Program Manager

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Job description

Purpose of the Job:

The successful candidate undertaking this role will join the Structured Equity Derivatives team as a senior programme lead running a global delivery team to design, develop, test, release and support the Equity Derivatives Trading Desk.

This role is business-facing and places a high degree of emphasis on service delivery, operations and relationship management. This will require engagement with internal IT teams and business units to ensure stakeholders are receiving excellent levels of application based service.

The Technology Programme Management job is accountable for delivery of Technology Programmes, Business Change Programme, or delivery of critical Technology-only programmes within a Technology Portfolio.

This Job manages change initiation, design and delivery and is accountable for successful delivery of the programme and ensuring benefits realisation.

This job will be based within Equity Derivatives Technology and support the department globally.

Job Description:

This role will carry out some or all of the following activities:

Excellent analysis, design and development skills. Able to lead a team in an Agile environment within a Dev-Ops framework

Manage programme strategy and the programme approach across a series of projects or component activities, building stakeholder buy-in around plans, commitments and changes

Assist business stakeholders with the decomposition of complex business requirements into Epics and User Stories that can be delivered by Tech teams via respective backlogs with minimum cross product co-ordination.

Delivery, governance & reporting to stakeholders including the Product owner in the business, head of a service line or Product within Technology

Drive the use of Agile methodologies within Technology teams (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Lean) in line with corresponding transformation frameworks at the bank

Ensure Technology programmes align to the client's strategies and contribute to towards achieving strategic aims

Manage the development and promotion of the technology portfolio and project management practices

Manage the reporting of progress, issues, dependencies and risks to committees and make recommendations to influence decision making in order to maintain progress towards delivery and benefits realisation.

Requirements:

The candidate must have a rich background in Investment Banking with a particular focus on Structured Equity Derivatives.

Excellent analysis, design and development skills. Able to lead a team in an Agile environment within a Dev-Ops framework.

Able to drive a team forward but also be able to roll up his or her sleeves and drive the programme forwards.

Ability to learn fast and rapidly assimilate new business requirements . Help to establish a culture of continuous improvement.

Organized, self-starter, highly motivated team player.

10+ years of experience in Investment Banking with strong understanding/relevant experience of Prime Brokerage.

Able to converse with key business stakeholders around Derivatives business concepts.

Experience writing functional specifications

Experience with SQL

Enterprise application integration patterns.

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