Alina-Ioana Harvey
London
Summary
Technical Programme Manager with over 8 years of experience in front-office trading and equity derivatives. Proven track record in delivering risk platforms and managing production-critical systems. Expertise in real-time data workflows and facilitating cross-team collaboration in high-performance environments.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Quantitative Strategist Senior Analyst
Deutsche Bank
London
04.2022 - Current
- Program Manager, Application Owner, and Technology Information Security Officer (TISO) for four front-office, production-critical applications supporting pricing, risk, and trade management across trading desks and core support functions.
- Own delivery and operational responsibility for platforms providing balance sheet analytics, revenue forecasting, capital planning, and stress-testing inputs, supporting risk in the banking book, and group-level reporting.
- Lead the design and delivery of market data ingestion, processing, and distribution frameworks, enabling consistent, reusable access to market data across analytics, simulation, and downstream risk-booking systems.
- Deliver tooling to support strategy simulation and analytics for Quantitative Investment Strategies (QIS), improving reuse, consistency, and integration with core risk infrastructure.
- Coordinate end-to-end delivery across quants, engineers, infrastructure, security, and external vendors, ensuring data quality, performance, resilience, appropriate documentation, and production readiness.
- Accountable for SDLC governance, access controls, audit readiness, disaster recovery, and capacity planning across all applications.
- Act as the primary escalation point for production incidents, data integrity issues, and delivery risk impacting front-office workflows and risk reporting.
Software Engineer
J.P. Morgan
05.2020 - 04.2022
- Delivered enhancements to bank-wide risk and PnL aggregation platform with a Python and Parquet stack.
- Optimized ingestion and processing of risk data, reducing operational latency.
- Collaborated on real-time and batch data pipelines for front-office reporting.
- Streamlined workflows in Risk Technology to improve data efficiency.
Technology & Data Associate
Morgan Stanley
01.2016 - 01.2020
- Developed and maintained trading, pricing, and risk systems utilizing real-time data dependencies.
- Collaborated with traders and strategists to enhance valuation and analytics tools.
- Provided comprehensive support for Front-Office Technology, boosting operational efficiency.
- Worked with various tech stacks, including C++, C#, Scala, and Java.
- Created and managed models, as well as monitoring, risk assessment, pricing, and valuation solutions for the Securitized Products Group.
Education
Master of Science - Physics With Nanoscale Physics
University of Birmingham
London07-2016
Bachelor of Arts - Law
"Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University in Iasi, Romania
Iasi, Romania02-2016
Skills
Programme & Platform Ownership
- End-to-end programme delivery
- Multi-application platform ownership
- Production readiness & release management
- Risk, incident & escalation management
- Cross-team dependency coordination
Market Data & Trading Systems
- Market data ingestion & distribution
- Real-time & batch data pipelines
- Strategy simulation & analytics platforms
- Pricing, risk & trade management systems
- Data quality, completeness & timeliness controls
Technical & Infrastructure Literacy
- APIs & distributed systems
- Data processing frameworks
- Monitoring, alerting & observability
- Infrastructure & environment coordination
- Disaster recovery & capacity planning
Governance, Security & Vendors
- Application ownership & SDLC governance
- Access controls & audit readiness
- Technology risk & control frameworks
- Vendor & third-party dependency management
Tools & Languages
- Python, SQL
- Linux / UNIX
- CI/CD pipelines
Timeline
Quantitative Strategist Senior Analyst
Deutsche Bank
04.2022 - Current
Software Engineer
J.P. Morgan
05.2020 - 04.2022
Technology & Data Associate
Morgan Stanley
01.2016 - 01.2020
Master of Science - Physics With Nanoscale Physics
University of Birmingham
Bachelor of Arts - Law
"Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University in Iasi, Romania