Product Lead – Architect – Market Risk – VaR – Product Ownership recruitment

 An exciting vacancy exists for a Product Lead/Architect within a Market Risk Investment Banking team. The area needs someone to come in and take ownership of highly analytical product within Market Risk that is responsible for producing the Value at Risk(VAR) risk measure for the bank across all the standard risk factor types.

To be right for this role, you must have a strong Investment Banking background and have an exceptional amount of knowledge around risk within an Investment Bank. You must also have both a technical and non-technical background as you will be driving both elements within the project. Other essential requirements include:

Essential:

•  Successful track record of delivering technology solutions to business problems within a global organisation

•  Proven ability to build relationships with both technical and non-technical resources and stakeholders

•  Must exhibit a detailed understanding of business context  in the area which they currently work

•  Exhibit influencing skills to gain consensus across multiple stakeholder groups

•  Strong track record of technical delivery showing clear ownership of both business and technical issues

•  Market Risk experience or a Mathematics background

Daily activities include but are not limited to:

•  Technical architecture of the Product

•  Expert and detailed knowledge of the Product (technical and domain)

•  Provide advice to the Project Manager on technical options and business solutions

•  Quality of the Technical Product, including: reusability, design, performance, scalability, resilience and adherence to: information security, BCP, compliance, architecture principles and roadmap

•  Definition of technology deliverables for projects involving this Product (excluding business requirements)

•  Delivery of the following technology deliverables for projects involving this Product: software development, unit testing, functional testing, regression testing, system integration testing, technical deployment and operational handover

•  Manage resources within the Product team, including hiring, training, retention and performance management to provide the most productive and cost-efficient team

This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a unique and challenging project in a lead role.