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<h3 style="text-align: left;">Job Aim</h3>
<ul>
<li>To assist with testing activities within the product development cycle</li>
<li>To assist with design, implementation and maintenance of automated testing framework</li>
<li>To assist with design, documentation and execution of a manual test suite to supplement automated testing</li>
</ul>
<h3>Relevant Business Experience</h3>
<ul>
<li>Banking, Asset &amp; Wealth Management industry business applications and data</li>
<li>Data quality of business or finance applications</li>
</ul>
<h3>Responsibilities</h3>
<ul>
<li>Coordinating with project management, development team, business analysts, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), client coordination across assignments (where necessary)</li>
<li>Creating and maintaining test automation frameworks in collaboration with the QA and Development teams.</li>
<li>Participate in a test automation tool selection process</li>
<li>Design, create, execute and maintain robust and accurate automated and manual test scripts and test data</li>
<li>Estimate QA complexity and perform manual testing as part of Agile process</li>
<li>Reviewing unit tests at the database layer to ensure reasonable coverage.</li>
<li>Testing/ writing tests for front-end and back-end code, to support integration and functional testing</li>
<li>Reporting of defects</li>
<li>Preparation of test reports</li>
</ul>
<h3>Essential Skills</h3>
<ul>
<li>Good knowledge of SQL and T-SQL, including stored procedures and typical design patterns</li>
<li>Demonstrable experience testing complex batch-based systems in a financial services environment</li>
<li>Good hands on experience with developing and creating code in C#</li>
<li>Experience in front-end web testing and working experience of: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, in the context of test automation</li>
<li>Have experience in using at least version control systems such as TFS and Git</li>
<li>Good knowledge of creating test automation for E2E testing including Selenium, Specflow, API and Database testing</li>
<li>Working with development methodologies such as Agile, Scrum</li>
<li>Self-motivated and works well within a team</li>
<li>Willingness to adapt</li>
<li>Desire to learn new skills as the job demands</li>
<li>Proficiency in written and spoken English</li>
</ul>
<h3>Desired Skills</h3>
<ul>
<li>Have experience working with SQL applications and cloud platforms such as Azure and / or AWS</li>
<li>SQL Server Reporting Services or other reporting tools</li>
<li>Datawarehouse concepts and implementation testing experience</li>
<li>Conceptual understanding of the Client Book Of Record solution design (data ingestion, data quality processes, warehousing, analytics, systems integration, CRM, Finance systems)</li>
<li>Conceptual understanding Distribution Data</li>
<li>General knowledge of TA, Platform and Distributor MI data and evaluating their data quality</li>
</ul>
<h3>Organisation &amp; Reporting</h3>
<ul>
<li>Reporting to:
<ul>
<li>Test Lead</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Reporting to:
<ul>
<li>Project Lead - for assigned project implementations</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Accountabilities &amp; Responsibilities</h3>
<h3>Participation in Business Management &amp; Project Forums</h3>
<p><strong>Management</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Product Owners Forum - on request</li>
<li>Solution Design Authority &ndash; on request</li>
<li>Core Product (Maui) &ndash; working group as requested by Maui PM</li>
<li>Slack channels and email groups assigned with the above</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Assigned Project Implementations</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Daily stand up</li>
<li>Solution Design Meetings &ndash; Alpha prep &amp; presentation to client</li>
<li>UAT &amp; implementation issues &ndash; internal prep, review, presentation to client</li>
<li>Design and Deliverables - internal prep, review, presentation to client</li>
<li>Slack channels and email groups assigned with the above</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>BAU delivery &ndash; assigned project</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Transition to BAU meetings</li>
<li>Client Service Quality review &ndash; per assigned client (weekly)</li>
<li>ADS BAU SteerCo &ndash; as required</li>
<li>Client meetings &ndash; escalation, account management</li>
<li>Slack channels and email groups assigned with the above</li>
</ul>
<h3>Indicative Effort Allocation across responsibilities (average over 12 months)</h3>
<table style="width: 80%;" border="1" align="left">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><strong>Responsibility</strong></td>
<td><strong>% of total effort</strong></td>
<td><strong>Indicative Working Days</strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Understand existing BAU process and automate testing where possible</td>
<td>15%</td>
<td>34</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Writing E2E Acceptance tests for existing features</td>
<td>25%&nbsp;</td>
<td>57</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Writing E2E Acceptance tests for new features</td>
