Thursday, March 01, 2007

production support NYC


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Trading and equities is a plus. Based in Mid town, pays 95k

As discussed below are the requirements for the production support position we are looking to fill:

  • The candidate will have strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, and must be well versed in supporting a production trading environment in the Equities Market space
  • The candidate will ideally have worked with some of the products listed below
    * Fidessa Workstation
    * NYFIX
    * SunGuard Products including - UMA/U2, Brass, Phase III
    * Reuters Workstation / Triad
    * Thompson Product Suite / ILX
    * Tradeware
    * Bloomberg Workstation
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills to work with all levels of management and business users, ability to multitask is essential
  • Responsibilities will include supporting all external connections, working closely with telecom vendors, network providers and exchanges to enhance systems as well as track and identify problem
  • Candidate will be a liason between the Development group and the trading desk

Technical Background:

  • Experience with the FIX protocol
  • Understanding of Sybase and SQL
  • Experience in troubleshooting issues on both UNIX and Windows operating systems
  • Understanding of Autosys is a plus

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Developers - Java/Unix/Sybase Jersey City LNDJAJAVA


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Developers - Java/Unix/Sybase

> Enterprise Information Services (EIS) Jersey City - range in comp

> based on candidate - 3 openings in this area Role consists of support

> and development

> Implements technologies and practices that promote the collection,

> storage, analysis, and distribution of business information. EIS

> unlocks the value of collected information to improve decision making,

> optimize business performance, and maximize the value of customer

> relationships by leveraging improved data accuracy and timeliness

> through custom APIs and Web tools, thereby ensuring consistent and

> reliable availability. We work with our users to deploy business

> solutions that maximize the value of our enterprise information to

> increase competitiveness, restructure business processes, simplify

> information access, and better understand their data

>

> Our Products:

> Enterprise Security Master (ESM) product maintains an infrastructure

> for managing data for global use within Lehman Brothers. ESM develops

> middleware APIs, Web tools, and other application interfaces that

> provide data access to both Street and Lehman back office product and

> price information

>

> Client Revenue/Sales/Trader Portal is the global source for all trade,

> compensation and financial information for both Institutional Sales

> and Private Client Services. Our data leverages the

> inter-relationships between Trade, Customer, Salesperson and Product.

> CRM provides a comprehensive client relationship management solution

>

> Enterprise Account Management (EAM) Account, Client, and Instruction

> Management (EAM) is the central repository for entering account,

> client, relationship, and instruction information

>

> Responsibilities:

>

> - Develop Enterprise Security Master new components to accommodate credit and equity derivative products.

> - Develop new components of Enterprise Security Master to enable its

> integration with front office trading and back office settlement

> systems >

> - Develop Trader portal framework for trading management

> - Support existing applications, real-time processes and batch cycles,

> troubleshoot outages. The system is 24x7 and a global platform for a

> number of major mission- critical business functions

> - Liaise with Business analysts, developer teams and infrastructure

> groups

> - Participate in all aspects of development cycle

>

> Requirements:

> - Strong system analysis skills, software design and development of

> large scale systems, including 3 or more years experience with

> Java/Unix/Sybase

> - Understanding of core Java components is required, JDBC,

> Collections, Threads, RMI> *> Strong database experience is required

> at least 2 years working with large size databases and big volume of

> transactions

> - Development in Unix Environment Required, working knowledge of

> Unix/Perl scripts

> - Excellent communication and strong team work skills

> - Prior experience in financial industry is not required but

> preferable

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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Position- GS 19711: Technical Lead Core Java


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Core Java(not just J2EE) developer to be a tech lead. Will lead 2 other developers. Very hands on role. Sybase preferred. Object oriented analysis and design, solid software engineering experience. Large system experience. Security domain background a plus, but not required. Financial experience a plus. The group supports application security. Interface with other tech leads company wide.
Position- Technical Lead
Job Id (Use when Referring to Position): GS 19711
Job Type: FTP
Location: New York
Experience: 0 - 0
Compensation: $100,000.00 - $140,000.00
Job Description:
Job Title
Job Level
Sales Tech - Security Engineering - Sr. Dev - TA02/03 (19711)
Associate


