Saturday, November 6, 2010

[NE-Financial-Services-IT-Jobs] Digest Number 544

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1a.

Sr. Business Systems Analyst - Property & Casualty Insurance - Rt 93

Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net   wrightassociates

Fri Nov 5, 2010 7:36 am (PDT)



Please feel free to refer this position to other groups and people you know.

Position Title – WACOSBSA102010 – Multiple Openings - 11-05-2010

Sr. Business Systems Analyst – Property & Casualty Insurance - Rt 93/Boston,
MA Area - Up to $90K+

Up to $90K+ DOE + Small Bonus

Local Candidates Only – No sponsorship

Stable Work History

Must have property and casualty insurance domain experience.

Company

Mid sized, very successful financial services firm – voted one of the Best
Places to Work in Boston.

Position Responsibilities – Summary

The Senior Systems Business Analyst is responsible for successful
participation and leadership in projects of various sizes, impact and
complexity in support of the company's business plan. Principal duties
include eliciting and documenting functionality requirements for software
applications as well as providing peer reviews of requirements written by
other team members.

This individual will be called upon to lead requirement and brainstorming
sessions to determine appropriate needs and solutions. This position will be
required to move fluidly between the business users, application
development, quality assurance and other professional services to identify,
evaluate and document requirements that meet business needs.

The Sr. Systems Business Analyst will work as a conduit between the customer
community and application development team through which requirements flow,
interpreting and anticipating business needs with clarity and completeness.
The successful candidate will have the ability to use sound judgment to make
key decisions in the approach, design, scope and solution of business
requests in order to meet both strategic and tactical goals.

The Sr. Systems Business Analyst is also responsible to prepare the business
community for the newly introduced functionality by preparing comprehensive
implementation plans, communicating implementation and change to key
stakeholders and providing training to impacted users.

Detailed Responsibilities:

· Act as the liaison between the technology groups and the Business
Customers
· Provide guidance and leadership to BA(s) and Project Teams
· Train, coach and mentor junior or new members of the team
· Fulfill the role of BA Lead while working on initiatives including
leading and facilit1ating meetings and working sessions.
· Determine the approach for gathering requirements and determine
the required deliverables for assigned projects
· Perform research and analysis to deliver high quality detailed
business requirements that can be understood by the business users and the
development teams.

Required Skills and Competencies:

· Bachelors Degree plus 6 years experience - Advanced degree
preferred.
· Experience includes working as a Business Analyst, Systems
Analyst, Project Manager or Quality Assurance Analyst.
· Must have domain expertise in the Property & Casualty Insurance
space.
· Project Lead experience required.
· With little supervision the Senior Systems Business Analyst must
be able to prioritize work, and meet deadlines while delivering high
quality, and positive outcomes resulting in high levels of customer
satisfaction.
· The successful candidate will have strong written, verbal and
presentation communication skills, have a thorough understanding of business
processes, the ability to collaborate with various stakeholders, strong
analytical skills, as well as the ability to think abstractly, identify
patterns and use sound judgment to generate creative ideas and solutions.
· A Senior Business Analyst will be required to be well versed in
both the business and technology domains in order to make sound decisions in
the use of automated solutions.
· This role requires innovative thinking, the ability to resolve
conflict and demonstrated success leading and motivating others.

Contact Information

Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates

Phone - (508) 761-6354

Email - garywright@prodigy.net - WEB Site – www.wrightassociates.org

2a.

Sr. Associate Technology - C#/.Net - WPF - Silverlight - FS - Boston

Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net   wrightassociates

Fri Nov 5, 2010 7:37 am (PDT)



Please feel free to refer this position to your associates – Referrals
appreciated.

Position Title – WRCOSPSAT102010

Open & Active as of 11-05-2010

Sr. Associate Technology – C#/.Net – WPF – Silverlight - FS - Boston, MA
Area – Up to $110K+ DOE

Up to $110K Base DOE + Bonus + Benefits

Local Candidates Only – No Sponsorship

Stable Work History

Overnight Travel Required

Company

Large, successful, IT Solutions Firm focused on the Capital Markets space.

Position Summary:

As a Senior Associate you will design and develop technology based business
solutions for our clients in the financial services and energy trading
industry. You may be required to play a team lead role for a small team
and/or take on responsibility for the development for a specific component
or track of the solution architecture. At all times you will actively
support the development, and drive quality assurance during design and
realization of the solution.

Primary Responsibilities:

· Support or lead design, estimation and planning tasks for the
solution using technical and functional expertise.
· Generate and review estimates, which include anticipated risks.
· Facilitate clients in meetings to capture business requirements
and develop solution design using best practice/design patterns.
· May be required to be hands-on developer for complex areas.
· May be required to support and enhance existing client
applications.
· Manage projects, people, and scope and be responsible for quality
for your development track/team throughout the project lifecycle.

