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Sr/Lead SW Engineer - Drupal - PHP - Java/.Net - Web Dev. Tech. - Bo by "Gary Wright" wrightassociates
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Sr/Lead Systems Analyst - Derivatives - Calypso/Murex - SQL - Boston by "Gary Wright" wrightassociates
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Senior Systems Analyst - Compliance - Latent Zero - SQL - Java - FS by "Gary Wright" wrightassociates
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Lead Software Engineer - Markit EDM/MS/Java/Oracle - Asset Mgt. - Ma by "Gary Wright" wrightassociates
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Fri Apr 10, 2015 9:04 am (PDT) . Posted by:
"Gary Wright" wrightassociates
Please feel free to refer this position to other groups and people you know
- Referrals appreciated.
Position Title - WR742071032015
Sr/Lead SW Engineer - Drupal - PHP - Java/.Net - Web Dev. Tech. -
Boston/Marlboro, MA Area - Excellent Package
Excellent Compensation Package - Base + Bonus + PS - Relocation Possible for
Exceptional Candidates
Company
Large, successful, and growing Boston based Investment Management Firm -
Great Company - Lots of Upside - Outstanding 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 Summary:
As a Lead Engineer, you will be developing the next generation of Client
Facing tools for the firm. You will be working with a group of world-class
engineers, architects and product managers to increase user experience and
create efficiency for our clients, prospects, distributors, and internal
business teams. You'll be a part of a modern, lean, self-governing
engineering team where you have the ability to switch hats between designing
new capabilities, coding features, testing for quality and performance, and
writing release management automation.
Responsibilities:
* Design and develop world-class web sites
* Act as a hands-on lead with responsibilities to author technical
design, architecture, code, deploy and support documentation
* Demonstrate a solid understanding of best practices for Drupal
and web architecture
* Collaborate with other IT teams to seamlessly integrate web sites
with the client's enterprise systems
* Lead development team of employees and consultants through all
aspects of the software development lifecycle to ensure technical delivery
of the applications
* Demonstrate strong project management and leadership skills with
ability to handle multiple activities in a dynamic fast paced environment.
* Keep abreast of the emerging technologies - champion initiatives
that improve our external presence and take our products and the team to the
"next level"
* Work with business team members, project managers, and systems
analysts to review and qualify business requirements, functional
specifications, use-cases, and test plans
Required Skills and Competencies:
Technical Requirements
* Excellent leadership, technical, management, and systems analysis
skills
* Must have 5 or more years of proven object-oriented software
design and development experience
* Minimum of 3 years' experience developing Drupal modules (or core
contributions) with a history of contributions in the Drupal community
strongly preferred Proficiency with Drupal's Coding Standards, approaches,
best practices and common APIs
* Deep experience with PHP, MySQL, CSS and jQuery / JavaScript
* Prior development experience on large-scale web application
project(s)
* Hands-on expertise in many disparate web technologies, ranging
from front-end user interfaces through back-end systems (web services) and
all points in between
* Experience with Agile software development and Scrum
* Must have 2 or more years of proven experience with such
technologies as web services, XML/XSLT, Struts Framework, log4j, Ant/Maven,
and SOA
* Must have 2 or more years leading engineering teams on complex
projects
* Proven experience in building technology solutions to satisfy
complex business needs
* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline
The preferred candidate will possess experience with the following:
* .NET technologies
* CMS systems (Drupal/PHP a plus)
* CMIS (Alfresco, Documentum DFC)
* Cloud computing (AWS)
* Jasper
* Service-Oriented-Architecture technologies using SOAP, REST, JSON
* Working in an Agile team utilizing Scrum
Non-Technical Requirements
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills
* Proven ability to support multiple applications simultaneously
* Must be self-motivated with the ability to work independently in
an energetic, fast-paced, business-critical and team oriented-environment
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills
* A strong team player, with ability to work in collaboration
across teams and globe
Keys to this Position:
1) We are seeking a Senior or Lead Software Engineer that has solid
experience developing Drupal modules. This individual will have solid
experience with PHP. Java is a plus.
2) This individual will be developing Client Facing applications that
include the public Website and the Client Extranet.
3) For the Lead role, this person will be leading a team of 6 offshore
consultants.
