“IT Project Services – APAC Regional Lead – Director Level” based in Singapore with a top tier Investment Bank – Permanent position

Department Overview:
The IT Project Services Team is a new IT-wide organization, which supports the long-term success of Bank’s IT by providing high quality consulting and project management services for strategic IT initiatives.

The Team will have a Global Lead based in London and Regional Management teams located in the UK, US, Zurich and Singapore. The Project Services Team will actively support the CIO and functional/regional heads in IT transformation projects by providing comprehensive and efficient project work based on best practices.

The Team will also support the application development and technology infrastructure units in CIO-sponsored programs

Main Duties & Responsibilities:
The Regional Lead will be responsible for the setup of the IT Project Services Team from a staffing, budget, and pipeline management perspective. In addition, he/she will be responsible for sourcing, directing, managing and executing complex IT programs.

Primary responsibilities involve:

• Developing the IT Project Services service offering including its mandate, engagement model and marketing materials
• Designing and developing the IT Project Services budget and funding model
• Engaging key IT stakeholders to market the IT Project Services group and identify project demand
• Sourcing internal and external candidates to complete the agreed upon staffing model and targets
• Scoping and appropriately staffing complex IT programs along with key IT counterparts
• Managing, executing and delivering on complex IT programs
• Ensuring the regional IT Project Services team is supported from a project pipeline, training, performance management, and career development perspective
• Coaching, shaping and leading regional IT Project Services team members to become future leaders in the bank
• Managing the progress of all programs against quality standards, targets and budgets and challenging actions, results and activities where necessary
• Effectively communicating with key IT stakeholders on program progress
• Taking responsibility for quality assurance within the program by overseeing that Project Services methodologies, standards and procedures are being implemented regionally
• Establishing credibility with all levels of IT management

Skills and Attributes Required:
The candidate must have:

• Banking or consultancy background (15 years + experience) and a strong understanding of structured program management in the banking arena.
• A proven track record of successfully delivering large complex programs within a banking environment (5 years + experience)
• Strong presentation development skills
• Proven ability to communicate with all levels of Management in a clear, concise manner

Proven organizational, leadership and management skills:

• Ability to command a room and manage big meetings with many participants
• Ability to communicate effectively to senior managers
• Ability to command attention from senior managers
• Ability to produce clear, concise reporting
• Solid strategic analysis, problem solving, issue resolution and decision making skills

Other attributes:

• Delivery focused
• Process oriented
• Attentive to detail
• Demanding
• Strong knowledge of budgeting and resource allocation procedures
• Sufficient credibility to direct project teams and senior management in relation to the program
• Tact, discretion and diplomacy

PRINCE 2 or other structured program / project management qualifications

OVERSEAS applicants with relevant experience are encouraged to apply.

If this opportunity excites you, send across your updated profile to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com & let us initiate the discussion

Feel free to refer if you think someone you know fits well for this role.

Regards,
Srini.

“Commodities IT OpenLink Technical Lead – VP Level” based in Singapore with a top tier Investment Bank – Permanent position

Main Function:
Understand the Commodities IT requirements (interfacing with LDN and NYK IT and business), technically lead the team to develop the requirements and then validates that both the technical and functional requirements have been developed before delivering back to the customer.

Main Duties:
Delivers the functionality requested by the Global Commodities IT teams. The following is included:
- Liaison with the end customer during the requirements gathering and analysis phase. This may entail significant periods of travel.
- Documenting the application to the standards of the Bank.
- Knowledge transfer, training and mentoring the team.
- Design of solution.
- Oversight to the team during construction of the solution.
- Verification of the solution.
- Collaboration with the assigned project manager during the project.

Involved in the technical development of engineers assigned to projects. The following is included:
- Recruitment and hiring process.
- Initial induction of new staff.
- Coaching and mentoring on technical issues.
- Domain knowledge transfer.

Participate in the following management reviews:
- Project Review – review the progress of the project against plan.

Provide proactive involvement with:
- Improving the Investment Banking capability of the team through coaching, mentoring and training.
- Improving the OOA, OOP capability of the team.
- Improving the defined Software Engineering Processes.

Experience required:
- A minimum of 10 years of experience in software development in investment banking or related areas.
- In-depth experience in the Commodities IT domain; strong technical experience OpenLink Endure and Oracle.

Skills and knowledge:
- In depth knowledge of and proven track record in Investment Banking domain In depth knowledge of and proven track record in C#, or Java, or C++.
- In depth knowledge of and proven track record in Software Engineering.
- Detailed knowledge and experience with the following standards/models are desirable: - Front Office, Middle Office, Back Office trading concepts.
- SEI Capability Maturity Model, (CMM).
- SEI Capability Maturity Model Integrated, (CMMI).

Candidate Profile:
- Proven ability to work within a team environment.
- Highly effective verbal and written English communication skills.
- Ability to make good/sound decisions and use independent judgment.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
- Outstanding presentation skills.

OVERSEAS applicants with relevant experience are encouraged to apply

If this opportunity excites you, send across your updated profile to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com & let us initiate the discussion

Feel free to refer if you think someone you know fits well for this role

Regards,
Srini.

“Business Analyst-IT Service Management ITIL – AVP Level” ~ Singapore with a top tier Investment Bank – Permanent position

Department Overview:
The IT Service Management team is responsible for defining global processes and delivering toolset to support the IT organisation growth.

Main Function:
The role is within the Singapore IT Service Management team as a business analyst supporting global IT Service Management programmes and initiatives in maturing IT into a service oriented organisation.

Main Responsibilities:
• Assist in driving continual process improvement across IT Service Management
• Producing structured requirements documentation and developing process flow diagrams to ensure business requirements are clearly understandable for all stakeholders
• Building and managing relationships with key customers
• Assisting in managing the prioritisation process and managing the expectations
The role requires individual with solid business analysis skills, able to work independently with minimum supervision, strong interpersonal skill to collaborate with project teams and key stakeholders, excellent time management and task organisation skill.

Qualifications and experience:
• Solid business analysis experience spanning from project inception, conducting requirement workshop, business and functional requirement specification and system rollout coordination.
• Good knowledge of SDLC
• Proven management experience of small teams.
• Proven experience in project management
• Experience in IT Service Management / ITIL
• Ability to develop tactical solutions using MS Access, VBA and SQL to fulfill urgent business requirements.
• Experience in managing minor pieces of work.

OVERSEAS applicants with relevant experience are encouraged to apply

If this opportunity excites you, send across your contact details / updated profile to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com & let us initiate the discussion

Feel free to refer if you think someone you know fits well for this role

Regards,
Srini.

“Senior Project Manager/Business Analyst – Junior VP Level” based in Singapore with a top tier Investment Bank – Permanent position

Job Summary:
The opportunity is to work in a front office IT environment and help delivery Global Credit Trading IT solutions into the APAC region. You would add to an existing team of FO solution providers with a tight integration to global application teams. The role would require strong liaison with Singapore Global Credit Trading traders to define requirements, work with offshore development teams, and to own delivery of global solutions into the region.