Required Skills and Competencies:

· Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field.
· Experience in WPF and/or Silverlight with WCF using MVC, MVP and
MVVM and RIA data/web services and familiarity with UI/UE design and
implementation.
· Significant, hands-on experience in solution design, architectural
analysis within trading systems (or similar).
· Proficient in Core C#/.NET fundamentals especially Collections,
GC, events and delegates, Multi-threading and Generics.
· Good understanding of financial and energy trading markets,
especially front and mid office within at least one asset class or product
type.
· Proficient understanding of new language features like LINQ and
lambda expressions.
· Significant experience in at least one IOC Container and Mock
Framework, NAnt and NUnit.
· Proficiency in one or more Relational Databases is highly
desirable: Oracle, MS SQL Server, Sybase.
· Excellent knowledge of OOAD, UML, Design Patterns and Data
Structures.
· Excellent problem-solving skills.
· End-to-end experience in agile software development lifecycle.
· Ability to influence and negotiate with clients and team members.
· Project leadership skills including people management, scope and
plan management and tracking.
· Ability to abstract detail into larger (repeatable) patterns,
familiarity with user-centered analysis and evaluation techniques.
· Openness to travel and work at client offices.

Contact Information

Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates

Phone - (508) 761-6354

Email - ReplyWrightAssociates@Verizon.Net - WEB Site –
www.WrightAssociates.org

3.

Updated - Lead Systems Analyst - Performance Measurement - FS - MBA

Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net   wrightassociates

Sat Nov 6, 2010 6:36 am (PDT)



Please feel free to refer this position to other groups and people you know.

Position Title – WR716541

Updated 11-05-2010

Lead Systems Analyst – Performance Measurement - FS – MBA - Boston, MA
Area – Excellent $$

Excellent Compensation Package – Base + Bonus + PS

Candidates Local to Mass. Only – No Sponsorship

Company

Large, successful, and growing Boston based Investment Management Firm –
Great Company – Lots of Upside – Excellent Compensation Package – Bonus –
Profit Sharing etc. Join a team oriented, collaborative, results focused
environment and become part of an elite organization with great growth
possibilities.

Position Responsibilities – Summary

The Investment Administration Applications team is seeking a Lead Systems
Analyst who will be responsible for requirements, systems analysis, testing,
and project management for initiatives supporting the Performance Services
group within Investment Administration. The Performance Services group is
responsible for investment performance measurement, performance attribution,
benchmark maintenance, and GIPS composite maintenance.
The position requires a high level of interaction with the business users as
well as excellent communication and delivery skills. The candidate should
be a self-starter with the ability to multi-task and work on a variety of
assignments in a fast-paced environment with people at all levels of the
organization.
In 2011 the IA Applications team will begin a multi-year initiative to
replace the firm's legacy performance measurement system. This individual
will participate in the vendor evaluation and buy/build decision, and be a
key contributor in the detailed analysis and implementation of the new
system.

Key Responsibilities;

The Lead Systems Analyst will have the following responsibilities:

· Interact with investment professionals to proactively identify
opportunities for new/improved systems.
· Work with business partners to define, analyze and document
requirements.
· Document functional specifications for new systems and
enhancements.
· Coordinate the work of systems analysts, software developers,
database architects and data vendors to design and implement robust
technical solutions.
· Plan and perform functional testing of new systems and
enhancements.
Keys to this Position:
1. 5 years of Performance Measurement and Attribution experience is
required.
2. 10 years of financial services industry is required, preferably asset
management.
3. Strong Systems Analysis skills are required.
4. The CFA is a strong plus.
5. We will also consider recent MBA grads (2010/2011) from top tier schools
that don't have the above experience (i.e. Sloan, Wharton, etc.)
6. We will also consider strong MBA's with math/quant background that do
not have performance.
Required Skills and Competencies:
· A minimum of 10 years of work experience in a financial services
technology environment.
· A minimum of 5 years experience developing or supporting
performance measurement and/or performance attribution applications.
· Strong understanding of investment processes, securities,
analytics and market data services.
· Strong client relationship, communication and analytical skills.
· Demonstrated experience in project management and business
analysis for medium to large initiatives.
· Demonstrated experience in formal software development
methodologies.
· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business or related
discipline.
· A CFA and/or CIPM designation would be a strong plus.

Contact Information

Send Resume in Word format only to:

Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates

Phone - (508) 761-6354 - Email - replywrightassociates@verizon.net - WEB
Site – www.wrightassociates.org

4a.

Sr. Java/J2EE Developer - FS - MySQL - Server Side - Boston, MA Area

Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net   wrightassociates

Sat Nov 6, 2010 6:36 am (PDT)



Please feel free to refer this position to other groups and people you know.

Position Title – WRATBTSJD102010

Open & Active as of 11-05-2010

Sr. Java/J2EE Developer – FS – MySQL – Server Side – Boston, MA Area - Up to
$100K+ DOE

Base + Bonus + Benefits

Local Candidates Only – No Sponsorship

Company

Hot Financial Services Start Up – Fast growing - Foreign Exchange Trading –
Lots of grow possibilities

Position Responsibilities - Summary

My client is looking for motivated, energetic, and highly capable Java
developers to integrate into their dynamic engineering team. This is the
perfect opportunity for individuals looking for a challenging position with
constantly increasing responsibilities and autonomy. Client offers a very
fast-paced work environment, the support of management, and the opportunity
for career growth.