<td>25%&nbsp;</td>
<td style="text-align: left;">57</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Perform manual testing as part of product development delivery</td>
<td>15%</td>
<td style="text-align: left;">34</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Perform manual testing as part of project delivery</td>
<td>20%</td>
<td style="text-align: left;">46</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>Total</strong></td>
<td><strong>100%</strong></td>
<td><strong>228</strong></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
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<h3>2019-20 Objectives (TBD)</h3>
<table style="width: 80%;" border="1" align="left">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><strong>Objective</strong></td>
<td><strong>Description</strong></td>
<td><strong>KPI</strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3">TBD</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h3>&nbsp;</h3>
<h3>&nbsp;</h3>
<h3>Appendices</h3>
<h3>About ADS</h3>
<p style="text-align: left;">ADS is a division of Alpha Group (see information about Alpha below) which provides a market leading data solution to Asset &amp; Wealth Management to address the challenge of 'messy data' that makes it hard for asset managers to get a clear view of the Client Book of Record &ndash; i.e. the economic data (flows, holdings, revenue &amp; profit) about clients &amp; fund investors.</p>
<h3>Client Book of Record&trade; Industry Challenge</h3>
<p style="text-align: left;">Asset &amp; Wealth Managers still face substantial challenges &ndash; inconsistent, volatile transaction data volumes and a lack of master data - to establish a clear ongoing picture of client performance.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Industry leaders are building robust, scalable, cost effective enterprise Client Book of Record&trade; (CBOR) solutions to process to assign flows, holdings and revenue accurately to clients and underlying investors at an atomic or granular level.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">ADS CBOR Solutions provides a best practice strategic solution for Asset Managers which matches transaction data to enterprise Master Data and provides daily CBOR outputs to consumer groups and business processes across the firm including: Finance, Sales, Marketing, Client Service, Compliance, Product Management and Front Office as well as external consumers including Investors and Regulators.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">As part of its CBOR solutions offering is Alpha Data Solution's offers an enterprise application (360 SalesVista <a href="https://alphafmc.com/about/360-sales-vista/" target="_blank">https://alphafmc.com/about/360-sales-vista/</a>) that harmonises hundreds of transaction and master data sources to produce a Daily Client Book of Record &ndash; flows, holdings and revenue matched to your firm&rsquo;s master data for client, product and agreement.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Daily CBOR data outputs are rigorously quality checked and packaged in a variety of analytical outputs at lower cost and greater accuracy, providing earlier access to actionable insights that are scalable and trusted across the Enterprise &ndash; a cost effective replacement for ageing local solutions and the cottage industry of spreadsheets currently in place across much of the industry.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.clientbookofrecord.com/" target="_blank"><strong>https://www.clientbookofrecord.com/</strong></a></p>
<h3>About Alpha</h3>
<p style="text-align: left;">Alpha provides perspective, strategy and technical expertise to the world&rsquo;s top asset and wealth managers.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">As the company with the largest dedicated team of consultants to asset and wealth managers, we have unrivalled knowledge of the industry. With offices around the world, our global expertise and ability to respond at a local level set us apart.</p>
<ul>
<li>Offices in 8 major financial centres: London, New York, Boston, Paris, The Hague, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Singapore</li>
<li>130 leading asset and wealth management clients</li>
<li>Clients include 21 of the top 25 global asset managers</li>
</ul>

QA/Test Engineer

<h3>Who should apply?</h3>
<p><strong>Full stack .NET developers</strong> looking for a fast-paced career in financial markets, to get exposure to the latest technologies and cloud frameworks, and receive a very competitive compensation package.</p>
<h3>Why you should join?</h3>
<p>When joining <strong>Alpha</strong>, you are joining a global family of more than 420 management consultants and software professionals who are leading experts in their respective fields.</p>
<p>Alpha FMC has a global presence, with offices in most major financial centres, and represents 21 out of the 25 top asset management companies.</p>
<p>Alpha&rsquo;s software division, ADS, is a key driver for growth, and an excellent place for software professionals to build a fast-paced career in the financial industry.</p>
<h3>Role Purpose and Mission</h3>
<p>Support the development, maintenance and deployment of solutions within CBOR solutions, including the applications themselves and specific tooling required for this purpose.</p>
