Wednesday, October 21, 2015

[NE-Financial-Services-IT-Jobs] Digest Number 1232

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Digest #1232

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Tue Oct 20, 2015 8:10 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"Gary Wright" wrightassociates


Know anyone for this role? - Any referrals would be greatly appreciated.

Position Title - WR151023082015

Updated - Lead SW Engineer - Java - J2EE - Oracle - Asset Management -
Boston, MA Area - Excellent Package

Excellent Compensation Package - Base + Bonus + PS

Green Card or US Citizens Only - Relo possible for exceptional candidates

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 equity trading systems team is responsible for providing solutions that
help trader and trade administrators to streamline trading process and
control operational risk. Members of the team play critical roles in our
firm's success by providing technology solutions which improve the quality,
speed, and efficiency of a highly complex industry with a sophisticated
client base. It is our strong belief that the tools developed by the equity
trading systems team differentiate us from our competitors in the financial
industry.

We are seeking candidates who will work closely with the equity trading team
and lead the development of the advanced suite of trading applications.

This individual will report to the Manager of Development for Equity
Trading.

Responsibilities:

As a senior member of the Equity Trading Systems team, this individual will
have the following responsibilities:

* Oversight of the technical design, implementation, testing,
deployment, and support of complex applications used by the firm's equity
traders and trade administrators.

* Active participation in the development of business requirements
for new capabilities, including a close working relationship with users.

* A contributor to the firms technical community helping to define
the direction for Architecture, development tools, delivery processes and
other SDLC disciplines.

* Team management responsibilities, including the recruiting,
supervision, and development of staff and consultant developers

* Interaction with other IT teams within the firm to ensure
effective integration with portfolio management and other pre-trade and
post-trade systems.

Required Skills and Competencies:

A candidate must possess the following qualifications:

* A solid software engineering background, including at least ten
years of hands-on development experience in a commercial environment

* At least five years of experience managing software development
teams

* Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with business
teams

* The ability and willingness to work effectively in a
business-critical production environment

* Excellent written and verbal communications skills

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

* The ability to work independently

* The ability to manage conflicting priorities effectively

* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline

* Financial industry knowledge is preferred

Keys to this Position:

1. 30% of the role includes the following 4 components: (1) detail, design
and code reviews, (2) proof of concepts, (3) hands on coding, (4)
troubleshooting code. Coding is only 10% of the role.

2. Technology Requirement: Java, Oracle, Spring, Messaging and exposure to
multi-threading.

3. The other 70% of the role is Technical Leadership. We are seeking a
strong Software Engineering Lead that can manage a development team of up to
12 resources (onshore/offshore model.) We would like this individual to
have experience building distributed systems.

4. Domain: Ideally we would like to have a candidate with Financial
Industry experience. We are open to all candidates regardless of their
domain experience but they must be able to articulate to a reasonable depth
the business problems they were working on.

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/>

Tue Oct 20, 2015 8:10 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"Gary Wright" wrightassociates


Know anyone for this role? - Any referrals would be greatly appreciated.

Position Title - WR74724R092015

Sr. SW Engineer - Data Services - ETL - Data Modeling - Reporting - SQL -
Marlboro, MA Area - Excellent Package

Excellent Compensation Package - Base + Bonus + PS

Green Card or US Citizens Only - Relo possible for exceptional candidates

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:

My client's Data Services Engineering team is seeking a Senior Software
Engineer to join the team to build and support ETL and Reporting platforms.
The Data Services team supports centralized applications across Enterprise
Reporting and Data Security. The developer will work with team members on
designing and developing enhancements and new capabilities using Talend and
Tableau. Other projects include leading data security initiatives and
supporting new Enterprise Reporting platform.

Responsibilities:

* Support of custom Data Services Reporting platform

* Researching reported problems

* Generating story level enhancements using technical tools and
process methods.

* Talend ETL Development

* Tableau Reports Development

* Data Model Enhancements to support new functionality.

* Operational readiness and rollout of new versions of applications

* Test new technology and vendor interfaces into applications

* Some project management responsibilities

* Contribute to the development of internal and external
documentation

Required Skills and Competencies:

* 1-2 years of ETL experience like Talend.

* 2+ years of self-service BI like Tableau.

* Knowledge of Data Modeling and data dictionary and system views ;
DBA experience is a plus

* Strong SQL skills

* 3 - 5 years Programming experience and familiarity with agile
development tools and methods preferred

* Java and Web Services experience is a plus.

* Experience with reporting platforms like Jasper would be a plus

* BS degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems or
equivalent experience

Keys to this Position:

1) Technical Requirements: ETL, Data Modeling, Reporting and SQL
experience is required.

2) Ideally the candidate will have experience with Talend (ETL tool).
Other acceptable ETL tools would be Data Stage or Informatica.

3) Ideally the candidate will have experience with Tableau (self-service
BI tool). We will train the candidate to learn Tableau. Other acceptable
BI tools include OBIEE and Spotfire (although these are not required).

4) Java, Web Services and AWS (Amazon Web Services) are a nice to have.

