Messages In This Digest (6 Messages)
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- Sr. Market Data Analyst - Investment Management Industry- Boston, MA From: Gary Wright - Wright Associates
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- Sr. Applications Developer/Analyst - JavaJ2EE -JMS - Web - Rt 93/Bos From: Gary Wright - Wright Associates
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- Systems Developer - Investments - C#/ASP.Net - SQL Server - SSIS - B From: Gary Wright - Wright Associates
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- Trading Sys. Developer - C# or Java - SQL Server or Oracle - CRD IMS From: Gary Wright - Wright Associates
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- Developer - Compliance Apps - C# or Java - Investment Management - B From: Gary Wright - Wright Associates
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- Business System's Analyst - Portfolio Accounting - Investment Manage From: Gary Wright - Wright Associates
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Sr. Market Data Analyst - Investment Management Industry- Boston, MA
Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net wrightassociates
Fri Feb 10, 2012 12:54 pm (PST)
Please feel free to refer this position to other groups and people you know.
Position Title – WR725761
Sr. Market Data Analyst - Investment Management Industry- Boston, MA Area –
Excellent Package
Excellent 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 successful candidate will be responsible for all aspects of the Market
Data Services infrastructure and will report to the Manager of Market Data
Services. This position will work closely with vendors and IS teams as
required to identify and resolve technical problems and complete strategic
infrastructure initiatives associated with the Market Data Services
infrastructure. This position will be located in Boston with regular
presence in Marlborough, Massachusetts.
Responsibilities – Detailed:
· Responsible for analyzing information requirements and developing
recommendations for services at a firm-wide system level.
· Works with line management on projects and business initiatives
· Ability to work effectively with more Senior Systems staff on the
implementation and delivery of financial information and services to the
firm, including internal proprietary products
· Provides training regarding systems and application use to
business areas
· Develops recommendations to meet specific needs
· Provide tactical management and support of the vendor networks and
servers associated with our Market Data Services infrastructure
· Document environments, migration plans, and installation
procedures
· Design and implementation high impact mission critical projects
· Manage internal client needs and expectations ensuring issues are
identified, resolved, and escalated quickly and appropriately
· Engineer, install, configure, and maintain the organization's
Market Data environment
· Analyze problems, identify the cause of problems, and implement
timely solutions
· Interacts with outside service providers regarding problems and
maintenance procedures
· Share 24x7 on-call support responsibilities
Keys to This Position:
1. The ideal candidate will have 5 plus years of Market Data or Trading
Support experience. This individual will work directly with Market Data
vendors. Therefore, Vendor Relationship experience is highly desired.
2. Market Data knowledge: Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg, Factset, etc.
3. Technical knowledge: Unix, Linux, Windows, TCP/IP
4. Sources: We would like to see candidates with experience either from
other Asset Managers (SSGA, MFS, GMO, Fidelity, Putnam, etc.) or Market Data
Vendors (Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg, etc.)
5. We will consider either a Core (non senior) or Senior level candidate.
Required Skills and Competencies:
· A solid understanding and deep appreciation of Market Data
Services products, systems, and networking are required. The successful
candidate must bring a successful track record of building strong
relationships with clients and vendors. Strong working knowledge and hands
on experience with Unix, market data service products, vendor services,
TCP/IP, routers, and network switches is required. Previous project
management experience is required. A Bachelor degree in Computer Science or
related discipline and 3+ years related experience in the financial services
industry is a must.
· Personal characteristics that would contribute to the incumbent's
ability to excel within this position are:
Ø Generally works autonomously
Ø Expected to provide leadership
Ø Scope of work is more complex or broader than that of a core role,
and usually includes expertise and/or the application of several years of
direct experience
Ø Scope of work: responsible for their own work with a broad scope
Ø Likely participates in the setting of strategy and direction
Ø May have limited responsibility for managing others (employees and/or
consultants) or for the outcome of others
Ø A collaborative team style
Ø Strong ability to work independently with little supervision
Ø Strategic in focus and maintains an enterprise view
Ø Excellent presentation, verbal, and written skills
Ø Significant responsibility for multiple components of a project,
product and environment
Ø Adjusts to changing conditions
Ø A team approach to decision making and troubleshooting
Ø Willingness to thoroughly document environments and processes
Ø High level of self-discipline and conscientiousness needed to meet
responsibilities
Ø Adapts positive to change
Ø Strong interpersonal skills including the ability to develop
effective working relationships, demonstrated customer focus, work
effectively in a team environment
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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Sr. Applications Developer/Analyst - JavaJ2EE -JMS - Web - Rt 93/Bos
Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net wrightassociates
Fri Feb 10, 2012 12:55 pm (PST)
Please feel free to refer this position to other groups and people you know.