4) Must have Excellent Communication skills.
Contact Information - Resumes in Word format to:
Gary Wright - President - Wright Associates
Phone - (508) 761-6354 - Email - GaryWright@WrightAssociates.org
<mailto:replywrightassociates@verizon.net> - WEB Site -
www.wrightassociates.org <http://www.wrightassociates.org/>
Fri Apr 10, 2015 10:40 am (PDT) . Posted by:
"Gary Wright" wrightassociates
Position Title - WR151009032015
Sr/Lead Systems Analyst - Derivatives - Calypso/Murex - SQL - Boston, MA
Area - Excellent Package
Excellent Compensation Package - Base + Bonus + PS - Relocation Possible for
Exceptional Candidates
Company
Large, successful, and growing Boston based Investment Management Firm -
Great Company - Lots of Upside - Outstanding 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 Summary:
The Alternatives Systems Team is responsible for supporting and providing
advanced tools to analyze, book, price, and risk manage a broad spectrum of
products and assets used by the Asset Allocation, Commodities and Hedge
Funds Investment teams. In addition this team supports Fixed Income, Equity,
Commodity, and Currency OTC derivatives platform used throughout the firm's
portfolio management, trading, and operations. Members of the Alternatives
team play critical roles in firm's success by providing proprietary
technology solutions and supporting vendor applications which assist in
complex investment decision-making, streamline trading, reduce operational
risk, and improve efficiency.
The Lead Systems Analyst, Alternatives Systems will be responsible for the
IT support for the users of the firm's Derivatives platform across multiple
business lines and will provide business analysis on multiple ongoing and
new initiatives related to derivative infrastructure across all asset
classes.
Success in this position requires knowledge of derivative instruments and
derivative investment process, a solid understanding of a broad range of
technology solutions, and outstanding client management skills.
Responsibilities:
* Work closely with investment and trading professionals to
understand business problems and to create effective technical solutions.
* Work closely with members of the firm's IT teams. Actively
participate in the analysis of requirements, design, test, deployment, and
support of new technology solutions.
* Be an "expert" in the firm's derivative infrastructure
* Stay abreast of the "state of the art" as it relates to
investment practice, both within the firm and throughout the industry.
Required Skills and Competencies:
* Minimum of five years of experience in the investment industry,
with a minimum of three years in a systems role related to one or more of
the following areas: derivatives, equity, fixed income
* Demonstrated client focus and relationship management skills.
* Solid understanding of fixed income and equity derivative
instruments, knowledge of quantitative concepts, and related front-office
investment processes.
* Previous experience with Calypso, Murex or a similar Derivatives
vendor system
* Previous experience acting in a business analysis capacity,
including knowledge of software requirements gathering processes.
* Practical knowledge of quantitative and analytical aspects of one
or more of the following markets: Equity, Fixed Income, Derivatives
* Hands-on knowledge of SQL and relational database technology.
* Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
* Ability and willingness to work in a fast-paced, mission-critical
production environment.
* Strong delivery focus and ability to overcome obstacles.
* Bachelor's degree is required.
* CFA charter, or work towards one is strongly preferred.
Keys to this Position:
1) We are seeking strong Systems Analysis skills (gathering business
requirements, writing functional specs, working with development teams,
testing, etc.).
2) Experience supporting Investment Professionals (i.e. Portfolio
Managers, Traders, etc.) is required. The candidate may have previously
worked for a buy side or sell side firm or a bank - May have worked for
firms like Fisher Francis, Barclay Point, Pyramis, CRD, Numerix, Geode
Capital, DST Global Solutions or the like.
3) Domain Knowledge: knowledge of Investment instruments (such as Fixed
Income, Equities, Derivatives, Hedge funds, etc.) is required.
4) Previous experience with Calypso, Murex or similar vendor Derivatives
system is required
5) Technical: the candidate must know SQL to be able to query the
database.
6) Excellent communication skills required.
Contact Information - Resumes in Word format to:
Gary Wright - President - Wright Associates
Phone - (508) 761-6354 - Email - GaryWright@WrightAssociates.org
<mailto:replywrightassociates@verizon.net> - WEB Site -
www.wrightassociates.org <http://www.wrightassociates.org/>
Fri Apr 10, 2015 12:21 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"Gary Wright" wrightassociates
Please feel free to refer this position to other groups and people you know
- Referrals appreciated.
