Friday, August 19, 2016

[NE-Financial-Services-IT-Jobs] Digest Number 1322

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Digest #1322

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Thu Aug 18, 2016 6:06 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"Gary Wright" wrightassociates


Know anyone for this role? - Any referrals would be greatly appreciated.

Position Title - WR75703R052016

Lead Java Developer - Full Stack - JavaScript - Web Services - Spring -
Investment Mgt. - Boston, MA Area - $$ Open

Outstanding Compensation Package - Base + Bonus + PS

Relo. Possible for exceptional candidates - No Consultants Please

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 Investor and Portfolio Services team is responsible for enabling the
Investment teams. The team plays a critical role in our firm's success by
providing innovative solutions for highly complex and critical investment
decision-making process.

We are seeking a strong hands-on technical lead with excellent communication
and problem-solving skills. Hands-on focus, attention to detail, ability to
innovate, ability to work in fast-paced settings, pride in workmanship, and
a sense of ownership. Financial services experience is a plus, not a
requirement.

Responsibilities:

* Lead team of engineers and consultants to deliver solutions for
improving the investment workflow.

* Interact with Systems Analysts and Investment professionals at
all levels of the organization to proactively identify opportunities for
new/improved systems to improve the investment process.

* Provide implementation of business process improvements involving
(but not limited to) interactive data, investment process efficiency, and
simplifying investor work flow.

Required Skills and Competencies:

* 7 years of experience as a software developer and application lead
supporting complex application development life cycles

* Experience managing small teams including offshore members

* Strong understanding of JavaScript UI technologies and mobile
including frameworks such as Angular, React, or Bootstrap

* Very strong command of Java technologies including a deep
understanding of concurrent programming concepts and the java memory model

* Solid high-level understanding of current technology landscape
including the current players in UI, mobile, the cloud, databases, big data,
caching, and security

* Working knowledge of standard java frameworks and libraries
including Spring, JAXB, Jersey, Jackson, Apache Commons, etc.

* Strong analytical and communication skills, both written and
verbal are required.

* Working knowledge of SQL and SQL performance tuning. Direct
experience with Oracle is a plus.

* Experience with Amazon Web Services is a strong plus

* Must be comfortable with test driven development, continuous
integration, and agile development methodologies.

* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, engineering, sciences, or
related field.

* Experience in Financial Industry is preferred

* Strong understanding of Equity, Fixed Income, and Derivative
Instruments is desirable

Keys to this Position:

1) We are seeking a Full Stack Java Developer. We would like both Java
and JavaScript. We will consider strength in either technology.

2) Java stack: Core Java, multi-threading, Spring, Web Services

3) JavaScript: Angular, React or Bootstrap. You only need one of these.

4) Leadership skills are required. This individual will lead projects
and consultants (mostly off shore). Architect Solution and Delivery skills
are key.

5) Strong communication skills are 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/>

Thu Aug 18, 2016 6:07 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"Gary Wright" wrightassociates


Know anyone for this role? - Any referrals would be greatly appreciated.

Position Title - WR75696R052016

Lead Java Developer - Full Stack - JavaScript - Web Services - Spring -
Investment Mgt. - Marlboro, MA Area - $$ Open

Outstanding Compensation Package - Base + Bonus + PS

Relo. Possible for exceptional candidates - No Consultants Please

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:

This is a great opportunity to join a strong, collaborative team in a role
focusing on software development with leadership and advancement
opportunities. The Lead Software Engineer will be responsible for design,
architecture, development and maintenance of applications supporting
operational functions relating to OTC Derivatives, cleared swaps and
exchange-traded derivatives (futures and options.) All current applications
are homegrown and support the business team's third party vendor
relationships, trade notifications, daily collateral and margin workflows,
and daily swap settlement workflows. Essentials for this role include
software engineering integrity, hands-on focus, attention to detail, ability
to innovate, and the ability to take ownership of outcomes.

The firm is committed to providing robust platforms that streamline the
communication, decision-making, and execution of operational activity as
much as possible. Our applications require a strong focus on detail and
cross-team collaboration to support system integrations with Trading,
Security Master, and Portfolio Accounting.

Responsibilities:

* This role should be focused 50% on leadership and architectural
oversight, and 50% on hands-on programming and solution design.

* Lead the development team activities including prioritizing
requests, designing solutions, and supervising the development efforts

* Participate in architecture, design, implementation, deployment,
and support

* Work with business team, project managers, and systems and QA
analysts to review and qualify business requirements, functional
specifications, use-cases, and test plans.

* Design, prototype and code new software components and
applications based on functional specifications.

* Partner with in-house application and data architects while
implementing systems requirements

* Modify and enhance existing systems to incorporate new
functionality and to optimize them for performance, and implement new
systems...

* Author technical design and support documentation.