Responsibilities:
• Definition and validation of business requirements, gap analysis and functional specifications with trading desks
• Full lifecycle ownership and accountability of deployment projects from inception to completion (“go-live”)
• Client demand and expectation management (mainly Traders) around the identification of solutions, clarification of requirements and delivery
• Form strong relationships with global application product teams to assist solution delivery
• Partner with business to deliver solutions
• Participate in and drive global team discussions - adding an APAC voiceAssess suitability of global solutions for APAC team contributions and the Business

Qualifications and experience:

Essential:
• Solid front office IT trading environment experience - proven ability to thrive and deliver into this environment
• 8+ years experience of project management & business analysis skills
• 6+ years of fixed income financial markets and trade lifecycle experience (Rates and FX)
• Good knowledge of credit trading (3 yrs)
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence at all levels cross country and culture
• Ability to deal with distributed teams whether in APAC, Europe or North America around prioritisation / development
• Ability to take on undefined and complex pieces of work and turn into successful delivery across multiple time zones
• Strong team work skillsGood people and team management skills

Desirable: Project management certification

OVERSEAS applicants with strong experience in Project Management exp in Wallstreet Systems are encouraged to apply

If this opportunity excites you, send across your contact details / updated profile to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com & let us initiate the discussion

Feel free to refer if you think someone you know fits well for this role.

Regards,
Srini.

“Sr. Project Manager – Wallstreet Systems – VP Level” based in Singapore with a top tier Investment Bank” – Permanent position

Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for managing the book of work around the Wallstreet Systems. This covers working with the user group in terms of developing requirements
- Advising on the mechanics of the Wallstreet Systems and how it can be configured and implemented to meet the business needs
- Working with the development manager based in London you will ensure the priorities are maintained and aligned with the business expectations
- Provide the technical expertise on the Wallstreet Systems. Govern the configuration and system setup in line with functional requirements
- Work with senior management to set the direction of the Wallstreet Systems providing input into the Systems strategy
- Also work with the business to ensure that this strategy is aligned to their business requirements
- Work with the WSS IT development manager for planning / strategy of CTB book of work- Drive efficiency and cost targets through to development partner(s) and ensure appropriate input to budget process to cover cost of delivery through the captive development organization
- Provide the SL3 coverage for the Asia time zone handling all issues escalated from the production support team
- Work with the production support team to improve knowledge and increase the overall level of support

Key Competencies:
- Self starter able to work in a globally distributed team
- Good communicator able to liaise with the Operations project team members around business requirements as well as interface partners on technical aspects of the interfaces.
- Strong problem solving abilities, logical thinker
- Able to multi-task being required to work across multiple initiatives

Key Technical Skills:
- Wallstreet application knowledge both functional and system setup/management
- Experience in the technologies supporting the WSS application integration layer:
SDK : JDK(Core / Web / Enterprise)
Scripting : PERL / Solaris / Java
Database : Oracle (PL SQL)
AppServer : Weblogic (Development and Deployment)
WebServer:Tomcat (Development and Deployment)
Adapters : Open Adapters
Scheduling : Control M
Middleware : IBM MQ (API Development)/ TIBCO EMS(JMS API Development)SourceControl : CVS
Build : Ant

Experience:
- Proven experience managing and working with the Wallstreet Systems
- Proven experience in the software development lifecycle, from requirements analysis, through design, build, testing and deployment of solutions
- Good wide-ranging awareness of IT technologies and up to date with the latest technology trends
- Experience of working in a culturally diverse and geographically distributed team
- Investment Banking/Financial Services experience
- Product knowledge of debt markets covering fixed income, money market, foreign exchange and futures & options

OVERSEAS applicants with strong experience in Project Management exp in Wallstreet Systems are encouraged to apply

If this opportunity excites you, send across your contact details / updated profile to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com & let us initiate the discussion

Feel free to refer if you think someone you know fits well for this role

Regards,
Srini.

“Senior Test Analyst (Manual Testing) – AVP Level" based in Singapore with a top tier Investment Bank – Permanent position

Main Function:
- Develop test cases to validate new functionality
- Manual testing of new functionality and regression of existing functionality
- Strong SQL skills to perform database validations
- Strong Excel and VBA scripting experience

Main Duties:
Testing & Analysis Would be expected to carry out all aspects of the test cycle.

This will include:
- Detailed manual testing of new functionality & regression of existing functionality. This includes Server & Client testing. Validation will be performed against the server & java logs, database, XML messages between the client & server as well as the front end applications.
- Using the logs, database etc., perform comprehensive analysis of any error to assist in working out the root cause of the issue prior to recording in a defect tracking tool.
- Working with developers to resolve issues.
- Validate that the solution is fit for purpose and supports the full end-to-end client business process.
- Identifying test conditions from project documentation and developing test cases which provide full coverage.
- Acquire knowledge transfer from Developers or Business Analysts who are expert in the relevant functional domain.
- Coordination with the business representatives during the UAT stage and ascertaining business sign off.

Communication:
- Must be able to communicate effectively with other development team members, project members, managers and users.
- Must be able to participate in discussions within the team, communicating any issues that have a project-wide scope to the necessary level.
- Must be able to participate in a culture of “knowledge sharing” within the development team. Motivation
- Must be self-motivated, setting a high level of professionalism and excellence. Quality
- Must have strong knowledge of the software quality lifecycle.
- Must also be able to maintain testing standards and ensure that they are adhered to, as well as proactively trying to add to these standards whenever possible.

Experience required:
- Must be able to demonstrate strong business skills
- A working knowledge of Test Management tool - Quality Center.
- Previous experience of detailed manual functional testing & structured testing methodology experience
- Strong SQL and Excel skills.
- Previous work on a front office trading applications / Middle office applications.
- Exposure to Automation - Straight through processing knowledge
- Must have 2 years investment banking experience

Overseas applicants with the required skills & experience are encouraged to apply.

If this opportunity excites you, send across your updated profile to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com

Feel free to refer if you think someone you know fits well for this role.

Cheers,
Srini.

“Emerging Markets IT Business Analyst – AVP Level” based in Singapore with a top tier Investment Bank – Permanent position

The job will involve working with the front office to define detailed requirements of the planned trading products and working alongside the EM technical architects who design and build technical solutions.

Department Overview:
The Emerging Markets IT team provides support to the Emerging Markets business globally. The mandate is to support all products that the business trades, including (but not limited to): OTC interest rate derivatives, exchange traded interest rate derivatives, Bonds, Repos, FX, MM, credit derivatives, equities & commodities.

Main Function/Duties:
The candidate will be playing a critical role in building and defining documentation templates that supports traceability and effectively links requirements to testing and design. The templates will be used when rolling out the strategic architecture to all Asia Pacific Emerging Markets sites. The successful candidate will need to have Front Office trading systems experience and a good pricing and risk management knowledge.

The successful candidate will be expected to be able to discuss Emerging Market products in detail – exhibiting a good understanding of yield curve analytics and a thorough understanding of the full Front to Back trade flow processes.

The successful candidate will own the relationship with the users. This will include front office (trading and sales), market and credit risk, middle office, operations and other external third party/internal system owners. The candidate will be equally at ease discussing business and technical issues, and be able to contribute to finding solutions.