Required Skills and Competencies:

Must Haves:

· Must be a core Java/J2EE programmer with Multi-Threaded & Server
Side experience.
· 5+ years experience in Java development
· Basic knowledge of MySQL
· Financial Services experience – 24X7 – Mission Critical –
Performance Environments
· Bachelor Degree (or higher) in Computer Science

Preferred Experience/Requirements:

· Certification in Java 5.0+ - Knowledge of scalability - Knowledge
of functional programming - Knowledge of Regular Expressions - Knowledge of
JSON

· Basic knowledge of Perl

· Ability to compile & read in C++ (no C++ programming required)

Contact Information

Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates

Phone - (508) 761-6354 - Email - replywrightassociates@verizon.net - WEB
Site – www.wrightassociates.org

5a.

Sr. Applications Developer/Analyst - JavaJ2EE -JMS - Web - Rt 93/Bos

Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net   wrightassociates

Sat Nov 6, 2010 6:36 am (PDT)



Please feel free to refer this position to other groups and people you know.

Position Title – WACOAR082010

Open & Active as of 11-05-2010

Sr. Applications Developer/Analyst – JavaJ2EE –JMS – Web – Rt 93/Boston, MA
Area - Up to $90K+

Up to $90K+ DOE + Small Bonus

Local Candidates Only – No sponsorship

Company

Mid sized, very successful financial services firm – voted one of the Best
Places to Work in Boston.

Position Responsibilities – Summary

The Senior Developer/Analyst role is to participate in design and
development of WEB applications. Senior Developer must have strong knowledge
in software architecture and design and have experience working in a small
to medium development team environment. This position will specialize in a
specific development environment and is expected to translate business
requirements into concise and robust technical solutions.

Detailed Responsibilities:

· Work with business analysts to gather and document requirements.
· Develop functional and technical specifications.
· Prepare time estimates for individual deliverables.
· Develop and unit test applications.
· Create, document, and implement unit test plans, scripts, and test
harnesses.
· Create and maintain technical documentation using defined
technical documentation templates.
· Participate in on-call, 24/7 coverage on a rotational basis.

Required Skills and Competencies:

· 5-10 years of technical experience developing web applications
using following technologies
· Core Java with J2EE, Struts, JMS, EJB, AJAX, JavaScript, JSP,
HTML, CSS
Web services, XML, XML Schemas, XSLT
· Solid understanding of all phases of the Software Development Life
Cycle (SDLC)
· Must be client-facing and capable of working in a dynamic
environment to collect and document business requirements.
· Good writing and communications skills
· Capable of multitasking
· Good Customer Service skills

Additional skills desired:

· Ant, MyEclipse, WebSphere Express
· SQL, UNIX Shell Scripting, Windows Scripting
· Desired experience with PEGA Rules Process Commander

Contact Information

Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates

Phone - (508) 761-6354

Email - garywright@prodigy.net - WEB Site – www.wrightassociates.org

6a.

Lead QA Engineer - FS - Back Office - QTP - QC - Load Runner - Marlb

Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net   wrightassociates

Sat Nov 6, 2010 6:42 am (PDT)



Please feel free to refer this position to other groups and people you know.

Position Title – WR719231

Open & Active as of 11-05-2010

Lead QA Engineer – FS – Back Office – QTP – QC – Load Runner - Marlboro, MA
Area – Excellent $$

Excellent Compensation Package – Base + Bonus + PS

Candidates Local to Mass. Only – No Sponsorship

Company

Large, successful, and growing Boston based Investment Management Firm –
Great Company – Lots of Upside – Excellent Compensation Package – Bonus –
Profit Sharing etc. Join a team oriented, collaborative, results focused
environment and become part of an elite organization with great growth
possibilities.

Position Responsibilities – Summary

The QMC team is seeking a Lead QA engineer to be an integral member of the
QA team responsible for leading the testing efforts for the Investment
Administration suite of applications.

Key Responsibilities;

· Develop and execute testing strategy based on the application
requirements, leading to the analysis, design, documentation and execution
of the test cases for the IA suite of applications
· Drive testing automation, scripting and regression testing
projects utilizing offshore test automation engineers
· Provide guidance to the QA teams, and partner with the centralized
QA teams to align the practices with the strategic QA direction of the
enterprise.
· Partner with the business analyst and the develop teams to review
and understand the business requirements and the technical implementations.
· Ensure each release meets well-defined quality standards by
working closely with the development managers
· Partner with Project Managers on estimates, statuses and risks.
Report weekly status to the senior management and escalate issues.
· Stay current with the QA best practices, methodologies and
technologies, and continue to improve the QA processes across the team.

Key to this Position:

1. This individual will need experience managing a QA team of 5 to 10
resources (on and offshore).
2. This individual should have expertise in the QA space, be able to make
recommendations, set direction and define strategy.
3. Domain knowledge: This individual needs to have QA leadership
experience in the back office in one or more of the following areas: Fund
Accounting, Swift, Settlements and/or Performance.
4. Expertise with QA tools such as QC, QTP and Load runner

The ideal candidate must have expertise in QA, excellent leadership and
communication skills with a proven ability to manage multiple QA tracks.

