Title: Business Analyst

 

Title: Business Analyst
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Length: 12+ Months
Industry: Financial
KEY EXPERIENCE:

The Information Technology Group (ITG) is responsible for:

. Managing CLIENT's technology infrastructure

. Supporting, maintaining and enhancing existing business systems

. Delivering and deploying new systems, technologies and services

CLIENT provides specialist investment, advisory, trading and financial services in select markets around the world. We focus on areas of business where our particular skills and expertise deliver a real advantage for our clients, concentrating resources where we can add the most value.

We are seeking a Senior Technical Business Analyst to join our dynamic team within the CLIENT in Philadelphia. The team is engaged in transitioning the acquisition of CLIENT into the CLIENT platform.

Key responsibilities include:

. Working with IT Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to conduct analysis on in-scope systems and processes with inter-relationships between Delaware Investments and their previous parent company

. Building an understanding of the CLIENT and CLIENT application and infrastructure environments in their current state as well as planned future state.

. Understanding how the business uses these applications and the suitability of the current platform and proposed future platform in supporting the business. This will include leading and participating in working sessions, documenting meeting minutes as well as current and future state application information gathered.

. Based on analysis conducted, identifying and documenting application components to be transitioned and candidate approaches for transition

. Defining and drafting application documentation to support solution delivery within the scope defined for the project. Deliverables will focus on business requirements, solution design, and testing.

. Identifying and raising risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, etc. to support solution delivery within the scope defined.

. Helping to define mitigations, resolutions, implementation, and other actions to remove obstacles to quality and supportable solution delivery.

. Identifying and documenting technical, business, testing and training requirements to insure quality and on time solution delivery. Serve as the key resource to drive these activities to completion in the time defined.

. Testing and validating affected functionality

. Facilitating business acceptance of completed transition solution

We are seeking an individual who has a proven track record in the following:

. Using best practice business and technical analysis principles -

a. Process Analysis and Definition using structured approach such as Use Cases, Diagrams (swim lane, data flow, activity, etc.), Business Rules

b. Interviewing Business Users and Technical Subject Matter Experts: Extract the process workflow, business benefit, risks/issues, and technical interdependencies from system users and/or IT experts.

c. Documenting Processes and Functionality: Ability to write clearly and concisely while expressing an objective view.

d. Issue/Risk Identification & Clarification: Ability to define an issue and its impact as well as identify effective resolution approaches.

e. Sponsorship / Stakeholder Identification: Ability to seek out the key users for an application.

f. Prioritization - Ability to prioritize pieces of work based on business benefit, risk, and other priorities.

g. Exit Criteria and Acceptance - Ability to clearly define exit criteria and user acceptance test cases.

. Has good time management skills - Enjoys working under pressure to provide timely and accurate analysis of systems

. Is a motivated individual - always striving to improve their skill set (without supervision) and keep informed of best practices in the industry.

. Has a diplomatic style with the ability to influence and direct where necessary.

. Has a technical background such as experience using and deploying database technologies, programming or technical architecture

Essential to the role are:

. Capability to do detailed technical analysis

. Strong communication skills - both verbal and written

. Excellent problem solving abilities

. Sound technical understanding of how systems work - with the ability to perform basic SQL

Preference - experience working in, and a high degree of knowledge of the Investment Management industry.

Rick West | Open Systems Technologies
1818 Market Street, Suite 3030, Philadelphia, PA 19103
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Title: Oracle Developer w/ Capital Ma...

 
Title: Oracle Developer w/ Capital Markets (Asset management, Brokerage, Exchanges / related product company - Trading and Compliance System)
Location: Jersey City, NJ
Length: 6+ Months
Industry: Insurance/Financial
KEY EXPERIENCE: Capital Markets (Asset management, Brokerage, Exchanges / related product company - Trading and Compliance system)

6 to 8 years experience in Oracle with at least 2 to 3 years in developing and testing applications for Capital Markets (Asset management, Brokerage, Exchanges / related product company - Trading and Compliance system).
- Highly proficient in SQL Programming using PL/SQL and SQL Server T-SQL
- Work with the business analysts to understand the requirements.
- Maintain and support all the in house built systems.
- Skills and prior development experience using IBM DataStage
- Excellent analytical and problem solving and time management skills.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Recommend solutions, design systems and develop software to meet requirements.
- Maintain technology expertise, keeping current with evolving systems analysis, programming and database technology.
- Lead Root Cause Analysis during QA or Regression test failures
- Ability to communicate effectively with developers on data issues and work to resolve them


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Title: Storage Analyst w/ EMC Network...

