IT Investment Banking is currently looking for a Senior Development Manager to join the team in London
ROLE SUMMARY:
- The successful candidate will be responsible for the delivery of strategic applications and ongoing development of the Securities Lending Trading system. Specifically the development of a new Prime Lending trading platform.
- Responsibilities include the management of development projects, ensuring good practice is followed and that the task is executed in a timely and high quality manner.
- Gain subject matter expertise on a number of securities lending systems: its sub-systems & components and take development ownership for key components.
- Contribute to the technical direction, strategic architecture, development standards and best practices for the global securities lending technology organisation.
- Working closely with other senior development leads & business analysts, with supporting groups (e.g. QA, Engineering, Support, etc), and with the trading & operations teams.
THE ROLE INVOLVES:
- Successfully implement new or enhanced solutions for the Global Securities Lending team.
- Lead the development process taking accountability for projects from requirements gathering, through development, QA, safe release and handover to Production Support.
- Help develop requirements specifications with the business analysts and users on a wide range of projects and initiatives, spanning Securities Lending as well as other Prime Services initiatives
- Management of a team of C# / .Net / Sybase developers working on the design and development of the global trading platform: covering trade capture and lifecycle management, books and records management, reporting, settlement and decision support.
- Provide technical leadership to the GSL development team: championing good practice and techniques; contributing to improve the team’s technical & delivery capability.
- Work closely with other development leads globally and outsourced development resources to create an effective team culture with strong delivery ethic.
- Implement appropriate controls to ensure a high quality development processes.
- Ensure that all development is performed in concordance with the Firm’s Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC+) standards.
Additional duties and responsibilities:
- Show ability to be an effective team manager working closely with colleagues from multiple teams and disciplines, bringing added value to the team.
- Show understanding of good project planning practices and team management processes
- Display attention to detail, willingness to learn, and must be proactive
- Provide technical leadership
- Good concise & clear verbal and written communication
TO QUALIFY YOU MUST POSSESS:
- In depth Securities Lending and/or Prime Brokerage business knowledge, preferably gained on the development of trading systems.
- Hands on technical development manager with track record of leading projects through all stages of development life cycle.
- Strong development skills and awareness of industry standard techniques & practices.
- The candidate should have good understanding of OO and SOA development techniques.
- Knowledge of C# /.net and Sybase technologies.
- At least 7 year’s hands on technical development management experience with at least 2 at a leadership level.
- Software change management control (Subversion - optional)
- Ability to work in a pressurised environment to tight deadlines.
- Team player, flexible, self-motivated, articulate and methodical.
- Experience with working with a global team.
- Numerate degree
As one of the world's leading financial services group, Credit Suisse provides its clients with investment banking, private banking and asset management services worldwide. Founded in 1856, Credit Suisse has a long tradition of meeting the complex financial needs of a wide range of clients, offering advisory services, comprehensive solutions and innovative products to companies, institutional clients and high-net-worth private clients globally. The Credit Suisse Group is active in over 50 countries and employs approximately 40,000 people. Further information can be found at www.credit-suisse.com.
Cultural diversity is essential to our success. As such, we employ people from more than 100 countries. Credit Suisse empowers employees to work openly and respectfully with each other and with clients, ultimately striving to deliver superior results while offering initiatives and programs to assist employees achieve a healthy work-life balance.
Credit Suisse is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on the basis of any protected category.
To the extent permitted or required by applicable law, a candidate who is offered employment will be subject to a criminal record check and other background checks before the appointment is confirmed
