Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Applications Manager - (US-CT-Westport)


Applications Manager - (US-CT-Westport)

Compensation:
$125K - $175K / Year
Minimum Education:
Bachelors
Job Type:
Full Time
Jobcode:
ABAKJA1

The core trading portfolio team is currently being restructured to better align to business objectives/goals. The current portfolio includes a large set of legacy applications; the current team, while holds adequate business domain knowledge, is short of mature development practice and experience.


We are seeking a motivated and experienced technologist to lead a core trading portfolio team to ensure that the defined business function has the technology and infrastructure it requires to meet the goal of trading excellently.

Core trading APM will manage a team that includes both project execution capability (PM, BA, QA) and some development capacity (tech lead, dev), and will have responsibility for all aspects of the project life cycle.

Core trading portfolio manager is responsible for the strategy, execution, maintenance and quality for all applications within that portfolio.

We expect this role to create a critical mass of change, evolution or investment necessary to sustain a base level of technology expertise and familiarity, and formulate the needs of technology to evolve with the needs of business.

Core Criteria
Management Ability

5+ years of OMS application portfolio management experience, including building an application development team, working with business users, and 3rd party vendors.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills – capability to convince people based on reasoning not just experience.
Can establish a program of projects to achieve necessary portfolio evolution. Ensure project meets the business goal, and able to hold team members accountable and deliver on-time, on-budget projects in-line with the quality expectation.

Technical Skill and Business Knowledge
Hands-on experience working with front office trading systems, particularly OMS space, understands the competitive landscape, having working knowledge of global financial markets, exchanges, etc.
Capable of acting as thought partner and provide oversight to both tech lead on technology front and project manager on project execution front.
Experience with all stages of SDLC, with the proven ability to drive an idea through to implementation.
Practical problem decomposition and problem solving.

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