Vignetic
Application Manager
Princeton, New Jersey
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Application Manager Princeton, New Jersey
Title: Application Manager
Job Type: Permanent
Primary Location: Princeton, New Jersey
The Challenge:
Vignetic is looking for a highly motivated Application Manager with demonstrated experience managing and leading software development efforts in a securities trading system environment.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Manage software development efforts to the project plans and collaborate with the Project Management Office regarding project tracking and control
- Work together with various teams to assess and evaluate business requirements for the purposes of facilitating the translation into software
- Drive the project planning process to manage software deliverables
- Manage staff adherence to the SDLC and Quality Assurance processes
- Manage software releases in accordance with established release management and work order workflows
- Work closely with the software development management team to maintain the integrity of the trading system software architecture framework, the messaging infrastructure and the logical transaction domain structure and boundaries
- Work closely with the Quality Assurance and Use Case development teams to effectively facilitate and manage the testing process
- Leverage technical subject matter expertise as a key decision maker in:
- Tactical planning decisions
- Software design
- Establishing Failure/Recovery paradigms
- Participate in the system performance analysis and tuning efforts
- Provide level 3 production support
- Participate as a member of Requirements Committee and Crisis Management Team
Essential Skills & Qualifications:
- Must have experience managing software development teams in a mission critical environment, preferably brokerage front ends and/or trading systems
- Strong track record of delivering production quality software required
- Must have full software development life cycle experience
- Excellent software design skills and knowledge of advanced data structures required
- Strong knowledge of the logical business domain in Options, Equities or Future trading preferable
- Must have excellent organizational and communication skills
- Must be able to work effectively in a team environment
- Functional knowledge of FIX, OPRA, CTA or UTP protocols a big plus
- Solid knowledge of object-oriented programming concepts a plus
- Knowledge of communication protocols such as TCP, UDP and multicast a plus
- Working understanding of the following tool sets a plus: WIKI, JIRA, git, Jenkins, Valgrind, CPPCheck, FishEye and Crucible
Education & Experience:
- 3+ years of experience in managing development teams
- 3+ years of demonstrated experience in delivering software solutions, preferably in a trading systems environment for Brokerage Firm, an Exchange
- Minimum of a bachelor’s degree or equivalent in IT/Computer Science
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