Engineering Director, Technical Director, Head of Software Engineering, Software Development Manager. Java/AWS Ink Search are representing a prestigious firm in the commodities/energy trading industry. They focus on renewable energy trading and asset optimisation across the UK, European, Swiss, Singaporean, Japanese and Australian markets and have grown from 20 to 2000+ people over the last 8 years. As they embark on another phase of growth, they have a critical recruitment mandate to secure a talented Technical Director to lead their large Software Engineering department. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing the Technology Strategy, Architecture and the execution of the long term Product Vision. You''ll define and shape a culture of success across the Engineering teams, managing in excess of 60 engineers, and work closely with the Product, Analysis and Delivery teams to ensure long term scalability, revenue growth and operational success. The successful candidate will have a background in Software Engineering, have experience managing multiple Software Engineering Teams with a heavy Java/AWS emphasis and strong experience leading the build and execution of high frequency, low latency trading platforms/applications in an Investment Bank, Hedge Fund, Commodities Trader or Wealth Manager. The role will require some business travel and requires a smart, strategic, dynamic applicant who appreciates Software Design and Development within a complex low latency ..... full job details .....