Thursday, April 12, 2012

[NE-Financial-Services-IT-Jobs] Digest Number 768

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Senior Runtime Software Engineer - SW Technology Firm - Up to $120K+

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

Wed Apr 11, 2012 12:27 pm (PDT)



Please feel free to refer this position to people you know who might be a
strong fit.

Position Title – WRSSRTE042012

Senior Runtime Software Engineer - SW Technology Firm - Up to $120K+ DOE -
N. 128 Area MA

Base + Excellent Benefits

Candidate local to Mass. Only – No sponsorship

Company

Innovative, well funded, fast growing, and highly successful Software
Start-Up. This is an outstanding opportunity for the right person to join an
innovative organization and grow as it grows. Rated as one of the best
companies to work for in New England. Great products – innovative
technology – seasoned management team – tremendous opportunity and upside –
great culture.

Join a winner and contribute to their future success.

Position Responsibilities - Summary

Programming language design, compiler implementation, network protocols,
data management, real-time responsiveness, high throughput, scalability, and
fault tolerant clustering. Are you prepared to work on one system combining
all these skills?

My client's solution is the leading Complex Event Processing Platform, used
by developers building the most demanding data processing systems in the
world. As a platform, it enables their customers to rapidly develop high
performance flexible applications, meeting the needs of the most demanding
customers in financial services, federal intelligence, e-commerce, and
telecommunications.

Runtime engineers are responsible for developing the programming language,
compiler, and deployment server for their technology. They collaborate
closely with the user interface team in order to provide end-users with the
most powerful authoring environment available on any CEP platform.

Reports to the CTO

Responsibilities:

Your primary responsibilities will be to define, design, and develop
functionality within the (CEP) engine, primarily in Java, for commercial
product releases. This position requires hands-on development expertise,
developing innovative solutions for scalable, high performance distributed
systems. Successful candidates must be self-reliant, resourceful, and enjoy
working with other smart motivated people.

Required Skills and Competencies:

· Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal and
ability to work well in a team.

· Solid background in software engineering, including code reviews,
unit testing, and iterative development in large object-oriented codebases.

· BS in Computer Science or related field and four years experience
in server based development.

· Experience developing high-performance system software, streaming
data or CEP applications

· Expertise in Java/.Net and related technologies.

· Commercial Software experience.

The ideal candidate will have substantial skill in at least one of the
following areas:

· Programming Language and Compiler Development

o Knowledge of several programming languages and opinions about their
design and implementation, with emphasis on compiler technology.

o Experience building code models for use in integrated development
environments, supporting broken-syntax recovery, semantic analysis, and
refactoring.

· Server and Cluster Development

o Experience in network/server programming with focus on throughput
performance tuning, connection scalability, reliability, and latency.

o Experience implementing fault tolerance and clustering
functionality in server deployments.

· Database Management System Implementation

o Experienced database user and designer, including schema design and
performance optimization.

o Experience designing and developing database management systems
core functionality such as query planners, query executors, access methods,
and reliability/rollback functionality.

The following skills are also desirable:

· Experience with real-time system development

· Experience working with Web and application servers like Apache,
Spring, BEA, JBoss, IBM WebSphere, or other distributed applications
frameworks.

· Experience with scalable performance enhancing technologies
(Memcache, Voldemorte, Coherence, Terracotta, Varnish)

· Experience optimizing performance in a managed VM (e.g. Java or
.NET) and including bytecode/JIT, GC tuning, and dynamic code generation.

Resumes in Microsoft Word Format to:

Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates

Phone - (508) 761-6354

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

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2.

Lead Systems Analyst/Developer - Equity Support - Java - SQL -  "Bes

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

Wed Apr 11, 2012 12:28 pm (PDT)



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

Position Title – WRLSAD

Lead Systems Analyst/Developer – Equity Support – Java – SQL - "Best of the
Best" – FS – Boston, MA Area – Outstanding Package

Outstanding Compensation Package – Base + Bonus + PS (One of the Best in the
Industry) – Comprehensive Benefits

Relocation possible for the right person – No Sponsorship

Company

Mid Sized – Successful – Growing – Private - One of the World's Leading
Investment Management Firms, Based in the Boston, MA Area – Great Company –
Lots of Upside – Join a team oriented, collaborative, results focused
environment and become part of an elite organization with great growth
possibilities.

Position Responsibilities – Summary

Our client is seeking a Lead Analyst to function as a hybrid
analyst/developer with strong technology leadership and implementation
skills in their Equity Support group. The Equity Support team is responsible
for helping to provide front-office Information Services capabilities to the
Equity, Asset Allocation, Hedge Fund investment and research teams. The team
partners directly with investors on solutions that span the investment
process including research, decision support, and portfolio construction and
portfolio analysis. The applications and processes supported include
valuation models, research and collaboration platforms, derivative modeling,
risk management and product management frameworks.

The Equity Support team within the Investor and Client Applications (ICA)
group seeks an individual who will take on a hands-on, leadership role
across the suite of portfolio of applications and tools developed in this
space. In the Support domain, this individual will be responsible for owning
the business outcomes and delivering solutions to address investor needs.
The projects will range in complexity and originate from Equity business
sponsors or from other application teams.

This individual will need to become knowledgeable across the business
domains, applications and processes that we support, such as valuation
models, research and collaboration platforms, risk management and product
management frameworks. This individual will also be heavily involved in
designing, supporting, improving the overall architecture blueprint within
this area.

