Technical Project Manager - Transformation, Mumbai

• Significant prior experience in designing, building and supporting enterprise class systems in the capital markets / fixed income / foreign exchange / derivatives domain.
• Experience of at least 5 years in managing software development projects in the Capital Markets domain, preferably in the post trade area (Settlement and Risk), either in IT companies serving Capital Markets / Fixed Income / FX / Derivatives or Treasury clients or in IT departments of such classes of user organizations
• Sound project estimation, planning and tracking skills, as well as in directing software development teams
• Prior software programming experience of at least 5 years in Java technologies along with SQL
• Experience with agile development methodologies and supporting tools
• Thorough understanding of SDLC processes including testing methodologies; exposure to automated testing would be an added advantage
• Good Communication and Presentation skills Core Competencies (Must have):
• Software Development in Capital Markets / Fixed Income / Foreign Exchange / Derivatives / Treasury domain
• IT Project Management
• Design Review
• IT Team Management

Additional Competencies (Nice to have):

 

Appreciation of Enterprise Functional Architecture in Capital Markets
Cloud Native design, Agile Methodologies

Job Purpose:

The successful candidate would join the IT Department of a critical Financial Market Infrastructure (FMI) organization which serves as a Qualified Central Counterparty (QCCP) for Government Securities, Money Market, FX and Derivatives transactions in the Indian financial markets.

The successful candidate would play the role of “Technical Project Manager” in the “IT Transformation Programme” which envisages a modernization of critical applications so as to align with the target state enterprise architecture, to adopt a contemporary or futuristic technology stack and tools, to improve system scalability, reliability, maintainability, and to reduce the time to market for change requests or new functionality requested by the business departments. The transformation programme is expected to be an evolution of the applications with components of functionality being carved out as per the new architecture and being delivered to production as
they are completed. The successful candidate would be responsible for leading an application development team or teams through all stages of the development life cycle while also working closely with all other project stakeholders.

Area of Operations Key Responsibility

 

Change Management or Transformation Member of a cross functional (Business / IT / Vendor) transformation team, envisioning the target state and milestones of the programme Project Management Project Initiation, Requirements Analysis, Project Estimation and Delivery Tracking, Test Cases Review, System Integration Testing, Application Support (UAT and Production) Recruitment and Team Building Developing assessment criteria, conducting
interviews, guiding the development team, problem solving, setting clear goals and delivering through teams

Any Other Requirement:

Leadership skills with ability to build consensus across multiple stakeholders
Would be required to work with multiple projects / teams concurrently
Team building and Team working