Thursday, March 22, 2012

We're Hiring: Macro Commodities Trader (Top Financial, NYC)

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Proprietary commodities trader to join Macro group in New York offices.

This dynamic group seeks to take advantage of mispricings within and across a range of asset classes globally.  The trader will be involved in the development, analysis, and execution of discretionary trading strategies across all commodities sectors, with a primary focus in agricultural products and/or metals.  

The candidate will have 2 - 5 years of experience in commodities markets, preferably in a trading role.

Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills are required; and strong analytical abilities as well as high attention to detail are necessary.

 This role affords the opportunity to gain expertise within the sector, to contribute as part of an established team, and to be directly exposed to investment decisions by collaborating with seasoned, senior members of the firm.

We're Hiring: Senior Quant Analyst (with systematic trading strategies experience), Top Financial - NYC

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Role: Senior quantitative analyst with systematic trading strategies experience in New York City. 

Candidates should have an  a technical degree from a top-tier university; ample experience developing successful quantitative models, (involving transaction cost analysis) high-frequency trading. 

Candidates should be innovative and analytical thinkers with strong communication skills, and should demonstrate proficiency with the numerical and statistical tools needed  to develop robust signals from market data. 

We are looking for individuals who are taking a hands-on approach and collaborating with  top technical talent in a merit based work environment.

We're Hiring: System Administrator (Top Financial, NYC)

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The ideal candidate will have: strong knowledge of the Microsoft Windows enterprise environment and standard applications, such as MS Office; superb  organizational and time management skills, with a focus on working efficiently; and a willingness to participate in off-hours support coverage rotation and work occasional late hours and weekends as needed.  Successful Systems Administrators are resourceful, with a strong ability to leverage search technologies and actively seek out information about unfamiliar problems. They also have great social skills: team members interact with all parts of a global business spanning many types of people and cultures, and our Systems Administrators need a solid sense for how to interpret the needs and wishes of different people through excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Other desirable qualifications include: experience supporting mobile devices, particularly BlackBerry devices; experience using and supporting SharePoint; familiarity with a Linux or Solaris environment; familiarity with general systems administration and an understanding of what makes for good IT policy; basic understanding of scripting and/or markup languages (for PowerShell usage/wiki editing in particular); experience with level one phone  support, as well as desk-side and remote user support; trade floor and/or Data Center support experience; experience using and supporting LANDesk for hardware and software administration; familiarity with Active Directory. 

We're Hiring: (JUNIOR) Macro Investment Analyst (Top Financial, NYC)

Candidates should have 0-2 years experience in the financial industry currently as a macro analyst out of a top tier school.
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The strategy generally aims to take advantage of mis-pricings within and across a range of asset classes, including currencies, equities, credit, commodities, and interest rates.

This role will provide the opportunity to research macro topics that range from modeling specific companies that express macro views or that are affected by macro market forces, to macroeconomic analysis of countries.
 
The ideal candidate will have a quantitative bent and a familiarity with financial concepts, basic statistics, and asset pricing.

The ideal candidate will also be flexible, able to do both quick and deep analyses, and will be able to present comprehensive and relevant investment analysis as well as generate investment ideas and opinions along the way.

Familiarity with Excel and Bloomberg is preferred but not required.

This role affords the opportunity to gain expertise in macro investing, to contribute as part of an established team, and to be directly exposed to investment decisions by collaborating with seasoned, senior members of the firm.

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We're Hiring: Midlevel CPA (2-3 years experience from Big Four Firm), Top Financial Firm, NYC

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The candidate will be a licensed CPA with 2-3 years of accounting experience at a Big Four firm.

Strong communication, problem-solving, interpersonal, and quantitative skills are required, and the ability to both collaborate and work independently is necessary.

A degree in accounting, business, finance, economics, or engineering (or a related field) is a prerequisite, and candidates should have proven their ability in both academic and professional environments.

