Trading Systems Project Manager

Job Description

Overview Trading Systems Project Manager / Business Analyst at Susquehanna work directly with developers, technology managers, traders, and business domain experts to help drive large technology projects for one of the core businesses within our firm. It is a multi-faceted role where you will support Trading Systems projects in a variety of ways – both as a project manager and as a business analyst. In the role you coordinate and manage projects from concept to go-live, guiding and supporting teams through the entire project life cycle. What you can expect from us: Real Impact: By integrating sophisticated coding techniques with innovative engineering ideas, we design and optimize systems that can process massive amounts of data while ensuring high performance and stability. You’ll see how your contributions towards developing and supporting leading-edge hardware and software technologies make a firm-wide impact that makes us all smarter, faster, and better. Collaboration: You will partner closely with our Infrastructure, Project Management, and Strategy Developer Teams to deliver and manage scalable and highly performant systems to support trading in the region and globally. Growth: For many of our roles, we don’t expect you to have prior industry experience in proprietary trading or financial services to succeed at Susquehanna International Group. We’re looking for people who are naturally curious, relentless problem solvers, and have the desire to continuously innovate, learn, and grow. Benefits: Susquehanna offers a wide array of competitive employee perks & benefits link Role / Responsibilities: Drive the delivery of trading systems projects that cross regions, teams, and domains. Partner with global teams to help deliver projects for the Asian Trading businesses. Strong knowledge and experience with large and complex trading systems. Strong knowledge of cash equities or derivatives products. Experience working with execution or algo systems for equities or equities derivatives. Collaborate across business teams to assess, understand, implement, and provide guidance on requirements. Communicate effectively and report on project status to all levels of stakeholders and management regularly. Possess strong negotiation skills and the ability to understand and assess probabilistic outcomes to manage risk. Evaluate project requirements and objectively analyze them to choose appropriate strategies, tools, and/or project management methodologies. Be curious with a desire to understand, analyze, diagram, and describe complex distributed systems, processes, and high-level data flows. Flexibility to take on projects at short notice and handle multiple projects with varying deadlines. Able to adapt in a changeable environment and familiar with agile methodologies. What we're looking for: Qualification requirements: Minimum of 5 years of experience delivering trading systems. Minimum of 5 years of experience in a Business Analysis (BA), Project Management (PM), or BA/PM role in IT environment with management of SDLC projects. Bachelor’s degree or similar experience level in a technical discipline. About Susquehanna: Susquehanna is a global quantitative trading firm founded by a group of friends who share a passion for game theory and probabilistic thinking. We have incorporated this approach into our culture, where you will find relentless problem solvers within each of our core disciplines: Trading, Technology, and Quantitative Research. From offices around the world, our employees collaborate to make optimal decisions and are driven by the desire to achieve winning results together. What we do: We are experts in trading essentially all listed financial products and asset classes, with a focus on derivatives trading. Through market making and market taking, we handle millions of trading transactions around the world every day, providing liquidity and ensuring competitive prices for buyers and sellers. Equal Opportunity Statement: We encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure that you can best demonstrate your abilities. #J-18808-Ljbffr