At Varrlyn we believe that if it is possible, it will be done. If it is not possible, Varrlyn will look for ways to do it anyway. Turning impossible questions into possible solutions, that is what makes us different.

Our people breathe, dream and live dealing rooms. We have extensive experience in IT system implementations and application support for different financial markets applications. Varrlyn has a proven track record: we have worked for financial institutions in Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Paris, New York, Frankfurt and Sydney. We will help you improve your cost efficiency, simplify your application architecture, optimize the time to market, increase straight through processing and comply with financial regulations. In short: You do the deal, we'll do the project!
Varrlyn is a consulting firm which was founded in 2010 and is based in The Netherlands.

Your work environment

Financial Markets (FM) is our client's gateway to the professional markets around the world. Their primary function is to service the needs of the clients with products, services and guidance. FM aims to be a significant player in the market leader and challenger markets, with an additional presence in all the major international markets and specialist expertise in selected emerging markets and products.

Your role

The change delivery department of Financial Markets and Group Treasury of our client, whose purpose is to realize their clients’ dreams by connecting them to global markets, providing financial solutions, and delivering long lasting value is looking for an addition to their team.

• You will combine market and system knowledge, product management, and business expertise to take a leading role in successfully delivering change initiatives.
• You will be the interfacing function between various stakeholders (trading, sales, Ops, IT and markets) to understand the challenges and identify how technology and process can be used to solve them.
• You will represent the voice of the business to the squads.

Your key responsibilities

• Support efficient change by providing impactful analysis on cross domain, end-to-end, complex environments;
• Establishes and maintains strong (sustainable) relationships with key stakeholders, focused on a clear understanding of their challenges and opportunities;
• As partner of the squads, maximises business value by providing clear and developer-ready content for user stories (what is needed, for whom and why) in the squad backlog in AZURE and facilitate alignment of the delivery teams (how) with the businesses/user groups to ensure a strong focus on timely & good quality delivery;
• Translate and explain the “What” so that the IT engineers can determine the appropriate “How”
• Facilitate release and testing process through impact assessments, release reports and user sign-offs;
• Structure, simplify and solve issues on processes and systems. Participate/Lead end to end refinement and solution design sessions;
• Works independently and ensures that implications of decisions are thought through and get addressed;
• Creates an environment of open dialogue that encourages expertise development through collaboration and idea-sharing, in which colleagues take responsibility, help each other to be successful and remain a step ahead;
• Accumulates and collects knowledge, keeps it up to date and makes it accessible for re-use. Takes initiatives for sharing knowledge;

CDM Project

You will be initially responsible to drive the Canonical Data Model (CDM) FMGT initiative. The CDM initiative aims to deliver a data streaming platform for FM trade transaction and trade events, captured over diverse trade capture systems and formats, which is then standardised based on the latest FpML 5.12 and streamed over a Kafka bus to post trade applications like Risk, Analytics and Reporting.

• A Completed Master’s degree;
• Experience in Financial Markets
• A good understanding of Financial market products across asset classes (Fixed Income,  Securities Financing,  FX, Rates, Commodities and Credit) and good knowledge of derivative products (Swaps, Options, Forwards etc.);
• Knowledge of data modelling including data streaming technologies and messaging formats (Avro, Protobuf etc.) is a plus.
• You have an interest in IT.
• Experience with Kafka bus and modelling the FM products in FpML 5.12 (or higher) is mandatory
• Experience with System Architecture and Design concepts is a plus.
• Experience with working in Agile/Scrum (experience in Azure DevOPS is a plus).
• In-depth understanding and working experience with Financial markets markup language (FPML).
• Experience on leading the delivery of medium/large IT projects either as PO and/or Tech Lead.
• You have the “Can do” attitude / “problem-solving” mentality;
• Good communication skills (in English), communication and presentation skills (listening, telling – selling) across different skill and seniority levels;
• You have good stakeholder management skills;
• You are flexible and you easily adapt to a changing environment;
• You enjoy working in a diverse and multi-cultural environment, you trust others and can be trusted;
• You strive to bring fresh ideas to life and embrace challenges in a fast changing and complex environment.

The candidate needs to be living in The netherlands or Europe and must have a valid working permit.