Head of Development - Equities and Sustainable Investment (ESG)
- Employer
- Optima Connections
- Location
- London
- Salary
- 100000.00 - 120000.00 GBP Annual + Bonus + Benefits
- Closing date
- 25 Oct 2021
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- Sector
- Telecoms / Utilities
- Responsibilities
- Information Technology
- Position/Level
- Professional / Specialist
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Language
- English
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This role is the ownership of business facing technology delivery within the Equity or Sustainable Investment (ESG) areas. With a technical Development management background you will also understand Portfolio construction and/or Index creation, partnering with the Equity/SI Research and Product teams to deliver new Index products and services.
Main role objectives are:
- Improve the delivery capability within technology to create new Equity and SI index products.
- Be primary point of contact and stakeholder manager within technology for the Equity/SI product & research teams to deliver new product development in an agile environment
- Develop new cloud based platform to provide cross-asset index calculation functionality, in a technically agnostic environment (Currently linux, .net, aws and SQL)
- The role has been created to drive the development of a new/brownfield, cross-business platform in an expanding and highly profitable business. There are equivalent roles in both Equities and SI/ESG with an understanding of their respective businesses key to this role which will be strongly partnered with Research and Product teams.
Key responsibilities:
- Leads the development and execution of strategy for implementation of the technology solutions required to support the Equity product roadmap.
- Own and align the Equity technology roadmap with the Index platform engineering roadmap to deliver on key business development and integration synergy commitments.
- Manage Equity Index technology team including people, quality, budget, communications and issue resolution.
- Keeps abreast of technology products and services available, and implements new and emerging technologies that might affect current or future Group businesses, operational and/or regulatory capabilities
- Manages relationships with key suppliers, setting performance standards and managing the resolution of escalated service issues
- Support delivery strategy and execution teams and champions agile delivery methodology and a continuous improvement framework to drive efficiency and enable business agility
- Ensures that all teams have been trained in appropriate methodologies and understand their role in the organisation
- Drive cost reduction of delivery and maintenance through technology and process automation
- Executes Scrum/KanBan processes used by multi-discipline teams and execution of associated practises, as appropriate
There is the opportunity to make a huge impact within this role, working in a high profile, innovative group where technology is seen as vital to maximise the business' success.
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