Messages In This Digest (3 Messages)
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- Lead System's Analyst - Client Apps Support - Equ/FI/Der - FS - Bost From: Gary Wright - Wright Associates
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- Enterprise Information Architect - Lead - Asset Management - Boston, From: Gary Wright - Wright Associates
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- Market Risk Mgr. (Rates Desk) - Interest Rate Derivatives - Modeler From: Gary Wright - Wright Associates
Messages
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Lead System's Analyst - Client Apps Support - Equ/FI/Der - FS - Bost
Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net wrightassociates
Fri Apr 16, 2010 7:34 am (PDT)
Please feel free to refer this position to other groups and people you know.
Position Title - WR715971 - Open & Active as of 04-15-2010
Lead Systems Analyst - Client Apps Support - Equ/FI/Der - FS - Boston, MA
Area - Outstanding Package
Outstanding Compensation Package - Base + Bonus + PS
No Sponsorship Available - US Based Applicants Only - No Relocation
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 firm's Client Applications team provides and maintains applications to
support client-facing activities including Client Reporting, Relationship
Management, Business Development, Marketing, and Product Management.
The Client Applications team is seeking a Lead Systems Analyst to be part of
a global IS team that provides 24x7 user and production support services.
This individual will directly provide user support and operational
assistance to over 200 Boston-based users.
This position requires a high level of interaction with business and
technical groups to resolve investment data, client reporting, and
application issues.
· Strong understanding of Equity, Fixed Income and Derivative
instruments, analytics and client reporting are important for this role
· This individual should also be adept in writing SQL commands and
navigating relational databases to resolve investment data issues
Detailed Responsibilities:
· Provide comprehensive user support, particularly with respect to
investment data and client reporting issues. Track, resolve, and report on
support and enhancement requests, in a timely and thorough manner
· Ensure the continuous availability and operational resiliency of a
suite of Client Applications and related components
· Establish and maintain effective client relationships by having a
high degree of continuous interaction with the end users.
· Work with user to proactively identify opportunities for new and
improved systems
· Take ownership of production incidents, collaborate with others on
remediation, and manage these issues through to a satisfactory completion
· Provide support for other Firm wide initiatives such as Disaster
Recovery testing, Database upgrades, security audits, infrastructure
upgrades, etc.
· Stay abreast of the "state of the art" as it relates to Support,
both within the firm and throughout the industry
Required Skills and Competencies:
· Minimum of ten years of professional experience with at least five
years in investment management or financial services
· Strong understanding of investment data, equity, fixed income and
derivatives instruments and analytics
· Demonstrated client focus and relationship management skills
· Strong SQL query skills and experience with Oracle/SQL Server
relational databases and tools
· Hands-on experience supporting a Client Reporting platform or
processes a strong plus
· Previous experience acting in a business analysis/developer
capacity, including software requirements gathering is preferred
· Prior hands-on experience with Java/Unix/Weblogic solutions a
strong plus
· Bachelor's degree is required; Computer Science or MIS degree is
preferred
· CFA charter, or work towards one is preferred
Keys to this Position:
1. The candidate should be very familiar with Equities, Fixed Income,
Derivatives and the Analytics around those instruments.
2. Strong prior working knowledge of Investment Data is required. The
ability to query data and retrieve data from depositories is required.
3. Strong ability to run a Bridge Call and Resolve Investment Data issues
around Client Reporting is a requirement.
4. Strong Client Relationship skills are required.
Contact Information
Gary Wright - President - Wright Associates
Phone - (508) 761-6354 - Email - replywrightassociates@verizon. - WEBnet
Site - www.wrightassociates.org
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Enterprise Information Architect - Lead - Asset Management - Boston,
Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net wrightassociates
Fri Apr 16, 2010 7:34 am (PDT)
Open & Active as of Open & Active as of 04-15-2010
Please feel free to refer this position to other groups and people you know.
Position Title – WR714701
Enterprise Information Architect – Lead - Asset Management - 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
"Big Thinker" - "Big Doer" - "Highly Visible"
The Enterprise Information Architect will play a key technical leadership
role in defining direction as well as implementing major transformational
data-related projects planned over the next 3-5 years. She/he will be
responsible for leading and engaging in information/data management projects
including the Enterprise Information Architecture, information models and
flows, data dictionaries, data standards, and data quality standards and
processes. The Enterprise Information Architect is responsible for
developing and maintaining the logical Enterprise Information Architecture
that enables seamless information interoperability of all of our systems -
from transaction systems, reporting & document management systems as well as
information delivery systems.
Key Responsibilities;
· Develop and evangelize Enterprise Information Architecture and
provide technical leadership for developing and maintaining the enterprise
information architecture.
· Identify gaps in the Corporate Information/Data Model and address
them actively in collaboration with business facing teams using a deep
understanding of financial services
· Ensure systems alignment with the information lifecycle.
· Maintain a library of the enterprise information models (i.e.,
information models, information flows, data dictionaries, etc) and
develop/enforce the change control process for the Enterprise Information
Architecture artifacts.
· Coordinate information/data changes that occur as part of new
development, maintenance and enhancements to ensure consistency with the
Corporate Information/Data Model.
· Lead the development and maintenance of information management
standards and conventions (e.g., naming standards, information architecture
gates in the IT development projects, etc).
