FIX Director

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The Nasdaq Stock Market has a challenging opportunity for a FIX Director in it’s fast paced growth-oriented organization in Trumbull, CT.

Nasdaq,
since its debut in 1971 as the world’s first electronic stock market, The Nasdaq Stock Marketâ has been at the forefront of innovation, using technology to bring millions of investors together with the world’s leading companies. Today, Nasdaq is the largest and fastest growing stock market in the United States, listing over 3,800 of the world’s most innovative companies. Nasdaq trades more shares per day than any other US equities market. It is also among the world’s best-regulated stock markets, employing sophisticated surveillance systems and regulatory specialists to protect investors and provide a fair and competitive trading environment.

Offering growth and liquidity, fostering innovative technologies and pursuing dynamic global expansion, Nasdaq continues to build the most efficient trading environment worldwide¾to the benefit of all market participants and investors.

For more information on The Nasdaq Stock Market, visit nasdaq.com.

The Client Interface Application group at Nasdaq is looking for an experienced Development Manager who is both innovative and delivery focused. The Development Manager will play leading role in coordinating and driving a high performance team to aggressive milestones to support the development and maintenance of an application supporting the Financial Information exchange (FIX) protocol.

The Development Manager will provide project management, analysis and design, services to the Nasdaq. Specifically, the Development Manager will be responsible for managing the requirements, and development lifecycle.

Responsibilities:

·Develops and maintains project plans that clearly communicate dependencies and risks for the projects.
·Directly manages programmers through the software development lifecycle.
·Eliminates all barriers to progress for the programmers.
·Communicates the status, and receives requirements from the business team.
Manages the rollout and implementation schedule of software.

Skills / Experience:

·10 years of project management experience of software development projects.
·Experience in supporting and developing Financial Information exchange (FIX) protocol required.
·Experience managing outsourced development or software vendors preferred.
·Experience managing / architecting high volume electronic messaging systems preferred.
·3 years experience architecting and maintaining client and server side Java systems.
·Experience in the financial services is preferred.
·Strong analytical and organizational skills
·University degree in finance, commerce or computers preferred
·Excellent oral and written skills with the proven ability to express complex ideas in a clear, concise and simple manner
·Ability to work effectively with clients, systems management employees and staff.

The Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants and employees are treated without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.