This is a 'hands on' role, requiring:
• Business analysis
• Clear, complete and accurate documentation of user requirements and functional specifications
• Definition of documentation templates that supports traceability to be re-used for the rollout to various emerging market sites
• Data modelling
• Contribution to physical design & data modelling (by liaising with technical architects to resolve functional questions)
• Running workshops to explain and walkthrough business requirements
• Define and deliver a test strategy, produce comprehensive and test plans and test scripts
• Execute system testing
• Plan and coordinate UAT activities
• Problem solving and responsibility for issue resolution
• Liaising with external resources (regulator, exchange and 3rd party vendors) to flash out business requirements
• Defining system interface requirements to other external systems

Experience required:
• Minimum of 5 years experience in Investment Banking preferably in Middle Office, Product Control or Projects
• Emerging markets experience preferred but not essential
• Demonstrable experience and knowledge of pricing, risk management and end to end process flows of Derivatives and Fixed Income products
• Analytical aptitude is essential
• Process driven
• Clear & concise verbal and written communication skills are a necessity
• Strong problem solving skills
• Attention to detail
• Experienced in taking responsibility for investigating, finding solutions and closing issues
• Previous experience working within IT environments or working on IT projects

Candidate Profile:
• A flexible and positive attitude is needed - with a strong desire to 'make a difference'
• Demonstrates initiative
• Experienced in managing dependencies and deliverables across business lines
• Team-working, influencing and good relationship management skills

Please send your applications to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com

Overseas applicants with the required skills & experience are encouraged to apply

Feel free to refer if you think someone you know fits well for this role

Cheers,
Srini.

“Emerging Markets IT Business Analyst (New Trade Capture System) – AVP Level” based in Singapore with a top tier Investment Bank – Permanent position

The job will involve working with the project's stakeholders to define detailed requirements for a new trade capture system, and working alongside the EM technical architects who design and build the technical solution.

Department Overview:
The Emerging Markets IT team supports the Emerging Markets business globally. The mandate is to support Front Office trading which includes the following Rates products: interest rate derivatives (vanilla & exotic); exchange-traded futures, bonds, repos, FX (vanilla & exotic) and money-market products. The team's coverage extends to credit derivatives, mortgage-backed securities, eCommerce trading applications and the innovative development of new financial products.

Main Function/Duties:
The candidate will play a critical role in building and defining documentation templates that supports traceability and effectively links requirements to testing and design. The templates will be used when rolling out the strategic architecture to all Asia Pacific Emerging Markets sites. The successful candidate will need to have Front Office trading systems experience with front-to-back systems knowledge. They will be expected to be able to discuss interest rate products in detail – exhibiting a good understanding of trade features, economic and non-economic details.

The successful candidate will own the relationship with the users. This will include front office (trading and sales), market and credit risk, middle office, operations and other external third party/internal system owners. They will be equally at ease discussing business and technical issues, and be able to contribute to finding solutions.

This is a 'hands on' role, requiring:
• Business analysis
• Clear, complete & accurate documentation of user requirements & functional documents
• Definition of documentation templates that supports traceability to be re-used for the rollout to various emerging market sites
• Data modelling
• Contribution to physical design & data modelling (by liaising with technical architects to resolve functional questions)
• Running workshops to explain and walkthrough business requirements
• Define and deliver a test strategy, produce comprehensive and test plans and test scripts
• Execute system testing
• Plan and coordinate UAT activities
• Problem solving and responsibility for issue resolution
• Liaising with external resources (regulator, exchange and 3rd party vendors) to flash out business requirements
• Defining system interface requirements to other external systems

Experience Required:
• Min of 5 years experience in Investment Banking preferably in Middle Office, Product Control or Projects
• Emerging markets experience preferred but not essential
• Demonstrable experience and knowledge of pricing, risk management and end to end process flows of Derivatives and Fixed Income products
• Analytical aptitude is essential
• Process driven
• Clear & concise verbal and written communication skills are a necessity
• Strong problem solving skills
• Attention to detail
• Experienced in taking responsibility for investigating, finding solutions and closing issues
• Previous experience working within IT environments or working on IT projects

Candidate Profile:
• A flexible and positive attitude is needed - with a strong desire to 'make a difference'
• Demonstrates initiative
• Experienced in managing dependencies and deliverables across business lines
• Team-working, influencing and good relationship management skills

Please send your applications to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com

Overseas applicants with the required skills & experience are encouraged to apply

Feel free to refer if you think someone you know fits well for this role

Cheers,
Srini.

"Java Team Lead (AVP)” based in Singapore with a top tier Investment Bank – Permanent position

Main Duties:
Design and deliver high quality Java code under direction of a development manager (VP) and a project manager (VP).

Delivers the functionality requested by the Development Manager.

The following is included:
- Create comprehensive project design documentation
- Deliver working code for the RFDW (Risk Finance Data Warehouse) Client Interface
- Provide a suite of automated unit tests representing a significant amount of code coverage
- Work with testing team and with test management tools (JIRA, etc.) to monitor and resolve software defects.
- Deliver on time and on target with exceptional quality
- Success will be measured by timely, high-quality delivery against the RFDW plan, and customer and stakeholder feedback
- Low level design of solution
- Ensure all code is adequately documented, and that all documentation is kept up-to date.
- Coding and unit testing of the solution
- Work with testers to verify the solution
- Rework defects and take part in defect analysis
- Continuously escalate any potential issues, road-blocks and risks and openly discuss any potential issues with the management team to enable early risk management and resource adjustment

Experience/Skills Required:
• 7+ years developing applications with expert-level Java
• 2+ years experience working in a Risk / Finance environment
• Experience with J2EE development (JMS especially)
• Experience working with MQ or TIBCO messaging products in a Java environment
• Working knowledge of SQL, stored procedures, database design, and optimization.
• Experience implementing Web Services
• Experience with various XML technologies (DOM, SAX, XPATH, etc.)
• Experience with UNIX commands, shell scripting, etc.
• Experience programming in a distributed environment
• Experience with multi-threaded programming
• Knowledge of common software development methodologies (XP, Agile, RUP, etc.)
• Experience with software release/build processes (e.g., Continuous Integration, etc.)
• Experience with C# and .NET a plus
• Clearcase (pref) or other enterprise source control tool.
• Experience with TIBCO Business Events a plus
• Oracle experience a plus

Please send your applications to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com

Overseas applicants with the required skills & experience are encouraged to apply.

Feel free to refer if you think someone you know fits well for this role.

Cheers,
Srini.

“Equity Derivatives Development Manager (Java) – AVP Level” based in Singapore with a top tier Investment Bank – Permanent position

Main Function:
Lead the Java development team to deliver Equity Derivatives solutions in partnership with IT and business counterparts in New York, London and Asia.

Main Duties:
Development Manager Role, with hands-on technical leadership of a development team to deliver Equity Derivatives software solutions agreed with business and IT counterparts.

Responsibilities include:
• Agreeing the scope of work with internal clients
• Providing estimates of effort and delivery timeline
• Design of the technical solution and code reviews.
• Managing the development through the software life cycle.
• Work with testers to verify the solution
• Rework defects and take part in defect analysis
• Delivering against commitment
• Staying abreast of risks to delivery and mitigating the same.
• Communicating status and issues appropriately.
• Working with the Production services team to ensure smooth operations as and when required.

Team management:
• Provide technical leadership to the Java development team (between 5 and 10 developers)
• Day-to-day line management of team members
• Recruitment and induction of new team members
• Coaching and mentoring on technical and business domain issues.
• Enhancing the derivatives domain expertise of the team.

