Your job
As Product owner for the Risk Services Modelling development team, you are the driving force behind strategic decision-making related to all (new) risk services for our clients. You build and execute strategy to develop software solutions. You lead efforts to design software systems that can scale with increasing volumes, with a strong emphasis on high-availability standards, efficiency, and resilience.
Your role includes leadership, innovation, and responsibility. It involves navigating complexities and collaborating with diverse stakeholders to position the organization for sustained success.
You work closely with the other Product Owners, Business Developers, and IT Engineers in the risk domain and with many other teams in the organization.
Working environment
The Risk transformation change program is of strategic importance and highly visible in the whole organization.
The Risk Applications development cluster consists of four teams with global end-to-end responsibility over the domain. Each team is a high performing, multidisciplinary team of IT Engineers and Business Developers, who work together in an agile way. We have Risk engineers and stakeholders in Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Chicago so our working days vary between 7am and 8pm, keeping 8 hours per day as the rule.
Thanks to our global network with offices in eleven countries and proximity to all major exchanges, you will serve the best trading firms on four continents. You work closely with stakeholders in Singapore, Sydney, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, and Chicago on a day-to-day basis.
The atmosphere is open and informal. We work hard, but there is enough room to play around and meet for drinks as well!
Your profile
• You are an experienced Product Owner with a strong background in building real-time derivatives risk platforms, specializing in end of day and intraday client exposure monitoring, correlation modelling to support trading, risk and regulatory requirements.
• You have experience in the Risk Management function, focused on Market Risk, Operational risk, Capital requirement models (such as SA-CCR/FCCM), the financial markets industry and the regulatory requirements.
• You have experience with taking global end-to-end responsibility for Change, Run and Control activities (regulation, operations & budget).
• You can promote an inspiring vision for development teams and stakeholders, build strategy, and execute a roadmap with clear priorities and OKRs to achieve business goals.
• You are an excellent, pro-active advisor with strong communication abilities.
• You manage cross-team/cluster dependencies, to ensure alignment and synergy across multiple products & services.
• You have proven leadership experience in guiding and leading teams.
• You guide and support Business Developers to enhance their professional development (HR responsibility)
• You are a delivery-focused, ambitious, energetic person with a “getting things done” mindset, able to work outside of one's comfort zone and encourage others towards such behavior.
• You have a proactive and self-starting attitude, with the ability to think independently and argue open-mindedly and assertively.
• Understanding of programming languages (, C++ / SQL / Python) capabilities, and data orchestration / ETL processes is desirable.
• Academic level of work and thinking and a minimum of 10 years relevant experience.
We are offering
You will be given plenty of scope to create and contribute value on a global level and with high impact. We are also keen to learn from your experience, so there is also an audience to share your knowledge. You will be given the opportunity to further deepen your expertise and/or broaden your role in an international, culturally diverse environment. There will be various growth opportunities in your area of expertise and beyond, depending on your goals, interests, and experience.
We also offer:
• the ability to work flexible hours
• a supplementary benefit budget of 11% with which you can buy flexible fringe benefits such as extra days off, a subsidy to cover the costs of a phone or an (electric) bicycle, and salary top-ups
• a personal development budget of € 1,000 per year with an option to save up to € 3,000
• an annual public transport season ticket
• a laptop and mobile phone subscription
• a good pension scheme
• a good salary