<h3>Responsibilities</h3>
<ul>
<li>Develop and maintain highly performant T-SQL stored procedures, views and other database artefacts within the core product(s)</li>
<li>Develop and maintain elegant .NET code using C# and various web technologies (WebApi, WCF, HTML, JS, CSS) within the core product(s)</li>
<li>Develop and maintain tooling built to support product development and implementation in a variety of technologies</li>
<li>Contribute your perspective and knowledge to problem solving and development/process improvements</li>
<li>Use source control, automated build/deployment, and package managers effectively (Azure DevOps, Git, NuGet)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Essential Capabilities</h3>
<ul>
<li>Attention to detail and drive for quality</li>
<li>Collegiate &amp; collaborative with a &ldquo;can-do&rdquo; attitude to be part of a team and do what needs to be done to drive the product and team forwards</li>
<li>A good problem solver who can extract the real requirements or root causes of issues</li>
</ul>
<h3>Essential Skills</h3>
<ul>
<li>3+ years Application development experience in creating and maintaining:
<ul>
<li>Highly performant server-side C# code within several industry-standard architectures including Web API, Web applications (any), Windows Services and microservices architectures</li>
<li>Unit tests for all relevant code bases using industry standard frameworks like xUnit, Moq, etc.</li>
<li>Highly performant T-SQL procedures, views, schemas</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>3+ years SQL Server, SQL Server 2017+</li>
<li>Have experience in version control systems such as Git, Subversion, Bitbucket, TFS, understand branching strategies and the pit-falls when merging code between branches</li>
<li>Be able to quickly understand business requirements and translate them into code. This includes the ability to perform the data analysis required on sample data to ensure that the written code is effective</li>
</ul>
<h3>Desired Skills</h3>
<ul>
<li>Have experience working with cloud platforms such as Azure and / or AWS and cloud services such as Azure SQL</li>
<li>Experience developing and utilising modern containerisation technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes etc.</li>
<li>Familiarity with collaboration suites i.e. Atlassian product (Jira, Confluence)</li>
<li>SQL Server Integration Services &ndash; building and deploying packages</li>
<li>Datawarehouse concepts and implementation experience</li>
<li>Working with development methodologies such as Agile, Scrum</li>
<li>Scripting languages e.g. VBA, Python, Powershell</li>
</ul>
<h3>Desired Business Experience</h3>
<ul>
<li>Asset &amp; Wealth Management industry business applications and data</li>
<li>Data Quality and Data provider business applications</li>
</ul>
<h3>Desired Data Domain Experience</h3>
<ul>
<li>Distribution Data in Asset &amp; Wealth Management</li>
<li>Enterprise Master &amp; Reference data (e.g. Client &amp; Product masters, Geography, Country &amp; territory Reference data, FX &amp; Pricing Ref Data)</li>
<li>Transaction Data for asset management (e.g. TA &amp; Fund accounting data, Platform &amp; Distributor MI data)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Languages</h3>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>Ability to speak French/German useful but not essential</li>
</ul>
<h3>Participation in ADS Governance, Implementations &amp; BAU Op Model Forums</h3>
<ul>
<li>Business Management
<ul>
<li>Solution Design Authority &ndash; on request /as needed</li>
<li>ADS technology off-sites</li>
<li>Slack channels and email groups assigned with the above</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Implementations and BAU Op Model
<ul>
<li>Daily stand up &ndash; on request / as needed</li>
<li>Client implementations</li>
<li>BAU &amp; implementation issues</li>
<li>Core product development</li>
<li>Slack channels and email groups assigned with the above</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Indicative Effort Allocation across responsibilities (average over 12 months) <strong>Responsibility</strong> <strong>% of total effort</strong> <strong>Indicative Working Days</strong> C# Application / API Development and bugfixing 65% 143 SQL Development and bugfixing 25%&nbsp; 55&nbsp; Mgmt reporting / team meetings 10%&nbsp; 22&nbsp; <strong>Total</strong> <strong>100%</strong> <strong>220</strong> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</p>
<p>About Alpha, ADS &amp; CBOR Solutions</p>
<h3><em>About ADS</em></h3>
<p>ADS is a division of Alpha Group (see information about Alpha below) which provides a market leading data solution to Asset &amp; Wealth Management to address the challenge of 'messy data' that makes it hard for asset managers to get a clear view of the Client Book of Record - ie the economic data (flows, holdings, revenue &amp; profit) about clients &amp; fund investors.</p>
<p><em>Client Book of Record&trade; Industry Challenge</em></p>
<p>Asset &amp; Wealth Managers still face substantial challenges &ndash; inconsistent, volatile transaction data volumes and a lack of master data - to establish a clear ongoing picture of client performance.</p>
