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[NE-Financial-Services-IT-Jobs] Digest Number 1058

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Digest #1058

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Thu Jul 31, 2014 7:47 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"Gary Wright" wrightassociates


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

Position Title - WR1410052014

Sr. or Lead Systems Analyst or SW Engineer - Front Office - Java - Boston,
MA - Excellent Package

Excellent Compensation Package - Base + Bonus + PS

Local Candidates only

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 Fixed Income Systems team is responsible for providing front-office
Information Services capabilities to my client's Fixed Income Investment
teams. The team plays a critical role in the firm's success by providing
technical solutions that improve the efficiency, speed and quality of the
highly complex investment decision-making process.

As a member of the Fixed Income Systems team, this individual will be
responsible for solutions delivery for the Fixed Income Investment business.
This is an ideal opportunity for an IT professional to apply business and/or
technical skills to enable investment process to become more efficient:

* Lead delivery of high quality business solutions;

* Interface and coordinate with the broad Information Services teams
to ensure successful delivery;

* Demonstrate strong project management and leadership skills with
ability to handle multiple activities in a dynamic fast paced environment.

* Interact with Investment professionals at all levels of the
organization as needed, to proactively identify opportunities for
new/improved systems to improve the investment process.

Responsibilities:

* Lead the implementation of business solutions in conjunction with
the technical development.

* Perform gap analysis between investment process and existing
systems.

* Lead and establish effective processes for productive partnership
with offshore technical teams.

* Lead implementation of business process improvements involving
(but not limited to) investment process efficiency, data quality
improvements and simplifying investor workflow.

Required Skills and Competencies:

Technical Requirements

* Minimum of five years of hands-on design and development
experience in commercial environments.

* Experience with, and demonstrated understanding of modern software
development and testing methodologies.

* Excellent analytical and problem skills using either one or both
of the following - Intermediate level expertise with SQL and Excel VBA

* Experience in relevant financial domain i.e. business technical
understanding of Fixed Income, Derivatives securities or financial markets
like Foreign Exchange, Money Market, etc.

* Experience developing J2EE applications using JDBC, JNDI, JMS and
other related technologies like Swing, RCP, developing Web applications
using JSP, AJAX, SPRING, Web Services and other related technologies (HTML5,
etc) is strong plus.

* Intermediate level expertise with SQL and Excel VBA

Non-Technical Requirements

* Degree in Computer Science or directly related field

* Excellent written and verbal communications skills

* Willingness to work independently in an energetic, fast-paced,
business-critical and team oriented-environment

* CFA or working towards CFA is a strong plus.

* Demonstrated experience in problem-solving skills and delivery of
quality solutions with good mathematical acumen.

* A strong team player, with ability to work in collaboration across
teams.

Keys to this Position:

The ideal candidate will be a combination Systems Analyst and Java Developer
at the senior level. However we will consider an Analyst or a Developer at
the Senior or Lead level.

Background 1 (Software Engineer): The candidate will have a strong
technical developer background. The technical skill set should include the
following: Java/J2EE, Web Services, Front-end development, Swing/RCP.
Domain knowledge is not required however the candidate should have a strong
desire to learn the business.

Background 2 (Systems Analyst): The candidate will have strong domain
knowledge as a Business or Systems Analyst. The Domain knowledge that is
required includes some of the following: Fixed Income, Derivatives,
FX/Currency, Asset Allocation, etc. A CFA is highly desired. For this
profile we are only looking for light technical skills with Excel and SQL.
We will pair this candidate with a programmer.

Contact Information - Resumes in Word format to:

Gary Wright - President - Wright Associates

Phone - (508) 761-6354 - Email - GaryWright@WrightAssociates.org
<mailto:replywrightassociates@verizon.net> - WEB Site -
<http://www.wrightassociates.org/> www.wrightassociates.org

Thu Jul 31, 2014 10:40 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"Gary Wright" wrightassociates


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

Position Title - WR141006072014

Sr. or Lead SW Engineer - Fixed Income - Java - Asset Mgt. - Boston, MA -
Excellent Package

Excellent Compensation Package - Base + Bonus + PS

Local Candidates only

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 Fixed Income Systems team is responsible for providing front-office
Information Services capabilities to my client's Fixed Income Investment
teams. The team plays a critical role in the firm's success by providing
technical solutions that improve the efficiency, speed and quality of the
highly complex investment decision-making process.

As a member of the Fixed Income Systems team, this individual will be
responsible for solutions delivery for Fixed Income Investment business. A
Senior Software Engineer is expected to:

* Establish and manage delivery of high quality business solutions;

* Interface and coordinate with the broad Information Services
teams to ensure successful delivery;

* Demonstrate strong technical skills with ability to handle
multiple activities in a dynamic fast paced environment.

Responsibilities:

* Interact with Systems Analysts and Investment Research
professionals at all levels of the organization as needed.

* Proactively identify opportunities for new/improved systems to
improve the investment research process.

* Perform gap analysis between investment research processes and
existing systems

* Establish effective processes for productive partnership with
offshore teams.

Required Skills and Competencies:

Technical Requirements

* Minimum of five years of hands-on design and development
experience in commercial environments.

* Experience developing Web applications using JSP, HTML5, AJAX,
XML, JSON, Struts/Spring MVC framework, Web Services and other relevant open
source technologies.

