Responsibilities:
Heavy Travel Required.
Our client has an immediate opening for an Implementation Project Manager. They are looking for someone who wants to take the next step in their career path. This position is based out of their NYC office, but heavy travel is required. You may be away for long periods of time domestically and internationally. This is a full time position. The Project Manager will be responsible for implementing their proprietary software packages and products at client sites in the Energy and Financial sectors. You will manage teams, develop project plans and budgeting, coordinate resources, and hold weekly project management meetings. The PM will also coordinate and meet delivery dates, and track project risks and issues. You will manage client relationships and ensure client satisfaction. This person will work in a team to set goals, understand client requirements and develop detailed plans. The Project Manager will act as the primary client interface and ensure consistent client satisfaction. You may be required to provide sales support and other related tasks required to support our client`s products and clients.
QUALIFICATIONS:
A BS/BA degree or higher is required
3+ years of project management experience is required; You must have experience implementing software
3+ years of experience with trading and risk management is required
MConsulting experience is required, preferably in the financial services or Energy markets
Solid understanding of application development life cycle (SDLC or TLC)
Strong skills with MS Project, Excel and Word
Excellent organizational, time management and planning skills
Acute attention to detail
Outstanding organizational skills
Ability to self start and work independently and in a team setting
Strong analytical, presentation, writing, communication and problem solving skills
Expected travel is around 75%
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $100,000 – $125,000
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
Global Markets Equity Production Management, are responsible for supporting Global Prime Finance, Equity Trading, Equity Derivative Trading and Risk Management systems for Deutsche Bank.
This position is for a Global Prime Finance US regional Production Manager who will be based in New York. GPF are responsible specifically for the Prime Brokerage, Synthetic Equities, Securities Lending, Risk Management and Client Reporting applications.
Main Duties & Responsibilities
A high profile management position responsible for guiding and directing a team of 12 that provide the day-to-day Client Services Level 1 and 2 support of 16 applications associated with Trade Acceptance, Portfolio Management (PB, IPB & SEF), Risk Management, Securities Lending and Client Reporting/Client Connectivity.
Management Responsibilities:
Management experience and ability to lead and motivate a regional support team
Manage the day to day activities of team, prioritize tasks and ensure that deliverables are timely
Mentor and provide performance expectations and feedback to staff
Build and maintain an effective, productive relationships with the user community and represent their interests to the development team
Drive production issues with relevant stakeholders on a regular basis to continually improve service and stability.
Drive relevant feedback into Incident, Problem and Change management programs
Work with regional Asia and LN managers to contribute to and deliver on the Production Management book of work.
Complete operational ownership of the applications supported: oversee change and releases, recommend application / architectural / infrastructure improvements, ensure adequate DR is in place, accountable for stability of the overall system.
Lead during crisis management situations and effectively advise / communicate to traders as well as adequately direct the support team
Responsibility of the Team:
First point of contact to resolve all production application problems
Log and track all user related issues and requests
Detailed knowledge of all business flows, the application architecture and the hardware configuration for supported applications
Provide ad-hoc reporting and investigative support to business managers or compliance staff when existing systems are unable to provide the necessary data for these teams
Provide application software and hardware support
o Troubleshoot and research possible product bugs or failures
o Trace transactions through the system and conduct research beyond the basic scripts and monitoring / research tools provided
o Monitor applications and their associated hardware throughout the day using existing monitoring tools, identify intraday capacity issues
o Write basic to intermediate scripts to support their function
o Drive the development of tools needed to provide effective support
o Define new operating system, infrastructure, application and business oriented monitoring alerts and coordinate their integration into existing monitoring tools
o Escalate all unresolved issues to senior management
Own the production environment and act as gate keeper for all changes:
o Approve all new releases and production configuration changes
o Ensure development includes all necessary documentation for each CR: release notes, test plan + scorecard, backout procedures etc.
o Implement all releases into production, conduct post-release testing
o Execute pre-determined back-out procedures (if required)
o Conduct reviews of all open production items with the dev team
o Conduct post-mortems
o Define and document procedures
Requirements:
2+ years managing a support desk
5 years technical experience
3 years financial industry experience supporting Prime Finance applications
Complete understanding of incident, problem & change management principles
Equities experience
Job Specific Skills
Thorough understanding of:
· Shell or Perl scripting
· SQL
· Unix
Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
Ability to Multitask
Ability to perform and communicate under pressure
Weblogic / Application servers
Java
Education / Professional Qualifications / Certifications:
College education
Knowledge of ITIL processes
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $130,000 – $165,000
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
This is a development role within the risk calculation services practice area, focused on projects for the Emerging Markets desk. Role involves workings with traders, modellers and controllers building systems for pricing, risk management and P&L.