<p>Industry leaders are building robust, scalable, cost effective enterprise Client Book of Record&trade; (CBOR) solutions to process to assign flows, holdings and revenue accurately to clients and underlying investors at an atomic or granular level.</p>
<p>ADS CBOR Solutions provides a best practice strategic solution for Asset Managers which matches transaction data to enterprise Master Data and provides daily CBOR outputs to consumer groups and business processes across the firm including: Finance, Sales, Marketing, Client Service, Compliance, Product Management and Front Office as well as external consumers including Investors and Regulators.</p>
<p>As part of its CBOR solutions offering is Alpha Data Solution's offers an enterprise application (360 SalesVista <a href="https://alphafmc.com/about/360-sales-vista" target="_blank">https://alphafmc.com/about/360-sales-vista</a>) that harmonises hundreds of transaction and master data sources to produce a Daily Client Book of Record &ndash; flows, holdings and revenue matched to your firm&rsquo;s master data for client, product and agreement.</p>
<p>Daily CBOR data outputs are rigorously quality checked and packaged in a variety of analytical outputs at lower cost and greater accuracy, providing earlier access to actionable insights that are scalable and trusted across the Enterprise &ndash; a cost effective replacement for ageing local solutions and the cottage industry of spreadsheets currently in place across much of the industry.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.clientbookofrecord.com/" target="_blank">https://www.clientbookofrecord.com/</a></p>
<h3><em>About Alpha</em></h3>
<p>Alpha provides perspective, strategy and technical expertise to the world&rsquo;s top asset and wealth managers.</p>
<p>As the company with the largest dedicated team of consultants to asset and wealth managers, we have unrivalled knowledge of the industry. With offices around the world, our global expertise and ability to respond at a local level set us apart.</p>
<ul>
<li>Offices in 8 major financial centres: London, New York, Boston, Paris, The Hague, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Singapore</li>
<li>130 leading asset and wealth management clients</li>
<li>Clients include 21 of the top 25 global asset managers</li>
</ul>

Full Stack Developer

<p><strong>Alpha Data Solutions</strong></p>
<p>Job Description: <strong>Product Owner &amp; Business Analyst</strong></p>
<h3>Role Summary</h3>
<p><strong>To articulate to clients, prospects and internal stakeholders:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>the business strategy, product vision &amp; roadmap as well as differentiation against a defined competitor set</li>
<li>the value proposition and client business case for ADS products and solutions, highlighting industry trends and problem statements that our products address</li>
<li>the internal business case for new features to support achievement of the ADS business plan objectives of Business growth, Operating Margin and Client satisfaction</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>To oversee technical delivery of product roadmaps that maximise the value of the product resulting from work of the Development Team. Related activities include:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Expressing Product Backlog items and User Stories and (re)prioritising the Product Backlog to best achieve goals and missions</li>
<li>Optimizing the value of the work the Development Team performs and remaining available to the Team to articulate requirements at the level of detail needed</li>
<li>Ensuring that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all, and shows what the Development Team will work on next</li>
<li>Define the scope and client communication strategy for major product releases, including ownership of user acceptance testing and Product Owner release signoffs</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>To support business development activity &amp; pre-sales activity to win new clients for assigned solution components, client segments and products. Related activities include:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Owning product demonstration environments to deliver solution demos</li>
<li>Supporting client pitches, presentations and Proof of Value initiatives</li>
<li>Providing technical expertise and SME input to RFP and DDQ responses</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>To support the implementation and ongoing support of live clients as an ADS Product SME for assigned solution components, client segments and products. Related activities include:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Guiding implementation teams and clients across the solution design, onboarding and go-love process to requisite quality per the delivery plan</li>
<li>Delivering assigned tasks including briefing the client on approach and data issues, responding to requests for product customisations, QA of software delivery and outputs and transition to the Business as Usual (BAU) operating model</li>