Advanced Excel skills are a decided plus. The Associate will have the opportunity to interact with an extraordinary group of people in a casual, collegial working environment.

Monday, March 19, 2012

We're Hiring: Executive Level IT Support Analyst (Top Financial Company, Financial Company / Menlo Park, California)

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(Desktop, Laptop, Mobile, Phones, etc)
Financial Company / Menlo Park California

Summary:  Financial firm is looking for an IT support analyst with roughly 5-10 years experience to support all of the IT needs of their Executive Level Staff.   This will focus on Desktop, Laptop, Mobile support but may also occasionally include random things like office phones, database, fax machines, printers, copiers. 

Person would ideally have experience providing executive level support or trade floor support, but this is not required provided person has the right interpersonal and communication skills.  Interpersonally, the key to this job is being able to portray confidence in all situations. Person will have to have basic project management skills to work between multiple IT teams in the firm to complete projects and resolve support problems.  Person must also be proactive to prevent as many support problems as possible and to improve overall user experience.

Technically person must have experience supporting Windows platform (XP & 7), Office, Mobile (Blackberry and iPad experience preferred), and remote technologies like MiFi.  It would also be preferred if person had some Linux. 

Position will be part of a global team of 4 people providing support to executives across the globe.


Principal Duties and Responsibilities :
- Providing a single point of contact for all IT related issues to senior management
- Troubleshoot desktop and devices
- Coordinate any technology service offering available via the firm (procurement, multimedia services, war rooms, etc.)
- Coordinate any non-standard technology request
- Home Support Visits
- Advanced Screening Technology Projects -Deployment of new or noteworthy technology to population for sneak peek (requiring significant testing and management)
- Resource for any Service team when covering an approved VIP
- Provide an IT interface to communicate scheduled outages, planned system upgrades, new application deployments, or any IT initiatives that impact service
- Design, develop and maintain strategic reports to provide visibility into the technology service space via metric analysis
- Bachelor's degree and/or 3-5 years of experience in the Technology Service space
- Strong problem solving skills
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- Support experience in a complex environment
- A basic knowledge of various technologies including but not limited to Windows, Unix, Linux, Server Clusters, Databases and Networks, their inter-connectivity and how it can be applied to various businesses
- Driver's license
- Experience in the Financial industry is a plus
- Concierge certification (Hospitality Industry) is a plus

We're Hiring: Application Support Analyst, Prime Services Division, Financial Company/ Jersey City - AVP Level (5-10 yrs experience)

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Job opportunity for a "Application Support Analyst" for Jersey City, New Jersey location to provide IT support to Prime Brokerage applications for the Front, Middle and Back Office users and the associated systems which include Trade Capture, Data Warehouse, and Client Reporting.

The primary responsibility is to ensure the continued availability, effectiveness and accuracy of production systems and applications, and ensure the realization of maximum value from the applications through continual technical and business process requirement.

Basic Qualifications:

BA/BS degree required.

• 2+ years in the Financial Services Industry with experience in financial/trading application support role

Ability to demonstrate strong working knowledge in application and programming tools, including UNIX(LINUX/Solaris),Windows Server, SQL (Sybase/MS SQLServer), Java and Scripting (PERL/Shell).
- Understanding of connectivity, networks, firewall and FTP, TCP/IP protocol.
- Knowledge on Middleware components (JMS/Tibco/MQ), Business Objects and Prime Brokerage business.
- Good Problem solving and Communication skills and flexibility to work during weekend hours when necessary.
- Working Knowledge of IT Service Management procedures; ITIL certification desired.

Friday, March 16, 2012

We're Hiring: Application Support Manager Financial Company / NYC , VP level

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Candidates MUST HAVE green card, US CITIZENSHIP, or valid current h1b with AT LEAST 3 YEARS LEFT.
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Summary:  Hands on Application Support Manager for two client facing applications within Prime Brokerage business of the bank.  Person must have experience interfacing directly with business users/clients for support resolution.  Person must have experience implementing a support strategy.  Must have experience with ITIL or similar IT Service Methodology.  Person must be hands-on with most of the following:  Unix, Unix Commands, Unix scripting  (perl and/or shell), Sybase/SQL Server/SQL Queries, Citrix, Weblogic.   Will also be responsible for leading team of support analysts.    