· In collaboration with the Information Integration teams, define,
develop, maintain, and communicate information exchange standards that will
be used by downstream systems.
· Align Enterprise Information Architecture efforts with other
Enterprise Architecture/ Information Management counterparts to ensure
overall alignment of architecture components.
Keys to This Position:
1. Domain knowledge: The candidate must have a strong knowledge of the
Asset Management industry and how the business operates. Ideally the
candidate will come from another asset management firm or a vendor like a
Charles River or similar type vendor firm.
2. Technical skills: The candidate will have a focus at a Lead level in
the areas of Information/Data Architecture and Integration, Data Modeling,
Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, etc.
3. Must have strong Client Relationship and Leadership skills. This
individual will interface with the Investment Systems team and the
Investment Data team among others. Experience understanding Fixed Income,
Equities and Derivatives is important.
4. This individual will be very similar to a Lead Systems Analyst, but in
the Data Architecture space. The individual needs a deep knowledge of the
Asset Management business (i.e. Fixed Income, Equities, etc.) and the
underlying business process and the Data that facilitates the Workflow.
Required Skills and Competencies:
· Master's degree in software or systems engineering, computer
science, information systems management or the equivalent.
· At least 10 years progressive experience in enterprise
information/data related disciplines, i.e., data modeling, architecture and
integration.
· Proven experience in developing information architectures aligned
with information lifecycle management within financial services.
· Proven experience performing conceptual, logical and physical data
modeling with data modeling tools (Erwin/ModelMart) and database design in
complex, large-scale data environments.
· Proven experience in transactional data modeling (3NF),
dimensional modeling and object oriented modeling. Proven experience in
developing scalable design of entities using advanced data structures (e.g.,
tall tables) is a plus.
· Knowledge of application modeling languages/techniques (e.g., UML,
OML, entity relationship modeling, DFDs) including the ability to create and
read the associated diagrams.
· Proven experience creating enterprise models incorporating master
and reference data.
· Experience in creation of data dictionaries, defining metadata
management approaches and governance processes.
· Experience in developing and implementing IT architecture plans,
Enterprise Information Architecture standard and guidelines, software
development methodologies and strategic plans.
· Experience in developing data sharing standards and architecting
scalable service oriented solutions.
· Solid understanding of transaction and information systems, data
warehouses, data marts, ODS, MDM methodologies and life cycle as well as ETL
and MDM technologies.
· Strong facilitation skills to engage subject matter experts to
define data requirements and conduct data modeling design reviews with
project teams.
· Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
· Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to explain
and document the Enterprise Information Architecture to diverse audiences
(technical, business, etc).
· Highly self-directed and able to manage and prioritize multiple
concurrent and competing challenges, issues, ambiguities, and
contradictions.
Contact Information
Send Resume in Word format only to:
Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates
Phone - (508) 761-6354 - Email - replywrightassociates@verizon. - WEBnet
Site – www.wrightassociates.org
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Market Risk Mgr. (Rates Desk) - Interest Rate Derivatives - Modeler
Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net wrightassociates
Fri Apr 16, 2010 8:56 am (PDT)
Please feel free to refer this position to other groups and people you know.
Position Title – WR39254
Market Risk Mgr. (Rates Desk) – Interest Rate Derivatives – Modeler -
Boston, MA Area – Excellent $$
Excellent Compensation Package – Base + Bonus
No Sponsorship Available – US Based Applicants Only – No Relocation – Local
Candidates Only
Company
Large, successful, Boston based Investment Management Firm – Great Company –
Lots of Upside – Excellent Compensation Package – Bonus - Join a team
oriented, collaborative, results focused environment and become part of a
highly successful organization with great growth possibilities.
Position Responsibilities – Summary
The Fixed Income/Rates desk is a newly formed trading desk at CLIENT,
covering rates products in multiple currencies and locations. Reporting to
the Head of CLIENT'S Market Risk, the Market Risk Manager will cover the
Rates desk by understanding positions, risks, P&L drivers and strategies
behind major changes.
He/She will build out and refine market risk monitoring tools covering a
wide range of cash and derivative interest rate products, utilizing and
integrating existing market risk functionality from multiple source systems.
The individual will need significant work experience in this area and be a
hands-on modeler.
Required Skills and Competencies:
· Advanced quantitative or business degree and/or FRM, PRM, CFA
· Minimum of 5 years in Interest Rate Derivatives as a Trader, Front
Office Quant, Risk Manager or Strategist
· Well versed in pricing a broad range of Rates products, including
yield curve and volatility modeling
· Solid understanding and demonstrated application of risk
management metrics such as sensitivity measures, VaR, stress testing
· Experience with design of a market risk framework
· Experience with Front Office and Risk Management vendor systems
· Some expertise in coding with C, VBA or similar; modeling tools
such as Matlab a plus
· Experience working with large and complex data sets, including SQL
· Ability to deliver quality results under time pressure
· Strong written and verbal communication skills
Compensation
Very Competitive Base Salary + Bonus - Comprehensive Benefits Package
No Sponsorship Available – US Based Applicants Only – No Relocation – Local
Candidates Only
Contact Information
Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates
Phone - (508) 761-6354 - Email - replywrightassociates@verizon. - WEBnet
Site – www.wrightassociates.org
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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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