<li>Providing second line support implementation and BAU Support teams regarding product defects, enhancement requests and client education, helping to design and specify workarounds and resolutions as user stories with acceptance criteria</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Lead ADS business and technical Research &amp; Development initiatives to further advance solutions and client value propositions as an ADS Product SME. Related activities include: </strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Working with the wider Solution and Development teams to explore new technologies, data and software integrations and functional capabilities to drive product differentiation</li>
<li>Conduct deep technical or data analysis to expedite product decisions, validate working assumptions and prove out problem statements</li>
<li>Conduct market and product feasibility research relating to the business, competitor and regulatory landscape informing product opportunities for new ADS products</li>
</ul>
<h3>Organisation &amp; Reporting Lines</h3>
<p><strong>Reporting to:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Solution Owner, Alpha Data Solutions</li>
<li>Implementation Leads &ndash; matrix reporting lines for assigned product implementations (as Product SME)</li>
<li>Head of Professional Services &ndash; matrix reporting line for assigned live clients (as Product SME)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Indicative Effort Allocation across responsibilities (average over 12 months)</strong></p>
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<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="381">
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Responsibility</span></p>
</td>
<td width="235">
<p align="center"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">%</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="381">
<p>Articulation of Product Vision &amp; Roadmap to key stakeholders</p>
</td>
<td width="235">
<p align="center">10%</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="381">
<p>Technical Delivery of Product Roadmap</p>
</td>
<td width="235">
<p align="center">40%o</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="381">
<p>Business Development &amp; Pre-sales</p>
</td>
<td width="235">
<p align="center">15%</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="381">
<p>Product Implementation &amp; BAU Support</p>
</td>
<td width="235">
<p align="center">15%</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="border-color: #000000; border-width: 0px;">
<td width="381">
<p>New Product Research &amp; Development</p>
</td>
<td width="235">
<p align="center">20%</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="381">
<p>Total</p>
</td>
<td width="235">
<p align="center">100%</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h3>Illustrative Experience &amp; Qualifications</h3>
<p><strong>Business Domains</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Sales, Client Relationship Management (CRM) &amp; Digital &amp; Marketing business applications in intermediated industries, preferably Financial Services</li>
<li>Business and operational processes associated with Buy-side market participants, such as Investment Managers, Hedge Funds, Wealth Managers and Asset Owners (e.g. Client Onboarding &amp; Know-Your-Client (KYC), Trade Settlement and Custody, Regulatory Reporting)</li>
<li>Exposure to key business data domains, including:</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<ul>
<li>Global Fund Data (e.g. Performance, Charges &amp; Fees and ESG data from Refinitiv, Morningstar, FundInfo, Broadridge, Bloomberg etc.)</li>
<li>Private Assets &amp; Alternatives Data (e.g. Prequin)</li>
<li>Master Data (Client, Product, Securities, Legal Agreements, Legal Entities)</li>
<li>Reference Data (Prices, Currencies &amp; Rates, Dates, Geographies etc.)</li>
<li>Found Accounting, Transfer Agent &amp; other fund distribution data (e.g. Platforms)</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<p><strong>Technical Delivery Domains</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Project management and/or Agile product delivery experience</li>
<li>Product specification and documentation</li>
<li>User Journeys, Personas and Client Experience (CX) best practices</li>
<li>Solution design and system integration experience</li>
<li>Testing strategies and acceptance criteria</li>
<li>Awareness of environment management and DevOps processes</li>
<li>ETL, Data Quality &amp; Reconciliation experience&nbsp;</li>
<li>Data Documentation, Modelling (e.g. UML) and Governance expertise</li>
<li>User Portals &amp; workflow business applications</li>
<li>Business Intelligence, Analytics &amp; exposure to Machine Learning technologies</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Essential Qualities &amp; Behaviours</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Attention to detail and focus on total quality management</li>
<li>Collegiate, collaborative &amp; effective team member</li>
<li>Clear communicator &amp; explainer &ndash; written and verbal</li>
<li>Grasps concepts, processes and technologies quickly</li>
<li>Strong ability to build meaningful relationships with client stakeholders at all levels</li>
<li>'Gets&rsquo; the transformational impact of better data in enhancing business processes (e.g. sales enablement), reducing cost (e.g. automation) and managing regulatory risk</li>
