12-18 months
Description:
Front End Developer in VB 6 and .net. A plus would be C++/ JAVA/Websphere
Resources to support distributed development for Loss Prevention applications, such as LPW, BLICS and CLICS.
Required (in order of importance ):
#1- Visual basics Exp in Collections Environment
- .NET Exp
- Middleware Exp
- Database Exp
#2 - C++
#3 - Visual Basics .Net Exp
- Hands on experience is required
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Monday, June 7, 2010
Project Manager - Addison, Texas (12 month contract)
Demonstrates an understanding of customer’s tactical goals and effectively participates in the development and implementation of business solutions. Manages project risk through comprehensive mitigation assessment and planning techniques. Actively manages the work efforts of multiple functional resources through the project plan. Establishes basic scope control procedures. Develops documentation; monitors and reports project status; assesses the effectiveness and accuracy of documentation. Initiates and maintains reporting relationships with project stakeholders including team members, peers, managers, customers, vendors, and other affected departments to coordinate efforts across multiple business units and ensure continuous efficient management of projects; gathers input and feedback. Analyzes and reports project status and research information; monitors project performance to maintain the quality of services, deliverables, and content. Effectively assists in directing both internal and external resources to achieve business solutions within project guidelines. Responds to operational issues and RFI’s within defined areas of responsibility while progressing on project work. Collaborates and communicates with other project managers and leaders to coordinate cross-project initiatives and activities. Identify and eliminate obstacles to solution plans, business goals or implementation. Assists in the development and implementation of contingency plans. Assist n the development of project budgets in compliance with the company’s financial practices. 4 year degree. 7 years plus experience in project management, PMP certification.
Strong project management, analytical and problem solving skills and demonstrated record of leading and participating in software projects of all sizes involving multiple teams. PMP Certified.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills for interfacing with internal and external clients, peers, management and cross-functional areas.
Strong consulting and mentoring skills along with strong facilitation and meeting management skills and knowledge of SDLC processes and methodology.
Skilled in using MS Office Tools, MS Project, Visio and other project management and analytical tools. Senior experienced project managers only.
Strong project management, analytical and problem solving skills and demonstrated record of leading and participating in software projects of all sizes involving multiple teams. PMP Certified.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills for interfacing with internal and external clients, peers, management and cross-functional areas.
Strong consulting and mentoring skills along with strong facilitation and meeting management skills and knowledge of SDLC processes and methodology.
Skilled in using MS Office Tools, MS Project, Visio and other project management and analytical tools. Senior experienced project managers only.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
14 NEW POSITIONS IN RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
1. C#/GUI Developer
2. Informatica Developer
3. Production Support
4. Support role
5. UI/DB Developer
6. Environment Manager
7. 1016258-ROMA Developer
8. Unix System Admin
9. Microsoft Developer
10. Java Developer
11. Microsoft Developer
12. Sr. Microsoft Developer
13. SCM Administrator
14. User & Production Support 3
C#/GUI Developer
Responsibilities
We seek an individual with development experience to work with Electronic Trading on:
o Work with other members of the team and Business Analysts to develop and implement solutions
o Development of reporting solutions
o Identifying system improvements
Experience and skill sets that will be needed in this role are: 5+ years professional IT experience in GUI developing solutions using a development language C#, .Net and SQL
Qualifications:
Essential Skills
• Bachelor’s Degree
• Degree in Finance or Computer Science
• 5+ years professional IT experience as a Developer
• C# GUI experience and .Net
• Messaging system - E4JMS
• SQL (Sybase, Oracle or MS)
• Ability to deliver in functionally aligned organization with teams that are distributed geographically
• Ability to manage deliverables within time lines
• Ability to work on multiple tasks
Desired Skills
• Test Case Development
• Java or VC++
• Strong understanding of Fixed Income or Interest Rates Product business
• Understanding front to back Trading system
Informatica Developer
Posting Title: DTACC - Informatica Admin and Support - User & Production Support 3
Undergraduate degree
(Computer Science preferred)
• Minimum of 8 years IT Experience
• Minimum 5 years of experience in infrastructure/client support of an Informatica environment
• Minimum of 5 years of experience with Informatica PowerCenter 6.x,7.x,8.x
• Minimum 3 year of experience with UNIX (Sun Solaris)
• Experience with RDBMS : Oracle, Sybase and MS-SQL Enterprise Server
• Install / Upgrade / Configure/Maintain PowerCenter 7.x/8.x instances on UNIX and Linux servers.
• Interact with UNIX and Database Administrators to create and maintain each PowerCenter instance.
• Configure Database and ODBC connectivity to various source/target databases.
• Install / Configure PowerConnect for JMS /Web Services and others as required
• Independently perform complex troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, solution development
• Manage and administer system performance including on-going optimization and tuning of Informatica environment
• Create and manage users, groups and folders. Ensure appropriate privileges are assigned to the different users.
• Interact with end users to resolve issues with Informatica PowerCenter.
• Install / Upgrade / Configure/Maintain PowerCenter 7.x/8.x instances on UNIX and Linux servers.
• Interact with UNIX and Database Administrators to create and maintain each PowerCenter instance.
• Configure Database and ODBC connectivity to various source/target databases.
• Install / Configure PowerConnect for JMS /Web Services and others as required
• Independently perform complex troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, solution
• development
• Manage and administer system performance including on-going optimization and tuning of Informatica environment
• Create and manage users, groups and folders. Ensure appropriate privileges are assigned to the different users.
• Interact with end users to resolve issues with Informatica PowerCenter
• Coordinate with Informatica support for patches and bug fixes.
• Performance tuning covering the areas of: session, source, target mappings
• Support installation and maintenance of the Metadata Reporter and PowerConnect
• Support installation and maintenance of new PowerCenter features
• Perform project code deployment between environments using the Automated SCM Deploy toolset.
• Help new Informatica projects get started.
• Willing to dedicate a portion of time with other Products and Technologies - all team members will be cross-trained to provide support capabilities for CS enterprise solutions for Business Objects and MetaMatrix (EII) offerings.
• Some shift work is required to support the global user base.
• Weekend cover, on a rotation basis, will also be required.
• Some shift work is required to support the global user base.
• Weekend cover, on a rotation basis, will also be required.
• The DTACC Support team within PSG provides administration and application support services for strategic projects for Source Code Management Tool, Business Objects, UDS Metamatrix, Document Management, Informatica PowerCenter and other customer-facing DTACC products.
Production Support
Responsibilities:
• Support Rates IT applications from business perspective.
• Support of electronic and/or algorithmic trading systems
• Respond to all user issues/queries within published timeframes
• Provide first/second line application support including trouble shooting issues, leading technical investigations and supporting mission critical platforms in a demanding 24/7 environment
• Accurate incident logging and tracking adhering to published procedures
• Produce and maintain support knowledge base and documentation and contribute to the team’s increased ability to service the user base
• Formulate solutions to reduce issue impact on the business users
• Train colleagues in the ecommerce sphere of knowledge and experience
• Share new skills with colleagues
• Liaise with internal dev teams as well as vendors to accurately report on incidents requiring software changes
• Track dev changes, perform and document testing and manage signoff through to prod release adhering to all necessary compliance
Strong verbal and written communication skills. Must be able to communicate with traders/product control as well as other IT teams.
Knowledge of UNIX, SQL, Access & Excel, FIX protocol/ connectivity
Able to perform quickly and accurately in a high pressure and highly dynamic environment whilst adhering to guidelines
Candidate must have attention to detail and have the ability to work independently.
Suitable candidates will be results-oriented and goal-driven self-starters
Prior experience of supporting trading/risk management systems and electronic trading applications
Exposure to Microsoft Office suite of applications
Unix Solaris, Windows NT, Oracle/Sybase
Understanding of Electronic and/or algorithmic trading systems
Knowledge of FIX protocol
SQL – Ability to construct simple statements to create reports
Exposure to fixed income securities – bonds, and futures.
Ability to develop relationships with internal clients to understand and address their needs.
Ability to plan and organize the work so that it is efficient and effective and allows service to be delivered promptly and reliably.
Proactive. Ability to identify opportunities and develop new ideas that will lead to improvements. Ability to adapt/change behavior or plans to better achieve the target/objective.
Ability to analyze a complex problem and identify potential solutions by exploring and analyzing diverse alternatives, including, where applicable, risks and potential business impact. Ability to make the right decisions based on the necessary information and to take measures accordingly.
Has a clear appreciation of strengths and limitations. Seeks guidance and advice when appropriate to accomplish tasks and perform the role in an effective and efficient way.
Is attentive to controls and addresses risk. High level of attention to detail in every aspect of work.
Support role
Responsibilities:
• Support Rates IT applications from business perspective.
• Support of electronic and/or algorithmic trading systems
• Respond to all user issues/queries within published timeframes
• Provide first/second line application support including trouble shooting issues, leading technical investigations and supporting mission critical platforms in a demanding 24/7 environment
• Accurate incident logging and tracking adhering to published procedures
• Produce and maintain support knowledge base and documentation and contribute to the team’s increased ability to service the user base
• Formulate solutions to reduce issue impact on the business users
• Train colleagues in the ecommerce sphere of knowledge and experience
• Share new skills with colleagues
• Liaise with internal dev teams as well as vendors to accurately report on incidents requiring software changes
• Track dev changes, perform and document testing and manage signoff through to prod release adhering to all necessary compliance
Strong verbal and written communication skills. Must be able to communicate with traders/product control as well as other IT teams.
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• Knowledge of UNIX, SQL, Access & Excel, FIX protocol/ connectivity
Able to perform quickly and accurately in a high pressure and highly dynamic environment whilst adhering to guidelines
Candidate must have attention to detail and have the ability to work independently.
Suitable candidates will be results-oriented and goal-driven self-starters
Prior experience of supporting trading/risk management systems and electronic trading applications
Exposure to Microsoft Office suite of applications
Unix Solaris, Windows NT, Oracle/Sybase
Understanding of Electronic and/or algorithmic trading systems
Knowledge of FIX protocol
SQL – Ability to construct simple statements to create reports
Exposure to fixed income securities – bonds, and futures.
Ability to develop relationships with internal clients to understand and address their needs.
Ability to plan and organize the work so that it is efficient and effective and allows service to be delivered promptly and reliably.
• Proactive. Ability to identify opportunities and develop new ideas that will lead to improvements. Ability to adapt/change behavior or plans to better achieve the target/objective.
Ability to analyze a complex problem and identify potential solutions by exploring and analyzing diverse alternatives, including, where applicable, risks and potential business impact. Ability to make the right decisions based on the necessary information and to take measures accordingly.
Has a clear appreciation of strengths and limitations. Seeks guidance and advice when appropriate to accomplish tasks and perform the role in an effective and efficient way.
Is attentive to controls and addresses risk. High level of attention to detail in every aspect of work.
UI/DB Developer
Required Experience
• Senior web developer with 7+ years of total software development experience in the IT Industry
• 5+ years of working experience with .Net web based development
• 2+ years of working experience SOA and Web Services
• 4+ years of working experience with ASP/Javascript web applications
• 3+ years of working experience XML/XSLT
• 3+ years of working experience Sybase and SQL programming
• Experience with Windows COM+ services
• Experience in writing detailed technical design specifications
Desired Experience
• Experience with MIS reporting development using Crystal reports
• Design patterns
• IIS, Windows server, windows services
• Web application architecture
• Experience with UNIX environment and Perl script development
• Knowledge of the Investment Banking business
Required Technical / Business Knowledge
• ASP, Microsoft C#, .NET Framework, ASP.NET
• HTML/DHTML, AJAX, Javascript, XML/XSLT, XPATH
• Database development skill in Sybase or SQL server environment
• Web application architecture
• Multi-threading
• Object Oriented Design
Desired Technical / Business Knowledge
• Design pattern
• Microsoft Silverlight
• BO Crystal Report
• IIS, Windows server, window services
• Investment Banking Knowledge
• Perl & UNIX data feed development
Environment Manager
Job Duties
Maintain a thorough understanding of the knowledge required to provide effective technical application support (includes understanding of market feeds, reference data problems, batch processes, system interfaces, business rules, etc).
Create, own, and manage testing environments for Rates applications
Resolve testing support issues
Coordinate releases, disaster recovery, and checkouts for maintenance activities
Apply business and required technical skill sets to resolve issue promptly and accurately
Refresh an environment with a copy from production and have it ready for testing within one day
Create tools to manage environments
Develop subject matter expertise for select FX applications
Work with external groups and vendors to resolve environment-related testing issues
Performing technical support fixes – development, script writing
Investigating problems to find circumventions and root cause
Creating Known Error documents for problems
Assisting in managing the Production environment
Developing product and application knowledge
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
Two years experience of 2nd/3rd line application development support or infrastructure support
Advanced knowledge and experience with the UNIX toolkit and KSH, regular expression, and Sybase/T-SQL
Moderate knowledge of Windows, high availability computing, disaster recovery, and fail-over scenarios
Some support-driven/tactical development experience and willingness to work with compiled languages like Java, .NET, or C/C++ (e.g., testing applications, automation tools)
Some knowledge or an interest in foreign exchange, derivatives, or investment banking
Communicates actively and effectively
Assigns and assumes clear responsibility and accountability for results
Shows commitment to the success of each task and strives to successfully overcome setbacks
Responds to changing circumstances, displaying flexibility, and taking calculated risks
ROMA Developer
Responsibilities:
The candidate should have experience in installing, customizing, and deploying vendor applications. Structured development knowledge in either Java or C++ and the ability to work in a global team is essential in this role.
Implement changes to various data management processes in the Asset Control application
- Write test scripts in Perl for all development changes
- Integrate changed elements into a Subversion code repository for automated deployment
- Provide regular written status reports for progress tracking
- Write technical design documents describing planned changes prior to coding
- Perform estimations and provide input to project plans
Qualifications:
• B.S. degree in Computer Science or Information Systems
• Minimum 2 years working in a commercial environment with a structured development
methodology
• Experience with vendor application implementation and customization is required,
preferably with the Asset Control product
• Experience with Java (design, coding standards, performance tuning, and debugging)
• Experience with Perl (design, coding standards, performance tuning, and debugging)
• SQL skills (Oracle query design, stored procedure development) is desired
• Working knowledge of UNIX/Linux and UNIX scripting
• Good object oriented programming skills
• Experience with Subversion or other version control software is desirable but not required
• Investment banking or market data (terms & conditions data from Bloomberg, Reuters, and
others) development experience is desirable but not required
• Good communication skills
• Multi-regional team skills (this hire must be able to actively participate in a global team)
• Organized and delivery focused
Unix System Admin
JOB SPECIFICATION: Unix System Administrator
DIVISIONAL OVERVIEW
The IT Technology Infrastructure Services (TIS) is responsible for managing Technology Infrastructure, including network, data centers, servers, storage, mainframe and desktops.