Required Skills and Competencies:

* 7+ years of proven analysis and technical design, development,
and architecture experience

* 2+ years leading technical teams including managing an offshore
development team

* Demonstrated experience leading design and development using Java
based technologies.

* In depth knowledge and experience of the Spring Framework.

* Strong understanding and proven experience with technologies such
as Web-Services or Restful services, XML/XSLT, JSON is required.

* Strong understanding and experience of Messaging Framework esp.
using JMS

* Experience with web applications and JavaScript frameworks
including React or AngularJS is desired.

* Must be comfortable with test driven development and Continuous
Integration (Jenkins, JUnit, Hudson, Code Coverage)

* Experience in relational database technologies (Oracle) with
strong PL/SQL skills

* Experience in Sprint Boot, Tomcat, AWS Linux is ideal.

* Experience in Perl is ideal

* Experience in the Financial Industry is preferred

* Willing to work in an energetic, fast-paced, and team-oriented
environment and handle multiple conflicting priorities

* Must be self-motivated with the ability to work with minimal
supervision

* Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the
ability to write technical documentation

* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline

Keys to this Position:

1) We are seeking a Full Stack Java Developer. The role is 50% technical
leadership and 50% hands-on coding/design.

2) Technology Stack: Core Java, JMS, multi-threading, Spring,
JavaScript, Web Services, Oracle

3) Leadership skills are required. This individual will lead a team of
10 (Developers and QA, perm staff and consultants).

4) Strong communication skills are 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/>

Thu Aug 18, 2016 6:07 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"Gary Wright" wrightassociates


Know anyone for this role? - Any referrals would be greatly appreciated.

Position Title - WR75763R062016

Sr. Systems Analyst - Portfolio Accounting - Investment Management - Boston,
MA Area - $$ Open

Outstanding Compensation Package - Base + Bonus + PS

Relocation Possible for an exceptional match - US Based Only - No
Consultants Please

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 Investor and Portfolio Technology (IPT) team seeks a Senior Systems
Analyst who will be responsible for providing systems and business analysis
on enhancements and major initiatives in support of the Portfolio Accounting
function. The objective of the team is to enhance our vendor portfolio
accounting application, Geneva (Advent/SS&C) and its integration points with
other systems to provide improved functionality such as withholdings tax,
derivatives processing capabilities, feeds processing and production of
accurate, near real time data flows into front office systems. Projects are
comprised of functional and systems enhancements as well as supporting new,
highly visible strategic initiatives.

This person should have a good understanding of portfolio accounting and
must be able to provide functional and technical requirements documentation,
integration/UAT test plans, and support for working through the entire
implementation life cycle. This individual must be a self-starter with the
ability to multi-task and work on a variety of assignments with people at
all levels of the organization.

Responsibilities:

* Partner with the Portfolio Accounting (Geneva) business team to
define and document requirements

* Champion the user's needs to the software and quality assurance
engineers

* Assist in the design, testing, and support of the main Portfolio
Accounting Application and its integration components

* Work collaboratively with IT and business teams across Wellington
(e.g. Compliance, Trading, Investment Management, Global Relationship
Management, and Investment Data Services).

* Document, track, and research production issues and work with
appropriate teams on the resolution

Required Skills and Competencies:

* A minimum of eight years' experience as a systems or business
analyst.

* Experience in Financial Services systems and an understanding of
data flows within Portfolio Accounting.

* Experience writing requirements, functional specifications, use
cases, and test plans; strong analytical skills

* Excellent written and verbal communication skills

* Self-motivated and willing to work in an energetic, fast paced
team environment.

* Experience in writing basic SQL commands and comfort in
navigating relational databases

* Experience supporting critical production applications and
incident management process

* Bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems or related
discipline

Keys to this Position:

1) Domain knowledge: Portfolio Accounting knowledge. Ideally the
candidate will have Advent Geneva Portfolio Accounting knowledge.
Comparable to Geneva would be Eagle or FISERV. If the candidate has other
back office knowledge that will suffice as long as they meet the soft skill
criteria i.e. proactive, hard-working, self- motivated, etc.

2) Strong Systems Analysis skills (A minimum of eight years' experience
as a systems analyst writing requirements, functional specifications, use
cases, and test plans; strong analytical 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/>

Thu Aug 18, 2016 6:09 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"Gary Wright" wrightassociates


Know anyone for this role? - Any referrals would be greatly appreciated.

Position Title - WR161020052016

Sr. SW Engineer - Java - Spring - Messaging - Web Services - Investment
Management - Boston/Marlboro, MA Area - $$ Open

Outstanding Compensation Package - Base + Bonus + PS

Relocation Possible for an exceptional match - US Based Only - No
Consultants Please

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.

