Messages In This Digest (4 Messages)
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- Enterprise Information Architect - Lead - Asset Management - Boston, From: Gary Wright - Wright Associates
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- Manager - Unix & Storage Production Support(Hands On) - FS - Marlbor From: Gary Wright - Wright Associates
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- QA Manager - FI/Equity Systems - Automated Tools - FS - Boston, MA A From: Gary Wright - Wright Associates
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- Systems Engineer (Windows Server & Exchange) - FS - Marlboro, MA Are From: Gary Wright - Wright Associates
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Enterprise Information Architect - Lead - Asset Management - Boston,
Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net wrightassociates
Wed Dec 9, 2009 11:59 am (PST)
Open & Active as of 12-09-2009
Please feel free to refer this position to other groups and people you know.
Position Title – WR714701
Enterprise Information Architect – Lead - Asset Management - Boston, MA
Area - Outstanding Package
Outstanding 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 Enterprise Information Architect will play a key technical leadership
role in defining direction as well as implementing major transformational
data-related projects planned over the next 3-5 years. She/he will be
responsible for leading and engaging in information/data management projects
including the Enterprise Information Architecture, information models and
flows, data dictionaries, data standards, and data quality standards and
processes. The Enterprise Information Architect is responsible for
developing and maintaining the logical Enterprise Information Architecture
that enables seamless information interoperability of all of our systems -
from transaction systems, reporting & document management systems as well as
information delivery systems.
Key Responsibilities;
· Develop and evangelize Enterprise Information Architecture and
provide technical leadership for developing and maintaining the enterprise
information architecture.
· Identify gaps in the Corporate Information/Data Model and address
them actively in collaboration with business facing teams using a deep
understanding of financial services
· Ensure systems alignment with the information lifecycle.
· Maintain a library of the enterprise information models (i.e.,
information models, information flows, data dictionaries, etc) and
develop/enforce the change control process for the Enterprise Information
Architecture artifacts.
· Coordinate information/data changes that occur as part of new
development, maintenance and enhancements to ensure consistency with the
Corporate Information/Data Model.
· Lead the development and maintenance of information management
standards and conventions (e.g., naming standards, information architecture
gates in the IT development projects, etc).
· In collaboration with the Information Integration teams, define,
develop, maintain, and communicate information exchange standards that will
be used by downstream systems.
· Align Enterprise Information Architecture efforts with other
Enterprise Architecture/ Information Management counterparts to ensure
overall alignment of architecture components.
Keys to This Position:
1. Domain knowledge: The candidate must have a strong knowledge of the
Asset Management industry and how the business operates. Ideally the
candidate will come from another asset management firm or a vendor like a
Charles River or similar type vendor firm.
2. Technical skills: The candidate will have a focus at a Lead level in
the areas of Information/Data Architecture and Integration, Data Modeling,
Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, etc.
3. Must have strong Client Relationship and Leadership skills. This
individual will interface with the Investment Systems team and the
Investment Data team among others. Experience understanding Fixed Income,
Equities and Derivatives is important.
4. This individual will be very similar to a Lead Systems Analyst, but in
the Data Architecture space. The individual needs a deep knowledge of the
Asset Management business (i.e. Fixed Income, Equities, etc.) and the
underlying business process and the Data that facilitates the Workflow.
Required Skills and Competencies:
· Master's degree in software or systems engineering, computer
science, information systems management or the equivalent.
· At least 10 years progressive experience in enterprise
information/data related disciplines, i.e., data modeling, architecture and
integration.
· Proven experience in developing information architectures aligned
with information lifecycle management within financial services.
· Proven experience performing conceptual, logical and physical data
modeling with data modeling tools (Erwin/ModelMart) and database design in
complex, large-scale data environments.
· Proven experience in transactional data modeling (3NF),
dimensional modeling and object oriented modeling. Proven experience in
developing scalable design of entities using advanced data structures (e.g.,
tall tables) is a plus.
· Knowledge of application modeling languages/techniques (e.g., UML,
OML, entity relationship modeling, DFDs) including the ability to create and
read the associated diagrams.
· Proven experience creating enterprise models incorporating master
and reference data.