DEPARTMENTAL OVERVIEW
The Americas RDO department is responsible for infrastructure deployment and operations across all CS offices in North, Central and South Americas. The Raleigh Level 1 support team is responsible for supporting the day to day operations of Server, Web and Database technology infrastructure across Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific as a Global Service.
MAIN DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ROLE
The Unix/Linux administrator is responsible for front-line support and maintenance of the Unix and Linux systems globally. This role is accountable for the troubleshooting and resolution of all Unix and Linux support issues/requests. The primary focus of this role is incident and problem management.
Responsibilities Include:
• Production support and maintenance of all Unix and Linux servers globally
• Provide immediate response to all known alerts to the Unix and Linux environment
• Appropriate escalations to regional support teams
• User account administration and access control management
• Provide day to day frontline technical and developer support for critical business and trading systems
• Provide diagnostic support and act as interface to vendors for all failing components within the system
• Involvement with escalations and incident management including post incident reporting
• Problem troubleshooting, root cause analysis and driving both short and long-term solutions
SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES (e.g. shifts, travel overseas, hours)
Position requires shift work on a rotating schedule which includes early, late, weekend, and holiday coverage. Support coverage for this site will be from 7am to 8pm, 7 days a week.
EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor in Computer Science or Engineering
WORK EXPERIENCE/BACKGROUND
3 to 5 years experience in Unix/Linux administration 2 years experience in financial industry
TECHNICAL/BUSINESS SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE
• Knowledge of Unix (Solaris) and/or Linux (Red Hat & SLES) and other core system tools such as NIS, DNS and NFS. Required, 3 years.
• Knowledge of disk management tools such as Disk suite and Veritas Volume manager. Required, 3 years.
• Knowledge of clustering tools such as Veritas Cluster server. Required, 2 years.
• Knowledge of SAN technology and its impact on the server environment. Required, 2 years.
• Troubleshooting Skills. Required, 3 years.
• TCPIP. Required, 3 years.
• Shell Scripting. Required, 3 years.
• Distributed Systems Management. Required, 3+ years.
• Knowledge of both Unix (Solaris) and Linux (Red Hat & SLES) Optional, 2 years.
• Knowledge of system management tools such as Control-M and
• Netbackup. Optional, 2 years.
• Knowledge of EMC Powerpath software
• Performance analysis and tuning. Required, 2 years.
Posting Title: Informatica Admin and Support - User & Production Support 3
Undergraduate degree
(Computer Science preferred)
o Minimum of 8 years IT Experience
o Minimum 5 years of experience in infrastructure/client support of an Informatica environment
o Minimum of 5 years of experience with Informatica PowerCenter 6.x,7.x,8.x
o Minimum 3 year of experience with UNIX (Sun Solaris)
o Experience with RDBMS : Oracle, Sybase and MS-SQL Enterprise Server
• Install / Upgrade / Configure/Maintain PowerCenter 7.x/8.x instances on UNIX and Linux servers.
• Interact with UNIX and Database Administrators to create and maintain each PowerCenter instance.
• Configure Database and ODBC connectivity to various source/target databases.
• Install / Configure PowerConnect for JMS /Web Services and others as required
• Independently perform complex troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, solution development
• Manage and administer system performance including on-going optimization and tuning of Informatica environment
• Create and manage users, groups and folders. Ensure appropriate privileges are assigned to the different users.
• Interact with end users to resolve issues with Informatica PowerCenter.
• Install / Upgrade / Configure/Maintain PowerCenter 7.x/8.x instances on UNIX and Linux servers.
• Interact with UNIX and Database Administrators to create and maintain each PowerCenter instance.
• Configure Database and ODBC connectivity to various source/target databases.
• Install / Configure PowerConnect for JMS /Web Services and others as required
• Independently perform complex troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, solution development
• Manage and administer system performance including on-going optimization and tuning of Informatica environment
• Create and manage users, groups and folders. Ensure appropriate privileges are assigned to the different users.
• Interact with end users to resolve issues with Informatica PowerCenter
• Coordinate with Informatica support for patches and bug fixes.
• Performance tuning covering the areas of: session, source, target mappings
• Support installation and maintenance of the Metadata Reporter and PowerConnect
• Support installation and maintenance of new PowerCenter features
• Perform project code deployment between environments using the Automated SCM Deploy toolset.
• Help new Informatica projects get started.
• Willing to dedicate a portion of time with other Products and Technologies - all team members will be cross-trained to provide support capabilities for CS enterprise solutions for Business Objects and MetaMatrix (EII) offerings.
• Some shift work is required to support the global user base.
• Weekend cover, on a rotation basis, will also be required.
• Some shift work is required to support the global user base.
• Weekend cover, on a rotation basis, will also be required.
The DTACC Support team within PSG provides administration and application support services for strategic projects for Source Code Management Tool, Business Objects, UDS Metamatrix, Document Management, Informatica PowerCenter and other customer-facing DTACC products.
Posting Title: SCM Toolkit Administration and Support
This position is for a regional SCM Toolkit Administrator, who will have responsibilities in the following key areas:
Providing 2nd level application support for a global shared service based upon ClearCase and SubVersion. Support a customer base of 4,000 plus application developers across IB IT.
Infrastructure projects, such as upgrade, patches, server build-outs and hardware replacement.
Centrally administer ClearCase and SubVersion for the enterprise. Responsible for global solution.
Coordinate with regional administrators for Americas and APAC as well as regional administrators in business development groups.
Develop global standards for ClearCase and SubVersion usage.
Implement standards and working best practices.
Assist in infrastructure projects.
Assist development teams throughout CS to migrate source code into SubVersion from various version control products.
Liaise with Windows/UNIX infrastructure teams to resolve issues and coordinate projects.
Liaise with Rational TSAM to resolve any issues related to ClearCase product.
Work side by side with fellow ClearCase/SubVersion admins in Raleigh and globally.
Some shift work is required to support the global user base.
Weekend cover, on a rotation basis, will also be required.
Example:
• Undergraduate degree (Computer Science preferred)
• Minimum of 5 years IT Experience
• 2 years Client Support
• Minimum 3 years of experience in infrastructure/client support of a ClearCase environment
• MultiSite Administration (2 years)
• Experience with Polarion migration tools (desirable)
• Good problem solving skills
• Self-motivator
• Ability to work in fast paced and demanding environment
Posting Title:
Loans STORM Java Developer
Java J2EE 1.4 and above (5+ Years)
• Front end development using HTML, JavaScript
• Proficient with BEA Weblogic 9.2 and like containers.
• Web Services (SOAP, XML, WSDL)
• Database (5+ Years)
• Proficient with JDBC / JNDI
• Effective analysis of new and existing applications and platforms
• Efficient Coding (i.e. adhering to coding standards, procedures, techniques and performance tuning)
• Experience with rules engine such as DROOLS
Desired Skills
• C++ (3+ Years)
• C# (3+ Years)
• Multithreading / Distributed Processing
• Oracle 10G
• TIBCO EMS, IBM Websphere MQ Series, & JMS Enterprise Working Knowledge (Queue’s, Topics, Bridging, Multi-Region)
• Web Services (SOAP, XML, WSDL)
• Ant
• Spring
• Struts
• Hibernate
• Eclipse
• JUnit
• Subversion
• Knowledge of rules engines
• Knowledge of general fixed income
• Knowledge of commercial bank loans business a major plus
The Credit area is experiencing rapid growth with opportunities in the syndication, trading and risk management areas.
Posting Title:
Microsoft Developer Lead-Synergy
STAR IT is part of Fixed Income technology and supports the technology platform for the Credit Syndication, Trading and Leveraged Finance businesses. The opening is for a senior Microsoft developer to works closely with the Credit Trading front office to specify build/enhance systems to support the business.
o Contribute to implementing our technology strategy to build out a common, scalable technical infrastructure footprint adapting best practices to ensure robust software architecture is developed.
o Lead roadmap projects through the development and implementation phases of the product development life cycle.
o Collaborate in a positive and cohesive manner with Product Managers, Product Designers, and Project Managers to deliver quality, innovative and efficient technology solutions on schedule.
o Mentor less senior developers in architecture, standards, best practices and approaches within the technical infrastructure.
o Develop and support applications server side using NET Framework (C#, ADO.NET, XML, SOAP), COM and SQL/Sybase database.
o Build out and enhance front to back trading, risk and P&L systems
o Design of new software components and services.
o Write technical code documentation
o Maintenance of existing base of software, including the implementation of fixes and enhancements
o Second-line support existing applications (i.e. escalation from support to development team)
o Test Systems (e.g. unit, system, integration, stress, regression, migration)
o Working side-by-side with the business team to define and spec out application requirements
o Prepare technical code and support documentation for the delivered application components.
o Adhere to set coding standards, procedures and techniques.
o Work with other IT groups to configure, implement and support production.
o Involved in full software development lifecycle project (SDLC) activities
o Investigating and resolving defects
Work with other IT groups to manage production code releases and troubleshoot production issues
Please list any additional but critical elements of the role that are not listed above and that a candidate will need to complete on a regular basis.
o Strong Microsoft development skills (5+ Years)
o Front end development using HTML, JavaScript (5+ Years)
o Web Services (SOAP, XML, WSDL)
o Database (5+ Years)
o Strong Front end web development skills
o Effective analysis of new and existing applications and platforms
o Efficient Coding (i.e. adhering to coding standards, procedures, techniques and performance tuning)
o Excellent verbal and written communication skills in dealing within IT and with end users
o Strong understanding of database technologies (sp, triggers etc).
o Strong understanding of software engineering principles and methodologies
o Strong understanding of architecture, performance tuning and application resiliency
o Development Lead
o Be Involved in full development lifecycle development projects
• The Credit area is experiencing rapid growth with opportunities in the syndication, trading and risk management areas.
Posting Title: Microsoft Developer
IT is part of Fixed Income technology and supports the technology platform for the Credit Syndication, Trading and Leveraged Finance businesses. The opening is for a senior Microsoft developer to works closely with the Credit Trading front office to specify build/enhance systems to support the business.
• Develop and support applications server side using NET Framework (C#, ADO.NET, XML, SOAP), COM and SQL/Sybase database.
• Build out and enhance front to back trading, risk and P&L systems
• Design of new software components and services.
• Write technical code documentation
• Maintenance of existing base of software, including the implementation of fixes and
enhancements
• Second-line support existing applications (i.e. escalation from support to development team)
• Test Systems (e.g. unit, system, integration, stress, regression, migration)
• Working side-by-side with the business team to define and spec out application requirements
• Prepare technical code and support documentation for the delivered application components.
• Adhere to set coding standards, procedures and techniques.
• Work with other IT groups to configure, implement and support production.
• Involved in full software development lifecycle project (SDLC) activities
• Investigating and resolving defects
• Work with other IT groups to manage production code releases and troubleshoot production
issues
Please list any additional but critical elements of the role that are not listed above and that a candidate will need to complete on a regular basis.
• Strong Microsoft development skills (5+ Years)
• Front end development using HTML, JavaScript (5+ Years)
• Web Services (SOAP, XML, WSDL)
• Database (5+ Years)
• Strong Front end web development skills
• Effective analysis of new and existing applications and platforms
• Efficient Coding (i.e. adhering to coding standards, procedures, techniques and performance
tuning)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in dealing within IT and with end users
• Strong understanding of database technologies (sp, triggers etc).
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles and methodologies
• Strong understanding of architecture, performance tuning and application resiliency
• Team Player
• Be Involved in full development lifecycle development projects
The Credit area is experiencing rapid growth with opportunities in the syndication, trading and risk management areas.
Posting Title: Microsoft Developer
Focus for a candidate is more on the Microsoft platform knowledge base with a core knowledge of JAVA. (more of a coherent skill-set).
Global Loans IT is a diverse and dynamic group that supports all aspects of the Bank Loans businesses globally. The team consists of business analysts, software developers, QA specialists and LoanIQ system specialists. We support the firm's strategic lending platform, LoanIQ, along with several in-house developed proprietary applications, system-to-system interfaces and custom reporting that compliments and works in parallel with the LoanIQ system.
Our business users are involved in varied aspects of the Commercial Lending business, including Syndication, Agency Administration, Loan Servicing, Loan Trading and other related activities. They span across several business groups such as IBD (Corporate Banking), Fixed Income (Leverage Finance Par, Distressed & Proprietary Loan Trading; European CMBS; Life Insurance), Prime Services (Swaps on Loans), Operations, Financial Control, Product Control and Risk Management. The users are based in branches across 3 geographical regions: Americas (New York, Toronto), Europe (London, Paris, and Milan) and Asia Pac (Singapore, Melbourne, Sydney).
• Design of new software components and services.
• Write technical documentation.
• Maintenance of existing code base including the implementation of fixes and enhancements.
• Third line support of existing applications (i.e. escalation from support to development team) and test environments (e.g. unit, system, integration, stress, regression, migration).
• Working side-by-side with the business analyst team to define and spec out application requirements.
• Prepare technical code and support documentation for the delivered application components.
• Adhere to set of coding standards, procedures and techniques.
• Work with other IT groups to configure, implement and support production.
• Adhere to the full software development lifecycle project (SDLC) activities.
• Investigating and resolving defects.
• Work with other IT groups to manage production code releases and troubleshoot production issues.
Requirements and Experience
• 5+ years experience as a software developer building mission critical production applications.
• 3+ years developing products for Microsoft Windows and/or web-based applications.
• 3+ years experience developing software on the .NET platform.
• 3+ years experience developing C++ solutions on the Microsoft platform.
• 3+ years experience as a developer designing and building complex and scalable products.
• 3+ years experience with relational databases.
• 3+ years experience using Object Oriented Programming techniques and a formal software development lifecycle.
• 3+ years experience building applications as part of a team environment.
• Excellent overall communication skills.
