Group/Technical Manager of Trade Management Systems

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POSITION SUMMARY

The Group/Technical Manager of Trade Management Systems is the overall technology leader of the group. He/she acts as the single point of contact for Trade Management-related technology activities across BBH Systems.  He/she is responsible and accountable for all technical aspects of the Trade Management applications including the management/coordination of development activities and daily applications operations. This position works closely with business/product experts, architects, vendors, and application developers to conceptualize, develop, and deliver projects and solutions. This role involves strong and active participation in project and resource planning, implementation, and production support activities.

The Group/Technical Manager of Trade Management Systems is responsible for formulating the overall technology strategy and roadmap for the group and is responsible and executing against that plan. The individual collaborates with Systems leadership to influence, shape, and determine the technology strategy for Trade Management. The Group Manager of Trade Management Systems provides oversight and leadership of this organization by ensuring the effectiveness and efficiency of all aspects of Software Development.

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Leadership/ Management

• Participating and effectively representing the Trade Management organization in change meetings and other oversight committees.
• Managing a team of employees and consultants including application administrators, developers, and system analysts.
• Building an outstanding global technology team including the development, recruitment, and retention of technology leadership with effective succession plans.
• Managing & leading direct reports and rest of the team by establishing timely and challenging performance standards, providing ongoing feedback, and conducting periodic performance appraisals.
• Participating in the career development of staff, acting as a positive role model and mentor
• Keeping up to date on the current trends in asset management and servicing solutions through informal and formal industry networks, roundtables, and committees.

2. Design and Implementation       

• Ultimately responsible for the development of technical roadmaps for each of the applications within the Trade Management group.
• Foster and drive innovation, overseeing the prioritization of new business concepts/ideas.
• Coordination and prioritization of development activities with overall product rollout plans/activities.
• Leverage QM and the defined change management best practices early during new build processes.
• Works with developers, product managers, and customer application experts to define solutions, products and modules with required features and functionality.
• Works with the Architecture, Infrastructure, Quality Management, and other development teams to successfully deliver new solutions, products, and modules in line with firm and industry best practices and standards.
• Supports the systems and business teams for estimates, analysis, design, development, performance, scalability, and benchmark test guidance and providing subject matter expertise in technology and design.

 3. Client Service  

• Responsible for measuring and improving the systems - business cross team relationships.
• Working with the business to ensure that systems response to the business requirements is appropriate, facilitation of business advocacy within systems.

4. Financial Control            

• Annual budget preparation with systems and business counterparts
• Ongoing budget and workforce management and planning.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES - Education level and/or relevant experience(s)      

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Engineering or Computer Science or related work experience required.
• Have 15+ years of hands-on engineering experience, preferably designing & delivering a highly scalable application, and/or support vendor platforms to service the business needs.
• Have expertise in mainframe technologies (COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2, MQ).
• Ability to evaluate project scop