Position Title - WR742141042015
Senior Systems Analyst - Compliance - Latent Zero - SQL - Java - FS -
Boston, MA Area - Excellent Package
Excellent Compensation Package - Base + Bonus + PS - Local Candidates Only
Company
Large, successful, and growing Boston based Investment Management Firm -
Great Company - Lots of Upside - Outstanding 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 Summary:
My client's Legal and Compliance Support team is seeking a systems analyst
to join the team supporting their Legal, Regulatory, and, Investment
Compliance IT functions. The team provides a high level of automation and
tools to ensure the Firm remains in compliance with all client-mandated,
regulatory, investment, trading, personnel, and, other restrictions.
Qualified applicants must possess a strong knowledge of technology,
investment, and financial services. Candidates must also possess excellent
communication skills, be self-motivated, willing to work in an energetic,
fast-paced and team-oriented group. The ability to manage multiple
priorities is required. This position requires some partial early, late and
weekend shift coverage.
Responsibilities:
Daily activities and responsibilities for this role include, but are not
limited to:
* Answering Investment, Trading, and, Regulatory Compliance systems
questions in an expeditious manner
* Interacting with Compliance analysts and managers directly,
providing answers to their queries and helping resolve production issues as
they arise
* Monitoring application health, escalating issues, facilitating
incident bridges
* Support of technology located on the firm's Compliance desks
* Strong sense of ownership to see issues or tasks from
start-to-finish
* Show initiative in attempting to tackle problems creatively and
self-sufficiently
* Researching reported problems. Generating story level
enhancements or bug defects via existing technical tools and process
methods.
* Partnering with firm-wide technology analysts, developers and QA
staff in researching problems
* Development of self -service tools, applications and reports for
end users
* Operational readiness and rollout of new versions of applications
* Test new technology and vendor interfaces into the firm's
applications
* Strong motivation and ability to work in a fast-paced,
team-oriented environment supporting business critical applications
* Some project management responsibilities
* Ability to multi-task project/enhancement work along with support
related activities
* Contribute to the development of internal and external
documentation and processes
* Appropriately escalate or seek collaboration when needed
Required Skills and Competencies:
* BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
* Minimum of 3 to 5 years' experience supporting or working with
Financial Systems and/or Compliance Applications
* Must have very strong SQL skills
* Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Client-oriented
* Familiarity with Pre-trade, Trading, and compliance systems
* Experience with LatentZero Sentinel would be very desirable
(front-end and back-end)
* Experience with Java, Spring, Hibernate desirable
* Knowledge of Relational Database Systems
* Proven ability to learn and tie business concepts to application
workflows and back-end database and table designs
* Coding and executing SQL scripts
* Experience with Oracle PL/SQL Stored Procedures
* Reading System and event Log Files
* Experience searching through application code to find source of
issues
* Experience handling application and schedule failures
Keys to this Position:
1) Domain: Compliance knowledge is our first choice. We will also
look at candidates that have Front Office Investment or Trading knowledge.
Knowledge of Latent Zero is highly desired.
2) This role is more Support than traditional Systems Analysis, therefore
the role involves answering Investment, Trading, and, Regulatory Compliance
systems questions and interacting with Compliance analysts and managers
directly, providing answers to their queries and helping resolve production
issues as they arise.
3) Technical: Must be able to query the database with SQL. The ability
to code (ideally with Java) is highly desired.
4) Excellent communication skills are required
5) Candidates may have worked for any Buy side, Sell side or Custodian
shop (i.e. Fidelity, Morgan Stanley, State Street, etc.). Also may have
worked for a shop that used Compliance or LatentZero Sentinel (which is a
Compliance tool) - Shops like Putnam, GMO, SSGA, Pyramis, Dodge and Cox, GE,
Income Research & Management, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, BNP Paribas, UBS,
Leith Wheeler, & DuPont.