Position Title – WACASADA092011
Sr. Applications Developer/Analyst – JavaJ2EE –JMS – Web – Rt 93/Boston, MA
Area – Excellent $$
Base + Bonus + Comprehensive Benefits
Local Candidates Only – No sponsorship
Stable Work History
Company
Mid sized, very successful financial services firm – voted one of the Best
Places to Work in Boston.
Position Responsibilities – Summary
This Senior Developer / Analyst role is to participate in design,
development and support of JAVA based applications, including WEB
development and XML interfaces to various applications. The Senior Developer
must have strong knowledge in software architecture and design and have
experience working in a small to medium development team environment. This
position will specialize in a specific development environment and is
expected to translate business requirements into concise and robust
technical solutions that positively impact business goals and provides
exceptional customer service.
Detailed Responsibilities:
· Work with business analysts to gather and document requirements.
· Develop functional and technical specifications.
· Prepare time estimates for individual deliverables.
· Develop and unit test applications.
· Create, document, and implement unit test plans, scripts, and test
harnesses.
· Create and maintain technical documentation using defined
technical documentation templates.
· Participate in on-call, 24/7 coverage on a rotational basis.
Required Skills and Competencies:
Technical Experience:
5-10 years of technical experience developing web applications using the
following technologies:
· Core Java with J2EE, Struts, JMS, EJB, AJAX, JavaScript, JSP,HTML,
CSS
· Web services, XML, XML Schemas, XSLT
· Ant, MyEclipse, WebSphere Express
· SQL, UNIX Shell Scripting, Windows Scripting
· Desired experience with Blaze Rules Processor
· Desired experience with Stone River products (Claims Workstation,
Policy Star, and FAB)
Other Requirements:
· Bachelor's degree with 7 to 10 years of progressive work
experience.
· Solid understanding of all phases of the Software Development Life
Cycle (SDLC)
· Passionate about building high-quality systems with software
implementation best practices while leading and mentoring a team of
developers.
· Must be client-facing and capable of working in a dynamic
environment to collect and document business requirements.
· Strong communication, relationship building and customer service
skills
· Must exhibit strong planning, priority setting, delegation and
multi tasking skills
· Ability to work with vendors on installations and upgrades
Contact Information
Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates
Phone - (508) 761-6354
Email - garywright@prodigy.net - WEB Site – www.wrightassociates.org
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Systems Developer - Investments - C#/ASP.Net - SQL Server - SSIS - B
Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net wrightassociates
Fri Feb 10, 2012 12:55 pm (PST)
Please feel free to refer this position to your associates – Referrals
appreciated.
Position Title – WRCOGSDI052011
Systems Developer – Investments - C#/ASP.Net – SQL Server – SSIS – Boston,
MA Area – Excellent $$
Base + Bonus + Retirement + Comprehensive Benefits
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;
The Investment Systems Developer will be responsible for the development,
integration, and support of a suite of vendor and proprietary applications
for Investment Control systems such as Risk/Exposure, Reconciliation,
Corporate Actions and Compliance.
Key Responsibilities:
· Technical Support of Fiserv's Frontier Reconciliation product and
the XSP Corporate Actions system.
· Work extensively with business analysts and investment
professionals to analyze business problems, assess how they impact
development and design, and recommend IT solutions.
· Support daily activity of the investment control systems areas by
creating and maintaining custom reports and programs and by providing
technical support for system and software issues.
Required Skills and Competencies:
· 5+ years experience in an IT organization
· 3+ years of IT related experience in the investment/securities
industry. Specific experience in working with asset management investment
control systems would be a plus.
· Experience in supporting a Reconciliation Systems, including
supporting positions, cash and transaction reconciliation - (e.g. Frontier,
IntelliMATCH, etc.)
· Experience with Corporate Systems (e.g. XSP) supporting Corporate
Actions workflow.