Experience/Skills Required:

Business:
Must have worked in investment banking for at least 6 years, on at least two of the following functions, with derivatives (any type):
o Pricing
o Risk management
o Trade repository
o Trade capture
o Specific knowledge of equity derivatives products

Technical expertise:
• More than 9 years developing Java/J2ee applications of which the last 6 years in developing applications in an Investment Bank
• OO Design
• XML / XSLT / Java WebServices / Oracle PL SQL
• Knowledge of any caching products (Coherence preferred)
• Good knowledge of Java Performance Tuning
• Preferred Tools: Clearcase / Perforce / Cruise control (Continuous Integration) / Maven / Eclipse
• Good understanding of messaging technologies like JMS / MQ Series

Candidate Profile:
- Ability to reach out to business stakeholders and help define requirements where the brief is not detailed nor specific
- Ability to work under tight timelines
- Proven ability to work within a team environment
- Highly effective verbal and written English communication skills
- Ability to make good/sound decisions and use independent judgment
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills

Please send your applications to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com

Overseas applicants with the required skills & experience are encouraged to apply

Feel free to refer if you think someone you know fits well for this role

Cheers,
Srini.

“Basel IT – Development Manager – VP Level” based in Singapore with a top tier Investment Bank – Permanent position

Department Overview:
This role is for the global Regulatory Reporting IT team based in Singapore. The Regulatory Reporting IT team develops applications and provides IT support to the bank’s Financial Control function. It's a global function, covering many different sites, across all business lines.

The main functional areas covered are:
• Statistical Analysis - Bank of England and FSA reporting
• Local Regulatory Reporting i.e. Fed, etc
• Capital Adequacy Management incl. Basel I and Basel II requirements
• Large Exposure Management
• Liquidity Management

The IT Regulatory Systems team is composed of 80+ staff spread over three continents (Europe, Asia and US)

Main Duties: Manage a team of developers to provide IT solutions for Basel II compliance.

People Management:
- Line Management for staff and General Team Management
- Performance management and Staff Career development

Delivery Management for Development projects:
- Project Planning, Scope Management, Risk Management, Cost Management, Time Management
- Status Reporting

Delivery Management for Minor Works and 3rd line support:
- Minor Works releases, Upstream Testing and 3rd Line Support

Release Management Oversight:
- Configuration Management, Implementation and Environment Management
- Support handover

Management of Process Quality and Product Quality Relationship Management with the Business Facing IT team, Application Support team

Experience/Skills Required:
- 10 to 15 years of IT experience
- 5+yrs of Investment Banking experience (MUST)
- Around 4 to 5 yrs in the capacity of a Project Manager or Development Manager
- 4+yrs of experience in working Regulatory Reporting, Basel II, Compliance (MUST)

Technical:
- Good experience on Oracle PL/SQL design and development
- Conceptual understanding of front end technologies (C#/.Net)
- Conceptual understanding of Reporting Technologies (preferably Business Objects)

Project Management:
- Proven track record of delivering projects on time and within cost against a recognized project management methodology
- Demonstrable blend of theory and practice
- Good experience on SDLC and development methodologies
- Good experience working in a cross-geography IT development function
- Comfortable with Project planning software, preferably MS-Project

Team Management:
- Proven ability to manage people in a team environment
- Proven ability to work within a team environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to make good/sound decisions and use independent judgment
- Ability to manage changing requirements in a highly dynamic

Please send your applications to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com

Overseas applicants with the required skills & experience are encouraged to apply

Feel free to refer if you think someone you know fits well for this role

Cheers,
Srini.

“Asia Pacific Risk & Finance Business Analyst – VP Level” based in Singapore with a top tier Investment Bank – Permanent position

Main Function:
The main function of this role is to provide Business Analysis for Asia-Pacific Risk, Finance and Enterprise Shared Services development teams. The role will cover business analysis functions across Credit Risk, Market Risk, Regulatory, Financial Control & Compliance projects as the need arises. The candidate will be responsible for gathering business requirements, producing functional specifications and helping the development teams throughout the SDLC phases. There may also be some aspects of project management required.

Responsibilities include:
- Participate in workshops/discussions to help business to define the business requirement
- Determine key business areas impacted by a proposed change and collect business requirements
- Review business requirements docs and provide feedback to business
- Work with business to finalise/sign-off business requirements
- Analyse the business requirements
- Work with business and IT teams to clarify issues/questions
- Develop functional specification documents based on the business analysis. This document will be used by developers to do the coding
- Perform testing as required. Help developers to perform unit, systems and integration testing
- Answer users’ questions/queries
- Help developers to resolve issues during development and UAT
- Provide user support during post go-live period

Application areas to cover:
- This role spans many different stakeholder groups in Risk, Finance and Compliance. This person will need understand how upstream changes impact the downstream corporate systems

Participate in the following management reviews:
- Project Review: Review the progress of the project against plan Provide proactive involvement with:
- Improving the team's Investment Banking capability through coaching, mentoring and training

Deliverables:
- Business Requirements Doc: work with Business to finalise the business requirements
- Functional Specification Doc: develop Functional Specification Document. This document will be used by developers to do the coding
- Test cases for internal IT testing - where applicable

Experience/Skills Required:
- 7-10 years experience in an investment banking environment

Skills and Knowledge:
Business:
- Strong analytical skills
- Ability to quickly understand and articulate As-Is and To-Be systems and processes
- Understanding of front-to-back trading systems flows required
- Expertise in Finance, Credit Risk or Market Risk strongly preferred, expertise in traded products a plus

Technical:
- Proven experience in all phases of development life cycle
- Hands-on experience in querying the databases

Communication & Global Team:
- Must have good track record of communicating effectively with both business and IT staff at all levels
- Must be able to demonstrate the ability to work with global teams from a regional office

Candidate Profile:
- Ability to reach out to business stakeholders and help define requirements where the brief is not detailed nor specific
- Ability to work under tight timelines
- Proven ability to work within a team environment
- Highly effective verbal and written English communication skills
- Ability to make good/sound decisions and use independent judgment
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Outstanding presentation skills
- the ability to synthesize complex business requirements into concise presentations / documents

Please send your applications to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com

Overseas applicants with the required skills & experience are encouraged to apply

Feel free to refer if you think someone you know fits well for this role

Cheers,
Srini.

“Support Lead / IT Operations Team Lead (Middle/Back office production applications environments) – AVP Level” based in Singapore

Department Overview:
Securities IT division of the Bank operates as a core part of the business and considered to be part of the front line. The division is co-located with the business in a fast paced and changing environment. We are currently looking for a capable experienced IT Operations Lead to oversee our cash securities middle/back office production applications environments, based in Singapore

Main Function/Duties:
Working closely with the business you will be responsible management of the global equities middle and back office IT production environment, applications and support team to provide a first and second line high quality, performance, availability and responsive service to cash equities operations and finance users globally. You will also work closely with the IT Ops managers in other locations to build a rolling 24x7, support model.

Your role will cover incident, change and problem management, capacity management and monitoring, escalating to local business and global IT management when required. You will also manage the delivery of change into production in equities applications in Asia, ANZ and globally partnering with the infrastructure, development and other global IT to ensure the seamless delivery of business service. Additionally your role will cover operational risk, DR/BCP co-ordination, small process improvements, vendor relationships, cost management, process improvements and staff management.

