Wednesday, November 18, 2009

[itroundtable] LEADS: IT Svc Mgr/BA/Java Dev/Tester/Dev Mgr/Directry Eng - NYC

 

All of these opportunities are Full-Time in Mid-Town NYC.  Please send me resume and cover letter if interested.

 

SERVICE MANAGER - TIMESERIES & PRICING SYSTEMS

Enterprise Data Group have an open position for a self starting, highly motivated technologist wanting to make a significant contribution to the management of the Firm's Timeseries and Pricing Data platforms. The role is a Domain Service Manager within EDG's horizontal Production Management organization. However, whilst the core responsibilities are to the Timeseries/Pricing domain, a critical part of the role will include making broader contributions to the overall EDG Production Management agenda. In addition to being the primary Service Manager for Timeseries/Pricing, the role also includes being backup Service Manager for the Securities Reference Data domain.

 

This role will provide an excellent opportunity to gain exposure to and build relationships with the business and IT and in particular will provide significant exposure to senior EDG managers.

 

Enterprise Data Group [EDG] provides data products and services to global Institutional Securities Business. Its data is critical to the front to back sales and trading, operations, finance, risk and regulatory business processes.  It is responsible for key enterprise reference data products including (a) Accounts, Documents, Delivery Instructions, Legal Entities (b) People Data – both internal and external (c) Securities Reference Data (d) Pricing and Timeseries and (e) Technical Asset Data. It operates as a professional data company with teams focused on specific technology product development, data processing, as well as cross products services including production management, technical architecture, governance, project and risk management.

 

Skills Required

• Broad technology skills with proven specialization in at least one field, e.g. Unix, Mainframe etc

• Previous experience in technical operations, system/application support or service management

• Good understanding of investment banking business and technology flows

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills

• Ability to operate in pressurized situations

• Results oriented

 

Skills Desired

• ITIL Foundation or above

• Project Management experience

• Experience of enterprise data concepts and technology

 

BUSINESS / DATA ANALYST

This position is within the Enterprise Data Group (EDG) - Legal Entity team. The team is responsible for Legal Entity reference data, related processes and manages the firm-wide Legal Entity platform (LEXI).

 

The candidate will be involved in strategic projects working to establish and expand services for Legal Entity data and processes. In this capacity, the candidate will liaise with internal clients regarding business processes and interface directly with various technology groups in implementation of application changes.

 

This position requires experience in process re-engineering, familiarity with technology development lifecycle and the ability to work closely with end users and IT to implement new processes or enhancement of current processes. The candidate will determine the requirements of the stakeholder groups, propose solutions to meet the need, manage the implementation of the solution, and actively manage the integration projects with the LEXI application and the Reference Database hub and various stakeholder applications.

 

Working independently and as part of a team is critical in this role. The candidate must have the ability to independently manage projects/project streams of varying size and complexity as well as conduct any associated analysis and implementation work.

 

Skills Required

The role requires both analytical and technical skills.

• Familiar with all stages of the development life cycle including analysis, design, development, deployment and support.

• Interest and proficiency in working with large and disparate data and sources.

• Good organization, communication and interpersonal skills.

• Self-starter with a can-do approach and strong client focus.

• Methodical problem solving.

• Team player.

 

Skills Desired

• Seasoned professionals with a proven ability to navigate a global organization and champion cross divisional projects as a hands on Business analyst

• High level of proficiency in issue resolution and consensus building

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Strong organizational and process improvement skills

• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build good working relationships at all levels

• Attention to detail and persistence

• Project Management experience

• High level of proficiency in Access &/or SQL

• High level of proficiency in Microsoft Excel

• Experience in Financial Services

 

SENIOR JAVA DEVELOPER

The position is on the MW / UI team in New York . The team is responsible for developing EDG wide re-usable architectural components, defining the strategy and future architecture of the reference data group and helping other groups to 'kick start' new development projects.

 

The application group is looking for a senior systems developer/architect with expertise in Java with specific experience in jsp/servlet architecture and OO System design. The candidate will need to have had experience developing system architecture on large projects and will be responsible for coming up with strategic technical solutions that will meet the needs of the enterprise for the future.

 

The candidate will need to work closely with other application developers within the group, whose members are located in New York , Tokyo and India . The candidate will interface with external application groups whose applications are built on a variety of platforms, languages and technologies.

 

Skills Required

The candidate should have at least 5 years experience developing java MW using modern technologies such as spring, hibernate, cxf, etc. The person should have also have had at least 5 years experience developing web applications using technologies such as struts, spring mvc, wicket, gwt, etc.

The role also requires that the candidate be experienced in managing projects and overseeing development teams work towards completion of those projects. They should be familiar will all aspects of project management and be comfortable with talking to users about requirement, writing functional specifications through to managing go-lives and running post-mortems.

