Goldensource Specialist

Required Skills:

• Proven Leader with experience of managing agile team
• Global outlook and mind set
• Proven leadership of large global teams, with significant financial accountability
• Strong cultural alignment: unwavering ethical standards; drives excellence and innately collaborative
• Reputation as a forward thinker, especially in the technology and data space
• Commercially astute: quickly recognizes the different levers to pull to drive growth and increase productivity
• Strategic in nature, with a strong bias towards transformation and execution
• Stimulates action with a balanced leadership style of control and influence
• Decisive and operates with a sense of urgency
• Program, risk, and change management experience
• Agile proficient

Product and Tools based skills:

• Knowledge of the GoldenSource product. Hands on experience with respect to creation and maintenance of Goldensource MDX, Workflows, Goldensource Custom Java rules, GSOs, UI and Publishing.
• Deep Understanding of the Goldensource data model.
• Experience in implementing and supporting the GoldenSource solution for mastering of Instrument data and Institution data.
• Experience of code maintenance via any tools like GIT, BitBucket, SVN.
• Hands on experience in onboarding and supporting new vendor data feeds right from data acquisition to distributing it to the downstream systems.
• Knowledge on any scheduling tools like JS7, Autosys, Control-M etc.

Coding Knowledge:

• Good relational database skills. POSTGRESQL, ORACLE.
• Proficiency in scripting languages. Shell or Python to complement the existing Goldensource implementation.
• Experience of working with XML based technologies such as XSLT is an added benefit.
• Experience in integrating Goldensource workflows with external APIs is an added benefit.

Domain Knowledge:

• Good understanding of financial instruments like Fixed Income, Equity, Derivatives products and market data of these products.
• Working knowledge of Instrument, Institution, Ratings level data provided by vendors such and Bloomberg, Refinitiv, Moodys etc.
• Knowledge on financial data standards like ISO, MIC, LEI etc.

Key Responsibilities:

Technology

• Develop and implement an technology, data strategy and roadmap leveraging new technologies and innovation to deliver services globally
• Accountable for strategic leadership of engineering and delivery execution for technology and data solutions
• Working with our product teams create and manage a best in class roadmap which drives the leverage of new technologies with data at the core supporting client outcomes custom built and FinTech/Protech solutions
• In partnership with the Technology Product Leads, generate excitement and buy-in for the technology and data outcomes quickly, addressing barriers to success
• As part of roadmap inform the build and partner decisions, and ensure these are funded, supported to enhance client deliverables and scale.
• Partner with colleagues across the enterprise and with external vendors to delivery best in class solutions - measuring success in terms of adoption, usage, improvements and industry recognition.

Business

• Support the private markets and technology leadership to increase market-share and margin through technology
• Implement a process for continuous improvement, lower costs to serve and improving margins
• Develop and deliver scalable solutions that can be applied to clients and the business

People

• Lead a world-class team of experienced engineering and delivery experts within technology, data and business intelligence
• Drive a passion and core competency across the organization for technology transformation
• Coordinate comprehensive changes to update how we work or develop new ways of working
• Set the priorities and focus for local and regional teams to support global engineering and delivery of core internal and client products and services

Goldensource Platform:

• Hands on involvement to implement the solutions to meet Nuveen's Reference data management requirements.
• Optimization of the solutions implemented on the platform.
• Be actively involved for resolution of technical and functional issues with the implementation.

Solution Design and Maintenance:

• Be actively involved in requirement gathering and design discussion for implementing the business requirements.
• Maintain proper design and technical implementation documents for the custom solutions.
• Ensure that custom implementation follows GoldenSource data modeling standards.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and provide demos to required teams to ensure the implemented solution is verified

Data management and validation:

• Ensure that for any solution that is implemented on the Goldensource platform the data quality is maintained.
• In addition to the requested business requirements, this includes ensuring that no unwanted notifications are raised during data ingestion and data duplicity does not happen.

Release and BAU activities:

• Be actively involved in the periodic release activities.
• Participate in release planning meeting and actively communicate on deliveries planned for the periodic releases.