Technical Project Manager

Belvedere Trading is a leading proprietary trading firm proudly headquartered in downtown Chicago. Our traders work hard to provide liquidity to the market through their market-making activities and are the masters of a diverse set of commodities, interest rates, exchange-traded funds (ETF), and equity index options. From the beginning, we began iteratively investing in our proprietary technology and committing to building our systems from the ground up. Our trading models and software systems are continually re-engineered, optimized, and maintained to stay on top of the industry. This wouldn't be possible without the dedicated efforts of our technology teams who utilize and perfect our innovative technology solutions. 
High-performance proprietary development is the source of our success and competitive advantage at Belvedere, further fueling our passion for performance. We are a team driven by intellectual curiosity, seeking answers that will change not only how we trade in this technological age, but also the future landscape of the trading industry. We place a high premium on defining, developing, and deploying high performance trading software using a team-based, holistic development approach. We look for passionate team members that excel and their contribution is critical to our continued success. 
As a Technical Project Manager at Belvedere Trading, you will drive key technology initiatives that support our trading, engineering, and quant teams. You'll partner directly with software engineers, data engineers, QAs, DevOps, and key stakeholders to deliver high-impact projects across our proprietary trading platforms and data systems. This role is critical to ensuring technical deliverables meet business objectives, system reliability standards, and ongoing innovation within our firm.  What You'll Do

• Plan and coordinate delivery of complex software engineering, infrastructure, and data platform projects with structured timelines and clear deliverables. 
• Facilitate regular team standups to ensure alignment, surface and resolve blockers, and maintain momentum on deliverables. 
• Ensure project requirements, milestones, and success criteria are clearly defined and tracked. 
• Communicate status, updates, and risks to stakeholders across engineering, product, and leadership groups. 
• Support and promote best practices for code quality, peer reviews, automated testing, observability, and documentation. 
• Help teams adopt, leverage, and optimize key platforms—e.g., Kubernetes, GCP, CI/CD (GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins), data platforms (BigQuery, SQL, NoSQL, Time Series), and associated monitoring/observability tools (Grafana, Splunk, Datadog, CloudWatch). 
• Coordinate cross-functional initiatives, like cloud migrations, new software products, trading infrastructure improvements, or real-time data pipeline projects. 
• Contribute to the upkeep of project tracking and reporting tools and similar), keeping metrics and updates visible for all stakeholders. 
• Partner with developers, QAs, business, and quant teams to troubleshoot and resolve risks, blockers, and technical challenges.

What You'll Need

• 5+ years of technical project management experience in an engineering or technology-driven organization 
• Proven ability to manage cross-functional teams working with technologies such as C++, C#, Python, Java, Kubernetes, GCP, cloud/data engineering stacks, and CI/CD platforms 
• Excellent collaboration, interpersonal, and communication skills; able to work effectively with technical and non-technical team members 
• Solid understanding of software development lifecycles, infrastructure, and observability/monitoring practices 
• Experience facilitating standups, managing progress, and surfacing technical project risks 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities 
• Knowledge of trading or financial systems a plus, but not required 

$140,000 - $200,000 a year Additionally, certain positions at Belvedere Trading are eligible for discretionary bonuses. Our employees have access to a variety of benefits, which can be found on our website 
Women and underrepresented groups frequently apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. We encourage you to break that mold and apply. No candidate is perfect; all have a lot to offer. We welcome your application.
Core Values The secret to our award-winning culture is our Core Values: Team Belvedere, Me In Team, Own It, Build Rockets, and Passionate Discourse. We live and breathe these values every day.
Compliance For our trading positions and certain engineering roles, the SIE and Series 57 licenses are required; Belvedere Trading will provide comprehensive study materials and allocate dedicated time during the onboarding process to ensure your success in obtaining these certifications.
Our Stance Belvedere is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing a non-discriminatory employment environment for its employees. Discrimination against employees and applicants due to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, military, and veteran status is prohibited. Belvedere encourages initiatives to increase diversity and provide equal opportunity to all applicants and employees. Belvedere is committed to providing a positive environment in which team members are treated with respect, dignity, and courtesy. Our firm believes in a dynamic culture of inclusion and diversity, where people thrive on individual and organizational characteristics, values, experiences, and backgrounds.   Please note that Belvedere Trading does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms or employment agencies. Any unsolicited resumes will become the property of Team Belvedere. No phone calls, please.   Any questions regarding the virtual recruiting process, please reach out to [email protected].   Work Schedule: Regular and reliable attendance during standard business hours with the ability to be on-site prior to the start of business on occasion  Amount of Travel Required: None
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

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