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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