Main Function
Primary responsibility of the role is to manage the day to day running of the App Support team, ensuring that end users of the Index and Portfolio risk solutions organization are provided with consistent, high quality support that is optimized and constantly reviewed following the ITIL methodology.
Main Duties
The Team Manager will be responsible for directly managing staff in New York and indirectly managing work load for staff in Singapore and Kiev. Setting strategy and determining team direction in line with business and IT agenda. The Team Manager will be responsible for all incident management and tracking as well as subsequent problem management protocols, to ensure that known issues are documented and appropriate next steps are taken with the relevant BTB teams. The Team Manager will also manage major incidents and take responsibility for implementing the required post-incident actions, to ensure issues do not reoccur. Production of timely post mortems and regular metric production is an integral part of this role and the candidate should be comfortable recording, understanding and presenting data charts and timelines to senior management and other stakeholders within the group
Person Requirements
Basic Qualifications
Bachelors Degree
5+ Years experience managing a team

Preferred Qualifications
ITIL foundation certification a plus
Technical support knowledge of SQL,Java,C# gained in a trade support environment
Incident and Post Mortem analysis
Unix/Windows Server administration knowledge a plus
Web Logica/JBoss a plus

We're Hiring: Client On-Boarding/Client Integration Analyst Financial Company/ Jersey City NJ

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Analyst Level (2-7 yrs of professional experience)


Summary:  Person must have minimum 1 years of client on-boarding experience.  Must have at least a general understanding of connectivity, encryption, networks, firewall, FTP and TCP/IP protocol.  Basic knowledge of UNIX, Windows and Shell or Perl scripting is also a plus.   Person should not have less than 1-2 yrs experience and more than 5-7 and person is likely to be too senior for the role.  

Main Function
The bank seeks a "Client On-boarding Analyst" for its Jersey City, New Jersey location.
The primary responsibility is to provide Client Integration/OnBoarding/IT support to Prime Brokerage applications.
Person should be able to work with minimal supervision and manage business expectations in a high demanding global environment.


Main Duties
·         All technical aspects of the client on-boarding process as well as managing relationship with the client's technical contact.
·         Supporting clients by analyzing specific requirements to establish client connectivity for transaction processing/Reporting.
·         Assisting in proposing technical solutions, testing with the client, and troubleshooting technical issues.
·         Work closely with the Prime Brokerage Client Integration and Client Services desk and initiate follow-up with clients to resolve problems.
·         Working on BAU support tasks including ad-hoc reporting and assisting front office and client initiatives including QA/testing activities where necessary.
·         General Application and business process support, including out of hours work


Person Requirements
Basic Qualifications
BA/BS degree required.
         18 months + On Boarding experience
Preferred Qualifications
         Prefer working experience in Financial Services or related field.
·         An excellent and open communicator, able to confidently discuss technical matters with clients, senior management and IT departments.
·         General understanding of connectivity, encryption, networks, firewall and FTP, TCP/IP protocol.
·         Must show rigour, attention to detail and the ability to work on multiple projects under pressure to meet tight deadlines.
·         Self-starter willing to take ownership of issues, projects and tasks and manage them through to resolution / completion.
·         Ability to read and understand programming code (this is not a programming position).
·         Required Technical Skills: Working knowledge of SQL language.
·         Desirable Technical Skills: Working knowledge in application and programming tools, including UNIX(LINUX/Solaris),Windows Server, Scripting (PERL/Shell).
 

