Application Development Manager-Trading Systems

We are currently looking for a highly motivated individual with demonstrated experience managing and leading software development efforts in a securities trading system environment. Major responsibilities include  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 work flows.  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. 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 and 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