Programme Manager (VP) / Synthetic Prime Brokerage – Investment Banking recruitment

The successful candidate will be responsible for executing the global book of work and coordinating with the offshore development manager and developers. In addition they will be part of the global Prime IT management team and be expected to build good relationships with the global client service, product management and RTB support teams. 

The role combines business technology task management with strong project management skills.  It will require working closely with both business and IT management. To be sucessful in the role the sucessful candidate will have to build a detailed knowledge of the product and work closely with the business and business analysts to ensure the platform delivers what is required.

In summary they will:

• Work with the global development manager to build solutions that meet the business requirements

• Work with the Business Analysis, Product and Business groups to ensure requirements are clear and understood.

• Plan and coordinate development tasks for the local and distributed technology team

• Identify and mitigate delivery risk as well as resolving issues as they arise

• Work closely with the Run the Bank (RTB) organisation to ensure that the application platform is well supported, stable, meets capacity and performance requirements.

• Line manage the local development team of developers.

Skills Knowledge Required:

• Proven  IT skills with a track record of delivery within the financial sector and in a front office environment

• IT development experience with Java, Spring, Hibernate and Oracle as well as other RDBMS platforms

• Full project life-cycle experience - bespoke software application development, delivery and implementation

• Experience of structured software development methodologies

• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills

• Understanding of equities and deriviative products

• Ability to quickly grasp new concepts and business knowledge

Desirable:

• Knowledge and understanding of Prime Services especially Synthetic Prime Brokerage.