NAM Head of Fixed Income Trade Processing Technology - SVP

Citi•New York, NY

About The Position

Manage and build out a high-performing team in North America, building out capacity for locally driven delivery where appropriate Leveraging the local resource pool for effective delivery, ensuring focus and resourcing against key initiatives Overseeing delivery of sub-teams focused on unified platform buildout, Electronic Trading STP, trade capture and enrichment, regulatory reporting and downstream flows Working directly with Trading, Sales front office and middle offices users across Rates, Spread Products and Markets Treasury businesses to understand their key priorities Partnering with global development, QA and support teams for effective delivery to business Enabling a strong level of third line application support in the region Building a broad-based understanding across the full application suite Utilizing creativity and innovation to improve the technical capabilities of the platform and ensuring it remains stable, flexible and maintainable Partner with senior technology partners around the globe

Requirements

15+ years of experience in an Engineering role with extensive experience in software delivery as well as test automation.
Full stack Java development required
Proven leadership and team management skills and experience (7+ years)
Proven ability to face off to business stakeholders in frequent and professional manner (traders, sales, MO, desk-heads)
Strong track record of timely and disciplined project delivery
Demonstrated ability to attract, retain and promote talent within team
A solid architectural understanding of enterprise applications
Experience with modern software development practices such as Agile development, test-driven development, and continuous integration and continuous delivery.
Understanding of computing science fundamentals - concurrency, algorithms, data structures, design patterns, etc.
Good knowledge of major Fixed Income Products (e.g. Bonds/Swaps/Futures) and Broker/Customer Markets electronic trading flows.
Excellent communication skills, oral and written; ability to face off to business users.
Good team-work skills, and the ability to work in a distributed global team environment
Strong analytical and problem solving skills
Excellent planning and organizational skills
Self-motivated with the determination to learn and achieve his/her goals
Flexible and able to deliver quality results in the required timeframe
Experience in full lifecycle development
Ability to inspire and raise the level of his/her colleagues from a both technical & leadership perspective.
Ability to multi-task effectively

Nice To Haves

Experience developing large financial software trading systems with substantial hands-on development experience

Responsibilities

Manage and build out a high-performing team in North America
Building out capacity for locally driven delivery where appropriate
Leveraging the local resource pool for effective delivery, ensuring focus and resourcing against key initiatives
Overseeing delivery of sub-teams focused on unified platform buildout, Electronic Trading STP, trade capture and enrichment, regulatory reporting and downstream flows
Working directly with Trading, Sales front office and middle offices users across Rates, Spread Products and Markets Treasury businesses to understand their key priorities
Partnering with global development, QA and support teams for effective delivery to business
Enabling a strong level of third line application support in the region
Building a broad-based understanding across the full application suite
Utilizing creativity and innovation to improve the technical capabilities of the platform and ensuring it remains stable, flexible and maintainable
Partner with senior technology partners around the globe