Technical Project Manager - Paris, France - Quod Financial

Description

Quod Financial is a Multi-asset trading technology provider. Quod Financial delivers a modular, non-disruptive, scalable and highly resilient trading solution for Equities, Derivatives and FX. Quod Financial is Headquartered in London with offices in Paris, Dubai, Singapore and New York.

As a Technical Project Manager, you will be leading the delivery of Hosted/SaaS Quod Financial Software to our clients. The success in this role requires you to take ownership of the projects under your responsibility and be accountable for our customer satisfaction.

The responsibilities include:

• Management of multiple projects, with handling the project life cycle (e.g. gathering of requirements, handle 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 delivery.
• Participating in the sanity checks and testing and 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:

• 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.

Skills nice to have:

• Knowledge of Trading and Financial Markets (FIX protocol, Trading workflow).
• Good understanding of trading systems (connectivity gateways, frontend, Backend, middle and back offices, etc.).
• (Please note that there will be a technical test for this position).