Global Applications Development Manager responsible for building, managing and providing technical leadership for the Trade Surveillance Markets Technology group in order to develop and roll out surveillance solutions that detect and prevent abuse in the financial markets. Building market leading behavioural-based alerting techniques that detect suspicious behaviour through data analytics and machine learning, utilising technologies such as Java and Big Data (Hadoop, Hive, Spark).• Responsible for a global technology organisation of around 150 data engineers, developers, and dev ops engineers• Owner of technology group responsible for sourcing huge volumes of data into a BigData Hadoop platform, creating complex prototypes and models on top of the data, developing complex behavioural-driven surveillances for Markets Trade and Information Barriers Surveillance• Owner of the global Dev Ops group• Recruited a talented and highly skilled team, helping to grow the Belfast site from an initial five developers to over 100• Managed large teams across several functions and geographies• Leads and actively represents within the site. Engage with local universities to inspire and hire talent • Actively drive and own multiple department-wide site initiatives within Belfast• Creative with recruitment strategy• Support and drive innovation – design and build components for Markets Trade Surveillance behavioural-based surveillance, working closely with data scientists and clients and move to Big Data technology stack• Operate within a fast-paced environment with the ability to react to market trends and scandals • Rolling out solutions for all asset classes including FX, Commodities, Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives,

Responsible for building, managing and providing technical leadership for the Trade Surveillance Markets Technology team in order to develop and roll out surveillance solutions that detect and prevent abuse in the financial markets. Built legacy rules-based surveillance using Java, Apama, Spring and SQL Server on Linux and Windows platform.• Recruited a talented and highly skilled team, growing the Belfast site from an initial five developers to over thirty• Managed large team across several functions• Performed as a leader and active representative within the site. Engage with local universities to inspire and hire talent • Technical specialist SME – consistently delivered compliance critical Trade Surveillance components performing as technical lead, designer, developer, coordinator and manager whilst facilitating knowledge transfer amongst the group• As Application Manager, partnered closely with senior management / compliance / support teams / interfacing teams / project managers / business analysts / internal business clients / external vendors• Introduced change – server migrations, branching strategies, ALM adoption, monitoring tools

Part of a global team building a high performance Equity Trade processing platform for the Middle Office function using Java, Spring, JRules, Tibco EMS, Tibco BusinessWorks, Ibatis, Perl and SQL Server. Hands-on exposure to all of the afore-mentioned technologies and all aspects of delivery has ensured a rounded and diverse set of technical and business skills. • Designed, developed and delivered multiple components including a position currency model, a highly configurable reporting framework that generates and distributes reports to client sets and a trade reconciliation tool• Owned the technical on-boarding for new, high volume FIX and FpML front office trade flows• Transformed the application suite into a fully auto deployable model• Streamlined database performance and introduced capacity upgrades• Migrated the application from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008• Provided exceptionally quick turnaround on high priority ad-hoc regulatory / FCA requests• Mentored, coached and supported junior and senior developers with their deliverables• Provision of third line support for the critical Middle Office hub requiring quick and accurate problem solving under extreme pressure

This role within the Equities Middle Office Technology team required the development of a suite of applications that would fulfil Citi’s regulatory obligations in relation to the industry-wide MiFID directive. Being lead developer on a critical regulatory project within a highly pressurised environment, the role required a goal and deadline driven approach with extraordinary focus on best practice development standards and a thorough knowledge of the technology stack. Additionally, the role required close direct collaboration with the business, provision of regular status updates for cascade upwards to management and outwards to regulators.• Lead developer with sole responsibility for the delivery of critical Transaction Reporting applications• Designed, developed and successfully delivered new high throughput, low latency application for real-time EMEA Equities Transaction Reporting. Primary technology stack of Java, Tibco BusinessWorks and Sybase• Re-engineered two legacy Transaction Reporting systems using Java, C++, Perl and Sybase• Provision of third line support for critical Transaction Reporting applications running on Unix and Windows OS