STEVEN VISCHER

With development teams (75 team members) in New York, Toronto, London and Hong Kong & India, role involves management of two organisations:

• Global Equity Trading Risk and P&L Technology (400 users) – recently completed 4-year migration of trading desks to new trading platform supporting increase in average quarterly revenue from $1.2B to $2.0B.
• Prime Brokerage Client Risk Technology (FICC & Equities) – on track to deliver $6M a year saving in vendor costs through multi-year initiative to migrate PB client intraday risk monitoring onto custom in-house platform.

Risk functionality ranges from intraday hedging capability for Trading, to to complex overnight Market Risk scenarios for regulatory programs such as FRTB. Technologies include Python, Stateful/Stateless Grid-based valuation engines, Java-based aggregation engines and a JS/React Front end.

• Leading a team of 30 developers, delivered The Stress Framework, a Greenfield initiative to implement a large-scale, high throughput Risk Engine to support regulatory Stress Risk demands placed on 'Too big to fail' banks in the 2010s (e.g. IMM and CCAR)

• Global Development Lead for T0PL (T-Zero P&L), official EOD/Overnight Risk and P&L reporting system across Barclays Rates business (15 developers, 1,500 global users)
• Drove down time-to-market for new deliveries including reducing test cycles from 4 weeks to 5 days

• Designed and implemented Greenfield SOA trading system (Java, Spring, Message Bus Architecture) to migrate from a vendor platform (Sophis) to strategic Intraday risk/P&L platform for Convertible Bonds and Exotic Derivatives.

• On-site management of New York and Singapore rollouts of Credit Trading platform