Technology Requirements
• Proficient in Microsoft Development Framework and Technologies
• (italicized requirements are optional)
• .NET 2.0-3.5, C#, C++, Web Services, WCF, WPF, ASP.Net, ADO.Net. SQL, XML, HTML, JavaScript
• TIBCO Enterprise Message Service (EMS)
• Tooling: Visual Studio .NET 2008, Subversion, XML Spy
• Proficient in Database Management Systems
• UDB DB2 9.5 / Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (a plus) / Oracle 10g (a plus)
• Proficient in Relational Database Analysis, Design, and Performance Tuning
• Microsoft Certifications a plus
Desired Skills
• Knowledge of Syndicated Lending Business
• Knowledge of LoanIQ Data Model
• Knowledge of Financial Accounting
• Knowledge of Coherence
Education/Certification and Professional Qualifications
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
2. Informatica Developer
3. Production Support
4. Support role
5. UI/DB Developer
6. Environment Manager
7. 1016258-ROMA Developer
8. Unix System Admin
9. Microsoft Developer
10. Java Developer
11. Microsoft Developer
12. Sr. Microsoft Developer
13. SCM Administrator
14. User & Production Support 3
C#/GUI Developer
Responsibilities
We seek an individual with development experience to work with Electronic Trading on:
o Work with other members of the team and Business Analysts to develop and implement solutions
o Development of reporting solutions
o Identifying system improvements
Experience and skill sets that will be needed in this role are: 5+ years professional IT experience in GUI developing solutions using a development language C#, .Net and SQL
Qualifications:
Essential Skills
• Bachelor’s Degree
• Degree in Finance or Computer Science
• 5+ years professional IT experience as a Developer
• C# GUI experience and .Net
• Messaging system - E4JMS
• SQL (Sybase, Oracle or MS)
• Ability to deliver in functionally aligned organization with teams that are distributed geographically
• Ability to manage deliverables within time lines
• Ability to work on multiple tasks
Desired Skills
• Test Case Development
• Java or VC++
• Strong understanding of Fixed Income or Interest Rates Product business
• Understanding front to back Trading system
Informatica Developer
Posting Title: DTACC - Informatica Admin and Support - User & Production Support 3
Undergraduate degree
(Computer Science preferred)
• Minimum of 8 years IT Experience
• Minimum 5 years of experience in infrastructure/client support of an Informatica environment
• Minimum of 5 years of experience with Informatica PowerCenter 6.x,7.x,8.x
• Minimum 3 year of experience with UNIX (Sun Solaris)
• Experience with RDBMS : Oracle, Sybase and MS-SQL Enterprise Server
• Install / Upgrade / Configure/Maintain PowerCenter 7.x/8.x instances on UNIX and Linux servers.
• Interact with UNIX and Database Administrators to create and maintain each PowerCenter instance.
• Configure Database and ODBC connectivity to various source/target databases.
• Install / Configure PowerConnect for JMS /Web Services and others as required
• Independently perform complex troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, solution development
• Manage and administer system performance including on-going optimization and tuning of Informatica environment
• Create and manage users, groups and folders. Ensure appropriate privileges are assigned to the different users.
• Interact with end users to resolve issues with Informatica PowerCenter.
• Install / Upgrade / Configure/Maintain PowerCenter 7.x/8.x instances on UNIX and Linux servers.
• Interact with UNIX and Database Administrators to create and maintain each PowerCenter instance.
• Configure Database and ODBC connectivity to various source/target databases.
• Install / Configure PowerConnect for JMS /Web Services and others as required
• Independently perform complex troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, solution
• development
• Manage and administer system performance including on-going optimization and tuning of Informatica environment
• Create and manage users, groups and folders. Ensure appropriate privileges are assigned to the different users.
• Interact with end users to resolve issues with Informatica PowerCenter
• Coordinate with Informatica support for patches and bug fixes.
• Performance tuning covering the areas of: session, source, target mappings
• Support installation and maintenance of the Metadata Reporter and PowerConnect
• Support installation and maintenance of new PowerCenter features
• Perform project code deployment between environments using the Automated SCM Deploy toolset.
• Help new Informatica projects get started.
• Willing to dedicate a portion of time with other Products and Technologies - all team members will be cross-trained to provide support capabilities for CS enterprise solutions for Business Objects and MetaMatrix (EII) offerings.
• Some shift work is required to support the global user base.
• Weekend cover, on a rotation basis, will also be required.
• Some shift work is required to support the global user base.
• Weekend cover, on a rotation basis, will also be required.
• The DTACC Support team within PSG provides administration and application support services for strategic projects for Source Code Management Tool, Business Objects, UDS Metamatrix, Document Management, Informatica PowerCenter and other customer-facing DTACC products.
Production Support
Responsibilities:
• Support Rates IT applications from business perspective.
• Support of electronic and/or algorithmic trading systems
• Respond to all user issues/queries within published timeframes
• Provide first/second line application support including trouble shooting issues, leading technical investigations and supporting mission critical platforms in a demanding 24/7 environment
• Accurate incident logging and tracking adhering to published procedures
• Produce and maintain support knowledge base and documentation and contribute to the team’s increased ability to service the user base
• Formulate solutions to reduce issue impact on the business users
• Train colleagues in the ecommerce sphere of knowledge and experience
• Share new skills with colleagues
• Liaise with internal dev teams as well as vendors to accurately report on incidents requiring software changes
• Track dev changes, perform and document testing and manage signoff through to prod release adhering to all necessary compliance
Strong verbal and written communication skills. Must be able to communicate with traders/product control as well as other IT teams.
Knowledge of UNIX, SQL, Access & Excel, FIX protocol/ connectivity
Able to perform quickly and accurately in a high pressure and highly dynamic environment whilst adhering to guidelines
Candidate must have attention to detail and have the ability to work independently.
Suitable candidates will be results-oriented and goal-driven self-starters
Prior experience of supporting trading/risk management systems and electronic trading applications
Exposure to Microsoft Office suite of applications
Unix Solaris, Windows NT, Oracle/Sybase
Understanding of Electronic and/or algorithmic trading systems
Knowledge of FIX protocol
SQL – Ability to construct simple statements to create reports
Exposure to fixed income securities – bonds, and futures.
Ability to develop relationships with internal clients to understand and address their needs.
Ability to plan and organize the work so that it is efficient and effective and allows service to be delivered promptly and reliably.
Proactive. Ability to identify opportunities and develop new ideas that will lead to improvements. Ability to adapt/change behavior or plans to better achieve the target/objective.
Ability to analyze a complex problem and identify potential solutions by exploring and analyzing diverse alternatives, including, where applicable, risks and potential business impact. Ability to make the right decisions based on the necessary information and to take measures accordingly.
Has a clear appreciation of strengths and limitations. Seeks guidance and advice when appropriate to accomplish tasks and perform the role in an effective and efficient way.
Is attentive to controls and addresses risk. High level of attention to detail in every aspect of work.
Support role
Responsibilities:
• Support Rates IT applications from business perspective.
• Support of electronic and/or algorithmic trading systems
• Respond to all user issues/queries within published timeframes
• Provide first/second line application support including trouble shooting issues, leading technical investigations and supporting mission critical platforms in a demanding 24/7 environment
• Accurate incident logging and tracking adhering to published procedures
• Produce and maintain support knowledge base and documentation and contribute to the team’s increased ability to service the user base
• Formulate solutions to reduce issue impact on the business users
• Train colleagues in the ecommerce sphere of knowledge and experience
• Share new skills with colleagues
• Liaise with internal dev teams as well as vendors to accurately report on incidents requiring software changes
• Track dev changes, perform and document testing and manage signoff through to prod release adhering to all necessary compliance
Strong verbal and written communication skills. Must be able to communicate with traders/product control as well as other IT teams.
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• Knowledge of UNIX, SQL, Access & Excel, FIX protocol/ connectivity
Able to perform quickly and accurately in a high pressure and highly dynamic environment whilst adhering to guidelines
Candidate must have attention to detail and have the ability to work independently.
Suitable candidates will be results-oriented and goal-driven self-starters
Prior experience of supporting trading/risk management systems and electronic trading applications
Exposure to Microsoft Office suite of applications
Unix Solaris, Windows NT, Oracle/Sybase
Understanding of Electronic and/or algorithmic trading systems
Knowledge of FIX protocol
SQL – Ability to construct simple statements to create reports
Exposure to fixed income securities – bonds, and futures.
Ability to develop relationships with internal clients to understand and address their needs.
Ability to plan and organize the work so that it is efficient and effective and allows service to be delivered promptly and reliably.
• Proactive. Ability to identify opportunities and develop new ideas that will lead to improvements. Ability to adapt/change behavior or plans to better achieve the target/objective.
Ability to analyze a complex problem and identify potential solutions by exploring and analyzing diverse alternatives, including, where applicable, risks and potential business impact. Ability to make the right decisions based on the necessary information and to take measures accordingly.
Has a clear appreciation of strengths and limitations. Seeks guidance and advice when appropriate to accomplish tasks and perform the role in an effective and efficient way.
Is attentive to controls and addresses risk. High level of attention to detail in every aspect of work.
UI/DB Developer
Required Experience
• Senior web developer with 7+ years of total software development experience in the IT Industry
• 5+ years of working experience with .Net web based development
• 2+ years of working experience SOA and Web Services
• 4+ years of working experience with ASP/Javascript web applications
• 3+ years of working experience XML/XSLT
• 3+ years of working experience Sybase and SQL programming
• Experience with Windows COM+ services
• Experience in writing detailed technical design specifications
Desired Experience
• Experience with MIS reporting development using Crystal reports
• Design patterns
• IIS, Windows server, windows services
• Web application architecture
• Experience with UNIX environment and Perl script development
• Knowledge of the Investment Banking business
Required Technical / Business Knowledge
• ASP, Microsoft C#, .NET Framework, ASP.NET
• HTML/DHTML, AJAX, Javascript, XML/XSLT, XPATH
• Database development skill in Sybase or SQL server environment
• Web application architecture
• Multi-threading
• Object Oriented Design
Desired Technical / Business Knowledge
• Design pattern
• Microsoft Silverlight
• BO Crystal Report
• IIS, Windows server, window services
• Investment Banking Knowledge
• Perl & UNIX data feed development
Environment Manager
Job Duties
Maintain a thorough understanding of the knowledge required to provide effective technical application support (includes understanding of market feeds, reference data problems, batch processes, system interfaces, business rules, etc).
Create, own, and manage testing environments for Rates applications
Resolve testing support issues
Coordinate releases, disaster recovery, and checkouts for maintenance activities
Apply business and required technical skill sets to resolve issue promptly and accurately
Refresh an environment with a copy from production and have it ready for testing within one day
Create tools to manage environments
Develop subject matter expertise for select FX applications
Work with external groups and vendors to resolve environment-related testing issues
Performing technical support fixes – development, script writing
Investigating problems to find circumventions and root cause
Creating Known Error documents for problems
Assisting in managing the Production environment
Developing product and application knowledge
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
Two years experience of 2nd/3rd line application development support or infrastructure support
Advanced knowledge and experience with the UNIX toolkit and KSH, regular expression, and Sybase/T-SQL
Moderate knowledge of Windows, high availability computing, disaster recovery, and fail-over scenarios
Some support-driven/tactical development experience and willingness to work with compiled languages like Java, .NET, or C/C++ (e.g., testing applications, automation tools)
Some knowledge or an interest in foreign exchange, derivatives, or investment banking
Communicates actively and effectively
Assigns and assumes clear responsibility and accountability for results
Shows commitment to the success of each task and strives to successfully overcome setbacks
Responds to changing circumstances, displaying flexibility, and taking calculated risks
ROMA Developer
Responsibilities:
The candidate should have experience in installing, customizing, and deploying vendor applications. Structured development knowledge in either Java or C++ and the ability to work in a global team is essential in this role.
Implement changes to various data management processes in the Asset Control application
- Write test scripts in Perl for all development changes
- Integrate changed elements into a Subversion code repository for automated deployment
- Provide regular written status reports for progress tracking
- Write technical design documents describing planned changes prior to coding
- Perform estimations and provide input to project plans
Qualifications:
• B.S. degree in Computer Science or Information Systems
• Minimum 2 years working in a commercial environment with a structured development
methodology
• Experience with vendor application implementation and customization is required,
preferably with the Asset Control product
• Experience with Java (design, coding standards, performance tuning, and debugging)
• Experience with Perl (design, coding standards, performance tuning, and debugging)
• SQL skills (Oracle query design, stored procedure development) is desired
• Working knowledge of UNIX/Linux and UNIX scripting
• Good object oriented programming skills
• Experience with Subversion or other version control software is desirable but not required
• Investment banking or market data (terms & conditions data from Bloomberg, Reuters, and
others) development experience is desirable but not required
• Good communication skills
• Multi-regional team skills (this hire must be able to actively participate in a global team)
• Organized and delivery focused
Unix System Admin
JOB SPECIFICATION: Unix System Administrator
DIVISIONAL OVERVIEW
The IT Technology Infrastructure Services (TIS) is responsible for managing Technology Infrastructure, including network, data centers, servers, storage, mainframe and desktops.
DEPARTMENTAL OVERVIEW
The Americas RDO department is responsible for infrastructure deployment and operations across all CS offices in North, Central and South Americas. The Raleigh Level 1 support team is responsible for supporting the day to day operations of Server, Web and Database technology infrastructure across Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific as a Global Service.
MAIN DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ROLE
The Unix/Linux administrator is responsible for front-line support and maintenance of the Unix and Linux systems globally. This role is accountable for the troubleshooting and resolution of all Unix and Linux support issues/requests. The primary focus of this role is incident and problem management.
Responsibilities Include:
• Production support and maintenance of all Unix and Linux servers globally
• Provide immediate response to all known alerts to the Unix and Linux environment
• Appropriate escalations to regional support teams
• User account administration and access control management
• Provide day to day frontline technical and developer support for critical business and trading systems
• Provide diagnostic support and act as interface to vendors for all failing components within the system
• Involvement with escalations and incident management including post incident reporting
• Problem troubleshooting, root cause analysis and driving both short and long-term solutions
SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES (e.g. shifts, travel overseas, hours)
Position requires shift work on a rotating schedule which includes early, late, weekend, and holiday coverage. Support coverage for this site will be from 7am to 8pm, 7 days a week.
EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor in Computer Science or Engineering
WORK EXPERIENCE/BACKGROUND
3 to 5 years experience in Unix/Linux administration 2 years experience in financial industry
TECHNICAL/BUSINESS SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE
• Knowledge of Unix (Solaris) and/or Linux (Red Hat & SLES) and other core system tools such as NIS, DNS and NFS. Required, 3 years.
• Knowledge of disk management tools such as Disk suite and Veritas Volume manager. Required, 3 years.
• Knowledge of clustering tools such as Veritas Cluster server. Required, 2 years.
• Knowledge of SAN technology and its impact on the server environment. Required, 2 years.
• Troubleshooting Skills. Required, 3 years.
• TCPIP. Required, 3 years.
• Shell Scripting. Required, 3 years.
• Distributed Systems Management. Required, 3+ years.
• Knowledge of both Unix (Solaris) and Linux (Red Hat & SLES) Optional, 2 years.
• Knowledge of system management tools such as Control-M and
• Netbackup. Optional, 2 years.
• Knowledge of EMC Powerpath software
• Performance analysis and tuning. Required, 2 years.
