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Director - Technology - Java - Private Wealth Management Asia IT - IB (12-20 yrs)
Private Wealth Management Asia Technology (PWM Asia Tech) is responsible for providing front to back technology services to businesses that manage the Firm's high-net-worth clients in Asia and Australia, managing the technology platform that covers customer on-boarding, order management, on-going client service and reporting.Our platform supports:
- Client Lifecycle Management - Prospecting, New account opening, Client data changes and account closure
- Order Management - RFQs, pre-trade checks (suitability, eligibility, etc.), trade executions, booking, confirms, etc. across a wide range of asset classes
- Banking Products
- Discretionary Portfolio Management
- Portfolio Performance & Accounting
- Sales Desktop - an integrated platform, including CRM, for Sales
- Client Online Portal - a self-service client-facing platform
- Regulatory Reporting & MIS
- Entitlements
- Fee Billing
- Infrastructure programs for client data protection and other regulatory requirements
We are in the midst of a multi-year buildout of a world-class technology platform to enable significant business growth over the next few years.
This is a leadership position at an Executive Director (ED) level. The candidate will join the PWM Asia Tech leadership team.
Primary Responsibilities
- Play a leading contributing role in driving platform strategy
- Play a major role in the enhancing and maintaining the Platform
- Work closely with Business Unit and Technology teams to understand the core business problems and deliver optimal IT solutions
- Validate overall platform/application design and conduct design and code reviews
- Make sure that all new solutions are scalable and yield to high architectural standards
- Mentor and provide guidance to junior team members in technology space
- The candidate will lead the ongoing development of projects within discretionary and some of the new products launches in the near-term. Thereafter, the responsibilities will increase to have more direct management responsibilities of other development teams in the department
- Ensure the system meets all technical specifications. She/he will also work with the program/project managers, business/data analysts and the business sponsors to define the future strategy of the projects. Additionally, responsibility includes management and reporting of resources and relevant project financials.
- The Candidate will play a key role in the execution of the Program and will:
- Work with senior Business Partners and Program Management team to define strategy
- Evaluate the Project's architecture and identify opportunities for broadening the scope of the solution
- Ensure adherence to the standard SDLC processes
- Ensure all Technology and Information Risk guidelines are followed
- Evaluate the existing states and help to define the future state architecture and solutions. Lead the development of the same
- Manage the global development team and define the staffing requirements to support the development needs of the project
- Ensure that the project deliverables are on time, within budget and at the highest level of quality
- Mentor team members
- Work with application support teams to ensure timely issue resolution and thorough support processes
- Be self-motivated, flexible, highly adaptable and an excellent team player, and be prepared to work in a global virtual team
Primary Skills (Must have)
- 12+ years of relevant industry experience at a wealth manager, broker dealer or asset manager firm
- A proven ability to build strong collaborative working relationships with business partners and department leads
- An enthusiastic - roll up your sleeves- mentality
- An ability to lead independently in a fast-paced and build robust delivery and innovation oriented teams
- Strong analytical, good verbal and written communication skills, self-starter; ability to perform with minimum supervision
- Persistence and assertive, ability to get things done
- Multitasking on a number of initiatives in parallel
- Innovative; challenges the status quo
- Display a flexible attitude to work
- Ability to own and drive tasks/assignments while collaborating with peers and other teams
- Proven track record managing the development of large scale multi-tiered applications in both distributed and mainframe environment
- Strong people management and development skills
- Demonstrated track record of managing multiple development projects at once
- Content knowledge of workflow product/ tools will be helpful.
- Excellent communication skills (both written and oral), listening skills, influencing and negotiation skills
- Functional knowledge of investment products - mutual funds, sub-accounting, alternative investments
- Excellent analytical skills
- Ability to develop and foster relationships with resources outside of direct-control
- Full software development life cycle experience
- Prior experience in one specific area in wealth management is a strong plus
- Experience with performance trouble shooting and remediation
- Experience with data model designing and modeling tools
- Ability to develop and follow change management processes for consistent and maintainable versions
- Bachelor- s/Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field
Technical Skills
- Deep technical proficiency and advanced level experience with Core Java, Database ( Preferred DB2 or Sybase), Unix.
- .NET/WPF experience a plus
- 7+ years of hands-on experience during the career span with designing, developing and delivering complex applications at major financial services firms
- Experience in driving DevOps oriented SLDC practices leading to faster time to market of solutions without compromising product quality
- Proven track record of delivery solutions that are equally strong on User Experience aspects
- An in-depth understanding of the critical aspects of major transactional production systems; scalability, reliability, service oriented architecture, distributed systems, etc.
- Experience delivering solutions using technologies including:
- Java/J2EE, JUnit
- C++
- HTML5/CSS3, AJAX, Javascript
- Apache and Open source stack
- Extensive experience with multi-tier, distributed architecture
- Extensive experience in OO analysis and design
- Excellent OO programming and debugging skills
- Good understanding of SOA, XML, WSDL, XSD
- Good working knowledge of Relational Databases (preferably SQL Server & DB2)
- Nice to have: Understanding of AngularJS
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