0199 - Building Data Platforms with James Egan

Hosts: Harshitha Jayasimha, Abhishek Sabharwal 

We are very pleased to welcome James Egan, software consultant at Murex.

Can you tell us a little about yourself to start?

·       Talk about the industry space that Murex operates in? 

·       Do developers need Financial Services knowledge to work in this space?

·       Having trained as an engineer, how did you get into product management?

·       How does the product development side interact with the customer facing side?

·       What approaches do you take to gathering and managing requirements? [expand on approach to Agile – SAFE]

·       What do you look for in new hires? [Fast, willing learners, open minds, problem solvers.]

·       Go-to tools and techniques for the job?

·       Where do you see design taking place? What is design? [architecture, interface, lines-of-code; design philosophy?]

·       <questions from the audience>

Well, we’ll wrap up there.

Thank you for sharing your ideas with us today.

Notes:

https://www.murex.com/en/who-we-are/about-us

Acknowledgements

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Artist: Ben Prunty

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Artist: Allen Higgins

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