Ideally you will have:
• Experience in leading operating investment banking equities middle and back office technology environments or similar high-demand IT operation models
• University degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent
• Sound technical experience in fast paced working environments
• A strong customer service focus and the ability to deliver quality support
• Good communication skills along with a strong customer service focus
• The ability to harness local and distributed teams
• The flexibility to cheerfully deal with conflicting and ever changing priorities
• The ability to work well under pressure to provide timely and accurate solutions to systems problems
• A background in driving change across IT organisations
• The ability to think strategically and remain focused on the big picture while responding to immediate business demands
• Strong commitment to completion and delivery

Business skills:
• Strong working knowledge cash equities products
• An understanding of commercial business drivers and an appreciation of these in the context of technology support

Technical requirements:
• Experience of ITIL processes and IT Service Management tools e.g. Remedy, ITRS, Control M
• Good working knowledge of Oracle, SQL
• Java 1.4/1.5
• Experience working with SYN, Webmethods (ideal but not imperative)

Please send your applications to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com

Overseas applicants with the required skills & experience are encouraged to apply

Feel free to refer if you think someone you know fits well for this role

Regards,
Srini.

“Vice President – Technology/ Head of Development” based in Singapore with a top tier Investment Bank – Permanent position

Business Unit and Department Structure:
This unit handles the technology application development and support for small business, institutional & investment banking in addition to Client on-boarding and client data maintenance for the enterprise. The department interacts heavily with Global partners in the U.S.

Project Background:
The team would develop and support client data applications, in close co-ordination with global partners in the U.S. and other locations.

Role / Responsibilities / Key objectives :
This is a senior team manager position. We are looking for a leader who has demonstrated abilities to grow and lead a team of intermediate level on-shore and off-shore technical developers (through project lead(s). The manager would need to supervise the team's daily activities as well as strategic path.

This manager would get to recruit his/her team, from scratch, to match stakeholder needs. The initial set of projects / assignments have already been identified with Business partners in the U.S. Full recruitment support from a seasoned recruitment team would be on-hand to assist.The individual also needs to be well-versed with popular technologies and have good understanding of relevant concepts and trends. Demonstrated ability in developing and particularly in providing top-notch support of relevant technology solutions by leveraging operations support best practices such as ITIL's Incident Management and Problem Management processes or other SDLC processes is required.

This position will entail:
- Regular interaction with initiative team leads, business partners and senior management and requires a demonstrated ability to negotiate "win-win" outcomes to enable timely delivery of projects as well as balancing and protecting the quality of the deliverables and stability of the production environment.
- Good knowledge and demonstrated abilities of project management, management reporting and escalation, prioritization and execution of multiple tasks.
- Standard responsibilities surrounding SDLC such as design, development, code-review, integration and unit testing, etc. are expected to be ingrained.

Managerial Skills:
- Proven experience in growing and leading mid-large sized teams towards successful completion of projects & programs. Candidate should have at least 3 years in such a role, out of a total of at least 10 years of experience.
- Experience in mentoring and being responsible for the team’s career growth, performance appraisal etc.
- Experience in managing global teams with specific experience as an off-shore development manager (manager and team located off-shore from business / tech customers).
- Experience in executing sub-contracted, fixed bid / time & material projects at a remote location.
- Expertise in managing related projects - JAVA technology / Client Data domain
- Demonstrated experience in management reporting, including transparent and timely reporting to remote business partners.
- Process expertise - Project management methodologies
Technical Skills:
- Experience with web technologies (preferably Java).
- Should be able to give technology direction to the team.
- Should possess sufficient tech know-how to interact constructively with architects and tech leads.
Desired Skills Domain: Client on-boarding, Anti-money laundering, Know-your Customer and Client Data maintenance domain knowledge is a plus
Process: Six Sigma / ITIL

Overseas applicants with the required skills & experience are encouraged to apply.

If this opportunity excites you, send across your updated profile to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com

Feel free to refer if you think someone you know fits well for this role.

Regards,
Srini.

Permanent Role: “Sr. Project Manager / BA – Wallstreet platform – VP Level” based in Singapore with a top tier Investment Bank

Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for managing the book of work around the Wallstreet platform. This covers working with the user group in terms of developing requirements.
- Advising on the mechanics of the Wallstreet platform and how it can be configured and implemented to meet the business needs.
- Working with the development manager based in London you will ensure the priorities are maintained and aligned with the business expectations.
- Provide the technical expertise on the Wallstreet platform. Govern the configuration and system setup in line with functional requirements.
- Work with senior management to set the direction of the Wallstreet platform providing input into the platform strategy.
- Also work with the business to ensure that this strategy is aligned to their business requirements.
- Work with the WSS IT development manager for planning / strategy of CTB book of work.
- Drive efficiency and cost targets through to development partner(s) and ensure appropriate input to budget process to cover cost of delivery through the captive development organization.
- Provide the SL3 coverage for the Asia time zone handling all issues escalated from the production support team.
- Work with the production support team to improve knowledge and increase the overall level of support.

Key Competencies:
- Self starter able to work in a globally distributed team.
- Good communicator able to liaise with the Operations project team members around business requirements as well as interface partners on technical aspects of the interfaces.
- Strong problem solving abilities, logical thinker.
- Able to multi-task being required to work across multiple initiatives

Key Technical Skills:
- Wallstreet application knowledge both functional and system setup/management
- Experience in the technologies supporting the WSS application integration layer:

SDK: JDK(Core / Web / Enterprise)
Scripting: PERL / Solaris / Java
Database: Oracle (PL SQL)
AppServer: Weblogic (Development and Deployment)
WebServer: Tomcat (Development and Deployment)
Adapters: Open Adapters
Scheduling: Control M
Middleware: IBM MQ (API Development)/ TIBCO EMS(JMS API Development) SourceControl: CVS
Build: Ant

Experience:
- Proven experience managing and working with the Wallstreet platform.
- Proven experience in the software development lifecycle, from requirements analysis, through design, build, testing and deployment of solutions.
- Good wide-ranging awareness of IT technologies and up to date with the latest technology trends
- Experience of working in a culturally diverse and geographically distributed team
- Investment Banking/Financial Services experience
- Product knowledge of debt markets covering fixed income, money market, foreign exchange and futures & options.

OVERSEAS applicants with strong experience in Project Management/BA exp in Wallstreet platform are encouraged to apply.

If this opportunity excites you, send across your updated profile to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com & let us initiate the discussion.

Feel free to refer if you think someone you know fits well for this role.

Regards,
Srini.