</ul>
<h3>Appendices</h3>
<p><strong>About ADS</strong></p>
<p>ADS is a division of Alpha Group (see information about Alpha below) which provides a market leading data solution to Asset &amp; Wealth Management to address the challenge of 'messy data' that makes it hard for asset managers to get a clear view of the Client Book of Record &ndash;i.e. the economic data (flows, holdings, revenue &amp; profit) about clients &amp; fund investors.</p>
<p>In Q4 2019, Alpha acquired Obsidian Solutions, combining best practices and leading solutions to offer a broad and market leading proposition to Hedge Funds &amp; Investment Managers. The combined management team builds on extensive experience from the investment management space and is focused on delivering high quality technology &amp; data solutions to address the core business and operational challenges facing the Investment Management industry today.</p>
<p><strong>About Alpha</strong></p>
<p>Alpha provides perspective, strategy and technical expertise to the world&rsquo;s top asset and wealth managers. As the company with the largest dedicated team of consultants to asset and wealth managers, we have unrivalled knowledge of the industry. With offices around the world in 8 major financial centres, our global expertise and ability to respond at a local level set us apart. Alpha counts over 130 leading asset and wealth management amongst its clients, which include 21 of the top 25 global asset managers.</p>

Product Owner & Business Analyst

<h3>Role Summary</h3>
<ul>
<li>To implement, configure and test data connectors across ADS products, specifically relating to Alpha&rsquo;s Client Book of Record solution. Related activities include:</li>
<ul>
<li>Source file investigation and analysis (e.g. to evaluate consistency or complexity) and validate they conform to required ADS input specifications</li>
<li>Data connector configuration including file-level parameters, field definitions and advanced SQL mappings for special cases</li>
<li>Integration and end-to-end testing of new data sources, including overseeing the Production release process for assigned sources</li>
</ul>
<li>Perform client-specific or ad-hoc data analysis and technical research to support feature development or address solution design considerations for new client implementations</li>
<ul>
<li>Review of Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs), file specifications and end user requirements in order to validate third party complex data integrations</li>
<li>Execution of database or report level reconciliation exercises to support data regression testing or investigate data quality issues flagged by clients or internal stakeholders</li>
</ul>
<li>Author technical product documentation relating to changes and enhancements to application business logic. Related activities include:</li>
<ul>
<li>Documentation of custom input or output file specifications to support client use cases and business processes</li>
<li>Construction of user stories and acceptance criteria relating to complex data transformations and business calculations (e.g. aggregations)</li>
<li>Establishment of realistic test data sets to support feature development or test automation initiatives within ADS development teams</li>
</ul>
<li>Take ownership of operational excellence initiatives aimed at task automation and process optimisation for live Asset Management clients using ADS solutions. Related activities include:</li>
<ul>
<li>Investigation of processes and controls with a focus on identifying opportunities for efficiencies and automation that tie back to improved client and ADS business outcomes</li>
<li>Ownership and accountability for operational excellence initiatives aimed at reducing client servicing overhead and continuous improvement</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<h3>Organisation &amp; Reporting Lines</h3>
<ul>
<li>Reporting to:</li>
<ul>
<li>Solution Owner, Alpha Data Solutions</li>
<li>Implementation Leads &ndash; matrix reporting lines for assigned product implementations (as Data SME)</li>
<li>Head of Professional Services &ndash; matrix reporting line for assigned live clients and ongoing service delivery (as Data SME)</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<p><strong>Indicative Effort Allocation across responsibilities (average over 12 months)</strong></p>
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<p>Implementation, configuration and testing of data connectors</p>
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<p align="center">60%</p>
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<p>Implementation-specific or ad-hoc analysis and research</p>
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<p align="center">20%</p>
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<p>Authoring of technical product documentation</p>
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<p align="center">10%</p>
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<p>Ownership of operational excellence initiatives</p>
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<p align="center">10%</p>
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<p><strong>Total</strong></p>
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<p align="center"><strong>100%</strong></p>