We're Hiring: Perl / Linux Developer Financial Company / New York, Analyst/Associate Level

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Perl / Linux Developer
Financial Company / New York
Analyst/Associate Level
Perl Developer position is available on the infrastructure team which develops the bank's advanced portfolio analysis and analytics platform.  This platform is a multi-currency and multi-asset class platform to deliver analytic solutions to clients; it is used globally to analyze the structure, performance and risk of client portfolios versus our industry-leading Global Family of Indices



Main Function
 The position is responsible for supporting:
1)      An advanced Perl based monitoring application
2)      A set of Flex monitoring UIs and consoles
3)      A dynamic deployment framework for generating WebLogic domains and deploying applications on them
4)      A set of web tools to support POINTs development and production teams
5)      POINTs Apache and Perl infrastructure including an advanced set of validation and unit testing libraries
Person is expected to build and enhance the tools that support the development and operation of the platform. Candidates for this position must have good analytical and problem-solving skills; Linux experience; and Perl experience. The candidate should be able to work independently in a fast-paced environment and have strong communication skills.


Main Duties


Build, support and enhance the portfolio analysis and analytics platform suite of infrastructure tools
 

Person Requirements
Basic Qualifications
2+ years Linux experience
2+ years Perl experience
Preferred Qualifications
Strong analytical and problem solving skills
jQuery, JSON or AJAX experience is a plus

We're Hiring: Senior Java Developer/ Architect Financial Company/ NYC VP level

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Main Function

The Core Dev team in the bank which develops and supports the bank's advanced portfolio analytics platform is looking for senior java developer / architect to assist in supporting the scalability, reliability and growth of a high volume, high throughput reporting system mostly built in pure Java running in WebLogic using a Service Oriented Architecture.

Position is expected to work on architectural improvements to enhance the overall client experience on the platform. Candidates for this position must have good analytical and problem-solving skills; experience in Java application development and software development life cycle. The candidate should possess a sound background in Multi-threading, Object Oriented Design, Refactoring and Unit Testing applications. The candidate should be able to work independently in a fast-paced environment and have strong communication skills.

Full description of this analytics platform:   advanced portfolio analytics tool, is our multi-currency and multi-asset class platform to deliver analytic solutions to clients; it is used globally to analyze the structure, performance and risk of client portfolios versus our industry-leading Global Family of Indices

Main Duties

Redesign and enhance existing portfolio analysis platform architecture to improve scalability and reliability.

Basic Qualifications

5+ years Java Development

5+ years Linux experience

3+ years WebLogic experience

Preferred Qualifications

Relevant experience programming concurrent applications

Strong analytical and problem solving skills

Knowledge of caching a plus

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Why Are Americans Avoiding Stocks? Ask a Shrink

Why Are Americans Avoiding Stocks? Ask a Shrink
"The headlines say the financial crisis is behind us. The Dow is back to pre-financial crisis levels. Layoffs are the slowest since the financial crisis, and car sales the highest since the financial crisis.
So why are Americans still too scared to get back in the stock market?
Because all they hear is "financial crisis."
Every comparison to 2008, even a comparison that's supposedly good, stirs memories of 2008. For some people, it rekindles the fear of losing a job or a house. For others, years of retirement savings swallowed by a plunging stock market.
So say the experts in the budding field of behavioral finance. Professional investors and money managers may be baffled that Americans are shaking off the good news. But people with a background in psychology are hardly surprised.
A broad measure of the stock market, the Standard & Poor's 500 index, is up more than 20 percent from last October. The index has more than doubled since March 9, 2009, the low point for stocks during the Great Recession.
But everyday investors refuse to jump in. They pulled $19 billion from funds that invest in U.S. stocks in December, according to the Investment Company Institute, and $2 billion more in January."

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

We're Hiring: Jr/Mid Java Developer (3-5 yrs exp) Server Side Java, with SQL (Top Financial Company/ Jersey City)

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Summary:   Client is looking to hire a junior to mid level Java developer, roughly 3-5 years of experience.    The focus will be server side core
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Java, so should know things like collections api and threading.   It's a web environment so person must know web concepts like Servlets api and HTTP

protocol.     Must also have at least basic SQL.   Although UI experience is desired, it is not required.  Industry experience is not required, happy to

show someone from media, technology or other industry the ropes - key is good coding skills in Java with good computer science fundamentals and great

personality and great communication skills to work in an environment which requires a lot of interactions with other people. 



