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Fri Feb 20, 2015 11:27 am (PST) . Posted by:
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Position Title - WR1410052014
Lead Systems Analyst or Lead SW Engineer - Front Office - Java - Boston, MA
- 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 - 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 Fixed Income Systems team is responsible for providing front-office
Information Services capabilities to my client's Fixed Income Investment
teams. The team plays a critical role in the firm's success by providing
technical solutions that improve the efficiency, speed and quality of the
highly complex investment decision-making process.
As a member of the Fixed Income Systems team, this individual will be
responsible for solutions delivery for the Fixed Income Investment business.
This is an ideal opportunity for an IT professional to apply business and/or
technical skills to enable investment process to become more efficient:
* Lead delivery of high quality business solutions;
* Interface and coordinate with the broad Information Services teams
to ensure successful delivery;
* Demonstrate strong project management and leadership skills with
ability to handle multiple activities in a dynamic fast paced environment.
* Interact with Investment professionals at all levels of the
organization as needed, to proactively identify opportunities for
new/improved systems to improve the investment process.
Responsibilities:
* Lead the implementation of business solutions in conjunction with
the technical development.
* Perform gap analysis between investment process and existing
systems.
* Lead and establish effective processes for productive partnership
with offshore technical teams.
* Lead implementation of business process improvements involving
(but not limited to) investment process efficiency, data quality
improvements and simplifying investor workflow.
Required Skills and Competencies:
Technical Requirements
* Minimum of five years of hands-on design and development
experience in commercial environments.
* Experience with, and demonstrated understanding of modern software
development and testing methodologies.
* Excellent analytical and problem skills using either one or both
of the following - Intermediate level expertise with SQL and Excel VBA
* Experience in relevant financial domain i.e. business technical
understanding of Fixed Income, Derivatives securities or financial markets
like Foreign Exchange, Money Market, etc.
* Experience developing J2EE applications using JDBC, JNDI, JMS and
other related technologies like Swing, RCP, developing Web applications
using JSP, AJAX, SPRING, Web Services and other related technologies (HTML5,
etc) is strong plus.
* Intermediate level expertise with SQL and Excel VBA
Non-Technical Requirements
* Degree in Computer Science or directly related field
* Excellent written and verbal communications skills
* Willingness to work independently in an energetic, fast-paced,
business-critical and team oriented-environment
* CFA or working towards CFA is a strong plus.
* Demonstrated experience in problem-solving skills and delivery of
quality solutions with good mathematical acumen.
* A strong team player, with ability to work in collaboration across
teams.
Keys to this Position:
The ideal candidate will be a combination Systems Analyst and Java Developer
at the senior level. However we will consider an Analyst or a Developer at
the Lead level.
Background 1 (Software Engineer): The candidate will have a strong
technical developer background. The technical skill set should include the
following: Java/J2EE, Web Services, Front-end development, Swing/RCP.
Domain knowledge is not required however the candidate should have a strong
desire to learn the business.
Background 2 (Systems Analyst): The candidate will have strong domain
knowledge as a Business or Systems Analyst. The Domain knowledge that is
required includes some of the following: Fixed Income, Derivatives,
FX/Currency, Asset Allocation, etc. A CFA is highly desired. For this
profile we are only looking for light technical skills with Excel and SQL.
We will pair this candidate with a programmer.
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.wrightassociates.org
Fri Feb 20, 2015 11:36 am (PST) . Posted by:
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Position Title - WR739671122014
Lead Systems Analyst (Front Office) - SQL - Asset Management - Boston, MA
Area - Excellent Package
Excellent Compensation Package - Base + Bonus + PS
Green Card or US Citizens Only
Relocation Assistance Possible - Local Candidates Preferred
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 Responsibilities - Summary
The Investment View Systems team within IA seeks an individual who will take
on important responsibilities for analysis, design, devise solutions and
make contributions in connection with projects related to our real-time,
multi-dimensional data model that provides exposures at all look-through
levels of a holding.
In the Investment View (IV) area, this individual will take on moderate to
complex issues that originate from our business or from other application
teams.
It is expected that this individual will become knowledgeable enough in the
applications and processes that we support, such as modeling of complex
derivatives, look-through market values and exposures for various financial
instruments, so that he/she can take an active role in solving problems or
directing other team members in doing so themselves. This individual will
also be heavily involved in designing, supporting, improving, and developing
data validation and productivity tools and processes within this area.
This individual will not only lead IV Analyst/QA team but also have
responsibilities in performing business analysis and design of new features,
functionality and instruments. It is expected that the individual will
reach a high level of proficiency within 3 months with instrument
structures, batch processes and other aspects of this data model. This
individual will also be responsible to manage and co-ordinate IV releases
and works with IV consumers to get sign off before deploying changes to
production.