Posting Title: Informatica Admin and Support - User & Production Support 3
Undergraduate degree
(Computer Science preferred)
o Minimum of 8 years IT Experience
o Minimum 5 years of experience in infrastructure/client support of an Informatica environment
o Minimum of 5 years of experience with Informatica PowerCenter 6.x,7.x,8.x
o Minimum 3 year of experience with UNIX (Sun Solaris)
o Experience with RDBMS : Oracle, Sybase and MS-SQL Enterprise Server
• Install / Upgrade / Configure/Maintain PowerCenter 7.x/8.x instances on UNIX and Linux servers.
• Interact with UNIX and Database Administrators to create and maintain each PowerCenter instance.
• Configure Database and ODBC connectivity to various source/target databases.
• Install / Configure PowerConnect for JMS /Web Services and others as required
• Independently perform complex troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, solution development
• Manage and administer system performance including on-going optimization and tuning of Informatica environment
• Create and manage users, groups and folders. Ensure appropriate privileges are assigned to the different users.
• Interact with end users to resolve issues with Informatica PowerCenter.
• Install / Upgrade / Configure/Maintain PowerCenter 7.x/8.x instances on UNIX and Linux servers.
• Interact with UNIX and Database Administrators to create and maintain each PowerCenter instance.
• Configure Database and ODBC connectivity to various source/target databases.
• Install / Configure PowerConnect for JMS /Web Services and others as required
• Independently perform complex troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, solution development
• Manage and administer system performance including on-going optimization and tuning of Informatica environment
• Create and manage users, groups and folders. Ensure appropriate privileges are assigned to the different users.
• Interact with end users to resolve issues with Informatica PowerCenter
• Coordinate with Informatica support for patches and bug fixes.
• Performance tuning covering the areas of: session, source, target mappings
• Support installation and maintenance of the Metadata Reporter and PowerConnect
• Support installation and maintenance of new PowerCenter features
• Perform project code deployment between environments using the Automated SCM Deploy toolset.
• Help new Informatica projects get started.
• Willing to dedicate a portion of time with other Products and Technologies - all team members will be cross-trained to provide support capabilities for CS enterprise solutions for Business Objects and MetaMatrix (EII) offerings.
• Some shift work is required to support the global user base.
• Weekend cover, on a rotation basis, will also be required.
• Some shift work is required to support the global user base.
• Weekend cover, on a rotation basis, will also be required.
The DTACC Support team within PSG provides administration and application support services for strategic projects for Source Code Management Tool, Business Objects, UDS Metamatrix, Document Management, Informatica PowerCenter and other customer-facing DTACC products.
Posting Title: SCM Toolkit Administration and Support
This position is for a regional SCM Toolkit Administrator, who will have responsibilities in the following key areas:
Providing 2nd level application support for a global shared service based upon ClearCase and SubVersion. Support a customer base of 4,000 plus application developers across IB IT.
Infrastructure projects, such as upgrade, patches, server build-outs and hardware replacement.
Centrally administer ClearCase and SubVersion for the enterprise. Responsible for global solution.
Coordinate with regional administrators for Americas and APAC as well as regional administrators in business development groups.
Develop global standards for ClearCase and SubVersion usage.
Implement standards and working best practices.
Assist in infrastructure projects.
Assist development teams throughout CS to migrate source code into SubVersion from various version control products.
Liaise with Windows/UNIX infrastructure teams to resolve issues and coordinate projects.
Liaise with Rational TSAM to resolve any issues related to ClearCase product.
Work side by side with fellow ClearCase/SubVersion admins in Raleigh and globally.
Some shift work is required to support the global user base.
Weekend cover, on a rotation basis, will also be required.
Example:
• Undergraduate degree (Computer Science preferred)
• Minimum of 5 years IT Experience
• 2 years Client Support
• Minimum 3 years of experience in infrastructure/client support of a ClearCase environment
• MultiSite Administration (2 years)
• Experience with Polarion migration tools (desirable)
• Good problem solving skills
• Self-motivator
• Ability to work in fast paced and demanding environment
Posting Title:
Loans STORM Java Developer
Java J2EE 1.4 and above (5+ Years)
• Front end development using HTML, JavaScript
• Proficient with BEA Weblogic 9.2 and like containers.
• Web Services (SOAP, XML, WSDL)
• Database (5+ Years)
• Proficient with JDBC / JNDI
• Effective analysis of new and existing applications and platforms
• Efficient Coding (i.e. adhering to coding standards, procedures, techniques and performance tuning)
• Experience with rules engine such as DROOLS
Desired Skills
• C++ (3+ Years)
• C# (3+ Years)
• Multithreading / Distributed Processing
• Oracle 10G
• TIBCO EMS, IBM Websphere MQ Series, & JMS Enterprise Working Knowledge (Queue’s, Topics, Bridging, Multi-Region)
• Web Services (SOAP, XML, WSDL)
• Ant
• Spring
• Struts
• Hibernate
• Eclipse
• JUnit
• Subversion
• Knowledge of rules engines
• Knowledge of general fixed income
• Knowledge of commercial bank loans business a major plus
The Credit area is experiencing rapid growth with opportunities in the syndication, trading and risk management areas.
Posting Title:
Microsoft Developer Lead-Synergy
STAR IT is part of Fixed Income technology and supports the technology platform for the Credit Syndication, Trading and Leveraged Finance businesses. The opening is for a senior Microsoft developer to works closely with the Credit Trading front office to specify build/enhance systems to support the business.
o Contribute to implementing our technology strategy to build out a common, scalable technical infrastructure footprint adapting best practices to ensure robust software architecture is developed.
o Lead roadmap projects through the development and implementation phases of the product development life cycle.
o Collaborate in a positive and cohesive manner with Product Managers, Product Designers, and Project Managers to deliver quality, innovative and efficient technology solutions on schedule.
o Mentor less senior developers in architecture, standards, best practices and approaches within the technical infrastructure.
o Develop and support applications server side using NET Framework (C#, ADO.NET, XML, SOAP), COM and SQL/Sybase database.
o Build out and enhance front to back trading, risk and P&L systems
o Design of new software components and services.
o Write technical code documentation
o Maintenance of existing base of software, including the implementation of fixes and enhancements
o Second-line support existing applications (i.e. escalation from support to development team)
o Test Systems (e.g. unit, system, integration, stress, regression, migration)
o Working side-by-side with the business team to define and spec out application requirements
o Prepare technical code and support documentation for the delivered application components.
o Adhere to set coding standards, procedures and techniques.
o Work with other IT groups to configure, implement and support production.
o Involved in full software development lifecycle project (SDLC) activities
o Investigating and resolving defects
Work with other IT groups to manage production code releases and troubleshoot production issues
Please list any additional but critical elements of the role that are not listed above and that a candidate will need to complete on a regular basis.
o Strong Microsoft development skills (5+ Years)
o Front end development using HTML, JavaScript (5+ Years)
o Web Services (SOAP, XML, WSDL)
o Database (5+ Years)
o Strong Front end web development skills
o Effective analysis of new and existing applications and platforms
o Efficient Coding (i.e. adhering to coding standards, procedures, techniques and performance tuning)
o Excellent verbal and written communication skills in dealing within IT and with end users
o Strong understanding of database technologies (sp, triggers etc).
o Strong understanding of software engineering principles and methodologies
o Strong understanding of architecture, performance tuning and application resiliency
o Development Lead
o Be Involved in full development lifecycle development projects
• The Credit area is experiencing rapid growth with opportunities in the syndication, trading and risk management areas.
Posting Title: Microsoft Developer
IT is part of Fixed Income technology and supports the technology platform for the Credit Syndication, Trading and Leveraged Finance businesses. The opening is for a senior Microsoft developer to works closely with the Credit Trading front office to specify build/enhance systems to support the business.
• Develop and support applications server side using NET Framework (C#, ADO.NET, XML, SOAP), COM and SQL/Sybase database.
• Build out and enhance front to back trading, risk and P&L systems
• Design of new software components and services.
• Write technical code documentation
• Maintenance of existing base of software, including the implementation of fixes and
enhancements
• Second-line support existing applications (i.e. escalation from support to development team)
• Test Systems (e.g. unit, system, integration, stress, regression, migration)
• Working side-by-side with the business team to define and spec out application requirements
• Prepare technical code and support documentation for the delivered application components.
• Adhere to set coding standards, procedures and techniques.
• Work with other IT groups to configure, implement and support production.
• Involved in full software development lifecycle project (SDLC) activities
• Investigating and resolving defects
• Work with other IT groups to manage production code releases and troubleshoot production
issues
Please list any additional but critical elements of the role that are not listed above and that a candidate will need to complete on a regular basis.
• Strong Microsoft development skills (5+ Years)
• Front end development using HTML, JavaScript (5+ Years)
• Web Services (SOAP, XML, WSDL)
• Database (5+ Years)
• Strong Front end web development skills
• Effective analysis of new and existing applications and platforms
• Efficient Coding (i.e. adhering to coding standards, procedures, techniques and performance
tuning)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in dealing within IT and with end users
• Strong understanding of database technologies (sp, triggers etc).
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles and methodologies
• Strong understanding of architecture, performance tuning and application resiliency
• Team Player
• Be Involved in full development lifecycle development projects
The Credit area is experiencing rapid growth with opportunities in the syndication, trading and risk management areas.
Posting Title: Microsoft Developer
Focus for a candidate is more on the Microsoft platform knowledge base with a core knowledge of JAVA. (more of a coherent skill-set).
Global Loans IT is a diverse and dynamic group that supports all aspects of the Bank Loans businesses globally. The team consists of business analysts, software developers, QA specialists and LoanIQ system specialists. We support the firm's strategic lending platform, LoanIQ, along with several in-house developed proprietary applications, system-to-system interfaces and custom reporting that compliments and works in parallel with the LoanIQ system.
Our business users are involved in varied aspects of the Commercial Lending business, including Syndication, Agency Administration, Loan Servicing, Loan Trading and other related activities. They span across several business groups such as IBD (Corporate Banking), Fixed Income (Leverage Finance Par, Distressed & Proprietary Loan Trading; European CMBS; Life Insurance), Prime Services (Swaps on Loans), Operations, Financial Control, Product Control and Risk Management. The users are based in branches across 3 geographical regions: Americas (New York, Toronto), Europe (London, Paris, and Milan) and Asia Pac (Singapore, Melbourne, Sydney).
• Design of new software components and services.
• Write technical documentation.
• Maintenance of existing code base including the implementation of fixes and enhancements.
• Third line support of existing applications (i.e. escalation from support to development team) and test environments (e.g. unit, system, integration, stress, regression, migration).
• Working side-by-side with the business analyst team to define and spec out application requirements.
• Prepare technical code and support documentation for the delivered application components.
• Adhere to set of coding standards, procedures and techniques.
• Work with other IT groups to configure, implement and support production.
• Adhere to the full software development lifecycle project (SDLC) activities.
• Investigating and resolving defects.
• Work with other IT groups to manage production code releases and troubleshoot production issues.
Requirements and Experience
• 5+ years experience as a software developer building mission critical production applications.
• 3+ years developing products for Microsoft Windows and/or web-based applications.
• 3+ years experience developing software on the .NET platform.
• 3+ years experience developing C++ solutions on the Microsoft platform.
• 3+ years experience as a developer designing and building complex and scalable products.
• 3+ years experience with relational databases.
• 3+ years experience using Object Oriented Programming techniques and a formal software development lifecycle.
• 3+ years experience building applications as part of a team environment.
• Excellent overall communication skills.
Technology Requirements
• Proficient in Microsoft Development Framework and Technologies
• (italicized requirements are optional)
• .NET 2.0-3.5, C#, C++, Web Services, WCF, WPF, ASP.Net, ADO.Net. SQL, XML, HTML, JavaScript
• TIBCO Enterprise Message Service (EMS)
• Tooling: Visual Studio .NET 2008, Subversion, XML Spy
• Proficient in Database Management Systems
• UDB DB2 9.5 / Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (a plus) / Oracle 10g (a plus)
• Proficient in Relational Database Analysis, Design, and Performance Tuning
• Microsoft Certifications a plus
Desired Skills
• Knowledge of Syndicated Lending Business
• Knowledge of LoanIQ Data Model
• Knowledge of Financial Accounting
• Knowledge of Coherence
Education/Certification and Professional Qualifications
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
14 NEW POSITIONS IN RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
1. C#/GUI Developer
2. Informatica Developer
3. Production Support
4. Support role
5. UI/DB Developer
6. Environment Manager
7. 1016258-ROMA Developer
8. Unix System Admin
9. Microsoft Developer
10. Java Developer
11. Microsoft Developer
12. Sr. Microsoft Developer
13. SCM Administrator
14. User & Production Support 3
C#/GUI Developer
Responsibilities
We seek an individual with development experience to work with Electronic Trading on:
o Work with other members of the team and Business Analysts to develop and implement solutions
o Development of reporting solutions
o Identifying system improvements
Experience and skill sets that will be needed in this role are: 5+ years professional IT experience in GUI developing solutions using a development language C#, .Net and SQL
Qualifications:
Essential Skills
• Bachelor’s Degree
• Degree in Finance or Computer Science
• 5+ years professional IT experience as a Developer
• C# GUI experience and .Net
• Messaging system - E4JMS
• SQL (Sybase, Oracle or MS)
• Ability to deliver in functionally aligned organization with teams that are distributed geographically
• Ability to manage deliverables within time lines
• Ability to work on multiple tasks
Desired Skills
• Test Case Development
• Java or VC++
• Strong understanding of Fixed Income or Interest Rates Product business
• Understanding front to back Trading system
• $600/day
Informatica Developer
Posting Title: DTACC - Informatica Admin and Support - User & Production Support 3
Undergraduate degree
(Computer Science preferred)
• Minimum of 8 years IT Experience
• Minimum 5 years of experience in infrastructure/client support of an Informatica environment
• Minimum of 5 years of experience with Informatica PowerCenter 6.x,7.x,8.x
• Minimum 3 year of experience with UNIX (Sun Solaris)
• Experience with RDBMS : Oracle, Sybase and MS-SQL Enterprise Server
• Install / Upgrade / Configure/Maintain PowerCenter 7.x/8.x instances on UNIX and Linux servers.
• Interact with UNIX and Database Administrators to create and maintain each PowerCenter instance.
• Configure Database and ODBC connectivity to various source/target databases.
• Install / Configure PowerConnect for JMS /Web Services and others as required
• Independently perform complex troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, solution development
• Manage and administer system performance including on-going optimization and tuning of Informatica environment
• Create and manage users, groups and folders. Ensure appropriate privileges are assigned to the different users.
• Interact with end users to resolve issues with Informatica PowerCenter.
• Install / Upgrade / Configure/Maintain PowerCenter 7.x/8.x instances on UNIX and Linux servers.
• Interact with UNIX and Database Administrators to create and maintain each PowerCenter instance.
