Applications Architect - (US-NY-New York)

Applications Architect - (US-NY-New York)

Compensation: $120K - $135K / Year
Minimum Education: Bachelors
Job Type: Full Time
Jobcode: SABJA3

This senior position will have responsibility for the ongoing design and development of a core product that has both OLTP and OLAP elements.

This is a very hands on technical lead position, and also involves managing two other developers on the team.

Required skills and background:
- 8+ years experience as professional developer
- 3+ years experience as lead developer
- 5+ years experience as Java developer
- 2+ years experience with J2EE technologies and design patterns
- Working knowledge of OLAP and ETL
- Interest in and ability to understand business that software supports
- Ability to work closely with Product Management to help flesh out functional specs
- Ability to create technical specs from functional specs
- Ability to create and execute project plans
- Strong focus on unit testing and other best practices for code quality
- Ability to coach/mentor more junior staff to produce high quality code
- Working knowledge of common Web application frameworks and patterns
- Knowledge of and experience with transactional applications
- Working knowledge and deep experience with application level performance optimization
- Experience with online advertising applications a plus
- Ideally, candidate would have experience working for a hosted application software provider in B2B environment

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.NET Developers - (US-NY-New York)

.NET Developers - (US-NY-New York)

Compensation: $110K - $130K / Year
Minimum Education: Bachelors
Job Type: Full Time
Jobcode: NABJA1

Mid to Senior level developer with 2-5 years of experience (will look at more senior candidates). They need someone who is on the more technical side although they do not require c++ experience, that may be the preferred history. Candidates need to have strong database experience they have both SQL Server and Oracle. They need .NET version 2.0 but prefer version 3.0.

They are in the process of moving a legacy system and the project is only 1/4 finished.

Plusses are experience with Reporting and integration services, OLAP reporting and Analytics.

Preferred candidates will come out of financial services companies, Asset Manager, Fund Administrators, Hedge Funds etc.

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Director, Market Risk Management - (US-NC-Charlotte)

Director, Market Risk Management - (US-NC-Charlotte)

Compensation: $125K - $200K / Year
Minimum Education: Masters
Job Type: Full Time
Jobcode: W238093JA

Experience Required : 10 + years
Degree Required : Graduate Degree
Travel Required : None Required
PAID RELOCATION AND VISA TRANSFERS AVAILABLE

This position is a senior market risk officer in the Market Risk Oversight - Traded Credit Products group reporting directly to the manager of that group. This individual plays a key role in taking on time critical, highly quantitative and technology intensive risk analysis and reporting projects to assist senior managers of CIB, Balance Sheet Management (BSM) and the bank make portfolio level risk management decisions upon changes of credit market conditions. On a daily basis, this person has a market risk oversight focus on the BSM businesses of several hundred billion in size. The responsibilities include monitoring, reporting and analysis of market risk exposures incurred within CIB trading books and the BSM portfolios consisted of assets including corporate credit products, ABS and CMBS, equities, FX, emerging markets, munis, treasury and interest products, as well as derivatives and structured products. This position is also responsible for establishing market risk guidelines in the business, developing and improving risk management systems and processes, and approving transactions above established limits. In addition to the risk reporting and control functions, this position works closely with traders and portfolio management and maintain the process and platform for risk budgeting portfolio construction and optimization, and recommending portfolio risk management and hedging strategies, and loss mitigation actions which both ensure compliance with risk tolerances and maximize economic value.

REQUIREMENTS:
Master degree of hard science or engineering. 5-10 years of trading, and/or quantitative strategy, and/or market risk management experience. 2-5 years specific experience with multi-assets or global macro or quantitative portfolio construction and management processes. Ideal candidate must have positive attitude and good personality. Must be a highly organized, disciplined, detail-orientated, self-motivated and reliable team player. Effective communication and interpersonal skills. Must be able to make a complex and highly technical idea or issue simple to senior management via verbal and visual communications. Excellent skills in time management. Good knowledge of structured, FX, emerging markets, credit, interest rate, and equity securities as well as the related trading strategies and markets. Superior understanding of market risk management measures and analytics. Excellent quantitative and analytic skills and hands-on experience in front office risk management. Experience with related technology platforms. Experience in pricing and/or risk model construction, validation and back-testing. This person should have hands-on experience in VBA, C, or C++ coding and math/stat packages such as MatLab and SAS. Frequent and in-depth IT interaction is expected. PREFERRED: Ph.D. in econometrics, math, statistics, OR, physics or engineering. Working knowledge in multivariate financial time series analysis, portfolio construction and optimization, and statistical tools such as principal component analysis is a plus.