Responsibilities:
* Work with QA/Analyst team members to oversee and approve their
work, monitor and promote quality of output, ensure that projects and tasks
are being performed according to standards and in conformity with business
requirements, and identify areas for cross training and knowledge sharing
among team members.
* On a regular basis, evening and weekend work will be required in
order to provide routine revolving coverage, to address critical production
issues, or to provide oversight for disaster recovery testing, smoke testing
or other off-hours activities.
* Provide leadership as Incident Commander when necessary.
* Establish and maintain effective client relationships and help
guide the team in setting priorities for completion of requests or
resolution of issues.
* Manage and facilitate implementation of business solutions aimed
at investment process efficiency, data quality improvements and simplifying
investor work flow.
* Oversee the resolution of moderate to complex problems that
originate from members of the business as well as related application teams.
These include issues with Investment View for various financial instruments,
open orders, holdings and transactions, and other applications and
processes.
Required Skills and Competencies:
* Minimum of ten years of experience in IT industry with seven
years of experience in supporting buy-side investment systems.
* Strong understanding of various financial instruments including
complex derivative securities.
* Demonstrated experience in business analysis for medium to large
initiatives.
* Excellent communication (verbal and written) skills.
* Motivated, agile and able to work independently in a fast paced
team oriented environment. Committed to deliver projects on time and
overcome obstacles.
* High attention to detail and strong commitment to quality is
absolutely essential.
* Ability to work independently and demonstrate a high degree of
ownership of outcomes.
* Working knowledge of ANSI SQL with RDBMS like Oracle is a must.
* Demonstrate strong client focus and relationship management
skills.
* Bachelor's degree is a minimum. Advanced degree is preferred.
* Holding a CFA charter or working toward a CFA designation would
be considered a plus
Keys to this Position:
1. Strong Systems Analyst skills are required.
2. Domain knowledge: Strong knowledge of Investment workflow that includes
multiple asset classes (fixed income, derivatives, equities, alternatives,
etc.)
3. SQL skills are required to be able to extract data from the database.
4. Excellent communication skills are required.
5. A CFA or progress towards a CFA is highly desired.
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 Feb 20, 2015 12:14 pm (PST) . Posted by:
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Position Title - WR741511022015
Sr. Java Developer (Java & SQL) - Asset Management - Marlboro, MA Area -
Excellent Package
Excellent Compensation Package - Base + Bonus + PS
Green Card or US Citizens Only
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 Responsibilities - Summary
As member of a strong, collaborative application development team, this
individual will design, develop, and support systems for the Portfolio
Accounting team. Our systems cover a diverse variety of transaction types
which are used to calculate near real-time accounting data that is used
throughout the firm for investment management and trading.
In this role, the individual will participate in all development activities
to successfully deploy new systems and enhancements, and work with a diverse
set of cross-functional teams to design, develop and implement solutions to
meet business requirements. The Senior Software Engineer will be a senior
resource and mentor junior team members in their development activities.
The candidate should be a self-starter with the ability to multi-task and
work on a variety of assignments in a fast-paced environment, interacting
with people at all levels in the organization.
Responsibilities:
* Work with business team, project managers, and systems analysts
to review business requirements, functional specifications, use-cases, and
test plans
* Participate in architecture, design, development, and
implementation of new software components and applications based on
functional specifications.
* Work with other software engineers to design and implement
application features, including user interfaces, and business functionality
enhancements.
* Author technical design and support documentation.
Required Skills and Competencies:
* 8+ years of demonstrated database development and architecture
experience
* 8+ years demonstrated experience developing web applications and
services using SPRING, JDBC, JMS, JSP, and Javascript.
* Experience with PERL, JSON, UNIX/Linux, AngularJS, and Amazon Web
Services is helpful.
* Experience in data management a plus
* Ability to work effectively in a multi-location team environment
* Ability to solve problems in a logical, methodical, and time
efficient manner
* Demonstrated experience in formal software development
methodologies
* Ability and willingness to work in a fast-paced, mission-critical
production environment with rapidly changing priorities
* Self-starter, change agent, creative and focused on continuous
improvements
* Excellent organizational, written and verbal communication skills
* Bachelor's degree
Keys to this Position:
1. We are seeking a core Java developer with 7 plus years of experience.
2. We are also seeking SQL coding skills to be able to work with the data.
SQL or PL/SQL is fine. We use Oracle on the back end.
3. Java technologies desired include JDBC, JMS, Spring, Hibernate. The
candidate does not need to possess all of these technologies. They just need
to be a solid Java/SQL developer and we can train them in the other areas.
4. This individual will guide offshore team members so leadership skills
are highly desired.
5. The development work tends to be more on the back end, but there is also
some front end development as well.
6. Excellent Communication skills are required
7. Financial services are preferred, but we are open to any industry
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/>
