Thursday, June 24, 2010

Is Soros wrong on the Euro?

Just because he was right on the pound years ago, does it mean the press should just parrot everything he says? Soros was completely wrong on Lehman Brothers, how come they never mention that in any of their articles?

"ers.

George Soros thinks the world may be in for a long recession and that housing prices will continue to fall more than most economists expect. He thinks a "superbubble" has been forming for 25 years--and it's currently collapsing.
But he thinks Lehman Brothers is going places.

The notable philanthropist, political activist, and hedge fund investor who made a killing on smart currency bets in the 1990s, disclosed in a filing yesterday that his fund raised its stake in the troubled investment bank from 10,000 shares to 9.5 million shares during the second quarter.

The stake, worth about $188 million, comes to 1.4 percent of Lehman's outstanding shares.

Let's hope he's in it for the long haul, because the trade doesn't seem to be paying off so far. Lehman shares started the second quarter in the mid-$40s, falling to $19.81 by June 30."

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Sr C++ Financial Developer NYC (5-10 years experience)

PAY OPEN FOR TOP QUALIFIED CANDIDATES _MEETING MOST OF THE SPEC BELOW_

DO NOT APPLY IF YOU DO NOT MEET 80% OR MORE OF THE SPECIFICATION!

Email IF QUALIFIED TO SPEC BELOW resume to QuantRec @gmail.com Looking for 2 experienced C++ / FINANCIAL developers. MUST BE US WORK AUTHORIZED
FEEL FREE TO CALL IF QUALIFIED TO SPEC BELOW.
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MUST BE AUTHORIZED TO WORK IN THE USA.

THANKS.
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Sr C++ Financial Developer NYC (5-10 years experience):

Smart Order Router (SOR), and Exchange Connectivity (EC).

These positions are for experienced developers to lead or to become involved with the development of the products in this space. These are critical roles that have a high impact on the various businesses within group. The successful candidates will be responsible for design, development and enhancements.

These products support global businesses including Equities, Derivatives, Cash Equities and Program Trading.

These include:

Customization of pre-programmed “tactics” to meet specific requirements in various markets.
Infrastructure and applications to improve order/execution throughput, latency and resilience.
Ensure consistent functional and technical design and deliver clear, concise technical design documentation and code.
Full project life cycle–requirements analysis, design, development, testing and production rollout.
If Senior:
Day to day task distribution to the junior team members.
Project planning and project management.

Cross-platform in C++ and Java and use a variety of 3rd party products such as Tibco EMS, 29 West UME, Times Ten, Oracle, Transact Tools Fix engine.

Have at least 5 years of strong experience with C++, object-oriented design and have had at least three consecutive successful years at a financial institution doing similar work in any business line (fixed income, equities or any type of derivatives) and have developed areas of significant technical and business expertise.

Exposed to some of the following: smart order routing, crossing/internalization of order flow, order management, algorithmic trading, exchange connectivity, FIX protocol, real-time market data, high-frequency trading.

Efficient programmer who provides an excellent level of service for your production environments and can debug and troubleshoot ambiguous issues. Multi-task and work effectively under pressure and with tight deadlines.
Experience with Linux, C++, SQL databases, in-memory databases, middleware such as EMS or UME, multi threading/synchronization and distributed computing. Adept with debugging tools and analyzing complex distributed systems.

If SENIOR: exceptional hands-on developer with excellent software design/architecture and implementation skills and a proven track record of leading and managing small teams with effective, high-quality delivery. Demonstrate above-average project- and time-management skills and being an independent self-starter with good oral and written communication skills.

Location: New York.

Timeframe: Immediate.

Monday, June 14, 2010

Business Objects Reports Developer Large Financial Company/ NYC Mid Level Associate, 80-110K base +bonus MUST BE USA WORK AUTHORIZED

Business Objects Reports Developer
Large Financial Company/ NYC
Mid Level Associate, 80-110K base +bonus (MUST BE USA WORK AUTHORIZED, MORE THAN 3 YEARS LEFT ON H1B)
If QUALIFIED &AUTHORIZED FOR USA WORK, email resume QuantRec @gmail.com
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MUST BE AUTHORIZED TO WORK IN THE USA.

THANKS.

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Also include the best times to reach you over the near term.

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


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Business Objects Reports Developer
Large Financial Company/ NYC
Mid Level Associate, 80-110K base +bonus

Job Description:
The Firm's Corporate Treasury division is responsible for providing corporate-finance advisory services to senior management and the business units; maintaining the firm’s liquidity; accessing multicurrency short- and long-term financing; optimizing the firm’s capital base; coordinating our relationships with rating agencies, lenders, and creditors; managing the firm’s foreign exchange and interest rate exposure; and acquiring adequate insurance for the firm’s activities.

To that end, we are seeking two Reports Developer, who can work closely with technology and business colleagues, to develop and automate client facing reports. The candidate must demonstrate strong skills in Business Objects, Crystal Reports, and Databases.The candidate must also have strong communication and interpersonal skills to work very closely with team members and end-users.

