Product Manager, Technical Solution Lead

We are AUSIEX

With over 25 years of experience in the local market and the backing of a multinational trading technology powerhouse, we're AUSIEX. We specialise in equities execution, clearing & settlement services, and equities administration for financial intermediaries. Since 1994, we've used our deep, local expertise to deliver solutions that seamlessly connect our clients to markets. We are powered by Nomura Research Institute (NRI), a global leader in technology and operations services. We're infusing NRI's proven technology capability and tradition of innovation, with our trusted trading solutions and local market expertise.

What will you be doing

The Architecture Division is responsible for designing and overseeing the overall structure and design of AUSIEX's technology systems. We ensure that all technology components work together efficiently and align with the company's long-term business goals. This division sets the principles and guidelines for software development and infrastructure, helping to improve system performance, resilience, security, and scalability. Our work is crucial for maintaining a cohesive and robust technology environment that can support current operations and future growth. 

This role is based in Pert/Sydney and will see you:

• Define Product Vision & Strategy: Craft a compelling product vision aligned with business objectives. Develop and maintain a product roadmap. Create, refine, and prioritize user stories and features. Ensure backlog items are clear, actionable, and valuable.
• Requirements Analysis: Work with your Stakeholders and Gather requirements from customers, business leaders, and internal teams. Translate their ideas and requirements into an appropriate solution design and help your Stakeholders to understand the resultant business model and end-to-end solution.
• Stakeholder Communication: Be a bridge between business stakeholders and the development team. Ensure the product delivers maximum value to users and aligns with business goals. Especially within Agile and Scrum environments.
• Sprint Planning & Execution: Participate in sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives. Clarify requirements and provide feedback during development. Define acceptance criteria and validate completed work. Ensure deliverables meet user needs and business standards.
• Solution Design and Blueprinting: This is the core responsibility of the role, to design the technical solutions aligned to Architectural standards. This involves selecting the appropriate platforms, tools, and architectural patterns. Then creating blueprints, system diagrams, and architectural documents that detail the components of the system, how they interact, and which technologies will be used.
• Technology Selection and Evaluation: Technical Solution Leads are responsible for evaluating and recommending the right technologies to solve a business problem. They must consider the existing technology stack, budget, maintenance costs, and future scalability to ensure the chosen solution provides long-term value.
• Technical Leadership and Governance: They provide technical guidance and leadership to development teams throughout the project lifecycle. This includes ensuring the implementation adheres to the architectural design, security standards, and best practices. They also act as a point of contact for technical issues and decision-making.
• Risk Assessment and Mitigation: Technical Solution Leads proactively identify potential technical risks, such as integration challenges, security vulnerabilities, or performance bottlenecks. They develop strategies to mitigate these risks, ensuring the final solution is robust and reliable.
• Contribute to Enterprise Architecture: Provide feedback on architectural standard, components or patterns that should be added, changed, or removed. Share their experience with specific technologies, emerging trends, and implementations with the wider team to inform future strategy.

About you

To be considered for this key role you will have:

• Financial Domain Knowledge: A foundational understanding of equities, fixed income, derivatives, and other financial instruments is preferred. Knowledge and experience with concepts like trading workflows, order management systems (OMS), risk management, and post-trade processing is highly beneficial.
• Product Management: Experience in product management, business analysis and project delivery. Exposure in tools like JIRA, Confluence, or Microsoft Project. Develop and maintain scope and backlog items including Epics, Features, and User Stories, and work with the Scrum Master to plan Sprints
• Technical Proficiency: You'll need hands-on experience with technologies critical to the financial sector. This includes:
• • Low-latency Systems: Experience designing and implementing high-performance, low-latency trading systems.
• • Integration: Experience with APIs and events and how they can be implemented with modern architectural models such as microservices
• • Cloud Computing: Expertise with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) to build scalable and resilient financial applications utilising high levels of automation (Terraform, GitHub Pipelines)
• • Data and Analytics: Knowledge of data pipelines, databases (both SQL and NoSQL), and analytics tools to support a data driven business.
• Regulatory and Compliance Knowledge: The financial industry is heavily regulated. You must be well-versed in key regulations (ASIC, ASX, Privacy, etc) and design solutions that are compliant from the start.
• Problem-Solving: The ability to analyse complex trading and business problems, identify technical and business requirements, and design solutions that are effective, future proofed and cost-efficient.
• Communication: Excellent communication skills are vital for bridging the gap between business-side equities traders, compliance officers, and technical development teams. You must be able to clearly explain technical solutions, trade-offs, and risks to non-technical stakeholders.

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