Required Skills and Competencies:

· Seven plus years experience as a QA engineer and three plus years
experience in leading a QA team on complex projects
· Expertise with all aspects of testing, including functional,
structural, regression, load and performance testing
· Expertise with QA tools such as QC, QTP and Load runner
· Experience working on high-volume transaction applications
· Knowledge of the Investment back-office operations required
· Ability to manage a team of offshore and onshore-based vendor QA
teams
· Knowledge of the Agile development and project management
processes
· Ability to diagnose and identify performance and stability issues
in large, complex applications
· Strong knowledge of Linux, Oracle database and SQL
· Strong motivation and ability to work in a fast-paced,
team-oriented environment supporting a business-critical application
· Bachelors degree required

Contact Information

Send Resume in Word format only to:

Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates

Phone - (508) 761-6354 - Email - replywrightassociates@verizon.net - WEB
Site – www.wrightassociates.org

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1.

Immediate opportinity for QA Manager/PMO with Brokerage or F.I. NYC

Posted by: "Jeff Leichtman" jeff.leichtman@live.com   dzeph317

Fri Nov 5, 2010 9:41 am (PDT)





To: psg_newbrunswick@yahoogroups.com
From: psgopinath2@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 08:48:10 -0700
Subject: [psg_newbrunswick] Fw: Fwd: Immediate opportinity for QA Manager/PMO with Brokerage or F.I.

Please contact recruiter if interested in this position.

Good luck!
Go pi

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Sent: Fri, November 5, 2010 11:42:24 AM
Subject: Fwd: Immediate opportunity for QA Manager/PMO with Brokerage or F.I.

Nov 5, 2010 10:35:28 AM, mkeneally@itmmi.com wrote:

11/05/10 10:21 AM
Greetings Poluguvan:

Good afternoon. My name is Mike Keneally and I am reaching out to you on behalf of Mitchell/Martin, Inc. One of our clients in the in the midtown Manhattan area is looking for a QA Manager or Project manager with a strong background with Brokerage or Fixed Income. This position is located in Downtown Manhattan.

Our client, one of the largest global investment banking and securities firms, is converting to a new trading system. Ideal candidates will have worked in a trading environment or with trading applications. The application they are moving to is IMPACT Trading application.

This is a 6 month to 1 year contract with possibility of extension. We can allow W2 or Corp.
Compensation is commensurate to experience.

Requirements:

· Coordinate testing and conversion, work with the users on the testing effort.
· Troubleshoot issues related to testing and conversion.
· Manage hands-on testing and conversion status and follow up with next steps.
· Work closely with Testing Manager in coordinating and communicating status.
· Develop relationships with core users in Ops and Finance.
· Knowledge of impact FI products and core ops and finance processes
· Knowledge of impact procedures, processes and EOD process (files, reports, etc.)
· Hands on experience with impact testing and conversion efforts.

There are more specifics to the role which I would be happy to further discuss with you.

I would also be happy to discuss our Referral Program with you. If you know of anyone with this background it would be much appreciated and our team pays a generous referral program. For consulting placements we pay $16 per day and for permanent placements we pay $3,000 paid after 90 days of work. This is a great way to make thousands in extra cash, and help out a friend, colleague, or associate! We are keen on networking and establishing a long-term, mutually beneficial partnership with you!

If you are interested in learning more about this position or know someone, please reach out to me at mkeneally@itmmi.com.

Thank you for your time and consideration. I look forward to hearing from you!


Thanks again.
Mike Keneally
Mitchell/Martin, Inc.
307 West 38th Street, Suite 1305
New York, NY 10018
Tel: (212) 943-1404

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1.

Senior Project Manager – Application Development in Princeton

Posted by: "Keith Bogen SPHR" keith.bogen@yahoo.com   hrslugger2002

Fri Nov 5, 2010 4:03 am (PDT)



My name is Renee Schlamp and I'm a Recruiter with Diversant LLC. You've
received this email because the skills in your resume matched our search
criteria for Senior Project Manager – Application Development in our database.

It is possible that you may not be best suited for this particular position, but
we have multiple positions available in all areas and levels of IT where you may
be interested and better suited.

Please respond if you are qualified, available, interested, planning to make a
change, or know of a friend who might have the required qualifications and
interest in working with us as we have an excellent referral program.

