Monday, March 5, 2012

We're Hiring: Java Developer Financial Company/Montreal Long term, open-ended contract, daily rate

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Summary: Experienced Java developer with 5+ years of experience to develop both the server side infrastructure code for the firm's client facing web applications as well as the web UI's themselves. The server side code will be written in core Java and client side will be coded in JSP.

Person must have good core Java skills, eg: threading, collections api, data structures. Person must know the Servlet API. Person must also have at least some UI experience with JSP, Javacript, CSS, HTML and ExtJS and Flex would be a plus. Another plus is Java Persistence API, JPA. In total, this position will focus more on the server side.

Position Description:	Java Developer to develop the external facing application platform for the company. Will work initially on the core frameworks for the external client environment. The successful applicant would also have additional responsibility to develop, enhance and maintain other new or existing applications. The person in this role will have very good technical and analytical skills, and will work in the team to deliver robust IT solutions to the business. Roles and responsibilities include: • Developing quality software, which meets the business requirements in an effective and efficient manner • Managing projects to ensure they are delivered on time and to budget • Communicating with the business, stakeholders & other developers • Providing 3rd line support for production applications, resolve production issues in a timely manner • Adhering to standards as well as contributing to make the SDLC process more robust An ideal candidate will demonstrate enthusiasm for both new technology & business lines, and an eagerness to learn. He/she will also be able to handle competing demands on time and manage his/her own work to deadlines, and must demonstrate strong communication skills as well as sound judgment. Technology and the business are both changing quickly and the role will offer good opportunity for growth to those who can evolve to meet the needs of the job.

Skills Required:	• Extensive Object Oriented design and Java development experience (JAVA, JSP) • Experience with web based technologies and protocols (HTML, Javascript, XML, XSLT, SOAP) • Experience with designing a large-scale, real-time, business critical systems • Solid system architecture skills (especially 3/N-Tier applications) • Experience in Database design and database programming (Sybase / DB2 ideally) • Strong written and oral communication skills. Ability to express their thoughts effectively • Ability and willingness to learn new technologies and work with them to meet business requirements • Strong team working ability in local and global teams

Skills Desired:	• UI Development(ExtJS experience is prefered) • Experience with Java frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate • UNIX/Linux scripting • Experience building financial systems • Experience gathering & managing requirements

We're Hiring: Web Infrastructure Engineer - (Top Financial, Jersey City)

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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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ideally MINIMUM of 5-10 yrs experience

Summary of Job:

Web Infrastructure Admin & Engineer to provide support to large scale web portal environment. Will partake in both support and engineering tasks such as installs, configuration, optimization, migrations, upgrades. Person needs to have good interpersonal skills to interface directly with business users for troubleshooting. Will consider as little as 5 year experience, but closer to 10 years experience is optimal.

Tech Skills: Must have Weblogic and Apache. Must have basic Unix skills (but the more the better) including: Unix Commands and Shell Scripting. Perl and Python would be a plus. Must have at least basic skills with TCP/IP and HTTP protocols, but the more the better. Would be nice to have F5 Load Balancer.

Main Duties

This role will have the following major duties and responsibilities:

Work as a team player in a global group liaising with Business and IT teams to understand problems affecting the services, systems and projects
Support and co-ordinate investigations to identify root cause analysis of problems and how to resolve problems faced by the project teams and system implementations throughout the project life-cycle, i.e. Analysis, design, development, testing, implementation and hand-over
Strong analytical skills, self-motivated and capable of working in a dynamic environment that demands multi-tasking
Liaise with Business and IT project management to assist in the planning, tracking and delivery of projects into production
Ensure the systems in the production environment are maintained and supported efficiently and effectively
Support the management of projects, ensure quality and timeliness of delivery, and assist in the adherence and enhancement to team methodologies
Ensure all work meets prescribed standards in design and quality
Document all work and communications to a high professional standard
Work with project teams to ensure Support and Disaster Recovery documentation is maintained and available
Co-ordinate initiatives across project areas ensuring the department meets the set deadlines

Person Requirements

Basic Qualifications:

B.S. degree or equivalent in computer science or related field with emphasis on technology
5 + years of experience in web infrastructure engineering

