Senior VP Delivery Manager - Trade Technology - Bulge Bracket Investment Bank

Job Description

As a leader of our Pune Trade Technology Development Organization, operate as an owner in providing enterprise class development services to the Trade Business. Work with multiple partners from application management, software validation, implementation, production support, and development vendors to deliver a comprehensive delivery model. Maintain focus and quality across internal development, vendor development management, L3 Support, Development testing, as well as innovation and R&D. Motivate, develop, and drive focus across your team and establish strong relationships with partners and management.

You continuously improve relationships across the company and actively seek out innovative ideas and fresh thinking in order to develop them into strategic technical solutions that are commercially relevant to the business. You are an energetic and resourceful team player who can comfortably collaborate with product and technology groups, support functions, executive sponsors, partners etc.

Key Responsibilities:

Establish a strategy to deliver a comprehensive development delivery system

Deliver Quality code using best practices, tools and testing

Monitor the team's overall progress, as well as proactively responding to any risks or issues, which may arise

Become a focal point of contact for all stakeholders throughout the lifecycle and work with internal and external partners to design, validate and deliver solutions with a commercial benefit for the Investment Bank

Manage multiple concurrent initiatives and projects of varying sizes & complexity, of cross-functional teams

Create new & maintain existing partner and vendor relationships

Effective upward and downward communication to key stakeholders

Manage project budgets, resource plans and deliver to plan

Development Value:

This role provides significant opportunities:

You will gain significant experience of the technologies and businesses involved across Investment Banking applications, giving you exposure to new and existing methodologies and systems as well as the opportunity to work with multiple teams around the globe

As the leader of Trade Development in Pune, and on the management team of the Trade Technology, you will have to opportunity to work with a team of highly motivated, flexible, smart and innovative leaders, managers and individuals

Exposure to newly released and upcoming technologies and the ability to positively contribute to the strategies of the business

By working within the senior leadership team of the Trade Technology team, you will be highly visible across the Investment Bank, and will have access to a get number of executive management team

Knowledge / Experience:

Experience in managing Managers, Architects, Development Leads, and Software Engineers across multiple locations

Experience in the financial industry experience ideally in Trade and Supplier Finance

Proven track record in innovation and delivering enterprise level solutions from initiation to production deployment

Experience of delivering complex programs involving multiple stakeholders across different geographical locations with a significant amount of uncertainty

Experience of applied research, experimental development and early design activities to validate/invalidate ideas would be beneficial

Skills:

Creative problem solver comfortable with working in rapidly evolving landscape and uncertainty

Technologically strong and business savvy

Ability to collaborate effectively across diverse groups from senior stakeholders and clients to junior team members, including senior stakeholder management, project/program management, strategic thinking, tactical & operational solution provision, senior internal/external client interaction, risk management, and presentation & reporting skills.

Qualifications:

A minimum of 10 years- experience in a similar role

A bachelor's degree or post-graduate qualifications

Experience working with innovative and emerging technology

Exceptional candidates who do not meet these criteria may be considered for the role provided they have the necessary skills and experience

Competencies:

Work effectively in cross-organizational situations and be enthusiastic about delivering quality solutions while working with world-class teams, processes and tools

Highly effective written and oral communication skills

Excellent organizational, program and project management skills

Demonstrate excellent technical knowledge and equally enthusiastic about business acumen

Promote teamwork and maintain effective communication within and across groups

Promote and drive continuous process improvement especially in code quality, testability & reliability