* Experience developing J2EE applications using JDBC, JNDI, JMS and
other related technologies like Swing, RCP is a strong plus.

* Intermediate level expertise with SQL and Excel VBA

* Experience with, and demonstrated understanding of agile software
development and testing methodologies.

* Business domain understanding of Fixed Income and Credit markets
is a definite plus.

* Experience in application development using mobile technologies
is a distinct advantage but not a pre-requisite for the role.

Non-Technical Requirements

* Degree in Computer Science or directly related field

* Excellent written and verbal communications skills

* Willingness to work independently in an energetic, fast-paced,
business-critical and team oriented-environment

* CFA or working towards CFA is a strong plus.

* Demonstrated experience in problem-solving skills and delivery of
quality solutions with good mathematical acumen.

* A strong team player, with ability to work in collaboration across
teams.

Keys to this Position:

We are targeting a Senior level candidate but will consider a Lead:

1) Technical Requirement: Experience developing Web applications using
JSP, HTML5, AJAX, XML, JSON, Struts/Spring MVC framework, Web Services and
other relevant open source technologies.

2) The following is a Plus: Experience developing J2EE applications using
JDBC, JNDI, JMS and other related technologies like Swing and RCP.

3) Financial Services is a plus.

4) For a Lead we are seeking strong technical leadership skills

Contact Information - Resumes in Word format to:

Gary Wright - President - Wright Associates

Phone - (508) 761-6354 - Email - GaryWright@WrightAssociates.org
<mailto:replywrightassociates@verizon.net> - WEB Site -
<http://www.wrightassociates.org/> www.wrightassociates.org

Thu Jul 31, 2014 12:30 pm (PDT) . Posted by:

"Gary Wright" wrightassociates


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

Position Title - WR141007072014

Lead SW Engineer - Digital - Web - AWS - Java - Oracle - Asset Mgt. -
Marlboro, MA - Excellent Package

Excellent Compensation Package - Base + Bonus + PS

Relocation Assistance Possible

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 member of the Client Facing Digital team, this individual will be
responsible for leading the technical design reviews and implementation of
firm's client facing digital assets. This role requires a well-rounded web
technologist that can work with stakeholders to build consensus on vision
and then materially lead high visibility projects through technical design,
construction, testing and implementation.

This role offers the individual the opportunity to have tremendous impact on
a number of multi-channel digital assets we will develop over the next
couple of years. The candidate would also be joining the group at a point at
which they will have significant direct impact on the evolution of our
digital platform.

Responsibilities:

* Build interfaces between internal structured content, web APIs,
etc. and our Cloud-hosted federated data and document stores for consumption
by our digital assets or external vendor frameworks.

* Personally deliver complex baseline components and provide
support and technical guidance for team members and external IT
stakeholders.

* Ensure quality by conducting technical reviews of application
components. Resolve issues as needed. Lead by example.

* Work with and lead other software engineers to design and
implement application features, including user interfaces, and business
functionality enhancements.

* Be responsible for the overlap of business requirements with the
application and technical architecture.

* Track new trends and directions in technology, and determines
potential impact to our organization.

Required Skills and Competencies:

* Strong J2EE development background. Demonstrated expertise and
proven experience with the latest web technologies such as RESTful
web-services, XML/JSON, Spring, HTML 4, JavaScript frameworks (JQuery,
Angular, Backbone). In particular, experience building asset management
client portal websites, web-services, and frameworks are a strong plus.

* Solid knowledge of SQL and PL/SQL. Oracle JDBC skills with prior
experience using data integration patterns preferably in Financial Services
domain.

* Experience with a web content management system (CMS) such as
Drupal, WordPress, or Joomla is strongly desired.

* Exposure leveraging the Amazon AWS APIs using PHP or J2EE is a
strong plus.

* Proven ability to support multiple work streams simultaneously.
Prior experience in leading a disparate team on multiple work streams.

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

* Must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills
including the ability to write technical documentation

* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline.

* Willing to work in an energetic, fast-paced, and team-oriented
environment and handle multiple conflicting priorities

* Overall 8+ years of relevant work experience.

* 5+ years of experience implementing client portal website
solutions using J2EE and related open-source frameworks

Keys to this Position:

1. We are seeking a strong Technical Lead to manage an offshore team and
work with the Investment Marketing group to support the firm's external
facing web sites. The key technologies are Java/J2EE and Oracle. The role
is focused on front end development but there is also some back end
development with Oracle and Web Services.

2. Strong J2EE development background. Demonstrated expertise and proven
experience with the latest web technologies such as RESTful web-services,
XML/JSON, Spring, HTML 4, JavaScript frameworks (i.e. JQuery).

3. If the candidate has experience with a web content management system
(CMS) such as Drupal, WordPress, or Joomla that would be highly desired.
That is a strong plus, not a requirement.

4. Excellent communication skills are important as this individual will
interface with the Business.

Contact Information - Resumes in Word format to:

Gary Wright - President - Wright Associates

Phone - (508) 761-6354 - Email - GaryWright@WrightAssociates.org
<mailto:replywrightassociates@verizon.net> - WEB Site -
<http://www.wrightassociates.org/> www.wrightassociates.org

The New England Networking Group is Moderated by:

Gary L. Wright - President/Principal - Wright Associates

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

Phone:    508-761-6354
Email:    mailto:GaryWright@WrightAssociates.org
Website: www.WrightAssociates.org

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