 

Skills Desired

Flex, C#, Perl, Unix scripting, Windows.

 

TESTER - CLIENT REFERENCE DATA

This is a QA /Tester position creating and maintaining test suite s for systems in ISG's Client Reference Data platform within the Enterprise Data Group.

 

Candidate will be required to define strategies and test cases covering all aspect of functional/regression/performance/capacity testing, execute test cases independently or collaborate with other QA members in test execution. The role involves working closely with the business analysts and developers to understand business requirement and technical structure. Candidate will also be involved writing and maintaining backend automation scripts for testing.

 

Skills Required

The ideal candidate should be experienced with standard test methodologies, able to quickly acquire business an technical knowledge to come up with robust test cases, and working against aggressive timelines. The successful candidate will recommend and influence changes to developers to further improve software quality.

 

Skills Required QA Technical Skills

•5+ years of testing applications

•2+ years of testing financial applications

•3+ Years Experience using Quick Test Pro, Quality Center

•Front-end functional testing in a distributed environment

•Experience testing Java, C#, .NET, Web products

 

Technical Skills:

•Unix Command Line, basic shell scripting

•DB Skills - should be able to write complex SQL statements

•Technical proficiency in UNIX scripting.

•Experience operating in Sybase

 

Industry Background

•Previous experience with financial industry and trading systems

•Financial Test experience for large scale projects

 

Skills Desired

•Hands on Shell/Perl scripting experience is a big plus

•Backend database testing plus

 

3 Positions…

SENIOR DEVELOPER - BUSINESS FUNCTIONS (Org Units, New Roles, Group Manager)

DEVELOPMENT MANAGER - AUTHORIZATION MANAGEMENT

BUSINESS ANALYST - AUTHORIZATION MANAGEMENT

Reference Data team within the Enterprise Data Group is responsible for the deployment of software and infrastructure solutions for all aspects of Identity Management: 

•  Authentication and Access Management -

  o  Coarse grained account management

  o  Password management

  o  Lifecycle events

  o  Single Sign On federated authentication services

•  Authorization and Access Management

  o  Reference data platform to enable the managing of entitlements and authorizations

  o  Role and access control lists

•  Directory and Identity Data Services

  o  Authoritative source for identity information

  o  Provide the infrastructure for firm's applications to

 

Position:

This is a Senior Associate level position for a Senior Developer within the Reference Data team's Authorization and Access Management focusing on Business Functions, Organization Units, and Role/Group-based entitlements.  Activities include:

• Learn and understand the business

• Hands on design and development of components of the platform

• Provide technical solutions for the complete software product life cycle (SDLC) process

• Work in a team environment with business analysts, project managers, developers, testers, and production support

• Develop proof-of-concept for modeling business functions and organizational units

• Interact with other development teams to explain technical details of new releases

• 3rd Level production support and enhancement of the developed product

• Product documentation

 

Skills Required

Technical Skills:

• Strong system design skills

• Strong programming skills utilizing Java, SOAP/XML, SQL/Stored Procedures

• Experience programming in Perl

• Experience utilizing Sybase or DB2

• Experience with Savvion Workflow management

• Experience with Data Access technologies

• Experience with Web services development

• Experience developing for the Unix/Linux environment

• Understanding of client/server architecture

• Understanding of database concepts

 

Personal/Professional Skills:

• At least 5-7 years of in IT initiatives; must understand the full lifecycles of systems development including requirements gathering, design, coding, testing, production turnover, documentation and post- production support.

• Strong verbal and written communications skills across all levels of the firm

• Strong trouble shooting/problem solving capabilities

• Self starter, motivated and can work unsupervised

• Structured, organized approach to projects; able to provide accurate estimates

• Able to work in a fast changing environment at times under pressure

• Team Player

 

Skills Desired

Technical Skills:

• Database design

• Experience developing a product that supports several interfaces to external applications

• Experience in designing Highly Available systems

 

 

Personal/Professional Skills:

• Work experience in a financial Institutional environment

• Understanding of Business Functions within a financial institution

• Understanding of Roles based entitlements

 

 

TIME SERIES DEVELOPER

Background: Pioneer is an initiative within the IDEAS group of ISG. Pioneer is charged with re-engineering the firm's research and trading infrastructure. Horizon is a key component of this Initiative and involves creating a comprehensive time series infrastructure which covers all asset classes, all data domains and all frequencies. It is expected that all ISG applications requiring time series data will eventually source their data from Horizon.

 

Position:  This is a hands-on development position. The selected individuals will be involved in a variety of tasks across the full life cycle of time series data, including sourcing, loading, normalizing, cleansing, and delivering. Specific development activities include: systems architecture, development, testing and documentation. While the group is looking at various vendor products (Kdb from KX Systems being the leading contender), there is considerable work around system integration, business rules and workflow, proprietary development and working with business users (e.g. traders, quants, analysts, operations, compliance, risk) as well as other technologists charged with building other Pioneer components (e.g. GRID computing, Fundamental Valuation Framework, Back testing, Analytical libraries, graphing/plotting, books and record store, and authentication/entitlements).