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<h3>Illustrative Experience &amp; Qualifications</h3>
<h3><strong>Business Analysis &amp; Data Experience</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li>Experience defining functional and data requirements as well as business logic to extract, transform and load complex datasets</li>
<li>Adept at data modelling, data mapping and conducting data analysis on new or adjacent datasets independently</li>
<li>Understanding of data quality frameworks, issues and solutions that can help mitigate or monitor fidelity across applications and solutions</li>
<li>Ability to lead effective technical and business workshops, synthesising complex data problems and technical concepts for senior or less experienced stakeholders</li>
<li>Knowledge and experience working with business analysis and design methodologies (e.g. Business Process Modelling, BPM)</li>
<li>Experience working with development teams that utilise lightweight agile delivery methodologies (e.g. SCRUM)</li>
<li>Working understanding of Software and Data Deployment &amp; Release Management processes and concepts, procedures and considerations</li>
<li>Basic understanding of business and operational processes associated with Buy-side market participants, such as Investment Managers, Hedge Funds, Wealth Managers and Asset Owners (e.g. Client Onboarding, Trade Settlement and Regulatory Reporting)</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>Technical &amp; Data Experience</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li>Advanced knowledge of SQL &amp; SQL Server to validate business logic, answer queries and conduct database interrogations (e.g. analysing stored procedures for Root Cause Analysis)</li>
<li>Ability to read .NET &amp; ASP code (e.g. within MS Visual Studio) where applicable</li>
<li>Developed understanding of ETL, data processing and data warehousing concepts, technical components and functionality</li>
<li>Experience using business intelligence solutions (e.g. PowerBI or Tableau), data warehousing and analytics solutions (e.g. Snowflake, Alteryx) or data quality solutions (e.g. Talend)</li>
<li>Experience using data modelling and documentation tooling such as data dictionaries and business glossaries</li>
<li>Working knowledge of the below core support systems deployed by ADS to manage client delivery and ongoing operations:</li>
<ul>
<li>JIRA, Confluence, Asana, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Azure (or other cloud-based solutions), GIT</li>
</ul>
<li>Understanding of Sales, Client Relationship Management (CRM), Digital &amp; Marketing business applications in intermediated industries, preferably Financial Services</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>Illustrative Qualifications (Desirable)</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li>BCS Business Analyst Diploma</li>
<li>Certified SCRUM Master</li>
<li>PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner Certification]</li>
<li>CFA UK Level 4 Certificate in Investment Management (IMC)</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>Qualities &amp; Behaviours</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li>Attention to detail and focus on total quality management</li>
<li>Collegiate, collaborative &amp; effective team member</li>
<li>Clear communicator &amp; explainer &ndash; written and verbal</li>
<li>Grasps concepts, processes and technologies quickly</li>
<li>Strong ability to build meaningful relationships with client stakeholders at all levels</li>
<li>'Gets&rsquo; the transformational impact of better data in enhancing business processes (e.g. sales enablement), reducing cost (e.g. automation) and managing regulatory risk</li>
</ul>
<h3>Appendices</h3>
<p><strong>About ADS</strong></p>
<p>ADS is a division of Alpha Group (see information about Alpha below) which provides a market leading data solution to Asset &amp; Wealth Management to address the challenge of 'messy data' that makes it hard for asset managers to get a clear view of the Client Book of Record &ndash;i.e. the economic data (flows, holdings, revenue &amp; profit) about clients &amp; fund investors.</p>
<p>In Q4 2019, Alpha acquired Obsidian Solutions, combining best practices and leading solutions to offer a broad and market leading proposition to Hedge Funds &amp; Investment Managers. The combined management team builds on extensive experience from the investment management space and is focused on delivering high quality technology &amp; data solutions to address the core business and operational challenges facing the Investment Management industry today.</p>
<p><strong>About Alpha</strong></p>
<p>Alpha provides perspective, strategy and technical expertise to the world&rsquo;s top asset and wealth managers. As the company with the largest dedicated team of consultants to asset and wealth managers, we have unrivalled knowledge of the industry. With offices around the world in 8 major financial centres, our global expertise and ability to respond at a local level set us apart. Alpha counts over 130 leading asset and wealth management amongst its clients, which include 21 of the top 25 global asset managers</p>

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