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[NE-Financial-Services-IT-Jobs] Digest Number 1157

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Digest #1157

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Sat Mar 14, 2015 8:00 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"Gary Wright" wrightassociates


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

Position Title - WR741701032015

Lead Systems Engineer - Java - Alternative Systems - Inv. Mgt. - Boston, MA
Area - 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 - Outstanding 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 Summary:

The Alternatives Systems team is looking for a Lead Software Engineer in the
Alternatives Rapid Solution group to help develop and deliver solutions for
Asset Allocation and Global Derivatives investment teams. In addition to
working in a dynamic team that is well known for its attention to detail and
excellent delivery record, this role will require close interactions with
the Investment teams, Engineering teams from other business units, Business
analysts, Enterprise Architects and Infrastructure teams across IS
department.

This position requires proficiency and experience in software development
using Java based and other technologies, understanding of business workflows
including prior experience working in investment firms, and excellent
communication skills. A CFA designation or a demonstrated progress towards
achieving the CFA Charter will be a plus.

Responsibilities:

* 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.

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

* Perform gap analysis between investment process and existing
systems

* 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

Required Skills and Competencies:

* 7+ years of experience as a Software Developer supporting
application development life cycles

* Strong understanding of Object Oriented concepts

* Demonstrated experience of Design and Development using Java
based technologies.

* In depth knowledge and experience of the Spring Framework.

* Strong understanding and proven experience with technologies such
as Web-Services, XML/XSLT, JSON is required.

* Experience with .NET, C# and excel development is a plus

* Understanding and Experience with building performance (Speed and
Accuracy) critical applications is required

* Experience with web applications and Javascript frameworks
including ExtJS or Angular is desired.

* Must possess PL/SQL programming and SQL tuning skills

* Experience with AWS is a plus

* Must be comfortable with test driven development and Continuous
Integration (JUnit, Hudson, Code Coverage)

* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline
(Master's Degree is Preferred)

* Excellent written and verbal communications skills

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

* 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.

* Strong understanding of financial concepts and knowledge of
Equity and Fixed Income Instruments is highly desirable

* Familiarity with Matlab or any other financial toolkit is a
strong plus

Keys to this Position:

1. This is a Lead level role seeking very strong Java skills.

2. Technical: core Java, multi-threading, Web Services, XML, Spring,
Hibernate and Oracle.

3. Technical Leadership skills are required.

4. Excellent communication skills are required as this role will directly
interface with Investment professionals.

5. Financial Services is a required. The candidate will likely come out of
a Buy side, Sell side or Financial Software vendor.

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 -
www.wrightassociates.org <http://www.wrightassociates.org/>

Sat Mar 14, 2015 8:38 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"Gary Wright" wrightassociates


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

Position Title - WR741711032015

Lead Software Engineer - Core Java - PL/SQL - Alternative Systems - Inv.
Mgt. - Boston, MA Area - 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 - Outstanding 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 Summary:

The Alternatives Systems team is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to
help develop and advance the Investment toolsets. In addition to working in
a dynamic team that is well known for its attention to detail and excellent
delivery record, this role will require close interactions with the
Investment teams, Engineering teams from other business units, Business
analysts, Enterprise Architects and Infrastructure teams across IS
department.

This position requires proficiency and experience in software development
using Java based technologies. While prior business knowledge is not
mandatory any experience in the financial industry will be a plus. A CFA
designation or a demonstrated progress towards achieving the CFA Charter
will be a plus.

Responsibilities:

* Work closely with Alternatives and Equity Engineering and
Business Analyst teams to develop new and advance the existing Investment
Tools

* Ability to work independently with one or more business analysts
and team of consultants to deliver Business solutions

* Partner with in-house application and data architects while
implementing systems requirements.

Required Skills and Competencies:

* 7+ years of experience as a Software Developer supporting large
application development life cycles

* Strong understanding of Object Oriented concepts

* Demonstrated experience of Design and Development using Java
based technologies.

* In depth knowledge and experience of the Spring Framework.

* Strong understanding and proven experience with technologies such
as Web-Services, XML/XSLT, JSON is required.

