DRW

Senior Project Manager - Infrastructure & Operations

DRW$160K — $200K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in project management within technology or infrastructure environments.
  • Hands-on grounding across infrastructure domains: data centers, compute, storage, and networking.
  • Proven ability to lead engineering teams through complex technical projects from conception to execution.
  • High level of ownership over project outcomes rather than solely tasks.
  • Curiosity and adaptability towards new tools and methods, especially in AI.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the implementation of various infrastructure projects across multiple domains.
  • Drive multiple concurrent projects to successful completion, ensuring accountability and minimizing disruption.
  • Assemble and maintain the accuracy of the bill of materials for projects, collaborating with procurement.
  • Translate technical complexity into structured, clear, and trackable project plans.
  • Align teams, stakeholders, and vendors around priorities and resolve conflicts promptly.
  • Plan for production change executions, including after-hours and weekend tasks.
  • Anticipate risks and maintain open communication regarding project status.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, pharmacy, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k) with discretionary employer match.
  • Short and long-term disability insurance, life and AD&D insurance.
  • Health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts.
Full Job Description
As a Senior Project Manager, you will own the delivery of complex infrastructure projects end-to-end within Infrastructure & Operations (IO), managing multiple projects concurrently from initiation through production deployment, and be held accountable for the outcome, not just the plan. Operating as a central point of coordination across data centers, hardware platforms, network connectivity, and foundational IT services, you translate technical complexity into clear plans, align competing priorities, and drive accountability across engineering teams. This is not a generalist PM seat. Success demands genuine technical fluency: you engage engineers as a credible peer, understand their constraints, and earn trust through competence, not process for its own sake. You'll move work forward with urgency across demanding, sometimes highly sensitive environments where the technology backbone directly supports the firm's ability to trade. Change windows and occasional weekend cutovers come with the territory. This is a high-performance team inside a high-performance firm. Expectations are high, the pace is fast, and the way we work is changing rapidly, particularly in how we use AI to manage scale and complexity. We need people who are curious about it, experiment constantly, and constructively challenge how things are done, including our own practices. This role is for you if you take ownership instinctively, communicate honestly even when the news is difficult, operate with minimal oversight, and adapt fast. It's not for you if you need a defined playbook, defer accountability to committees, or measure your work in status updates rather than delivered outcomes. What You Will Do • Lead and coordinate implementation of infrastructure projects spanning data center builds, expansions, and migrations; hardware platforms; network connectivity; security and access controls; and foundational IT services. • Drive a portfolio of concurrent projects to completion, owning coordination, visibility, and risk across all of them, and holding the delivery team accountable to scope and timeline with minimal disruption to business operations. • Own the bill of materials (BOM) for each project: assembling, reviewing, and maintaining accuracy across hardware and services. Partner with procurement and provisioning teams to source hardware and circuits. Cost visibility flows from the BOM, so you own it end-to-end. • Translate ambiguous, cross-domain technical work into structured, trackable plans with clear ownership. • Align engineering teams, stakeholders, and vendors around shared priorities; surface conflicts early and drive resolution. • Plan and coordinate execution around production change windows, including off-hours and weekend changes when required. • Anticipate risk, know when and how to escalate, and communicate status with candor. • Deliver against firm-driven mandates (exchange-mandated changes, security and data-protection initiatives, trading desk and market expansion) and IO-driven modernization efforts. What You'll Need • Experience: 8+ years of project management in technology or infrastructure environments, with a proven track record leading engineering teams through complex technical delivery. • Technical Fluency: Hands-on grounding across infrastructure domains, including data center operations, compute, storage, network engineering, network security, systems administration, and enterprise platforms. Enough depth to engage engineers credibly, review BOMs intelligently, and challenge estimates. • Ownership & Operating Style: You own outcomes, not tasks. You're honest even when it's difficult, self-directed under minimal oversight, and effective navigating organizational and technical complexity. You manage multiple concurrent projects without losing control of any of them, and drive with urgency without losing stakeholder alignment. • Adaptability & AI Fluency: You experiment with new tools and methods rather than defending old ones, and you challenge existing practices constructively, including ours. Our team increasingly relies on AI tooling to manage project complexity, information volume, and data alignment, and that reliance is expanding fast. You must be eager to work this way and to push it further. Familiarity with tools like Jira and ServiceNow is helpful but not required; how you think matters more than what you've used. Preferred • Strongly preferred: experience in the trading / capital markets industry. • Direct experience with infrastructure buildouts, data center migrations, and networking technology and hardware. • Demonstrated use of integrated AI toolsets to improve project management efficiency and effectiveness. • Project Management Professional (PMP) certification. What Success Looks Like - First 6 to 12 Months • You've taken full ownership of an active portfolio and stakeholders trust it lands, without exception. • Engineers engage you as a credible peer: you understand their work well enough to push back, unblock, and make sound tradeoffs. • Your projects are tracked with clarity: status, risk, cost, and dependencies are current and accurate. • You've driven complex, cross-domain initiatives through to production, navigating disruptions, unknowns, and shifting constraints without losing control of scope, cost, or timeline. • When things go sideways - and they will - you get ahead of them, communicate early, and keep delivery on track. • You've integrated AI tooling into how you work daily, increasing the complexity and volume you can manage without losing data alignment. The annual base salary range for this position is $160,000 to $200,000 depending on the candidate's experience, qualifications, and relevant skill set. The position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition, DRW offers a comprehensive suite of employee benefits including group medical, pharmacy, dental and vision insurance, 401k (with discretionary employer match), short and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance, health savings accounts, and flexible spending accounts. #LI-DW1

About DRW

DRW is a financial trading firm that specializes in derivatives trading. The company was founded in 1992 by Don Wilson and has since grown to have offices in Chicago, London, Montreal, New York, and Singapore. DRW trades a variety of financial instruments, including futures, options, and cryptocurrencies. The company is known for its quantitative trading strategies and has developed a number of proprietary trading systems. DRW is also involved in venture capital and has invested in a number of technology startups.
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