Messages In This Digest (5 Messages)
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- Lead SW Engineer - Investment Data - Java - JMS - Oracle - FS - Marl From: Gary Wright - Wright Associates
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- Updated - Manager - Unix & Storage Production Support(Hands On) - FS From: Gary Wright - Wright Associates
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- QA Manager - Trading Systems - Automated Tools - Change Agent - FS - From: Gary Wright - Wright Associates
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- Lead System's Analyst - Investment Data - FS - Boston, MA Area - Out From: Gary Wright - Wright Associates
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- Sr. Systems Engineer (Windows Server & VMware) - FS - Marlboro, MA A From: Gary Wright - Wright Associates
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Lead SW Engineer - Investment Data - Java - JMS - Oracle - FS - Marl
Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net wrightassociates
Wed Sep 30, 2009 8:01 am (PDT)
Please feel free to refer this position to other groups and people you know.
Open & Active as of 09-30-2009
Position Title – WR713701
Lead SW Engineer – Investment Data - Java – JMS – Oracle - FS - Marlboro, MA
Area - Outstanding Package
Outstanding 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
This individual will be responsible for leading development teams that
support Reference Data, which includes the Security Master (CSM) and Pricing
related applications. In this role, this individual assists project manager
in the planning and technical direction of projects, working with the
developers and end users to design, architect and implement product
solutions to meet business requirements. Additionally, this individual will
assist the development manager in establishing priorities, technical
assignments and managing senior technical professionals.
Key Responsibilities;
· Lead the architecture, design, implementation, deployment, and
support of the Security Master and Pricing related applications
· Manage a 10 person engineering team of employees and consultants
including offshore vendor-resourced staff
· Assist the project manager with the budgets, resource allocation,
task distribution, delivery management, risk management and other project
management tasks
· Ensure that product architecture and internal practices are
understood and followed by other team members
· Responsible for non-functional requirements of systems including
production stability, performance, maintainability and supportability
· Work with the business team members, the project manager, and
systems analysts to review and qualify business requirements, use-cases,
test plans, and functional specifications of the system
· Collaborate with application development teams and other central
groups to provide vision and generate reusable solutions in terms of
architecture blueprints, best practices, vendor products and custom software
extensions.
Keys to This Position:
1. Technical: Working experience in technologies including Java/J2EE,
Oracle, Spring Framework, Struts, Hibernate, SOA, XML, JMS, etc.
2. Domain Knowledge: Investment Management experience is required.
Ideally the candidate will have Asset Management Experience and more
specifically Investment Data (such as Security Master (CSM) and Pricing).
3. Experience in leading and managing team of 8+ developers (employees and
consultants).
4. The position breaks down as follows: 20% hands-on development, 50%
design and architecture work, 30% management/leadership. The keys are:
Architecture, Leadership and Delivery.
Required Skills and Competencies:
· A minimum of 8 years as an enterprise developer
· Strong team leadership and management skills
· At least 2 years of experience in directly managing teams
· Ability to operate with less than perfect information and make
quick decisions when necessary
· Experience with the investment related data is required
· A minimum of two years of experience in working with offshore
development teams
· Must have 3+ solid years of OO design and development experience
· Must have 3+ years developing complex n-tiered architectures
· At least 5 years of software development experience on the
Java/J2EE platform
· 5 years of relational database programming experience with Oracle
· Excellent organizational, interpersonal, written and verbal
communication skills and ability to articulate technical solution to the
business team members
· Must be able to independently design, coordinate complex projects.
· Experience with Agile Project Management techniques, Unified
Process, UML,
· Model Driven Architectures and Use Case notations
Contact Information
Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates
Phone - (508) 761-6354 - Email - replywrightassociates@verizon. - WEBnet
Site – www.wrightassociates.org
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Updated - Manager - Unix & Storage Production Support(Hands On) - FS
Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net wrightassociates
Wed Sep 30, 2009 8:02 am (PDT)
Updated - Open, Active & Hot as of 09-30-2009
Please feel free to refer this position to other groups and people you know.
Position Title – WR712811
Manager – Unix & Storage Production Support (Hands On) - FS – Marlboro, MA
Area - Outstanding Package
Outstanding 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
This individual, as part of the Production Support team within Enterprise
Technology Services will manage a team that provides 24X7 production support
services for our Unix and storage infrastructure. The right candidate
should have extensive management and technical experience with the ability
to support a global multi-vendor and cross-technology production environment
with strong leadership, crisis resolution, team management, communications,
analytical and decision-making skills. This role will report to the manager
of the production support team.
Managing full-time and consultant staff (professional development,
establishing goals, managing workload, defining and clarifying priorities,
and providing technical direction), budgets, technology vendor relationships
and projects/programs (series of projects).
