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London, England, United Kingdom

Program Management for Pricing Reference Data and Documents Technology managing strategic roadmap, budget and resource planning for over 150 resources globally.

London, Greater London, United Kingdom

EMEA tech lead for pricing reference data and contract technology applications. Responsible for 50+ project managers, business analysts and developers in global locationsProgram Management and technical oversight for end of day pricing, rates and historical pricing solutions across all business areas. Specifically responsible for consolidation of applications on to strategic platform, rearchitecting of rates solution and strategic planning for transaction services pricing solutionProgram management on strategic reengineering project for legal negotiations to bring automation and data driven process reengineering to transform client onboarding experience and reduce cycle timesActive participation within Citi’s Engineering Excellence initiative, responsible for delivering training programs for over 10,000 technology employees globally and driving a culture change to a more DevOps focussed technology organisation

EMEA tech lead for pricing reference data applications. Responsible for 30+ project managers, business analysts and developers in global locationsTechnical oversight for end of day pricing, rates and historical pricing solutions across all business areas. Specifically responsible for consolidation of applications on to strategic platform, rearchitecting of rates solution and strategic planning for transaction services pricing solution

Run Project Managers and Business Analyst team in EMEA region for reference data and price repository applications both on strategic and non-strategic platforms.Direct and matrix management of 12 PMs/BAs. Responsible for setting workslates across five applications with a base of 40+ developers in onshore, near-shore and off-shore locations. Projects include integration of strategic platforms in to current flows, retirement of non-strategic platforms, regulatory initiatives, tech mandated infrastructure updates

Application manager for pricing reference data system and FX and interest rate verification system. Managing a team of 10 developers in local, near and offshore locations. Both systems are global data repositories servicing all parts of investment bank from Product Control to regulatory reporting to risk management. Responsibilities include organisation of project workslate, talent management, project tracking and SDLC deliverables.EMEA technical lead for strategic price reference data build, managing an additional 8 resources. Responsible for build of key application components for data sourcing, extraction and system migrations. Also work with internal clients to define technical requirements and client on-boarding.

Application manager for pricing repository and price verification systems. Responsible for budgetting, planning, talent management, controls and compliance. Manager of near and offshore development teams. Responsible for client project management and relationships for price distribution. Also oversee applications future direction.

Head up development projects for pricing repository and rates verification applications. Project leader for both near and off-shore development teams working in Java, Perl, Unix and SQL technologies.Produce functional and technical specifications for development teams, carry out code reviews and checks, test planning and project tracking.Designed development process for offshore team engagement during projects.Currently project managing hardware consolidation project.

Carried out development and technical design for real-time settlement system and securities settlement system for National Central Banks. Direct support point of contact for 2 clients for the RTGS and Securities system.Technical manager for RTGS application.Systems Administrator for AIX and Solaris servers both in-house and system builds on-site.Ran training courses and production roll-outs on client sites.