Wells Fargo - Director - Capital Markets - Equities Technology India Lead

Responsibilities

- Act as Equities Technology India Lead and lead offshore technology organization of 50 team members working on Equities technology applications such as Trade Capture, Lifecycle Management, Risk & Pricing, System of Records and Data Analytics. Get deeply involved in one area (preferably Equity Derivatives Risk & pricing) and lead other areas through directs at Capital markets - Vice President level.

- Provide technology solutions, through applications design & development, to complex problems that require both in depth knowledge of capital markets domain and strong technical expertise; contribute to strategic and business sustenance projects.

- Work with US technology managers on projects driven by US technology teams and be directly responsible for full project life cycle for a few projects / applications including user interaction, planning, development, testing and L3 support.

- Design and develop applications, tools and processes to ensure superior reliability and supportability.

- Recruit, mentor and develop talent by setting appropriate goals and expectations for the team.

- Primary point person to peer groups and customers for effective communication on systems and projects within area of responsibility.

- Partner with technology peers to lower operating costs through leverage / re-use.

- Lead organizational initiatives.

- Contribute to continuous improvement ideas and projects.

Required skills

- 15+ years of IT experience including 5+ years of management experience of leading 30+ member development teams in offshore captive of an Investment bank, 10+ years of Capital Markets technology (preferably in derivatives).

- Extensive experience of Swaps, Options and / or Structured Products (e.g. risk and pricing of derivatives, trade capture & lifecycle management) from an application development perspective. Derivatives Risk / Pricing technology applications experience would be very useful.

- Prior experience of working on Java based applications using distributed computing (e.g., Oracle Coherence, IBM compute grid, Solace, Graph, Akka framework).

- Familiar and direct experience of Agile development and dev ops tools such as Jira, confluence, automated regression testing

- Experience of providing technology solutions, through applications design & development, to complex problems.

- Experience of working in both build-the-bank (BTB) and run-the-bank (RTB) projects.

- Experience of hiring and managing people up to Capital Markets Vice President level hands-on technical leads (who manage 5-15 member teams) in India market.

- Experience of managing stakeholders.

- Experience of working in matrix organization.

- Familiarity working across geographic boundaries to tight deadlines under pressure

- Strong communication skills - both verbal and written (should be able to effectively communicate with Managing director and Director level stakeholders)

- Engineering degree from an institute of good reputation.