Sunday, January 31, 2010

[itroundtable] LEAD: Sr Apps Supp Cnsltnt - NYC - Fin Svcs Exp req'd - 6 mos contract

 

This assignment is part of a huge global project.Client is at the southern tip of Manhattan/Wall Street  - easy commute  from Staten Island, New Jersey, Brooklyn- This is a long term contract (6 months+) assignment. Financial securities trading/exchange/ equities options knowledge required.
 
 
H1B, TN visa, U.S. citizen green card holders welcome to apply, please provide a daily rate for an 8 hour day.
Thank you.
Terry Welsh
 
Senior Application Support Consultant - focus is on Change Management, Application/ Implementation Management and Testing.Background in financial securities/trading environment strongly preferred
 
The qualified individual will manage software changes and releases and be responsible for implementation and will be responsible for providing 24x7 application and technical support to all production and test environments.

Experience Required/Results Expected:

§  Bachelors degree

§  Scripting experience

§  Application support

§  Knowledge of basic network administration

§  Change management and configuration management Experience

§  Technical testing

§  Project management Process experience

§  General understanding of capacity and performance management

§  Customer service experience

 
 

Change Management

Manage installation and configuration of application software for production environments on multiple platforms Schedule and track application changes and releases Define, test, and document installation and fallback of system changes Risk assessment prior to implementation Document specific procedures for implementation and error checking Manage software and configuration changes on Test and Production environments
  • Project Management
Work on projects of all sizes and scope within the company Work on multiple projects simultaneously, often in a leadership role Set priorities and organize work to complete project responsibilities efficiently and effectively Participate in design meetings, implementation planning process, and the management of production issues
  • Implementation Management
  • Make several daily modifications to support customers' business and technical specifications
  • Perform operational acceptance tests before changes are rolled out  
  • Design implementation strategy and procedures  
  • Application configuration and implementation management
  • Deploy application software and configuration changes across all Production and Test environments  
  • Perform implementation and integration of application software and hardware configuration changes
    Operational Acceptance Testing 
  • Create and execute operational test plans/scripts/ cases based on technical and business requirements for trading applications and market operations support tools
  • Support the execution of unit, acceptance, performance, capacity, regression and system failover testing on back-end components using manual and automated test procedures  
  • Support scheduled weekend testing of Production level systems and applications
  • Test OS and layered product upgrades/patches
    Application Support  
  • Provide application and system support for several internal departmentsProvide application and environment administration of a complex trading systems  
  • Utilize Remedy to track and manage defects discovered during testing and application support
  • Troubleshoot and diagnose systems problems; install and configure fixes for applications running on OpenVMS, Red Hat Linux and Windows platforms 
  • Support all  Test Environments and Production environments
  • Provide online and offline Level II support for the trading systems  
  • Analyze cause of production problems and develop methods for improvement
     

 

Terry Welsh
Managing Director-North America
Concepts in Staffing
TERRY@CISNY. COM

 212/725-0300 x. 432
212/293-4432 


MIS Ntwk Assoc Mtg Dates:
Feb 2nd - Tues - Bring 20 copies of your resume - 6 pm - Carnevale Center 10 Lenox Ave Pompton Lakes 07442 Rm 9 - plan to have dinner with us afterwards
Feb 9th Combined Dinner Mtg AWC - Rod Colon - Empowering Today's Professionals (ETP) Network

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