Below is the job description to which I am referring for a current job
opening located in Princeton, NJ

Type: Contract
Rate: $57-$60 W2
Duration: 6 months+


Job Title: Senior Project Manager – Application Development - Senior
Location: Princeton, NJ

Additional Skills:Excellent Program/Project Management skills. Experience
managing a Program.
Ability to deal with short timelines and a challenging client.
Experience in the HR space a plus.
This individual will be involved in managing the day to day activities of the
Program.
• Responsible for Program status reporting and compilation of individual Project
status
• Coordinate all activities around the implementation and delivery of the
Program including scheduling of resources, providing regular status updates,
addressing challenges that arise, and successfully deliver on time and on
budget.
• Responsible for Program Governance that includes defining roles and
responsibilities. Creates both the structure and practices to guide the program
and provide leadership, oversight, and control. Ensures governance is
effectively providing the decision making support for the program.
• Responsible for setting up the Program Infrastructure (program office,
technology, and other factors in the work environment supporting the program
effort)
• Responsible for Planning and administering the overall program with support
from the PMO and project managers
• Responsible to ensure the program is delivered within the agreed upon
schedule, budget, and quality constraints coordinated between all the different
program components
• Acts as the communications conduit to Program owner, Executive sponsors and
program steering committee and conducts periodic briefings/status updates
• Escalates Issues and decisions to Program Owner and Executive Sponsors as
necessary
• Supports Project Managers with Issue Resolution and Risk Mitigation. Escalates
through the proper channel for managing and mitigating issues/risk
• Responsible for aligning all work streams on the program with a single
integrated timeline/plan with program level progress metrics and milestones
Project Summary:
Implementation of our HR Talent Management application which includes
Performance Management, Recruitment, Succession Planning, and Compensation.

Comments:
Excellent Program/Project Management skills. Experience managing a Program.
Ability to deal with short timelines and a challenging client.
Experience in the HR space a plus.
This individual will be involved in managing the day to day activities of the
Program.
• Responsible for Program status reporting and compilation of individual Project
status
• Coordinate all activities around the implementation and delivery of the
Program including scheduling of resources, providing regular status updates,
addressing challenges that arise, and successfully deliver on time and on
budget.
• Responsible for Program Governance that includes defining roles and
responsibilities. Creates both the structure and practices to guide the program
and provide leadership, oversight, and control. Ensures governance is
effectively providing the decision making support for the program.
• Responsible for setting up the Program Infrastructure (program office,
technology, and other factors in the work environment supporting the program
effort)
• Responsible for Planning and administering the overall program with support
from the PMO and project managers
• Responsible to ensure the program is delivered within the agreed upon
schedule, budget, and quality constraints coordinated between all the different
program components
• Acts as the communications conduit to Program owner, Executive sponsors and
program steering committee and conducts periodic briefings/status updates
• Escalates Issues and decisions to Program Owner and Executive Sponsors as
necessary
• Supports Project Managers with Issue Resolution and Risk Mitigation. Escalates
through the proper channel for managing and mitigating issues/risk
• Responsible for aligning all work streams on the program with a single
integrated timeline/plan with program level progress metrics and milestones
Project Summary:
Implementation of our HR Talent Management application which includes
Performance Management, Recruitment, Succession Planning, and Compensation.

Job Description:
• Manages the implementation and consistent delivery of projects to agreed upon
timelines, budgets and expectations of quality.
• Works with clients, developers and vendors to determine requirements.
• Creates and manages project budget vs. actual expenditures (capital and
expense).
• Creates and manages work breakdown structure (WBS) and scheduled project plan.
• Manages and supervises project team resources.
• Develops critical path analysis for project implementation.
• Responsible for business change management (incl. business process redesign,
training, SOPs).
• Manage project scope and timeline through formal change management processes.
• Manages project issues and risks through std issue/risk process.
• Communication to stakeholders.
• Ability to communicate effectively (written and verbally) with both technical
and non-technical parties.
• Ensures compliance with required controls.
• Manage projects with dollar values in excess of $500,000.
• Bachelor's degree/Technical degree or equivalent requirement.
• Master's degree a plus.
• PMP, or equivalent certification, required.
• Proven experience managing application development projects; strong working
knowledge of common SDLC models.

If you are still on the job market and looking, please reply to this email with
a word attachment of your resume as well as your availability for a phone/onsite
interview; even if we have spoken recently about a different position. If you do
respond via e-mail and please include a daytime phone number so I can reach you.
In considering candidates, time is of the essence, so please respond ASAP.

Looking forward to your reply,

Warm regards,

Renee Schlamp
Technical Recruiter
DIVERSANT LLC.
187 Route 36, Building A, Suite #220
West Long Branch, NJ 07764

Rschlamp@diversant.com

www.diversant.com

2a.

Sr. Business Systems Analyst - Property & Casualty Insurance - Rt 93

Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net   wrightassociates

Fri Nov 5, 2010 7:36 am (PDT)



Please feel free to refer this position to other groups and people you know.

Position Title – WACOSBSA102010 – Multiple Openings - 11-05-2010

Sr. Business Systems Analyst – Property & Casualty Insurance - Rt 93/Boston,
MA Area - Up to $90K+

Up to $90K+ DOE + Small Bonus

Local Candidates Only – No sponsorship

Stable Work History

Must have property and casualty insurance domain experience.

Company

Mid sized, very successful financial services firm – voted one of the Best
Places to Work in Boston.

Position Responsibilities – Summary

The Senior Systems Business Analyst is responsible for successful
participation and leadership in projects of various sizes, impact and
complexity in support of the company's business plan. Principal duties
include eliciting and documenting functionality requirements for software
applications as well as providing peer reviews of requirements written by
other team members.