Seeking Senior Directors in the Finance Change Space. Position is based in Manila with a top tier investment bank

Only Investment Banking Directors need contact us regarding this position

Overall responsibility for implementing all change (strategic and tactical) into the Financial Accounting Service delivery domain.
- Establishing and driving Service delivery domain strategy towards end state
- Developing, governing & executing on the BoW (Program and Project delivery) taking Service delivery domain priorities and process / architectural goals into consideration
- Change led benefit creation and delivery
- Senior Stakeholder Management
- Developing strategic change management practices and skilled change capability according to the BPM Paradigm
- Responsible for establishing an organizational structure & people development strategy that enable the strategic vision for the Service delivery domain and the Change group to be achieved
- Responsible for working with the architects and technology partners to establish a process/business, application and data architecture for the Service delivery domain
- Responsible for driving productivity and efficiency goals

In depth understanding of Financial Reporting & Regulatory reporting required including:
- GAAPs,
- IFRS
- General Ledgers & Sub-ledgers
- Consolidated group reporting,
- Local Regulatory reporting processes of multiple locations
- Broad experience and knowledge of end to end product and trade lifecycle flows and controls (accounting rules, product business event postings such as Cash, PV’s and Reference data)
- Good capital markets product knowledge focusing on accounting and regulatory (US GAAP and IFRS) reporting (min investment banking products)
- Business lead delivering large scale technology change programs (programs & direct budget for a single program should exceed 5 million Euros)
- Experience of the full project lifecycle and project management.
- Be "technology savvy" understanding the basic technology precepts
- Experience of running teams that have defined process (As Is and To Be) , business, logical data and non functional requirements
- Understanding of formal analysis and requirement gathering methodologies skills (Workflow, Use-cases, Collaboration Diagrams etc.)
- Experience of communicating architectural constraints on system design and identifying business issues which may impact system development and / or deployment
- Program Manager or Test Manager Responsibility for business testing (including the definition of test cases)
- Program Manager Responsibility for data migration / conversion strategy
- Communicating and prioritising business needs so that Technology partners understand the real issues and criticalities
- Managing the business implementation and performing ongoing user training
- Participating in Post Implementation Review for projects
- 8-10 years of financial services industry experience with a minimum of 5 years large scale change management experience
- Exposure to formal Business Process Management methodologies would be preferable but not mandatory

Overseas applicants with the required skills & experience are encouraged to apply, full relocation provided.

If this opportunity interests you, send across your updated profile to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com

Feel free to refer if you think someone you know fits well for this role.

Besst regards,
Srini.

“Front Office Developer (Credit Ecommerce business) – VP Level” based in Singapore with a top tier Investment Bank. - Permanent role

This role requires someone with 9+ years of development experience of which minimum 6+yrs in developing front office applications

Key Responsibilities:
- Liaise with the business to deliver a superior service and provide solutions as requested.
- Look for new eCommerce opportunities which haven’t been brought to the region or are cutting edge for the region.
- Delivery cutting edge technology solutions to the business
- Support of eCommerce systems (Pricing, Distribution)

Job Requirements:
- Atleast 6+ years developing front office applications.
- Experience in the development of medium to large applications
- Experience with real-time market data type applications.
- Experience in Credit Products (Corporate bonds, Credit Default swaps, Options, etc) and eCommerce solutions for those products.
- Unix (including shell script languages) - Relational Database’s & SQL - Java/C++
- MUST be proactive & able to work on their own initiative - Problem solving skills both Technical and Business related.
- Ability to work as part of a team.
- The candidate needs to be self-motivated, self-sufficient, able to work under pressure, and have very good communication skills.
- Ability to set and manage realistic expectations
- Ability to work well and forge strong relationships with traders.

OVERSEAS applicants with the required skills & excellent experience in front office application development are encouraged to apply.

If this opportunity excites you, send across your updated profile to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com & let us initiate the discussion.

Feel free to refer if you think someone you know fits well for this role.

Regards,
Srini.

“FX Development Lead – VP Level” based in Singapore with a top tier Investment Bank – Permanent position

Key Responsibilities:
This is a great opportunity to lead a growing and high calibre currencies development team in Singapore. This team forms part of a larger global IT group. In this role you will have regular business and technical interaction with the global business and technology stakeholders. You will be responsible for all aspects of the project life cycle of an expanding global electronic FX platform, with particular emphasis on high quality, on time, short and regular delivery cycles. You will also be responsible for management of the development team. You may require occasional travel.

Job Requirements:
- VP level experience of managing a high calibre team of 10 to 15 developers in a front office technology investment bank environment.
- Team Lead and Project Management skills including planning, estimating, scheduling, resourcing, mentoring and soft people skills.
- Hands on management style with emphasis on light weight effective process, high quality and timely deliveries.
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills. This role requires regular and detailed discussions with the global senior business heads and technology stakeholders.
- Demonstrable involvement in FX products preferably FX Cash in an eTrading environment.
- Be from a technical development background and have a deep understanding of electronic FX trading architecture. The candidate is expected to contribute to platform architecture and provide guidance on technical solutions.
- Have worked with peers in the QA and Production support groups to deliver a true end to end high quality solution.
- Be familiar with at least one object oriented development language (C++/Java/C#), SQL on any enterprise RDBMS.

OVERSEAS applicants with the required skills & excellent experience in FX platform are encouraged to apply.

If this opportunity excites you, send across your updated profile to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com & let us initiate the discussion.

Feel free to refer if you think someone you know fits well for this role.

Regards,
Srini.

"Automated Market Making Developer (C++) – AVP Level" based in Hong Kong with a top tier Investment Bank – Permanent position

ROLE SUMMARY:
As a member of the AsiaPac Equity Derivatives IT Automated Market Making Development team, the primary role will be to develop and enhance systems used for electronic execution of listed Warrant and Derivative products across multiple Asia exchanges.

THE ROLE INVOLVES:
- Participate in the design and development of low latency electronic trading applications to support new business initiatives and increased trading volumes.
- Participate in all phases of software development including project specification, development, testing, deployment to the production environment and post-production support. - Work as part of a global and diversified team to deliver consistent services and products to the trading business in all regions where it operates.
- Technical skills required include C++. Ideally have exposure to Java or C# and a database exposure (Sybase, Oracle or similar).
- Experience with development exchange links, algorithmic trading engines or extremely low latency real-time systems is desirable.

Overseas applicants with the required skills & experience are encouraged to apply.

If this opportunity excites you, send across your updated profile to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com

Feel free to refer if you think someone you know fits well for this role.

Regards,
Srini.

“AVS/OpenLink Developer – AVP Level” based in Singapore with a top tier Investment Bank – Permanent position

ConnectedGroup, established in 1997, is a dynamic, independent and progressive consultancy providing executive search solutions to clients across Asia.

Main Function:
Analyse requirements to Design, Develop and Deliver high quality code (under direction of an application engineer and project manager) for the main Commodities platform, Openlink. Typically these are developed using AVS and Oracle.

Main Duties:
Delivers the functionality requested by the Application Engineer (VP).

The following is included:
- Low level design of solution
- Coding and unit testing of the solution
- Work with testers to verify the solution
- Rework defects and take part in defect analysis

Skills /Experience Required:
- Relevant university degree
- 6+ years development experience preferably in investment bank
- 4+ years of working experience in OpenLink AVS
- 4+ years of development experience in SQL / PLSQL (Oracle) & Database design (Oracle)
- 2+ years experience in MS Visual studio C# / .Net

Overseas applicants with the required skills & experience are encouraged to apply.

If this opportunity excites you, send across your updated profile to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com

Feel free to refer if you think someone you know fits well for this role.

Regards,
Srini.

“Senior Compliance Solutions Developer – AVP Level” based in Singapore with a top tier Investment Bank – Permanent position

ConnectedGroup, established in 1997, is a dynamic, independent and progressive consultancy providing executive search solutions to clients across Asia.

Main Function:
The candidate is expected to design, develop, test and deliver Compliance solutions under the direction of an application engineer and project manager. He/she will build in-depth knowledge of both the technical and business aspects of the systems and become well-versed in the business functions supported by the systems. Working as part of the larger team would see the candidate share their expertise with other team members.