Main Function
Java Developer within the Web Portal Services - Account Management team. Our team is responsible for the enterprise platform’s authentication and

authorization features and managing the end-to-end lifecycle of over 300k portal client and employee accounts across the Wealth Mgmt Division of the

Bank.  The custom-built platform includes a provisioning application, an authorization and authentication engine, single sign-on, portal affiliate

integrations and a suite of portal control technologies. Work includes designing performance sensitive and scalable web-based applications.

Main Duties
Responsible for full life cycle development of new and existing enterprise-wide Java EE based web applications and components.
Work as a team player in a global development group participating in requirements and data analysis, design as well as development.
Communicate and collaborate between the infrastructure, development and business groups.
Strong analytical skills, self-motivated and capable of working in a dynamic environment that demands multi-tasking.
Ability to generate ideas and efficiently mock up proposals and demos
Apply industry standard design patterns for web application development
Person Requirements
Basic Qualifications:

B.S. degree in computer science or related field with emphasis on technology
Four+ years of experience in Java programming
One+ year SQL experience
Preferred Qualifications:

Working experience in financial industry, especially Wealth Management applications is a plus.
Knowledge of the HTTP protocol, security basics, and user navigation
Hands on experience with J2EE (JDBC, servlets, collections, threading knowledge, OO concepts) design, development and implementation, including writing

unit test cases, and delivering quality code
Web UI experience (HTML, DHTML, CSS, Javascript, XML, XSL, AJAX, GWT, Flash, FLEX) or willing to develop UI experience
Strong SQL skills with Stored Procedure knowledge.
Knowledge of relational database techniques, data warehouse concepts and architecture - Oracle
Knowledge of XML and schema design and validation techniques.
Experience working in UNIX environment including knowledge of shell scripts
Working knowledge with various JavaScript frameworks (jQuery, ExtJS, YUI, etc)
Overall understanding of web architectures
Knowledge of Kerberos and other SSO authentication mechanisms is a plus
Knowledge of identity management technologies including RSA Access Manager, RSA Adaptive Authentication and Gemalto is a plus
Knowledge of mobile application development is a plus
HTML5 skills a plus with Mobile development experience
Working knowledge of directory services - LDAP and Active Directory a plus
Candidate should be able to diagnose problems quickly and independently.
Sharp, quick, aggressive ability to deal with business and system problems
Strong communication skills and willingness to learn new technologies & applications a must!

    

We're Hiring: Project Manager for Portfolio Management IT Team Financial Firm/ NYC, VP level

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Summary:   Project Manager role to support Development and Support initiatives for the firms Portfolio Analytics and Risk Platform.   Will work in PMO. 

Will be responsible for up to 30+ projects ranging from small short-term projects to larger multi-year projects.   Projects will cover application

development, infrastructure and support initiatives to support this Portfolio Analytics and Risk Platform.  This area of firm uses ITIL methodology.  

This is VP level.  



Main Function
This role is within the Point application team, covering mainly RTB projects and assisting in some of BTB areas. POINT is part of Research IT in Client

Facing Technology at the bank. The team responsibilities are development of POINT application, supporting Operations and Run The Bank teams, and

implementing various business and IT projects.

The candidate will work under the program manager in POINT team, and will be responsible for maintaining the POINT IT Program. The program consists of

several RTB and BTB projects. The project manager will schedule and attending meetings, manages technical issues and project progress, and follows up on

various technical and project tasks. Using SharePoint, Microsoft Project, Excel, and other Office applications will be part of the responsibilities

POINT is a multi-currency, multi-asset platform with a wide array of advanced portfolio analytics tools including the global risk model and optimizer,

hybrid performance attribution, scenario analysis, and market exposure reporting.