Report Group
Business Unit
Technology

Sub-Division
Status

Open






Location
Employment Type
New York
Full Time Regular


Requirements
Position Summary:
We are looking for a senior developer for the Security Engineering team to work on development and engineering of security systems. The initial focus will be on development of the next generation entitlements system which will replace the existing entitlement systems our team maintains and supports. The new entitlements system will be responsible for access control policy management and enforcement and will be used by a large number of applications.

Security engineering team is responsible for developing and supporting application security solutions in the areas of authentication and entitlements. Our software and infrastructure is used by hundreds of applications and virtually all employees and clients. The group also advises application development teams on how to integrate our solutions and secure their applications to meet security standards. We work with other infrastructure groups, information security, vendors, and the development community to make sure that security solutions are best in class and meet evolving security needs of applications and clients in terms of features, standards, and usability. The infrastructure we engineer and maintain is extremely critical in nature given its function and the number of applications that depend on it. As such, our solutions must be engineered to have 24x7 uptime, must be secure, must handle large number of users, and must be easily maintainable. At the same time we must keep pace with all of the popular platforms, languages, and development platforms application groups use to build their systems. Our APIs are available on Windows, Solaris, Linux, and AIX in C/C++, Java, C#, and Perl. We integrate our products with all standard web containers, such as Tomcat, Apache Web Server, and IIS, and standard frameworks such as J2EE. Some, but not all, of the solutions we own are AuthN authentication APIs, ICORN plugin for web based authentication, Crosslogix and WDB entitlement systems, and B2B toolkit for federated authentication.

Responsibilities:
Initial focus will be on design/development of next generation entitlements system.
Hands-on involvement in design, development, and support of Security Engineering products/services/infrastructure.
Consult application developers and other technologists on best ways to use Security Engineering solutions.
Work with other infrastructure and security teams to agree on common vision of security space and solutions
Support and maintain existing components including APIs, server side infrastructure, and tools.
Must Have Skills/Experience:
7+ years work experience preferably developing systems level and/or security software.
5+ years of Java development with solid knowledge and experience of core Java concepts like multithreading, I/O, collections, etc.
J2EE only candidates are NOT going to be considered
Experience in designing software that needed to be highly available, needed to scale, and was servicing a large client base.
Solid understanding of build, version control, and software testing methodologies
Knowledge and experience in OOAD
Relational database experience preferably with Sybase and/or UDB.
Nice To Have Skills/Experience:
C/C++ language knowledge
Any development of security software especially authorization/entitlements systems.
Web application development especially in Java and knowledge of Apache, Tomcat is a plus
Knowledge of security domain in any of the following concepts/technologies is a strong plus: Kerberos, SSL, Crypto, Single Sing On, Authorization, Active Directory Authentication, PKI, and Identity Federation, SAML Products.
Knowledge of Windows platform technologies and development experience a strong plus including .Net, C#, IIS technologies.
Demonstrate strong sense of initiative and ownership.
Strong interpersonal and communications skills. Ability to communicate with a diverse set of people.
Ability to work in a flexible environment and adapt to changing requirements and priorities





Degree Required: BS
Desired Skills:
Additional Information:
Comments:

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Monday, February 12, 2007

FW: Position- JS2378: Database developer


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Position- Database developer
Job Id (Use when Referring to Position): JS2378
Job Type: FTP
Location: Jersey City NJ
Experience: 3 - 0
Compensation: $95,000.00 - $ 100000 .00
Job Description:

Database developer - 95 base or so plus bonus

> Area EIS - Jersey City - wants mid level developer, not too senior for this spot

> The Enterprise Information Services (EIS) team implements technologies and practices that promote the collection, storage, analysis, and distribution of business information. EIS unlocks the value of collected information to improve decision making, optimize business performance, and maximize the value of customer relationships by leveraging improved data accuracy and timeliness through custom APIs and Web tools, thereby ensuring consistent and reliable availability. We work with our users to deploy business solutions that maximize the value of our enterprise information to increase competitiveness, restructure business processes, simplify information access, and better understand their data.>

>

> Project, Role & Responsibilities

> Trader Portal group is currently looking for a Database Developer to build a portal and a BI solution for Capital Markets (Fixed Income and Equities). This portal will serve as a one-stop-shop for trading, research and sales functional groups globally to focus on client development and increase business. BI module will facilitate the analytical reporting capabilities.