Additionally, the successful candidate will have soft skills to complement their hard-core technical skills. The candidate will have at least 2 to 3 years of business analysis experience with an investment bank (ideally in a compliance function), strong communications (verbal and written) and documentation skills, good knowledge of SDLC and some understanding of IB products and the trade life cycle.

As well as project work, the candidate will be involved in explaining functionality to BFIT, Compliance and/or other system users. Second line support may be required for the parts of the system that are already in production which may involve direct interaction with same. The candidate will be expected to proactively improve their skills and take on greater responsibilities as their capabilities increase. There are significant opportunities for career development and training.

Main Duties:
Delivers functionality requested by the Application Engineer (VP). The following is included:
- Low level design of solution
- Coding and unit testing
- Work with testers to verify solution
- Rework defects and take part in defect analysis
- Work closely with Business Facing IT
- Participate in architectural design, documentation and estimations.

Skills /Experience Required:
- Relevant university degree
- 7+ years development experience preferably in investment bank compliance IT
- 5+ years experience in SQL / PLSQL (Oracle) & Database design (Oracle)
- 2+ years experience Unix/Shell Scripting
- 3+ years experience Informatica
- 3+ years experience doing code reviews
- 2+ years experience as business or technical analyst (ideally in bank compliance IT)
- 2+ years experience SQL performance tuning

Preferred Skills/Experience:
- 3+ years developing or supporting trade surveillance or AML apps (ideally Mantas or Actimize).
- 2+ years experience Business Objects
- Basic Knowledge of trade life cycle, investment banking products and banking regulatory compliance
- Basic knowledge of batch scheduling tools and monitoring (Autosys)

Overseas applicants with the required skills & experience are encouraged to apply.

If this opportunity excites you, send across your updated profile to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com

Feel free to refer if you think someone you know fits well for this role.

Regards,
Srini.

"Sr. Java Developer (Credit Technology Group) – AVP Level" based in Singapore with a top tier Investment Bank – Permanent position

Main Function:The Credit Technology group is looking for a hands-on tech lead/senior developer with strong financial industry experience in designing and developing electronic trading platforms and external connectivity to financial industry clients and ECNs using proprietary protocols and industry standard protocols like FIX and ION.

The primary focus of this position will be to lead and develop the Credit electronic trading platform in line with the business strategic and be responsible for delivering client and broker ecommerce services for various credit products. This role involves working closely with the global development team to facilitate electronic trading across various platforms and to deliver projects in a timely fashion.

Main Duties:
- Liaise with business users and other development groups to gather ongoing requirements.
- Take responsibility for projects to meet these ongoing requirements
- Apply design and system architecture skills to ensure continual increase in performance and stability of the core system
- Produce documented and tested software for delivery to production. - Participate in design and code reviews

Experience Required:
- 7+ years of Core Java/J2ee, FIX development and design experience in the financial industry
- 3+ years of experience in ION or any other vendor provided connectivity software
- 4+ years of experience in design and development of high frequency & high volume eTrading application
- 3+ years of experience in messaging protocols especially TibcoRV, MQ Series or JMS
- Knowledge of Perl or any other scripting knowledge would be a definite plus - Thorough understanding of electronic connectivity to brokers, clients and ECNs

Experience Preferred: Working on E-trading platform. Experience working as a team lead.

Skills / Aptitude Required: Java, SQL, System design and architecture, Understanding of design patterns and data structures, XML and associated tools and utilities

If this opportunity excites you, send across your contact details / updated profile to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com & let us initiate the discussion.

Feel free to refer if you think someone you know fits well for this role.

Regards,
Srini.

"Java Manager (Equities & Derivatives Team) – AVP Level" based in Singapore with a top tier Investment Bank – Permanent position

Design and deliver high quality Java code
Low level design of solution
Coding and unit testing of the solution
Work with testers to verify the solution
Rework defects and take part in defect analysis

Skills:
Java/J2ee, EJB, Struts, JSP, JDBC, JMS, Junit, Java Libraries, XML, XSLT, Eclipse, Servlets, Ant, Tomcat
Unix (preferably SOLARIS)
SQL (Oracle, SQL server or Sybase)
OO Design

Skills and Knowledge: Scores more than 3.7 in brainbench Java test within previous 6 months

Please note that this is an individual contributor role. There is no team reporting to this position

Overseas applicants with the required skills & experience are encouraged to apply.

If this opportunity excites you, send across your updated profile to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com

Feel free to refer if you think someone you know fits well for this role.

Regards,
Srini.

“Sr. C# Developer – AVP Level” based in Singapore with a top tier Investment Bank – Permanent position

Department Overview:
Fixed Income Technology is responsible for the development and support of all front, middle and back office applications and systems that are used to support Fixed Income business globally. Systems supported are a combination of In-house development and vendor applications, using a variety of technologies. The Fixed Income team is comprised of over 200 staff in London, New York, Tokyo and Singapore.

The Fixed Income business aims to be one of the leading liquidity providers in the derivatives and the Government bond markets, and to offer an integrated sales, trading and research service to the client base comprising investor business, corporates, financial institutions and hedge funds. The product offering includes Government Bonds, interest rate swaps, basis swaps, interest rate options & swaptions, FRAs and caps / floors.

Main Function: Designing and developing the front office trade store, associated feeds, and position management system, building on a newly developed .Net trade and position server framework. Troubleshooting of production issues where necessary.

Main Duties:
- Liaise with business users and other development groups to gather ongoing requirements.
- Take responsibility for projects to meet these ongoing requirements
- Apply design and system architecture skills to ensure continual increase in performance and stability of the core system
- Produce documented and tested software for delivery to production.
- Participate in design and code reviews

Experience Required:
Working on the design and architecture of a large distributed system
Unit testing, system testing, performance testing
Production troubleshooting Work on a Fixed Income trading platform.
Experience working as a team lead.
C# Development
Ability to code business requirements into end to end solutions using C#
Experience of n-tier / component based development Database development experience using T-SQL and Oracle Database design including stored procedures, triggers, etc
Experience in complex and large stored procedures - being able to understand, code and improve it.
Performance tuning
Data migration
OO Design.

Skills Required:
C#, SQL, System design and architecture, Understanding of design patterns and data structures, XML and associated tools and utilities, C++, VB, Bonds and Swaps, Talarian/ TIBCO, MS SQL Server, COM+

Overseas applicants with the required skills & experience are encouraged to apply.

If this opportunity excites you, send across your updated profile to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com

Feel free to refer if you think someone you know fits well for this role.

Regards,
Srini.

“Development Manager - VP Level (BPM / BPMN with J2EE)" based in Manila with a top tier Investment Bank – Permanent position

Role Description:
- The Development Manager BPM/BPMN is responsible for development, delivery and support of BPM (Business process Management) related projects for the Bank’s professional service center in Manila.
- The BPM IT product manager will head a BPM Development team, working closely with Business Analysts, users and other business process authors in the Finance domain to assist in the configuration and development of BPM applications for the Bank.
- Ensures that sound development, documentation and testing techniques are implemented to turn “as-is” or “to-be” processes from BPMN notation into a solid working application.
- Responsible for coordinating and working with resources from Finance and IT project teams (development, data modeling, database administration) in developing BPM applications
- Works with Application Architect and Information Architect to develop solutions that advance best practices within enterprise architecture type frameworks.
- Handles multiple project assignments, manage and negotiate work load with delivery leads, escalate issues as necessary, and possess excellent leadership and communication skills.

