Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Try This Easy Way to Use Careerbuilder


I’m Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter. I help the world find work and organizations achieve objectives by hunting down leaders and staff

One thing I do is try to make job hunting and hiring easier and less painful for people than they usually experience.

What I have heard is that when people use Careerbuilder's website, they often leave frustrated. That's why I created some simple search links that will quickly narrow down your searches and make them EASY. 

If you go to www.jeffaltman.com and scroll down, on the right below the ads you will see links that will take you to 

Accounting Jobs
Administrative Assistant Jobs
Clerical Jobs
Banking Jobs
Executive Jobs
Management Jobs
Finance Jobs
Health Care Jobs
Information Technology Jobs
Marketing Jobs
Retail Jobs
Sales Jobs
Science Jobs
Engineering Jobs
Entry Level Jobs
HR Jobs
Human Resources Jobs
Customer Service Jobs
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I hope that you find that this simplifies your time responding to ads on Careerbuilder.

And, while you are at www.jeffaltman.com , click on the tab on top for "Helpful Links" and post your resume to other relevant sites.

Best wishes,

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter

 

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Jeff

 


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Informatica/MicroStrategy developer for Algo Trading base 90-110k base plus bonus.


If not you, would you know someone???  I will pay a finders' fee if you refer someone who is hired.

Job Description:

We are seeking a lead developer to build a robust data & reporting system for algorithmic trading. The system needs to collect & clean data, provide a research environment for quants, provide automated reporting tools for support, provide business intelligence for sales. Requires a solid understanding of efficient architecture and latest technologies to rapidly process, store, and distribute large quantities of data.

 

The idea candidate has:

Experience overseeing development.

C#, C++, Java

Reporting Tools, such as Crystal Reports/MicroStrategy/Cognos

Enterprise Transformation Tools, such as Informatica

Databases, such as Sybase ASE, Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase IQ

Solid understanding of database and reporting architecture.

Experience working with large data sets

At least 8 years software development experience

Organized

Attention to detail

Bachelor's Degree in computer science

 

Desired, but not necessary:

FIX understanding

Financial Trading data

Vhayu/Kx

Sybase IQ

 

Email resume in Word to thebiggamehunter@cisny.com  ONLY IF YOU HAVE THE EXPERIENCE SOUGHT. Please include the job code with the position.

NO RELOCATION. NO VISA TRANSFERS. NO 3RD PARTIES. NO OVERSEAS RESUMES.

Sign up to receive a daily digest of positions around the United States or search open jobs we are recruiting for at www.jeffaltman.comWhile there, subscribe to Head Hunt Your Next Job, Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter's free job search ezine, Natural Selection, his ezine for employers, use Job Search Universe, the job lead search engine that searches thousands of job boards and career pages worldwide, and learn about my VIP personal search agent services.

 

 

 

 

 


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Sr. BA Settlements Technologies


 
If not you, would you know someone???  I will pay a finders' fee if you refer someone who is hired 
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Sr. BA - Project Lead– Settlements Technologies

 $80-120K (depending upon experience level)

Bonus (at or above) 25%  or 

Contract to Perm: $60-75/hr Pay Rate

Exp: Fixed Income Settlements Processes

 

 

Job Title:

 

Sr. BA - Settlements

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Job Descriptions:


Individual will be responsible for responsible for assisting with the facilitation and integration of business processes for Investment Support Trade Processing and Settlements function while working on a team focused on Straight Through Processing systems development.   Regularly meets with the end user to review overall effectiveness and tackle problems related to STP functionality. 


 

Responsibilities/Duties:


§         Work with business units supported to translate client needs into operational imperatives by taking scope of the project, creating project plans areas such as: IT testing and product acceptance, new business operating models with innovative approaches to IT solutions support, research of emerging or available product functionality, and operational readiness assessments

§         Work working directly with clients within the organization and with outside parties to develop and implement project plans and identify operational business requirements with sufficient detail and clarity to allow IT solution development

§         Identify and document functional requirements, work flow, information sources and distribution paths, and system specifications

§         Work with customers on end user analysis and produce and maintain documentation including open items log, system requirements, systems design and testing plans

§         Accountable for providing leadership and independent initiatives in facilitating and conducting information gathering structured documentation and presentation of findings

§         Provide guidance and direction related to the evaluation of existing application products as well as identify and implement innovative solutions related to system improvements and enhancements



 

Competencies:


§         Proven effectiveness w/ investment management systems development or implementation with progressively more complex responsibilities in an investment management client focused environment

§         Strong understanding of, or experience in, a fixed income management company or middle/back office environment required

