Role Summary: At Refinitiv, our Financial Desktop offering is going through a massive transformation of the developer experience and of the underlying technology stack. This role will be responsible for the application platform we use to host and distribute financial Apps through our Desktop. The role is part of a the team responsible for establishing a world class financial desktop framework powering a business that serves a highly regulated financial services market with customers who constantly demand and expect high performance, accurate, high quality, and on time delivery of software releases to meet their demanding business requirements. The role will define and execute the strategic direction of solutions that support the business requirements and customer delivery needs. The role will lead innovation efforts to stay current in the marketplace with our technology offerings and customer requirements.
.Main Responsibilities:

• Understand what Apps require to run: Static resources, cloud native functions, stateful services
• Design and develop self service process and user experience for our developers to host and distribute applications
• Define and develop a self-service process of creating and deploying apps using our web content management system
• Collaborate with SRE teams to meet their requirements of monitoring, deployment, and approval flows
• Report Product roadmap progress to Management and stakeholders; KPIs, Business/Sector key business deliverables and risk assessment reports
• Create trust and credibility with Development, Product Management and Propositions teams, working closely to anticipate customer expectations/needs along with industry and market trends and translate into solutions and capabilities

.Key Career Experiences:

• Proven communicator, able to influence Technology, Product and Customer Facing teams
• Experience with driving change and getting new product and platform adopted
• Experience with building or running platforms (single tenant or multi-tenant)
• Understands cloud concepts : cloud-native, micro-services, difference between stateful and stateless...
• Thought leadership, innovation and customer mindset
• Appreciates and drives change in the organisation as well as the impacts and consequences of those changes
• Ability to anticipate and identify threats and opportunities, and create innovative strategies

.Essential Skills Required:

• Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or equivalent
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Understand what it takes to host, distribute and run apps end-to-end
• Experience in building self-service platforms
• The ability to understand complex requirements and distill these into specifications for developers to follow
• Ability to prioritise while balancing the needs of the customers and stakeholders
• Communicate confidently and concisely to both technologists and non-technologists.
• Strong experience in Product Management; can understand and detail end-user workflows, and produce accurate Product Requirements, mock-ups and roadmaps
• Strong team player with experience in working with virtual teams from different functions/regions
• Self-motivated with can-do attitude
• Knowledge of industry trends, leading practices, application vendor landscape
• Knowledge of Refinitiv: In strategy, markets and competitive landscape.

.Desired Skills:

• Masters Degree

Impressive benefits? Of course.
We support our colleagues' health and wellbeing with inclusive benefits. So that's support for physical, financial, mental and environmental health, paid time off to volunteer, consumer discounts& savings and so much more. All of which are tailored to your needs and may vary by location. For more details talk to your recruiter.

As a global business, Refinitiv relies on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. Therefore we seek hardworking, qualified employees in all our operations around the world-regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under country or local law. Refinitiv is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

Refinitiv makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If an accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact us to request an accommodation. A full list of our office locations and contact information can be found at: Refinitiv Office Locations .

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