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.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Thursday, October 8, 2009
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.
- 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.
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.
Monday, October 5, 2009
“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.
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.
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.
Friday, October 2, 2009
"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.
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.
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