Main Duties
This role requires excellent communication skills, results oriented, and the ability to quickly learn and adapt to a wide variety of management and

technical tasks. A bachelor’s degree and a minimum of five years of job experience in related roles are required. Understanding IT processes, experience

in technology application and infrastructure areas, and relevant project management or leadership roles is a plus. A high level of excellence and

competency is expected of the candidate.

Some of the responsibilities include:

As part of the PMO, manage the IPRS RTB and BTB program. The main responsibility is on RTB projects. At present there are about 30 projects in scope.

The majority of the projects are small, spanning several weeks. A few are medium sized and take a few months, and a few are large size projects and will

go on for a year or longer. Project areas are hardware capacity and planning stability of the environment, issue and incident management, infrastructure

resiliency and security, obsolescence, operations, client services, and other RTB processes. Depending on the work load and relevance, the project

manager may also help with BTB and development projects.

- Schedule, manage, and follow up on project tasks within POINT.

- Coordinate and host meetings and manage various work threads with RTB, infrastructure, and application teams

Person Requirements
Basic Qualifications
Bachelors Degree
5 years + Project Manager experience
Preferred Qualifications
Having strong interpersonal skills is a requirement of the role.
Effective communication, leadership skills, delegation, high productivity and time management are expected from the candidate.
The ability to lead and keep the project teams focused on deliveries and goals, while maintaining positive and cordial interaction is highly desired.
Prior experience in IT infrastructure, operations, or application development areas is also desired.
     

We're Hiring: IT Project Manager - Client Onboarding (Top Financial Company / NYC) VP Level

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The Bank has launched a strategic initiative to review and re-engineer its client on-boarding processes. The on-boarding processes drive the introduction of new revenue to the firm. The scope includes all businesses and spans the setup of new and expansion of existing client relationships
across all infrastructure touch points, through to downstream trading and risk systems. In its current state, the process is de-centralized, inefficient

and not optimized from an efficiency, cost and client experience perspective.

The objectives of the program are to:
Ensure process efficiencies to decrease time to revenue
Increase client satisfaction
Ensure and enable compliance with new regulatory reform
Deliver cost savings for the firm.
An experienced Senior Technology Project Manager is required to lead the Technology workstream within the Client Onboarding (COB) Program. Reporting to

the Head of Client Onboarding and responsible for the day-to-day running and implementation of various technology deliverables.
Main Duties
The successful candidate will have proven experience in delivering complex, multi team, high profile projects and is a strong believer in Agile and lean

approaches to delivery.
The role will involve working on concurrent large scale software development/implementation projects through management and influence of scope,

schedule, issues/risks, trade-offs, dependencies communications and expectations as well as dealing with ambiguity and being able to adapt to change

rapidly in response to business conditions

This position also acts as a functional and technical leader for application development and management, representing the needs of both business and

application development teams.

Areas of specific responsibility, experience and competence and detailed:

Leadership
- Takes ownership and responsibility for the program and its successful delivery
- Leads by example in continually seeking to improve and is a positive influence on the team and other colleagues
- Seen as a trusted and extremely valuable member of the organization who is key to the development and high quality delivery of programs within these

financial times
- Maintains the motivation within the program and supports the members of the program in every way possible to ensure success
- Has a positive attitude and is open, honest and transparent especially during times of uncertainty and when significant issues arise
- Understands the organization objectives and ensures that the members of the program are fully aware of why they are doing what they have been asked to

achieve
Agile Knowledge and experience
- Expert knowledge and proven experience in the successful application of agile and lean techniques including Scrum, Waterfall, RUP at a team and

program level
- Coaches and mentors within the program along with members of the build teams to ensure that appropriate agile and lean best practices and adopted,

developed and maintained
- Coaches stakeholders and non-core team members on the process, output and benefits of the process and how they can help the teams achieve their and

the associated organization goals

Facilitation & Communication
- Able to clearly communicate at every level in the organization from C suite to build teams, using a variety of methods and appropriate language all

aspects of the program including the process, vision and position
- Negotiates with stakeholders to agree the best approach to deliver the greatest value for the organization
- Owns program practices to ensure cohesion and rhythm within the program and interfaces with dependent programs
- Seeks to continually improve the performance of the program and to ensure that the teams within it deliver against their agreed commitments
- Creates relationships with all key stakeholders to understand their motivations and to keep them involved and engaged in the program
- Continually working to remove barriers to success

