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Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. We are a technology and data driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing. Combining data, research, technology, and trading expertise has shaped QRT’s collaborative mindset which enables us to solve the most complex challenges. QRT’s culture of innovation continuously drives our ambition to deliver high quality returns for our investors. Join QRT Academy as a Technology Director in London or Paris. In this highly visible role, you will help shape the future of technical learning and knowledge sharing across QRT. Working closely with senior technology leaders, engineering teams and business stakeholders, you will identify evolving technical capability needs, design and deliver initiatives that accelerate technical excellence and foster a strong engineering community across the firm. This is a unique opportunity to build and scale technical programmes that reach hundreds of engineers globally while contributing to QRT’s continued growth as a leading technology-driven investment firm. Your future role at QRT: * Partner with the CTO organisation and technology leaders in business departments to identify strategic technical capability needs across QRT and develop initiatives to address them. * Design, organise and continuously improve QRT's technical learning programmes, ensuring they remain aligned with the latest industry trends and technologies. * Lead the delivery of internal technical conferences, Tech Camps, Tech Summits and community events, including workshops and training programmes, across QRT. * Build and foster a vibrant internal technical community connecting engineering teams across both the CTO organisation and business departments. * Develop and maintain learning resources, documentation and knowledge-sharing platforms. * Design and continuously improve technical assessments and hiring standards, ensuring QRT recruits the technical talent needed to support future grow * Build trusted relationships with senior engineers, managers and executives to understand evolving technical priorities and translate them into impactful Academy initiatives. * Identify opportunities to strengthen QRT's technical culture and promote collaboration across teams. Your present skillset: * Significant experience leading complex technical programmes, engineering initiatives or technology-focused learning programmes. * Previous hands-on technical experience, ideally as a software engineer or in another highly technical role, with the credibility to engage and influence experienced engineering teams. * Excellent project and programme management skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple strategic initiatives simultaneously. * Experience organising large-scale technical events, conferences or community initiatives, with a genuine interest in building and growing technical communities. * Outstanding interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior technical leaders across the organisation. * Strong communication and presentation skills, with confidence communicating with both technical and non-technical audiences. * Highly organised, proactive and energetic, with a strong sense of ownership and a focus on * Curious about emerging technologies, particularly AI and software engineering trends. * Pragmatic, collaborative and intellectually humble, with the ability to challenge ideas constructively while remaining open to different perspectives. * Comfortable working in a fast-moving environment where priorities evolve quickly. * Hands-on, with the ability to turn ideas into practical solutions and a strong bias towards execution and measurable impact. QRT is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome diversity as essential to our success. QRT empowers employees to work openly and respectfully to achieve collective success. In addition to professional achievement, we are offering initiatives and programs to enable employees achieve a healthy work-life balance.

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. We are a technology and data driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing. Combining data, research, technology and trading expertise has shaped QRT’s collaborative mindset which enables us to solve the most complex challenges. QRT’s culture of innovation continuously drives our ambition to deliver high quality returns for our investors.   The successful candidate will join the established DCO team at QRT, working closely with Network Engineering and infrastructure teams you will be responsible for the implementation and physical  deployment of electronic trading infrastructure in support of the firm’s trading activities. Your Future Role within QRT * Contribute to the design and planning of new equipment deployments in line with data centre best practices * Deploy, maintain, and decommission trading infrastructure hardware, including FPGA platforms, ultra-low-latency servers, and high-performance network switches, across a global colocation footprint * Ensure consistent build quality across structured cabling, rack layouts, power distribution, cooling infrastructure, and environmental monitoring * Coordinate installations, upgrades, capacity expansions, and decommissions with exchanges, colocation providers, hardware vendors, and onsite engineers * Support procurement, logistics, inventory management, and the movement of hardware and components between sites * Maintain accurate and up-to-date infrastructure documentation (rack elevations, patching matrices, connectivity layouts) using CMDB tools such as NetBox * Work closely with network engineering and trading teams to ensure physical infrastructure meets performance and operational requirements * Use basic scripting (Python, Bash, Ansible) to support automation, monitoring, and operational tooling where required * Ensure data centre operations meet high standards of security, cleanliness, documentation, and supply management * Install, troubleshoot, and support servers, switches, timing devices, and cabling in live environments * Provide break-fix support in a 24/7 global trading environment Your Present Skillset: * Experience working in low-latency or high-performance trading infrastructure environments (e.g. HFT, exchange colocation, market making) * Strong understanding of hardware and systems used in low-latency trading, including FPGAs, optical taps, high-performance servers, networking, and timing equipment * Solid understanding of hardware and network devices, including basic configuration * Proven experience managing vendors and delivering on-site changes and large-scale deployments to exacting standards * High standards of physical build quality, attention to detail, and operational discipline in infrastructure layout and cabling * Strong documentation skills with a focus on process consistency and operational readiness * Comfortable working in a fast-paced, globally distributed team environment * Willingness to travel internationally and provide occasional evening or weekend support as part of a flexible operations schedule * Ability to participate in an out-of-hours on-call rotation supporting global trading operations   Base salary range for this position is $150,000 to $180,000 per year.  QRT Total Compensation includes discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package.