Key Responsibilities;
· Continuous availability and operational resiliency of Unix/Storage
infrastructure components
· Minimize production risk(s)/issue(s) through oversight and delivery of
people, process and technology services
· Taking ownership of issues in a 24x7 production environment, collaborate
with other teams on remediation and manage them through completion
· Understand business priorities/needs, the IT organization's goals and
enable alignment of the team's operating model, processes and systems to
meet stated objectives and outcomes.
· Providing vision, direction, definition of team activities/priorities and
impact on technology and thought leadership/expertise for the Unix/Storage
team initiatives
· Apply Unix/Storage technology and application domain understanding and
collaborate with teams/peers to implement solutions, systems and processes
to improve our operations and support capabilities.
· Interacting with planning, engineering, delivery and operations teams to
coordinate project activities and support issues. Communicating issues and
status to senior management in the form of status reports, briefings, and
presentations.
· Development of strategy and plans for systems production readiness,
security/audit, monitoring for continued operability in a 24x7 environment,
infrastructure high availability, participation in disaster recovery
planning and testing, adherence to system standards and oversee the
development of automated Unix/storage system provisioning and operational
tools/capabilities.
· Function as a "mentor" for the team and empower employees by dissemination
of personal knowledge, perspective(s) and experience(s)
· Foster a positive culture of creativity, innovation and continuous
improvements of our services and operational capabilities
· Focus on enabling efficiency and productivity enhancements within our
global support staff, processes and our technology/tool(s) portfolio.
Keys to This Position:
1. This is a Senior person that is a Strong Hands on Manager. This
individual will manage 16 resources in the Unix and Storage space. The
candidate should have Strong Leadership skills along with experience in
Budgeting, Project Management and Staff Development. 60% Management/40%
Technical blend. We need a strong Leader with excellent Communication
skills that is Collaborative. The approach and management style are key.
2. This individual will have a strong Operations background that can manage
Production Infrastructure for Unix and Storage. Must have a background
managing a production environment for either Unix or Storage. Unix is more
important of the two. Must have strong Operational Process Knowledge (ITIL,
Change Management, etc.)
3. Technical Requirements: This candidate needs to be close to the
following technologies as a Tech Lead: Solaris, Linux, Veritas, VMware and
EMC with an understanding of Oracle databases.
4. See the first two bullet pointes under Required Skills and Competencies.
5. The candidate should come from a large, mission critical, 24X7 production
environment. Financial services required.
6. A bachelor's degree is required.
Required Skills and Competencies:
· 10+ years experience as a manager/contributor supporting global 24x7 Unix
and storage support teams with distributed multi-server/multi-location
environments
· Hands-on experience in environments with the following technologies:
§ Solaris (Fujitsu Primepower and Sun V-, T-, M- series platforms) and Linux
(Redhat on Sun, IBM and HP platforms)
§ Veritas storage foundation suite
§ Virtualization with VMWare and SRDF based (or similar) replication
solutions
§ EMC, NetApps, Celera and Acopia (F5) SAN and NAS based storage subsystems
§ Functional understanding of Oracle databases, Weblogic application servers
and MQ messaging
· Ability to function/lead autonomously in a collaborative culture with
focus on business outcome(s), impact to the firm and client service
orientation
· Experience in leading, delegation and also having the technical expertise
to get "hand-on" involved as/when the need arises.
· A personal style, commitment and communication ability that allows you to
partner with IS peers and teams to work productively and efficiently.
· Strong delivery/operations leadership, change agent, motivation to take on
and lead new initiatives and willingness to learn and grow self (in areas of
technical and management skills)
· Good understanding of the financial services industry, business
priorities/workflow and it's associated IT infrastructure, system and
application needs
· Prior experience with designing, staffing and operationalizing a Network
Operations center (NOC) will be a plus
· Advanced degree in Computer Science or related discipline
Contact Information
Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates
Phone - (508) 761-6354 - Email - replywrightassociates@verizon. - WEBnet
Site – www.wrightassociates.org
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QA Manager - Trading Systems - Automated Tools - Change Agent - FS -
Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net wrightassociates
Wed Sep 30, 2009 8:12 am (PDT)
Please feel free to refer this position to other groups and people you know.
Open & Active as of 0930-2009
Position Title – WR713711
QA Manager – Trading Systems – Automated Tools - FS – Boston, MA Area -
Outstanding Package
Outstanding 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
The Quality Management institutes best practices and consistency across
application teams with the goals of reducing development costs, shortening
release cycles and improving code quality.
The Quality Management Center seeks a QA Manager to help us continue to
improve the overall quality of our application portfolio. In this key role
the individual will supervise the testing for an entire suite of
applications across development teams, with a strong focus on automation.
