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Company : NASDAQ listed $ 15B SI
Experience Level/ Designation :Senior Associate/ Associate Project Manager
Compensation : OPEN
Type : Contract to Hire/ Contractor
Location : New York City
Primary skills :
Candidates should have strong project delivery experience gained in an investment banking environment
On a technical level, the project involves the following: Java, Coherence, Oracle, UML Modeling using Enterprise Architect, Jira and Sharepoint. Preference will be given to candidates who demonstrate knowledge of these.
Main Duties :
In particular the candidate will
- Work with the business analyst to identify, analyse, prioritize and deliver key business requirements. The role will involve hands-on business analysis
- Assist in the recruitment of the remaining team members consisting of developers, testers and production support staff
- Chair local stakeholder prioritization meetings and report progress, manage and resolve risks and issues
- Advise and locally manage a small development team who additionally report into the global development lead based in London
- Co-ordinate releases and work to resolve production issues with the local ‘Run the Bank’ (Production Support) team
Functionally, he\she will co-ordinate the team’s activities providing
- Connections to listed execution systems to source trades
- Trade booking and persistence functionality using an Oracle database,
- Position management to upstream Risk GUI and spreadsheet consumers and other upstream and downstream feeds and connections,
- Risk transfer process and reconciliation
- Source\integrate static data systems.
The main developments will be Java services. This is a ‘hands-on’ role, not one that requires extensive senior stakeholder management or high level strategic planning, managers demonstrating delivery experience and detailed knowledge and who have technical team lead experience will be given preference.
Candidate should be a team player, able to contribute to the overall project goals of the team and he/she should be comfortable working with local and remote team members. Candidate will strive to deliver high quality components and will be involved in all aspects of the project delivery including analysis, design, implementation, testing and deployment.
Candidates should be familiar with an agile methodology e.g. SCRUM and Microsoft Project
Project Details :
Equity Derivatives covers a variety of business lines, including Arbitrage, Volatility, Exotics, Fund Linked derivative and Convertible Bond trading. Trading desks are currently in London, New York and Hong Kong with Sales in offices worldwide. Equity Derivatives Technology (EDT) provides IT development and support for the Equity Derivatives business and currently has over 300 staff across London, Prague, New York and Singapore.
One of EDT’s main priorities this year is to upgrade its risk and trading systems,
The Project Manager will run a Top 5 project to upgrade all of the US systems dealing with listed products, including Futures, Options, other listed derivatives and stock, moving them off the current vendor platform (Sophis) onto an in-house built system. This US project fits into a global program and project and the candidate will report to the global listed project manager (London) and locally to the current US Listed Business Analyst.
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