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# Fixed Income IT Trading Implementation Lead

- **Company:** Mizuho Financial Group, Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $300,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Applications Architecture, Business Process Modeling, Data Streaming, Systems Integration, Murex, Technical Debt, Information Technology, Integration Frameworks
- **Published:** October 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://mizuho.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/mizuhoamericas/job/New-York-NY-1271-AOA6th-Ave/Fixed-Income-IT-Trading-Implementation-Lead_R7446-4

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related discipline.

 * 10+ years of experience in capital markets or financial services, with deep knowledge of fixed income and derivatives products.

 * 5+ years of hands-on experience delivering Murex implementations, upgrades, extensions, or major platform enhancements.
 * Strong understanding of Fixed Income and OTC derivatives processing.
 * Experience delivering XVA, risk, or valuation platform initiatives.
 * Demonstrated success leading global technology teams and strategic transformation programs.
 * Demonstrated ability to elicit complex business requirements and translate them into practical Murex functional designs and technical requirements.
 * Strong delivery management skills, including dependency management, risk identification, prioritization, testing coordination, and executive-level status communication.
 * Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills, with the ability to engage effectively with traders, quantitative analysts, senior business leaders, and technical teams.
 * Ability to exercise sound judgment, manage competing priorities, and resolve complex issues in a fast-paced trading environment.
 * Strong ownership mindset and a demonstrated record of delivering resilient, scalable solutions from concept through production support.

Preferred Qualifications

 * Experience supporting Murex across multiple legal entities, regions, or booking models.

 * Experience with European market, regulatory, or operational requirements.

 * Knowledge of Murex integration patterns, data flows, migration strategies, and nonfunctional considerations such as scalability, supportability, and resilience.

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced technology manager to lead a strategic transformation program for the Mizuho European Entity. The role will be accountable for end-to-end delivery of complex front office and risk technology initiatives centered around the Murex platform, operating model transformation, application architecture, and cross-functional integration.

The successful candidate will act as the technology lead across Business, Risk, Operations, Finance, and Infrastructure stakeholders, driving solution design, execution, governance, vendor management, and production readiness for a multi-year strategic program. The position requires deep experience in capital markets technology, derivatives processing, Murex, XVA, and large-scale transformation delivery.

Key Responsibilities

 * Serve as the functional lead and solution architect for extending the New York Murex platform to onboard and support a new European booking entity. (Project Delta)

 * Manage a geographically distributed team across North America, EMEA, and vendor organizations in front to back organizations

 * Define scalable, maintainable solutions that align business requirements with Murex capabilities, enterprise architecture standards, and the broader technology landscape.

 * Partner closely with New York and London Murex, infrastructure, and application teams, as well as traders, quantitative analysts, operations, risk, and finance stakeholders.

 * Facilitate requirements, design, and solution-validation workshops; translate complex business processes into clear functional specifications, configurations, interfaces, and delivery plans.

 * Drive cross-functional execution, manage dependencies and risks, and provide transparent status reporting in partnership with subject-matter experts and the program management office.

 * Establish the target support and operating model for the European entity and retain functional ownership of the solution following implementation.

 * Lead analysis and delivery of new Murex functionality, product enablement, platform enhancements, and business-as-usual change initiatives.

 * Identify opportunities to streamline processes, reduce functional and technical debt, improve controls and resilience, and influence the evolution of Murex and connected applications.

 * Support end-to-end testing, migration, go-live, and stabilization activities, ensuring business readiness and effective issue resolution., * Deliver approved target operating model for MBE and Project Delta.
 * Establish execution plan for XVA 2.0 implementation.
 * Complete architecture and integration design milestones.
 * Achieve successful onboarding of required business capabilities into the target platform environment.
 * Reduce technology delivery risk through formal governance, dependency management, and production readiness processes.
 * Build a sustainable support and operating model for post-implementation ownership.

Please note that the role will involve some traveling to London