Java architect team lead – Java Cobol Investment Banking recruitment

Java architect team lead – Java Cobol Investment Banking
(Java, Cobol, Atlas team leadership) LONDON
£100,000 to £120,000 basic + benefits + bonus
Technologies: Java, Cobol, Atlas, Java messaging

Financial domain: investment bank

A Java architect / team is lead is sought by this tier one investment bank to lead a team of 7 – 10 Java and Cobol developers and build a suite of treasury and finance systems in for use across the global bank.

This role is own and run their suite of treasury, running a team and delivering upon their 2012 delivery targets, with responsibility for design and architecture. This is a global team across in Europe, North America, and Asia.

MANAGEMENT REQUIREMENTS
- All aspects of strategic team development and man-management including, but not limited to, internal talent development, succession planning and individual career progression.
- Resource allocation for projects.
- Project planning – identifying, scoping, prioritizing, tracking and reporting deliverables and milestones.
- Working with Project managers and Development Managers in multiple locations to devise and implement ongoing strategic improvements to Development and QA processes.

BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS
- Managing risk and issues.
- Good Treasury (Foreign Exchange, Money Markets) business knowledge
- International Payments
- Experience of working on global applications

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
- Java
- Tandem COBOL (Enform, TACL and TAL are beneficial)
- The Atlas suite (Tansaction Masks Outgoing Formatter, Generic Router, XIS/GIS are beneficial)
- SWIFT messaging would also be beneficial although is not a prerequisite

Key skills required for Java architect team lead – Java Cobol Investment Banking
- take ownership of and architect a high profile global project
- run a team of 7 – 10 Java / cobol developers
- be the design and architecture lead