This individual will be called upon to lead requirement and brainstorming
sessions to determine appropriate needs and solutions. This position will be
required to move fluidly between the business users, application
development, quality assurance and other professional services to identify,
evaluate and document requirements that meet business needs.

The Sr. Systems Business Analyst will work as a conduit between the customer
community and application development team through which requirements flow,
interpreting and anticipating business needs with clarity and completeness.
The successful candidate will have the ability to use sound judgment to make
key decisions in the approach, design, scope and solution of business
requests in order to meet both strategic and tactical goals.

The Sr. Systems Business Analyst is also responsible to prepare the business
community for the newly introduced functionality by preparing comprehensive
implementation plans, communicating implementation and change to key
stakeholders and providing training to impacted users.

Detailed Responsibilities:

· Act as the liaison between the technology groups and the Business
Customers
· Provide guidance and leadership to BA(s) and Project Teams
· Train, coach and mentor junior or new members of the team
· Fulfill the role of BA Lead while working on initiatives including
leading and facilit1ating meetings and working sessions.
· Determine the approach for gathering requirements and determine
the required deliverables for assigned projects
· Perform research and analysis to deliver high quality detailed
business requirements that can be understood by the business users and the
development teams.

Required Skills and Competencies:

· Bachelors Degree plus 6 years experience - Advanced degree
preferred.
· Experience includes working as a Business Analyst, Systems
Analyst, Project Manager or Quality Assurance Analyst.
· Must have domain expertise in the Property & Casualty Insurance
space.
· Project Lead experience required.
· With little supervision the Senior Systems Business Analyst must
be able to prioritize work, and meet deadlines while delivering high
quality, and positive outcomes resulting in high levels of customer
satisfaction.
· The successful candidate will have strong written, verbal and
presentation communication skills, have a thorough understanding of business
processes, the ability to collaborate with various stakeholders, strong
analytical skills, as well as the ability to think abstractly, identify
patterns and use sound judgment to generate creative ideas and solutions.
· A Senior Business Analyst will be required to be well versed in
both the business and technology domains in order to make sound decisions in
the use of automated solutions.
· This role requires innovative thinking, the ability to resolve
conflict and demonstrated success leading and motivating others.

Contact Information

Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates

Phone - (508) 761-6354

Email - garywright@prodigy.net - WEB Site – www.wrightassociates.org

3a.

Sr. Data Warehouse DBA - Oracle 11g - OBIEE - RAC  - Boston, MA Area

Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net   wrightassociates

Fri Nov 5, 2010 7:37 am (PDT)



Please feel free to refer this position to your associates – Referrals
appreciated.

Position Title – WRCOPNSDWD102010

Open & Active as of 11-05-2010

Sr. Data Warehouse DBA – Oracle 11g – OBIEE – RAC - Boston, MA Area – Up to
$110K+ DOE

Up to $110K+ Base + Bonus + Comprehensive Benefits

Local Candidates Only

Stable Work History

Company

Large, successful, public International Business Information Services Firm

Position Responsibilities - Summary

The Senior Data Warehouse DBA will be responsible for partnering with
business owners and analysts to translate requirements into a complete Data
Warehouse and business intelligence solution.

The desired candidate will architect the logical/physical Data models,
define the ETL and MetaData repository approach and layout both a short-term
roadmap and long-term Warehouse strategy. The completed Warehouse
environment may consist of multiple disparate source systems to be
consolidated into a robust high performing, quality rich, scalable Data
foundation.

In addition to a strong Data warehousing background, the ideal candidate
will also possess a solid understanding of Enterprise BI solutions.

Position Responsibilities – Detailed

· Plans, coordinates and administers matters related to database(s),
including base definition, structures, documentation, upgrades, long-range
requirements, operational guidelines and protection.
· Ensures accuracy and completeness of data in master files and
various support tools, such as base dictionaries.
· Establishes and maintains security integrity controls.
· Formulates and monitors policies, procedures and standards
relating to database management.
· May direct the following: troubleshooting, recovery, tuning of the
database, software installation and upgrades, resolving errors and failures,
auditing activities, and resource utilization.
· Creates and manages large scale, highly available production
databases under clustered environments.
· Willing to support production databases in a high quality and
dynamic environment. Occasional off-hours worked required.
· Hands on experience in using tools or custom scripts to monitor
the health of the database.
· Hands on experience with running and interpreting performance
monitoring utilities.
· Strong replication experience, in addition to backup and recovery
implementations either in a stand alone or using recovery man
· Defining ETL (extract, transform, and load) development standards
and conventions.
· Write and maintain database documentation, including data
standards, procedures, definitions for the data dictionary and logical and
physical models of the databases.
· Experience working with Systems Architects to proactively design
and optimize databases and their underlying hardware and OS platforms to
meet future capacity planning needs in a high growth environment.

