Technical Architect - Asset Management- London

Leading Asset Management Company is seeking a Technical Architect who has strong Data analysis and data mining skills and an ability to understand complex data relationships. The project is to bring together financial data from a range of different systems (i.e investment/fund accounting, corporate actions, derivatives, vendor feeds etc ) and present this to clients in a form that gives them a consolidated/standardized investment accounting view. The ideal applicant would have extensive experience in Master Data Management (MDM) projects and a strong understanding of ETL. It would also be essential that applicants have a general understanding of the financial markets as well as any exposure to middle office IT functions such as fund/investment accounting, cash forecasting etc. KEY SKILLS - * Extensive experience of delivering financial services projects using ETL and warehouse development tools
* Data analysis and data mining skills and an ability to understand complex data relationships
* Demonstrated ability to write specifications
* A general understanding of the financial markets including Equities, Bonds, Derivatives etc as well as any exposure to middle office IT functions such as fund/investment accounting, performance, corporate actions, cash forecasting, P&L, reporting etc.
* Experience of shaping solutions - working with business analysts and architects
* Experience of agile and waterfall projects
* Experience of defining interfaces and schemas between systems
* XML development experience (transforming data, schema development, xpath)
* CADIS (Not essential)
Please respond immediately if you feel you are suitable.
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