Luxoft - New York City, NY

posted 6 days ago

New York City, NY
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The project is a Hedge Fund Management Trading Platform implementation. You will be part of a Top Initiative for this hedge fund. This is a brilliant opportunity to work on several types of products and learn a new trading platform. The team will be responsible for the implementation of a new trading system, including pre-deal origination workflow and post-execution monitoring and life-cycle management. Responsibilities include dedicated workflow, configuration of the platform, supporting business, leveraging strategic firm standard risk systems, integration with Operations and Finance, and reporting and reconciliation. The application is Orchestrade, which is built in .Net (C#) and is natively connected to Excel, with a database in Microsoft SQL. It can be delivered in-house or hosted on Amazon Web Services. The role requires analysis to build and define the implementation roadmap and then execute the delivery plan. You will join our Orchestrade Practice and become a member of our open-minded, progressive, and professional team, with opportunities to grow your functional and soft skills and build thorough expertise in the industry of our client.

Responsibilities

  • Act as a senior business analyst with several years of experience (10+) in capital markets and trading software.
  • Be an integral part of the design, implementation, and test team.
  • Gather requirements by conducting workshops/one-on-one discussions with the business teams/SMEs.
  • Analyze, evaluate, and verify requirements by working closely with other development and verification team members & business representatives.
  • Document the requirement in JIRA as User stories and provide proper acceptance criteria.
  • Create user stories, use cases, and scenarios for the given requirements.
  • Work and communicate in a cross-functional global team comprised of BAs, developers, project managers, and support representatives.
  • Testing & confirming if the development is as per the features requested.
  • Proactively provide status, raise issues, and communicate necessary information to ITPL and/or appropriate team members on a regular basis via daily stand-up meetings and one-on-one meetings.
  • Participate in discussions and/or presentations.
  • Facilitate and assist in the story point estimation/task estimation process related to activities in an Agile environment.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience on Orchestrade.
  • Capital Market experience with strong cross-products knowledge.
  • Excellent analytical skills, understanding of project life cycles, and ability to act in an entrepreneurial manner.
  • Proven analytical, planning, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
  • Comfortable with direct communication with all levels of technical and business resources.
  • Exposure to trading platforms like Murex, Calypso, Orchestrade, etc.
  • Excellent organizational and time management skills with the ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
  • Experience working in a highly collaborative and dynamic multi-team environment.
  • Knowledge of financial products/experience in banking.
  • Experience in writing user stories and working with JIRA/similar tools.
  • System integration and user acceptance testing.

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience on a trading platform like Murex, Calypso is definitely a plus.
  • Experience of Agile practices and processes (e.g. SCRUM, KANBAN).
  • Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment is essential.
  • Willingness to learn new skills and a 'get the job done' attitude.
  • Attention to detail; ability to work independently and as part of a group.
  • Basic technical skills - SQL, C# knowledge.

Benefits

  • Salary range for New York: 80000 - 200000 USD Gross Per Year dependent on knowledge and experience.
  • Salary range for other locations: competitive local market rates.
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