· Good understanding of derivative investment types
· Advanced SQL programming skills including high comfort level with
dynamic SQL - Strong Transact-SQL development skills - Strong knowledge of
MS SQL Server - Strong knowledge of Microsoft Data Transformation Services
and/or SQL Server Integration Services
· Strong C# and ASP.NET programming skills
· Experience in building Crystal reports
· Working knowledge of schedulers (e.g. SysAdmiral)
· Undergraduate degree in technology discipline or equivalent
experience
Contact Information
Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates
Phone - (508) 761-6354
Email - replywrightassociates@verizon. - WEB Site –net
www.wrightassociates.org
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Trading Sys. Developer - C# or Java - SQL Server or Oracle - CRD IMS
Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net wrightassociates
Fri Feb 10, 2012 12:55 pm (PST)
Please feel free to refer this position to your associates – Referrals
appreciated.
Position Title – WRCOGTSD062011
Trading Sys. Developer – C# or Java – SQL Server or Oracle – CRD IMS -
Boston, MA Area – Excellent $$
Base + Bonus + Retirement + Comprehensive Benefits
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;
Reporting to the Head of Research and Investment Systems, the Trading
Systems Developer will work within the Trading Systems team for projects
related to trading processes including systems development, implementation
and/or enhancements.
This individual will be responsible for working with the business users to
define requirements and implement complete solutions in support of user
requirements.
This developer will be responsible for working with the investment divisions
and / or Quality Assurance to ensure plans for each of the enhancements are
executed and that the final deliverables are accepted in a timely fashion as
well as keep the project manager informed of the status of assigned tasks.
Required Skills and Competencies:
Mandatory requirements:
· Undergraduate degree in science, engineering, finance or
technology discipline
· 5+ years experience in Java or C#
· 5+ years experience in an IT organization
· 5+ years experience of design patterns, server side architecture
and development
· 3+ years experience in a lead developer role
· 3+ years experience in the financial services industry
Required:
· Charles River Development (CRD) IMS 8.1 or preferably 8.2
experience with exposure to the manager workbench and trading workflows
· Understanding of Buy Side investment process
· Understanding of Fixed Income investment processes
· Understanding and support of Options and derivative products
including Credit default, Interest rate, Index, Total Return, Basket,
Swaptions and OTC and listed options
· Ability to review and contribute to QA Test Plans
· Extremely strong interpersonal skills, proven ability to work
directly with the business community
· Must be detail oriented with very strong organizational and
communication skills
· Ability to work effectively and efficiently with little or no
supervision
· Ability to prioritize multiple tasks, set goals, and meet
deadlines
· Must be willing to take initiative and employ good follow-through
skills
Highly desired:
· Understanding of Equity and Foreign Exchange trading
· Strong Database development experience (MS SQL or Oracle)
Contact Information
Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates
Phone - (508) 761-6354
Email - replywrightassociates@verizon. - WEB Site –net
www.wrightassociates.org
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Developer - Compliance Apps - C# or Java - Investment Management - B
Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net wrightassociates
Fri Feb 10, 2012 12:56 pm (PST)
Please feel free to refer this position to your associates – Referrals
appreciated.
Position Title – WRCOGCD052011
Developer – Compliance Apps – C# or Java - Investment Management - Boston,
MA Area – Excellent $$
Base + Bonus + Retirement + Comprehensive Benefits
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;
The Compliance Application Developer will work on projects related to Pre
Trade and Post Trade compliance workflow development, including systems
development, implementation and/or enhancements. This individual will be
responsible for working with the business users to create business
requirements and implement complete solutions in support of user
requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
· Work with the business users (compliance department, traders and
portfolio managers) to implement functional solutions for any trade
lifecycle compliance process, including third party product integration, new
system development, new functionality, version upgrades, and reporting
requirements.
· Work as part of a team of in-house staff and outside consultants
to implement the required changes to a third party compliance system.
· Lead application requirement sessions with business users and
technical staff
· Provide timely updates on progress of assigned tasks to project
manager
· Coordinate/execute QA test plans before releasing product
enhancements for user testing
· Assist in production release of new functionality and provide
assistance in support of production issues
· Document user defined enhancement requests, product gaps, and
product bugs
Required Skills and Competencies:
Mandatory Requirements
· Undergraduate degree in science, engineering, finance or
technology discipline
· 5+ years experience in C# or Java development
· Experience with design patterns, server side architecture and
development
· Experience in a lead developer role, mentoring others
· Latent Zero Sentinel or other compliance application experience
with exposure to equity, fixed income and derivatives compliance workflows.