Responsibilities:

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

* Technical architecture, design, implementation, deployment, and
support of systems that serve needs of Financial Services Organization

* Participate in small to mid-sized development initiatives
involving full-lifecycle development efforts which are based on J2EE,
Linux/Unix and Oracle technologies.

* Responsible for code quality and assurance by focusing on static
code analysis, unit testing, design and code reviews, continuous
integration, release management, performance tuning and execution.

* Partner with System Analysts and Project Managers to implement
business requirements

* Partner with Project Managers, Technical and QA Leads on
estimates & status, identify issues and escalate risks

* Provide hands-on development guidance and mentoring for junior
members of the development team.

* Coordinate infrastructure related activities with middleware and
database teams

* Implement high performance systems based on well-defined SLAs

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.

* Strong oral, presentation and written communication skills.

* Ability to articulate technical solutions to system analysts and
business teams without using too much technical jargon

* 8+ years of development experience including 5+ years of
experience working on a software engineering team with onshore and offshore
resources.

* 8+ years of proven object-oriented software design and
development experience in Java-based technologies

* 5+ years of proven software development experience with
browser-based applications and technologies

* 5+ years of proven experience with such technologies as web
services, Groovy/Grails, EXTJS, XML/XSLT, Struts, log4j, Maven, Spring(Core,
Spring Boot, Spring Data), Angular JS.

* At least 5 years of experience and expert-level proficiency at
Database development in Oracle

* At least 3-5 years' experience working with enterprise messaging
such as MQ/Active MQ messaging system and distributed computing platforms.

* Experience using and deploying to industry-leading application
servers such as Tomcat or BEA WebLogic 9.x

* Financial industry knowledge is a plus

* Experience with iterative software development methodologies,
such as Agile. Understanding of TDD and Scrum will be a plus.

* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline

Keys to this Position:

1) We are seeking a Senior Java Technologist with an aptitude to lead.

2) Technology core skills are Java, Spring, Messaging, Web Services and
Oracle. The candidate should also have a good working knowledge of Oracle
PL/SQL.

3) This is a hands-on roll up your sleeves position. Aptitude and
Flexibility are keys.

4) This individual will lead consultants and projects.

5) Financial experience and UI development skills are a plus

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/>

Thu Aug 18, 2016 6:11 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"Gary Wright" wrightassociates


Know anyone for this role? - Any referrals would be greatly appreciated.

Position Title - WR161011042016

Sr. Systems Administration (Linux, Unix, Windows) - Security - Archer -
Carbon Black - Marlboro, MA Area - $$ Open

Outstanding Compensation Package - Base + Bonus + PS

Relo. Possible for exceptional candidates - No Consultants Please

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 Security Architecture and Engineering team is looking for a senior
engineer for a system engineering and development role. Primary
responsibilities will administrating information security systems. Projects
will include the deployment of Linux and Windows systems, automation of
repeatable tasks and support of InfoSec initiatives. This role will also
provide basic database support for the InfoSec applications that the team
manages. The ideal candidate will be a generalist that is open to using and
learning. Flexibility will be critical to success as you will be working
with a combination of open source and commercial solutions on any given day.
You will be expected to fully support everything that the team builds. This
role will be roughly 80% system administration and 20% basic development.

Responsibilities:

* Deploy, administer and automate various security applications

* Develop Cloud Formation scripts and installation scripts to
support InfoSec applications

* Support basic monitoring, alerting and backup of InfoSec
applications

* Partner with Cyber Defense, Risk, Vulnerability Management, and
Security Operations teams to build solutions that improve their process and
workflow.

* Build automation to eliminate repetitive tasks

* Participate in on-call rotation for escalated security events

Required Skills and Competencies:

* BS degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related
field

* Strong analytical skills

* Sound decision-making skills

* Excellent written and verbal communication skills

* Design and implement solutions that solve the firm's InfoSec
needs

* Investigate new technologies and approaches and make
recommendations for improvement

* Ability to work in a team-oriented, fast-paced environment with
regularly changing priorities

* Aptitude to provide innovative solutions to problems

* Attentive to detail and self-disciplined

Candidates should be familiar with:

* Shell scripting technologies (bash, PowerShell, etc.)

* Ability to program against various API's (REST, SOAP)

* Building Cloud Formation templates

* Sys. Admin. skills in Linux, Windows, Oracle, MySQL and MS SQL

Keys to this Position:

1) This role is 80% systems administration work and 20% development.

2) The Systems Administration skills that would be applicable for this
role include Unix, Windows, and Linux Systems Administration. The ability
to be a DBA for Box products, basic Oracle and backups.

3) The systems administration work will involve providing sys admin work
for Box products integrations and customizations. Examples of some of the
Box products include Archer which is a governance, risk and compliance tool.
Another example of a Box product would be Carbon Black which is an incidence
response tool.

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/>

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
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