Production Management - Equities Trading

Citi; Singapore; On-site; SGD 300,000 - 460,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi in Singapore is seeking a senior leader in Markets Production Management to oversee day-to-day Equities Asia Pacific trading support, including a team of 35+ engineers responsible for algorithmic trading, high-touch systems, and market connectivity.

You will drive resiliency, observability, and automation initiatives while shaping the strategic direction of the function and acting as a trusted business partner.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of relevant experience in applications support or leadership roles.
• Deep knowledge of FIX and equities trading connectivity.
• Experience managing senior stakeholders and distributed teams.
• Proven track record in implementing observability and platform resiliency.
• Strong communication, analytical and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 35+ support engineers for algo trading and client connectivity.
• Set strategic plans for the function and align with business objectives.
• Oversee performance reviews, hiring, and other personnel actions.
• Own disaster recovery plans and drive global collaboration.
• Define standard methodologies and ensure process compliance across teams.

Skills

FIX protocol

Equities knowledge

Stakeholder management

Observability tools

People management

Disaster recovery planning

Education

Bachelor degree, Master preferred

Tools

Monitoring tools

Performance tuning tools

Job description

This is a highly critical role within the Markets Production Management space who will be responsible for supporting day to day activities for Equities Asia Pacific trading. This individual will oversee a team of over 35 support engineers who look after algorithmic trading, high touch trading systems, and client and market connectivity. In addition to ensuring maximum uptime of the systems, this senior individual will drive initiatives to reduce support effort, automate platform resiliency, and introduce best in class observability in areas such as latency, potential performance bottlenecks, and failure detection. This senior leader will also influence strategic direction of the area and become a trusted partner of the business.

Responsibilities

• Applies in-depth understanding of concepts and procedures within own area and basic knowledge of other areas to resolve issues that have impact beyond own area.
• Establishes strategic plans for function.
• Understands how the apps support function integrates within the overall organization to contribute to achieving business objectives.
• Evaluates subordinates' performance and makes decisions on pay increases, hiring, terminations and other personnel actions.
• Influences and negotiates with senior leaders (across functions); may communicate with external parties
• Management responsibility for a team or multiple teams, including management of people, budget and planning, performance evaluation, compensation, hiring, disciplinary actions and terminations and budget approval.
• Performs other duties and functions as assigned
• Own and lead disaster recovery plans.
• Lead and deliver local staff forums, present global, regional and location news encouraging global collaboration.
• Contribute to define and Implement standard methodologies for the department. Ensure transparency and consistency across teams in the region and globally.
• Ensure team adheres to standard methodologies and process including driving compliance to clockwork, resilience and capacity planning
• Develop positive relationship with the infrastructure & other functional support teams to drive efficiency
• Set measurable / challenging goals for self and team ensuring continuous improvement and self-development of staff
• Ensure development plans are in place for staff
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

Qualifications

• 15+ years relevant experience
• In depth knowledge of FIX
• In depth knowledge of Equities, client connectivity
• Firsthand experience with best in class Observability tools
• Advanced level experience in an Apps Support role with extensive experience in business, functional and people management.
• Experience of senior stakeholder management
• Quality orientation with a strong eye for detail
• Process driven approach with an appreciation of industry best practice
• Detailed-oriented, with strong analytical skills
• Develops and maintains effective and positive working relationship with peers, stakeholders and management
• Pro-active, organized, thorough and energetic
• Excellent communicator, presenting to senior management level stakeholders
• Manager of managers in a diverse distributed environment
• Demonstrable track record of impactful organizational improvement
• Demonstrable senior Application Support or project management experience relating to distributed teams and managing managers
• Drive and determination: Demonstrates self-motivation and drive and shows determination to achieve goals
• Analysis and problem
• Effectively share information with other support team members and with other technology teams
• Ability to plan and organize workload
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to communicate appropriately to relevant stakeholder

Education

• Bachelor’s/University degree, Master’s degree preferred and managerial experience

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Job Family Group

Technology

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Job Family

Applications Support

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Time Type

Full time

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Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

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Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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