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11156en
- Permanent
- English
- Director
- Digital & Technology
- Zurich
- Financial Services
Skills
Application Development, Management, Data Management, ETL Frameworks, Portfolio Management, Asset Management
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Our client is an investment management company.
On behalf of our client, Swisslinx is currently looking for a Head of Business Applications (IT).
This is a permanent role based in Zurich.
Your mission
- Overall responsibility of all business applications used by investment professionals, including application development of the underlying data platform
- Business analysis and working with end user on ideas, projects and solving business problems
- Working with senior investment professionals and heads of Compliance, Risk, Legal and the COO
- Managing teams of external part-time and full-time technology consultants
- Making strategic architectural decisions
- Maintenance and support of business applications and data platform
- Analysing, coding and implementation of changes (manageability and maintainability are explicit requirements for this)
- Designing and building interfaces to other applications
- Troubleshooting and debugging
- Responsible for the software development lifecycle and change management process
- Scrum master in an agile team
- Liaising and building relationships with external counterparties and vendors
- Visiting technical conferences and building professional peer networks
- Prepare annual budgets for this area
- Mentoring junior team members
- Reporting to the Head of Technology
Your background
- Have a Bachelor degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Have at least 10 years of IT experience including architecting data platforms, application development, business analysis with senior investment managers, and experience in leading a technical team
- Have a strong interest in financial services, with a focus in asset and wealth management
- Be a team player
- Have a hands-on mentality and be pro-active
- Have discipline and attention to detail
- Demonstrate strategic vision
- Be familiar with agile methodologies and test-driven development (TDD) in delivering software
- Have experience with the following applications and frameworks, or equivalent:
- Markit EDM (cadis) – data management platforms
- Talend Enterprise – ETL frameworks
- Markit thinkFolio – portfolio management systems
- Tableau - data visualization tools
- ActiveBatch - enterprise scheduling tools
- Java, Python- programming languages
- Microsoft SQL Server - relational databases
- Integrate quickly and work effectively in a multicultural team of professionals
- Have previous work experience in either asset or wealth management, or other related fields in the financial industry
- Be willing to travel internationally
What’s on offer
- Work for a dynamic fast-paced company
- International and multi-cultural working environment
If you think of yourself as a highly motivated, ambitious person, please apply via email: katia@swisslinx.com. For further information, do not hesitate to contact us: +41 (0)58 268 10 40.
On behalf of our client, Swisslinx is currently looking for a Head of Business Applications (IT).
This is a permanent role based in Zurich.
Your mission
- Overall responsibility of all business applications used by investment professionals, including application development of the underlying data platform
- Business analysis and working with end user on ideas, projects and solving business problems
- Working with senior investment professionals and heads of Compliance, Risk, Legal and the COO
- Managing teams of external part-time and full-time technology consultants
- Making strategic architectural decisions
- Maintenance and support of business applications and data platform
- Analysing, coding and implementation of changes (manageability and maintainability are explicit requirements for this)
- Designing and building interfaces to other applications
- Troubleshooting and debugging
- Responsible for the software development lifecycle and change management process
- Scrum master in an agile team
- Liaising and building relationships with external counterparties and vendors
- Visiting technical conferences and building professional peer networks
- Prepare annual budgets for this area
- Mentoring junior team members
- Reporting to the Head of Technology
Your background
- Have a Bachelor degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Have at least 10 years of IT experience including architecting data platforms, application development, business analysis with senior investment managers, and experience in leading a technical team
- Have a strong interest in financial services, with a focus in asset and wealth management
- Be a team player
- Have a hands-on mentality and be pro-active
- Have discipline and attention to detail
- Demonstrate strategic vision
- Be familiar with agile methodologies and test-driven development (TDD) in delivering software
- Have experience with the following applications and frameworks, or equivalent:
- Markit EDM (cadis) – data management platforms
- Talend Enterprise – ETL frameworks
- Markit thinkFolio – portfolio management systems
- Tableau - data visualization tools
- ActiveBatch - enterprise scheduling tools
- Java, Python- programming languages
- Microsoft SQL Server - relational databases
- Integrate quickly and work effectively in a multicultural team of professionals
- Have previous work experience in either asset or wealth management, or other related fields in the financial industry
- Be willing to travel internationally
What’s on offer
- Work for a dynamic fast-paced company
- International and multi-cultural working environment
If you think of yourself as a highly motivated, ambitious person, please apply via email: katia@swisslinx.com. For further information, do not hesitate to contact us: +41 (0)58 268 10 40.
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