Tuesday, February 19, 2013

[NE-Financial-Services-IT-Jobs] Digest Number 842

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Digest #842

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Mon Feb 18, 2013 1:46 pm (PST) . Posted by:

"Gary Wright" wrightassociates

Please feel free to refer this position to other groups and people you know.

Position Title – WR131001022013

LSA – Capacity Management ( BMC Performance Assurance ) – Boston Or
Marlboro, MA Area – Excellent Package

Excellent Compensation Package – Base + Bonus + PS – Prefer Local
Candidates – 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

Lead Systems Analyst – Capacity Management is a hands-on position
responsible for enterprise wide capacity and performance management of all
company applications and IT infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

· Ensuring ample capacity across all computing environments,
including servers, network, applications, and data center

· Maintain existing BMC Performance Assurance environment, keeping
current with software levels, ensuring data collection across required
environments, and preparing reports as required

· Study continuing trends, identify issues, and suggest course of
action by preparing models/systems/metrics

· Defining and tracking system lifecycle to ensure newest
architectures are being utilized most efficiently in the environment

· Work with application teams to forecast future needs to identify
future capacity requirements, performing capacity analysis on current vs.
projected resource requirements

· Creating monthly capacity report that provides insight into
existing capacity

· Document existing capacity issues and follow through to
resolution, working with responsible parties

· Identify future capacity restraints before they affect end user
experience.

Required Skills and Competencies:

· Strong competence in capacity planning, decision-making, and
forecasting

· 5+ years hands on experience administering BMC Performance
Assurance

· Ability to support Tier 1 applications in a 24x7 environment

· Drive to seek out opportunities for improvement in technologies
and systems

· Professionalism and demonstrated customer service skills

· Team player

· Excellent communication skills (written and verbal), including
ability to communicate with all levels in the organization

· Proven ability to multi-task and perform well in a face paced
environment

· Ability to work independently

· Desire to improve upon existing processes/procedures and drive
efficiencies

Preferred Skills

· Knowledge of network management platforms including but not
limited to: BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management, BMC Patrol, HP NNMi, CA
Unicenter, CiscoWorks, and other vendor specific management tools and
management systems

· Experience with OPNET ACE Analyst to perform network captures and
provide analysis on network performance using Unix, Linux and Wintel
Scripting languages to gather data from databases, application and log files
from operating systems (shell, Perl, VB)

· Basic scripting skills (batch, shell, VB)

· Four-year undergraduate degree preferred

· Hands on experience with MS Office products (including Visio)

· Deep knowledge of system integration and networking architectures

Keys To The Position:

1. We are seeking a strong candidate that can lead our Capacity Management
area. BMC Performance Assurance is required. Ideally the candidate will
have knowledge of HP NNM and OPNET ACE.

2. This individual will collaborate with the Application and Server teams.

3. The right candidate will come out of a large, complex, distributed,
global, high transaction, 24X7 Mission Critical environment with 1000"s of
servers, 100's of Databases, and numerous data intensive applications.

Contact Information – Resumes in Word format to:

Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates

Phone - (508) 761-6354 - Email - GaryWright@WrightAssociates.org - WEB
Site – www.wrightassociates.org

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Tue Feb 19, 2013 11:24 am (PST) . Posted by:

"Gary Wright" wrightassociates

Please feel free to refer this position to other groups and people you know.

Position Title – WR730441022013

Sr. Systems Analyst – Trading Systems - 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 Equity Trading team is expanding its business analysis team and is
looking for highly motivated business analysts to make an impact. This is a
great opportunity for a business analyst to build a career and learn about
US and International Equities, Equity Derivatives, Syndicate, and Program
Trading in the rapidly evolving financial investment industry.

The business analysts work directly with traders and trade administrators
and are exposed to the latest industry tools and trends as well as
innovative problem solving. In addition, the business analysts contribute
to all aspects of the definition, implementation, and support of the Trading
Order Management System that is used by the Equity Trading Desk.

