Sunday, May 15, 2011

[NE-Financial-Services-IT-Jobs] Digest Number 637

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Developer - Compliance Apps - C# or Java - Investment Management - B

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

Sat May 14, 2011 6:03 am (PDT)



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

05-13-2011

Position Title – WRCOGCD052011

Developer – Compliance Apps – C# or Java - Investment Management - Boston,
MA Area – Excellent $$

Base + Bonus + Retirement + Comprehensive Benefits

Local Candidates Only – No Sponsorship

Stable Work History

Company

Mid-Sized, successful, and growing Boston based global investment management
company – Lots of Upside

Position Summary;

The Compliance Application Developer will work on projects related to Pre
Trade and Post Trade compliance workflow development, including systems
development, implementation and/or enhancements. This individual will be
responsible for working with the business users to create business
requirements and implement complete solutions in support of user
requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

· Work with the business users (compliance department, traders and
portfolio managers) to implement functional solutions for any trade
lifecycle compliance process, including third party product integration, new
system development, new functionality, version upgrades, and reporting
requirements.
· Work as part of a team of in-house staff and outside consultants
to implement the required changes to a third party compliance system.
· Lead application requirement sessions with business users and
technical staff
· Provide timely updates on progress of assigned tasks to project
manager
· Coordinate/execute QA test plans before releasing product
enhancements for user testing
· Assist in production release of new functionality and provide
assistance in support of production issues
· Document user defined enhancement requests, product gaps, and
product bugs

Required Skills and Competencies:

Mandatory Requirements

· Undergraduate degree in science, engineering, finance or
technology discipline
· 5+ years experience in C# or Java development
· Experience with design patterns, server side architecture and
development
· Experience in a lead developer role, mentoring others
· Latent Zero Sentinel or other compliance application experience
with exposure to equity, fixed income and derivatives compliance workflows.
· Understanding of Buy Side investment process
· Ability to review and contribute to QA Test Plans
· Extremely strong interpersonal skills, proven ability to work
directly with the business community
· Must be detail oriented with very strong organizational and
communication skills
· Ability to work effectively and efficiently with little or no
supervision
· Ability to prioritize multiple tasks, set goals, and meet
deadlines
· Must be willing to take initiative and employ good follow-through
skills

Highly Desired

· Experience integrating third party vendor applications with
existing enterprise OMS and EMS applications
· Understanding of the 1940 Act and UCITS regulations
· Exposure to messaging or caching solutions
· Strong Database development experience (MS SQL or Oracle)

Contact Information

Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates

Phone - (508) 761-6354

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

2.

Developer/Support - Matlab Applications - Investment Management - Bo

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

Sat May 14, 2011 6:03 am (PDT)



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

05-13-2011

Position Title – WRCOGMD052011

Developer/Support – Matlab Applications - Investment Management - Boston, MA
Area – Excellent $$

Base + Bonus + Retirement + Comprehensive Benefits

Local Candidates Only – No Sponsorship

Stable Work History

Company

Mid-Sized, successful, and growing Boston based global investment management
company – Lots of Upside

Position Summary;

Client is looking for a Software Developer to create innovative solutions
for our investment areas. You will be working with data and research
departments, implementing a wide variety of applications, from research and
portfolio analysis to trade resolution. You will work with all areas of the
investment process, including research, portfolio construction and
optimization, pre and post trade analytics, trading, middle and back office.

This is a new role and is mostly a support role vs. developing new quant
models at least initially, with the possibility to do some model development
work down the road depending on progress, ability and need.

Types of initial activities:

· Writing code to interface to various applications such as SQL
Server, .NET, Java, and Microsoft Excel
· Testing the validity of models if a model fails to run correctly
· Installation of MATLAB (32-bit and 64-bit) and ensuring that
MATLAB works correctly with libraries

Key Responsibilities:

· Work closely with business users, research analysts, portfolio
managers and traders to identify areas where technology could be leveraged
to enhance the investment process and achieve superior results.
· Propose and design technical solutions
· Implement applications based on the solutions proposed and work
closely with users to test and integrate the applications into the current
production environment.
· Support the applications developed

Required Skills and Competencies:

· Appropriate Degree – Mathematics, Finance or related
· Minimum 3 years experience with MATLAB required
· Financial Services/Investment Management experience required
· Mathematics or other analytical background strongly preferred
· Development experience with the following technologies a plus –
Java, C#/.Net, SQL Server, & Excel
· Self-starter, able to work as part of a small team as well as
independently, with minimal supervision
· Excellent communication skills – both written and oral
· Must be detail-oriented and able to prioritize work and
effectively manage multiple tasks

Contact Information

Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates

Phone - (508) 761-6354

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

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Wright Associates specializes in High Technology Recruiting Services for the New England Market Place.

Phone:    508-761-6354
Email:    mailto:garywright@prodigy.net
Website: www.WrightAssociates.org

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