Job responsibilities
- Leads alarge legacy technology platform, but with an objective to propose and lead the transformation agenda
- Collaborates with otherbusiness unitsto align technology initiatives
- Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
- Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
- Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
- Adds to the team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification onsoftware engineering*concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Extensive experience in the technology sector, particularly within financial services.
- Proven track record of leading technology projects and teams.
- Post Trade Knowledge – Specifically Trade Processing, Affirmation/Confirmation, Settlement, Positions & Balance Management, Accounting is essential.
- Experience managing high volume real-time and complex EOD systems.
- Strong analytical/problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Strategic thinker with a focus on innovation
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Exposure to Broad ridge BPS platform.
- Previous roles in technology management and software development in Mainframe-COBOL, DB2, CICS preferred
- End to End Trade life cycle knowledge, covering Prime Broker or Wealth Management clients is preferred.
- Prior experience in leading a large-scale Mainframe platform and/or legacy modernization is preferred.
- Current platforms are legacy (Mainframe, COBOL, DB2, CICS) in nature. Prior exposure to Mainframe is a plus
- Distributed(Java, Python) and cloud technology (AWS, Azure) exposure would be a plus.