UI Designer/Information Architect
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Skills/Knowledge: Information Architecture, User-Interaction, design of data intensive business portals, Web Software Development Tools
Openings: 1
Start: ASAP
Duration: 2 months**
Location: New York
Hourly Rate: Open
***** Must submit portfolio samples. Portfolio should include examples of:
• Desktop and web application designs that have been delivered to end users
• Samples of wireframes or other high level design documents
• Samples of front end design specifications
• Any other materials that illustrate experience with the UI design and development process from start to finish
Experience/Skills Requirements:
- Experience in User-Interaction and Information Architecture
- Experience providing formal usability assessments of complex applications
- Proven experience in the design of data intensive business portals
- Knowledgeable of web-based software development methodologies
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work in a team environment.
- Self-starter, self-motivated, able to work with minimal supervision
- Graduate or Undergraduate degree in the user experience / human factors field
Responsibilities:
Reporting to a Project Manager you will be responsible for:
- Usability evaluation of existing web-based application
- Defining information architecture and navigational structure that is logical and consistent
- Creating and applying design patterns and interaction methodologies consistently across the application
- Recommending best practices for web interaction techniques
- Vetting design concepts with stakeholders and development groups
- Partnering with business sponsors, users and developers to built consensus around the UI
Java / C++ Developer
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Title: C++/Java Developer
Skills/Knowledge: Java Server Side, C++, MFC/C++ GUI, Sybase, Webpage, Per/Shell Script
Openings: 1
Start: ASAP
Duration: 1+ yrs
Location: NYC
Hourly Rate: Open
**EXPERIENCE IN FINACIAL INDUSTRY AND MICROSOFT MFC/C++ GUI DEVELOPMENT WILL BE ADVANTAGEOUS***
Experience/Skills Requirements:
- 4+ years of development experience and Java server development experience
- Strong relational database experience preferably Sybase
- Webpage development experience including JavaScript
- Perl or shell scripting experience
- C++ server development experience a plus
- Microsoft MFC/C++ GUI development experience a plus
Responsibilities:
Maintain, enhance and support features in the sales order management system. Developer will focus mainly on:
- Enhancements to existing Java and C++ servers to support the following business functions:
Trade booking - Order history queries
- Client and product reference data queries
- Compliance-driven enhancements and queries
- Enhancements to the Client Connectivity Tool (aka CCT) web-application; CCT is used to store client reference data and preferences related to automated electronic order management
- Day to day production support
Position Description:
The Sales Order Management Technology team is responsible for the design, development, and support of systems to manage orders for sales traders. The system is comprised of an MFC/C++ GUI and various server side components written in C++ and Java. The GUI is used by 200+ sales traders across the US to enter and manage orders for US shares and listed options. We process approximately 6,000 orders per day of which 90% are submitted electronically by clients using the Fix protocol.
Java Web Developer
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Skills/Knowledge: Java Web, Sybase, Unix/Linux, ksh, Perl, Full SDLC
Openings: 1
Start: ASAP
Duration: 1+ year
Location: Jersey City, NJ
Hourly Rate: Open
****EXPERIENCE IN FINANCIAL INDUSTRY WOULD BE ADVANTAGEOUS****
Experience/Skills Requirements:
- 5+ years of Strong Java skill and Hands-on web development including Java, JSPs, Sybase, Struts, JavaScript
- Strong Unix/Linux, ksh, Perl Skills.
- Strong communication and analytical skills. Ability to work with business users
- Experience in financial industry preferred
Responsibilities:
- Participate in and/or take the lead on small to medium size projects that enhance the client product offering.
- Develop, maintain and support infrastructure around the core Fund Administration applications that provide daily reporting data to external clients.
- Design and implement solutions to improve application throughput and stability.
- Work closely with internal users to design/enhance solutions to client requirements.
- The development team works closely with other technology teams and hence good communication skills are essential.
Position Description:
The Fund Administration Technology group is composed of software developers that work developing, enhancing and supporting applications and systems which the client’s business to service external Hedge Fund clients and their investors. These systems include transaction processing engines, client reporting, and portfolio accounting.
Sr. DBA (Sybase, DB2 or Oracle, SQL Server 2008)
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Skills/Knowledge: Sybase (v 12.5/15), DB2 UDB (9.1/9.7) and/or Oracle, MS SQL 2008; DB Architecture, Performance Tuning.
Openings: 1
Start: ASAP
Duration: 1+ year
Location: Jersey City, NJ
Hourly Rate: Open
Experience/Skills Requirements:
8 + years of experience in the following:
- Environment analysis/audit resolution
- Fielding calls with application development for all DB inquiries
- Performance tuning/performance analysis/ engineering and architecture.