· Experience in creation of data dictionaries, defining metadata
management approaches and governance processes.
· Experience in developing and implementing IT architecture plans,
Enterprise Information Architecture standard and guidelines, software
development methodologies and strategic plans.
· Experience in developing data sharing standards and architecting
scalable service oriented solutions.
· Solid understanding of transaction and information systems, data
warehouses, data marts, ODS, MDM methodologies and life cycle as well as ETL
and MDM technologies.
· Strong facilitation skills to engage subject matter experts to
define data requirements and conduct data modeling design reviews with
project teams.
· Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
· Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to explain
and document the Enterprise Information Architecture to diverse audiences
(technical, business, etc).
· Highly self-directed and able to manage and prioritize multiple
concurrent and competing challenges, issues, ambiguities, and
contradictions.
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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Manager - Unix & Storage Production Support(Hands On) - FS - Marlbor
Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net wrightassociates
Wed Dec 9, 2009 11:59 am (PST)
Open & Active as of 12-09-2009
Please feel free to refer this position to other groups and people you know.
Position Title – WR712811
Manager – Unix & Storage Production Support (Hands On) - FS – Marlboro, MA
Area - Outstanding Package
Outstanding 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
This individual, as part of the Production Support team within Enterprise
Technology Services will manage a team that provides 24X7 production support
services for our Unix and storage infrastructure. The right candidate
should have extensive management and technical experience with the ability
to support a global multi-vendor and cross-technology production environment
with strong leadership, crisis resolution, team management, communications,
analytical and decision-making skills. This role will report to the manager
of the production support team.
Managing full-time and consultant staff (professional development,
establishing goals, managing workload, defining and clarifying priorities,
and providing technical direction), budgets, technology vendor relationships
and projects/programs (series of projects).
Key Responsibilities;
· Continuous availability and operational resiliency of Unix/Storage
infrastructure components
· Minimize production risk(s)/issue(s) through oversight and delivery of
people, process and technology services
· Taking ownership of issues in a 24x7 production environment, collaborate
with other teams on remediation and manage them through completion
· Understand business priorities/needs, the IT organization's goals and
enable alignment of the team's operating model, processes and systems to
meet stated objectives and outcomes.
· Providing vision, direction, definition of team activities/priorities and
impact on technology and thought leadership/expertise for the Unix/Storage
team initiatives
· Apply Unix/Storage technology and application domain understanding and
collaborate with teams/peers to implement solutions, systems and processes
to improve our operations and support capabilities.
· Interacting with planning, engineering, delivery and operations teams to
coordinate project activities and support issues. Communicating issues and
status to senior management in the form of status reports, briefings, and
presentations.
· Development of strategy and plans for systems production readiness,
security/audit, monitoring for continued operability in a 24x7 environment,
infrastructure high availability, participation in disaster recovery
planning and testing, adherence to system standards and oversee the
development of automated Unix/storage system provisioning and operational
tools/capabilities.
· Function as a "mentor" for the team and empower employees by dissemination
of personal knowledge, perspective(s) and experience(s)
· Foster a positive culture of creativity, innovation and continuous
improvements of our services and operational capabilities
· Focus on enabling efficiency and productivity enhancements within our
global support staff, processes and our technology/tool(s) portfolio.
Keys to This Position:
1. This is a Senior person that is a Strong Hands on Manager. This
individual will manage 16 resources in the Unix and Storage space. The
candidate should have Strong Leadership skills along with experience in
Budgeting, Project Management and Staff Development. 60% Management/40%
Technical blend. We need a strong Leader with excellent Communication
skills that is Collaborative. The approach and management style are key.
2. This individual will have a strong Operations background that can manage
Production Infrastructure for Unix and Storage. Must have a background
managing a production environment for either Unix or Storage. Unix is more
important of the two. Must have strong Operational Process Knowledge (ITIL,
Change Management, etc.)
3. Technical Requirements: This candidate needs to be close to the
following technologies as a Tech Lead: Solaris, Linux, Veritas, VMware and
EMC with an understanding of Oracle databases.
4. See the first two bullet pointes under Required Skills and Competencies.
5. The candidate should come from a large, mission critical, 24X7 production
environment. Financial services required.