· Understanding of Buy Side investment process
· Ability to review and contribute to QA Test Plans
· Extremely strong interpersonal skills, proven ability to work
directly with the business community
· Must be detail oriented with very strong organizational and
communication skills
· Ability to work effectively and efficiently with little or no
supervision
· Ability to prioritize multiple tasks, set goals, and meet
deadlines
· Must be willing to take initiative and employ good follow-through
skills
Highly Desired
· Experience integrating third party vendor applications with
existing enterprise OMS and EMS applications
· Understanding of the 1940 Act and UCITS regulations
· Exposure to messaging or caching solutions
· Strong Database development experience (MS SQL or Oracle)
Contact Information
Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates
Phone - (508) 761-6354
Email - replywrightassociates@verizon. - WEB Site –net
www.wrightassociates.org
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Business System's Analyst - Portfolio Accounting - Investment Manage
Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net wrightassociates
Fri Feb 10, 2012 12:56 pm (PST)
Please feel free to refer this position to other groups and people you know
that might be a good fit.
Position Title – WRCOAABSA062011
Business System's Analyst – Portfolio Accounting - Investment Management –
Boston, MA Area – Up to $120K
Base + Bonus + Comprehensive Benefits
Local Candidates only – No sponsorship
Stable work history required
Company
Successful, smaller, and growing, Boston based Investment Management firm
with $45B+ under management
Position Responsibilities - Summary
As a member of the IT group, this position will play a key role in the
support of the portfolio accounting and other investment operations systems.
It is a highly visible position with exposure to many business units in a
dynamic quantitative investment management firm. The position requires a
high level of direct interaction and collaboration with end users, excellent
analytical and communication skills, and outstanding domain knowledge.
The Business Systems Analyst must comprehend and organize a collection of
business requirements and communicate those requirements to application
developers. Negotiate technical and non-technical solutions that both
satisfy the business user and conform to the technical architecture.
Detailed Responsibilities:
· Drive efforts that identify business requirements.
· Write specifications for new/revised systems based on knowledge of
business needs by working closely with senior department managers and key
department members.
· Identify and document scope changes escalating appropriately to
project manager for action.
· Participate in functional and change impact analysis for existing
business processes and develops recommendations for improvements and
enhancements.
· Conduct business and systems requirements analysis at code and
data level such as data mapping, and data conversion analysis.
· Perform complex data analysis in support of ad-hoc customer
requests.
· Work with Business and Technology Departments to identify data
lineage analysis, source and destination requirements for applications.
· Analyze the business processes in terms of activities (tasks),
workflow and dataflow.
· Facilitate the creation of testing documentation and manages the
testing process.
· Research, track and communicate business issues and software
defects related to projects and level 2 applications support.
· Participate and support post implementation process including end
user training.
· Collaborate with team members and manager to define standards for
future business analysis efforts.
Required Skills and Competencies:
The candidate should have a minimum of 5-8 years of experience working as an
IT business systems analyst in the financial services industry. In addition,
the position requires:
· BS degree in MIS, BA or related discipline
· Strong understanding of global investment portfolio accounting and
portfolio reporting
· Strong understanding of investment processes, accounting and
performance measurement systems, workflows and data
· Experience with portfolio accounting systems such as HiNet,
performance measurement systems such as StatPro and FactSet and fixed income
systems such as Aladdin a plus - Prior knowledge of BARRA, GIPS, Bloomberg,
Reuters desired.
· Strong analytical and problem solving skills - Strong
interpersonal and communication skills - Strong business and technical
writing skills.
· Experience in managing small to medium scale projects or
subcomponents of a major project
· Ability to lead project meetings with users - Ability to
effectively handle multiple priorities
· Solid MS Project /Visio and MS Office application skills
· Working knowledge of SQL (Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase)
· Experience gathering and documenting business requirements from
users
· Experience with systems integration in the financial services
industry
· Experience with systems development lifecycle methodology
· Previous direct responsibility for writing structured business
requirements, functional specifications, test plans and test cases
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
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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