Experience:
- 12+ years IT development and management experience
- Job progression should include hands on development experience, development team leader, architecture and group management
- Investment Banking experience is a MUST
- Must be able to demonstrate complex project delivery
- International management experience e.g. must have worked outside of the Philippines for multi-national organization

Management:
- Team and group management
- People skills
- Large priorities management experience e.g. multi reporting lines, conflicting priorities etc.
- Must be self-starter and able to motivate the team i.e. “can do”-attitude
- Takes responsibility for actions and leads by example

Technical:
- Developer experience i.e. must have been hands on developer and understand the software development life cycle
- Corporate development managing outsource vendors does not qualify
- 5+ years of Java and J2EE experience (must be up to date with currents standards but may not be an active developer)
- Experience in Oracle, Application servers, ETL / integration tool sets and BPM tooling
- BPM development and implementation experience (any vendor package)

The ideal candidate would come from IB background, undertaking hand development and demonstrate job progression from developer, development team lead to manager with architecture role. This should be coupled with business understanding, strong interest in the technology and a focus on delivery.

If this opportunity excites you, send across your contact details / updated profile to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com & let us initiate the discussion.

Feel free to refer if you think someone you know fits well for this role.

Regards,
Srini.

"C++ Developer (FX eComm & Cash) - AVP Level" based in Singapore with a top tier Investment Bank – Permanent position

Department Overview:
FX Development is composed of approximately 80 people. The team is composed of Java Swing developers, C++ on Linux developers, FX Options pricing specialists, project managers, programme managers and system testers.

The development is split up into two main workstreams, namely FX Cash eCommerce and FX Options eCommerce. The development resources are organised into a pool of developers. A developer is likely to work on a mixture of FX Cash and FX Options projects throughout their career in the team.

Main Function:
- Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Deployment
- Would be expected to carry out all steps of the development lifecycle to deliver new versions of FX Cash and FX Options, namely:
- Working with business analysts and project managers to understand the requirements
- Analysing those requirements to find the most appropriate technical solution for incorporating them into FX and creating a technical specification where needed
- Developing those requirements
- Unit / system / regression / performance testing those requirements
- Reviewing code produced by others
- Working with the business representatives during the UAT stage
- Supporting the implementation of each new code release

Essential Skills:
C++: Must have extensive experience of writing multithreaded server applications on Linix/Solaris.
SQL : Must have experience of using SQL, and ability to write stored procedures, triggers.
Have worked on multi-tier enterprise systems which have a high frequency messaging element between severs and server to GUI.
Middleware : Must have experience of using middleware messaging components such as Tibco, Talarian, Solace or MQ.

Preferred Skills:
C++ on Windows
FIX Protocol: Experience in high performance and highly scalable real-time FIX Protocol implementations.

Person Requirements
- Able to deliver good quality accurate solutions to tight time-scales
- Must be able to multi-task efficiently
- Must be comfortable with changing priorities and requirements, often late-on in the development cycle
- Overall should be confident, enthusiastic and proactive.
- Must be able to communicate effectively with other development team members, other project members, other managers and users, gauging the level of technical knowledge of the audience in these communications
- Must be able to participate in technical discussions within the development team, communicating any issues that have a project-wide scope to the necessary level.
- Must be able to participate in a culture of “knowledge sharing” within the development team.
- Must be self-motivated, setting a high level of professionalism and excellence

Overseas applicants with the required skills & experience are encouraged to apply.

If this opportunity excites you, send across your updated profile to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com

Feel free to refer if you think someone you know fits well for this role.

Regards,
Srini.

“Sr. Test Manager – VP Level” based in Singapore with a top tier Investment Bank – Permanent position

ConnectedGroup, established in 1997, is a dynamic, independent and progressive consultancy providing executive search solutions to clients across Asia.

** Experience working in an Investment Bank is a must for this requirement **

Job Description - Sr. Test Manager – VP Level:

Main Function:
- Delivering test projects against functionality, schedule, cost and quality.
- People management of Testers and Test Managers.
- First level of escalation on projects managed by direct reports.
- Providing strategic direction and initiatives within testing domain.
- Recruitment and resource allocation.

Main Duties:
- Deliver testing functionality requested by the Business Sponsor.
This includes: - Liaison with the end customer during the requirements gathering and analysis phase. This may entail significant periods of travel
- Documenting the applications to the standards of the division
- Design of solution
- Estimation of effort, schedule and cost of the solution
- Test summary and defect report creation and dissemination
- Oversight to the department team during analysis, design, execution and delivery of the solution
- Assignment of test activities
- Verification of the solution

This is a hands on role and includes the following planning and tracking: Change requests, Scope, Time, Cost, Quality, People, Communications, Project Risks
Line management of ~15 Test Analysts.
Lead Strategic Test Centre initiatives and competency development.

Provide proactive involvement with:
- Improving the Investment Banking capability of the division through coaching, mentoring and training
- Improving the testing capability of the division.
- Improving the defined Software Engineering Processes via the Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG)

Experience/Skills Required:
- ISEB Foundation Certification in Software Testing (or equivalent)
- A minimum of 12 years of experience in software engineering or related areas
- A minimum of 10 years of experience in successfully managing projects
- Experience of running a sizeable test team (30+)
- Experience working in an Investment Bank
- Experience across different types of testing e.g. Automation, Performance and Usability
- Experience with demanding customers in a time-pressured environment
- Experience of working in a global organization
- In depth knowledge of and proven track record in software testing lifecycle
- Front Office, Middle Office, Back Office trading concepts
- Knowledge of SEI Capability Maturity Model, (CMM)
- Knowledge of SEI Capability Maturity Model Integrated, (CMMI)

Overseas applicants with the required skills & experience are encouraged to apply.

If this opportunity excites you, send across your updated profile to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com

Feel free to refer if you think someone you know fits well for this role.

Regards,
Srini.

“Test Manager – AVP Level” based in Singapore with a top tier Investment Bank – Permanent position

ConnectedGroup, established in 1997, is a dynamic, independent and progressive consultancy providing executive search solutions to clients across Asia.

** Experience working in an Investment Bank is a must for this requirement **

ConnectedGroup, established in 1997, is a dynamic, independent and progressive consultancy providing executive search solutions to clients across Asia.

Job Requirements:

- Minimum 9+yrs of total experience working in Testing
- 4+ years of experience in successfully managing projects in an investment bank
- Strong experience in different types of testing e.g. Automation, Performance and Usability
- Strong experience in test strategy
- Experience in handling multiple projects & testing teams
- In depth knowledge of and proven track record in software testing lifecycle
- Proven track record of delivering projects on time and within cost
- ISEB Foundation Certification in Software Testing (or equivalent)
- Knowledge of and proven track record in Investment Banking domain are desirable
- Front Office, Middle Office, Back Office trading concepts
- Knowledge of SEI Capability Maturity Model, (CMM)
- Knowledge of SEI Capability Maturity Model Integrated, (CMMI)
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills and ability to tailor communications to the appropriate level for the audience

Overseas applicants with the required skills & experience are encouraged to apply

If this opportunity excites you, send across your updated profile to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com

Feel free to refer if you think someone you know fits well for this role.

Regards,
Srini.