Senior Project Manager - Infrastructure & Operations

As a Senior Project Manager in Infrastructure and Operations at DRW, you own the delivery of complex infrastructure projects end-to-end, managing multiple projects concurrently from initiation through production deployment. You operate as a central point of coordination across data centers, hardware platforms, network connectivity, and foundational IT services, translating technical complexity into clear plans, aligning competing priorities, and driving accountability across engineering teams. This role demands genuine technical fluency: you engage engineers as a credible peer, understand their constraints, and earn trust through competence.

What you'll 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, and partnering with procurement and provisioning teams to source hardware and circuits.
• 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 such as exchange-mandated changes, security and data-protection initiatives, and trading desk and market expansion, alongside IO-driven modernization efforts.

What you bring

• 8+ years of project management in technology or infrastructure environments, with a proven track record leading engineering teams through complex technical delivery.
• 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.
• 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.
• You experiment with new tools and methods rather than defending old ones, and you challenge existing practices constructively. You must be eager to work with AI tooling to manage project complexity, information volume, and data alignment, and to push it further.

Nice to have

• Experience in the trading and 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 we offer

• Annual base salary of $160,000 to $200,000 depending on experience, qualifications, and relevant skill set.
• Annual discretionary bonus eligibility.
• Comprehensive 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.

About DRW

DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience operating across fixed income, ETFs, equities, FX, commodities and energy in all major global markets. Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, DRW has expanded into real estate, venture capital and cryptoassets, operating with respect, curiosity, open minds, high expectations, integrity and innovation.