This role is for one of Weekday’s clients
Salary range: Rs 9000000 - Rs 20000000 (ie INR 90 - 200 LPA)
Min Experience: 18+ years
Location: India
JobType: full-time
We are seeking an accomplished Director – Trade Surveillance Technology to lead the technology strategy, transformation, development, and delivery of enterprise-wide compliance and surveillance platforms within a highly regulated financial services environment.
This senior leadership role will be responsible for shaping product, data, and AI strategies across compliance technology platforms, ensuring alignment with evolving regulatory expectations and business priorities. The Director will establish a product-centric operating model, moving beyond project-based delivery towards outcome-driven platform ownership.
The role will also focus on strengthening engineering capabilities, building resilient and secure technology platforms, accelerating AI and automation adoption, and establishing India as a strategic centre for global Compliance Technology delivery. The successful candidate will work closely with senior Compliance and Technology leaders, including MD- and C-suite-level stakeholders, to drive measurable business outcomes.
Requirements
Key Responsibilities
1. Technology Strategy & Platform Leadership
Define and execute the technology strategy and roadmap for Compliance Technology platforms across trade surveillance, governance, risk and control, and data domains.
Establish India as a strategic Compliance Technology capability centre, delivering resilient, regulatory-grade platforms through strong engineering, product, data, controls, and talent leadership.
Oversee the design, development, delivery, and operations of enterprise compliance and surveillance applications.
Partner with business and technology leadership to translate regulatory developments, market trends, technology opportunities, and organisational priorities into actionable technology roadmaps.
Drive a product-centric operating model focused on platform ownership, continuous improvement, and measurable business outcomes.
2. Engineering Excellence & Operational Resilience
Drive engineering excellence by embedding DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, secure-by-design development, platform observability, and modern delivery practices.
Ensure critical compliance platforms meet high standards of availability, resilience, disaster recovery, failover, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
Lead large-scale technology transformation, modernisation, and data/cloud initiatives.
Establish strong engineering governance and operational controls across technology platforms.
Manage technology delivery risks, dependencies, budgets, and resource allocation while balancing immediate business requirements with long-term strategic priorities.
3. Data, AI & Digital Transformation
Own and drive the data, AI, automation, and advanced analytics strategy across Compliance Technology.
Accelerate the adoption of AI and Generative AI, real-time analytics, and event-driven data architectures to improve surveillance effectiveness and operational efficiency.
Identify opportunities to improve signal quality, reduce false positives, and enable proactive monitoring through advanced technology capabilities.
Act as a strategic advisor to senior Compliance and Technology leadership on AI adoption, data strategy, and platform transformation.
Ensure responsible and risk-informed AI adoption, with appropriate model governance, transparency, auditability, and regulatory compliance.
4. Regulatory Governance, Risk & Control
Partner with Compliance leaders to align technology priorities with regulatory expectations and business requirements.
Oversee technology responses to regulatory incidents, surveillance breaches, audit findings, and control-related issues.
Ensure all technology activities comply with applicable regulatory requirements, enterprise-wide risk management frameworks, and internal policies.
Balance innovation and…