• Configure Database and ODBC connectivity to various source/target databases.
• Install / Configure PowerConnect for JMS /Web Services and others as required
• Independently perform complex troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, solution
• development
• Manage and administer system performance including on-going optimization and tuning of Informatica environment
• Create and manage users, groups and folders. Ensure appropriate privileges are assigned to the different users.
• Interact with end users to resolve issues with Informatica PowerCenter
• Coordinate with Informatica support for patches and bug fixes.
• Performance tuning covering the areas of: session, source, target mappings
• Support installation and maintenance of the Metadata Reporter and PowerConnect
• Support installation and maintenance of new PowerCenter features
• Perform project code deployment between environments using the Automated SCM Deploy toolset.
• Help new Informatica projects get started.
• Willing to dedicate a portion of time with other Products and Technologies - all team members will be cross-trained to provide support capabilities for CS enterprise solutions for Business Objects and MetaMatrix (EII) offerings.
• Some shift work is required to support the global user base.
• Weekend cover, on a rotation basis, will also be required.
• Some shift work is required to support the global user base.
• Weekend cover, on a rotation basis, will also be required.
• The DTACC Support team within PSG provides administration and application support services for strategic projects for Source Code Management Tool, Business Objects, UDS Metamatrix, Document Management, Informatica PowerCenter and other customer-facing DTACC products.
Production Support
Responsibilities:
• Support Rates IT applications from business perspective.
• Support of electronic and/or algorithmic trading systems
• Respond to all user issues/queries within published timeframes
• Provide first/second line application support including trouble shooting issues, leading technical investigations and supporting mission critical platforms in a demanding 24/7 environment
• Accurate incident logging and tracking adhering to published procedures
• Produce and maintain support knowledge base and documentation and contribute to the team’s increased ability to service the user base
• Formulate solutions to reduce issue impact on the business users
• Train colleagues in the ecommerce sphere of knowledge and experience
• Share new skills with colleagues
• Liaise with internal dev teams as well as vendors to accurately report on incidents requiring software changes
• Track dev changes, perform and document testing and manage signoff through to prod release adhering to all necessary compliance
Strong verbal and written communication skills. Must be able to communicate with traders/product control as well as other IT teams.
Knowledge of UNIX, SQL, Access & Excel, FIX protocol/ connectivity
Able to perform quickly and accurately in a high pressure and highly dynamic environment whilst adhering to guidelines
Candidate must have attention to detail and have the ability to work independently.
Suitable candidates will be results-oriented and goal-driven self-starters
Prior experience of supporting trading/risk management systems and electronic trading applications
Exposure to Microsoft Office suite of applications
Unix Solaris, Windows NT, Oracle/Sybase
Understanding of Electronic and/or algorithmic trading systems
Knowledge of FIX protocol
SQL – Ability to construct simple statements to create reports
Exposure to fixed income securities – bonds, and futures.
Ability to develop relationships with internal clients to understand and address their needs.
Ability to plan and organize the work so that it is efficient and effective and allows service to be delivered promptly and reliably.
Proactive. Ability to identify opportunities and develop new ideas that will lead to improvements. Ability to adapt/change behavior or plans to better achieve the target/objective.
Ability to analyze a complex problem and identify potential solutions by exploring and analyzing diverse alternatives, including, where applicable, risks and potential business impact. Ability to make the right decisions based on the necessary information and to take measures accordingly.
Has a clear appreciation of strengths and limitations. Seeks guidance and advice when appropriate to accomplish tasks and perform the role in an effective and efficient way.
Is attentive to controls and addresses risk. High level of attention to detail in every aspect of work.
Support role
Responsibilities:
• Support Rates IT applications from business perspective.
• Support of electronic and/or algorithmic trading systems
• Respond to all user issues/queries within published timeframes
• Provide first/second line application support including trouble shooting issues, leading technical investigations and supporting mission critical platforms in a demanding 24/7 environment
• Accurate incident logging and tracking adhering to published procedures
• Produce and maintain support knowledge base and documentation and contribute to the team’s increased ability to service the user base
• Formulate solutions to reduce issue impact on the business users
• Train colleagues in the ecommerce sphere of knowledge and experience
• Share new skills with colleagues
• Liaise with internal dev teams as well as vendors to accurately report on incidents requiring software changes
• Track dev changes, perform and document testing and manage signoff through to prod release adhering to all necessary compliance
Strong verbal and written communication skills. Must be able to communicate with traders/product control as well as other IT teams.
•
• Knowledge of UNIX, SQL, Access & Excel, FIX protocol/ connectivity
Able to perform quickly and accurately in a high pressure and highly dynamic environment whilst adhering to guidelines
Candidate must have attention to detail and have the ability to work independently.
Suitable candidates will be results-oriented and goal-driven self-starters
Prior experience of supporting trading/risk management systems and electronic trading applications
Exposure to Microsoft Office suite of applications
Unix Solaris, Windows NT, Oracle/Sybase
Understanding of Electronic and/or algorithmic trading systems
Knowledge of FIX protocol
SQL – Ability to construct simple statements to create reports
Exposure to fixed income securities – bonds, and futures.
Ability to develop relationships with internal clients to understand and address their needs.
Ability to plan and organize the work so that it is efficient and effective and allows service to be delivered promptly and reliably.
• Proactive. Ability to identify opportunities and develop new ideas that will lead to improvements. Ability to adapt/change behavior or plans to better achieve the target/objective.
Ability to analyze a complex problem and identify potential solutions by exploring and analyzing diverse alternatives, including, where applicable, risks and potential business impact. Ability to make the right decisions based on the necessary information and to take measures accordingly.
Has a clear appreciation of strengths and limitations. Seeks guidance and advice when appropriate to accomplish tasks and perform the role in an effective and efficient way.
Is attentive to controls and addresses risk. High level of attention to detail in every aspect of work.
UI/DB Developer
Rate: $600-700
Required Experience
• Senior web developer with 7+ years of total software development experience in the IT Industry
• 5+ years of working experience with .Net web based development
• 2+ years of working experience SOA and Web Services
• 4+ years of working experience with ASP/Javascript web applications
• 3+ years of working experience XML/XSLT
• 3+ years of working experience Sybase and SQL programming
• Experience with Windows COM+ services
• Experience in writing detailed technical design specifications
Desired Experience
• Experience with MIS reporting development using Crystal reports
• Design patterns
• IIS, Windows server, windows services
• Web application architecture
• Experience with UNIX environment and Perl script development
• Knowledge of the Investment Banking business
Required Technical / Business Knowledge
• ASP, Microsoft C#, .NET Framework, ASP.NET
• HTML/DHTML, AJAX, Javascript, XML/XSLT, XPATH
• Database development skill in Sybase or SQL server environment
• Web application architecture
• Multi-threading
• Object Oriented Design
Desired Technical / Business Knowledge
• Design pattern
• Microsoft Silverlight
• BO Crystal Report
• IIS, Windows server, window services
• Investment Banking Knowledge
• Perl & UNIX data feed development
Environment Manager
Job Duties
Maintain a thorough understanding of the knowledge required to provide effective technical application support (includes understanding of market feeds, reference data problems, batch processes, system interfaces, business rules, etc).
Create, own, and manage testing environments for Rates applications
Resolve testing support issues
Coordinate releases, disaster recovery, and checkouts for maintenance activities
Apply business and required technical skill sets to resolve issue promptly and accurately
Refresh an environment with a copy from production and have it ready for testing within one day
Create tools to manage environments
Develop subject matter expertise for select FX applications
Work with external groups and vendors to resolve environment-related testing issues
Performing technical support fixes – development, script writing
Investigating problems to find circumventions and root cause
Creating Known Error documents for problems
Assisting in managing the Production environment
Developing product and application knowledge
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
Two years experience of 2nd/3rd line application development support or infrastructure support
Advanced knowledge and experience with the UNIX toolkit and KSH, regular expression, and Sybase/T-SQL
Moderate knowledge of Windows, high availability computing, disaster recovery, and fail-over scenarios
Some support-driven/tactical development experience and willingness to work with compiled languages like Java, .NET, or C/C++ (e.g., testing applications, automation tools)
Some knowledge or an interest in foreign exchange, derivatives, or investment banking
Communicates actively and effectively
Assigns and assumes clear responsibility and accountability for results
Shows commitment to the success of each task and strives to successfully overcome setbacks
Responds to changing circumstances, displaying flexibility, and taking calculated risks
Bill Rate cap of $650.00/day
ROMA Developer
Responsibilities:
The candidate should have experience in installing, customizing, and deploying vendor applications. Structured development knowledge in either Java or C++ and the ability to work in a global team is essential in this role.
Implement changes to various data management processes in the Asset Control application
- Write test scripts in Perl for all development changes
- Integrate changed elements into a Subversion code repository for automated deployment
- Provide regular written status reports for progress tracking
- Write technical design documents describing planned changes prior to coding
- Perform estimations and provide input to project plans
Qualifications:
• B.S. degree in Computer Science or Information Systems
• Minimum 2 years working in a commercial environment with a structured development
methodology
• Experience with vendor application implementation and customization is required,
preferably with the Asset Control product
• Experience with Java (design, coding standards, performance tuning, and debugging)
• Experience with Perl (design, coding standards, performance tuning, and debugging)
• SQL skills (Oracle query design, stored procedure development) is desired
• Working knowledge of UNIX/Linux and UNIX scripting
• Good object oriented programming skills
• Experience with Subversion or other version control software is desirable but not required
• Investment banking or market data (terms & conditions data from Bloomberg, Reuters, and
others) development experience is desirable but not required
• Good communication skills
• Multi-regional team skills (this hire must be able to actively participate in a global team)
• Organized and delivery focused
Bill Rate cap of $600.00/day
Unix System Admin
JOB SPECIFICATION: Unix System Administrator
Posting Title: IT Operations 3
Rate: $650.00 -700.00
DIVISIONAL OVERVIEW
The IT Technology Infrastructure Services (TIS) is responsible for managing Technology Infrastructure, including network, data centers, servers, storage, mainframe and desktops.
DEPARTMENTAL OVERVIEW
The Americas RDO department is responsible for infrastructure deployment and operations across all CS offices in North, Central and South Americas. The Raleigh Level 1 support team is responsible for supporting the day to day operations of Server, Web and Database technology infrastructure across Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific as a Global Service.
MAIN DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ROLE
The Unix/Linux administrator is responsible for front-line support and maintenance of the Unix and Linux systems globally. This role is accountable for the troubleshooting and resolution of all Unix and Linux support issues/requests. The primary focus of this role is incident and problem management.
Responsibilities Include:
• Production support and maintenance of all Unix and Linux servers globally
• Provide immediate response to all known alerts to the Unix and Linux environment
• Appropriate escalations to regional support teams
• User account administration and access control management
• Provide day to day frontline technical and developer support for critical business and trading systems
• Provide diagnostic support and act as interface to vendors for all failing components within the system
• Involvement with escalations and incident management including post incident reporting
• Problem troubleshooting, root cause analysis and driving both short and long-term solutions
SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES (e.g. shifts, travel overseas, hours)
Position requires shift work on a rotating schedule which includes early, late, weekend, and holiday coverage. Support coverage for this site will be from 7am to 8pm, 7 days a week.
EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor in Computer Science or Engineering
WORK EXPERIENCE/BACKGROUND
3 to 5 years experience in Unix/Linux administration 2 years experience in financial industry
TECHNICAL/BUSINESS SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE
• Knowledge of Unix (Solaris) and/or Linux (Red Hat & SLES) and other core system tools such as NIS, DNS and NFS. Required, 3 years.
• Knowledge of disk management tools such as Disk suite and Veritas Volume manager. Required, 3 years.
• Knowledge of clustering tools such as Veritas Cluster server. Required, 2 years.
• Knowledge of SAN technology and its impact on the server environment. Required, 2 years.
• Troubleshooting Skills. Required, 3 years.
• TCPIP. Required, 3 years.
• Shell Scripting. Required, 3 years.
• Distributed Systems Management. Required, 3+ years.
• Knowledge of both Unix (Solaris) and Linux (Red Hat & SLES) Optional, 2 years.
• Knowledge of system management tools such as Control-M and
• Netbackup. Optional, 2 years.
• Knowledge of EMC Powerpath software
• Performance analysis and tuning. Required, 2 years.
Posting Title: Informatica Admin and Support - User & Production Support 3
Undergraduate degree
(Computer Science preferred)
o Minimum of 8 years IT Experience
o Minimum 5 years of experience in infrastructure/client support of an Informatica environment
o Minimum of 5 years of experience with Informatica PowerCenter 6.x,7.x,8.x
o Minimum 3 year of experience with UNIX (Sun Solaris)
o Experience with RDBMS : Oracle, Sybase and MS-SQL Enterprise Server
• Install / Upgrade / Configure/Maintain PowerCenter 7.x/8.x instances on UNIX and Linux servers.
• Interact with UNIX and Database Administrators to create and maintain each PowerCenter instance.
• Configure Database and ODBC connectivity to various source/target databases.
• Install / Configure PowerConnect for JMS /Web Services and others as required
• Independently perform complex troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, solution development
• Manage and administer system performance including on-going optimization and tuning of Informatica environment
• Create and manage users, groups and folders. Ensure appropriate privileges are assigned to the different users.
• Interact with end users to resolve issues with Informatica PowerCenter.
• Install / Upgrade / Configure/Maintain PowerCenter 7.x/8.x instances on UNIX and Linux servers.
• Interact with UNIX and Database Administrators to create and maintain each PowerCenter instance.
• Configure Database and ODBC connectivity to various source/target databases.
• Install / Configure PowerConnect for JMS /Web Services and others as required
• Independently perform complex troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, solution development
• Manage and administer system performance including on-going optimization and tuning of Informatica environment
• Create and manage users, groups and folders. Ensure appropriate privileges are assigned to the different users.
• Interact with end users to resolve issues with Informatica PowerCenter
• Coordinate with Informatica support for patches and bug fixes.
• Performance tuning covering the areas of: session, source, target mappings
• Support installation and maintenance of the Metadata Reporter and PowerConnect
• Support installation and maintenance of new PowerCenter features
• Perform project code deployment between environments using the Automated SCM Deploy toolset.
• Help new Informatica projects get started.
• Willing to dedicate a portion of time with other Products and Technologies - all team members will be cross-trained to provide support capabilities for CS enterprise solutions for Business Objects and MetaMatrix (EII) offerings.
• Some shift work is required to support the global user base.
• Weekend cover, on a rotation basis, will also be required.
• Some shift work is required to support the global user base.
• Weekend cover, on a rotation basis, will also be required.