The Systems Analyst with strong development skills will work with investors
and team members globally to analyze and implement projects and to deliver
custom solutions to be used in the investment and research process. Daily
activities will include application support, end-user training, hands on
design and development, project management, requirements gathering and
documentation, application design, code reviews, implementation,
testing/quality assurance. This position requires technical proficiency and
a high level of direct interaction with end users and provides a broad set
of opportunities including client management, project management, and
application development.

Responsibilities for the Lead Analyst/Developer role include:

Client Interaction:

· Establish and maintain effective client relationships

· Provide status reporting on projects and alert IS and business
leadership to deviations from plan

· Track, manage and report on support requests, ensuring that all
issues are resolved in a timely and thorough manner

· Manage the training needs of the client/user community

Investor and Application Support:

· Engage with professionals at all levels of the organization to
provide high-context investor support

· Proactively identify opportunities for new/improved systems
capabilities.

· Leverage our follow-the-sun approach for training and supporting
existing applications

· Own, track, and research production issues and work with
appropriate teams on the resolution

· Facilitate timely and succinct communication to investors during
and following production incidents

Systems Analysis and Development:

· Partner with users to iteratively deliver applications that are
critical to their investment process. On an ongoing basis provide
enhancements to previously deployed solutions.

· Meet with business users to determine new requirements and
enhancements

· Develop and analyze business requirements

· Perform gap analysis between investment process and existing
systems, making recommendations for improvements where required

· Develop functional and technical specifications

· Plan, schedule and oversee the work effort required to meet the
specifications within time constraints

· Plan and manage small and large sized support projects and perform
development and deployment

· Set development standards, code solutions and perform code
reviews, where applicable and ensure development practices adhere to firm
guidelines

· Work closely with colleagues in the Information Systems department
to coordinate effective delivery of appropriate technical solutions.

· Stay abreast of the "state-of-the-art" as it relates to investment
practice, both within the firm and throughout the industry

· Develop high quality application code

Above and beyond these specific areas of responsibility, the individual
filling this hybrid analyst/development function will be charged with being
a value added member of their team. This entails understanding all aspects
of the business in order to increase efficiency, effectiveness, and
productivity.

This role is particularly challenging, and the firm is only looking for the
"Best of the Best.

Required Skills and Competencies:

The individual we seek will be a highly motivated professional who will
straddle the business, systems analyst and development sides of this
position with comfort and energy. This individual will bring the firm a
diverse background, skill set, and perspective. The right person must
incorporate business/systems analysis skills, technical development skills,
interpersonal and communications skills, and broad based finance skills.
This individual must be able to ask the appropriate questions of the
business users to get the right solution. The candidate must be
self-sufficient but a team player, capable of taking direction, a visionary
with an orientation to detail, and someone who works hard but can remember
to have fun.

The ideal candidate for this role will have a background that includes many
or most of the following skills, characteristics and experiences:

Business Knowledge and Education:

· Strong understanding of the investment process, support and client
management, research workflows, equity and derivative securities and market
data services e.g. Bloomberg desktop and Server APIs, FactSet, etc.

· Experience in Financial Industry is required

· Any work towards achieving the CFA (or related) charter will be a
plus

· The Analyst role requires a strong familiarity with the financial
services domain and a working knowledge of financial instruments

· Bachelor's degree

Analysis:

· Excellent client interaction skills, polished presentation

· Ability to meet independently with broad cross-section of the firm
up to and including senior business counterparts to determine requirement
definition and implementation.

· Ability to analyze needs, document requirements and assist in
design of solutions

· Ability to interact effectively with development teams on
requirements, effort, time estimates and acceptance testing

· The ability to distill and transform data into useful and usable
information that will impact the short and long term directions of the
business; articulate new perspectives and challenge the existing thought
process.

· Plan, implement and report on project status

· Previous experience acting in a business analysis capacity,
including knowledge of software requirements gathering processes.

· Proven ability to support multiple applications simultaneously
while managing milestones effectively

Development:

· Minimum 6 years experience as a Software Developer supporting
small to medium application development life cycles

· Strong understanding of Object Oriented concepts

· Strong technical background with hands-on Java application
development/ data engineering experience

· Good SQL skills to be able to able to explore and understand
complex database structures

· Demonstrated experience of Design and Development using Java based
technologies

· Knowledge and experience with the Spring Framework

· Understanding and proven experience with technologies such as
web-services, XML/XSLT, JSON

· Understanding and experience with messaging frameworks especially
using JMS (experience with Active MQ will be a plus)

· Background building performance (speed and accuracy) critical
applications

· Experience in using scripting tools such as Perl, Shell Scripts

· Experience with building Rich Client Applications User Interfaces;
either Eclipse RCP or Java Swing is preferred

· Experience with various software development methodologies, such
as Agile or RUP

· Microsoft Office application expertise, in particular with Excel
and the creation and maintenance of Excel VBA macros would be considered a
plus

Professional:

· Strong verbal and written communication skills

· Strong organizational and interpersonal skills, a self-starter
with leadership skills.

· Flexibility and the ability to both create change and adapt to a
dynamic and rapidly changing business

· Ability and willingness to work in a fast paced, mission critical
production environment

· High energy, a passion for excellence, and a love for the business

· High attention to detail with an ability to demonstrate to
business users an aptitude for diagnosing problem sources and spotting root
causes from either a technical, data or business process angle

· Ability to work independently and own projects from beginning to
end

· Must be self-motivated with the ability to work with minimal
supervision

· Strong motivation and ability to work in a fast paced team
environment

If you feel you are one of the best, and are up to the challenge, please
email me your resume for review - If you look to be a strong match, I will
provide the full details of this firm/role for you to review.

Contact Information - (Resumes in Word Format to);

Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates

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

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