Work includes a mixture of short term tactical development (eg. investigating P&L, setting up scenarios, small development tasks in existing trading tool) and longer term strategic work (eg. system extensions to allow trading of exotic derivatives on non-deliverable currencies)
System is written in C#, Java, C++ and proprietary language. Candidate will need to be comfortable working in all environments.
Requirements:
The candidate needs to be…
1) bright and numerate with strong problem solving skills in an extremely fast paced enviroment.
2) must have some knowledge of fixed income instruments (bonds, swaps, etc)
3) must have good communication skills to be able to articulate herself/himself in front of traders and other internal clients.
3) The ideal candidate must have strong experience on server side programming in Java/C++
Skills Desired
Past experience or working knowledge of Interest Rate Derivatives pricing and Emerging Market products is a big plus.
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $100,000 – $150,000
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
The Client Connectivity Services group is looking to recruit a FIX systems integrator to join a team working on a number of exciting and challenging projects supporting the rapidly growing area of client self trading technology. As a member of the Global FIX Client Integration team, you will design, configure, test and support FIX interfaces between clients and internal and external Morgan Stanley electronic trading destinations. You will be responsible for managing complex production trading environments in both equities and fixed income areas and will apply creative solutions to systems and applications issues that arise from clients who push our technology to the limit and beyond. The position involves extensive interaction with our clients, account managers and various Morgan Stanley trading desks to develop technology and business solutions to enable clients to connect and trade electronically. Additional responsibilities include working with APG development teams to translate client demand for functionality into requirement specifications to drive innovation in our FIX product offering, providing 2nd and 3rd level production support and working with 3rd party OMS, Connectivity and Service Bureau vendors to implement and test products such as Algorithmic Trading and PassPort.
Requirements:
Experience with the FIX protocol .
A basic understanding of TCP/IP, network infrastructure and firewall.
Linux
SQL/Sybase
Candidate should possess excellent communication and relationship building skills.
Self-motivated, enthusiastic and flexible team player.
Good troubleshooting skills, logical thinker, customer focused.
Candidate is required to be proactive in resolving immediate problems while balancing the need to keep on track the strategic initiatives.
Ability to perform under pressure without losing composure is key.
Skills Desired
Shell and perl scripting.
Experience working with electronic trading product offerings.
Understanding of financial markets including Cash/Futures/Options/FX and securities trading .
Experience working on a client facing team.
Experience of change control procedures.
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $100,000 – $140,000
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
Provide daily support of client’s electronic internal/external trading and risk applications for the Institutional Equities division. Position is on the MS trading floor and candidate will provide support both in person and via hotline. Responsibilities include application testing/verification/deployment, manning hotline, application troubleshooting and resolution, and interfacing with external clients. Business lines being covered range from Cash, Programs, Derivatives, Swaps, Algorithmic, Client Facing systems. Candidate will be in close, constant contact with the business unit, and will often act as a liaison between the business and development groups. This is not a desktop support role.
Requirements:
Ability to function in a high pressure environment,
Excellent communication skills
Ability to prioritize,
Strong Unix, FIX and SQL knowledge.
Equity trading knowledge a plus (series 7 and/or 63 licenses)
Skills Desired
Experience working on a trading floor supporting electronic trading and risk systems.
Knowledge of equities trading and trade flow.
XML, PERL
Skill Proficiency: Intermediate
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $90,000 – $135,000
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
Principal Accountabilities:
General Project Management and Leadership
Provides project management leadership using methodology standards that is aligned with the policies and procedures of Company
Integrates activities with other Company departments (as appropriate, e.g, IT, Profit Center) to ensure successful implementation & support of project efforts
Lead and manage project team(s) throughout the project lifecycle
Scope Management
Ensure the project scope is adequately defined and project executed to address scope/objectives of project
Works closely with project sponsors (business & IT) to ensure requirements are complete, accurate and measurable
Time Management
Ensure that appropriate estimates (with associated details to defend) are prepared and maintained for project efforts
Establish & maintain detail project work plan(s) within Primavera needed for scheduling, tracking and monitoring project progress/results
Ensure that project resources (business, IT & vendor) time estimates are adequately loaded into Primavera workplan and that the results agree to project baseline cost estimates – thereafter, forecasts are managed based on actuals (timesheet entry) and updates to the Primavera workplan.
