Equities - Trading/Algo Monitoring GUI Lead

Equities Technology organization is looking for a senior technologist to lead the delivery of the strategic Trading/Coverage/Monitoring GUI. This is a senior vice president level role located in Pune/India

The target platform will support Trading,  algo monitoring, and core order management functions for Equities.

The person in this role will be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of the platform and the replacement of any legacy and vendor trading systems.  The objective of this multi-year initiative is to have a comprehensive and robust Trading and Algo monitoring GUI offering with a competitive cost of ownership and low “price per feature” to support the growth of the business.

The platform includes a user interface, automated and semi-automated workflow modules, control layers, and supporting services.

Key responsibilities of the person in this role will include:

• Delivering on a multi-year technology roadmap in alignment with the budget constraints and in line with the business value proposition.

• Close partnership with the business to maximize the value of the platform and ensure the right sequence of delivery.

• Management of a global team of developers.

• Oversight of system architecture, design of key modules, SDLC, and adherence to technology standards.

• Rapid adoption of AI toolkits in line with the firm’s strategy of modernization of the development process.

• Highly automated low-cost quality assurance.

• Close collaboration with production support to ensure successful delivery and operation of the system.

• Hiring new talent.

• Partnership with other technology teams including Client Connectivity, Execution Services, and Risk.

• Close partnership with regulatory, compliance, and audit.

• Compute and estate management including hygiene, security, and vulnerability items.

• Contribute to the overall application architecture and provide inputs on front end frameworks, design patterns, and best practices.

• Perform code reviews and contribute to overall quality, maintainability and testability of software developed.

• Be a self-starter and plan/schedule own work for tasks and projects, implement functionality without direct supervision.

• Work closely with teams to form good working culture and continuously adapt to different working environment.

The successful candidate will have the following skills and experience:

• Past record of successful delivery of trading systems on a global scale.

• 10+ years of experience in GUI development.

• Strong understanding of Equities, GUIs, and existing vendor offerings in this space.

• Command of the latest AI productivity tools.

• Strong Engineering background and command of modern architectures and frameworks (GUI, middleware, server, document & relational databases)

• Strong command of modern Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) best practices.

• Solid understanding of Equities products and services

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Hands on HTML5, CSS3/SASS/CSS in JS, Core JavaScript, Typescript 

• Hands on React, React hooks

• Unit Testing with Jest, React-testing-library

• Application State Management with Redux, Recoil, React Context

• Reactive Apps with  RxJS, Web Sockets, Web workers

• Debugging skills, Code performance, Bench Marking

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

• Master’s degree preferred

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Applications Development

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Time Type:

Full time

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