Project Manager

Overall responsibility for Delivery of team in Krakow

• Contractual alignment, tailoring and compliance
• Customer relationship Management
• People Management and Development
• PnL execution
• Team formation
• Business Development

Job would entail working closely with customer managers to implement envisioned changes in Krakow. Specifically:

• Be the local people manager for all our teams in Krakow. This means engagement with all people in Krakow on a regular basis - provide updates and propose changes.
• Drive implementation of lean key processes across teams (requirements and change management, acceptance criterion, continuous integration, delivery quality standards, fine tuning to agile approach)
• Ensuring sharing of best practices/business domain knowledge/exploiting synergies between teams
• Monitor load balancing across individuals together with the team leads and building up of cross application know how. Identify cases for job rotation.
• Help with maturing teams to co-source and identify new candidates that fit in the model.
• Identifying infrastructure issues, other inefficiencies in the environment and drive solutions.
• Helps with final interviews and assist with new-hire activities.

We are looking for a highly skilled individual who acts as a manager locally for our team in Krakow. The individual will report to Delivery Manager in Kiev and will play a key role in implementing envisioned changes locally in Krakow and helping to maturing the offshore setup.

Mandatory:

This highly challenging position requires an individual with excellent technical and management skills. Specifically:

• 5-6 years of experience in directly managing medium to large development teams (20-30) preferably in an outsourcing/off-shoring setup.
• Educational background in Computer Science
• Excellent soft skills and English communication skills
• Candidate needs good understanding of full technology stack and up to date with recent technological developments. Good experience in several of the following would be highly desirable - Java (J2SE and J2EE), Oracle, Application Servers, Webservices, MQ, Tibco, C#, .NET, QA, etc. Individual should be in a position to hold deep technical discussions and propose solutions.
• Experience in setting up SDLC.

Nice to have:

• Experience in working in investment banking area is highly desirable

The system is a strategic platform for the Rates and Credit businesses, used internally by team sales and by external institutional clients.

The application incorporates efficient price distribution, execution, order management and trade retrieval of the following product types.

• Interest Rate Swaps
• Bonds
• Credit Default Swaps