Friday, February 17, 2012

[NE-Financial-Services-IT-Jobs] Digest Number 750

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1.

o Study: Fewer U.S. Tech Companies Shipping Jobs Overseas

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

Thu Feb 16, 2012 6:56 am (PST)



o Study: Fewer U.S. Tech Companies Shipping Jobs Overseas

Chicago -- Fewer U.S. technology companies are shipping jobs overseas,
according to a new study by accounting and consulting giant BDO. According
to the survey, just 32% of technology CFOs now say their companies outsource
services or manufacturing outside the U.S. That marks a substantial shift
from 2009, when nearly twice as many were outsourcing. And among the
companies not currently outsourcing, 80% said they are unlikely to outsource
services or manufacturing overseas in the near future. "With unemployment
numbers still hovering above 8%, pressure is mounting from Washington to
bring jobs home," said Paul Heiselmann, a member of BDO's Technology and
Life Sciences practice. "Bringing services and manufacturing back to the
U.S. is also a smart move for tech companies looking to improve the quality
of service and reduce exposure to international risks and major supply chain
disruptions."
http://www.bdo.com/news/pr/1952

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2.

Manager or Team Lead - Sharepoint - Development - FS - Marlboro, MA

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

Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:49 am (PST)



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

Position Title – WR725821

Manager or Team Lead – Sharepoint – Development – FS – Marlboro, MA Area –
Excellent Package

Excellent Compensation Package – Base + Bonus + PS

Local Candidates 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

As a member of the new Client Facing Technologies Team, this individual will
be responsible for leading the client's Content Management and Collaboration
efforts as they broaden and evolve these capabilities within the firm.
This role requires a well-rounded technologist that can work with
stakeholders to build consensus on vision, materially engage with engineers
to implement it, and can support the team by managing release plans and
issue resolution.
This unique role offers the individual the opportunity to exercise interests
in engineering, analysis, and delivery management. The candidate would join
the group at a point at which they will have significant direct impact on
shaping the next generation of Content Management/Collaboration offerings.

Responsibilities – Detailed:

· Lead collaboration, architecture, and deployment efforts related
to the firm's Intranet based Collaboration and Content Management offerings
· Work with Business and IS Stakeholders to qualify business needs
and elaborate on functional capabilities of the firm's Intranet based
Collaboration and Content Management offerings
· Work with engineers and designers to design and implement new
application features, user interfaces, and ongoing functional enhancements
· Support engineering and design teams by constructing and managing
release plans, tracking/resolving issues, and continuously ensuring delivery
expectations are clear and well vetted
· Ensure adherence to established code-quality standards
· Work across teams - such as with middleware, database, and
architecture teams to coordinate infrastructure design and implementation
activities
· Design, prototype, and possible author code for key,
high-complexity system components

Keys to This Position:

1. We are seeking a Sharepoint Evangelist that is both Tactical and
Strategic. The candidate needs to have strong technical knowledge of
Sharepoint 2010.
2. Tactical: The hands-on piece includes Sharepoint development, proof of
concepts and capability demonstration for the client's Intranet.
3. The strategic aspect includes interfacing with internal clients and
working with them to deliver Content to the Intranet.
4. Experience with other Content Management Systems (i.e. Documentum,
Alfresco, OpenText) is a plus.
5. Strong Project Management skills are required. The client will be
upgrading to Sharepoint 2010 this year from 2003/2007.
6. Sources: The likely candidates will have worked for firms like:
Microsoft, Microsoft Consulting companies, .NET shops, Fidelity, FM Global,
State Street.

