define practical technology roadmaps, and deliver improvements across the full order lifecycle. This leader will play a key role in modernizing legacy capabilities into a more service-based, API-enabled, event-driven ecosystem while protecting the stability, performance, and regulatory integrity of production trading platforms.\nThe ideal candidate is a technically curious, passionate, and accountable leader who enjoys getting close to business, engaging deeply with engineers and architects, and helping teams turn complex trading needs into reliable technology outcomes. They will mentor and develop high-performing teams, foster a culture of ownership, craftsmanship, collaboration, and continuous improvement, and bring the energy to build great platforms-not just manage them.\nKey Responsibilities:\nOwn the Raymond James Trade Desk Order Entry (TDOE) platform, providing strategic and operational leadership for the trader-facing application supporting equity and options trading across the enterprise.\n\nAccountable for the delivery, enhancement, stability, and long-term evolution of TDOE, ensuring alignment with business objectives, trader productivity, regulatory requirements, and operational excellence.\n\nPartner closely with Trade Desk leadership, traders, operations, compliance, product management, and technology teams to understand business needs, gather requirements, and deliver solutions that improve trading efficiency and client service.\n\nLead business analysis, requirements discovery, and solution design activities for trading workflows, ensuring business requirements are translated into scalable and maintainable technology solutions.\n\nDrive the strategic roadmap for TDOE, identifying opportunities to improve trader workflows, automate manual processes, reduce operational risk, and enhance integration with adjacent trading platforms.\n\nProvide technology leadership across order lifecycle management, including order capture, validation, routing, execution, allocations, exception management, and post-trade processing.\n\nPartner with OMS, COE, Rebalancing, Operations, and Architecture teams to ensure seamless end-to-end trading workflow integration across the trading ecosystem.\n\nLead modernization efforts for TDOE, including UI modernization, API enablement, workflow automation, service-based architecture adoption, and platform simplification initiatives.\n\nEnsure platform reliability, resiliency, scalability, performance, observability, and security while maintaining support for critical trading 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order management processes.\n\nExtensive experience supporting trader-facing applications and front-office trading systems used by equity and options traders.\n\nStrong understanding of order lifecycle management, including order entry, pre-trade validation, compliance controls, routing, execution management, allocations, exception processing, and post-trade workflows.\n\nProven experience with Order Management Systems (OMS), trade execution platforms, market connectivity, execution venues, and downstream settlement processes.\n\nDemonstrated expertise gathering business requirements and translating complex trading workflows into technology solutions that improve trader productivity and operational efficiency.\n\nStrong business analysis capabilities, including stakeholder engagement, process mapping, workflow optimization, requirements management, use case development, and solution design.\n\nExperience partnering directly with traders, trade desk managers, operations teams, and business stakeholders to design and deliver workflow enhancements.\n\nStrong architecture and application delivery experience across distributed systems, microservices, APIs, integration platforms, messaging technologies, and event-driven architectures.\n\nExperience modernizing legacy front-office applications while maintaining platform stability and minimizing business disruption.\n\nDeep understanding of system performance, resiliency, scalability, observability, and operational support requirements for highly available trading platforms.\n\nExperience operating within regulated financial services environments with knowledge of audit, compliance, risk management, supervisory controls, and regulatory obligations.\n\nProven track record leading cross-functional teams consisting of engineering, business analysis, QA, SRE, operations, vendors, and business stakeholders.\n\nStrong people leadership experience, including hiring, coaching, performance management, succession planning, organizational development, and leadership mentoring.\n\nAbility to communicate effectively with both executive leadership and technical teams while balancing strategic objectives with day-to-day delivery responsibilities.\n\nDemonstrated success defining platform strategy and technology roadmaps while maintaining accountability for execution, operational stability, and business outcomes.\n\nLicenses/Certifications:\nNone required.\n\n Education\nBachelor’s: Computer and Information Science, Bachelor’s: Information Technology, High School (HS) (Required)Work Experience\nGeneral Experience - 10 to 15 years, Manager Experience - 6 to 10 yearsCertifications\nSalary Range\n$100,000.00-$175,000.00Travel\nLess than 25% Workstyle\nHybridThe total compensation for this position includes base salary or wages, andmay include components such as additional compensation (cash or equity), discretionary bonuses, or commissions. This position is eligible for a benefits package that may include medical, dental, and vision; life insurance; critical illness insurance and accident insurance; disability benefits; retirement savings; paid time off (including vacation, holidays, and sick leave); and parental leave. Eligibility for benefits and specific offerings may vary based on position and employment status. To view more details of the benefits offered, visit Myrjbenefits.com.\nAt Raymond James our associates use five guiding behaviors (Develop, Collaborate, Decide, Deliver, Improve) to deliver on the firm's core values of client-first, integrity, independence and a conservative, long-term view. \nWe expect our associates at all levels to:\nGrow professionally and inspire others to do the same\nWork with and through others to achieve desired outcomes\nMake prompt, pragmatic choices and act with the client in mind\nTake ownership and hold themselves and others accountable for delivering results that matter\nContribute to the continuous evolution of the firm\nAt Raymond James - as part of our people-first culture, we honor, value, and respect the uniqueness, experiences, and backgrounds of all of our Associates. When associates bring their best authentic selves, our organization, clients, and communities thrive. 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