Synthetic Prime Brokerage – Program Manager – Perm recruitment

 

Job Specification


Synthetic Prime Brokerage – Program Manager - Perm

Overview:

Nomura is a leading financial services group and the pre-eminent independent investment bank with worldwide reach. Backed by a strong balance sheet, we offer unrivalled asset raising abilities and have a proven record of delivering value for our clients. We offer a broad range of innovative services tailored to the specific requirements of individual, institutional, corporate and government clients. In many cases our pioneering spirit creates new and differentiated solutions, but always with the reassurance that this is underpinned by a global intelligence network, knowledge and depth of experience in the financial markets. Based in Tokyo and with regional headquarters in London, Hong Kong and New York, we have offices in over 30 countries and employ more than 25,000 people worldwide.

The Nomura Synthetic Prime Brokerage platform is a core component of the Global Prime Offering. It provides a portfolio swap solution for clients across all regions. Developed in London, Mumbai, and Hong Kong it has a user base in all Nomura regions supporting Tokyo, Hong Kong, London and New York. This position is for a program manager to manage the London development group and manage the global book of work across the distributed development group.

Role / Principal Accountabilities:

The successful candidate will join the London Prime management team and manage the London based developers. They will also be responsible for executing the global book of work and coordinating with the development manager in Mumbai and the developer in Hong Kong. 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 four developers.

3 Key Objectives critical to success of the role (if applicable):

• Ensure that development tasks are communicated, managed, and executed

• Establish a detailed understanding of underlying application and how it supports the SPB business

• Cultivate excellent relationships with the main user group, business analysis and extended technology group

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.

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