Equities Cash Trading and Middle Office Technology Director

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Job Overview

Citi Equities Technology organization is looking for a senior technologist to lead the delivery of the strategic consolidated High Touch OMS and Middle Office platform. This is a director level role located NY Metro Area.

The target platform will support both order management and trade generation workflows across cash and swap products globally. 

The person in this role will be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of the platform and the replacement of legacy and vendor trading systems.  The objective of this multi-year initiative is to reduce the overall cost of platform ownership as well as “price per feature” for any new development.  The platform includes the user interface, the order management modules, control layers, and supporting services.  The functionality is centered around cash sales, trading, and middle office workflows.

Key responsibilities of the person in this role will include:

• Delivering on a multi-year technology transformation 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 while driving the consolidation of multiple systems.
• Oversight of legacy trading and middle office platforms.  Management of book of work for these platforms through the period of transition to a new system.
• Management of a global team of developers.
• Oversight of system architecture, design of key modules, SDLC, and adherence to technology standards.
• Close collaboration with production support and quality assurance teams to ensure successful delivery and operation of the system.
• Partnership with Quality Assurance teams to achieve high degree of tests automation.
• Technology budget management and meeting budget targets.
• Consolidation of technology products and rationalization of vendor relationships.
• 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.

The successful candidate will have the following skills and experience:

• Past record of successful delivery of sales or trading order management systems on a global scale.
• Command of the latest AI productivity tools.
• Strong Engineering background and 15+ years of experience 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 (cash, program trading, listed derivatives, swaps, convertible bonds)
• Strong knowledge of FIX protocol.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with budget and vendor management.

Education

• Bachelors/University degree, Masters degree preferred