* Strong understanding and experience of Messaging Framework esp.
using JMS

* Understanding and Experience with building performance (Speed and
Accuracy) critical applications is required

* Experience with web applications and Javascript frameworks
including ExtJS or Angular is desired.

* Strong analytical and communication skills, both written and
verbal are required.

* Must possess PL/SQL programming and SQL tuning skills

* Experience with AWS is a plus

* Must be comfortable with test driven development and Continuous
Integration (JUnit, Hudson, Code Coverage)

* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline
(Master's Degree is Preferred)

* Experience in Financial Industry and esp. with Portfolio Analysis
Tools is preferred

* Strong understanding of Equity and Fixed Income Instruments is
highly desirable

Keys to this Position:

1. This is a Lead level role seeking very strong Java skills.

2. Technical: core Java, multi-threading, Web Services, XML, Spring,
Hibernate and Oracle.

3. Technical Leadership skills are required.

4. Excellent communication skills are required as this role will directly
interface with Investment professionals.

5. Financial Services is a required. The candidate will likely come out of
a Buy side, Sell side or Financial Software vendor.

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 -
www.wrightassociates.org <http://www.wrightassociates.org/>

Sat Mar 14, 2015 9:10 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"Gary Wright" wrightassociates


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

Position Title - WR741771032015

Lead Systems Engineer - Salesforce Certified 501+ - Inv. Mgt. - Boston, MA
Area - Excellent Package

Excellent Compensation Package - Base + Bonus + PS - Relo Possible

Company

Large, successful, and growing Boston based Investment Management Firm -
Great Company - Lots of Upside - Outstanding 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 Summary:

As a Lead Engineer, you will be developing the next generation of
Salesforce.com tools for the firm. You will be working with a group of
world-class engineers, architects and product managers to build the
breakthrough features Salesforce.com users will love, adopt and use while
keeping the application stable and scalable. You have a solid understanding
of the MVC pattern, an obsession with commenting your code, a natural
tendency to self-test your code before calling it done and a knack for
building quality user experience. You'll be a part of a modern, lean,
self-governing engineering team where you have the ability to switch hats
between designing new capabilities, coding features, testing for quality and
performance, and writing release management automation.

Responsibilities:

* Developing, deploying and maintaining new functionality on the
firm's Salesforce.com platform

* Providing technical oversight and design guidance for a team of
software engineers

* Define processes and best practices for the engineering team

* Facilitate the Scrum process of planning, daily stand-ups,
reviews, and retrospectives

* Building integration components to transition data from local
systems and cloud based systems

* Supporting the development team with Java application development
and maintenance as required

* Identify potential new technical solutions and or approaches for
the current Salesforce.com platform

Required Skills and Competencies:

* 7+ yrs. experience programming with Java, C# or C++

* 2 + yrs. experience developing applications on Force.com (Apex
and Visualforce)

* Strong working knowledge of Apex, Visual Force, Salesforce APIs,
SOQL and the Force.com platform

* Deep understanding of salesforce platform multi tenancy, identity
management, permissioning and governors

* Extensive understanding of OO design and programming, and MVC

* Experience with JS, CSS, HTML, any form of SQL, any common Ajax
toolkit, web authentication technologies

* Experience with software repository tools like SVN, TFS, GitHub
etc.

* Experience working with an IDE like Eclipse

* Understanding of developing and packaging apps on the Salesforce
platform

* Experience with agile development methodology

* Excellent communication skills

* Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics, Computer Science

Preferred experience:

* Experience with other cloud technologies, including Amazon
(SQS/SNS, S3 storage)

* Experience with Active MQ or other messaging technologies

* industry domain experience in Financial Services

* Salesforce Advanced Developer or Architect Certification

Keys to this Position:

1) 10+ years of development experience - This resource needs to have a
strong application development background.

2) 4+ years of Java development experience required.

3) 2+ years of Salesforce development experience. Needs to have
customization experience working with Apex and Visualforce. Ideally this
person will have gone through 2 Salesforce implementations

4) Must be Salesforce 501 certified or higher or at least working towards
their 501 certification. 401 certified is not at the level that we are
looking for.

5) Must have experience leading a team - this person will be leading a
team of 6 - 10 consultants.

6) Must have excellent communication and interpersonal 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 -
www.wrightassociates.org <http://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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