Application Manager

Title: Application Manager

Job Type: Permanent

Primary Location: Princeton, New Jersey

looking for a highly motivated Application Manager with demonstrated experience managing and leading software development efforts in a securities trading system environment.

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:
o Tactical planning decisions
o Software design
o Establishing Failure/Recovery paradigms
o Participate in the system performance analysis and tuning efforts
o Provide level 3 production support
o Participate as a member of Requirements Committee and Crisis Management Team

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

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