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience in building and supporting multi-tier web application environments
Experience working in UNIX environment with strong UNIX skills. Windows skills good to have.
Excellent understanding of networking from the hardware up, but particularly TCP/IP and HTTP protocols
Experience deploying and supporting Java application servers. WebLogic preferred, but other comparable products are also acceptable.
Good familiarity with Apache Web Server
Strong shell scripting skills, and preferably knowledge of an additional scripting language, e.g. Perl, Python. Experience in writing scripts for process automation.
Familiarity with hardware load balancers (F5)
Knowledge of web infrastructure security
Overall solid understanding of web architectures
Good knowledge of data base technology and SQL query
Working experience in financial industry
Experience of delivering a system into a production environment

Strong analytical skills demonstrating problem-solving ability
Sharp, quick, aggressive ability to deal with business and system problems
Strong communication skills and willingness to learn new technologies & applications a must!
Excellent command of written and spoken English
Strong documentation skills
Familiarity with the challenges of working within a globally distributed team
Good time management and an ability to prioritize work appropriately
Ability to identify and escalate risks and issues as appropriate

Friday, February 17, 2012

HTML5 & Javascript Developers(AT LEAST 3 - VERY Hot Spots) - Top Financial NYC

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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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HTML5 & Javascript Developers(AT LEAST 3 - VERY Hot Spots)

Financial Company/NYC

Contract / Rate Open/ Term expected to be 1yr

(Financial Experience Not Required)

Position is in the Fixed Income Trading Technology Team responsible

for developing the core technologies which enable Bond Traders to

manage trades and positions, calculate P&L, and determine risk during

the entire trading life-cycle.

There are 3 open positions for web developers who have strong

expertise in HTML5 and/or Javascript to develop a dashboard (UI) to a

reporting system which reports pricing, hedging and other financial

data to senior members of the Fixed Income Trading business. The is a

new team for new application which is being built from scratch. This

Dashboard Application will be built for deployment on web and mobile

(Blackberry, iOS). Financial industry experience is not required. We

are looking for UI developers who have strong coding skills, strong

computer science fundamentals with desire to build state of the art

technology.

First version of this application will be built for deployment on

desktop browser. The second will be developed for deployment on

Blackberry.

Blackberry has its own browser extensions/api's which has its own CSS

Style Sheets. Developers must be able to write HTML/ Javascript code

to interface with these Blackberry CSS Style Sheets for browser based

deployment on Blackberry.

Tech Skills:

- Strong web fundamentals (HTTP, HTML, Javascript, CSS)

- Proficient with modern Javascript libraries (ExtJS, jQuery)

- Comfortable with XML

- Comfortable working with Web Service/REST interfaces

- Comfortable with cross-browser compatibility and interface unit testing

- Experience with HTML5 including targeting Blackberry, iOS devices.

- Experience with modern Java templating frameworks (FreeMarker, Velocity)

- Experience developing CXF based Web/REST services

- Java web framework experience (Spring MVC)

- Capable SQL skills (Queries, sps, views, join, etc.; Sybase preferred)

Monday, February 13, 2012

Greece Will Have `Hard Default,' Gallo Says (VIDEO)

Greece Will Have `Hard Default,' Gallo Says

Alberto Gallo, head of European credit strategy at Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, talks about the outlook for resolution of Greece's debt crisis and the credit market in Europe. He speaks on Bloomberg Television's "InBusiness With Margaret Brennan." (Source: Bloomberg)

Monday, February 6, 2012

We're Hiring: Senior Options Trader (Top Financial, London)

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We're looking for a senior options trader who has experience trading Euro Markets, eg: London stock 50.

Will work AOMM (automated options market making) business of a Top Tier Bank in London.

Looking for senior person who can run his/her own desk with self sufficiency.

Friday, January 13, 2012

The MBA's Value? Debatable

The MBA's Value? Debatable
"The P&Q story is about the latest research from the Graduate Management Admission Council, which surveyed 4,135 business school alumni who received their degrees since 2000. The GMAC report paints a rosy picture of the MBA’s value, more or less what you’d expect from the publisher of the GMAT exam, which gives the organization a vested interest in drumming up b-school applications."

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Hedge Funds Hit With Losses In 2011: Only Human?

"Excuses, excuses, and more excuses.

Some of the best-known hedge fund managers have offered lots of excuses for underperforming the major stock market indexes last year, with many large funds posting double-digit losses.

In letters to investors, managers pointed to things like Europe's debt crisis, a slower-than-expected economic recovery in the United States, and unforeseen events like Japan's nuclear disaster all coming together to create a tricky trading environment that was characterized by big and often unpredictable swings in stock prices."

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

We're Hiring: Equity Options Quant/Strategist Prop Trading Firm/ NYC

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Call or text 203-29-QUANT 203.297.8268 if you have any questions and are qualified for this role or others posted.