Required Skills and Competencies:

· 8 or more years experience with the target platform, generally
experienced in other DB platforms, including worked on Sun Solaris/Linux.
Strong UNIX shell scripting preferred.
· OCP 11g certification a plus.
· 3+ years Oracle RAC experience.
· Must have worked on Oracle 9i/10g/11g environments, and Must have
worked on (10G/11G RAC, ASM, OEM 10g grid, Data Guard , Flashback
technology, 9i/10g/11g upgrades, Rolling/Oracle critical patchset
implementation).
· Must have in depth knowledge of Oracle Business Intelligence
Enterprise Edition and Oracle Data Integrator. Create conceptual, logical
and physical models (ERD, normalized and dimensional models).
· Knowledge of metadata management strategies and implementation,
Conduct requirements gathering and design sessions with customers, Produce
written deliverables for technical designs, Understanding of indexing,
partitioning and data design performance considerations for industry
standard DBMS (Oracle), Understanding of data warehousing design (ETL) and
development best practices. Ability to communicate effectively in a large
distributed software development organization.
· BS in a technical discipline.

Contact Information

Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates

Phone - (508) 761-6354

Email - replywrightassociates@verizon.net - WEB Site –
www.wrightassociates.org

4a.

Sr. Associate Technology - C#/.Net - WPF - Silverlight - FS - Boston

Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net   wrightassociates

Fri Nov 5, 2010 7:37 am (PDT)



Please feel free to refer this position to your associates – Referrals
appreciated.

Position Title – WRCOSPSAT102010

Open & Active as of 11-05-2010

Sr. Associate Technology – C#/.Net – WPF – Silverlight - FS - Boston, MA
Area – Up to $110K+ DOE

Up to $110K Base DOE + Bonus + Benefits

Local Candidates Only – No Sponsorship

Stable Work History

Overnight Travel Required

Company

Large, successful, IT Solutions Firm focused on the Capital Markets space.

Position Summary:

As a Senior Associate you will design and develop technology based business
solutions for our clients in the financial services and energy trading
industry. You may be required to play a team lead role for a small team
and/or take on responsibility for the development for a specific component
or track of the solution architecture. At all times you will actively
support the development, and drive quality assurance during design and
realization of the solution.

Primary Responsibilities:

· Support or lead design, estimation and planning tasks for the
solution using technical and functional expertise.
· Generate and review estimates, which include anticipated risks.
· Facilitate clients in meetings to capture business requirements
and develop solution design using best practice/design patterns.
· May be required to be hands-on developer for complex areas.
· May be required to support and enhance existing client
applications.
· Manage projects, people, and scope and be responsible for quality
for your development track/team throughout the project lifecycle.

Required Skills and Competencies:

· Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field.
· Experience in WPF and/or Silverlight with WCF using MVC, MVP and
MVVM and RIA data/web services and familiarity with UI/UE design and
implementation.
· Significant, hands-on experience in solution design, architectural
analysis within trading systems (or similar).
· Proficient in Core C#/.NET fundamentals especially Collections,
GC, events and delegates, Multi-threading and Generics.
· Good understanding of financial and energy trading markets,
especially front and mid office within at least one asset class or product
type.
· Proficient understanding of new language features like LINQ and
lambda expressions.
· Significant experience in at least one IOC Container and Mock
Framework, NAnt and NUnit.
· Proficiency in one or more Relational Databases is highly
desirable: Oracle, MS SQL Server, Sybase.
· Excellent knowledge of OOAD, UML, Design Patterns and Data
Structures.
· Excellent problem-solving skills.
· End-to-end experience in agile software development lifecycle.
· Ability to influence and negotiate with clients and team members.
· Project leadership skills including people management, scope and
plan management and tracking.
· Ability to abstract detail into larger (repeatable) patterns,
familiarity with user-centered analysis and evaluation techniques.
· Openness to travel and work at client offices.

Contact Information

Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates

Phone - (508) 761-6354

Email - ReplyWrightAssociates@Verizon.Net - WEB Site –
www.WrightAssociates.org

5a.

Sr. Linux Administrator - LAMP - Web - Boston, MA - Up to $85K+ DOE

Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net   wrightassociates

Fri Nov 5, 2010 7:37 am (PDT)



Please feel free to refer this position to your associates – Referrals
appreciated.

Position Title – WRCOVLSLA102010

Open & Active as of 11-05-2010

Sr. Linux Administrator – LAMP – Web - Boston, MA – Up to $85K+ DOE

Up to $85K DOE + Bonus + Benefits

Local Candidates Only – No Sponsorship

Stable Work History

Company

Private, Leader in their space, successful, language learning firm -
Excellent Compensation Package – Bonus

Position Summary:

My client is currently seeking an experienced Senior Linux Administrator to
support their mission critical ecommerce websites. The ideal candidate will
be an expert Linux systems administrator and have extensive experience with
large-scale websites, providing advanced troubleshooting of virtual
infrastructure, websites, systems, networks, and databases.

