FILLED System Upgrade, RFP Project Manager, Financial Services (DB6162)
Systems upgrade, RFP Project Manager (DB6162)
Financial Services
6 months,
Canary Wharf,
Market Rate,
ASAP start
Deadline for response: By 5 pm Wednesday 6th November.
Role Summary
Our sister company, B2E Consulting, immediately requires
an interim consultant with experience of shaping and managing RFP processes for
£10m+ systems initiatives to work with one of their Financial Services clients.
Context
The client's current platform holds daily UK and European
trade data, and handles 10-20m transactions on a daily basis.
Certain components of the system are due for renewal, and
additional volumes (up to 70m
transactions per day) anticipated from forthcoming regulatory changes (MIFR II
and MAR) mean that a material platform upgrade is required.
The proposed solution to this is to select an external
partner to simplify the platform to increase performance and capacity and
provide a scalable platform for the future regulatory functional changes.
This project is in the inception stages and the client is
aiming to select a partner to work with.
In the short term, the client requires a project manager
to be accountable for delivery of the RFP process and certain aspects of
project initiation.
NB. The main components of the current platform are
Oracle 10g databases, Cognos for reporting, Oracle WLS for middleware and
Oracle OWB for the ETL, and the upgrade is expected to take 18-24 months.
Role Objectives
* Define the platform simplification RFP approach and
plan, and agree with business & project sponsor group
* Create the RFP documents, facilitating inputs from
different parties and ensuring document is integrated, coherent and has clear
requirements
* Manage the RFP issue and response process, specify
decision making criteria and deliver a decision amongst the business &
project sponsor group
* Project manage the RFP process in an manner appropriate
for a initiative of this type and size - (define plan, report on progress,
manage stakeholders, facilitate inputs from the working group, deliver
artefacts and observe appropriate governance processes
* Facilitate inputs into the next year planning process
for the platform simplification initiative
* Develop thinking on key elements of the project
Idea/Start up stage: shape of client team in initial stages, match of potential
resources to roles, support evolution of the technical approach.
Key Skills and Requirements
The successful candidate will need to demonstrate the
following skills and experience:
* Significant proven experience of shaping and managing
RFP processes for £10m+ systems solutions
* Experience of the project Idea/Initiation phases
(shaping of plans, project approach questions, initial business case
development, shaping project budgets, setting up and running governance
processes etc.)
* Experience of working with a high volume (15+ millions
of daily transactions) transaction systems
Advantageous
* Technical understanding of the Oracle product set of
ODI, Exadata, Exalytics