Summary
In details, the position encompasses duties and responsibilities as follows:
We areseekinga highly organized and proactive Delivery Manager to play a critical role in protecting a continuous delivery cadence within our pre-trade domain. You will act asa central pointfor backlog ownership and delivery flow across several product teams, coordinating delivery,prioritisingdemand, and driving execution in JIRA. This role requires commercial acumen, technical awareness, and the ability to collaborate closely with trading desks and quant researchers in tight feedback loops. In our environment, time-to-value is everything:"good enough shipped today" often beats "perfect shipped next quarter".
Backlog Ownership and Management
- Own andmaintainmultiple product backlogs in JIRA across pre-trade initiatives,prioritisingitems based on strategic business input, user demand, and resource availability.
- Translate commercial urgency into actionable,prioritisedbacklogs (clear sequencing, explicit trade-offs, minimal overhead).
Sprint Planning and Delivery Sequencing
- Define, schedule, and manage sprint planning, sequencing delivery based on resource allocation, ensuringtimelyexecution oftasksand efficient backlog turnover.
- Establish and protect a continuous delivery rhythm - short cycles, frequent releases, and tight feedback loops with trading desks and quant researchers.
- Default to unblocking over gatekeeping: remove impediments, reduce handoffs, and keep work flowing. Treat delivery as a continuous flow problem, not a project with a fixed start/end.
Demand Capture and Roadmap Development
- Collect, review, andanalysenew business and technical demands. Develop strategicproductand data roadmaps for future enhancements in data ingestion, storage, and distribution.
- Be comfortable with ambiguity and make pragmatic trade-offs between speed, scope, and quality, explicitlyoptimisingfor time-to-value whereappropriate.
Stakeholder Coordination and Communications
- Act asa central pointof contact, gathering requirements and providing updates to traders, analysts, technical teams, and product owners tomaintainalignment and transparency.
- Translate fast-changing commercial priorities into clear decisions, crisp priorities, and predictable delivery outcomes (what/why/when, with visible risks and dependencies).
Resource Needs and Allocation Management
- Monitor,anticipate, and communicate resource requirements, ensuringoptimalallocation and readiness for each sprint cycle.
- Proactively surface constraints (capacity, environments, data availability, approvals) and drive resolution to protect delivery cadence.
Continuous Improvement and Best Practice Implementation
- Champion process improvements in backlog hygiene, sprint execution, and agile delivery practices. Recommend enhancements to tooling, workflow, and reporting.
- Track and improve flow andoutcomesmetrics (e.g., lead time, cycle time, deployment frequency, change failure rate / incident impact where applicable). Avoid vanity metrics(e.g.userstory points).
- Build a culture of continuous improvement: faster feedback, smaller batch sizes, simpler processes, higher reliability.
The ideal candidate disposes of:
- Proven experience (10+ years) in delivery management, backlog ownership, or agile delivery within a data-centric or commodities tradingorganisation.
- Proventrack recordmanaging multiple, concurrent backlogs and coordinating delivery priorities across diverse teams.
- Experience engaging directly with traders, analysts, quant researchers, and technology teams to translate business needs into actionable delivery backlogs.
- Strong grasp of delivery cadence and continuous delivery principles in high-performing engineering environments (frequent releases, tight feedback loops, flow efficiency).
- Demonstrated use of flow metrics (lead time, cycle time, deployment frequency, throughput/aging WIP) to drive delivery improvements - not story point velocity.
- Commercially savvy; understands that in trading, time-to-value and responsiveness materiallyimpactoutcomes.
- Familiarity with market data concepts and how tradingorganisationsconsume data (e.g., curves, vol surfaces, pricing inputs, reference data, exchange/vendor feeds).
- Practice in developing and communicating strategic data roadmaps tailored to rapidly changing business needs.
- Ability toanticipate, plan and coordinate resource allocationrequiredfor backlog delivery.
Skills: Functional Skills
- Expert in managing product backlogs, delivery sequencing, and JIRA administration.
- Proficient in capturing, specifying, andallocatingrequirements for both market data (e.g.curves, volatilities, vendor feeds) and fundamental data (e.g.flows, forecasts).
- Skilledin roadmap development and backlogprioritisationbased on business value, risk, and technical constraints.
- Able tofacilitatecrisp trade-offs between speed/scope/quality, keeping stakeholders aligned and delivery unblocked.
Technical Skills
- Familiarity with requirementsgathering forhistorical and real-time streaming data (e.g.SQL Server, Kafka, MongoDB).
- Experience with modern data/analytics stacks and cloud-native delivery patterns: Databricks, Spark, Airflow, Docker, Kubernetes; Azure preferred.
- Able to specify validation controls for missing, duplicate, stale, or anomalous data; understands controls and observability expectations in data pipelines.
- Experience with datavisualisationand monitoring tools (e.g.Tableau, Dash, Grafana).Understanding of market vs fundamental data use cases (valuation, risk, physical flow analytics) and stakeholder expectations in tradingcontexts.cap
ProfessionalSkills
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and cross-functional coordination abilities.
- Calm under pressure, pragmatic problem solver, and relationship builder.
- Expert in Agile/Scrum ways of working without adding process overhead; experienced in geographically dispersed delivery environments.