The DTACC Support team within PSG provides administration and application support services for strategic projects for Source Code Management Tool, Business Objects, UDS Metamatrix, Document Management, Informatica PowerCenter and other customer-facing DTACC products.
Posting Title: SCM Toolkit Administration and Support
This position is for a regional SCM Toolkit Administrator, who will have responsibilities in the following key areas:
Providing 2nd level application support for a global shared service based upon ClearCase and SubVersion. Support a customer base of 4,000 plus application developers across IB IT.
Infrastructure projects, such as upgrade, patches, server build-outs and hardware replacement.
Centrally administer ClearCase and SubVersion for the enterprise. Responsible for global solution.
Coordinate with regional administrators for Americas and APAC as well as regional administrators in business development groups.
Develop global standards for ClearCase and SubVersion usage.
Implement standards and working best practices.
Assist in infrastructure projects.
Assist development teams throughout CS to migrate source code into SubVersion from various version control products.
Liaise with Windows/UNIX infrastructure teams to resolve issues and coordinate projects.
Liaise with Rational TSAM to resolve any issues related to ClearCase product.
Work side by side with fellow ClearCase/SubVersion admins in Raleigh and globally.
Some shift work is required to support the global user base.
Weekend cover, on a rotation basis, will also be required.
Example:
• Undergraduate degree (Computer Science preferred)
• Minimum of 5 years IT Experience
• 2 years Client Support
• Minimum 3 years of experience in infrastructure/client support of a ClearCase environment
• MultiSite Administration (2 years)
• Experience with Polarion migration tools (desirable)
• Good problem solving skills
• Self-motivator
• Ability to work in fast paced and demanding environment
Posting Title:
Loans STORM Java Developer
Java J2EE 1.4 and above (5+ Years)
• Front end development using HTML, JavaScript
• Proficient with BEA Weblogic 9.2 and like containers.
• Web Services (SOAP, XML, WSDL)
• Database (5+ Years)
• Proficient with JDBC / JNDI
• Effective analysis of new and existing applications and platforms
• Efficient Coding (i.e. adhering to coding standards, procedures, techniques and performance tuning)
• Experience with rules engine such as DROOLS
Desired Skills
• C++ (3+ Years)
• C# (3+ Years)
• Multithreading / Distributed Processing
• Oracle 10G
• TIBCO EMS, IBM Websphere MQ Series, & JMS Enterprise Working Knowledge (Queue’s, Topics, Bridging, Multi-Region)
• Web Services (SOAP, XML, WSDL)
• Ant
• Spring
• Struts
• Hibernate
• Eclipse
• JUnit
• Subversion
• Knowledge of rules engines
• Knowledge of general fixed income
• Knowledge of commercial bank loans business a major plus
The Credit area is experiencing rapid growth with opportunities in the syndication, trading and risk management areas.
Posting Title:
Microsoft Developer Lead-Synergy
STAR IT is part of Fixed Income technology and supports the technology platform for the Credit Syndication, Trading and Leveraged Finance businesses. The opening is for a senior Microsoft developer to works closely with the Credit Trading front office to specify build/enhance systems to support the business.
o Contribute to implementing our technology strategy to build out a common, scalable technical infrastructure footprint adapting best practices to ensure robust software architecture is developed.
o Lead roadmap projects through the development and implementation phases of the product development life cycle.
o Collaborate in a positive and cohesive manner with Product Managers, Product Designers, and Project Managers to deliver quality, innovative and efficient technology solutions on schedule.
o Mentor less senior developers in architecture, standards, best practices and approaches within the technical infrastructure.
o Develop and support applications server side using NET Framework (C#, ADO.NET, XML, SOAP), COM and SQL/Sybase database.
o Build out and enhance front to back trading, risk and P&L systems
o Design of new software components and services.
o Write technical code documentation
o Maintenance of existing base of software, including the implementation of fixes and enhancements
o Second-line support existing applications (i.e. escalation from support to development team)
o Test Systems (e.g. unit, system, integration, stress, regression, migration)
o Working side-by-side with the business team to define and spec out application requirements
o Prepare technical code and support documentation for the delivered application components.
o Adhere to set coding standards, procedures and techniques.
o Work with other IT groups to configure, implement and support production.
o Involved in full software development lifecycle project (SDLC) activities
o Investigating and resolving defects
Work with other IT groups to manage production code releases and troubleshoot production issues
Please list any additional but critical elements of the role that are not listed above and that a candidate will need to complete on a regular basis.
o Strong Microsoft development skills (5+ Years)
o Front end development using HTML, JavaScript (5+ Years)
o Web Services (SOAP, XML, WSDL)
o Database (5+ Years)
o Strong Front end web development skills
o Effective analysis of new and existing applications and platforms
o Efficient Coding (i.e. adhering to coding standards, procedures, techniques and performance tuning)
o Excellent verbal and written communication skills in dealing within IT and with end users
o Strong understanding of database technologies (sp, triggers etc).
o Strong understanding of software engineering principles and methodologies
o Strong understanding of architecture, performance tuning and application resiliency
o Development Lead
o Be Involved in full development lifecycle development projects
• The Credit area is experiencing rapid growth with opportunities in the syndication, trading and risk management areas.
Posting Title: Microsoft Developer
IT is part of Fixed Income technology and supports the technology platform for the Credit Syndication, Trading and Leveraged Finance businesses. The opening is for a senior Microsoft developer to works closely with the Credit Trading front office to specify build/enhance systems to support the business.
• Develop and support applications server side using NET Framework (C#, ADO.NET, XML, SOAP), COM and SQL/Sybase database.
• Build out and enhance front to back trading, risk and P&L systems
• Design of new software components and services.
• Write technical code documentation
• Maintenance of existing base of software, including the implementation of fixes and
enhancements
• Second-line support existing applications (i.e. escalation from support to development team)
• Test Systems (e.g. unit, system, integration, stress, regression, migration)
• Working side-by-side with the business team to define and spec out application requirements
• Prepare technical code and support documentation for the delivered application components.
• Adhere to set coding standards, procedures and techniques.
• Work with other IT groups to configure, implement and support production.
• Involved in full software development lifecycle project (SDLC) activities
• Investigating and resolving defects
• Work with other IT groups to manage production code releases and troubleshoot production
issues
Please list any additional but critical elements of the role that are not listed above and that a candidate will need to complete on a regular basis.
• Strong Microsoft development skills (5+ Years)
• Front end development using HTML, JavaScript (5+ Years)
• Web Services (SOAP, XML, WSDL)
• Database (5+ Years)
• Strong Front end web development skills
• Effective analysis of new and existing applications and platforms
• Efficient Coding (i.e. adhering to coding standards, procedures, techniques and performance
tuning)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in dealing within IT and with end users
• Strong understanding of database technologies (sp, triggers etc).
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles and methodologies
• Strong understanding of architecture, performance tuning and application resiliency
• Team Player
• Be Involved in full development lifecycle development projects
The Credit area is experiencing rapid growth with opportunities in the syndication, trading and risk management areas.
Posting Title: Microsoft Developer
Focus for a candidate is more on the Microsoft platform knowledge base with a core knowledge of JAVA. (more of a coherent skill-set).
Global Loans IT is a diverse and dynamic group that supports all aspects of the Bank Loans businesses globally. The team consists of business analysts, software developers, QA specialists and LoanIQ system specialists. We support the firm's strategic lending platform, LoanIQ, along with several in-house developed proprietary applications, system-to-system interfaces and custom reporting that compliments and works in parallel with the LoanIQ system.
Our business users are involved in varied aspects of the Commercial Lending business, including Syndication, Agency Administration, Loan Servicing, Loan Trading and other related activities. They span across several business groups such as IBD (Corporate Banking), Fixed Income (Leverage Finance Par, Distressed & Proprietary Loan Trading; European CMBS; Life Insurance), Prime Services (Swaps on Loans), Operations, Financial Control, Product Control and Risk Management. The users are based in branches across 3 geographical regions: Americas (New York, Toronto), Europe (London, Paris, and Milan) and Asia Pac (Singapore, Melbourne, Sydney).
• Design of new software components and services.
• Write technical documentation.
• Maintenance of existing code base including the implementation of fixes and enhancements.
• Third line support of existing applications (i.e. escalation from support to development team) and test environments (e.g. unit, system, integration, stress, regression, migration).
• Working side-by-side with the business analyst team to define and spec out application requirements.
• Prepare technical code and support documentation for the delivered application components.
• Adhere to set of coding standards, procedures and techniques.
• Work with other IT groups to configure, implement and support production.
• Adhere to the full software development lifecycle project (SDLC) activities.
• Investigating and resolving defects.
• Work with other IT groups to manage production code releases and troubleshoot production issues.
Requirements and Experience
• 5+ years experience as a software developer building mission critical production applications.
• 3+ years developing products for Microsoft Windows and/or web-based applications.
• 3+ years experience developing software on the .NET platform.
• 3+ years experience developing C++ solutions on the Microsoft platform.
• 3+ years experience as a developer designing and building complex and scalable products.
• 3+ years experience with relational databases.
• 3+ years experience using Object Oriented Programming techniques and a formal software development lifecycle.
• 3+ years experience building applications as part of a team environment.
• Excellent overall communication skills.
Technology Requirements
• Proficient in Microsoft Development Framework and Technologies
• (italicized requirements are optional)
• .NET 2.0-3.5, C#, C++, Web Services, WCF, WPF, ASP.Net, ADO.Net. SQL, XML, HTML, JavaScript
• TIBCO Enterprise Message Service (EMS)
• Tooling: Visual Studio .NET 2008, Subversion, XML Spy
• Proficient in Database Management Systems
• UDB DB2 9.5 / Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (a plus) / Oracle 10g (a plus)
• Proficient in Relational Database Analysis, Design, and Performance Tuning
• Microsoft Certifications a plus
Desired Skills
• Knowledge of Syndicated Lending Business
• Knowledge of LoanIQ Data Model
• Knowledge of Financial Accounting
• Knowledge of Coherence
Education/Certification and Professional Qualifications
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
2. Informatica Developer
3. Production Support
4. Support role
5. UI/DB Developer
6. Environment Manager
7. 1016258-ROMA Developer
8. Unix System Admin
9. Microsoft Developer
10. Java Developer
11. Microsoft Developer
12. Sr. Microsoft Developer
13. SCM Administrator
14. User & Production Support 3
C#/GUI Developer
Responsibilities
We seek an individual with development experience to work with Electronic Trading on:
o Work with other members of the team and Business Analysts to develop and implement solutions
o Development of reporting solutions
o Identifying system improvements
Experience and skill sets that will be needed in this role are: 5+ years professional IT experience in GUI developing solutions using a development language C#, .Net and SQL
Qualifications:
Essential Skills
• Bachelor’s Degree
• Degree in Finance or Computer Science
• 5+ years professional IT experience as a Developer
• C# GUI experience and .Net
• Messaging system - E4JMS
• SQL (Sybase, Oracle or MS)
• Ability to deliver in functionally aligned organization with teams that are distributed geographically
• Ability to manage deliverables within time lines
• Ability to work on multiple tasks
Desired Skills
• Test Case Development
• Java or VC++
• Strong understanding of Fixed Income or Interest Rates Product business
• Understanding front to back Trading system
• $600/day
Informatica Developer
Posting Title: DTACC - Informatica Admin and Support - User & Production Support 3
Undergraduate degree
(Computer Science preferred)
• Minimum of 8 years IT Experience
• Minimum 5 years of experience in infrastructure/client support of an Informatica environment
• Minimum of 5 years of experience with Informatica PowerCenter 6.x,7.x,8.x
• Minimum 3 year of experience with UNIX (Sun Solaris)
• Experience with RDBMS : Oracle, Sybase and MS-SQL Enterprise Server
• Install / Upgrade / Configure/Maintain PowerCenter 7.x/8.x instances on UNIX and Linux servers.
• Interact with UNIX and Database Administrators to create and maintain each PowerCenter instance.
• Configure Database and ODBC connectivity to various source/target databases.
• Install / Configure PowerConnect for JMS /Web Services and others as required
• Independently perform complex troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, solution development
• Manage and administer system performance including on-going optimization and tuning of Informatica environment
• Create and manage users, groups and folders. Ensure appropriate privileges are assigned to the different users.
• Interact with end users to resolve issues with Informatica PowerCenter.
• Install / Upgrade / Configure/Maintain PowerCenter 7.x/8.x instances on UNIX and Linux servers.
• Interact with UNIX and Database Administrators to create and maintain each PowerCenter instance.
• Configure Database and ODBC connectivity to various source/target databases.
• Install / Configure PowerConnect for JMS /Web Services and others as required
• Independently perform complex troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, solution
• development
• Manage and administer system performance including on-going optimization and tuning of Informatica environment
• Create and manage users, groups and folders. Ensure appropriate privileges are assigned to the different users.
• Interact with end users to resolve issues with Informatica PowerCenter
• Coordinate with Informatica support for patches and bug fixes.
• Performance tuning covering the areas of: session, source, target mappings
• Support installation and maintenance of the Metadata Reporter and PowerConnect
• Support installation and maintenance of new PowerCenter features
• Perform project code deployment between environments using the Automated SCM Deploy toolset.
• Help new Informatica projects get started.
• Willing to dedicate a portion of time with other Products and Technologies - all team members will be cross-trained to provide support capabilities for CS enterprise solutions for Business Objects and MetaMatrix (EII) offerings.
• Some shift work is required to support the global user base.
• Weekend cover, on a rotation basis, will also be required.
• Some shift work is required to support the global user base.
• Weekend cover, on a rotation basis, will also be required.
• The DTACC Support team within PSG provides administration and application support services for strategic projects for Source Code Management Tool, Business Objects, UDS Metamatrix, Document Management, Informatica PowerCenter and other customer-facing DTACC products.
Production Support
Responsibilities:
• Support Rates IT applications from business perspective.
• Support of electronic and/or algorithmic trading systems
• Respond to all user issues/queries within published timeframes
• Provide first/second line application support including trouble shooting issues, leading technical investigations and supporting mission critical platforms in a demanding 24/7 environment
• Accurate incident logging and tracking adhering to published procedures
• Produce and maintain support knowledge base and documentation and contribute to the team’s increased ability to service the user base
• Formulate solutions to reduce issue impact on the business users
• Train colleagues in the ecommerce sphere of knowledge and experience
• Share new skills with colleagues
• Liaise with internal dev teams as well as vendors to accurately report on incidents requiring software changes
• Track dev changes, perform and document testing and manage signoff through to prod release adhering to all necessary compliance
Strong verbal and written communication skills. Must be able to communicate with traders/product control as well as other IT teams.
Knowledge of UNIX, SQL, Access & Excel, FIX protocol/ connectivity
Able to perform quickly and accurately in a high pressure and highly dynamic environment whilst adhering to guidelines
Candidate must have attention to detail and have the ability to work independently.