Planning & Organization
- Experienced and comfortable managing programs of 10 + globally distributed teams, including third party suppliers, working within the same program to

the same set of objectives, creating a sense of teamwork by pulling together the different members of these teams who may be unrelated and dissimilar
- Works with various people within the business to shape and define the program, its vision, alignment to strategic objectives, initiatives and release

schedule
- Ensures that cross program dependencies are understood by all affected parties, communicated and are managed
- Gains commitment from the teams on the delivery schedule
- Promotes and champions change through generation of innovative solutions, both as an individual and by involvement and inclusion of the team, which

improve the performance of the existing resources, processes and progress towards the program objectives
- Maintains a structured approach to managing change that is transparent and sustainable

Person Requirements
Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's Degree
- 10 years + global Investment Banking environment, with strong management skills in analyzing business processes
- 10 years + business analysis and project management experience with global teams

Preferred Qualifications

Proven experience with managing complex technology programs of work with multiple concurrent projects

Background from either IT development or from IT Technical/ Business analysis required

Understanding of the process to onboard new clients

Detailed knowledge of global compliance projects

Understanding and experience of managing regulatory change – ideally Dodd-Frank and/ or FATCA

Strong SQL knowledge

Extensive experience in business process modeling using MS Visio, Rational Rose, IBM WebSphere to develop various UML, Use Case, Activity, Sequence

Class, Object, State and Business Workflow diagrams

Strong experience in understanding and experiencing implementing DMS, OCR and search engine technologies such as IBM CMOD and Oracle’s Endeca

Proactive team player with well developed interpersonal skills

Ability to deal with high stress situations calmly

Ability to influence junior developers and project managers

Project Management

Structured software development lifecycle best practices

Knowledge of agile delivery methodologies such as Waterfall, RUP, Agile Scrum, Agile XP

Project management tools and processes

Estimation skills and methodologies

Resource scheduling

Risk, issue and dependency management

Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to interact professionally with a diverse group of stakeholders. Capable of developing

effective relationships throughout various levels in the organization

Demonstrated ability to manage conflicting demands and to form independent views

Experience with developing workflow technology solutions and understanding the design impact of each technology (e.g. benefits and consideration matrix, common scenarios and solutions)

We're Hiring: Web Server Admin Financial Company/ Jersey City Mid level

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(5-10 yrs exp)


Summary:  Web Server Admin to support JBoss, Tomcat, Weblogic, IIS Server Environment.  Looking for midlevel person with 5-10 years of experience.   

Must know HTTP protocol, SSL. 



The Global Technology Infrastructure Services organization provides hardware, network, software and application infrastructure services to the global

operations of the Banks Capital Markets, Wealth and Retail division. 
Main Function
The Middleware component of the Global Technology Infrastructure Services organization  incorporates the “Oracle and Open Source Web Hosting” team which

is responsible for managing a number of the primary underlying shared infrastructure services. These include: Web servers; Java Application servers;

HTTP proxy servers; Java Grid Caches; LDAP authentication services; PKI and SSL certificate issue/control; and associated monitoring and control

applications.
Main Duties
The team is responsible for the infrastructure provision, control and support of the global web hosting infrastructure. The main duties include:
2nd / 3rd line support of the environment, including support escalation and change management.
Co-operative working with offshore 1st / 2nd line environment support team colleagues
Subject Matter Expert for a handful of the technologies within the team
Consultancy and assistance to business projects who are on-boarding, ensuring that cost-appropriate and cost-transparent hosting and application

technology are considered and that implementation choices balance business benefit and lifecycle cost
Ensuring and auditing compliance to security standards
Defining architectural strategy in co-operation with application development and production engineering teams
Lifecycle management of all technologies in the Oracle and Open Source Web Hosting team area
Person Requirements
Basic Qualifications


Bachelors Degree
5 years + experience working in a large web services infrastructure in an enterprise sized organization.