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Enterprise Architect - (US-OH-Cleveland)

Enterprise Architect - (US-OH-Cleveland)

Compensation: $110K - $115K / Year
Minimum Education: Bachelors
Job Type: Full Time
Jobcode: N42825JA

Experience Required : 5 - 10 years
Degree Required : 4 Year Degree

PAID RELOCATION AVAILABLE

The Enterprise Architect is responsible for creating a future vision architecture which supports objectives of cost and risk reduction along with positioning the bank to deliver new products and services to the market faster.

This position takes a disciplined and comprehensive approach to describing the current state and future vision enterprise architecture for a multi-billion dollar diversified financial services company.

The resulting enterprise architecture includes traceability from the business strategy to the IT strategy to the recommended technology choices.

This position requires experience mapping business strategies to technology roadmaps. The candidate will work with architects and business experts across IS to translate key strategic objectives into roadmaps and designs that are actionable and governable.

The candidate will also be required to analyze potential technical solutions to a business or technology problem, assess the potential costs of the solution, organizational change/readiness to implement and support the solution and to lay out an investment approach to implementing (if that is the recommendation) the solution.

The candidate will be expected to design and execute proofs-of-concept for critical enterprise capabilities. The candidate must be able to build a business case for the capabilities, including costs, benefit and efficiency measures.

This position requires strong leadership abilities including leading across divisions and through virtual teams. The candidate must establish strong connections with other architects in order to be effective.

The candidate should have a proven background in defining a vision and executing effectively.

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HR Generalist - (US-NY-New York)

HR Generalist - (US-NY-New York)

Compensation: $70K - $80K / Year
Minimum Education: Bachelors
Job Type: Full Time
Jobcode: BAnKJA2

Members of the team use their human resources background and expertise to recruit, counsel and coach managers and employees on employee relations and performance issues, process relocations and visas, participate in the performance review process, handle benefits and leave of absences, and answer day-to-day questions regarding company policies and procedures. We are seeking a creative and ambitious individual who will fit into our energetic environment and will successfully develop and implement various strategies and projects within our business groups.

Qualifications
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Prior HR Experience
At Least 2-3 Years of Generalist experience
Must have previously been involved with disciplinary actions including written warnings and terminations
Prior experience with employee relations, including investigations
Working Knowledge of labor laws including FMLA, ADA, and Title VII
Frequent interactions with Line Managers
Superior customer service skills
Peoplesoft is a Plus
Taleo is a Plus
Experience with HR transactions including transfers, relocations, and department reorganizations
Experience conducting exit interviews
SHRM Certification is a Plus

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.NET Developer - (US-NY-New York)

.NET Developer - (US-NY-New York)

Compensation: $110K - $130K / Year
Minimum Education: Bachelors
Job Type: Full Time
Jobcode: BSSJA2
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A global financial institution is seeking a Senior .Net Developer.

Responsibilities:
* Performs analysis of software requirements
* Develops software based on specifications provided
* Performs software testing to identify software defects in code and documentation
* Writes and executes test plans and scripts
* Ensures that quality practices are adhered to using the Capability Maturity Model
* Willingness to provide on-call availability beyond normal working hours as needed

Business Skills:
* Hedge Funds Accounting a strong plus but will accept Financial Services experience
* 5-10 Years experience developing Client/Server and Web applications
* 5+ Years experience with several of the following technologies: C#, VB.NET, VB, IIS, MTS/COM+, ASP
* Must have working knowledge of SQL Server 2000 and 2005, HTML, DHTML
* Knowledge of the Securities Industry a plus (specifically Hedge Funds Accounting)
* Experience with Application Architecture Design and offsite development groups is a plus
* Self starter who takes ownership of projects, some lead development experience
* Some interest in taking on some Project Management tasks in the future
* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline

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Technical Architect - (US-CA-Los Angeles)

Technical Architect - (US-CA-Los Angeles)

Compensation: $140K - $150K / Year
Minimum Education: Bachelors
Job Type: Full Time
Jobcode: AJKJA2
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30% Bonus for 1st Year
Must have exp in: Hedge Fund, Private Equity, or Investment Mgmt, Capital Markets… 

Work with the SVP of Information Technology and other IT managers to craft a strategy for integrating large scale commercial applications for real-time data synchronization. The ideal candidate has a successful track record executing large scale projects utilizing MS Webservices, MS Biztalk or other service oriented implementations. In addition, all candidates should have deep experience in the private equity or capital markets arenas. The candidate should be prepared to develop code hands on at least 50% of the time

