Ashley Wise Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, England, Gb

London, Gb

Genève , Ch

• Strategic thinking and commercial understanding of the business objectives; building a strong partnership with the Product team to prioritise projects, define schedules, and manage progress.• Responsible for end to end architecture, with a deep understanding of complex applications associated with capital markets. Leading IT strategy and operational planning to achieve business goals by fostering innovation, prioritising IT initiatives, and coordinating the evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future IT systems across the organisation.• Management of the technology roadmap, with a focus on extending or enhancing services and capabilities to meet future product and business needs.• Direct management of the development team, which is responsible for delivering strategic applications across all business domains. Predominantly developing in C#, Python and R.• Management of technical support functions, such as; Business Analysts, Application Support, Infrastructure, Security and Project delivery.• Development and implementation of security policies, IT procedures that are compliant with FCA regulations and disaster recovery plans.• Develop and maintain an appropriate IT organisational structure that supports the needs of the business.• Providing an adaptable IT platform for new business concepts with limited budgets/resources to explore potential new revenue streams.• Manage financial aspects of delivering projects, purchasing, budget review and forecasting.rd• Management of third party vendors and subcontractors, including procurement and contract negotiation.• Hands on practical technical experience across a broad range of technology.

Genève , Ch

• Identifying competitive advantages through the implementation of fintech solutions across the business. Woking with a multitude of stakeholders across the organisation to challenge the traditional banking model.• Implementation of technologies/software to fulfil the business requirements, these requirements would frequently change to react to market conditions.• Designing, reviewing and implementation of systems, taking into account relevant business and regulatory requirements.• Providing operational systems support, including providing out-of-hours on-call support, maintaining monitoring, support and alerting systems.• Ensuring that systems architectures and strategies support business stated functions and strategic goals.• Providing consultancy and governance into business change and IT projects to ensure compliance with the overall IT strategy and architecture.• Designing a technology roadmap for change, working with business managers to ensure rationales are understood and roadmaps are realistic.• Acting as the subject matter expert for IT systems strategy, architecture and operations.• Providing technical leadership to members of retained and outsourced development and infrastructure teams, project managers, service managers and third party suppliers.• Ensuring change is delivered in a positive manner, on-time, planned accordingly and that solutions meet their current and future growth requirements.• Working with suppliers and partners to ensure their understanding of requirements, negotiation on contracts and provide technical leadership.• Manage senior business stakeholders to secure strong engagement for strategies and roadmaps, and ensure that signature programmes align to longer term strategic roadmaps for the division and Group IT.• Managing the technical team to ensure that it is resourced and skilled to meet current and future needs; ensure projects and assignments are adequately resourced.

Genève , Ch

• Representing the trading domain and deliver wider IT leadership topics within ITL including IT strategy, target operating model, IT architecture and IT processes.• Driving continuous improvement across the business and act as a leadership and values role model.• Developing strong, collaborative relationships to all trading desk heads and senior stakeholders.• Challenging and consulting trading desks on how to best deliver IT requirements.• Planning and maintaining the IT change portfolio jointly with the trading desks.• Maintaining an optimised and robust service level for all trading desks according to SLA.• Contract negotiation.