Job Purpose:

The role offered is a within the Global Credit Technology Team with responsibility for managing the development of products and deliver for the FLOW Credit Business on the MARS platform. This is role for a hands on manager focused on delivering quality software to global clients. Responsibilities include direct supervision, training and mentoring of 4-8 developers, with responsibility for issue management, planning, architecture and all implementations delivered by the team. Strong communications, planning and influencing skills are required coupled with a good understand of Credit trading and the ability to drive delivery and problem resolution across organizational boundaries. This role will require facing off to senior technology and business managers on a daily basis to ensure issues are addressed proactively and to ensure senior management is kept informed in a timely manner.

The position will report to James Zucker, global manager of the MARS application.
 
Job Background/context:

The Credit Technology team currently supports over 40 applications with significant overlap in the risk management and transaction management functions with significant inter dependencies. Starting in 2008 it embarked on a strategy to develop a target architecture that would address key functional GAP and allow convergence of the many systems into a core set of tools/platforms. The risk computation the framework being developed is called MARS (Multi Asset Risk System) whose goal is to create a consistent environment for pricing and risk managing products globally in credit.

This is a Development Project Manager for the MARS team in the NY with experience in risk management in Credit or a related product and technical expertise in JAVA.
 
Key Responsibilities:

* Direct supervision of 4-8 staff in NY.
* Project delivery to the Flow Credit business on the MARS platform
* Project and resource Planning
* Project budget management
* Design and quality of code.
* Improvement and development of architecture with core and shared teams.
* Individual contributor to delivery (at least 50% of total time)

Key Relationships:
* Global managers in MARS responsible for CORE and shared components.
* Vertical technology managers in Credit supporting Flow, Portfolio and Exotics Credit Derivatives(PECD) and Emerging Markets Credit Derivatives(EMCT)
* Colleagues in Technology teams supporting horizontal technology initiatives in the bank such as Middle Office
* Other teams within Citigroup*s Technology organisation: support, development, hardware, networks etc.
Development Value:

* Exciting and dynamic environment with exposure to front office trading
 
Person Specification
Knowledge/Experience:

* Experience working in a front-office trading environment.
* Experience in analytics integration using JAVA.
* Proven experience of the full development life-cycle.
* Previous experience in the financial industry is essential, and knowledge of Credit derivatives and Bonds, experience with other products such as IR Swaps is an advantage.
* Previous experience developing frameworks to be leveraged by external groups is desirable.
* Experience directly managing staff of 4 and coordinating delivery across multiple teams
* Experience in trade live cycle and processing for the Credit Default Swap Product.
Skills:

* Strong programming skills in JAVA
* Skills to train and mentor developers
* Good SQL & database
* Strong communications skills and experience communicating directly with business managers and traders.
* Understanding of real-time pricing and dependency graphs and related concepts
* Understand of risk management and pricing
* Experience with in memory cache and computational grids is desirable.

Qualifications

* Bachelors degree, advanced degree desirable Competencies

* Hands on-approach
* Pro-active and dynamic individual who is able to perform under pressure in a front-office trading environment.
* Ability to influence and drive group decisions
* Ability to understand and meet deadlines.
* Delivery-focussed, self-motivated, and an excellent team player.
* Able to write technical design and testing documents and provide innovative technical solutions.