Transforming Innovation Into Unique and Sustainable Competitive Advantages and Increased Security 

LEAD SOLUTION & SECURITY ARCHITECTs – CAPITAL MARKETS

Providing the overall Architecture, building the team and leading the development of your project. Fusing Finance and Technology.
Combined Business, Design, Technology, Security, Quantitative & Management expertise focused on the Capital Markets industry.
We work closely with the business from the concept stage of large-scale change initiatives to ensure that technology solutions are matched to the desired business outcome.
Extensive experience interfacing with business stakeholders, enterprise architects, software developers, security experts, network engineers, system administrators, project managers and third-party vendors to provide multidisciplinary technical leadership in articulating solution requirements, designs and enabling technologies during all phases of the project lifecycle.

Functional Areas

Extensive business and system architecture knowledge of the following functional areas:

  • Trading - Algorithmic & HFT
  • Credit & Market Risk
  • Post-Trade Processing
  • Finance & Product Control
  • OTC Derivatives Clearing & Collateral Management
  • Prime Brokerage
  • Information Security

Asset Classes

Experts in design and development of Front to Back systems automating the E2E trade lifecycle of:

  • OTC & Listed Derivatives
  • Fixed Income
  • Equities
  • Oil & Gas Derivatives

Solution and Functional Architecture Expertise

E2E Solution Architectures incorporating Functional, Application, Data, Integration (EAI/SOA) and Security Architectures & Object/Service Oriented Designs.
Functional, Business Process and Information Modeling. Business Analysis and Requirements Modeling.

Development/Technical Project Management, Technology Strategy and Analyses

Track record as Accenture/IBM technology and management consultant. Expertise in consulting techniques and processes helping clients address the hurdles associated with the adoption of new technology solutions and organizational change. Combined Consulting and Technical hands-on Management style supports Executives and Senior Project Managers while building trustful relationships with Technical teams. Project turnarounds and evaluations of Solution Architectures.
Programme and Project Management experience in globally distributed organizations. Facilitated the management of projects entailing high technical risk stemming from the involvement of large number of different technical disciplines and application of emerging technology. Track record on large software development projects (£50M+).
Technical/Development Project Management, Cost/Benefit Analyses, Technology Investment Recommendations, Technology Feasibility Studies & Vendor Selection.

Architecture Prototyping and Development

Rapid hands on Prototyping and Development in Java, C#, C/C++ and Excel for proving and early demonstration of the overall Architecture and/or leading the development team.

Technology Expertise

Design and Development of Event Driven, Multithreaded, High Throughput, Low Latency, Distributed Systems, Probabilistic Inference & Data Fusion Algos, Quantitative Finance Calculus
Hands on Expert in Oracle Coherence, TIBCO, DataSynapse, Java, C#, C++, FPML, Messaging, CUDA
High Performance Computing and Parallel Systems - Parallel software design for multi-core CPUs and GPGPU, Data GRIDs - Oracle Coherence, HPC Clusters - DataSynapse
Mysis Summit, Reuters Kondor+, Reuters RMDS and their extension and integration with other systems
Algorithmic Trading, DMA, Order Management, Execution Management, Smart Order Routing, HFT, P&L and Risk Management, Pricing Engines, Market & Reference Data, STP Trade Processing
Security Architecture, Identity & Access Management, PKI Design

 
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