The successful candidate will have strong QA management experience, a strong
knowledge of software quality assurance methodologies and best practices,
and experience in the delivery of multiple large-scale software projects
simultaneously. Experience working with trading systems is a plus.
Key Responsibilities;
As the Manager of several QA teams, the person will be a lead for all
ongoing projects with a focus on the delivery of various testing-related
initiatives. Specific responsibilities include:
· Deliver all Testing projects and operations within the portfolio
of applications in multiple development teams
· Partner with Development and Application managers on integrating
Quality Management into the overall SDLC processes
· Collaborate with Application & Development teams to drive testing
process standardization, adoption, and improvement
· Identify and implement QA process and tool improvements that lead
to increased workplace productivity
· Plan and implement test automation processes for different
applications/technologies
· Review and approve Test Strategy and Test Plans for various
testing engagements
· Review quality and delivery metrics that measure the benefits for
their teams and track the quality of services delivered
· Coordinate work across multiple teams to develop, update, and
implement contingencies to meet changing project or service needs
· Ensure that the appropriate test infrastructure and tools for
project teams are delivered
· Manage a team of employees and consultants
Keys to This Position:
1. Strong Management skills required. This individual will manage
approximately 20 QA Analysts. The key to this job is that we need a very
strong leader that can effect change – Change Agent. Great communication
and relationship management skills
2. Strong QA background required, but does not need to be hands on at this
time because Management is more the focus. The candidate should have past
or recent experience with a variety of QA tools that includes but is not
limited to: Test Director, Quality Center, Silk suite, Performance Tools,
defect tracking tools, code debug tools, etc.
3. Financial Services is required. This individual will be supporting the
Trading Systems team. Firm is in the process of building a new Global
Trading System.
Required Skills and Competencies:
The ideal candidate will have excellent leadership, technical expertise and
communication skills. The individual must possess thorough understanding of
QA Principles, techniques, & technologies and various software development
methodologies including Agile principles. Specific qualifications include:
· 10+ years of Software Application development and/or testing
experience
· 5+ years experience in Software QA/Testing Management and Team
Leadership
· 3+ years experience in test automation scripts and test automation
frameworks
· Experience managing diverse teams of 20 or more people
· Understanding of Object-Oriented and data driven testing
methodologies
· Experience in producing program level QA metrics for test case
coverage and defect workflow status
· Experience with a variety of QA tools that includes but not
limited to: HP Quality Center, QTP, Test Director, Silk suite, performance
tools, defect tracking tools, code debug tools, etc.
· Experience with different facets of QA tests such as functional,
regression, integration, performance, UAT, and operational readiness testing
· Experience with release and configuration management
· Must be self-motivated, able to work independently and thrive in a
fast-paced, multi-tasking, high stress, high productivity environment while
maintaining excellent working relationships with people in a wide variety of
functional areas
· Strong team leadership and management skills
· Excellent verbal and written communication skills
· Ability to manage conflicting priorities effectively
· Computer Science degree or related field
· Experience working in Financial Service industry; trading systems
expertise is a positive
Contact Information
Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates
Phone - (508) 761-6354 - Email - replywrightassociates@verizon. - WEBnet
Site – www.wrightassociates.org
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Lead System's Analyst - Investment Data - FS - Boston, MA Area - Out
Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net wrightassociates
Wed Sep 30, 2009 8:12 am (PDT)
Please feel free to refer this position to other groups and people you know.
Open & Active as of 09-30-2009
Position Title – WR713801
Lead System's Analyst – Investment Data - FS – Boston, MA Area - Outstanding
Package
Outstanding 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
The individual will be leading the system design and analysis for
development projects in the End-Of-day Pricing Application in the Investment
Data Systems team. In this role the individual will work with the project
managers, business analysts and lead programmers to define technical
solutions and roadmap for implementing business requirements in our
applications with a strong focus on scalability, quality and application
integration with the downstream consumers of pricing data. This person will
also be performing supervisory activities including budget management within
the team.
Key Responsibilities;
· Partner with Investment Data and Derivatives Services Business
team within the Investment Administration Group to proactively identify the
firms growing needs around pricing and analytics in order to develop long
term scalable solutions.
· Take a hands-on approach to functional architecture and technical
design to deliver business solutions.
· Work with the Pricing Data consumer groups to understand their
requirements and help develop innovative solutions to address their data
needs.
· Provide input into system design to help the programming teams
define effort and implementation schedules for application development work.
· Ensure quality of product by enforcing high standards in testing
and building controls to measure the overall accuracy and timeliness of data
delivery.
· Develop a strong partnership with the delivery team to ensure on
time, scalable and high quality business solutions.
