Application Trading Development Manager

Project Delivery and Coordination

•                     Work with team members, business users, vendors, and related IT teams during the initial stage of new projects.

•                     Understand business requirements and help translate them into system or technical requirements.

•                     Provide input on project feasibility, solution approach, timeline, resource needs, risks, and technical impact.

•                     Coordinate project activities and ensure progress continues even when disagreements arise among users, developers, vendors, or other stakeholders.

•                     Escalate key issues, risks, and decisions to management when necessary.

SDLC Governance and Documentation

•                     Oversee the full SDLC across assigned application projects.

•                     Ensure project activities comply with internal IT policies, governance standards, security requirements, audit expectations, and regulatory requirements.

•                     Ensure required documents are properly prepared, reviewed, approved, and maintained

Team Leadership

•                     Support the Head of IT Development in managing the Trading Application Development team.

•                     Provide guidance and support to developers and team members.

•                     Monitor team workload, project progress, delivery quality, and team performance.

•                     Promote ownership, accountability, teamwork, and knowledge sharing.

•                     Ensure key system knowledge is documented and shared within the team.

System Design and Technical Oversight

•                     Provide high-level system design and technical direction for trading-related applications.

•                     Review solution design to ensure it is secure, reliable, maintainable, and aligned with business needs.

•                     Ensure application design supports appropriate scalability and performance without unnecessary over-engineering.

•                     Review technical impact on existing systems, interfaces, infrastructure, operations, and downstream systems.

•                     Oversee integration areas such as Internet Trading, DMA, order management, trading gateways, market connectivity, back-office systems, reporting systems, databases, APIs, and vendor systems.

Security, Reliability, and Production Stability

•                     Ensure applications follow secure development practices and internal security standards.

•                     Work with cybersecurity, infrastructure, network, and operations teams to address risks, vulnerabilities, audit findings, and system weaknesses.

•                     Support performance review, capacity planning, availability, resilience, and recovery planning based on business criticality.

•                     Ensure production stability is considered before every major release or system change.

Testing, UAT, and Deployment

•                     Review unit testing coverage and ensure proper test evidence is prepared.

•                     Support business users during User Acceptance Testing, UAT.

•                     Track UAT issues, coordinate fixes, support retesting, and prepare or review documents for UAT Sign-Off.

•                     Coordinate with related teams during production release and stabilization.

Production Support and Incident Tracking

•                     Support production issue investigation and resolution for related trading systems.

•                     Ensure incidents are properly logged, assigned, tracked, followed up, and closed.

•                     Coordinate root cause analysis and preventive actions for critical or recurring incidents.

•                     Provide clear status updates to users, management, and relevant stakeholders.