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Technical Project Manager, Macro Middle Office
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Technical Project Manager, Macro Middle Office

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Technical Project Manager - Middle Office, Macro

A Career with Point72’s Technology Team

As Point72 reimagines the future of investing, our Technology group is constantly improving our company’s IT infrastructure, positioning us at the forefront of a rapidly evolving technology landscape. We’re a team of experts experimenting, discovering new ways to harness the power of open source solutions, and embracing enterprise agile methodology. We encourage professional development to ensure you bring innovative ideas to our products while satisfying your own intellectual curiosity.

The Macro Middle Office trade processing and position team is responsible for the development, maintenance, and automation of the systems that process trade executions into position keeping systems. The systems support a wide range of financial products and asset classes including equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, and credit. The team is global with personnel and service providers located throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.

What you’ll do

In this role, you will help guide and drive Macro Middle Office development initiatives and transformation programs, including trade processing modernization, macro trading automation and process scale initiatives, trade management workflow optimization, and technology modernization.

  • Manage the planning and delivery of select software / system development initiatives
  • Guide requirement gathering, acceptance criteria definition, and release deployment processes
  • Coordinate team processes to ensure optimal delivery schedules, operational metrics, software quality, and team performance
  • Maintain executive status reporting, milestone tracking, and team performance metrics 
  • Track inter-team and inter-system dependencies, and work with the technical leads to define delivery paths that lift obstacles and create flexibility
  • Manage program issues and risks, helping to identify appropriate mitigation plans

What’s required

  • 8+ years of work experience running technology projects within middle and/or back office development teams and managing client-facing communications
  • Experience working with financial / investment systems supporting banking, investments, trading, or regulatory reporting regimes
  • Knowledge of financial products including fixed income, FX, credit, and equities
  • Fluent in the software development life cycle (Agile) and software development tools
  • Experience holding Scrum meetings, tracking project velocity, forecasting project completion with EVA or Agile methodologies
  • Experience creating data flow diagrams, business requirements documents, quality assurance plans, and data conversion / deployment plans
  • Experience collaborating with cross functional teams at scale (at least 20+ people) and evaluating project priorities with business sponsors
  • Experience with SQL queries and/or other data processing tools such as Tableau
  • Experience managing projects based on cloud and microservice based architectures
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Commitment and adherence to the highest ethical standards

We take care of our people

We invest in our people, their careers, their health, and their well-being. We want you to concentrate on success and leave the rest to us. When you work here, we provide:

  • Sports card
  • Private life insurance
  • Private medical and dental care, with vision allowance
  • Private pension scheme
  • Volunteer opportunities
  • Support for employee-led affinity groups representing women, people of color and the LGBT+ community
  • Business travel accident insurance
  • Employee assistance program
  • Educational assistance reimbursement

About Point72 

Point72 Asset Management is a global firm led by Steven Cohen that invests in multiple asset classes and strategies worldwide. Resting on more than a quarter-century of investing experience, we seek to be the industry’s premier asset manager through delivering superior risk-adjusted returns, adhering to the highest ethical standards, and offering the greatest opportunities to the industry’s brightest talent.

Our Warsaw office gives us access to world-class talent with a reputation for excellence and innovation. We’re looking to build an office of subject-matter experts whose fresh perspectives will help evolve our infrastructure and advance the capabilities of our teams. Learn more at www.Point72.com/Warsaw