Location: NYC - Midtown
Hybrid 2/3 days in the office
Base + Bonus
Business: Structured Equity Derivatives Technology
Role: Senior Technology Product/Program Manager
Overview:
The Technology Program Management job is accountable for delivery of Technology Programs, Business Change Program, or delivery of critical Technology-only programs within a Technology Portfolio.
This Job manages change initiation, design and delivery and is accountable for successful delivery of the program and ensuring benefits realization.
This job will be based within Equity Derivatives Technology and support the department globally.
Responsible For:
This role will carry out some or all of the following activities:
- Excellent analysis, design, and development skills. Able to lead a team in an Agile environment within a Dev-Ops framework
- Manage program strategy and the program approach across a series of projects or component activities, building stakeholder buy-in around plans, commitments and changes
- Assist business stakeholders with the decomposition of complex business requirements into Epics and User Stories that can be delivered by Tech teams via respective backlogs with minimum cross product co-ordination.
- Delivery, governance & reporting to stakeholders including the Product owner in the business, head of a service line or Product within Technology
- Drive the use of Agile methodologies within Technology teams (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, Lean) in line with corresponding transformation frameworks at the bank
- Ensure Technology programs align to HSBC strategies and contribute to towards achieving strategic aims
- Manage the development and promotion of the technology portfolio and project management practices
- Manage the reporting of progress, issues, dependencies, and risks to committees and make recommendations to influence decision making in order to maintain progress towards delivery and benefits realization
Major Challenges:
The main challenge is to be able to operate in a highly dynamic and pressurized environment where high-quality, innovative software solutions are needed rapidly to support an ever-evolving business.
Additionally, as a global business with trading desks in four main locations and with the IT team also distributed in a number of regions, excellent communication skills and the ability to cooperate well in a team are essential.
ESSENTIAL CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS (Experience, skills, competencies etc.)
- The candidate must have a rich background in Investment Banking with a particular focus on Structured Equity Derivatives.
- Excellent analysis, design, and development skills. Able to lead a team in an Agile environment within a Dev-Ops framework.
- Able to drive a team forward but also be able to roll up his or her sleeves and drive the program forwards.
- Ability to learn fast and rapidly assimilate new business requirements.
- Help to establish a culture of continuous improvement.
- Organized, self-starter, highly motivated team player.
IDEAL CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS (Experience, skills, competencies etc)
- 10+ years of experience in Investment Banking with strong understanding/relevant experience of Prime Brokerage.
- Able to converse with key business stakeholders around Derivatives business concepts.
- Experience writing functional specifications
- Experience with SQL
- Enterprise application integration patterns.