Required Skills and Competencies:

· Proven expertise in the Collaboration/Content Management domain
· Proven planning, delivery, technical, and analysis skills
· Track record of working with business stakeholders, engineers,
analysts, and infrastructure teams to complete and deliver projects
· Proven expertise in the following technologies - MS Sharepoint,
.NET, Web CMS, and general Web Application Development.
· Experience iteratively managing systems projects through all
lifecycle phases
· 3+ years of experience leading delivery in the
Collaboration/Content Management space
· 8+ years of proven software design and development experience
· Proven ability to support multiple applications simultaneously
· Must be self-motivated with the ability to work with minimal
supervision
· Must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills
· Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline
· Experience with Content Management platforms other than Sharepoint
and with Java based development is a big plus
· Financial industry knowledge is a big 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

3.

Sr. Sybase / SQL Server DBA/Architect - Boston, MA Area - Up to $125

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

Thu Feb 16, 2012 1:59 pm (PST)



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

Position Title – WRCOHDBA022012

Sr. Sybase / SQL Server DBA/Architect - Boston, MA Area – Up to $125K+

Up to $125K+ Base DOE + Bonus

Local Candidates Only – No Sponsorship

Company

Small, elite, successful, and growing Boston based fund manager - Global
investment management company – Great Company – Lots of Upside – Excellent
Compensation Package – Bonus

Position Summary:

This position is part of the IT Infrastructure group, reporting to the AVP -
IT Engineering.

The Sr. Database Architect is responsible for working with development teams
on designing and building databases and data warehouses, logical data
modeling and performance of the database access from the applications. Work
in conjunction with and may provide leadership and direction to a team of
database developers to meet technical requirements.

Database Architect must also have in depth expertise with data security,
storage solutions, database virtualization and replication as well as other
complex technical tools and solutions. Some of the other responsibilities
would encompass day-to-day administration, daily maintenance and
optimization tasks and assisting developers in the creation of new
databases. The team also provides support to all vendor and packaged
applications that use Sybase and SQL server as a backend.

Detailed Responsibilities:

· Database Architect able to deliver data management vision, goals,
priorities, design principles, and operating policies in support of the
business goals of the organization.
· Management and implementation of database models, data flow
diagrams, database schemas, stored procedures and data standards to support
a robust data management infrastructure.
· Experience translating business requirements into conceptual,
logical, and physical data models.
· Implement best practices and methodologies in data analysis,
design and modeling.
· Experience on Meta Data definition, implementation and
maintenance, new business rules identification and implementation to data
rules, transformation program library maintenance, XML and data quality.
· Design standards for using normalized data structures,
de-normalized structures, and dimensional structures. Defines common design
patterns for modeling various types of relationships.
· Provide guidance and work leadership to less-experienced staff
members.
· Excellent teamwork skills, good oral, written communication and
presentation skills.
· Manage the database security models, both in-house developed as
well as Windows Auth (AD) based security. Also develop policies to restrict
over-privileging and enforce it
· Manage a production environment consisting of 50+ databases most
of which are read-intensive databases with a large data load cycle while
some are OLTP-based mission critical trading systems
· Manage HA and DR solutions including Sybase and MS Cluster
Servers, Database Mirroring, Log Shipping and Sybase/SQL Replication
· Support application development by designing and building new
tables, and writing optimized SQL
· Develop custom scripts to automate various database management
processes
· Leverage 3rd party tools or in-house developed tools to
troubleshoot
· Safeguard our production systems by implementing the right
security policies
· Assist in the database release management process, be the
"gate-keeper" and ensure only QUALITY code is released into production
· Help troubleshoot performance problems using a variety of methods
(tracing, query optimization review, error logs, etc)
· Resolve blocking and deadlocking issues, high CPU / memory,
analyze job timeouts, ETL loader performance problems.
· Manage database maintenance jobs to ensure optimal performance and
data availability.
· Define and enforce database standards, best practices,
methodologies, processes and procedures
· Architect and implement reports within SSRS 2005/2008
· Research new technologies to enhance performance, heighten
security, ensure uptime, automate common/redundant administrative duties
· Provide first, second and third tier support on-call rotation to
all mission critical production systems

Required Skills and Competencies:

