Senior Project Lead - London, United Kingdom - Luxoft

Luxoft
Luxoft
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London, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Project Description**:

Luxoft has one of the world's leading Calypso practice.
We are a top-tier Calypso Partner and a market leader in implementation, integration, upgrade, and migration.

We provide end-to-end project services and have delivered Calypso projects across all major asset classes and sectors including investment banking, asset management, corporate treasury, and insurance.


Salary for New York:
USD depending on experience
Salary for other locations dependent on experience and market standards


Project Description:
Implementation of Fixed Income Desk on existing Calypso instance.


Responsibilities:


  • Establish a comprehensive and integrated project plan for implementation of Fixed Income trading desk on existing Calypso instance
  • Full lifecycle Project management for Change projects and supporting the Program Sponsor for project delivery
  • Create and deliver project work plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements
  • Competent in managing and establishing project methodology and best practice
  • Ensures project documents are complete, current, and appropriately stored
  • Works closely with relevant business and technology stakeholders to ensure effective and efficient implementation of the project(s)
  • Submits project status reports to stakeholders; coordinates and provides updates to steering committees
  • Collaboration with key functional or business stakeholders to achieve clear outcomes/deliverables in relation to the strategic and transformational book of work
  • Manage implementation deliveries ensuring transparency of risks, issues and dependencies that are fully aligned to functional / business owners
  • Manage the team to achieve a common goal


You could also be acting as a scrum master in order to ensure the agile methodology is followed and the team is working efficiently.

You might be acting also as a business analyst as well in order to help the team gathering and writing requirements, acceptance criteria.


Skills:

Must have

  • 8+ years of experience working in Capital Markets
  • Deep Knowledge of Financial products cross assets
  • Proven track record of delivery of implementation / migration projects
  • Experience of adherence to governance frameworks / implementation and handover to BAU
  • Front Office proven experience in the development of FO banking processes.
  • Comprehensive knowledge of trade flow, trading systems and related concepts and technology, including valuation and client/market risk management
  • Team Management skills
  • Leadership skills
  • Excellent analytical skills, understanding of project life cycles, and ability to act in an entrepreneurial manner to ensure the requirements from the business are gathered in the appropriate manner.
  • Proven analytical, planning, problem solving and decisionmaking skills
  • Comfortable with direct communication with all levels of technical and business resources
  • Excellent organizational and time management skills with the ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously
  • Experience with working in a highly collaborative and dynamic multiteam environment
Nice to have

  • Ability to work under pressure in a fastpaced environment is essential.
  • Have a willingness to learn new skills
  • Must have attention to detail
  • Must have the ability to work independently and also as part of a group
  • Experience of Agile practices and processes (e.g. SCRUM, KANBAN)
  • Any technical knowledge (Writing simple sql query, be able to read code )
  • Conflict management ensuring collaborative outcomes
  • Excellent attention to detail and accuracy

Languages:


English:
C2 Proficient


Seniority:

Senior


Relocation package:

If needed, we can help you with relocation process.

Vacancy Specialization

Calypso

Ref Number

VR-99923
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