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Broadridge (Itiviti/Ullink)

Context

Broadridge (formerly Itiviti, and before that Ullink) is a fintech (Financial Technology) company that provides a product which facilites dialogue (in a technical/digital sense) between investors and exchanges. Its main product is called the “bridge”, a communication platform sold to brokers. I was in charge of managing a series of highly technical “plugins” for the bridge that served to translate incoming and outgoing messages from external third party protocols to our own internal, standardised protocol and vice-versa.

Plugins Product Ownership

  • SCRUM product owner (PO) role on a vital piece of the sold software.
  • External requirements gathering from client support teams and clients.
  • Negociation and exchanges with clients and client support teams to establish task priority
  • Organisation of refinement meetings to obtain independent user stories
  • Organisation of Sprint Plannings to set the upcoming backlog of tasks to accomplish
  • Organisation of Sprint Reviews (including live demos)
  • Maintenance of team cohesion
  • Writing specifications via “epic” stories
  • Extended knowledge sharing via presentations, documentation, et specialised tools
  • UI/UX Design for a new functionality of the tool, including mockups
  • Managed time critical projects (for example linked to upcoming legislation / compliance)
  • Active participation in the QA phase
  • Long term raodmap (vision) creation for my products

Internal Software Product Ownership

  • SCRUM product owner (PO) role for in-house development teams support software.
  • Multiple pieces of software were managed, mainly tools used by other internal teams.
  • Internal requirements gathering from development teams.
  • Delivery of tools with internal communications

Slack bot development

  • Python Scripting
  • Interactions with numerous internal & external APIs
  • Code shared with employees via Git
  • Parsing & management of complex data
  • Test Driven Development (TDD)
  • Delivered a slack bot that accomplished multiple functions such as querying information on jira tickets, information about financial protocols, and a who’s who database of the company.