Technical Business Development Manager (Asia Trading Infrastructure)

The Role

What You Will Do

• Lead the 0-to-1 buildout of Rock Bund Capital’s Asia trading infrastructure, with China as the initial priority and Korea, Taiwan, and India as future expansion markets.
• Source, evaluate, onboard, and manage external counterparties, including brokers, execution channels, exchanges, prime brokers, clearing partners, market-data vendors, and infrastructure providers.
• Drive commercial and operational discussions with counterparties, including market access, connectivity options, commission / fee schedules, market-data terms, financing / borrow capabilities, onboarding timelines, service-level expectations, and escalation paths.
• Own the China market-access setup across A-shares, Stock Connect, and commodity futures, coordinating with brokers, exchanges, legal, compliance, traders, and internal technology teams.
• Assess market-access routes and understand the practical implications of Stock Connect, QFII / RQFII, and other relevant access structures, including account setup, trading rules, settlement, reporting, operational constraints, and control requirements.
• Work with traders and strategists to understand trading requirements, then translate them into concrete workflows, system requirements, acceptance criteria, UAT plans, and go-live checklists for engineering and operations teams.
• Partner with engineering teams on trading connectivity and infrastructure requirements, including FIX / API workflows, order routing, drop copy, market-data feeds, OMS / EMS integration, gateway testing, and production support expectations.
• Coordinate market-data and infrastructure setup, including exchange feeds, vendor data, entitlements, licensing, connectivity, proximity hosting, and co-location where relevant.
• Establish pre-trade, at-trade, and post-trade operating controls, including exchange rule checks, trading limits, kill-switch procedures, reconciliation workflows, incident escalation, and production runbooks.
• Understand securities borrowing and lending requirements where relevant, including borrow availability, locates, short-selling eligibility, borrow cost, recall risk, and how borrow constraints affect systematic trading strategies.
• Own go-live readiness across internal and external stakeholders, ensuring that the trading flow is operationally sound, technically validated, and properly controlled before it touches live capital.
• Act as the key point of contact when issues arise across brokers, exchanges, vendors, traders, and internal engineering teams.
• Help prioritize market expansion across Asia based on trading demand, broker readiness, infrastructure complexity, capital efficiency, and operational risk.

Who You Are

Must Have

• Experience from a top-tier brokerage firm, prime broker, exchange, market-data / trading-infrastructure provider, or buy-side execution / trading operations team.
• Hands-on experience building or operating China / Asia market-access infrastructure for institutional trading, including broker onboarding, trading connectivity, market-data setup, account / clearing / settlement workflows, and production support.
• Strong practical understanding of institutional access routes into China markets, including Stock Connect and/or QFII / RQFII, with the ability to identify operational, settlement, reporting, and trading-rule implications.
• Proven ability to source, evaluate, onboard, and manage external trading counterparties, including brokers, prime brokers, exchanges, market-data vendors, and infrastructure providers.
• Strong understanding of how brokers, exchanges, market-data vendors, clearing partners, traders, and engineering teams interact in a live trading environment.
• Familiarity with China or broader Asia market structure, including equities, Stock Connect, commodity futures, exchange rules, market-data setup, and trading controls.
• Ability to translate trader and strategist requirements into concrete technical, operational, and control requirements for engineering and operations teams.
• Familiarity with securities borrowing and lending workflows, including borrow availability, locates, short-selling eligibility, borrow cost, recall risk, and how borrow constraints affect systematic trading strategies.
• Strong project and program-management discipline, with the ability to manage timelines, dependencies, RAID logs, UAT, go-live readiness, and cross-functional sign-offs.
• Strong commercial and relationship-management capability; able to negotiate, escalate, follow up, and hold external counterparties accountable.
• Self-driven with strong ownership, comfortable building a new capability from scratch in a high-stakes trading environment.
• Fluency in English & Mandarin Chinese to communicate effectively with colleagues across different locations.

Strong Pluses

• Direct experience with A-shares, Stock Connect, QFII / RQFII, or China commodity futures.
• Direct experience with onshore broker / custodian workflows, cross-border account structures, clearing, settlement, or regulatory reporting requirements.
• Familiarity with Korea, Taiwan, or India market access, including KRX / KOSPI, KRX derivatives, TWSE / TAIFEX, NSE / BSE, or FPI setup.
• Experience with FIX / API connectivity, drop copy, OMS / EMS workflows, exchange-gateway conformance testing, or market-data feed integration.
• Experience negotiating or operating under ISDA, give-up, clearing, connectivity, or market-data agreements.
• Knowledge of securities borrow inventory management, SBL, refinancing, availability, locate workflows, and short-selling constraints.
• Hands-on experience with pre-trade, at-trade, and post-trade control frameworks, exchange-level risk limits, kill switches, and production runbooks.
• Experience building runbooks, go-live readiness processes, RAID logs, or production escalation frameworks from scratch.
• Experience in a systematic trading, quant trading, electronic trading, or low-latency trading environment where infrastructure quality directly impacts PnL.
• A strong academic background.

Why Join Us

• Competitive remuneration package and a meritocratic culture where accomplishments are rewarded
• Fast paced and result-oriented with a flat structure
• Teams collaborate in a casual working environment
• Excellent exposure to the digital asset ecosystem and the latest market insight
• Great career development opportunities

Disclaimer
We do not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes, or any other information identifying potential candidates, shared with any employee of Rock Bund Capital or its affiliates by any method without a standing signed supplier agreement will be deemed free to contact without restrictions, and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Rock Bund Capital or any of its affiliates.