 
Title: Storage Analyst w/ EMC Networker, EMC Avamar
Location: Livingston, NJ
Length: 6+ Months
Industry: Insurance
KEY EXPERIENCE:

Develop requirements, design, implementation, and support skills in Backup and Recovery technologies primarily with EMC Networker, IBM VTL/Tape Libraries, STK, VTL, EMC Avamar hardware/software. NetApp NAS skills is a plus. In addition, engineers should have knowledge of other Backup and Recovery infrastructures from other leading vendors. Other key responsibilities include development of project requirements, storage solutions, business case development, project technical lead, PowerPoint presentations, Visio diagrams, storage asset management, documentation and standards development, quote generation and review, and budget planning and review.

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Title: Cobol Developer

 

Title: Cobol Developer
Location: Wilmington, DE
Length: 6+ Months
Industry: Insurance
KEY EXPERIENCE:

Analyzes functional business applications and design specifications. Develops block diagrams and logic flowcharts. Translates detailed design into computer software. Codes, tests, debugs, maintains and refines the computer software to produce the required product. Prepares required documentation, including both program-level and user-level documentation. Enhances software to reduce operating time and improve efficiency

5-7 years of SQL Server 2000, 2005 with preference toward candidate who has SQL 2008 experience.
10 years of COBOL (at least 3 of those years need to be in Windows COBOL)
Team lead experience with preference toward offshore management
Exposure to insurance industry
History of analytical problem solving (references required)
Local to Wilmington (within 1 hour commute)
Prefer experience in Centura for Windows (Gupta)


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Title: Java/J2EE Developer w/ Recent ...

 

Title: Java/J2EE Developer w/ Recent Prior Financial exp. (Lehman, Goldman, JP Morgan, Barclays, etc.)
Location: Warren, NJ
Length: 12+ Months
Industry: Financial
KEY EXPERIENCE:

Looking for 2 Technical specialist will be responsible for the design, development and system integration for the various Credit Data Ownership (CDO) programs under Credit Risk Interface (CRI). The candidate would be working closely with the requirements team, business users to understand Business Requirements and design, develop and test the solution. The candidate would be working closely with the offshore team providing the technical guidance, design and will be responsible for the timely implementation of the requirements. He/ She will be involved in the requirements analysis phase of the project. The candidate would be responsible for interacting with multiple project teams during the project implementation. The candidate will be required to be able to demonstrate strong leadership and will need to contribute hands-on.
· Strong experience in J2EE technologies in a web development environment (XML, XSL, Web Services, JMS, Spring Framework, SOA Architecture)

· Experience in developing Rich Internet Application (RIA) using AJAX or Flex

· Strong Object Oriented Development experience with end-to-end application design and development

· Oracle database development experience including, but not limited to, creating stored procedures, query optimization, performance tuning.

· Strong experience in designing, documenting enterprise applications by producing Class Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams etc.

· Familiarity of Staffware, ALBPM or other Business Process Management (BPM) tools a plus

· Basic working knowledge of Unix operating systems including, but not limited to, basic shell scripting

· Good documentation & presentation skill desired

Experience with load testing and performance monitoring tools a plus.
· A basic understanding of Finance/Risk Management and Corporate Credit Approval process.

· Strong software design and development skills

· Understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC) in a team environment.

· Familiarity with Risk management business is a plus

Experience in working on a global application with distributed teams a plus.
· Lead a team of developers working on the requirements analysis, design, development and testing of application components. Position would require both leadership and hands-on development work working closely with the developers and the project manager.

· Analyzes functional needs that drive the analysis and technical design of quality technical solutions; recommends solutions that are aligned with business / strategies and complies with corporate architectural standards. Works with other senior technical members/architects to achieve the same.

· Resolves the most critical application and technical problems. Sets example as a leader and mentors other members

· Analyzes performance and capacity issues with systems / applications software and/or application components. Suggest means of improvement

· Works collaboratively with team members distributed across multiple locations on development, troubleshooting, and other technical efforts

· Document designs, test plans, etc. as needed to consistently deliver high quality solutions

Interacts with clients to understand, analyze the requirements and suggest solution for the same.
· A Bachelor's degree in computer science

· 7 years or more of industry experience in related technologies

· 5 years or more of experience designing and implementing Oracle tables , statements, triggers and stored procedures

· Solid ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

· Experience with source code management, SDLC life cycle management, client management

· Familiarity and working experience with all the components of a multi-tier web based architecture

· Experience working in an on-shore/off-shore delivery model desired

· Excellent Communication skill - both written and verbal

Demonstrated ability of leadership and deliver in a fast paced environment.

Rick West | Open Systems Technologies
1818 Market Street, Suite 3030, Philadelphia, PA 19103
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Title: SharePoint Developer w/ Web Si...

 
Title: SharePoint Developer w/ Web Site Design experience
Location: Wilmington, DE
Length: 6+ Months
Industry: Insurance
KEY EXPERIENCE: I'm looking for someone that has both SharePoint development experience and demonstrated Web Site design experience.

