Responsibilities
- Lead a team through the idea generation, technical development, implementation and launch of innovative across asset classes.
- Be the lead contributor towards the design and implementation of new business initiatives (e.g., new products).
- Define strategy to leverage external data for effective platform/product growth within the region.
- Take a data-driven approach to product enhancements, identifying opportunity areas and contributing to the Product roadmap, prioritizing work to deliver against key areas of focus.
- Partner with Strategic Delivery functions to develop and execute on product roadmaps.
- Participate in both formulating the business strategy well as channeling into a clearly defined direction and product strategy.
- Work with other product and development leaders to ensure alignment with their roadmaps and delivery.
- Define strategy to leverage external data for effective platform/product growth within the region.
- Serve a critical role in the successful integration and subsequent product buildout of strategic company acquisitions.
- Participate in cross-functional teams (e.g. Product, Business Analysis, Software Engineering) in the development of business requirements to meet customer needs.
- Collaborate with target market representatives, customers, and partners to create powerful and revenue generating solutions for the marketplace.
- Expertise in business requirements writing. Requires extensive knowledge of all areas of the business including but not limited to content, development, product design, workflow, billing, and configuration.
- Must be well versed in industry and company focused initiatives, and understand how that content could be utilized within reference data products.
- Understand the business problems and opportunities in the context of the requirements and help recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.
- Liaise with the Stakeholders in managing, defining, prioritizing, planning, and executing the vision for our applications targeting our core Data Services customers.
- Liaise with development and QA teams to deliver new features and resolve issues.
- Identify and communicate project risks and issues.
- Ability to operate in a multi-tasking and deadline driven team environment.
- Demonstrate a commitment to continuous learning by leveraging the learning & development curriculum to augment existing knowledge, skills, and experiences.
- Maximize efficiency in a constantly evolving environment where the process is fluid and creative solutions are the norm.
Knowledge and Experience
- 8+ years of experience in the financial services industry. Ideally, some of these were when you were leading a team.
- 3+ years of experience querying / retrieving data from structured databases (SQL/Oracle. Python).
- Excellent ability to communicate technical ideas and concepts to colleagues outside the domain.
- Ability to generate creative solutions to problems and challenge processes.
- Strong collaboration skills – ability to navigate cross functional teams to deliver on shared objectives.
- Excellent communication and listening skills with an ability to develop a clear message for senior management and craft the story around it.
- Must have the ability to develop strong relationships with colleagues at all levels of the organization
- Organized and structured with excellent attention to detail.
- Acute understanding of how data is stored and flows through systems and databases.
- Skilled in excel to analyze data, identify trends, and come to conclusions.
- Understanding of how to identify and develop product enhancements.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills - solid hands-on experience of functional analysis, with extensive experience translating business requirements into functional, design and test documentation.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills - ability to work with the client/user community to translate their requirements, however expressed, into development materials and conversely present development materials to client/users in a comprehensible way.
- Must be able to supervise, organize, prioritize workload and work on numerous projects/tasks at one time.
- Ability to work with technical teams (QA and development) as well as sales and end users.
- A working knowledge, and ideally hands on experience, of the development life cycle, covering basic design, testing cycles from unit to acceptance testing, implementation, and post release bug/issue fixes.
- Working knowledge of SQL for data querying and analysis.
- Familiarity with a range of product interfaces (XML/JSON Files, APIs, Front-End Viewers).
- Strong communication and leadership skills.
- Bachelor’s degree is a minimum.