6. A bachelor's degree is required.
Required Skills and Competencies:
· 10+ years experience as a manager/contributor supporting global 24x7 Unix
and storage support teams with distributed multi-server/multi-location
environments
· Hands-on experience in environments with the following technologies:
§ Solaris (Fujitsu Primepower and Sun V-, T-, M- series platforms) and Linux
(Redhat on Sun, IBM and HP platforms)
§ Veritas storage foundation suite
§ Virtualization with VMWare and SRDF based (or similar) replication
solutions
§ EMC, NetApps, Celera and Acopia (F5) SAN and NAS based storage subsystems
§ Functional understanding of Oracle databases, Weblogic application servers
and MQ messaging
· Ability to function/lead autonomously in a collaborative culture with
focus on business outcome(s), impact to the firm and client service
orientation
· Experience in leading, delegation and also having the technical expertise
to get "hand-on" involved as/when the need arises.
· A personal style, commitment and communication ability that allows you to
partner with IS peers and teams to work productively and efficiently.
· Strong delivery/operations leadership, change agent, motivation to take on
and lead new initiatives and willingness to learn and grow self (in areas of
technical and management skills)
· Good understanding of the financial services industry, business
priorities/workflow and it's associated IT infrastructure, system and
application needs
· Prior experience with designing, staffing and operationalizing a Network
Operations center (NOC) will be a plus
· Advanced degree in Computer Science or related discipline
Contact Information
Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates
Phone - (508) 761-6354 - Email - replywrightassociates@verizon. - WEBnet
Site – www.wrightassociates.org
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QA Manager - FI/Equity Systems - Automated Tools - FS - Boston, MA A
Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net wrightassociates
Wed Dec 9, 2009 11:59 am (PST)
Please feel free to refer this position to other groups and people you know.
Open & Active as of 12-09-2009
Position Title – WR095009
QA Manager – FI/Equity Systems – Automated Tools - FS – Boston, MA Area -
Outstanding Package
Outstanding 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 Quality Management Center institutes best practices and consistency
across application teams with the goals of reducing development costs,
shortening release cycles and improving code quality. The Quality Management
Center seeks a QA Manager to help us continue to improve the overall quality
of our application portfolio.
In this key role the individual will supervise the testing for an entire
suite of applications across development teams, with a strong focus on
automation. The successful candidate will have strong QA management
experience, a strong knowledge of software quality assurance methodologies
and best practices, and experience in the delivery of multiple large-scale
software projects simultaneously.
Key Responsibilities;
As the Manager of several QA teams, the person will be a lead for all
ongoing projects with a focus on the delivery of various testing-related
initiatives. Specific responsibilities include:
· Deliver all Testing projects and operations within the portfolio
of applications in multiple development teams
· Partner with Development and Application managers on integrating
Quality Management into the overall SDLC processes
· Collaborate with Application & Development teams to drive testing
process standardization, adoption, and improvement
· Identify and implement QA process and tool improvements that lead
to increased workplace productivity
· Plan and implement test automation processes for different
applications/technologies
· Review and approve Test Strategy and Test Plans for various
testing engagements
· Review quality and delivery metrics that measure the benefits for
their teams and track the quality of services delivered
· Coordinate work across multiple teams to develop, update, and
implement contingencies to meet changing project or service needs
· Ensure that the appropriate test infrastructure and tools for
project teams are delivered
· Manage a team of employees and consultants
Keys to This Position:
1. Strong Management skills required. This individual will manage
approximately 20 - 25 QA Analysts (consultants - of which 75% are offshore).
The key to this job is that we need a very strong leader that can effect
change – Change Agent - Great communication and relationship management
skills.
2. Strong QA background required, with hands on work in defining and
implementing new QA practices and tools. The candidate should have past or
recent Experience with a variety of QA tools that includes but not limited
to: HP Quality Center, FT/QTP, Defect Manager/Test Director, Silk suite,
performance tools, defect tracking tools, code debug tools, etc.
3. Financial Services is required. This individual will be supporting the
Investment Management Systems team. The Investment Systems group builds
applications to support the Fixed Income and Equity Portfolio Managers.
