At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead exciting tech projects, manage teams, and ensure smooth operations in a fast-paced environment.
- Company: Join a renowned global trading firm with a focus on innovation and technology.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, bonuses, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic role with excellent career advancement opportunities in a thriving industry.
- Why this job: Make an impact in financial technology while working with cutting-edge systems.
- Qualifications: Experience in project management, finance, and technical skills in software development.
Role: Technical Project Manager
Tech: Linux, Market Data, networking
Challenge: Maintain existing systems, strategically plan for growth and as well as plan and deploy releases into production environments.
Firm: Quant Trading Firm
Pay: 85k+ Benefits + 30% bonus
The Technical Project Manager will be working with the global production engineering and architecture teams and various external parties to maintain existing systems, strategically plan for growth as well as plan and deploy releases into production environments.
The Project Manager will be responsible for:
- Managing scope of software-driven projects within development, production engineering
- Gathering project requirements and preparing detailed summaries to share with Engineering, Operations and trading teams.
- Engaging, fostering and managing strong relationships between internal and external project resources
- Managing prioritisation and execution of projects, including tracking key decision making, deliverables and reporting on project progress through the project life cycle (Initiation, approved and Current, completed)
- Generating and maintaining accurate project documentation
- Leading the design, development and deployment of work plans and producing the required tasks, resources and schedule for complex projects.
- Escalating project and task anomalies and correcting problems identified during projects
- Facilitating the management of expectations for trading teams and management.
- Planning and coordinating activities for physical work in a data centre (physical hardware and network installations)
- Coordinating with various teams to manage shipments and equipment orders
- Meeting with trading teams regularly to understand their growth plans.
The ideal Project Manager is comfortable rolling their sleeves up and getting things done. Project Managers must have:
- Project management experience within a technical capacity in finance
- Technical and Financial background and ability to speak with developers
- Experience with market data and general concepts for networking and server configurations
- Unix
- Familiarity with databases such as MySQL
- Knowledge of programming (Java or C++)
- Excellent time management skills, including exceptional attention to detail and meticulous organisation
- A passion for technology and maintaining a competitive edge.
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) at all levels of the organisation including experience distilling technical information for consumption by senior management
- Colo data centre design a big plus
This is a unique opportunity for someone to expand further into financial technology. You should be driven and interested to gain some serious financial experience.
Technical Project Manager - Tech Consulting in London employer: Quant Capital
At Quant Capital, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic and innovative work environment that mirrors the culture of leading tech giants like Facebook and Google. Our London office fosters a collaborative atmosphere where employees are encouraged to think critically and make impactful decisions, while also providing ample opportunities for professional growth and mastery of cutting-edge technology in the trading operations space. With a focus on employee well-being and a commitment to excellence, we ensure that our team members are equipped with the tools and support they need to thrive in their roles.