Financial Management
Ensure that initial project estimates & financial forecasts are complete with sufficient level of detail to support baseline estimates
Throughout project, ensure that project budget/actuals are accounted for accurately, completely and timely
Review developed business case and perform periodic review (with assistance as needed) to ensure that business case objectives/goals are managed/obtained
Communicate / report financial performance throughout project lifecycle
Quality Management
Ensures that project approach deploys adequate quality assurance techniques in accordance with our client’s standards
Provides oversight/management of program defect tracking and associated resolution
Participates in Corporate PMO quality / assurance reviews as necessary, with specific timeframes correlated to project major milestone delivery dates, including end of planning/initiation
Obtain project approvals of key milestone deliverables in accordance to our client’s PMO standards (e.g., Design/Building Permits, UAT Acceptance and Go Live)
Resource Management
Promotes proper resource management via detail primavera workplan with resource forecasted at appropriate levels
Monitors & communicates resource utilization (including negotiating resource contention)
Provides & coaching of project team members
Communication Management
Institutes effective project related internal and external communication
Escalates and resolves issues via proper communication channels
Risk Management
Timely identifies, tracks, manages and resolves project issues and risks
Procurement Management
Manages vendor(s)/contractor(s)/consultant(s) relationships and rules of engagement
Requirements:
Successful Candidate must have:
Minimum 5 years experience in project management in mainframe environment; must include people management and management of project teams.
Technical experience with COBOL, JCL, CICS.
Experience with principles of wrapping logic, services, service layers.
Understanding of principles relating to middleware components.
Experience with relational databases and use of SQL queries for data retrieval.
Understanding of use of XML, MQseries, FTP, web development principles.
Minimum 3 years in financial services; life insurance preferred.
Demonstrated strong customer service ethic.
Additional Preferred Experience:
Experience in significant successful projects involving design and implementation of revamp of legacy systems.
Some experience with distributed systems, understand web technology and architecture.
Education:
This position requires a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience. Additionally, a Project Manager I must have successfully completed the following Project Management classes sponsored by the Corporate Project Management Office (or equivalent):
PM Foundations
Primavera Basics
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $115,000 – $130,000
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
Senior-level, technologist with experience in identifying product and custom-developed solutions to enterprise business problems, recommending solutions and managing both the process and staff to complete implementation.
Requirements:
1. Development experience, prior to becoming a technology manager. Full software development life cycle.
2. Architecture definition background. Architecture implementation background, with emphasis on qualifying, evaluating and selecting system components for implementing architecture.
3. Product integration and/or custom software integration experience at an enterprise level, as a developer and as technology manager. Valuable experience normally comes from having been through the process of delivering 1-2 years implementation, while making technical and personnel decisions on advancing the project through difficulties. Key personal trade is to poses technology knowledge at a high level to foresee and prevent issues, or apply it manage the teams through such issues.
4. Ability to envision and create contingency technology plans, to keep projects on track.
5. Ability to set clear technology-realization goals
6. Ability to manage remote team to established goals; ability to recover from unmanageable situations
Additional characteristics
1. 10 years of technology experience, spanning from Client/Server systems to Distributed Messaging Systems, to Web-enabled applications
2. Healthcare IT experience, is not a must, but learning curve will be at mid-level
3. Orientation towards message-oriented, multiple format, mutiple server systems where information is routed from node to node, is the most important. It gives the right technology foundation to this job
4. Orientation towards developing test automation tools is complementary
5. Knowledge in Oracle 10-11g/SQL Server 2005, SOA, Interfaces design (object-oriented, web services), Message Routing, Object Modeling/UML 2.0,
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Salary: $130,000 – $150,000
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
Participate in deployment of in-house written and commercial products for Market Data distribution. Manage related projects, using the best practics and technical standards. Responsibilities include:
- working with development teams on software support and integration
- capacity planning and management of the time-sensitive data delivery infrastructure
- outage management, including communication with affected clients, documentation and resolution implementation
- facilitation of audit and security requirements
- create effective strategies for proactive monitoring of the plant
Requirements:
- solid knowledge of Unix/Linux OS
- good scripting skills in shell, Perl or Python
- excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills
- ability to communicate in clear and concise manner with technical and non-technical personnel
- functional knowledge of networking topology and basic protocols (TCP/IP, multicast)
- familiarity with financial industry and trading concepts
Skills Desired:
knowledge of relational databases and SQL
- experience with programming languages (C,C++, Java)
- familiarity with middleware components (MQ, XML)
- exposure to FIX and FAST technology
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $90,000 – $140,000
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
Securities Operations Application Support Analyst will join the New York team of the global Securities Operations support team situated within the Production Management Practice Area Group.