Designs and builds web pages, including user interface features, site animation, and special-effects elements, using a variety of graphics and software applications, techniques, and tools. Requires understanding of web-based technologies and through knowledge of HTML and design-related applications. Experienced in developing secure sites appropriate for electronic commerce.

Support, maintain and enhance the CLIENT Global Intranet sites, on the MOSS 2007 platform in accordance and in cooperation with the Corporate Communications organization. Migrate existing intranet sites from current platform to MOSS 2007.

Propose design ideas for enhancement of Global Intranet site
Develop agreed upon enhancements to the Global Intranet site in a reusable manner
Work with various business owners to consolidate existing intranet sites to MOSS platform

3+ years Sharepoint development
Microsoft MOSS 2007 platform
. Master Pages
. Content Types
. Custom Web Parts
. Features.
MS SQL Server platform
MS Office
SharePoint Designer 2007,
Visual Studio.NET 2005/2008
AJAX Controls
IIS
ADO.NET

C#, ASP.NET, VB Script, Java Script, HTML, XML, SQL, T/SQL

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Title: Ab Initio Technical Lead

 
Title: Ab Initio Technical Lead
Location: Wilmington, DE
Length: 12+ Months
Industry: Financial
KEY EXPERIENCE: Must be GC Holder or US Citizen

Technical Specialist - Ab Initio Technical Lead

Please Send LOCAL resumes only

Job Qualifications: Indicate the minimum knowledge and experience required for the position, including:

Job Qualifications

3 to 7 years AbInitio experience:

- Strong UNIX and Shell Scripting experience is a must.

- Broad-based cross-functional IT experience in application development and interface design is essential.

- Must have sound experience using databases such as Oracle and Teradata.

- Must be able to interpret the transformation rules and develop the software components to support the same.

- Excellent Analysis and problem solving skills.

- Must work well in a collaborative, team environment as well as independently.

- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.

- Data Warehouse/ETL design and development methodologies knowledge and experience is preferred.

Experience with Large Data Warehouse updated in "Near Real Time"

Experience in the Financial Services Industry

Experience with one or more of the following is a big plus:

- Business Intelligence Technology

Non-technical knowledge, experience, and skills (leadership, management, oral and/or written communication, etc.): The candidate must possess superior communication skills as they will be interacting with people with diverse skills and seniority.

Educational requirements: BA/BS

Language requirements (including proficiency levels for speaking, reading, and writing): English - excellent.


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Title: PAM (Portfolio Asset Managemen...

 
Title: PAM (Portfolio Asset Management) Developer
Location: NYC
Length: 6+ Months
Industry: Financial
KEY EXPERIENCE:

Senior Software specialist with 6 + years of experience doing hands on development using PAM (Portfolio Asset Management) investment accounting system. The candiate will need to be able to analize requirements and follow SDLC process, lead other developers and be able to analyze and debug existing applications.

Knowledge of PAM SDK.(Software development kit)
Knowledge of OOP ( Object oriented programming )
Knowledge of VB.NET, VB 6.0
Knowledge of ADO and ADO.NET
Knowledge of C#
Knowledge of SQL server. Creating and supporting MS SQL tables, stored procedures and views.
Knowledge financial reporting
Expected to be a self starter
Ability to follow SDLC process and good documentation skills
Team Player
Responding to ad-hoc queries from senior management.
Knowledge of accounting a plus
Analyzes functional business applications and design specifications. Develops block diagrams and logic flowcharts. Translates detailed design into computer software. Codes, tests, debugs, maintains and refines the computer software to produce the required product. Prepares required documentation, including both program-level and user-level documentation. Enhances software to reduce operating time and improve efficiency

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Title: .NET Developer

 
Title: .NET Developer
Location: Pennsauken, NJ
Length: Contract to Hire
KEY EXPERIENCE:

CLEINT has a need for an ecommerce website with cart functionality, and the ability to retrieve data from iSeries AS400 system. The website should also have the ability for customers to search and retrieve previous invoices and credits, print invoices and credits, create and retrieve stock orders, retrieve customer pricing based on customer account parameters incorporating the existing pricing matrix tables in the productions system, and communicate orders to order entry personnel.

The resulting system must be scalable and have a basic back-end so that non-technical persons have the ability to maintain and manipulate the ordering process, customer accounts (web-side) and feature sets for customer accounts.

Job Requirements

The individual selected for this position should possess the following skills.

· Strong ASP.NET programming knowledge

· Some exposure to AJAX concepts and JavaScript

· Some exposure to AS/400 iSeries systems

· The ability to create IBM SQL for DB2 and stored procedures

· Some familiarity with PDF processing within the scope of ASP.NET

· Exposure to eCommerce concepts and best practices
· Ability to deploy and configure IIS 6 & 7


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