Primary Responsibilities:

· Support and monitor critical customer-facing websites via
real-time tools and alerts
· Optimize and maintain the health of the customer-facing websites
environment via predictive analysis trending, capacity planning and load
testing
· Create and maintain thorough documentation
· Work hand in hand with developers in a Ruby on Rails/Agile
environment
· Plan, design and manage the deployment of highly available and
scalable IT infrastructure and associated support services, including Linux
servers, SAN storage, and infrastructure services (e.g. authentication, DNS,
NTP, etc.)
· Hands-on work building, patching, and maintaining Linux systems in
an ecommerce environment
· Work with internal customers to understand requirements and make
hardware/software recommendations based on those requirements
· Identify, troubleshoot and resolve system performance issues
· Develop and deploy server management policies, procedures and
standards

Required Skills and Competencies:
· The ideal candidate possesses a degree in computer science or a
similar program
· 5+ years' hands-on experience with enterprise LAMP environments as
a System's Administrator
· System Administration experience with multiple UNIX and Linux
platforms, including Red Hat & CentOS, as well as experience administering
Windows servers and Microsoft Exchange are helpful.
· Experience with VMs, clustering, replication, and other
high-availability and disaster recovery technologies
· Experience with HP and Dell servers and Isilon SAN storage
hardware
· Experience using scripting languages for task automation (Perl,
Python, Shell, etc.)
· Excellent communication skills
· The ability to succeed under pressure and in a customer-focused
environment
· Flexibility with the proven ability to excel in an entrepreneurial
environment
Compensation

Competitive Base Salary + Bonus - Comprehensive Benefits Package

No Sponsorship Available – US Based Applicants Only - No Relocation
Available – Local Candidates only

Contact Information

Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates

Phone - (508) 761-6354

Email - ReplyWrightAssociates@Verizon.Net - WEB Site –
www.WrightAssociates.org

6.

FW: Several positions  -  BA in Jersey City

Posted by: "Tom Bley" tombley@hotmail.com   tom.bley

Fri Nov 5, 2010 8:01 am (PDT)




Please contact Ken directly. Good luck.

Best Wishes,

Tom Bley, PMP

Project / Program Manager
Cell (973) 919-1252

From: ken@soundshorepartners.com
To: ken@soundshorepartners.com
Subject: We have some open positions we are looking to fill. Do you know anyone?
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 07:23:20 -0700

How are you? Hope all is well. Thanks for taking a minute to review this. We have several open reqs that we are looking to fill:

Business Analysts - with extensive data mapping, data modeling, in Capital Markets. This role will draft business requirements and complete functional specifications. Candidates must have a strong working knowledge of debt, equity, and/or derivatives securities. SQL a plus. This is for a long-term contract position in Jersey City.

Please feel fee to forward this on to anyone you know who might be interested and have them get in touch with me directly.
As always best regards,

Ken Straus
Managing Partner


The Chrysler Building
405 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10174
Office: +212-907-6465
Cell: +914-844-8708
www.soundshorepartners.com



7.

Fw: THIS COMING TUESDAY (11/9) - AIIM Garden State Chapter event: "H

Posted by: "y jao" yjao88@yahoo.com   yjao88

Fri Nov 5, 2010 1:19 pm (PDT)



FYI
 
From:AIIM Garden State Chapter [mailto:chapters@aiim.mmsend.com] On Behalf Of
AIIM Garden State Chapter
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 3:35 PM
To: Jessica Lombardo
Subject: THIS COMING TUESDAY (11/9) - AIIM Garden State Chapter event: "How to
Successfully Migrate to SharePoint 2010
 
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AIIM
How to Successfully Migrate to SharePoint 2010
Date
November 9, 2010
Venue
The Woodbridge  Hilton
120 Wood Avenue South
Iselin, NJ  08830
Tel:  732-494-6200
Directions: Woodbridge Hilton
 
Contact Information
Joe Talik
joseph.talik@sungard.com
Phone: 973-634-2462
OR
Tom Minero, AIIMGSC Chapter President
tminero@training-resource.com
Phone: 973-985-9126
 
 
Event Description
Click Here to Register for this Event!
 
Key Takeaways How to Successfully Migrate to SharePoint 2010
·         How to integrate and run legacy systems during the migration.
·         How to successfully migrate from systems such as Documentum, Filenet,
etc.

·         How to successfully migrate from prior versions of MS SharePoint.
·         What are the main issues encountered during the migration and how to
work around them.
·         What are the key skills and experience needed to perform the
migration.
·         Who are the key Microsoft Partners in the migration space.
 Speaker(s) ·         Allan Schweighardt - Senior Technology Specialist with
Microsoft Corporation

 Speaker Profile ·         Allan Schweighardt is Senior Technology Specialist
with Microsoft Corporation in the NY-Metro area where he focuses on Enterprise
Content Management and Web 2.0 solutions working with clients in the
Professional Services, Financial, Insurance, Pharmaceutical, Media, Retail,
Transportation and Manufacturing space. Allan has over 20 years of experience in
the high tech industry and has spoken at many AIIM, LegalTech, ARMA and other
industry events.

 Event Time Registration & hors d'oeuvres / Networking opportunities: 5:30 -
6:30 pm 
Presentation: 6:30 – 8:00 pm 
Dessert / Networking opportunities: 8:00- 8:30 pm 
Fees* AIIM Members          $30
Non-Members $35
On-Site         + $10
 
To Register for this Event Click the Link below:
http://www.aiimgsc.org/regform.htm
 
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