Location: Beijing Chian
Essential Day-to-Day Responsibilities:
• Management of several small (4-5 person) development teams.
• Line management of development team leaders
• Development and supervision of the development process, working closely with Nottingham to do so.
• Supervision of the production of estimates.
• Overview and ownership that scheduling of tasks and allocation of work is being carried out effectively.
• Supervision of work that’s carried out by the teams (quality and process).
• Monitoring of progress and reporting of same to Project Manager and senior management both in Beijing and Nottingham.
• Identifying and pursuing improvements to the software development process.
• Ensuring that Configuration Management processes and procedures are sufficient and adhered to.
Qualification:
Education:
• Educated to degree level or evidence of an equivalent level of technical competence.
Required Skills (Must have), Necessary industry Experience & associated number of years of experience:
• Excellent academic record.
• Excellent managerial skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Strong track record in the delivery of software based solutions.
• Strong understanding of software systems, development issues, methodologies, and processes within a professional software development practice.
• Strong technical/development background with 5-8 years relevant experience including at least 2 years management experience
Desired Skills (Nice to have in addition to the Required Skills), Necessary industry Experience & associated number of years of experience:
• Educated to degree level or evidence of an equivalent level of technical competence.
• Good diplomacy skills.
• Strong track record of promoting improvement within their sphere of influence.
• An understanding of the financial markets and the requirements of participants within those markets.
• An understanding of post trade confirmation systems.
• An understanding of agile development methodolodies
• An understanding of the NGTx technology and architecture