- Version upgrades/case management
- Code optimization
- Vendor engagement/interaction as it pertains to new features, new versions
- Combination of app/dev and production support
- Willingness to learn new technologies is a must
- Excellent communication skills required
Deployment Specialist: Windows Admin
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Skills/Knowledge: Configuring, installing, deploying and supporting applications across a broad range of languages and operating systems; Powershell, bat, VBS, WMI, MOM, Perfmon, Service Control Manager, MSI, Marimba
Openings: 1
Start: ASAP
Duration: 1+ year
Location: NYC
Hourly Rate: Open
Experience/Skills Requirements:
This group requires a Deployment specialist that can configure, install, deploy and support applications across a broad range of languages and operating systems. The ideal candidate will have experience in installing in-house and 3rd party application across a variety of operating systems within an integrated enterprise. Candidates will have experience at ensuring that the installation satisfies standards with respect to developer access, user access, license management, incident management, system monitoring, and root cause analysis. It is expected that Level 1 support will be provided by a standard services organization already in place.
- 5+ years of experience in installing and supporting applications with an integrated enterprise
- Good written documentation skills for analyzing and publishing runbooks and BCP plans. Very good client facing skills
- Strong Windows scripting skills ( Powershell, bat, VBS)
- Experience with monitoring, alerting and reporting systems – such as WMI, MOM, Perfmon, Service Control Manager
- Experience with software packaging (MSI) and Software deployment frameworks (Marimba)
- Experience in configuring and managing license servers (FlexLM) a plus
- Experience as windows system administrator would be a plus.
- Strong commitment toward best practices within enterprise development and deployment.
Sr. Java w/ Security & Hedge Fund Products
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Skills/Knowledge: Broad Securities Knowledge, Hedge Funds, Java, SQL (Sybase or DB2/UDB or MS SQL Server), XML and UNIX, nightly batch processes
Openings: 4
Start: ASAP
Duration: 1+ year
Location: NYC
Hourly Rate: 55-75/hr
Experience/Skills Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in the securities business; Hedge Funds product knowledge a plus,
- Must have strong analytical and communications skills, and must be able to operate independently, interacting daily with users, peers, and management.
- 5-10 years of experience
- Strong Java, SQL (Sybase or DB2/UDB or MS SQL Server), XML and Unix
- Knowledge of .net and Hibernate a plus
- Knowledge of Perl a plus
- Highly motivated, enthusiastic and organized individual capable and experienced managing multiple tasks.
Responsibilities:
- Role will consist of gathering specifications, doing design, code, test, and implementation of systems in support of the AIMS business.
- The candidate will also become part of the regular support rotation, spending 1 week every 5-6 weeks on support for user queries and nightly batch processes.
- Project will include development work supporting the hedge fund platform, building an aggregation layer of external hedge fund manager positions for daily risk and performance analytic reporting.
Position Description:
The Central Funding group was created to provide IMD with an independent group focused on funding, liquidity, cash management and creditor relations. Given market events over the last year, Central Funding has focused initially on IMD’s Hedge Fund businesses. The group has faced new challenges as it extends its focus to more of IMD’s products and businesses. The IT build for this group includes several new applications and strategic changes to GSAM architecture to consolidate data across multiple GSAM desks, manage locate requests for short sales, facilitate intelligent trade routing to Prime Brokers, build out our repo trading capability and create customizable daily liquidity and exposure reporting.
Sr. SalesForce Developer / Architect
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Description:
Looking for a Senior Salesforce Application Developer with 7+ years IT experience to work in either the Baltimore, MD or Jersey City, NJ location. This role is responsible for leading design, architecture, development, and ongoing support of our enterprise Salesforce.com CRM solution that supports our Sales and Service organization.
