This position will be working directly with the public equity hedge fund
business unit. This position is a hybrid role requiring strong managerial,
analysis, and architectural skills. The position will manage development
resources, develop enterprise processes and procedures, and manage all
aspects of development projects. This is not a traditional development
manager position. The person must have exceptional communication and
presentation skills in order to meet with C level executives.
Reports to Director of Technology
Position Responsibilities
- Manage onshore & offshore development resources
- Serve as project manager for development projects
- Evaluate and recommend development tools
- Conduct proof of concept as needed for new initiatives
- Assist the director in creating a scalable technology plan for the business
- Conduct business analysis as required
- Translate business requirements into a workable solution architecture
- Evaluate application design for commercial products under consideration
- Provide guidance to QA team for proper application testing of internally developed applications
- Implement development processes to improve estimation process, code quality, deployment checkpoints and track team velocity
- Review vendor dev processes and provide feedback on vendor performance
- Represent the business on the Enterprise Architecture Team
- Create and execute development plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
- Ensure technical teams are contributing to code library.
- Own the development lifecycle and is responsible for managing technical risks throughout the project.
- Communicate and enforce coding standards
- Perform code reviews and mentor junior developers.
- Manage technical resources within budget and project schedule
- Understand complex database concepts and effectively employ different database design techniques.
- Possess demonstrated work experience with more than one relational database management system.
- Understand OO concepts and consistently applies them in client engagements.
- Understand the benefits of the various programming languages.
- Possess significant knowledge of client/server and Internet systems architectures.
- Understand browser / client specific compatibility issues
- Facilitate team and client meetings effectively.
- Deliver engaging, informative, well-organized presentations.
- Resolve and/or escalates issues in a timely fashion.
- Understand how to communicate difficult/sensitive information tactfully
- Apply significant knowledge of industry trends and developments to improve service to our clients.
Required Skills and Competencies:
TECHNOLOGY EXPERIENCE:
· Experience with a large, functionally diverse, and informed user
base that demands high quality applications.
· Investment Management experience required
· Experience working in a hedge fund environment
· Experience developing custom application frameworks
· Experience integrating front and back office financial systems
· Experience developing resource and budget requirements
· Experience with reporting status for multiple technology
initiatives
· Experience developing business requirements and translating into
functional specifications
· Exposure to investment concepts / terminology and systems related
to equity investments
· Exposure to financial application implementation related to
equity investments
· Exposure to trading desk environments
· Exposure to alternative investment financial systems and data
providers
· Experience managing projects from inception to completion
· Familiarity with multiple architectures: n-tier, .NET,
client-server, etc. and multi-system application integration
· Must be a strong development manager with Hands On skills in a MS
Centric Environment – C#/VB.Net/.Net/ SQL Server etc.
· Experience developing, implementing or integrating systems in the
following areas a plus: Order Management Systems, Accounting Systems,
Research Management, Real Time P&L, Data Warehouse, Security Master
QUALIFICATIONS:
- 5-8 years of development experience
- Track record of continued advancement
- Experience managing small/mid-size teams
- MBA Preferred
Keys to this Position
· Person need to be a strong hands on Development manager out of a
Microsoft Centric Environment – C#/VB.Net/.Net/ SQL Server etc.
· Person needs to have strong experience out of an Investment
Management firm. See skills above.
· Exceptional communications skills up thru the C Level.
Contact Information
Gary Wright – President – Wright Associates
Phone – (508) 761-6354
Email – replywrightassociat es@verizon. net – WEB Site –
www.wrightassociates.org