Responsibilities:

· Partner with Traders and Trade Administrators to identify business
requirements

· Document requirements and work with the development, QA, and
support teams to ensure that all team members understand the business needs

· Partner with Project Managers, Technical and QA Leads on
estimates, statuses, identify issues and raise risks

· Assist with system testing, deployment, training and support of
the Trading Application

· Work with brokers and trading vendors to bring vendor tools into
the desk

· Stay current with evolving Trading industry and technical trends
to ensure systems and team are of highest caliber

Required Skills and Competencies:

· Strong analytical skills and problem-solving skills

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

· Excellent written and verbal communications skills, including the
ability to build consensus and to partner with the traders and portfolio
managers

· 3-5 years BA or systems analysis experience in trading or
investment management

· Strong SQL query skills

· Strong knowledge of trading order management systems and
electronic trading (FIX protocol), including industry interfaces and API's

· Experience with Charles River, LatentZero, Longview, RediPlus, or
Calypso a plus

· Previous experience working with offshore consultants a plus

· Bachelor's degree required.

Keys To The Position:

1. Strong Systems Analysis skills

2. Technical: SQL skills. Must be able to query the database using SQL.

3. Domain knowledge: Trading Systems or Financial Services experience is
required.

4. Soft skills: Must be very analytical, possess strong communication
skills, and be proactive and smart.

Contact Information – Resumes in Word format to:

Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates

Phone - (508) 761-6354 - Email - GaryWright@WrightAssociates.org - WEB
Site – www.wrightassociates.org

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Tue Feb 19, 2013 1:18 pm (PST) . Posted by:

"Gary Wright" wrightassociates

Please feel free to refer this position to other groups and people you know.

Position Title – WR730381022013

Systems Analyst – Asset Management - 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 Investment Administration (IA) Support team provides support to
approximately 300 internal business unit staff within the Investment
Administration group. The group provides support for a majority of middle to
back office investment management activities such as trade operations,
reconciliation, derivatives operations, performance systems, pricing,
security master and fund administration areas (25+ applications).

This Systems Analyst support function is a role that requires a high level
of interaction with the Geneva portfolio accounting system business,
excellent analytical and communications skills, and experience with database
technologies including SQL and Oracle.

Responsibilities:

· Provide comprehensive user support, particularly with respect to
investment data and operational issues. Track, resolve, and report on
support requests, in a timely and thorough manner.

· Ensure continuous availability and operational resiliency of the
Geneva portfolio accounting system and related components.

· Establish and maintain effective client relationships by having a
high degree of continuous interaction with the end users.

· Work with business users and the IT team to proactively identify
opportunities for new and improved systems.

· Take ownership of issues in a 24x7 production environment and
collaborate with other teams on remediation and lead them through
completion.

· Provide support for other firm wide initiatives such as Disaster
Recovery testing, Database upgrades, security audits, infrastructure
upgrades, etc.

· Proactively identify systems/process issues and gaps to minimize
incidents.

· Key to this role is business communication, expectations
management, prompt support, follow-ups and status reporting.

Required Skills and Competencies:

· Relevant professional experience in a similar role in either
Investment Management or Financial Services.

· Some understanding of the middle and back office investment
management areas.

· Previous experience acting in a business analysis/developer
capacity, including software requirements gathering.

· SQL query skills and experience with Oracle/SQL Server relational
databases and tools is a plus.

· Prior hands-on experience with Java/Unix/Tomcat solutions is a
plus.

· Strong crisis and incident management skills with prior experience
in a 24x7 support role.

· Ability and willingness to work in a fast-paced, mission-critical
production environment with rapidly changing priorities.

· Change agent, creative, innovative and focused on continuous
improvements.

· Bachelor's degree is required; Computer Science or MIS degree is
preferred.

Keys To The Position:

1. Solid Systems Analysis skills required (support, working with
developers, testing, etc.). Ideally we are seeking 2 to 5 years of
experience.

2. Domain knowledge: Financial Services are required, preferably Asset
Management. Any knowledge of the Back Office is a plus (Portfolio
Accounting, Trade Operations (Swift), Corporate Actions, Reconciliation,
Cash Flows, Performance, etc.)

3. Technical skills: SQL, the ability to query the database, relational
database experience.

4. Excellent communication skills are required.

Contact Information – Resumes in Word format to:

Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates

Phone - (508) 761-6354 - Email - GaryWright@WrightAssociates.org - WEB
Site – www.wrightassociates.org

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