Trading Technology Delivery Lead, Asset Management (London / Edinburgh)

Trading Technology Delivery Lead, Asset Management (London / Edinburgh)

London, England, United Kingdom (Hybrid)

Job Description

Salary and Benefits:£130,000 - £175,000 (subject to experience) + Asset Management bonus, excellent pension scheme, private medical insurance, electric vehicle scheme, 38 days holiday incl. Bank Holidays, plus 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more!
Job Type: Permanent
Reporting to: Head of Asset Management Transformation
Location & Flexible Working:Location:This role will be based in either our London or Edinburgh office, with some time spent working from home.You can read more about Phoenix Flex here.

We have a great opportunity to join us here at Phoenix Group as a Trading Technology Delivery Lead within the Asset Management function. This is an integral role, building out a newTrading Technology Team, as wetransition to new data architecture and trading eco-system to support our acceleration in direct investing.

Who are we?

We want to be the best place that any of our 6,600 colleagues have ever worked.

We’re the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business. We offer a range of products across our market-leading brands, Standard Life, SunLife, Phoenix Life and ReAssure. Around 1 in 5 people in the UK has a pension with us. We’re a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet.

Team / Function Context

Phoenix Asset Management has embarked on exciting journey to develop its Capital Markets and Policy Holder Asset Management capabilities. As part of this journey, Phoenix is implementing Aladdin and associated trading eco-system, a quantitative engineering capability, and a supporting data eco-system.

TheTrading Technology Teamwill have specific accountability for Aladdin and the front office trading eco-system including tooling used to support the middle office. This is a key role in the team and will be critical to supporting our Quantitative Engineering Team (Beacon) and integral to how we transition to a new data architecture to support our acceleration in direct investing.

Key Responsibilities

Reporting to the Head of AM Transformation, theTrading Technology Delivery Lead will manage the delivery of our Trading Technology eco system supporting both Capital Markets and the Policy Holder Investment Office (PIO) delivery.

The successful candidate will manage a team of IT professionals who along with our broader Technology, Transformation and Data team, will focus on delivery of solutions to the Front Office and supporting functions.

Operating in an agile working environment, this role may include additional accountabilities, focused on how we support our Front Office and manage our commercial relationships.

This role will require a high level of leadership and stakeholder engagement, ranging from the Front Office stakeholders, COO heads, Heads of Transformation, Head of Operational Change, Data Lead, Technology Architects, external partners, and internal partners.

As a key leader in the broader Asset Management (AM) Technology, Data and Transformation team, the successful candidate will ensure (in conjunction with peers) that both the business outcomes and the agreed operating platform are delivered for Asset Management.

This role is part of the AM Technology, Data and Transformation leadership team and will also lead and develop talent, processes, and approaches to improve delivery capability, practices and outcomes, and to ensure the requisite control and governance activities are embedded into deliveries.

To ensure success in this role, theTrading Technology Delivery Lead will need to ensure we remain connected to market developments, data providers and play an active role in external forums as needed

What are we looking for?

Experience (Essential)

• Extensive experience in a technology role within Asset Management or Financial Services with direct exposure of Trading & Portfolio Management, Data and Risk solutions
• Strong understanding of Front Office functions, including Trading and Portfolio Management
• Experience of Trade Order Management systems (Aladdin is strongly preferred ) coupled with comprehensive understanding of integration with quant tooling and data architectures.
• Knowledge of Capital Market products (including derivatives) including the full trade lifecycle
• Knowledge of third-party IT partners

Skills & Personal Attributes

• Excellent communication, influencing and facilitation skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders (internal and external at various levels)
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to work across multiple subject areas, or a single large or complicated subject area
• Demonstrates resilience, flexibility and adapt to changing schedules and ability to prioritise
• Experience in modern ways of working (examples include Agile, CI/CD, DevOps, Test Automation)
• Practices a solutions-oriented approach and provide pragmatic direction which is consistent with capital markets longer-term strategy

Qualifications (preferred)

• Degree/further degree/CFA/IMC or other post graduate finance/quantitative qualification

We want to hire the whole version of you.

We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.

Find out more about #LifeAtPhoenix

• Guide for Candidates: thephoenixgroup.pagetiger.com/guideforcandidates
• Locations 20 Old Bailey, London, EC4M 7AN, GB 30 Lothian Rd, Edinburgh, EH1 2DH, GB (Hybrid)