Cardano is a pension risk and investment manager with £50bn AUM:
Hands-on lead role with a remit to bring scalability and reduce risk in the business. Taking the company up the growth curve from a start-up to a SME where almost everything was run manually (i.e. Excel), I led many initiatives to establish core business infrastructure that would be taken for granted in established organisations.
* Data repositories for Trade and Market Data which enabled trade STP for multiple asset classes (funds, OTC derivatives and ETD, bonds, repos) across vendor systems to a common reporting platform
* Microsoft stack (WCF, EF, SSIS, SSRS, SQL Server), CI TeamCity, SVN/Git
* Integration with in-house C# quantitative library
* External integration with pooled fund administrators and custodians
* EMIR Regulatory reporting for OTC transactions
* Build vs buy analysis, vendor system selection and integration