Head of Technology

Trading Systems | Enterprise Platforms | AI-Native Engineering

Company: Augmont Enterprises Limited (AEL)

Location: Mumbai

Experience: 10+ years, including 4+ years in engineering leadership

About the Role

We are looking for a hands-on, business-oriented technology leader to own and transform its technology ecosystem across three critical functions: Business Platforms, Dealing Room Technology and Back Office Systems.

This is a high-ownership role at the intersection of technology, precious metals and financial markets. The mandate is to modernise existing systems, build proprietary trading and operational capabilities, and establish a lean, high-performing engineering team that leverages AI-assisted development to deliver at speed without compromising reliability, security or control.

We are looking for a technology leader who can think strategically, architect robust systems and remain sufficiently hands-on to guide execution.

Key Responsibilities

1. Business Platform & Digital Transformation

- Own the architecture, technology roadmap and end-to-end delivery of Augmont's unified jeweller platform, business.augmont.com, serving 4,500+ jeweller partners.
- Build and scale integrated capabilities across bullion, gold, coins, digital gold and diamonds.
- Ensure uninterrupted functioning of existing business workflows while introducing new products, modules and integrations.
- Drive platform scalability, performance, security and seamless API connectivity with internal and external systems.

1. Dealing Room & Trading Technology

- Own the technology infrastructure supporting real-time trading, pricing, order management and trade execution.
- Ensure high availability, low latency and accuracy of MCX/CME market data feeds, pricing engines and broker/trading terminal integrations, including ODIN.
- Architect and develop an in-house position management and Commodity Trading & Risk Management (CTRM) system covering real-time exposures, hedge tracking, live P&L; and risk alerts.
- Develop technology capabilities for ETF market-making operations, including pricing, accounting, indicative NAV (iNAV) ingestion, hedge monitoring and eventually algorithmic pricing.
- Establish proactive monitoring, failover mechanisms and incident response protocols to minimise disruption during live trading hours.

1. Back Office Automation & Enterprise Systems

- Lead the transition from manual and spreadsheet-dependent processes towards an integrated, internally developed trade-accounting and ERP ecosystem.
- Build a unified technology framework connecting procurement, physical inventory, trading, brokers, settlements and accounting.
- Automate trade reconciliation, inventory tracking, P&L; calculations, settlement workflows and management reporting.




- Implement new capabilities progressively across business desks, ensuring operational continuity and user adoption.
- Establish reliable data flows and a consistent source of truth across front-office and back-office functions.

1. AI-Native Engineering & Team Leadership

- Build and lead a lean, technically solid engineering team with a high degree of automation and AI-assisted development.
- Embed tools such as Claude Code, Cursor and equivalent AI coding platforms into engineering workflows.
- Establish development standards covering code quality, peer reviews, automated testing, cybersecurity and documentation.
- Identify opportunities for AI agents and intelligent automation in reconciliation, reporting, operational monitoring and support.
- Remain actively involved in solution design, technical reviews and critical engineering decisions.

1. Technology Architecture, Security & Governance

- Define the overall technology architecture, infrastructure strategy and technology stack across business, trading and enterprise applications.
- Oversee cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, including deployment, monitoring, scalability, backups and disaster recovery.
- Ensure robust access controls, information security, audit trails and protection of sensitive financial and trading data.
- Support applicable SEBI, exchange, RBI and internal audit requirements.
- Manage technology vendors, market data providers, external integrations and budgets with commercial discipline.

1. Business Partnership & Delivery

- Work closely with the Dealing Room, Back Office, Sales and senior leadership to translate operational challenges into practical technology solutions.
- Build and execute a prioritised technology roadmap, balancing immediate business needs with long-term architectural scalability.
- Deliver measurable improvements through short, outcome-driven development cycles.
- Provide clear visibility to management on delivery milestones, system performance, risks and technology investments.

Candidate ProfileTechnical Expertise
- Minimum 10 years of experience in software engineering, including at least 4 years leading engineering teams.
- Strong experience architecting and building scalable, highly available, real-time or low-latency systems.
- Demonstrated exposure to trading technology, preferably across commodities, bullion, capital markets or financial services.
- Understanding of market data feeds, trade capture, order management, position tracking,



hedging, P&L; and broker/exchange integrations.
- Exposure to MCX, NSE, CME, ODIN or comparable trading infrastructure.
- Experience building or integrating ERP, trade-accounting, inventory, settlement or reconciliation platforms.
- Strong technical foundation in modern development technologies such as Python, TypeScript/Node.js, React/Next.js, PostgreSQL, Redis and event-driven architectures.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, DevOps, CI/CD, monitoring and secure application development.
- Practical adoption of AI-assisted coding tools and modern engineering automation.
- Familiarity with security, auditability and regulatory requirements in financial systems.

Leadership & Behavioural Competencies
- Builder's mindset: Enjoys developing technology solutions, not merely managing technology vendors or projects.
- Hands-on leadership: Comfortable reviewing architecture, inspecting code and resolving complex technical challenges.
- Speed with accountability: Able to deliver quickly while maintaining high standards of reliability and control.
- Business acumen: Understands commercial priorities and can communicate effectively with trading, operations and leadership teams.
- Composure under pressure: Demonstrates sound judgment in mission-critical, live trading environments.
- Talent leadership: Able to attract, develop and retain a compact, high-performing engineering team.
- Ownership orientation: Takes end-to-end accountability for technology outcomes, budgets and delivery.

Education Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related engineering discipline.

A postgraduate qualification or financial certification such as CFA/FRM would be advantageous but is not essential. Strong, demonstrable experience in trading or financial technology systems may be considered in lieu of conventional academic qualifications.

What Success Looks Like The successful candidate will:

- Establish a clear, executable technology roadmap across the three core business areas.
- Maintain stable, secure and high-performing business and trading systems.
- Build proprietary capabilities for position management, hedge monitoring and trade accounting.
- Progressively automate manual operational workflows and improve data reliability.
- Develop a lean, AI-enabled engineering function capable of delivering consistently at speed.
- Create measurable improvements in technology reliability, development velocity and operational efficiency.

We are looking for a technology leader who combines the architectural depth of an engineer, the commercial understanding of a business partner and the execution mindset of a builder. If you'd like to refer someone for this role, kindly direct them to https://www.linkedin.com/in/vrundathakkar/

📌 Head Technology (Mumbai)
🏢 Augmont Goldtech
📍 Mumbai