SwapClear & Listed Rates Product Director

Role profile:

• Product Director/Owner within the SwapClear and Listed Rates Product Management team. With responsibility for the end-to-end management of strategically important products and services.
• Working to lead strategic programmes and multiple scrum teams, comprising Business Analyst, Developers and Testers that are typically assigned to scrum delivery teams within the SwapClear and Listed rates change function.
• SwapClear Product Management team focus on the delivery of the product strategy with our engineering and business teams. This will include responsibility for the full end to end lifecycle of product delivery, and consistency and coordination of requirements. 

Key responsibilities of the role:

• Develops and nurtures relationships with senior members of the SwapClear management team and associated change areas such as IT, Project management and test teams
• Prepares and delivers materials communicating to customers and colleagues relating to new and improved technology solutions.
• Manages strategic programme and project risks and issues, drives mitigation actions to ensure high priority items are raised to project steering committee
• Provide Operational / financial product / technical / Operations business process expertise to external customers, business development and commercial services to support development of new/changed business
• Ensure that commercial and business development needs and requirements are appropriately defined, gathered, reviewed and signed off
• Define efficient business and technology solutions to meet complex business problems
• Maintain scope ensure that requirements stay consistent throughout the business change life cycle as they are further detailed and implemented
• Maintain responsibility for the quality of delivery from requirements to implementation, ensure appropriate validation of tests versus requirements
• Communicate and influence decisions where appropriate such as risk acceptance of test coverage and defects to maintain quality delivery with efficient use of available resource
• Coordinate and ensure respective information from the change Programme flows to all departments and provide support as required
• Ensure the dissemination of key project information to other groups within SwapClear
• Represent SwapClear in meetings with Industry partners associated with projects
• Communicate and influence decisions where appropriate such as risk acceptance of test coverage and defects to maintain quality delivery with efficient use of available resource

Experience and skills required:

• Demonstrate cross functional influence and provide support to other technology change functions such as Collateral, FX, Group Risk and other LCH services
• Has developed experience and has detailed understanding of the Interest Rate Swap product set that is within the SwapClear eligible product set
• Leads people within scrum teams, prioritising, motivating holding responsibility for product quality 
• Ability to define root cause of problem, articulate and select the best possible solutions, and to bring along others within the organisation including management and development teams
• Leads discussion to reach an agreement and create outcomes affecting the action, behaviours or opinions of others.
• Guides and supports business and system analysts, IT solution design and development and testing, regarding functional and Operations business process
• Strong analytical and practical skills. Demonstrates a knowledge and understanding of markets, technology development and sound architectural principles
• Overall (end to end) understanding and working experiences of clearing and CCP services
• Challenges and validates requirements and technical designs produced within other functions 
• Keep control of product related issues arising in projects and finds solutions in close coordination with risk and operations as well as IT
• Highly self-motivated to improve and develop
• Entrepreneurial, holistic, end to end thinking
• Prioritise own time and that of others in the group to ensure productive output of the team

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