APAC Algorithmic Trading Technical Lead

UBS · Hong Kong

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Job Type Full Time Job Reference # 340278BR City Hong Kong SAR Key Responsibilities Are you passionate about building robust, scalable, and high-performance algorithmic trading systems?   We are looking for an experienced, hands-on technical lead to join our Front Office Algorithmic Trading Development team and deliver tangible business value across APAC.  Your role : - Lead the design and delivery of software for the firm’s Agency Trading Electronic Trading business, with a focus on APAC Algorithmic Trading.  - Analyze complex algorithmic execution requirements and deliver effective solutions through an agile, iterative approach.  - Help implement the target-state architecture for our global Algorithmic Trading platform, adapting it to APAC market structures and regional requirements.  - Evolve our distributed architecture to meet next-generation requirements for capacity, scalability, resilience, latency, and throughput.  - Provide hands-on technical leadership, promote engineering best practices, and guide key design and architecture decisions.  - Ensure that enterprise requirements for cybersecurity, platform hosting, monitoring, observability, and logging are met.  - Expand automated testing across distributed algo-engine components and enhance our simulation test harness to support algorithm, model, regression, and market scenario testing.  - Collaborate with technology teams, Quants, Traders, and Product partners across regions and asset classes.  - Provide Level 3 production support and assist Operations teams with releases, platform rollouts, incident investigation, and support-related matters.  - Mentor team members and help strengthen engineering capability and ownership across the team.

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UBS Group AG is a Swiss multinational investment bank and financial services firm founded and based in Switzerland, with headquarters in both Zurich and Basel. It holds a strong foothold in all major financial centres as the largest Swiss banking institution and the world's largest private bank. UBS manages the largest amount of private wealth in the world, counting approximately half of The World's Billionaires among its clients, with over US$7 trillion in assets as of December 2025 (AUM). Based on international deal flow and political influence, the firm is considered one of the "biggest, most powerful financial institutions in the world". UBS is also a leading market maker and one of the eight global 'bulge bracket' investment banks. Due to its large presence across the Americas, EMEA and Asia–Pacific markets, the Financial Stability Board considers it a global systemically important bank and UBS is widely considered to be the largest and most sophisticated "truly global investment bank" in the world, given its market-leading positions in every major financial centre globally.

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