Director of Risk Technology Development recruitment

The primary focus of the team is The Risk program which is a multi-year Risk initiative aimed at building a new technology foundation for and improving the business processes of  Risk Services. This Program is a multi-stream project which focuses on:  Data Origination and Cleansing, Source System Enhancement and Clean-up, and Risk Analytic consolidation, aggregation, and reporting.

* Manage sub-team of delivery staff developing software for: Data Origination and Cleansing, Source System Enhancement and Clean-up, and Risk Analytic consolidation, aggregation, and reporting.
* Manage system architects and development teams who will convert the detailed business requirements document into a System Requirements Specification document and Blueprints representing the infrastructure implementation of the solution
* Manage the development teams to deliver the solution and liaise with the independent testing function (within Plan) to support the Systems Integration Testing and UAT of the solution
* Work with senior business clients to support them in validating requirements for changes to business processes, policies and information systems
* Work with your peers in Plan and Control to manage the software lifecycle from planning, through resource management, and eventual testing and delivery to production.
* Be a key partner in ensuring that change impact analysis on all systems and business areas is undertaken in order to recommend appropriate solutions. Provides input for requirements reviews from a technical perspective.
 

Experience:
* 10+ years of software delivery management preferable in a matrix managed environment in a financial service organization (preferably the sell-side)
* Management of 40+ resources working on concurrent initiatives. Multi-site preferred but not mandatory
* Strong knowledge of Securities and Market Risk with an emphasis on Risk metrics
* Experience with or exposure to various processes within Trading Risk Services
* Previous experience with BI Reporting Tools or Reporting interfaces. Knowledge of DB2 data warehouses and the IBM Cognos reporting solution highly desirable
* Previous experience with Market Data Origination and Cleansing. Knowledge of Asset Control platform highly desirable
* Ability to gauge the appropriate level of priority and detail and/or effort required on any given project