Equities Derivatives Application Support Lead, APAC – Investment Bank

Our client is a Global Investment bank, looking to hire a seasoned team lead to manage the APAC Equity Derivatives Application Support team.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead Support Equities Derivatives Technology during Asian hours
• Act as the regional lead to face off senior business and technology management and manage key incidents
• Liaise with business and IT counterparts on potential process improvements to improve the quality of systems and service, and increase business value
• Liaise with development teams on future applications and improvements
• Develop specialist knowledge in relevant systems, sharing that knowledge, as required, with global team
• Undertake projects as required, including, but not restricted to, the following areas: – capacity and performance management, monitoring initiatives, infrastructure upgrades, web based tools, reporting and documentation
• Uphold and champion policies, procedures and standards

Job Requirements

• Bachelor degree
• Strong experience in Derivatives technology, front-office application support role on trading floor within investment banking
• Sound management skills, experiences of managing onshore offshore IT team on large batch environment with tight downstream SLA requirements
• Strong technical and business troubleshooting
• Experience of risk management, PNL and pricing applications within a derivatives environment
• Knowledge of Equity derivatives product and market making on major exchanges
• Experience of both Windows and UNIX platforms
• Excellent communicator, good with users, able to work well in a cross-disciplined team and alone with minimum supervision
• Strong problem solver, team player, pro-active, thorough, organized and energetic