· Manage the overall budget of the team and help in planning and
budget estimations of various efforts.
· Provide team leadership on assigned projects that may include both
full time and consulting staff in a matrix organization.
Keys to This Position:
1. This is a Senior role that is a combination of Functional and Technical
with emphasis on the Functional.
2. The Domain (Functional) requirement: This candidate must have a strong
background in Investment Management with exposure to Back Office and Middle
Office Operations. This individual will be responsible for Reference Data
Applications that includes Pricing, Security Master, Analytics and
Derivative Operations. Any experience in these areas is a very strong plus.
3. Technical: The applications are written in Java (J2EE), PL/SQL and Data
Stage. Experience as an Analyst working with applications built with these
technologies is a big plus.
4. The candidate must have Excellent Communication and Client Relationship
skills. The individual will be interfacing directly with the business
(Investment Data and Derivatives Systems Operations).
Required Skills and Competencies:
· Strong understanding of Investment Data and Investment Management
industry, with specific domain expertise in Pricing and analytics
· Minimum 10 years experience as a systems analyst
· Minimum 5 years experience in Data Management
· Minimum of 5 years of Project Management experience is required.
· Experience in working with data providers such as IDC and Reuters.
· CFA certification is a plus.
· Experience in the design of n-tier applications and architectures.
· Experience with SOA architecture will be a huge plus.
· Team management experience and a proven ability to work in a cross
functional environment
· Experience in managing delivery in a centralized team with
aggressive delivery timelines is required.
· Excellent organizational, written and verbal communication skills.
Contact Information
Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates
Phone - (508) 761-6354 - Email - replywrightassociates@verizon. - WEBnet
Site – www.wrightassociates.org
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Sr. Systems Engineer (Windows Server & VMware) - FS - Marlboro, MA A
Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net wrightassociates
Wed Sep 30, 2009 8:13 am (PDT)
Please feel free to refer this position to other groups and people you know.
Still Open & Active as of 09-30-2009
Position Title – WR712351
Sr. System Engineer (Windows Server & VMware) - FS – Marlboro, MA Area -
Outstanding Package
Outstanding 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
The Senior Systems Engineer will contribute to the overall engineering,
design, build and provide high level support of all existing and new Windows
Server infrastructure. As a senior member of the team, the successful
candidate will need to work closely with our internal clients to develop
consensus and find solutions to problems facing their business constituents.
Detailed Responsibilities;
· Monitor windows environment for anomalies and errors, reporting
and escalation of issues.
· Provide the required daily support, maintenance, and management of
the platforms.
· Provide Level III support and repair, as well as escalation to the
Business Application Group and/or Operations.
· Manager enterprise applications responsible for server builds,
patch management, virtual machine management, virus scanning, etc.
· Develop and maintain high standards in establishing procedures and
policies to address routine jobs and certain resolution protocols.
· Meet or exceed SLA obligations consistently and on an ongoing
basis, allow for accurate metrics to measure response time, meet BCP
requirements for offsite access, and reduce the time needed to address
hardware/software failures.
Keys to This Position:
1. We are looking for a Very Senior Windows Systems Engineer that has
strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills.
2. In-depth Knowledge of VMware architecture and hands on experience with
V-motion, ESX Ranger and other virtual management software. VMware and ESX
are required. The most recent version of ESX is 3.x
3. We are presently using Windows 2003 server and will be migrating to
Windows 2008. The candidate needs to have 2003 server (2008 would be a
plus).
4. Strong Active Directory and Microsoft Clustering skills are required.
5. The candidate should come from a large production environment - (700+
Windows Servers globally)
Required Skills and Competencies:
· 8+ years of managing a Windows Server environment (Windows 2003
Server required)
· In-depth Knowledge of VMware architecture and hands on experience
with V-motion, ESX Ranger and other virtual management software
· Extensive experience with Microsoft Clustering
· Ability to troubleshoot and problem solve independently
· The ability to design and build an Active Directory infrastructure
· Hands on management of an Active Directory infrastructure
· Proficiency in DNS, DHCP and other naming services
· Server management with an emphasis on HP servers
· In-depth Knowledge of disk management with SAN, NAS and local
storage with an emphasis on disk layout and performance
· Strong systems engineering skills with an emphasis on enterprise
scale architecture
· LINUX skills are highly desired.
· Understanding of High Availability, Business Continuity, and
Disaster Recovery concepts as they relate to Open Systems architecture.
Contact Information
Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates
Phone - (508) 761-6354 - Email - replywrightassociates@verizon. - WEBnet
Site – www.wrightassociates.org
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Phone: 508-761-6354
Email: mailto:garywright@prodigy.net
Website: www.WrightAssociates.org
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@prodigy.net
Website: www.WrightAssociates.org
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