 

Skills Required

Minimum of 3 years of hands on development at a buy or sell side financial firm with the following languages: C++, C# and/or Java, SQL, UNIX scripting, .Net, Perl

 

Skills Desired

Strongly desired programming skills:

>>Hands on experience with one or more of the following vendor products: Kdb (strongly preferred), OneTick, Vhayu. Specifically: Developing feed handlers; data modeling; doing queries; creating data rules (data quality, corporate actions, etc.), and creating programming interfaces to other systems

>>Hands on experience developing systems and analytics using one or more of the following functional programming languages: F#, K/Q, LISP, APL, Ocaml, Haskell. Secondarily, experience with stat packages: Matlab, SAS, R, S+.

>>Hands on experience with one or more of the following commercial database products: Oracle, Sybase, DB2, SQL Server, Informix, Teradata, Netezza, Progress, Ingress

 

Strongly desired content knowledge:  Domain expertise in one or more data domains (e.g. equities, fixed income, commodities, structured products, derivatives, etc.), especially with high frequency data sets (e.g. equity tick data).

 

Strongly desired soft skills:  Self starter, able to work independently but not afraid to ask questions. Also, knows when to ask questions and of whom.  Good communicator, able to work across different use groups: operations, development, infrastructure, applications development, and business users.  Practical experience with SDLC concepts, especially artifact creation (use case, test scripts, etc.)

 

DIRECTORY ENGINEER

Looking to fill a directory engineer position responsible for implementing, maintaining and architecting  people data management systems. Activities the candidate will be responsible for:

• Development and deployment of identity data management systems (database design & implementation)

• Requirement gathering, design, code development, testing, deployment of the product

• Provide technical guidance to junior team members

 

Skills Required

Technical Skills

• Strong experience of LDAP and related technologies

• Strong  experience in Data Modeling, Data Sourcing strategies and Data Flow Design in complex environments

• Strong programming skills

• Understanding of UNIX operating environment

• Experience in designing Highly Available systems

• Understanding of TCP/IP and client/server architecture

 

Personal/Professional Skills

 

• At least 5 years of professional work experience

• Strong analytical skills

• Team leadership experience

• Self starter, motivated and can work unsupervised

• Structured, organized approach to project and able to set and meet delivery date

• Effective verbal and written communications skills

• Understand and carried through full production cycle of a product including requirement gathering, design, coding, testing, production turnover, documentation and post- production support.

• Able to work in a fast changing environment and working under pressure

 

Skills Desired

Technical Skills

• Experience in SunOne Directory Server and Critical Path Meta Directory products

• Virtual Directory implementation experience

• C, C++

• Understanding Microsoft Active Directory

 

Personal/Professional Skills

• Work experience in a financial Institutional environment

 

DEVELOPER - IDENTITY MANAGEMENT

A developer position responsible for implementing, maintaining and architecting People Data management systems. We are seeking broadly experienced candidates with a deep understanding of abstraction and system architecture who are willing to drive progress and engage with the rest of the team in designing long-term solutions.

Activities the candidate will be responsible for:

• Development and deployment of identity data management systems (design & implementation)

• Requirement gathering, design, code development, testing, deployment of the product

• Develop scripts to automate administration and management of the environment

• 3rd level production support and enhancement of developed product

• Product documentation

 

Skills Required

Technical Skills

• Strong experience with software design and development in several languages, including PERL and Java

• Experience with the Sun Identity Manager Product, deployment and architecture

• SOAP/XML/CGI programming experience

• Understanding of TCP/IP and client/server architecture

• Some UNIX/Linux administration background

• Experience in designing Highly Available systems

 

Personal/Professional Skills

• At least 3 years of professional work experience

• Strong trouble shooting/problem solving capability

• Self starter, motivated and can work unsupervised

• Structured, organized approach to project and able to set and meet delivery date

• Effective verbal and written communications skills

• Understand and carried through full production cycle of a product including requirement gathering, design, coding, testing, production turnover, documentation and post- production support.

• Able to work in a fast changing environment and working under pressure

 

Skills Desired

• In-depth knowledge of Sun Identity Manager, deployment and Xpress

• Understanding of LDAP or directory server infrastructure, have written applications to update or query LDAP

• C, C++

• Experience with web server installation

• Work experience in a financial Institutional environment

 

 

Robert S. Pizzuto

Account Executive

Tekmark Global Solutions

w: (732) 572-9600 x278

c:  (732) 453-4787

rpizzuto@tekmarkinc.com

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