Mortgage Application Support - Front Office - (US-NY-New York)

Mortgage Application Support - Front Office - (US-NY-New York)

Minimum Education: Bachelors
Job Type: Full Time
Jobcode: BNRJA66

This group develops and supports analytics and trading platforms for structured fixed income securities, including RMBS, CMBS, ABS, CDO and credit derivatives. This platform is consumed by trading desks, risk management, and other business support groups. 

We are looking for a developer/analyst responsible for developing, enhancing, modifying and/or maintaining applications in the front office environment. 

Responsibilities: 
• Understand the current applications and business processes, identify extensions and new functionality 
• Provide Level 1 and 2 Support to Mortgage Trading and Analytics Applications 
• Develop and maintain tactical applications and spreadsheets for trading desk for pricing, discovery, analytics, new valuation methodologies and market data 
• Escalate relevant issues to the various owners & up/down-stream groups and Infrastructure groups 
• Perform work on new strategic systems to assist the replacement of spreadsheets 
• Develop and Maintain support documentation 

Requirements: 
• 3-5 years of fixed income industry experience, mortgage analytics, Intex, Bloomberg 
• 3-5 years of experience with Excel, VBA, Net platforms ( C# or VBNet ). Expert in Excel, VBA development environment. 
• Strong relational database experience preferably Sybase 
• Some Shell scripting (ksh, csh), perl, python is desirable 
• Excellent communication (written, oral) and problem solving skills 
• Hands on development and troubleshooting skills 
• Highly motivated, self-starter who can work independently and in a team environment 

Email resume in Word to TheBigGameHunter@cisny.com. Please include the job code for the position with your resume. 

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

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Senior - CIC SME (Applications) - (US-NY-Anywhere in the USA)

Senior – CIC SME (Applications) - (US-NY-Anywhere in the USA)

Compensation: $115K - $160K / Year
Minimum Education: Bachelors
Job Type: Full Time
Jobcode: CDAJA6

This is a Senior Level position in the Customer Solutions/Customer Interaction Center. The ideal candidate will need expert technical and consulting experience in CTI (Computer Telephony Interface), WFM (Workforce Management), QAM (Quality Assurance Management), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), CDI (Customer Data Integration), KM (Knowledge Management), CIM (Customer Interaction Management) and UC (Unified Communications). 80% travel 

· Have completed consulting and Senior PM experience in initial or replacement CIC peripheral applications 
· Knowledge of working with vendors to facilitate line accurate data/information transfer 
· Expert knowledge of ROI calculations and justification 
· Programming as a train-the-trainer in initial application rollout or modification/upgrade 
· Overall knowledge of CIC platforms (TDM, VoIP, hybrid-VoIP, Voice over internet) 

Qualifications and Education Requirements 

College degree required in related field, graduate degree preferred. 

Preferred Skills 
PMP, MPM and/or Six Sigma training desired. EXCELLENT skills in: documentation, PowerPoint, costing and staffing models, conflict negotiations, RFP and response document preparation, effective public speaker 
Certification in at least two VoIP vendors: Nice, Genesys, Salesforce.com, Siebel, Blue Pumpkin, or comparable 

Email resume in Word to TheBigGameHunter@cisny.com. Please include the job code for the position with your resume. 

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

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QA Analyst/Tester - QA Capital Markets- Credit Mortgages - (US-NY-New York)

QA Analyst/Tester – QA Capital Markets- Credit Mortgages - (US-NY-New York)

Minimum Education: Bachelors
Job Type: Full Time
Jobcode: BSSJA77

• Analyze project or requirement documents to identify test requirements 
• Develop the Test Case documents 
• Walkthrough the QA Test Cases and the QA Test Plan prior to execution 
• Execute test cases 
• Coordinate/Document actual test results and responsible for the end-to-end tracking of all issue found 
• Walk through the QA Test Results and communicate status to Project leaders 
• Assist in defect investigation and escalation 
• Provide back-up to other QA testing projects as required 
• Provide the QA Analyst responsible for automation with application functionality work flow 
• Effectively communicates and builds rapport with team members, stakeholders and business partners 
• Resolves conflicts/issues and escalates others 
• Professional with experience on multiple projects 
• Knowledge of fixed income applications would be preferable 
• Understanding of fixed income market 
• Some exposure to Position Management systems 
• Good Understanding of SDLC principles and methodologies 
• Strong Excel Skills 
• SQL – experience running SQL queries 
• Strong analytical, communication and problem solving skills 
• Testing tools (QTP) 


Email resume in Word to TheBigGameHunter@cisny.com. Please include the job code for the position with your resume. 

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

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Performance Engineering Consultant - (US-Anywhere in the USA)

Performance Engineering Consultant - (US-Anywhere in the USA)

Minimum Education: Bachelors
Job Type: Full Time
Jobcode: CKDJA7

Performance engineering consultants to join an elite team within our Banking & Financial Services (BFS) Technology Consulting Practice for global markets. The successful candidate will provide consulting on improving stability, scalability, performance and quality of service of critical enterprise applications. The candidates will also work with BFS domain experts, strategic vendor partners and horizontal practices to develop custom offerings that can be proactively taken to market. 

This is a challenging opportunity to work with a strong group of technologists who will contribute to the evolution of the capacity modeling and system hardening offerings within the largest and fastest growing business unit. The applicants must have a strong academic and professional background and are keen to take their careers to the next level as industry thought leaders. Must be willing to travel more than 75% globally. 

Must-have: 
• Strong experience in application capacity modeling, workload analysis, simulation and s in BFS domain – preferably Capital markets, brokerage and trading 
• Experience across common networks, distributed platforms and database technologies 
• Experience working with a management consulting/Big-5 firm 
• Experience working with CTO/CIO organizations or Enterprise Architecture groups and 
• Project experience troubleshooting and tuning complex systems 
• Experience with life-cycle software engineering tools such as Rational Software Architect 
• Exposure to monitoring and system management tools such as Tivoli, HP 

Nice-to-have: 

- Product engineering experience 
- Performance testing and tuning of large systems 
- Demonstrable thought-leadership e.g. conference presentations, publications, etc 
- Exposure to EA frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman 

Education & Experience: 
- BS/MS in Computer Science from a prestigious university 
- 12+ years of IT industry experience of which at least 8+ years of experience in capital market, brokerage or trading domains 

Email resume in Word to TheBigGameHunter@cisny.com. Please include the job code for the position with your resume. 

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

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