Suitable candidates will be results-oriented and goal-driven self-starters
Prior experience of supporting trading/risk management systems and electronic trading applications
Exposure to Microsoft Office suite of applications
Unix Solaris, Windows NT, Oracle/Sybase
Understanding of Electronic and/or algorithmic trading systems
Knowledge of FIX protocol
SQL – Ability to construct simple statements to create reports
Exposure to fixed income securities – bonds, and futures.
Ability to develop relationships with internal clients to understand and address their needs.
Ability to plan and organize the work so that it is efficient and effective and allows service to be delivered promptly and reliably.
Proactive. Ability to identify opportunities and develop new ideas that will lead to improvements. Ability to adapt/change behavior or plans to better achieve the target/objective.
Ability to analyze a complex problem and identify potential solutions by exploring and analyzing diverse alternatives, including, where applicable, risks and potential business impact. Ability to make the right decisions based on the necessary information and to take measures accordingly.
Has a clear appreciation of strengths and limitations. Seeks guidance and advice when appropriate to accomplish tasks and perform the role in an effective and efficient way.
Is attentive to controls and addresses risk. High level of attention to detail in every aspect of work.
Support role
Responsibilities:
• Support Rates IT applications from business perspective.
• Support of electronic and/or algorithmic trading systems
• Respond to all user issues/queries within published timeframes
• Provide first/second line application support including trouble shooting issues, leading technical investigations and supporting mission critical platforms in a demanding 24/7 environment
• Accurate incident logging and tracking adhering to published procedures
• Produce and maintain support knowledge base and documentation and contribute to the team’s increased ability to service the user base
• Formulate solutions to reduce issue impact on the business users
• Train colleagues in the ecommerce sphere of knowledge and experience
• Share new skills with colleagues
• Liaise with internal dev teams as well as vendors to accurately report on incidents requiring software changes
• Track dev changes, perform and document testing and manage signoff through to prod release adhering to all necessary compliance
Strong verbal and written communication skills. Must be able to communicate with traders/product control as well as other IT teams.
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• Knowledge of UNIX, SQL, Access & Excel, FIX protocol/ connectivity
Able to perform quickly and accurately in a high pressure and highly dynamic environment whilst adhering to guidelines
Candidate must have attention to detail and have the ability to work independently.
Suitable candidates will be results-oriented and goal-driven self-starters
Prior experience of supporting trading/risk management systems and electronic trading applications
Exposure to Microsoft Office suite of applications
Unix Solaris, Windows NT, Oracle/Sybase
Understanding of Electronic and/or algorithmic trading systems
Knowledge of FIX protocol
SQL – Ability to construct simple statements to create reports
Exposure to fixed income securities – bonds, and futures.
Ability to develop relationships with internal clients to understand and address their needs.
Ability to plan and organize the work so that it is efficient and effective and allows service to be delivered promptly and reliably.
• Proactive. Ability to identify opportunities and develop new ideas that will lead to improvements. Ability to adapt/change behavior or plans to better achieve the target/objective.
Ability to analyze a complex problem and identify potential solutions by exploring and analyzing diverse alternatives, including, where applicable, risks and potential business impact. Ability to make the right decisions based on the necessary information and to take measures accordingly.
Has a clear appreciation of strengths and limitations. Seeks guidance and advice when appropriate to accomplish tasks and perform the role in an effective and efficient way.
Is attentive to controls and addresses risk. High level of attention to detail in every aspect of work.
UI/DB Developer
Rate: $600-700
Required Experience
• Senior web developer with 7+ years of total software development experience in the IT Industry
• 5+ years of working experience with .Net web based development
• 2+ years of working experience SOA and Web Services
• 4+ years of working experience with ASP/Javascript web applications
• 3+ years of working experience XML/XSLT
• 3+ years of working experience Sybase and SQL programming
• Experience with Windows COM+ services
• Experience in writing detailed technical design specifications
Desired Experience
• Experience with MIS reporting development using Crystal reports
• Design patterns
• IIS, Windows server, windows services
• Web application architecture
• Experience with UNIX environment and Perl script development
• Knowledge of the Investment Banking business
Required Technical / Business Knowledge
• ASP, Microsoft C#, .NET Framework, ASP.NET
• HTML/DHTML, AJAX, Javascript, XML/XSLT, XPATH
• Database development skill in Sybase or SQL server environment
• Web application architecture
• Multi-threading
• Object Oriented Design
Desired Technical / Business Knowledge
• Design pattern
• Microsoft Silverlight
• BO Crystal Report
• IIS, Windows server, window services
• Investment Banking Knowledge
• Perl & UNIX data feed development
Environment Manager
Job Duties
Maintain a thorough understanding of the knowledge required to provide effective technical application support (includes understanding of market feeds, reference data problems, batch processes, system interfaces, business rules, etc).
Create, own, and manage testing environments for Rates applications
Resolve testing support issues
Coordinate releases, disaster recovery, and checkouts for maintenance activities
Apply business and required technical skill sets to resolve issue promptly and accurately
Refresh an environment with a copy from production and have it ready for testing within one day
Create tools to manage environments
Develop subject matter expertise for select FX applications
Work with external groups and vendors to resolve environment-related testing issues
Performing technical support fixes – development, script writing
Investigating problems to find circumventions and root cause
Creating Known Error documents for problems
Assisting in managing the Production environment
Developing product and application knowledge
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
Two years experience of 2nd/3rd line application development support or infrastructure support
Advanced knowledge and experience with the UNIX toolkit and KSH, regular expression, and Sybase/T-SQL
Moderate knowledge of Windows, high availability computing, disaster recovery, and fail-over scenarios
Some support-driven/tactical development experience and willingness to work with compiled languages like Java, .NET, or C/C++ (e.g., testing applications, automation tools)
Some knowledge or an interest in foreign exchange, derivatives, or investment banking
Communicates actively and effectively
Assigns and assumes clear responsibility and accountability for results
Shows commitment to the success of each task and strives to successfully overcome setbacks
Responds to changing circumstances, displaying flexibility, and taking calculated risks
Bill Rate cap of $650.00/day
ROMA Developer
Responsibilities:
The candidate should have experience in installing, customizing, and deploying vendor applications. Structured development knowledge in either Java or C++ and the ability to work in a global team is essential in this role.
Implement changes to various data management processes in the Asset Control application
- Write test scripts in Perl for all development changes
- Integrate changed elements into a Subversion code repository for automated deployment
- Provide regular written status reports for progress tracking
- Write technical design documents describing planned changes prior to coding
- Perform estimations and provide input to project plans
Qualifications:
• B.S. degree in Computer Science or Information Systems
• Minimum 2 years working in a commercial environment with a structured development
methodology
• Experience with vendor application implementation and customization is required,
preferably with the Asset Control product
• Experience with Java (design, coding standards, performance tuning, and debugging)
• Experience with Perl (design, coding standards, performance tuning, and debugging)
• SQL skills (Oracle query design, stored procedure development) is desired
• Working knowledge of UNIX/Linux and UNIX scripting
• Good object oriented programming skills
• Experience with Subversion or other version control software is desirable but not required
• Investment banking or market data (terms & conditions data from Bloomberg, Reuters, and
others) development experience is desirable but not required
• Good communication skills
• Multi-regional team skills (this hire must be able to actively participate in a global team)
• Organized and delivery focused
Bill Rate cap of $600.00/day
Unix System Admin
JOB SPECIFICATION: Unix System Administrator
Posting Title: IT Operations 3
Rate: $650.00 -700.00
DIVISIONAL OVERVIEW
The IT Technology Infrastructure Services (TIS) is responsible for managing Technology Infrastructure, including network, data centers, servers, storage, mainframe and desktops.
DEPARTMENTAL OVERVIEW
The Americas RDO department is responsible for infrastructure deployment and operations across all CS offices in North, Central and South Americas. The Raleigh Level 1 support team is responsible for supporting the day to day operations of Server, Web and Database technology infrastructure across Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific as a Global Service.
MAIN DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ROLE
The Unix/Linux administrator is responsible for front-line support and maintenance of the Unix and Linux systems globally. This role is accountable for the troubleshooting and resolution of all Unix and Linux support issues/requests. The primary focus of this role is incident and problem management.
Responsibilities Include:
• Production support and maintenance of all Unix and Linux servers globally
• Provide immediate response to all known alerts to the Unix and Linux environment
• Appropriate escalations to regional support teams
• User account administration and access control management
• Provide day to day frontline technical and developer support for critical business and trading systems
• Provide diagnostic support and act as interface to vendors for all failing components within the system
• Involvement with escalations and incident management including post incident reporting
• Problem troubleshooting, root cause analysis and driving both short and long-term solutions
SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES (e.g. shifts, travel overseas, hours)
Position requires shift work on a rotating schedule which includes early, late, weekend, and holiday coverage. Support coverage for this site will be from 7am to 8pm, 7 days a week.
EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor in Computer Science or Engineering
WORK EXPERIENCE/BACKGROUND
3 to 5 years experience in Unix/Linux administration 2 years experience in financial industry
TECHNICAL/BUSINESS SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE
• Knowledge of Unix (Solaris) and/or Linux (Red Hat & SLES) and other core system tools such as NIS, DNS and NFS. Required, 3 years.
• Knowledge of disk management tools such as Disk suite and Veritas Volume manager. Required, 3 years.
• Knowledge of clustering tools such as Veritas Cluster server. Required, 2 years.
• Knowledge of SAN technology and its impact on the server environment. Required, 2 years.
• Troubleshooting Skills. Required, 3 years.
• TCPIP. Required, 3 years.
• Shell Scripting. Required, 3 years.
• Distributed Systems Management. Required, 3+ years.
• Knowledge of both Unix (Solaris) and Linux (Red Hat & SLES) Optional, 2 years.
• Knowledge of system management tools such as Control-M and
• Netbackup. Optional, 2 years.
• Knowledge of EMC Powerpath software
• Performance analysis and tuning. Required, 2 years.
Posting Title: Informatica Admin and Support - User & Production Support 3
Undergraduate degree
(Computer Science preferred)
o Minimum of 8 years IT Experience
o Minimum 5 years of experience in infrastructure/client support of an Informatica environment
o Minimum of 5 years of experience with Informatica PowerCenter 6.x,7.x,8.x
o Minimum 3 year of experience with UNIX (Sun Solaris)
o Experience with RDBMS : Oracle, Sybase and MS-SQL Enterprise Server
• Install / Upgrade / Configure/Maintain PowerCenter 7.x/8.x instances on UNIX and Linux servers.
• Interact with UNIX and Database Administrators to create and maintain each PowerCenter instance.
• Configure Database and ODBC connectivity to various source/target databases.
• Install / Configure PowerConnect for JMS /Web Services and others as required
• Independently perform complex troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, solution development
• Manage and administer system performance including on-going optimization and tuning of Informatica environment
• Create and manage users, groups and folders. Ensure appropriate privileges are assigned to the different users.
• Interact with end users to resolve issues with Informatica PowerCenter.
• Install / Upgrade / Configure/Maintain PowerCenter 7.x/8.x instances on UNIX and Linux servers.
• Interact with UNIX and Database Administrators to create and maintain each PowerCenter instance.
• Configure Database and ODBC connectivity to various source/target databases.
• Install / Configure PowerConnect for JMS /Web Services and others as required
• Independently perform complex troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, solution development
• Manage and administer system performance including on-going optimization and tuning of Informatica environment
• Create and manage users, groups and folders. Ensure appropriate privileges are assigned to the different users.
• Interact with end users to resolve issues with Informatica PowerCenter
• Coordinate with Informatica support for patches and bug fixes.
• Performance tuning covering the areas of: session, source, target mappings
• Support installation and maintenance of the Metadata Reporter and PowerConnect
• Support installation and maintenance of new PowerCenter features
• Perform project code deployment between environments using the Automated SCM Deploy toolset.
• Help new Informatica projects get started.
• Willing to dedicate a portion of time with other Products and Technologies - all team members will be cross-trained to provide support capabilities for CS enterprise solutions for Business Objects and MetaMatrix (EII) offerings.
• Some shift work is required to support the global user base.
• Weekend cover, on a rotation basis, will also be required.
• Some shift work is required to support the global user base.
• Weekend cover, on a rotation basis, will also be required.
The DTACC Support team within PSG provides administration and application support services for strategic projects for Source Code Management Tool, Business Objects, UDS Metamatrix, Document Management, Informatica PowerCenter and other customer-facing DTACC products.
Posting Title: SCM Toolkit Administration and Support
This position is for a regional SCM Toolkit Administrator, who will have responsibilities in the following key areas:
Providing 2nd level application support for a global shared service based upon ClearCase and SubVersion. Support a customer base of 4,000 plus application developers across IB IT.
Infrastructure projects, such as upgrade, patches, server build-outs and hardware replacement.
Centrally administer ClearCase and SubVersion for the enterprise. Responsible for global solution.
Coordinate with regional administrators for Americas and APAC as well as regional administrators in business development groups.
Develop global standards for ClearCase and SubVersion usage.
Implement standards and working best practices.
Assist in infrastructure projects.
Assist development teams throughout CS to migrate source code into SubVersion from various version control products.
Liaise with Windows/UNIX infrastructure teams to resolve issues and coordinate projects.
Liaise with Rational TSAM to resolve any issues related to ClearCase product.
Work side by side with fellow ClearCase/SubVersion admins in Raleigh and globally.
Some shift work is required to support the global user base.
Weekend cover, on a rotation basis, will also be required.
Example:
• Undergraduate degree (Computer Science preferred)
• Minimum of 5 years IT Experience
• 2 years Client Support
• Minimum 3 years of experience in infrastructure/client support of a ClearCase environment
• MultiSite Administration (2 years)
• Experience with Polarion migration tools (desirable)
• Good problem solving skills
• Self-motivator
• Ability to work in fast paced and demanding environment
Posting Title:
Loans STORM Java Developer
Java J2EE 1.4 and above (5+ Years)
• Front end development using HTML, JavaScript
• Proficient with BEA Weblogic 9.2 and like containers.
• Web Services (SOAP, XML, WSDL)
• Database (5+ Years)
• Proficient with JDBC / JNDI
• Effective analysis of new and existing applications and platforms
• Efficient Coding (i.e. adhering to coding standards, procedures, techniques and performance tuning)
• Experience with rules engine such as DROOLS
Desired Skills
• C++ (3+ Years)
• C# (3+ Years)
• Multithreading / Distributed Processing
• Oracle 10G
• TIBCO EMS, IBM Websphere MQ Series, & JMS Enterprise Working Knowledge (Queue’s, Topics, Bridging, Multi-Region)
• Web Services (SOAP, XML, WSDL)
• Ant
• Spring
• Struts
• Hibernate
• Eclipse
• JUnit
• Subversion
• Knowledge of rules engines
• Knowledge of general fixed income
• Knowledge of commercial bank loans business a major plus
The Credit area is experiencing rapid growth with opportunities in the syndication, trading and risk management areas.
