Friday, September 16, 2011

[NE-Financial-Services-IT-Jobs] Digest Number 683

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1.

Sr. Software Engineer - C#/.Net - ASP.Net - SQL Server - Boston, MA

Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net   wrightassociates

Thu Sep 15, 2011 1:23 pm (PDT)



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

Position Title - WACCBG092011 - Multiple Openings - 09-15-2011

Sr. Software Engineer - C#/.Net - ASP.Net - SQL Server - Boston, MA Area -
$$Open

Base + Bonus + Comprehensive Benefits

Local Candidates Only - No sponsorship

Stable Work History

Company

Smaller, elite, and very successful financial services firm. Great culture &
environment - Collaborative - Team Oriented - Technology Focused - People
Oriented.

Position Responsibilities - Summary:

This position is a member of a 35-person information technology team
responsible for all aspects of technology planning, implementation,
development and support for the infrastructure, hardware and software.
Development includes both in-house applications and integration with
third-party vendor software solutions.

Primary Responsibilities:

· Participate in all aspects of the software development lifecycle
for trading, portfolio management, accounting and other line-of-business
applications.

· Collaborate with business users in identifying needs and eliciting
business requirements, and work with the development team to clarify and/or
improve the stated requirements and solutions.

· Technical leadership in application design and architecture

· Production support of the applications

· Assist in the development of user documentation and training

Required Skills and Competencies:

Technical Skills/Domain Expertise Required:

· 2 - 3 years experience in the investment management or financial
services industry a must

· At least 5 years of experience with MS C#/.NET and MS SQL Server
creating WinForms or ASP.Net applications - experience with Sharepoint a
plus.

· Experience with object oriented design and development including
the use of application frameworks

· Experience creating database schemas and complex stored
procedures, as well as optimizing SQL queries

Other Characteristics/Qualifications Needed:

· Undergraduate degree with at least 5 years of professional
experience in a development role

· Ability and desire to work at a very detailed level, while also
having the ability to understand objectives from a macro perspective and
provide technical leadership to end-users.

· Self-directed contributor able to work independently and
effectively in a collaborative structure with personnel throughout every
level of the company.

· Well-rounded, agile, adaptable and responsible individual with
hands-on experience in all phases of a project - requirements, design,
development, testing and deployment.

· Strong analytical and problem solving skills

· Effective communication and organizational skills

· Able to thrive in a fast-paced, deadline oriented environment,
with the ability to multi-task and manage multiple competing projects and
deadlines.

Contact Information

Gary Wright - President - Wright Associates

Phone - (508) 761-6354

Email - garywright@prodigy.net - WEB Site - www.wrightassociates.org

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2.

Sr. Citrix Engineer - Marlboro, MA Area - Excellent Package

Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net   wrightassociates

Thu Sep 15, 2011 1:23 pm (PDT)



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

Position Title - WR724131 – 09-15-2011

Sr. Citrix Engineer – Marlboro, MA Area - Excellent Package

Excellent Compensation Package - Base + Bonus + PS

Stable Work History

No Relocation or 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 Citrix Engineer provides technical leadership for internal and
customer-facing professional service projects of large size or high degree
of complexity. In addition, the Citrix Engineer will perform complex
technical analysis and hands-on technical tasks as part of assigned
projects.

The Citrix Engineer is relied upon to accurately scope work and execute
projects within time and budget. He/she is expected to provide significant
knowledge transfer and mentor the junior team members.

The Citrix engineer must be able to assess the existing Citrix
infrastructure, and then design and implement modifications to mitigate
outage risks as well as enhance user performance and experience.

Excellent communication skills will be required to interface with customers
via telephone or written correspondence to identify, diagnose and resolve
technically complex user issues. The candidate will be expected to manage
customer relationships until the issue resolution, especially in politically
charged situations that require the highest level of customer service.

He/she must be able to receive technically complex, mission critical or VP
customer issues and maintain ownership of the issue until complete
resolution is achieved.

Acquire and coordinate resources from senior members of the escalation team
as needed to troubleshoot and resolve customer issues.

Key technical interface for engineering and product development for the
resolution of high impact or pervasive issues.

