Lead Systems Analyst, Investment Data, USA-MA-Boston

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Lead Systems Analyst, Investment Data

Company:		Wellington Management Company, LLP
Location:		USA-MA-Boston
Compensation:		Competitive
Years Experience:		5-7 yrs
Position Type:		Permanent
Employment type:		Full time
Updated:		23 Nov 2009
eFC Ref no:		575187

Lead Systems Analyst, Investment Data

Position Description:

Job Summary
The individual will be leading the system design and analysis for development projects in the End-Of-day Pricing Application in the Investment Data Systems team. In this role the individual will work with the project managers, business analysts and lead programmers to define technical solutions and roadmap for implementing business requirements in our applications with a strong focus on scalability, quality and application integration with the downstream consumers of pricing data. This person will also be performing supervisory activities including budget management within the team.

Job Responsibilities
• Partner with Investment Data and Derivatives Services Business team within the Investment Administration Group to proactively identify the firms growing needs around pricing and analytics in order to develop long term scalable solutions.
• Take a hands-on approach to functional architecture and technical design to deliver business solutions.
• Work with the Pricing Data consumer groups to understand their requirements and help develop innovative solutions to address their data needs.
• Provide input into system design to help the programming teams define effort and implementation schedules for application development work.
• Ensure quality of product by enforcing high standards in testing and building controls to measure the overall accuracy and timeliness of data delivery.
• Develop a strong partnership with the delivery team to ensure on time, scalable and high quality business solutions.
• Manage the overall budget of the team and help in planning and budget estimations of various efforts.
• Provide team leadership on assigned projects that may include both full time and consulting staff in a matrix organization.

Job Qualifications
• Strong understanding of Investment Data and Investment Management industry, with specific domain expertise in Pricing and analytics
• Minimum 10 years experience as a systems analyst
• Minimum 5 years experience in Data Management
• Minimum of 5 years of Project Management experience is required.
• Experience in working with data providers such as IDC and Reuters.
• CFA certification is a plus.
• Experience in the design of n-tier applications and architectures.
• Experience with SOA architecture will be a huge plus.
• Team management experience and a proven ability to work in a cross functional environment
• Experience in managing delivery in a centralized team with aggressive delivery timelines is required.
• Excellent organizational, written and verbal communication skills.