Posting Title:
Microsoft Developer Lead-Synergy
STAR IT is part of Fixed Income technology and supports the technology platform for the Credit Syndication, Trading and Leveraged Finance businesses. The opening is for a senior Microsoft developer to works closely with the Credit Trading front office to specify build/enhance systems to support the business.
o Contribute to implementing our technology strategy to build out a common, scalable technical infrastructure footprint adapting best practices to ensure robust software architecture is developed.
o Lead roadmap projects through the development and implementation phases of the product development life cycle.
o Collaborate in a positive and cohesive manner with Product Managers, Product Designers, and Project Managers to deliver quality, innovative and efficient technology solutions on schedule.
o Mentor less senior developers in architecture, standards, best practices and approaches within the technical infrastructure.
o Develop and support applications server side using NET Framework (C#, ADO.NET, XML, SOAP), COM and SQL/Sybase database.
o Build out and enhance front to back trading, risk and P&L systems
o Design of new software components and services.
o Write technical code documentation
o Maintenance of existing base of software, including the implementation of fixes and enhancements
o Second-line support existing applications (i.e. escalation from support to development team)
o Test Systems (e.g. unit, system, integration, stress, regression, migration)
o Working side-by-side with the business team to define and spec out application requirements
o Prepare technical code and support documentation for the delivered application components.
o Adhere to set coding standards, procedures and techniques.
o Work with other IT groups to configure, implement and support production.
o Involved in full software development lifecycle project (SDLC) activities
o Investigating and resolving defects
Work with other IT groups to manage production code releases and troubleshoot production issues
Please list any additional but critical elements of the role that are not listed above and that a candidate will need to complete on a regular basis.
o Strong Microsoft development skills (5+ Years)
o Front end development using HTML, JavaScript (5+ Years)
o Web Services (SOAP, XML, WSDL)
o Database (5+ Years)
o Strong Front end web development skills
o Effective analysis of new and existing applications and platforms
o Efficient Coding (i.e. adhering to coding standards, procedures, techniques and performance tuning)
o Excellent verbal and written communication skills in dealing within IT and with end users
o Strong understanding of database technologies (sp, triggers etc).
o Strong understanding of software engineering principles and methodologies
o Strong understanding of architecture, performance tuning and application resiliency
o Development Lead
o Be Involved in full development lifecycle development projects
• The Credit area is experiencing rapid growth with opportunities in the syndication, trading and risk management areas.
Posting Title: Microsoft Developer
IT is part of Fixed Income technology and supports the technology platform for the Credit Syndication, Trading and Leveraged Finance businesses. The opening is for a senior Microsoft developer to works closely with the Credit Trading front office to specify build/enhance systems to support the business.
• Develop and support applications server side using NET Framework (C#, ADO.NET, XML, SOAP), COM and SQL/Sybase database.
• Build out and enhance front to back trading, risk and P&L systems
• Design of new software components and services.
• Write technical code documentation
• Maintenance of existing base of software, including the implementation of fixes and
enhancements
• Second-line support existing applications (i.e. escalation from support to development team)
• Test Systems (e.g. unit, system, integration, stress, regression, migration)
• Working side-by-side with the business team to define and spec out application requirements
• Prepare technical code and support documentation for the delivered application components.
• Adhere to set coding standards, procedures and techniques.
• Work with other IT groups to configure, implement and support production.
• Involved in full software development lifecycle project (SDLC) activities
• Investigating and resolving defects
• Work with other IT groups to manage production code releases and troubleshoot production
issues
Please list any additional but critical elements of the role that are not listed above and that a candidate will need to complete on a regular basis.
• Strong Microsoft development skills (5+ Years)
• Front end development using HTML, JavaScript (5+ Years)
• Web Services (SOAP, XML, WSDL)
• Database (5+ Years)
• Strong Front end web development skills
• Effective analysis of new and existing applications and platforms
• Efficient Coding (i.e. adhering to coding standards, procedures, techniques and performance
tuning)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in dealing within IT and with end users
• Strong understanding of database technologies (sp, triggers etc).
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles and methodologies
• Strong understanding of architecture, performance tuning and application resiliency
• Team Player
• Be Involved in full development lifecycle development projects
The Credit area is experiencing rapid growth with opportunities in the syndication, trading and risk management areas.
Posting Title: Microsoft Developer
Focus for a candidate is more on the Microsoft platform knowledge base with a core knowledge of JAVA. (more of a coherent skill-set).
Global Loans IT is a diverse and dynamic group that supports all aspects of the Bank Loans businesses globally. The team consists of business analysts, software developers, QA specialists and LoanIQ system specialists. We support the firm's strategic lending platform, LoanIQ, along with several in-house developed proprietary applications, system-to-system interfaces and custom reporting that compliments and works in parallel with the LoanIQ system.
Our business users are involved in varied aspects of the Commercial Lending business, including Syndication, Agency Administration, Loan Servicing, Loan Trading and other related activities. They span across several business groups such as IBD (Corporate Banking), Fixed Income (Leverage Finance Par, Distressed & Proprietary Loan Trading; European CMBS; Life Insurance), Prime Services (Swaps on Loans), Operations, Financial Control, Product Control and Risk Management. The users are based in branches across 3 geographical regions: Americas (New York, Toronto), Europe (London, Paris, and Milan) and Asia Pac (Singapore, Melbourne, Sydney).
• Design of new software components and services.
• Write technical documentation.
• Maintenance of existing code base including the implementation of fixes and enhancements.
• Third line support of existing applications (i.e. escalation from support to development team) and test environments (e.g. unit, system, integration, stress, regression, migration).
• Working side-by-side with the business analyst team to define and spec out application requirements.
• Prepare technical code and support documentation for the delivered application components.
• Adhere to set of coding standards, procedures and techniques.
• Work with other IT groups to configure, implement and support production.
• Adhere to the full software development lifecycle project (SDLC) activities.
• Investigating and resolving defects.
• Work with other IT groups to manage production code releases and troubleshoot production issues.
Requirements and Experience
• 5+ years experience as a software developer building mission critical production applications.
• 3+ years developing products for Microsoft Windows and/or web-based applications.
• 3+ years experience developing software on the .NET platform.
• 3+ years experience developing C++ solutions on the Microsoft platform.
• 3+ years experience as a developer designing and building complex and scalable products.
• 3+ years experience with relational databases.
• 3+ years experience using Object Oriented Programming techniques and a formal software development lifecycle.
• 3+ years experience building applications as part of a team environment.
• Excellent overall communication skills.
Technology Requirements
• Proficient in Microsoft Development Framework and Technologies
• (italicized requirements are optional)
• .NET 2.0-3.5, C#, C++, Web Services, WCF, WPF, ASP.Net, ADO.Net. SQL, XML, HTML, JavaScript
• TIBCO Enterprise Message Service (EMS)
• Tooling: Visual Studio .NET 2008, Subversion, XML Spy
• Proficient in Database Management Systems
• UDB DB2 9.5 / Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (a plus) / Oracle 10g (a plus)
• Proficient in Relational Database Analysis, Design, and Performance Tuning
• Microsoft Certifications a plus
Desired Skills
• Knowledge of Syndicated Lending Business
• Knowledge of LoanIQ Data Model
• Knowledge of Financial Accounting
• Knowledge of Coherence
Education/Certification and Professional Qualifications
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Information Architect - Houston, TX
As requested for IA resource:
The IA should be able to do the following:
·Define usability standards for the application
· Conduct usability testing / primary research on the existing application(s)
·Translate business requirements into wireframes (low or high fidelity) with optimal user experience
· Annotate wireframes with optimal user experience in mind (includes choreography)
· Work closely with visual designers / engineers to implement designs
· Manage project plans for completing wireframes / annotations
· Leverage Adobe Creative Suite tools in the creation of the wireframes (Illustrator, Fireworks, InDesign, etc); experience with rich media such as Flash/Flex or AJAX and experience with client-side programming (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) are desirable
Preferred capabilities for Adobe Flex work:
· Experience in designing a rich internet application (RIA) with understanding of how a Flex application is structured (object re-usability, and extensibility approaches, etc.)
· Work closely with business teams to understand requirements and present usability options
· Ability to develop and manage execution of usability testing
The IA should be able to do the following:
·Define usability standards for the application
· Conduct usability testing / primary research on the existing application(s)
·Translate business requirements into wireframes (low or high fidelity) with optimal user experience
· Annotate wireframes with optimal user experience in mind (includes choreography)
· Work closely with visual designers / engineers to implement designs
· Manage project plans for completing wireframes / annotations
· Leverage Adobe Creative Suite tools in the creation of the wireframes (Illustrator, Fireworks, InDesign, etc); experience with rich media such as Flash/Flex or AJAX and experience with client-side programming (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) are desirable
Preferred capabilities for Adobe Flex work:
· Experience in designing a rich internet application (RIA) with understanding of how a Flex application is structured (object re-usability, and extensibility approaches, etc.)
· Work closely with business teams to understand requirements and present usability options
· Ability to develop and manage execution of usability testing
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
C# / .NET - Dallas, Texas
Location: Dallas, Texas
Length of Contract: 6-10 months
Rates: Depend on Experience
Responsibilities:
• Provide support to customers for technology issues and questions, facilitating communications with DC-based teams
• Quickly elicit or review business requirements and use cases and provide feedback to management and/or business analysts
• Design, develop, and document application functionality Implement solutions, adhering to SDLC controls and process Qualifications:
Must-Have Skills:
• Demonstrated ability to independently research, troubleshoot and resolve complex issues Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new tools, utilities, programming languages
• 4+ years of experience developing solutions in the Windows desktop environment with solid understanding of the Windows architecture, experience with common Windows utilities, experience with multiple Windows scripting tools and languages.
• 4+ years of experience with .NET / C#, Oracle, and XML, XML Schema and XSL
• 4+ years of experience with J2EE and related technologies / tools, including Weblogic, JBoss, and Eclipse 4+ years of experience in application integration using variety of platforms, products, and protocols.
• 4+ years of experience in full life cycle development including requirement analysis, system design, code implementation, unit testing, system integration and production support
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written Nice to Have Skills: (These Nice-to-Have Skills are skills you would prefer someone to have, but they don’t have to have them to be selected)
• Microsoft Access / Excel VBA programming
• Experience with OpenSpan
• Sharepoint
• SAS
• Business Objects
Length of Contract: 6-10 months
Rates: Depend on Experience
Responsibilities:
• Provide support to customers for technology issues and questions, facilitating communications with DC-based teams
• Quickly elicit or review business requirements and use cases and provide feedback to management and/or business analysts
• Design, develop, and document application functionality Implement solutions, adhering to SDLC controls and process Qualifications:
Must-Have Skills:
• Demonstrated ability to independently research, troubleshoot and resolve complex issues Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new tools, utilities, programming languages
• 4+ years of experience developing solutions in the Windows desktop environment with solid understanding of the Windows architecture, experience with common Windows utilities, experience with multiple Windows scripting tools and languages.
• 4+ years of experience with .NET / C#, Oracle, and XML, XML Schema and XSL
• 4+ years of experience with J2EE and related technologies / tools, including Weblogic, JBoss, and Eclipse 4+ years of experience in application integration using variety of platforms, products, and protocols.
• 4+ years of experience in full life cycle development including requirement analysis, system design, code implementation, unit testing, system integration and production support
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written Nice to Have Skills: (These Nice-to-Have Skills are skills you would prefer someone to have, but they don’t have to have them to be selected)
• Microsoft Access / Excel VBA programming
• Experience with OpenSpan
• Sharepoint
• SAS
• Business Objects
Monday, April 19, 2010
Tier 2 Help Desk in Fort Worth, Texas
10 Open Positions Paying $13-$15/hour
6-12 months
The position is responsible for daily application support to users, installing and configuring software and hardware in desktop and notebook computers, documenting procedures, software and hardware and escalating as needed.
• 3-5 years related helpdesk experience with 1-2 years Tier II helpdesk (Subject Matter Experts-SME’s)
• Experience with minor hardware repairs such as: memory upgrades, PCMCIA cards, screen, keyboard and HDD swaps; set-up, management and support of laptop PC's and laptop distribution
• Respond to telephone and email requests from users in a timely manner.
• Operational knowledge of Active Directory
• Working knowledge of LAN and WAN network equipment
• Solid PC experience in Windows NT, XP, Vista and WIN 7 environment; knowledgeable in the basic set up of a PC and proficient in the installation and support of commercial software
• Proficient in the usage of Microsoft Office tools: Word, PowerPoint and Excel 2003, 2007
• Awareness of Outlook and Exchange
• Working knowledge, support, and troubleshooting of remote access software
• Solid interpersonal skills
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in stressful situations
• Strong communication skills
• Knowledge of or exposure to wide area network environments
• Ability to assist resources with diagnosis and resolution of user problems utilizing global tools as necessary
• Experience and proven ability working with standard Helpdesk call logging software applications
Required Technical Skills:
Microsoft Office Specialist, Windows XP, Adobe Acrobat
Operational Knowledge of Service-Now
Functional Knowledge of Remedy - Action Request System
6-12 months
The position is responsible for daily application support to users, installing and configuring software and hardware in desktop and notebook computers, documenting procedures, software and hardware and escalating as needed.
• 3-5 years related helpdesk experience with 1-2 years Tier II helpdesk (Subject Matter Experts-SME’s)
• Experience with minor hardware repairs such as: memory upgrades, PCMCIA cards, screen, keyboard and HDD swaps; set-up, management and support of laptop PC's and laptop distribution
• Respond to telephone and email requests from users in a timely manner.
• Operational knowledge of Active Directory
• Working knowledge of LAN and WAN network equipment
• Solid PC experience in Windows NT, XP, Vista and WIN 7 environment; knowledgeable in the basic set up of a PC and proficient in the installation and support of commercial software
• Proficient in the usage of Microsoft Office tools: Word, PowerPoint and Excel 2003, 2007
• Awareness of Outlook and Exchange
• Working knowledge, support, and troubleshooting of remote access software
• Solid interpersonal skills
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in stressful situations
• Strong communication skills
• Knowledge of or exposure to wide area network environments
• Ability to assist resources with diagnosis and resolution of user problems utilizing global tools as necessary
• Experience and proven ability working with standard Helpdesk call logging software applications
Required Technical Skills:
Microsoft Office Specialist, Windows XP, Adobe Acrobat
Operational Knowledge of Service-Now
Functional Knowledge of Remedy - Action Request System
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