Develop and deliver technical training to other engineers.

Write complex technical articles for knowledge base.

Reproduce customer issues in-house and generate SOPs documenting
reproduction steps.

Maintain strong working knowledge of pre-release products and take ownership
for product improvement in key product areas.

Assist with selection of new team members.

May act as a focal point in cooperative relationships with other companies.

Required Skills and Competencies:

Qualifications and Requirements

· Plans and leads all aspects of all Citrix projects. Effectively
multi-tasks across multiple initiatives/projects with a high speed of
delivery.

· Acts as the primary interface for the client or project manager
for basic to intermediate projects. Takes an active role in business
development of net-new or follow on engagements.

· Provides technical "thought leadership" to the entire Citrix
Consulting team. Leads, plans and designs technical solutions that meet, or
exceed, customer requirements and expectations.

· Creates an environment where others feel it is safe to be open and
candid, and where conflicting ideas and opinions are regularly discussed.

· Takes full responsibility for overall execution and delivery of
critical tasks or projects.

· Encourages others to do things differently, push the boundaries,
and experiment outside their comfort zones.

· Stays focused on department and Citrix strategic priorities and
allocate their time and resources accordingly.

· Steadily leads others through the ambiguity and newness of both
planned and unexpected changes.

· Mentors, coaches, provide timely feedback, and helps develop the
skills of others; attracts new talent to the team.

· Exemplifies excellence by setting high standards for themselves
and others, while demonstrating endurance and the ability to lead the team
through major obstacles.

· Leads by example and wouldn't think of asking others to do
something he/she wouldn't gladly do.

· Engages, encourages and inspires colleagues and customers through
a positive personal presence.

· Helps team members and customers understand the connection between
industry events / trends and what is going on at Citrix.

· Conveys the Citrix vision in very real and relevant terms that
others can identify with, helping others see how things will improve as the
"future state" draws near.

· Advanced system administration experience with various Windows
systems (Windows Server 2000/2003/2008/XP/Win7)

· Advance management of a complex AD environment

· Storage Technologies (SAN, NAS)

· Citrix XenApp Server Administration, XenDesktop Adminsitration

· Virtualization technologies (XenServer, VMware, HyperV)

· Citrix product certification and/or Linux or MCSE certification is
a plus

· IT infrastructure technical implementation experience

· Citrix Engineering and deployment experience on advanced Citrix
products (XenDesktop, Provisioning, XenApp) implementing large, complex
enterprise-class solutions using Citrix technologies

· Engineering experience involving hardware, software and services
solutions for x86 Solutions at an enterprise level for HP (BladeSystem and
DL series serveres) and Cisco UCS.

· Working knowledge of VMware ESX 4i and VCenter is preferred.

· Experience with Netscaler and VDX/AG/CSG is highly desirable.

· Extensive skills with Windows Networking, Active Directory

· Advanced Networking concepts (TCP/IP, Routing, Firewalls, Network
Security)

Keys to this Position:

1. Technical: Citrix Engineering and deployment experience on advanced
Citrix products (XenDesktop, Provisioning, XenApp) implementing large,
complex enterprise-class solutions using Citrix technologies. We will be
upgrading the 4.0 farm to the XenApp farm.

2. This is a Thought Leader role where the individual will manage 3
offshore Citrix Engineers and will lead the architecture, development and
deployment of the Citrix environment.

3. Excellent communication skills are required.

Contact Information

Gary Wright - President - Wright Associates

Phone - (508) 761-6354 - Email - replywrightassociates@verizon.net - WEB
Site - www.wrightassociates.org

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3a.

