Project Manager

Overview Trading Systems Project manager / Business Analysts at Susquehanna work directly with developers, technology managers, traders, and business domain experts to help drive large technology projects for one of the core businesses within our firm.

It is a multi-faceted role where you will utilize your well-developed business analyst and project management skill set to drive significant projects within a fast moving and sophisticated technology-driven environment. You will be working with in a collaborative and friendly environment with talented colleagues to drive projects end to end, from concept to go-live, guiding relevant teams through the entire project life cycle.

Role / Responsibilities

• In this role you will be responsible for driving the delivery of trading systems projects that cross regions, teams, and domains.
• The projects are for the Asian Trading businesses and you will partner with the global teams to help deliver. Strong knowledge / experience with large and complex trading systems.
• Accomplished collaborator who can work across business teams and to assess, understand, implement, and provide guidance on requirements.
• Great communicator who effectively report on project status to all levels of staff and management regularly to increase project transparency for all participants and stakeholders.
• Strong orchestration and negotiation skills
• Ability to understand and assess probabilistic outcomes to manage risk.
• Evaluate project requirements and objectively analyse them to choose appropriate strategies, tools and/or project management methodologies.
• Curious with a desire to understand, analyse, diagram and describe complex distributed systems, processes and high-level data flows
• Flexibility to take on projects at short notice, as well as handle multiple projects with varying deadlines.
• Able to adapt in a changeable environment and familiar with agile mythologies.

What You Can Expect From Us Real Impact: By integrating sophisticated coding techniques with innovative engineering ideas, we design and optimize systems that can process massive amounts of data while still ensuring high performance and stability. You’ll see how your contributions towards developing and supporting leading-edge hardware and software technologies make a firm-wide impact that makes us all smarter, faster, and better.

Collaboration: You will partner closely with our Infrastructure, Project Management and Strategy Developer Teams to deliver and manage scalable and highly performant systems to support trading in the region and globally.

Growth: For many of our roles, we don’t expect you to have prior industry experience in proprietary trading or financial services to succeed at Susquehanna International Group. We’re looking for people who are naturally curious, relentless problem solvers, and have the desire to continuously innovate, learn, and grow.

Benefits: Susquehanna offers a wide array of competitive employee perks & benefits

What We're Looking For

• Minimum of 5 years of experience with the delivering trading systems.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a Business Analysis (BA), Project Management (PM) or BA/PM role in IT environment with management of SDLC projects.
• Great communicator who effectively report on project status to all levels of staff and management regularly to increase project transparency for all participants and stakeholders.
• Strong negotiation skills and the ability to understand and assess probabilistic outcomes to manage risk.
• Bachelor’s degree or similar experience level in a technical discipline

Equal Opportunity Statement We encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds, and we welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure that you can best demonstrate your abilities.

About Susquehanna Susquehanna is a global quantitative trading firm powered by scientific rigor, curiosity, and innovation. Our culture is intellectually driven and highly collaborative, bringing together researchers, engineers, and traders to design and deploy impactful strategies in our systematic trading environment. To meet the unique challenges of global markets, Susquehanna applies machine learning and advanced quantitative research to vast datasets in order to uncover actionable insights and build effective strategies. By uniting deep market expertise with cutting-edge technology, we excel in solving complex problems and pushing boundaries together.

What We Do We are experts in trading essentially all listed financial products and asset classes, with a focus on derivatives trading. Through market making and market taking, we handle millions of trading transactions around the world every day, providing liquidity and ensuring competitive prices for buyers and sellers. While our presence in the market is broad, our trading desks are highly specialised, allowing for a deep understanding of unique drivers of each asset class.

If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to [email protected]. Any resume or referral submitted in the absence of a signed agreement will not be eligible for an agency fee.