General Skills:
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Strong organization and time management skills
Demonstrated leadership capabilities
Team-oriented work ethic that includes willingness to help others
Able to work independently and share results of assigned projects with team members
Ability to multi-task and work in a fast-paced environment


Experience and Skills Required:
7+ years experience .Net developer using SQL2000/2005 environment.
A minimum of 2 years experience in the Investment Management, Private Equity or Hedge Fund environment required
BS in Computer Science, MCSD certified or equivalent experience
Experience for investment management firms is required
Experience in one or more of the following applications is REQUIRED: Advent Geneva, Wall Street Office, Bloomberg Portfolio Order Management System, Portia, Eagle/PACE, CDOSuite

Technical Skills – Required
MS Webservices Integration Experience
VB.NET or C#.NET
Reporting Services
Crystal Reports
VB6
VBA, VBScript
Autosys
Perl
ETL Tools
Solid SQL knowledge, including Stored Procedures, Triggers, and Table Design

Pluses: MS BIZTALK 2006

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Senior Business Analyst - (US-NY-New York)

Senior Business Analyst - (US-NY-New York)

Compensation: $90K - $95K / Year
Minimum Education: Bachelors
Job Type: Full Time
Jobcode: ITW1179JA

Experience Required : 5 - 10 years
Degree Required : 4 Year Degree
PAID RELOCATION IS AVAILABLE
The qualified individual will be responsible for acting as an interface between our Options business unit and the platform development and implementation areas. They will also be involved in creating and assembling detailed business requirement specifications for new products/applications and product/application enhancements.

Responsibilities to include:
� Participate in identifying user requirements by working on teams with a number of key individuals representing business and technology
� Document, communicate, and review requirements with product and project team members and sponsors
� Identify and document the impact of the requirements on existing systems and data
� Manage deadlines and work to meet feature requirements and customer expectations
� Assist in developing of testing plans, scenarios and scripts and participate in user acceptance testing
� Assemble, complete and distribute updates to key documents for developers, testers, change management and our customers

Experience Required:
Must have previous experience writing business requirements and training materials
Must be familiar with formal requirements gathering and management process
Working knowledge of system design, architecture and application programming/analysis
In-depth understanding of the software development life cycle
Strong knowledge of equity or derivatives products, market data feeds, trade life cycle and post-trade processing
Understanding of the FIX financial messaging protocol a plus
Bachelors degree in Finance, Engineering, Math, or Economics with a minimum 5-7 years of IT business analysis experience
Previous experience in equity or derivatives trading technology for an exchange or brokerage/financial firm is preferable


Results Expected:
Ability to learn details of managed applications quickly
Able to handle dynamic trading environment and prioritizing of projects/issues among a large client base
Accurate and thorough requirements analysis
Timely completion of requirements specifications
Strong attention to detail
Management of multiple analysis projects for various applications, developed internally and by other solution providers
Effective communication and coordination with development, test and implementation colleagues, which will include external organization
Know and apply best practices in requirements management

Candidate Must Have :
* Bachelors degree in Finance, Engineering, Math, or Economics
* Previous experience writing business requirements and training materials with a minimum 5-7 years of IT business analysis experience
* Working knowledge of system design, architecture and application programming/analysis
* Strong knowledge of equity or derivatives products, market data feeds, trade lifecycle and post-trade processing

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Application Support Analyst - (US-NY-New York)

Application Support Analyst - (US-NY-New York)

Compensation: $80K - $85K / Year
Minimum Education: Bachelors
Job Type: Full Time
Jobcode: ITW1182JA

Experience Required : 3 - 5 years
Degree Required : 4 Year Degree

Responsibilities to include:

Support the testing and implementation of trading applications.
Assist with release management and change management processes of the trading systems.
Build knowledge base to provide supplemental support in emergency situations to L1 support staff.
Define, coordinate and assist with operational acceptance testing and weekend test activities.

Required Skills
Experience Required/Results Expected:
2-5+ years of relevant IT experience and support of trading applications.
Experience with change management process and practices.
Scripting and/or programming experience.
Working knowledge of networking, systems administration and databases.
Must be self-starter and have the ability to work independently and within a team. Strong analytical skills and multi-tasking required.

Candidate Must Have :
* Bachelor Degree
* 2-5+ years of relevant IT experience
* Experience with change management process and practices

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