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London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Responsibilities: • Ownership of the technology road map and delivery plan for bonds and repo within Fixed-Income transformation, working with architecture teams to ensure repo front to back design in line with the wider organisational design.• Key stakeholder in other change programmes to ensure regulatory demands are included within FI transformation plan • Acted as a repo SME for analysis, design and build of SFTR reporting solution• Design and analysis for build-out of new repo trade capture and position management solutions.Achievements:• Migrated of in house and vendor resource to agile delivery model with regular sprint cycles and stakeholder prioritisation, increasing pace of delivery with fortnightly UAT demonstrations and monthly production releases.• Migration of FI bonds businesses onto new strategic ledger feeds ensuring key Finance programme delivered regulatory commitment.• Migration of all repo/securities lending transactions into new strategic trade store, this delivered key attributes and transitions required to fulfil requirements to the SFTR reporting programme• Delivery of new entity and cross entity funding processes required to support trading for Brexit programme.

London, England, United Kingdom

Responsibilities: • Management of BA, Development, and Support resource within repo technology across London, India and Singapore• Owner of technology road map for repo as part of the wider technology architecture forum.• Chairing the prioritisation forum for delivery of enhancements to EMEA and APAC regions.• Representation of repo to external programmes to ensure delivery to the wider agenda within the firm. Ensuring that any resourcing issues are raised and resolved as early as possible.• Working with production support management to create a standardised set of procedures to enable a fungible resource pool can be created reducing key man dependencies.• Identification, management and remediation of technology risks identified within repo technologyAchievements:• Migration of Asia Local markets and Tokyo Sales business onto main EMEA Anvil instance reducing technology license costs by approx. £1.8 million per annum.• Creation of new development team in India which allowed removal of high cost London contract resources reducing the TCO for the platform.• Successful deliveries to key control programmes relating to front office supervision and book maintenance.• Delivery of gap analysis and delivery plan to upgrade from legacy Anvil platform to the new Anvil 9 platform.• Delivery of regular 6 weekly production releases, while maintaining a highly stable production environment.

London, England, United Kingdom

Responsibilities:• Management of the Anvil Repo Trading platform development resources in London and Singapore.• Working with project managers to ensure that deliveries are completed to agreed timescales.• Prioritisation of support Issues against upcoming change items to ensure production stability is maintained while continuing to deliver key enhancements.• Working with ION to manage current production issues and prioritise futures enhancements.• Co-ordination of front to back testing environments across various projects and systems.Achievements:• Delivery of significant vendor upgrade to Anvil Classic platform requiring full regression testing and sign off with all F2B stakeholders. • Delivery of enhancements to Anvil that enabled calculation of mark to market valuations to be fed from front office application rather than settlement system improving the accuracy of data provided to the ledger • Migration of Tokyo business from in house platform to Anvil 9.• Migration of legacy ABN-AMRO Anvil platform onto primary Anvil Classic platform

Responsibilities:• Performance tuning of Sybase database queries ensuring that code runs at an optimal level and raising any Sybase related issues to the vendor for resolution.• Level 3 Support for the Anvil ARTS application. Dealing with complex issues, which could not be solved by the L2 support teams.• Onsite development of Anvil ARTS code and configuration of Anvil ARTS server processes.• Management of repo ION platform components• Development of RBS specific feeds.Achievements:• Delivered modifications of Internal Allocations process to allow the repo desk to be able to manage their funding accurately.• Delivered upgrade of Anvil from version 8.2 to 8.4.1.• Delivered new Singapore installation of Anvil.

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Responsibilities:• Tracking and prioritisation of issues with ION. Ensuring that all issues are logged with relevant ids within JPMorgan Chase and ION. Chairing weekly calls to go through prioritisation with ION.• Performance tuning of Sybase database queries ensuring that code runs at an optimal level and raising any Sybase related issues to the vendor for resolution.• Level 3 Support for the Anvil ARTS application. Dealing with complex issues, which could not be solved by the L2 support teams.• Onsite development of Anvil ARTS code and configuration of Anvil ARTS server processes.Achievements:• Re-engineered Anvil archiving process. Achieving a 50% reduction in execution time.• Delivered performance improvement to key EOD PnL reports achieving a 50% reduction in execution time and prevented the breach of SLA with downstream consumers.• Streamlined anvil defect management process using JIRA as a single reference point for all ION related defect requests. Thus reducing the amount of time required to prepare for release and defect meetings.

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Responsibilities:• Maintaining support rota for primary on-call support• Assignment of calls that are open in the tracking system• Performance management of staff within the team.• Point of escalation for clients with issues.• Chairing weekly team meetings• Chairing weekly defect prioritisation meeting with the development team to ensure production issues are prioritised and resolved in line with business requirements• Co-ordination of disaster recovery test planning for the team. This is a key part of the business continuity program to create a resilient and stable operating environment.Achievements:• Onboarding of new fixed-income vendor repo application Anvil ARTS. This involved both spending time with the plan and development team. Also prepared an operations manual for the rest of the team to become familiar with ARTS before go-live. Maintained close link to business sponsors in the front office to quickly resolve any issue with the new system.• Onboarding of new L2 teams in Houston and Singapore as part of a global migration project for all L2 teams within fixed-income. Spent one month in each location defining procedures and delivering technical training to new and existing staff. Following this key EOD batch functions were actively managed via the new teams

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Responsibilities• 24/7 Support of global front office fixed-income trading system and middleware systems. Ensuring critical batches complete in a timely fashion for business users. • Participating in support rota for critical EOD batch support and overnight primary support.• Design, Implementation and testing of disaster recovery infrastructure this involved numerous weekends to implement and test potential solutions for our requirements. • Point of contact between Operate and AD teams for any urgent production issues.Achievements• Delivered improvements to critical month-end batch processing following a major incident which significantly reduced the risk of process overrunning into the trading day• Onboarded new application to enable clients services teams to improve processing throughput and timeliness. This was critical to ensure external client satisfaction.• Seconded to the L1 support team in London to deal with resource shortage and training new members of the team