>

> Responsibilities

>

> * Reports to the team lead for Trader Portal.

> * Over the next twelve months the team is looking to migrate existing database from Sybase to DB2 UDB and ETLs using the Informatica tool. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in migrating over to this new infrastructure.

> * Participate in analysis, design and development of new functionality for the application

> * Make design decisions based upon trade-offs of performance and data integrity

> * Work with team lead/project manager to set the technical direction/architecture

> * Liaise with DBA and System admin groups

> * Support the live application in the production environment

> * Work across multiple project stream simultaneously.

>

>

> QUALIFICATIONS:

>

> * 3+ years of Data warehousing experience.

> * Good knowledge of Sybase/UDB database development

> * Strong SQL Skills

> * Knowledge of ETL tools, preferably Informatica and UNIX shell scripting

> * Database performance tuning experience

> * Delivered Logical and Physical Data models for both multi-dimensional OLAP and OLTP systems

> * Good understanding of Trading system data model

> * Strong analytical, problem solving and conceptual skills

> * Self-motivated and comfortable working in a dynamic environment that demands multi-tasking

> * Good verbal and written communication skills

>

> Plus points:

> * Ability to write MDX queries.

> * Exposure to Microsoft Analysis Services, Cube building and Proclarity

> * Exposure to reporting tools like BO/Cognos/Hyperion

> * Exposure to the Investment banking/Capital Markets industry

> * Basic knowledge on Fixed Income, Equities, Risk and BPM Domain

Degree Required: Bachelors
Desired Skills:
Additional Information:
Comments:

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Friday, February 09, 2007

Position- GS 19588: Developer


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They do order entry and execution for listed shares and options. Matching and booking trades. Negotiate close of trades. OTC Derivatives. Need Java experience, and may go into C# down the road. No candidates that are not open to C#.
Position- Developer
Job Id (Use when Referring to Position): GS 19588
Job Type: FTP
Location: New York
Experience: 5 - 0
Compensation: $0.00 - $120,000.00
Job Description:

Job Title

Job Level


Sales Tech - Eq Der Ana/Dev -

Associate






















Location

Employment Type


New York

Full Time Regular



Requirements

The Equity Derivative Sales Technology team is working with the rest of the global sales team to build out the strategic Sales Desktop for Equities and Fixed Income. SalesSheet is the primary trade entry and order management system for Fixed Income. It utilizes a distributed architecture to trade in real-time electronically with the trading desks. We will leverage this platform and tailor it to equity derivatives sales user needs. Projects include implementing electronic functionality, integrating Equities Derivative trades into SalesSheet, and working with the business to define their requirements.

Analyze, develop, and delivery technology solutions to satisfy the sales force's requirements for the equity derivatives business. Much of the development will be in the proprietary risk management and trading platform technology.
Build relationships with sales people and operations to understand their business needs
Build relationships with other technology teams to leverage existing systems and processes where possible
Integrate derivatives functionality into strategic java-based sales trading application. Development will involve both GUI and server-side components.

Solid hands on programming experience in OO language with need for Java
Perl or other shell scripting are plusses
Sybase or other relational database technology experience a plus

C# a plus
C++ experience a plus
Strong analytical skills
Strong communications skills
Knowledge of equities and derivatives a plus. Desire to learn about equity derivatives is required.
Should be able to work independently

Degree Required: BS
Desired Skills:
Additional Information:
Comments:

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

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