Please speak clearly if leaving a voicemail, and let me know the role you are
applying for and if you have sent a resume or not. You may call or text at any time. All discussions and messages are fully confidential...

If QUALIFIED &AUTHORIZED FOR USA WORK, email resume onto QuantRec @gmail.com & Quant at QuantRec dot com.

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Must currently be in USA and be Green CARD/US CITIZEN/h1b with enough years left
on visa (at least 3 years).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term (this week & or next week).

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Successful Prop firm in NYC is looking to hire an experienced Equity Options Quant with experience in HFT and AMM. Person should have strategy experience from a mature shop.

Company has all the tools and resources necessary to run successful desk - fast trading/market-making platform, direct exchange connectivity with co-location and competent quants and developers to support trading needs. Company offers exceptionally good work environment with good leadership, good work atmosphere.

We're Hiring: FICC Trader Prop Trading Firm / NYC

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PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary history (2011 base/bonus combined & 2010 base/bonus combined), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie).
Must currently be in USA and be Green CARD/US CITIZEN/h1b with enough years left
on visa (at least 3 years).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term (this week & or next week).

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.
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FICC Trader

Prop Firm / NYC

Successful prop firm in NYC is looking to hire a FICC Trader. Must be primarily a market maker not a big risk taker. Can trade any type of FICC product, either oil, gas, gold, silver or euro dollars etc. Must have experience with Options. Must be able to run a desk with minimal supervision. Company culture is uncommonly good - quality people, good leadership, friendly and collegial work atmosphere. For a successful trader who has it all except the right boss, colleagues or work environment this could be the solution you're looking for.

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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

We're Hiring Senior UX / IA Architect at Team/Project Lead Level Financial Company/NYC

(Open to Full Time OR Consulting, client prefers FULL TIME)

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PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary history (2011 base/bonus - or hourly rate & 2010 hourly rate or base/bonus), location preferences, and for my notes where you have been interviewing or been submitted to in the past 6 months (as there are multiple opportunities if you are a solid techie).
Must currently be in USA and be Green CARD/US CITIZEN/h1b with enough years left
on visa (at least 3 years).

Also include the best times to reach you over the near term (this week & or next week).

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.
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Summary of role: The core UI team in the firm which is responsible for the firm's best UI work (Information Architecture, Useability Engineering, Graphics Design and UI Development) is looking to find an industry leading IA/UX Architect to take a hands on, lead role in an organization of 34 people. Person will initially be responsible for team of 5-7 people and this number is expected to grow steadily. Position will have responsibility for meeting with business users and business stake holders for requirements gathering as well as project planning, team leadership. Person must have successful track record of developing high-fidelity wireframes for large, complex, user & customer facing applications. This position will be responsible for the whole product, not just IA. Thus, person will be responsible for for leading all involved in developing a finished UI Product, including Information Architects, Visual Designers and UI Developers. In total, person must be excellent hands-on Information Architect with experience developing wireframes for large, robust, interactive front-ends while also being a competent team and project leader while also being able to effectively interface with end-users and business stake holders, not just for business requirements but for business development to expand the services being delivered by your team and your larger organization.

Senior User Experience Designer / Information Architect

In New York City

Join a team of 34 user experience analysts in an internal consultancy, working on highly interactive applications for a leading Financial Services company.

Role Description

The User Experience Analyst / Information Architect (IA) will research, plan, design and document user interfaces for web-based, hand-held, and desktop applications.

The ideal candidate

- Is detail-oriented

- Has excellent communication, presentation, and client management skills

- Is comfortable with the User Centered Design process and looks for ways to improve it

- Understands and has opinions about current industry best practices

- Is experienced with designing transactional user interfaces

- Balances an academic interest in best practices with tactical solutions

- Desires to define innovative solutions and publish in industry forums

- Wants to develop a design pattern library

- Manages client expectations and own time efficiently

- Enjoys collaborating with product owners and business analysts to design solutions

The IA will be responsible for

- User research

- Personas

- Feature maps & prioritization

- Sitemaps

- Wireframes

- Functional specifications (or annotated wireframes)

- User testing

Required Qualities

Minimum 5 years of experience working as an user experience professional

Desired Qualities

Experience with Web application design (AJAX / FLEX technologies)

Experience with interactive agency

Good writing skills

Financial Services industry experience

A portfolio and sample work must be reviewed before an interview will be scheduled