Improver

Sakir Ahmed

Executive Director at JP Morgan

Kingston upon Hull, England Metropolitan Area

My experience over the last 20 years has mostly been within Capital Markets, where I have had a multitude of roles from Global or Regional Head of Electronic Trading IT, to Senior Consultancy roles working within Risk/Regulatory and BigData Analytics.

I have led Infrastructure Engineering, Architecture, Agile Application Development, Service Management and Programme Management teams and provided senior leadership, financial and stakeholder management throughout the full product life-cycles of complex projects and programmes.

My career has mostly been within Investment Banking IT, covering off Equtities, Fixed Income, FX & Derivatives businesses.

I have an extensive knowledge of design, build, deploy and operate of:

Enterprise Computing Architectures
Low Latency Architectures
Monitoring Engineering
Market & Exchange Connectivity
Global Co-Location Designs
High Performance Networking
Storage SAN/NAS & HA Clustering
Data Fabric & Grid Computing
Application & System Security
Application Development/Testing
Continuous Integration

I have also been part of development improvement strategies, by implementing DevOps processes and tools to provide better productivity to Agile Development teams on:

Code Assure/Build/Release/Deploy
Continuous Integration & Deployment
On demand compute using Service Virtualisation

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Experience:

• Executive Director, Head of Infrastructure Technology (MUFG)
• Director, Technical Lead & Architect (Barclays Investment Bank)
• Executive Director, Head of Infrastructure (JPMorgan Chase & Co.)
• Enterprise Technical Architect (HSBC)
• Associate Parent Govenor (Fernhill school)
• Director, EMEA Head Global Markets IT (MUFG)
• Executive Director, Head of Front Office Technology (MUFG)

Skills:

• Servers
• PMO
• Solution Architecture
• Project Portfolio Management
• FX
• ITIL
• Grid Computing
• Trading
• Performance Monitoring
• System Architecture
• High Performance Computing
• Market Data
• Programme Delivery
• Enterprise Architecture
• Vendor Management
• Mentoring
• Investment Banking
• Market Risk
• Managerial Finance
• Technical Architecture
• Electronic Trading
• Data Center
• Financial Management
• Solaris
• Equities
• PRINCE2
• Unix
• Derivatives
• Credit Derivatives
• IT Operations
• IT Strategy
• Infrastructure
• TOGAF
• Stakeholder Management
• Architecture
• Governance
• Project Delivery
• Exchange Connectivity
• FX Options
• Financial Services
• Business Continuity
• Equity Derivatives
• IT Management
• Low Latency
• High Availability
• Trading Systems
• Offshoring
• SOA
• Performance Management
• System Deployment