Description
Location: London
Hybrid: 2 days in the office / 3 days home office
Duration: 12 months Contract
The team
The successful candidate will be part of the Solution Delivery team within Financial Markets Replatforming Global Financial Markets and Equity Technology and Digital Solutions team, part of the wider FM technology organization. We support Equities and Credit Trading and Exchange Traded Derivatives business lines. We are a business-first team with diverse skillset across trading, coverage, risk, product management and technology, who work with frontline, risk, MO and ops SMEs to build tech solutions to business problems and are ably supported by BAs, developers and QA from our squads.
The role holder will be expected to work flexibly across three areas of focus, and apply cross-learning effectively:
- F2B technology for Exchange Traded Derivatives, Equity and Equity Derivatives and Credit Derivatives technology driving change across Execution, Trade Life Cycle, Risk and Valuation, Back office.
- Listed securities and ETD trading across multiple execution platforms.
Candidate background - The candidate must have at least 10 years of experience:
- With banks or product companies with strong business analysis skills
- Working on solution delivery either supporting business directly or as a part of wider system rollouts
- Relevant experiences in financial markets or corporate finance technology
- Programme Delivery and Programme governance.
- Delivery in Agile setting
- PSc and Project Packs , Tracking, Maintaining and Communicating.
- Delivering interface analysis and data modelling
- Maintain ADO backlog for SOS establish traceability to business vision and objectives; act as SME for users
Stakeholder management & key relationships:
Change Management & Governance
Adhere to change management standards & procedures including documenting all artefacts (Requirements,FSDs,data dictionaries) required by project governance Managing impediments providing pro-active day-to-day support to users across key owned/supported systems/interfaces Ability to work under ambiguous environments providing clarity facilitating discussions reaching consensus/business decisions Good problem-solving capabilities execution Ability drive continuous improvement Strong scope accountability management Regular communication highlighting impediments requesting help where required/reporting progress Good understanding of Exchange Traded Derivatives Good knowledge of Financial Market processes (Trade processing,Lifecycle,Risk back office etc.).
Functional skills:
Strong Functional knowledge on Exchange traded Derivatives from trade order origination execution clearing Knowledge global operating models Building order managers gateway order lakes Expertise Low latency Execution platforms connectivity exchanges Algos Strong knowledge MarketRisk Credit Risk Valuation reporting methodology Understanding source ETD Market data reference data integration vendors In-depth understanding FIX protocols data transformation modelling feed systems using FpML.
Technology skills:
Hands-on experience with execution platform like Bloomberg Tradebook Fidessa TT Xtrader Neovest CQG Network connectivity Leased line Security Experience Risk Management systems SABRE/Murex Expertise Big data tools used trade order lakes Realtime Interface design Messaging systems EDMI/solace/Kafka Strong data munging skills including SQL Python GUI tools (eg Dremio) Ability quickly learn new tools/systems (risk transaction booking systems) understanding technology functional designs Strong knowledge basic BA toolkit Excel Powerpoint Visio JIRA Confluence.
Soft skills:
Fluent in English (speaking writing) Strong interpersonal skills good team spirit Able influence drive work using informal pathways Strong communication presentation skills able tailor messages highest impact depending audience (technical vs business) seniority Proactive self-starter autonomous able independently drive analysis design development delivery greenfield areas Self-motivated multi-tasking strong analytical problem-solving solution oriented proven results Curious willing dive details understand concepts graph relationships interdependencies effectively judicious time spent vs materiality/benefit Business mindset able triage asks justify priority based cost/benefit demonstrate value defined metrics Continuous tracking KPIs Meticulous documentation maintains clear JIRA backlog detailed Confluence pages artefacts solutions built.