Technical Project Manager
Miejsce pracy: Gdańsk
The responsibilities include:
- Management of multiple projects, with handling the project life cycle (e.g. gathering of requirements, handling client’s requests/questions, etc)
- Manage project’s scope and change requests
- Creating client and senior management reporting through the appropriate communications tools to ensure transparency.
- Interaction with development teams/product teams for each client release
- Participate in functional testing which can be in either Equities or FOREX trading domains
- Participating in the sanity checks and testing and organizing the certification process (Market, FIX, etc) when necessary.
- Identify improvement areas and propose/design/implement solutions and new ways of working
- The specificities of our projects require the project manager to have some technical competencies. The project manager should be able to perform basic technical tasks to not stop the progress of his project
These tasks include:
- Connect to the environment, start and stop components (after coordinating with the integrator), download log files to attach them to Jira tickets, etc.
- Connect to Trading Front-end or Web Administration to perform some basic tests (try to reproduce a reported issue, make sure that connectivity is up and running, checking if some data are correctly received, etc.)
Required skills:
- Fluent English skills
- Good knowledge of project management principles, processes and challenges; Previous experience is highly appreciated.
- Understanding the pitfalls of projects and project politics
- General IT knowledge: Linux OS, Databases (Oracles and Postgres), Software development lifecycle, Agile methodology.
- Team spirit, Great communication and presentation skills
- Curiosity and willingness to learn more about our Software as well as our business domain
- Ability to have business trips all over the world
Skills nice to have:
- The functional knowledge of Equities or Forex trading would be a plus
- Knowledge of Trading and Financial Markets (FIX protocol, Trading workflow)
- Good understanding of trading systems (connectivity gateways, frontend, backend, middle and back offices, etc.)
We offer
- Annual paid vacation (20 working days) and 10 days of sick leave
- Office in Gdańsk (Poland)/remotely
- Corporate laptop
- Poland public holidays are days off
- A friendly and international team
- Flexible working hours
- A stable, long-term project
- Business trips to all over the world to the clients
- Employment agreements exclusively applicable to individuals residing in Poland.
- type of contract: B2B or Contract of mandate
