App Services Application Owner

We are the leading technology recruitment and selection consultancy in Romania, working on highly specialized technologies for permanent and interim positions. Since our inception in 2001 as the first specialized IT recruitment agency in Romania we supported over 400 national and global clients in acquiring strategic IT talent for their business.

We are deeply passionate about technology and highly responsible about our work. We understand the pressure of the business and the fact that you need fast and quality results. Therefore we always go for the extra mile to deliver the best IT&C talent for your business, no matter how challenging the project may seem.

Required Skills:

• Apache / Tomcat - Server Application Setup, Servlet Technology
• Strong programming background in Java
• UNIX operating systems (Solaris and Linux)
• Experienced with: Java Server Technology, ANT, continuous integration
• JavaScript
• RIA
• Knowledge of the spring framework

Key Attributes:

• Hands on contributor
• The candidate will face the TradeFinder teams (front office business and GT) and he has to get familiar with the challenging working culture and with the rapid application development versus industrialization requirements
• Strong interfacing with other groups (global team), i.e. on the infrastructure, application, business layer is essential.
• The candidate has to be fluent in English and German is optional.
• Good verbal, presentation, and written communication skills

Experience and Education

• 3-4 years of work experience in IT
• 1-2 years project management or application owner experience
• Master degree or equivalent work experience required
• Experience working with distributed development teams
• Experience in finance products would be an advantage

Our client is a leading client-centric global universal bank with a presence in more than 70 countries and employing over 100,000 employees worldwide. As innovation drives their business, their Global Technology Centre in Bucharest fuels technological advancement and keeps them competitive for the future. Opened in 2013, it will employ approximately 500 full-time IT specialists and will play a big part in the development of their technical expertise. With award-winning mobile banking apps and trading systems, their technology platforms help the Bank deliver best-in-class products to clients. Diverse, international and shaped by a variety of different perspectives, they’re driven by a shared sense of purpose. At every level agile thinking is nurtured. And at every level Agile minds are rewarded with competitive pay, support and opportunities to excel.

As their aim is to continue to fill it with exceptional people, this is your chance to join them and you’ll be given the support, training and voice you need to build a rewarding global career. They are currently looking for an Application Services Application Owner, for one of their main projects, TradeFinder.

TradeFinder is their award winning suite of electronic applications, serving both their internal markets business and external client base worldwide. As a real-time, interactive web platform, TradeFinder supports all three phases of the investment process: pre-trade, trade and post-trade. Real-Time Market Reports, Rich Cheap Analysis, Time Series and Term Structure Analysis, Cross Market Relative Value Scans, Executable Pricing Tools, Asset Liability Management, Portfolio Optimisation, Portfolio Analysis, Solvency II, Clearing Services, Risk Management, Individualised CPPI.

Whilst TradeFinder itself started as a RAD application (rapid application development) with direct front office involvement in the development of business functionality, regulations require to apply standard process and controls with the same code base yet with sprint release cycle, packaging, QA and testing, deployment, and support fully in the hands of GT. The driver for this change is that use cases influencing the books of the bank can’t be supported by the original rapid concept.

Position Description

The Application Owner supports the IT Application Lifecycle by ensuring that ongoing enhancements and maintenance is completed in accordance with the requirements of the ‘paying customer’ and other stakeholders.
With regards to changed TradeFinder software development process, the additional challenge is to build a new application ownership and support model for business analytics applications in the bank to comply with all regulatory requirements and controls, whilst cooperating efficiently with the Business and allowing for functional domain oriented releases.

Key Responsibilities:

• Accountable for the ongoing enhancement and maintenance of TradeFinder including management of scope.
• Conduct strategic planning for the application in collaboration with TradeFinder hub architects and engineers
• Identify and manage technical projects necessary to ensure required and established service levels are maintained.
• Manage strategic capacity, consumption and performance management (forecast and management based on business plans).
• Ensure policy-compliance for RACE, SOX, ASG, ISP, Audit, etc. (incl. the technical ASAO tasks).
• Manage software licenses, security certificates and contracts with service providers.
• Ensure availability of all necessary application/service knowledge and documentation.
• Ensure system stability through enhancement/maintenance activities.
• Collaborate with various stakeholders including the hub application development team, development center teams, client services, program managers, subject matter experts in order to industrialize, transfer and support functional domains
• Steer and oversee and deliver the design and development of industrialization solutions into the production support teams for operations and monitoring.
• Perform reviews for all technical changes in close collaboration with hub team representatives (both business and IT).
• Work with development center teams to estimate work effort throughout different phases of the functional domain deliverables.
• Assist with development of configuration-/monitoring-/packaging-/deployment-automations.
• Identify, document and communicate risks and issues discovered during delivery cycles.
• Participate in meetings with business and development, production support teams on product enhancement and development planning calls, evaluate and coordinate production incidents escalations.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary packages;
• Meal tickets;
• Medical Insurance;
• Transport expense;
• Great working environment.