Platform Lead

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa FirstRand Full time

About us, purpose, experience and qualifications

**about us**:
**purpose**:

- The Platform Lead is focused on delivering technology solutions to Markets Front Office, particularly focused on FX within Electronic Trading (eTrading). The purpose of this role is to manage a talented team involved in the research, design, development, implementation and day to day operational management and support of high-quality, mission critical, electronic pricing and trading platforms within the eTrading (FX) business. The Platform Lead also owns and is accountable for all delivery commitments.**experience and qualifications**:

- Bachelor of Computer Science, Engineering (or related)
- Preferred Qualification
- Master’s degree (beneficial)
- Certifications in Financial Markets, DevSecOps, Cloud, Agile (beneficial)
- Technical Knowledge/ Skills and Experience
- Enterprise architecture, software development lifecycle, supporting “mission critical” production platforms and project management
- Integration, connectivity, messaging
- Internal and external analysis of client needs in electronic markets/eTrading
- Creation of value in the competitive electronic markets/eTrading landscape
- Business value chain, processes and systems
- Relevant experience
- Minimum 10 years Global Markets and/or Financial Services experience
- Leading a delivery team in Global Markets and/or the Financial Services Industry (5+ years of leadership preferred)
- Technology development and release management using best practice
- Robust design, business analysis and testing knowledge/skills
- Delivery and Stakeholder Management
- Competencies
- Interpersonal relationship / teamwork skills
- Communication skills (verbal and written) in English, providing clear problem descriptions
- Complex problem solving, problem management skills and detail oriented, creative thinking
- Eagerness to learn and a strong sense of ownership
- Proactive people management skills
- Judgement and Decision-Making
- Innovation
- Building Strategic Relationships
- Business Insight and Risk Awareness
- Influencing and Impact (incl. Negotiation)
- Drive and Results Orientation**additional requirements**:
**responsibilities**:

- Assist in design and build of solutions across technology, people and processes to achieve maximum benefit and minimum long-term cost
- Guide the functional evolution and high-level technical architecture of software solutions with inhouse and vendor mix to support the growth of the eTrading business in FX
- Accountable for all aspects of the platform including reducing technical debt, run-the-bank as well as change-the-bank
- Manage production technology incidents to resolution, ensuring timely engagement, escalation and effective communication to business, technology and vendor partners.
- Ensure systems are appropriately configured and work optimally and is ‘fit for purpose’
- Continually monitor platform and identify improvements in quality of the product
- Provide day-to-day technical expertise and operational support to obtain highest degrees of production stability for Front Office
- Deploy systems monitoring and controls to provide adequate risk controls and alerts
- Follow standardised delivery models and quarterly business review process in committing to and prioritising BoW comprising projects, planned BAU and unplanned BAU
- Be responsible for resource management and the allocation of work based on priorities for the platform
- Ensure projects are correctly classified and appropriately incorporated into scheduled releases balancing IT integration, connectivity needs and business implementation requirements
- Execution of release management strategy and plans which are fully integrated with IT governance, project lifecycle checkpoints, and release policies and processes
- Lead the collaborative, dynamic planning process - prioritising the work that needs to be done against the capacity and capability of the team
- Clearly define the deliverables and roadmap for the platform and translate this into user stories and agile constructs
- Provide strategic stakeholder engagement to scope, initiate, prioritise and execute projects whilst actively managing expectations
- Maintain oversight of platform implementation, ensuring required level of strategic decision making and futureproofing
- Analyse trading strategies in the market and assess the extent to which the platform is performing and engage with respective stakeholders as appropriate
- Provide ongoing technology-based innovation and collaboration in the eTrading space
- Generate analytics for monitoring and continual improvement purposes and communicate effectively
- Identify, build and maintain relationships with key industry players and provide direction from industry

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