Director Trade Surveillance Technology

This role is for one of Weekday’s clients
Salary range: Rs 9000000 - Rs 20000000 (ie INR 90 - 200 LPA)

Min Experience: 18+ years
Location: India
JobType: full-time

We are seeking an accomplished Director – Trade Surveillance Technology to lead the technology strategy, transformation, development, and delivery of enterprise-wide compliance and surveillance platforms within a highly regulated financial services environment.

This senior leadership role will be responsible for shaping product, data, and AI strategies across compliance technology platforms, ensuring alignment with evolving regulatory expectations and business priorities. The Director will establish a product-centric operating model, moving beyond project-based delivery towards outcome-driven platform ownership.

The role will also focus on strengthening engineering capabilities, building resilient and secure technology platforms, accelerating AI and automation adoption, and establishing India as a strategic centre for global Compliance Technology delivery. The successful candidate will work closely with senior Compliance and Technology leaders, including MD- and C-suite-level stakeholders, to drive measurable business outcomes.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

1. Technology Strategy & Platform Leadership

• Define and execute the technology strategy and roadmap for Compliance Technology platforms across trade surveillance, governance, risk and control, and data domains.
• Establish India as a strategic Compliance Technology capability centre, delivering resilient, regulatory-grade platforms through strong engineering, product, data, controls, and talent leadership.
• Oversee the design, development, delivery, and operations of enterprise compliance and surveillance applications.
• Partner with business and technology leadership to translate regulatory developments, market trends, technology opportunities, and organisational priorities into actionable technology roadmaps.
• Drive a product-centric operating model focused on platform ownership, continuous improvement, and measurable business outcomes.

2. Engineering Excellence & Operational Resilience

• Drive engineering excellence by embedding DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, secure-by-design development, platform observability, and modern delivery practices.
• Ensure critical compliance platforms meet high standards of availability, resilience, disaster recovery, failover, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• Lead large-scale technology transformation, modernisation, and data/cloud initiatives.
• Establish strong engineering governance and operational controls across technology platforms.
• Manage technology delivery risks, dependencies, budgets, and resource allocation while balancing immediate business requirements with long-term strategic priorities.

3. Data, AI & Digital Transformation

• Own and drive the data, AI, automation, and advanced analytics strategy across Compliance Technology.
• Accelerate the adoption of AI and Generative AI, real-time analytics, and event-driven data architectures to improve surveillance effectiveness and operational efficiency.
• Identify opportunities to improve signal quality, reduce false positives, and enable proactive monitoring through advanced technology capabilities.
• Act as a strategic advisor to senior Compliance and Technology leadership on AI adoption, data strategy, and platform transformation.
• Ensure responsible and risk-informed AI adoption, with appropriate model governance, transparency, auditability, and regulatory compliance.

4. Regulatory Governance, Risk & Control

• Partner with Compliance leaders to align technology priorities with regulatory expectations and business requirements.
• Oversee technology responses to regulatory incidents, surveillance breaches, audit findings, and control-related issues.
• Ensure all technology activities comply with applicable regulatory requirements, enterprise-wide risk management frameworks, and internal policies.
• Balance innovation and transformation with cyber security, operational resilience, auditability, and regulatory obligations.
• Engage with regulators, internal and external auditors, and legal counsel where required.

5. Stakeholder & Vendor Management

• Build and maintain senior stakeholder relationships across global Compliance and Technology functions.
• Engage regularly with MD- and C-suite-level stakeholders to align technology strategy, transformation priorities, and business outcomes.
• Support senior management committees, transformation forums, programme reviews, and bank-wide technology initiatives.
• Manage strategic technology service providers and vendors to ensure effective delivery, platform resilience, and transformation outcomes.
• Facilitate collaboration across business, engineering, data, infrastructure, information security, and compliance teams.

6. People Leadership & Organisation Development

• Build a future-ready workforce aligned with evolving AI, data, cloud, and engineering skill requirements.
• Lead, develop, and mentor high-performing teams, fostering accountability, innovation, and continuous learning.
• Establish a collaborative culture that encourages knowledge sharing and the adoption of engineering best practices.
• Drive talent development, workforce planning, and capability building to support long-term organisational objectives.

Required Skills & Experience

• Proven senior technology leadership experience in setting enterprise technology strategy and delivering large-scale transformation programmes.
• Strong experience leading modern engineering organisations and building secure, resilient, scalable, and observable technology platforms.
• Demonstrated expertise in product-led platform strategy, data transformation, AI adoption, and advanced analytics.
• Strong understanding of modern engineering practices, including DevSecOps, CI/CD, SRE, automated testing, secure-by-design delivery, and platform observability.
• Experience leading complex technology transformation, data modernisation, and cloud modernisation programmes.
• Ability to operate effectively in highly regulated environments with strong governance, risk management, and control disciplines.
• Strong understanding of financial services, particularly compliance, regulatory, legal, or investment banking operations.
• Knowledge of financial instruments, front-office processes, risk and compliance operations, and regulatory control frameworks.
• Excellent executive communication, presentation, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven ability to lead diverse teams through organisational change and deliver measurable business outcomes.

Must-Have Skills

• Trade Surveillance
• Compliance Technology

Good-to-Have Skills

• Product-Led Platform Strategy
• Automation
• Advanced Analytics
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Strategy
• Cloud and Data Architecture

Preferred Experience

• Experience within financial services, particularly compliance, regulatory, legal, capital markets, or investment banking environments.
• Exposure to trade surveillance, control room, electronic communications surveillance, anti-financial crime, or other compliance technology platforms.
• Experience engaging with regulators, internal or external auditors, and legal counsel.
• Architecture experience across data, AI, cloud, or enterprise compliance platforms.
• Degree in Science, Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent senior leadership experience.