§         Working knowledge or experience with STP concepts is preferred

§         Has a high degree of knowledge in asset management principles, settlements and allocations processes for complex fixed income instruments

§         Clearly understands purposes, objectives, practices and procedures of the Trade Processing, Settlements, and Fund Accounting departments and related business units

§         Demonstrated excellence in developing and implementing highly effective technology solutions focused on delivering swift, accurate analysis, documentation and presentation tools 

§         Maintains a solid knowledge of corporate and departmental information system strategies

§         Has advanced written and oral communication skills to make technical or non-technical material understandable to the business units and to conduct meetings or training sessions


 

Specifications:


§         Knowledge of all phases of STP systems development, rapid application development methodology required

§         Microsoft Windows NT, word processing and spreadsheet applications required

§         Client-server, 3 tier architecture, and GUI development concepts required

§         Knowledge of relational database environment, SQL/Oracle required

§         Knowledge of JAVA IIS, ASP concepts/architecture preferred

§         Requires 10+ years of information systems experience


 

Academic Qualifications (minimum requirements):


College degree in Information Systems, related discipline highly desired or equivalent.


 

 

 

Email resume in Word to thebiggamehunter@cisny.com  ONLY IF YOU HAVE THE EXPERIENCE SOUGHT. Please include the job code with the position.

NO RELOCATION. NO VISA TRANSFERS. NO 3RD PARTIES. NO OVERSEAS RESUMES.

Sign up to receive a daily digest of positions around the United States or search open jobs we are recruiting for at www.jeffaltman.comWhile there, subscribe to Head Hunt Your Next Job, Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter's free job search ezine, Natural Selection, his ezine for employers, use Job Search Universe, the job lead search engine that searches thousands of job boards and career pages worldwide, and learn about my VIP personal search agent services.


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Senior Linux Systems Administrator


If not you, would you know someone???  I will pay a finders' fee if you refer someone who is hired.

 

Senior Linux Systems Administrator

As a senior member of the System Operations team, the Senior Linux Systems Administrator provides server, infrastructure and application support while working closely with the Director of System Operations and with members of the Sysops and Helpdesk teams.

Position Responsibilities:
· Routine systems admin functions to maintain both internal and customer facing servers.
· Develop standards and processes for change and configuration management.
· Oversee standardization and administration of server farms at hosting facilities.
· Configure and manage performance monitoring tools and notification/alerting services.
· Design, configure and tune high availability Linux systems.
· Undertake various housekeeping and reporting functions for the areas of responsibility, including maintenance of shared resources.
· Compose, edit and maintain internal documentation for sysops team.
· Assist in implementing, executing, maintaining, and documenting proper back-up and recovery procedures.
· Handling routine admin requests directly from clients.
· Participate in product deployments, upgrades and maintenance.
· Maintain the patch levels of all OS and application patches on all systems.
· Design and development of deployment tools for software deployments and upgrades.
· Support third party applications products used in support of corporate mission critical systems.
· Ability to be on-call 24x7 to respond to site outages and emergencies (will be scheduled).
· Mentor and guide junior team members.

Technical Skills and Technologies Required
· 4+ years system administration experience
· BA/BS Degree
· Experience with change/configuration management
· Strong scripting/programming skills with experience in Perl, Python, Bash or other scripting languages.
· RHEL/CENTOS
· PostgreSQL, mysql, Oracle
· Strong Linux security skills
· VMware, Xen
· cvs/subversion
· Exceptional Networking skills
· Performance Monitoring/Hardware Sizing
· LDAP/NIS

Desired
· NetApp/NAS Systems
· Heartbeat/Linux-HA
· Nagios/Zenoss
· Tomcat / J2EE Systems
· Windows 2003 Server, AD

Personal Requirements:
· Excellent communication skills.
· Strong client focus and genuine desire to assist.
· Strong organizational and analytical skills.
· Tenacity.
· Dependability and reliability.
· Capable of working in a disciplined manner in a very relaxed atmosphere.
· Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
· Patience and tolerance.
· Technical aptitude.
· Methodical and disciplined approach to problem solving.

 

 

Email resume in Word to thebiggamehunter@cisny.com  ONLY IF YOU HAVE THE EXPERIENCE SOUGHT. Please include the job code with the position.

NO RELOCATION. NO VISA TRANSFERS. NO 3RD PARTIES. NO OVERSEAS RESUMES.

Sign up to receive a daily digest of positions around the United States or search open jobs we are recruiting for at www.jeffaltman.comWhile there, subscribe to Head Hunt Your Next Job, Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter's free job search ezine, Natural Selection, his ezine for employers, use Job Search Universe, the job lead search engine that searches thousands of job boards and career pages worldwide, and learn about my VIP personal search agent services.


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