· An average of 7-10+ years total IT experience
· An average of 5-6+ years in database architecture and data
modeling
· An average of 5-6+ years Sybase Database Administration
· An average of 3-4+ years SQL Database Administration
· Knowledge of the financial industry is preferred
· Impeccable verbal and written communication skills
· Highly ambitious individuals with the desire to go above and
beyond
· Detail-oriented with very strong organizational skills
· Ability to work effectively and efficiently with little or no
supervision
· Strategic, structured, and focused thinker who has strong
analytical and problem solving skills
· Highly motivated, positive and passionate about the work they do
· Extremely strong interpersonal skills
· Strong accountability and results orientation
· Highly professional demeanor with well rounded business acumen
· Ability to work and quickly react in a fast paced environment
· Ability to effectively translate technical jargon into business
terms during face to face customer interactions
· Ability to make powerful split second decisions
· Ability to perform self and team project management (prior
technical leadership roles)
· Ability to scope projects, create project plans, and manage
deliverables & deadlines
· Ability to productively multi-task

Contact Information – Resume In Word Format to:

Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates

Phone - (508) 761-6354

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

4a.

Sr. Apps Support Analyst - Income Systems - FS - Boston, MA - Up to

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

Thu Feb 16, 2012 1:59 pm (PST)



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

Position Title – WRCOESASA012012

Sr. Apps Support Analyst – Income Systems - FS - Boston, MA – Up to $100K
DOE

Up to $100K Base DOE + Bonus + Comprehensive Benefits Package

Local Candidates Only – No Sponsorship

Company

Smaller, public, specialty investment firm with close to $200 billion in
assets under management – Great Company – Lots of Upside – Excellent
Compensation Package – Bonus

Position Summary:

The Income Systems team is responsible for the all technology that supports
fixed income portfolio management and risk management. This includes the
project management and support for all in-house developed systems and third
party applications, with high standards of security and reliability.

Primary Responsibilities:

1. Provide front-line functional and technical application support for
Income portfolio management and trading systems
2. Have detailed knowledge of all business flows, the application
architecture and the hardware configuration for supported applications
3. Respond to user inquiries, investigate and resolve system issues or
performance problems, escalate when necessary
4. Log and track all user related issues, defects, enhancements and
work requests
5. Debug, fix and resume batch processing or scheduling problems
6. Manage system configuration
7. Manage user setup and permissioning
8. Light programming/scripting
9. Maintain business continuity / disaster recovery regimens and
oversee annual testing
10. Application release management
11. Modification and enhancement of daily jobs / processes
12. Assist with application unit and regression testing
13. Liaise with internal development teams to troubleshoot software
problems and identify solutions
14. Overnight and weekend support, when necessary
15. Vendor management and communication between users and vendors
16. Adheres to IT security and other relevant policies

Required Skills and Competencies:

1. 5-10 years providing front-line application support for portfolio
management and trading systems
2. Solid technical background analyzing, testing, or developing
client-server based and web-based products
3. Strong knowledge of:

· SQL Server programming including stored procedures, functions,
views, etc.
· Visual Studio tools
· SQL Management Studio
· Visual Basic/.NET/Java
· MS Access
· Advanced Excel (including VBA)
· Windows Server Management
· Batch auto scheduling

4. Ability to read code and make small / simple modifications
5. Ability to create ad-hoc interfaces, feeds file extracts using
scripting tools or programming languages
6. Complete understanding of incident, problem and change management
principles
7. Strong initiative, organization, and excellent analysis/problem
solving/troubleshooting skills required
8. Excellent communication skills and written skills with the ability
to interact with various lines of businesses and support groups within the
organization
9. Ability to interact with portfolio managers and traders, understand
problems and concisely and precisely communicate solutions
10. Understanding of the portfolio management and trading business and
Investment Management industry
11. Experience with products like Perform, CreditScope, Everest, Charles
River (CRD), Axiom, Bloomberg POMS, FX Connect and GTSS preferred
12. Vendor management experience is strongly preferred

Contact Information

Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates

Phone - (508) 761-6354

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

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