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 Music Title: Voltaic Fluctuations Artist: Ben Prunty Source: https://www.benpruntymusic.com/ License: Non-transferable license. Permission granted by Ben Prunty Cover Art Title: Complex collage Artist: Allen Higgins Source: vignette_version.pptx License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Podcast License Design Talk (dot IE) CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 The license can be viewed at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 By taking part you give permission for your voice to be recorded, for the recording to be edited, and for it to be posted and published as a podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.