Sr. SW Engineer - FIX - Trading Systems - Java - JMS - Spring - Bost

Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net   wrightassociates

Thu Sep 15, 2011 1:24 pm (PDT)



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

Position Title - WR722361 - 09-15-2011

Sr. SW Engineer - FIX - Trading Systems - Java - JMS - Spring - Boston, MA
Area - Excellent Package

Excellent Compensation Package - Base + Bonus + PS

Stable Work History

No Relocation or 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 Trading team is seeking a senior engineer to be an integral member of
the FIX electronic execution team. This person will be responsible for the
both development and support of the FIX infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities:

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

· An integral member of the FIX delivery team and their deliverables
to the Trading Business units

· Responsible for the client's Trading FIX infrastructure in both
the non-production and production environments

· Interface with and support the Equity and Fixed Income Trading
development teams

· Interface with the client's central teams to coordinate testing
and changes to the enterprise infrastructure

· Stay current with evolving Trading industry and technical trends
to ensure systems and team are of highest caliber

Required Skills and Competencies:

The ideal candidate must have excellent communication skills and proven
ability to design and deliver solutions relevant to complex business
problems.

· Five years experience in supporting build processes and
environments for enterprise applications

· Experience with but not limited to the following set of tools,
Java, Spring, JMS, Accurev, Subversion, build tools like Maven, Ant, code
quality tools like FindBugs, Clover, Fisheye and Crucible - Development
experience in Java.

· Strong analysis, design and modeling skills

· Strong knowledge and experience with message technologies (e.g.
JMS)

· Strong knowledge and experience with frameworks (e.g. Spring)

· Knowledge of software development and testing methodologies and
their effective application

· Strong motivation and ability to work in a fast-paced,
team-oriented environment supporting a business-critical production
environment.

· UI Development experience would be considered a strong plus

· Computer Science degree or related field

Keys to this Position:

1. Technical: Hands on coding with Java, JMS and Spring in a FIX
environment.

The role is 50% development and 50% maintenance, support and improvement of
the FIX environment.

2. Domain: The candidate must have strong knowledge of Trading Systems and
FIX Protocol.

3. Selling points: Client is a leader in the buy side community for FIX.
This individual will interface with Wall Street and gain a lot of Industry
exposure. The likely candidate will come out of another buy side firm.

Contact Information

Gary Wright - President - Wright Associates

Phone - (508) 761-6354 - Email - replywrightassociates@verizon.net - WEB
Site - www.wrightassociates.org

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4a.

Sr. C#/.Net Developer - WPF - SQL Server - Security/Account Master -

Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net   wrightassociates

Thu Sep 15, 2011 1:24 pm (PDT)



Please feel free to refer this position to your associates – Referrals
appreciated.

This is a very senior role with compensation to match.

Open & Active as of 09-15-2011

Position Title – WRSSWE47423

Sr. C#/.Net Developer – WPF – SQL Server – Security/Account Master - Boston,
MA Area – Outstanding $$

Base + Bonus + Comprehensive Benefits – Salary on this role is wide open for
the right person.

Local Candidates Only – No Sponsorship

Stable Work History

Company

Mid-Sized, successful, and growing Boston based global investment management
company – Lots of Upside

Position Summary;

This role will report to the Chief Technology Officer. This individual
would focus on client's Core Applications providing software application
implementation, integration & support. This role will work closely with
client's Senior Software Developers & Architect as well as other Information
Technology and Business staff. From project to project, the person in this
role will take explicit direction from project sponsoring Business leaders,
which include: Sales, Operations & Compliance; as well as, Global Equity and
Macro Strategies. Sometimes this will entail consensus building and
requirements gathering, while at other times, it will require a heads-down
focused development effort.

This is a very senior technical role that requires significant business and
domain expertise. See requirements below.

Key Responsibilities:

· Support, build and integrate proprietary applications, as well as,
integrate 3rd party vendor systems into client's systems environment as a
primary responsibility.
· Support of business-oriented services, including a role in the
early morning providing oversight of daily jobs & data loads as a secondary
role.
· Provide day-to-day support, tactical support & development, as
well as significant-sized strategic development.

Required Skills and Competencies:

· Senior-level experience - Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF),
C# and SQL Server; some background in Visual Basic (VB6) would be helpful;
· Knowledge of Security & Account Master is crucial - - Trade
Delivery, Cash Management and Portfolio Accounting concepts important
· At least 15 years of Application Development experience with,
ideally, 10 years of Investment Management relevant experience is required.

Contact Information

Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates

Phone - (508) 761-6354

Email - replywrightassociates@verizon.net - WEB Site –
www.wrightassociates.org

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