Vice President, Global Markets Trading Venues & Vendor Systems; Dallas TX

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Vice President, Global Markets Trading Venues & Vendor Systems (Dallas TX or Toronto ON)

Requisition : 251896

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The Vice President, Global Markets Trading Venues & Vendor Systems (The VP), is responsible for defining and executing the strategic technology vision for trading venues and vendor‑based platforms that support the Global Banking & Markets (GBM) business. This role blends deep capital markets expertise with technology leadership, vendor management excellence, and a proven ability to deliver complex, high‑availability trading systems at scale.

As a key technology partner to Global Banking Markets leadership the VP plays a critical role in enabling the GBM strategy by ensuring that the bank’s front‑office trading capabilities are resilient, competitive, and positioned to enable revenue growth.

Partnering with business leaders, global technology partners, and external vendors, the VP will leverage differentiated technology to drive strategic initiatives that differentiate the bank’s execution capabilities in the global marketplace.

• Partner with business leaders of major GBM growth areas including:
  Currency and Commodities (FICC), FX options & Derivatives, Prime & Structured Funding, Collateral Management (Syncova), Operations Technology, Global Wholesale Risk Technology and Prime Services to define and execute on the technology roadmap.
• Owns end‑to‑end technology strategy and delivery for the Prime Services franchise, spanning Cash and Synthetic Prime Brokerage, Securities Borrowing & Lending, margin, risk, and client reporting, ensuring platforms (Cash One/Prime One,Swap One,Loan One/GSBL) operateas a cohesive front‑to‑back ecosystem.
• Leads modernization ofLoanOne/Global One(GSBL) as the strategic securities lending book of record, driving architectural simplification, real‑time position accuracy, improved settlement and fail transparency, tighter integration with downstream risk/finance systems, and reduced manual processing through automation.
• Lead the global rollout of Murex, ensuring the platform is leveraged and optimized to standardize processes, increase automation, and advance the bank’s trading, risk, and product capabilities
• Lead the modernization and optimization of the bank’s trading venue ecosystem and vendor solution platforms, ensuring scalability, operational resilience and regulatory alignment
• Lead the modernization and implementation ofour Digital Assets capabilities within Capital Markets, ensuring interoperability with bank wide digital asset strategy.
• Ensure that all trading venues and vendor platforms operate with exceptional reliability, performance, and latency management.
• Build and maintain strong strategic partnerships with technology vendors to ensure service excellence, platform stability and continuous innovation
• Drive proactive risk management across all platform environments, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards, internal controls, and operational risk frameworks.
• Ensure all technology solutions adhere to enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, data privacy, and data residency standards.
• Provide thought leadership on modernization, emerging technologies, and strategic opportunities that position the bank for competitive advantage.
• Champion talent development across Global Banking & Markets and Wealth Technology, creating an environment that attracts, grows, and retains top engineering talent.
• Lead and drive a customer focused culture across the team to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• Ensure compliance with company technology standards, frameworks and policies regarding solution architecture, security, data privacy and residency.
• Directs day‑to‑day activities in a manner consistent with the Bank’s risk culture and the relevant risk appetite statement and limits. Communicates the Bank’s risk culture and risk appetite statement throughout…