Required Skills and Competencies:
The ideal candidate will have excellent leadership, technical expertise and
communication skills. The individual must possess thorough understanding of
QA Principles, techniques, & technologies and various software development
methodologies including Agile principles. Specific qualifications include:
· 10+ years of Software Application development and/or testing
experience
· 5+ years experience in Software QA Management and Team Leadership
· 3+ years experience in test automation scripts and test automation
frameworks
· Experience managing diverse teams of 20 or more people
· Understanding of Object-Oriented and data driven testing
methodologies
· Experience in producing program-level QA metrics for test case
coverage and defect workflow status
· Experience with a variety of QA tools that includes but not
limited to: HP Quality Center, FT/QTP, Defect Manager/Test Director, Silk
suite, performance tools, defect tracking tools, code debug tools, etc.
· Experience with different facets of QA tests such as functional
progression & regression, integration, performance, load, UAT, and
operational readiness testing
· Experience with release and configuration management
· Must be self-motivated, able to work independently and thrive in a
fast-paced, multi-tasking, high stress, high productivity environment while
maintaining excellent working relationships with people in a wide variety of
functional areas
· Strong team leadership and management skills
· Excellent verbal and written communication skills
· Ability to manage conflicting priorities effectively
· Computer Science degree or related field
· Experience working in the Financial Service industry;
specifically, investment management systems expertise is a requirement.
Contact Information
Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates
Phone - (508) 761-6354 - Email - replywrightassociates@verizon. - WEBnet
Site – www.wrightassociates.org
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Systems Engineer (Windows Server & Exchange) - FS - Marlboro, MA Are
Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net wrightassociates
Wed Dec 9, 2009 11:59 am (PST)
Please feel free to refer this position to other groups and people you know.
Open & Active as of 12-09-2009
Position Title – WR713651
System Engineer (Windows Server & Exchange) - FS – Marlboro, MA Area -
Outstanding Package
Outstanding 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 ETS Communication's team seeks a Systems Engineer who will be
responsible for the engineering, roll out, and operational support of
messaging and communications products.
This individual will be primarily responsible for planning, architecture,
implementation and support of our messaging and communications
infrastructure for high availability, recoverability and reliability.
Key Responsibilities;
· Work on the architecture, design, implementation, deployment, and
support of the messaging and communications infrastructure
· Support the messaging and communications infrastructure as part of
an on call rotation
· Develop infrastructure standards, best practices and guidelines
Keys to This Position:
1. Strong analytical skills - ability to diagnose the interoperability
of a diverse set of technologies such as Exchange, Active Directory, VOIP,
SQL and A/V (The candidate should have 80% of these 5). Other key
technologies include OCS, Oracle, MOSS, SAN, TCIP, SIP, Avaya.
2. Strong system analysis, architecture, design and administration
skills. The position breaks down as follows: 50% system engineering &
administration, 35% infrastructure design and architecture practices, 15%
Project related tasks: working with support engineers, vendors and
developers across teams
3. Very close to the technology - design, configure and support
messaging and communications products
4. Strong knowledge of ITIL practices - Configuration, Change and
Release Management
5. The candidate should come from a large production environment -
(700+ Windows Servers globally)
6. Strong Infrastructure Management background - capacity planning,
performance management and security
Required Skills and Competencies:
· 7+ years experience supporting Microsoft Exchange
· Extensive experience in design, maintenance and support of an
Exchange infrastructure including performance, capacity, recovery
technologies for DR and HA, and journaling for compliance
· Knowledge of industry best practices related to email routing,
filtering, monitoring, storage, backup and disaster recovery is required
· Strong interpersonal skills and a proven record for attention to
detail
· A proven ability to interact successfully with clients, and
maintain open communications at all times
· Application Experience in Windows Server 2003, Exchange 2003,
Active Directory, Iron Mail, Blackberry Enterprise Server, OCS 2007,
Symantec Enterprise Vault
· Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field of study and
5 plus years related experience is a must.
Contact Information
Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates
Phone - (508) 761-6354 - Email - replywrightassociates@verizon. - WEBnet
Site – www.wrightassociates.org
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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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