AVP/MD, Head of Investment Banking & Capital Markets Technology

A large Northeast regional bank is seeking a visionary technology leader to define and drive the future of Investment Banking & Global Capital Markets technology.

Location: Hybrid – New York, NY

The Opportunity

This is not a role to steward the status quo. It is a mandate to reimagine how deals are originated, syndicated, executed, and settled in an AI-native, real-time, cloud-first world, and to build the platform and the engineering culture that gets us there. The right leader sees around corners: they set a multi-year north star for the division's technology, translate it into a fundable roadmap, and inspire a global organization to deliver it, all while keeping the business running and its control frameworks strong. They are as comfortable setting industry standards and forming consortia as they are architecting a resilient distributed system or pairing with an engineer on the hardest problem.

The Mandate

Set the vision. Own a bold, multi-year technology strategy for the primary issuance lifecycle (origination, pipeline, book-building, syndication, trade booking, and settlement) and rally the business behind it.

Reinvent, don't renovate. Move the division from legacy and vendor dependence toward differentiated, in-house capability where it matters, retiring manual process and operational risk at scale (e.g., STP settlement, automated front-to-back revenue booking).

Make the business AI-native. Champion developer AI adoption at scale (agentic and AI-assisted engineering, AI tooling in the hands of bankers) and set the standard other divisions follow.

Shape the industry. Lead and influence beyond the firm through industry consortia, DLT / blockchain issuance, real-time order-book paradigms, and emerging market utilities, positioning the organization as a standard-setter rather than a fast-follower.

Build the team and the culture. Attract, grow, and inspire a global engineering organization; in-source and right-size delivery; and create a product-led culture with deep ties to its business users.

What You'll Own

Technology & Architecture: End-to-end architecture of the platforms behind Equity, Debt, and Loan issuance; robust, scalable, real-time distributed systems with high availability; a modern data architecture powering analytics, BI, revenue & capital reporting, and automated P&L.

Business Enablement: Straight-through processing across the deal lifecycle; content collaboration and mobility so bankers can work securely anywhere and leverage AI; measurable gains in efficiency, productivity, and revenue capacity.

Control, Risk & Compliance: The control backbone of the business: AML, MNPI, insider-list control, information & entitlement management, information security, and new-product-approval controls, strengthened as the platform evolves, not bolted on.

Stakeholder & Executive Leadership: Trusted advisor to front-office, operations, and control leaders; compelling communicator of vision, roadmap, and outcomes to executive management, regulators, vendors, and partners.

What You Bring

A track record of transformational, not incremental, leadership in investment banking or capital markets technology. You have re-envisioned business-critical platforms and can point to the outcomes (risk removed, cash and journals eliminated, businesses scaled).

15–20+ years in the domain, with genuine, hands-on technical depth in enterprise architecture and large-scale distributed systems. A leader engineers want to follow.

Experience building and leading large global organizations (100+ people) serving thousands of users and multi-billion-dollar revenue businesses.

Fluency across modern and enterprise stacks (Java / Python, cloud, containerization, streaming, SQL / NoSQL) and the judgment to balance build, buy, and consortium.

Deep command of the primary issuance lifecycle and its regulatory and control frameworks.

Demonstrated industry influence through consortia, standards bodies, emerging-tech POCs, and thought leadership.

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Computer / Software Engineering, or related; advanced degree or MBA a plus.

How We'll Know You're The One

You lead with a point of view about the future and can make people believe in it and fund it.

You pair strategic altitude with hands-on credibility: vision at the exec table, depth at the whiteboard.

You've redesigned business processes at scale without loosening control.

You build followership. The best engineers and business partners want to work with you.

You turn ambiguity into a clear, sequenced, deliverable roadmap.

Compensation: $250000 – $280000 USD/yr