Position Description:
- Work closely with business partners to realize the full capabilities of Salesforce.com CRM
- Lead and/or contribute to all technical aspects of projects developed
- Perform detailed analysis of business and technical requirements
- Write technical approach and design documentation supporting business needs
- Create development and integration plans
Qualifications:
- Salesforce.com Certified Force.com Developer preferred
- Salesforce.com Architecture, Design, Development, Administration and Operational Support required
- Force.com developer toolkit – Apex, Visualforce, Force.com IDE, Force.com Migration Tool, Web Services/SOA & Metadata APIs
- SQL, RDBMS experience preferred
- Data migration and ETL tools such as CastIron or Informatica
- Strong web development skills including CSS, JavaScript, DHTML, HTML, XML
- Strong SDLC experience
- Proven ability to design and optimize business processes and to integrate business processes across disparate systems
Technical Skill Requirements:
- XML, HTML and CSS, SOAP, XML, JavaScript, AJAX
- Services Oriented Design Principles (SOA)
- Object Oriented Development Skills (Java, .Net)
- Excellent oral, presentation, and written communication skills
- Financial Services / Retail Brokerage, Call Center experience is a plus
- B.S. in Business, Computer Science, Software Engineering, MIS or
- equivalent work experience
Release Engineer
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Start: ASAP
Location: Brooklyn
Compensation: 65k-70k
Interested Candidates please submit Resumes and Cover letter. The cover letter should be a short summary page clearly explaining the candidate’s attributes and relevant experiences for this job.
Experience/Skills Requirements:
- BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 2+ years experience in software engineering, release engineering, and/or configuration management
- Strong familiarity with software configuration management, svn and git experience highly desired
- Extensive knowledge of Linux and SQL databases
- Solid foundations in scalable, web software architectures
- Highly skilled in a scripting language, a bash/python combination ideal
- Experience with centralized deployment systems (e.g., bcfg2, chef, Capistrano, puppet)
- Experience with Linux package management systems (e.g. rpm, DEB)
Responsibilities:
- Support and improve our tools for release management and deployment
- Stage new releases and promote them to production
- Troubleshoot deployment issues on live systems until the problem is fully understood and its effects mitigated
Position Description:
The Release Team is critically inserted in the software development flow. The team schedule, document, package and deploy all software changes to production on all of the client’s platforms. The team makes sure that what runs in production is both sane and expected. The team strives to support changes as fast as the business requires it without compromising the integrity of the production of the services that the customers use daily.
Lead Java Web Portal Developer
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Skills/Knowledge: Client-Facing Web Application, Client-facing & Internal-Facing Sites, Global Portal Technology, AJAX, Web Page Templates (Velocity, JSP), Table Frameworks, Real-time data (highly scalable, fault tolerant and extensible), QuickBuild, Ant, Maven, Subversion, CVS, Sybase/UDB, Perl/Shell Scripts
Openings: 1
Start: ASAP
Duration: 1+ year
Location: NYC
Hourly Rate: Open
Experience/Skills Requirements:
- 4+ years of Server side Java development
- Experience in threading, synchronization
- Experience in software internationalization
- Experience designing and developing large-scale web applications
- Knowledge of Java web technologies: Servlets, Struts, JSP, Taglibs, Velocity, ExtJS
- Experience integrating 3rd party libraries and packages (ie, search engines)
- 4+ years of UNIX/Linux experience required
- Object Oriented Development experience
- In-depth knowledge of build systems (QuickBuild, Ant, Maven) and source control (Subversion, CVS)
- Relational DB experience required, Sybase and UDB experience preferred
- Programming in Perl and shell scripts
- Cursory knowledge of network protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS)
- Strong communication skills
- Motivated and self-starter
- Attention to quality and detail
Core Java Developer
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Title: Core Java Developer
Skills/Knowledge: Multi-Threading, financial modeling, stock screening, document management, regulatory compliance, macroeconomic forecasts
Openings: 1
Start: ASAP
Duration: 3 months (Until Dec 31, 2009)
Location: NYC
Hourly Rate: 55 – 65/hr
**** FINANCIAL BACKGROUND WOULD BE ADVANTAGEOUS ****
Experience/Skills Requirements:
• 5+ years with Java
• Strong DB Skills (SQL, Sybase and/or DB2/UDB)
• Experience with a procedural SQL language
• Knowledge of scripting languages (for example: Perl, Python, and shell)
• Comfortable in a UNIX environment
• Good communication skills, team-player and strong desire to learn
Position Description:
Global Investment Research (GIR) performs fundamental analysis of individual companies, sectors, and entire economies. It produces macroeconomic forecasts, reports on companies and industries, investment opinions on individual securities, strategic portfolio management recommendations, and a wide range of data products for the firm’s investing clients and for the firm’s own traders and salespeople. Global Investment Research Technology builds the software that enables these activities. GIR Technology projects include:
• Analytical tools for financial modeling and sophisticated stock screening.
• Custom document management solutions for creating, publishing, and archiving the firm’s research content.
• A web site for our clients, featuring a library of our publications and tools for working with the data produced by GIR analysts.
• Distribution systems for transmitting our research to clients inside and outside the firm.
• Reporting systems for monitoring and improving client service and ensuring regulatory compliance.