5) We will consider a core level candidate (5 to 7 years) or a senior
level candidate (10 plus years).

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/>

Tue Oct 20, 2015 8:11 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"Gary Wright" wrightassociates


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

Position Title - WR741901032015

Lead Software Engineer - Core Java - PL/SQL - FI Quant Systems - Inv. Mgt. -
Boston, MA Area - Excellent Package

Excellent Compensation Package - Base + Bonus + PS - Relocation Possible for
Exceptional Candidates

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 Fixed Income Quant Systems Team is responsible for providing advanced
quantitative tools such as analytic calculators, risk models, cash flow
engines, liquidity evaluation frameworks, technical pattern modeling, and
asset allocation strategies to the firm's portfolio management and research
teams. Members of the team play critical roles in firm's success by
providing proprietary technology solutions which enable complex investment
decision-making.

This lead role will combine quantitative and software engineering skills to
drive development of firm's next generation of quantitative tools.

Responsibilities:

* Participate in full-cycle software development including
development, regression testing, deployment, and production support.

* Provide technical leadership to a development team with
responsibility for architecture, design and implementation.

* Partner closely with investment and research teams to understand
business needs and to create effective technical solutions.

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

Required Skills and Competencies:

* At least 7 years of hands-on software development experience.

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

* Demonstrated experience developing J2EE solutions using Java,
JDBC, Web Services, Messaging, and related technologies.

* Working knowledge of SQL and database technologies.

* Delivery focus and willingness to work in a fast-paced,
mission-critical production environment.

* Excellent communications skills.

* Bachelor's degree in computer science, math, physics, statistics
or other related field.

Pluses:

* Understanding of fixed income security data, analytics and risk
management concepts.

* Prior experience using distributed computing, grid or cloud
technologies, particularly Amazon Web Services.

* Experience with any of the following technologies:

o Web UI application development using JQuery or other JavaScript
frameworks

o PL/SQL

o Java FX/Swing

o Matlab

Keys to this Position:

1) This is a Technical Leadership role that requires strong
communication and leadership skills. This is a very hands-on role and will
lead a small team of consultants.

2) Technical Stack: The candidate should have strong hands-on skills
with core Java, multi-threading, JDBC, Web Services, Messaging, PL/SQL and
Oracle.

3) Financial services is highly desired, but not required. Candidates
from other buy-side, sell-side or financial software vendors are highly
desired.

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/>

Tue Oct 20, 2015 8:11 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"Gary Wright" wrightassociates


Know anyone for this role? - Any referrals would be greatly appreciated.

Position Title - WR74723R102015

Lead Java Developer - Fixed Income - Full Stack - SQL - Asset Management -
Marlboro, MA Area - Excellent Package

Outstanding Compensation Package - Base + Bonus + PS

Green Card or US Citizens Only - Relo possible for exceptional candidates

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 member of the IV Application Development Team, this individual will be
responsible for design, architecture, development and maintenance of
applications within Fixed Income Systems group including, but not limited
to, leading a track Performance and Attribution Systems and be able to work
with both analysts and developers to devise business solutions.

The individual will participate in all development activities to
successfully deploy new systems and enhancements, and work with colleagues
and end users to design, develop and implement solutions to meet business
outcomes.

Responsibilities:

* Participate in architecture, design, implementation, deployment,
and support efforts

* Work with business team members, project managers/analysts, other
software engineers to review business requirements, functional
specifications, use-cases, and test plans.

* Design, prototype and author code for software components and
applications based on functional specification and optimize them for
performance

* Ensure the adherence to established code-quality standards within
the development and QA teams, such as Continuous Integration, Code Reviews,
and all required release documentation.

* Establish and maintain effective client relationships and help
guide the team in setting priorities for completion of requests or
resolution of issues.

* Work across teams such as with middleware, database, and
architecture teams to coordinate and facilitate production releases

* Author architecture, technical design, and support documentation

Required Skills and Competencies:

* 10+ years of software development and design experience

* 7+ years demonstrated experience developing web applications and
services using SPRING, JDBC, JMS, JSP, and JavaScript

* Experience with JSON, XML, UNIX/Linux, and AngularJS is helpful

* Must be comfortable working with Oracle databases, and its
related technologies

* Motivated, agile and able to work independently in a fast paced
team oriented environment. Committed to deliver projects on time and
overcome obstacles.

* 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

* Financial industry knowledge is a huge plus

Keys to this Position:

1) We are seeking a lead Java developer with 10 plus years of experience.

2) This role is 70% coding and 30% leadership (leading a team of 3 to 4
consultants).

3) We are seeking a strong hands-on lead Java developer who can lead in
analysis, design and development of complex applications. The technical
stack includes Java/J2EE, JMS, multi-threading, Web Services, Oracle, Web
2.0, JQuery and Spring.

4) We are also seeking SQL coding skills to be able to work with the
data. Solid experience with SQL or PL/SQL is required.

5) Application is data intensive and experience in dealing with large
volumes of data is required

6) Financial services experience is preferred, but not required

7) Strong communication skills as this person will be leading a very
important track called Next Generation Performance and Attribution System.

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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