Job Description
- Responsible for assuring functional design, resolve technical design issues and is accountable for solution design decision making
- Acts as product SME for the associated delivery teams, developing a position as trusted advisor.
- Close alignment with business and I&E teams to align on product roadmap, demand pipeline, capacity, and capability requirements.
- Ability to coach and mentor wider team members - playing a key role in elevating the overall capabilities around the business domain and product knowledge.
- Provide leadership to the teams and be responsible for each team members development plan and performance management.
- Point of escalation for issues which adversely affect systems performance, design, or functionalities.
- Strong leadership, sound analytical skill and change management capabilities to work independently on transformation, improvement initiatives, liaising effectively with senior stakeholders and vendors on sophisticated problems etc.
- Describe technology in terms easily understood by business customers and set realistic customer expectations for the project outcome. Adjust customer expectations in accordance with changes in scope.
- Generate innovative approaches to existing problems or new opportunities.
- Produce high quality analysis, including collecting precise and accurate user stories and acceptance criteria to be used by developers and test automation frameworks.
- Understand system constraints and opportunities to advise design.
- Work with design and architecture on design options and potential systems and process solutions.
- Lead cross-team consensus and acceptance of requirements, ensuring important sign offs
- Build strong business intimacy with commercial partners
- Work closely with the I&E teams in London and India and with our global user community
Essential Education:
- Membership of a technical or professional body that has confirmed an individual has reached a level of capability within a technical or professional field (usually but not necessarily obtained through examinations) or Formal certification that they can undertake specialist work or processes e.g. PMI.
- Bachelor or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, economics or a numerate degree.
Essential Experience and Job Requirements:
- At least 10 years of hands-on experience implementing and extending features in OpenLink Endur
- Endur configuration for Deal lifecycle, Confirmations, Settlement invoicing and scheduling
- Understanding of Endur Reporting architecture, including understanding of core Risk simulation results and modules of Endur such as APM, TPM, DMS, Connex and EOD Workflows
- Understand Endur deployment procedures including CMM import/export and cloud DevOps
- Experience working across all areas of the trading floor of Front/Mid/Back office but with a focus on Front and Mid
- Expert in non-linear instruments in a Commodity/Energy Trading environment and how to represent them in OpenLink Endur.
- Comfortable in liaising with both Traders and Quant developers on option pricing models ranging from standard option products through to sophisticated cross-commodity physical options such as gas & power swing, tolling etc
- Working with business analysts and traders to elaborate requirements, design and implement efficient application solutions
- Implementing a test regime to ensure solution quality across the delivery
- Working with a hybrid team of delivery resources (internal & external); utilising scrum methodology where relevant
- Experience working on power traded market in the Asia Pacific region (Australia, Japan etc)
- Working with solution architecture to ensure an end-to-end application landscape which meets business requirements
- Reviewing and elaborating interface specifications for other systems connecting to Endur.