Contact Information - Resumes in Word format to:
Gary Wright - President - Wright Associates
Phone - (508) 761-6354 - Email - GaryWright@WrightAssociates.org
<mailto:replywrightassociates@verizon.net> - WEB Site -
www.wrightassociates.org <http://www.wrightassociates.org/>
Fri Apr 10, 2015 1:00 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"Gary Wright" wrightassociates
Please feel free to refer this position to other groups and people you know
- Referrals appreciated.
Position Title - WR737001092014
Lead Software Engineer - Markit EDM/MS/Java/Oracle - Asset Mgt. - Marlboro,
MA - Excellent Package
Excellent Compensation Package - Base + Bonus + PS
Relocation Possible for Exceptional Candidates
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 Summary:
As member of Investment Administration Applications, this individual will be
responsible to lead the Security Master development team to design, develop,
and implement enhancements and maintenance changes to the custom built
application software, including Oracle Forms and Java based applications,
and packaged software, including Markit EDM.
In this role, the individual will participate in all design and development
activities to successfully deploy new systems and enhancements. The Lead
Software Engineer is a hands-on development role and a mentor to other team
members. Currently, an implementation of a New Security Reference Data
platform is underway using Markit EDM. This is a great opportunity to join
my client's team and design lasting solutions to build the new generation
Security Master.
Responsibilities:
Specific responsibilities include:
Provide leadership to the development team supporting the existing Security
Master applications and engaged to build the Markit EDM application:
* Lead the design and development efforts of the application
development team
* Recommend system designs and incrementally improve the
maintainability and functionality of the existing system
* Provide practical technical solutions to various business problems
* Deliver solutions balancing the technical needs of the application
with prioritized business requests
* Clearly communicate with all members of the applications,
infrastructure, and business teams to ensure understanding
* Create standards and best practices for the development team to
follow
* Become an expert on the Markit EDM tool and provide this technical
expertise to others on the team
* Clearly communicate with all members of the team
* Articulate and document design decisions and technical concepts
concisely and in an organized manner
* Proactively identify major issues, risks, and dependencies, and
manage them to minimize impact to the overall implementation
Required Skills and Competencies:
Technical:
* 8+ years of software development experience, with methodologies
such as Agile - Experience in Financial services preferred.
* 8+ years of proven analysis and technical design, development, and
architecture experience in a database application environment
* 2+ years leading technical teams including managing an offshore
development team
* Must possess excellent relevant hands-on development experience in
some of the following technologies: SQL Server, Oracle, SQL tuning, PL/SQL,
Java, UNIX, Markit EDM experience required.
* Creativity, attention to detail and leadership skills
* Ability to solve problems in a logical, methodical, and time
efficient manner
* Ability to understand legacy in-house applications and highly
complex and interrelated systems and processing
* Experience in the QA discipline, including understanding of
testing approaches and their implications to software maintenance
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the
ability to write technical documentation
* Flexibility: ability to work independently and in a team
environment
* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline
Keys to this Role:
1) We are seeking a strong Technical Lead Software Engineer (Not a
Manager), to lead a team of Consultants (on/off shore model) that are
building the next generation Reference Data Platform (Markit EDM)
2) The role is 50% leadership and 50% hands on (Architecture, Design
and Coding). This individual will be a senior resource that has strong
Leadership, Technical aptitude, Vision and Delivery skills.
3) Technology: The ideal candidate will have experience with Markit
EDM, which is a customizable package that largely uses the Microsoft stack.
If the candidate does not have Markit EDM they will need to have experience
working with another software package that requires strong Engineering
skills (engineering patterns, design patterns, hands-on customizations,
creating standards, etc.)
4) There are also Java and Oracle applications within the platform. A
strong candidate will be able to lead a team of developers across several
technology stacks (Microsoft, Java, Oracle, etc.)
5) Leadership and Vision: Excellent communication skills are required
as this individual will interface with senior members of the business.
Contact Information - Resumes in Word format to:
Gary Wright - President - Wright Associates
Phone - (508) 761-6354 - Email - GaryWright@WrightAssociates.org
<mailto:replywrightassociates@verizon.net> - WEB Site -
<http://www.wrightassociates.org/> www.wrightassociate
The New England Networking Group is Moderated by:
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@WrightAssociates.org
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@WrightAssociates.org
Website: www.WrightAssociates.org
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