The successful candidate will exhibit strong business and technical skills having experienced a wide variety of functions/ technologies preferably within a banking/securities environment and be able to apply these to troubleshooting significant system outages.
Strong leadership qualities are essential, as the role involves:-
- Chairing outage resolution conference calls, managing significant incidents and coordinating communications.
- Initiating, growing and shaping processes, procedures and strategies to make the team more effective – familiarity with ITIL service management frameworks would be of benefit.
- Presenting both new projects, metrics, and other reports to the wider group and sharing best practices.
- Leading projects and initiatives within the team to implement new strategies, manage events (infrastructure change, software releases, business continuity tests, etc.) and on-board support for new business areas or renovated systems.
- Developing and coaching others.
- Marshalling offshore resources providing level 1 and level 2 support.
- Acting as a key point of contact for multiple development teams to drive improvements in application and user support processes.
- Acting as a primary escalation/communication point between Application development teams, Infrastructure groups, and client Business Units
- Challenging existing practices to strive for continuous improvement
This is a diverse role which provides great personal development opportunities and will suit an astute application support analyst with an appetite for responsibility, front office business contact, hands-on technology exposure and daily challenge in a dynamic environment.
Requirements:
- Intermediate knowledge of UNIX operating systems
- Familiarity with relational database concepts and basic SQL syntax
- Familiarity with client/server based application architectures.
- Prior financial services industry experience
- Prior application support experience
- Excellent prioritization and time management
- An analytical approach to problem solving
- Client facing skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
Skills Desired
ITIL Certification
- Familiarity with IT infrastructure – networks, storage, unix system administration etc.
- Familiarity with application infrastructure – MQ, Autosys, Databases (Sybase an advantage)
- Software development experience or previous close development team contact
- Java, HTML, Web skills a plus
- Perl and Shell scripting
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $80,000 – $125,000
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
Our client’s Trade Lifecycle Management team is looking for software quality engineers and testers to test server-side code for trade life cycle management services used by several trading applications. We are looking for experienced testers who can write test plans and test cases based on business requirements, automate test cases, test developed code based on plan, and recommend process improvements to improve overall quality in the software development process. We are looking for well-rounded and senior testers who are experienced in all aspects of the testing cycle including system integration, performance and user acceptance testing as well as familiarity with the software development process. All team members must have strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, fluency in automated testing tools, good communication skills, and most of all enthusiasm for tackling complex problems.
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Analysis of business and functional specifications.
• Creation of detailed test plans.
• Develop test cases.
• Automation of test script.
• Execution of automated test scripts.
• Tracking defects, fixes, builds, etc.
• Participation in design and code reviews.
Requirements:
Four-year college degree preferably in computer science, engineering or applied mathematics.
7 + years SQA and product testing experience.
4 + years of test script automation and execution.
• Experience writing test plans and test cases for server based applications, Linux and Windows.
Experience in installation and setup of test automation infrastructure.
• Extensive experience in all phases of testing including unit, integration, QA, performance, and user acceptance testing.
• Experience in developing computer programs or understanding of the software development life cycle.
• Superior organization, written communication and verbal communication skills.
Expert user of MS Word and Excel.
Flexible, team-player.
• Fast learner, lots of enthusiasm and be able to work well in groups.
Skills Desired:
Experience using; QTP, Loadrunner, JUnit, XMLUnit, FIT, Jamelon, or similar.
Experience in Scripting; action, Javascript, PHP, Perl, or similar.
Experience in the Financial Industry a plus.
• Some background in computer programming.
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $100,000 – $150,000
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