Preferred Qualifcations
Experience in a senior IT support or engineering role.
Experience supporting complex web environments and applications.
Experience supporting eCommerce applications.
Hands-on technical skills, with an emphasis on troubleshooting and rapid service restoration.
Ability to work in a distributed global team
Capable of effective written and verbal communication with co-workers.

Skill Requirements
JBOSS
Linux (RHEL preferred) and Windows operating systems.
Multi-tier web hosting architecture and operation
Active Directory and LDAP authentication services
Client certificates and Single Sign On technologies
DMZ Infrastructure
Hardened web server configuration and operation.
Web performance monitoring
SSL and PKI.
TCP/IP and switched/routed networks.

Vendor Technologies
Apache httpd
Apache Tomcat
Microsoft IIS
Oracle Coherence
Oracle Enterprise Manager
Oracle Weblogic
Sun LDAP
Verisign Managed PKI Solutions

We're Hiring: Application Support Analyst (Top Financial Company / NYC) Jr to Mid Level

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Application Support Analyst

Financial Company / NYC

Jr to Mid Level  (3-7 yrs exp)

Main Function
Index Portfolio and Risk solutions support analyst – support the day to day application and systems within the Research IT business.

The Application Support Analyst’s role is to deliver support to end users in the Index and Portfolio Risk solutions organization. This will include but

not be limited to advice and training on how to use various types of software programs efficiently and effectively in fulfilling business objectives.

This includes troubleshooting applications and software for all internal customers, such as operations, development, and other business units. The

Application Support Analyst is also responsible for assisting in the design, delivery, and improvement of in-house software applications and tools sets

to facilitate the day to day running of the systems and infrastructure. The Analyst will be responsible for the day to day system health and maintenance

of the IPRS systems including release management and deployment to a PROD environment
Main Duties
· Field incoming problem tickets from end users to resolve application and software issues within servers, databases, and other mission-critical

systems.

· Document all pertinent end user identification information, including name, department, contact information, and nature of problem or issue.

· Prioritize, schedule, and administer all instances where enhancements and defect resolution are required.

· Perform hands-on fixes, including installing and upgrading software, implementing file backups, and configuring systems and applications.

· Record, track, and document the problem-solving process, including all successful and unsuccessful decisions made, and actions taken, through to final

resolution.

· Communicate application problems and issues to key stakeholders, including management, development teams, end users, and unit leaders.

· Test fixes and perform post-resolution follow-ups to ensure problems have been adequately resolved.

· Maintain and enhance performance of all new and existing software and applications across the organization.

· Identify and learn appropriate software applications used and supported by the organization.

· Coordinate with department heads to assess departmental application training needs and objectives.

· Participate in the design, development, and delivery of software applications training programs and individual classes.

· Post software updates, drivers, knowledge bases, and frequently asked questions resources on company intranet to assist in problem resolution.

· Perform preventative maintenance, including the installation of service packs, patches, hot fixes, anti-virus software, and so on.

· Apply diagnostic utilities to aid in troubleshooting.

Manage and/or provide guidance to junior members of the team
Person Requirements
Basic Qualifications
Bachelors Degree
3+ Years Application support in Financial services industry
Preferred Qualifications
Candidate should have knowledge of ITIL methodology and have experience in a trade support environment gained through a financial institution.

Candidates must possess a strong technical background primarily in Unix/Linux, Weblogic, Apache, Citrix, Java, MS SQL Data Base and Autosys

Fixed Income product knowledge a plus