Must Have:
- Business Objects - For Reports Development, version R3
- Crystal Reports – For Reports Development
- Sybase - to do queries, fix bottlenecks

Nice to have:
- C#, ASP.NET
- DB2
- Excel Writer and other reporting tools
- Experience with 3rd-party toolkits such as infragistics
- Knowledge of financial products

Friday, June 11, 2010

Java/J2EE Developer and Architect NYC TOP FINANCIAL

Java/J2EE Developer and Architect, Looking for Senior Java / J2EE Architect (and developer) who can take full ownership of large application development initiative for the firm. NYC TOP FINANCIAL
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Must have:
Strong expertise in Architecting, Tuning, Developing Large-Scale, Web Based, Java Applications.
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NO SPAM, NO OUTSOURCED/ CONSULTANTS, NO THIRD PARTIES,

MUST BE AUTHORIZED TO WORK IN THE USA.

THANKS.
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Please BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2009 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). Also include the best times to reach you over the near term.

Feel free to call 24/7 if you are QUALIFIED &AUTHORIZED FOR US WORK for this role or any others listed on http://www.QuantRec.com
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Must have financial industry experience in Prime Brokerage or some combination of Fixed Income, Equities, Risk Management.

Senior J2EE developer to develop a Web based Dashboard application along with data management and distribution platform for

1. Coding in Java to create/customize application frameworks to build Dashboard within Armanta platform as well as build Data management processes to load Feeds, Messages etc. interfacing with ESM, EFAM, Cameo, uVAR, cVAR, PrimeDB and other firm’s systems.

2. Architecting J2EE server infrastructure for Armanta distributed processing

3. Code Entity Models in Armanta to map user specification against Dashboard staging database

4. Performance tune Java based infrastructure configuring Java threads, JVM Cache, Memory management and instrument JMX to manage/monitor resources

5. Manage application deployments to UAT and Production infrastructure

6. Close collaboration with Prime Brokerage Quantitative desk.

7. Participate in the technical direction of the system.



Essential Requirements


1. Over 10 years experience programming in Inter/Intranet applications using J2EE specs including Java, EJB, JMS, JDBC, XML, Servlets, JTA, Eclipse, JavaScript and Java Webstart

2. Working experience with Web servers like BEA WebLogic or JBOSS

3. Hands on experience with deployment technologies such as Maven, Ant scripts, Perforce and CVS

4. Unix/Linux shell programming

5. Hands on experience with Databases technologies preferably Oracle, Sybase, DB2 or MS SQL Server. Good to have ETL/Informatica or related experience.

6. 2-3 years experience in financial IT industry a plus especially in the Prime Brokerage, Equity and Fixed Income products.

7. The candidate must be highly self-motivated confident and mature, well developed analytical and problem solving skills with the aptitude to learn as well as a flexibility to adapt to change.

8. The position requires good communication and presentation skills with the ability to interact with clients and senior management from all levels.

9. Team player and proven ability to work under pressure and meet project dates

Organized and good planner

Beneficial


1. Distributed Cache technologies such as Tangosol Coherence

2. Experience with Armanta software

3. Experience building reports using Business Objects and Crystal Reports



Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics or a related field or foreign equivalent.

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THANKS.
Email IF QUALIFIED TO SPEC BELOW resume to quantrec @gmail.com

Thursday, June 10, 2010

GUI Developer to capture Swap Trade Data in C#, WPF. Willing to hire 3 year developer or those with 10 years NYC

Will take someone with just Winforms, but need to be that much better.
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NO SPAM, NO OUTSOURCED/ CONSULTANTS, NO THIRD PARTIES, MUST BE AUTHORIZED TO WORK IN THE USA.

THANKS.
Email IF QUALIFIED TO SPEC BELOW resume to QuantRec @gmail.com
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NO SPAM, NO OUTSOURCED/ CONSULTANTS, NO THIRD PARTIES,

MUST BE AUTHORIZED TO WORK IN THE USA.

THANKS.
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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...

Please BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2009 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). Also include the best times to reach you over the near term.

Feel free to call 24/7 if you are QUALIFIED &AUTHORIZED FOR US WORK for this role or any others listed on http://www.QuantRec.com

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Notes from manager:

Group will be on WPF 4/ 2010 within next few months. Person would also ideally have MVC or MVVC.

Position Description
C#/.NET WPF / WinForms developer with 5+ years of client-server programming experience in C# or VC++. Financial product development for the equity swaps business. The role involves collaborating with a demanding business unit, who expect rapid delivery of solutions, with constantly changing priorities. As such, the role requires flexibility, the ability to take ownership of issues, self-motivation, and a capacity to work across numerous technologies and teams.

Must Have:
C#, .NET framework libraries: WPF, WinForms, threading, XML, object-oriented progamming, SQL.
Should Have:
Financial industry knowledge. Microsoft Composite Application Library (“Prism”), Test-Driven Development. This is not a web developer position; it requires current experience with client-server, desktop application development, particularly C# WPF and WinForms.

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Mid to Senior Level FLEX Developers Must have Strong Flex and SS Java Financial Firm / NYC

Mid to Senior Level FLEX Developers
Must have Strong Flex and SS Java
Financial Firm / NYC
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NO SPAM, NO OUTSOURCED/ CONSULTANTS, NO THIRD PARTIES, MUST BE AUTHORIZED TO WORK IN THE USA.

THANKS.
Email IF QUALIFIED TO SPEC BELOW resume to quantrec @gmail.com
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NO SPAM, NO OUTSOURCED/ CONSULTANTS, NO THIRD PARTIES,

MUST BE AUTHORIZED TO WORK IN THE USA.

THANKS.
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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...

Please BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2009 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). Also include the best times to reach you over the near term.

Feel free to call 24/7 if you are QUALIFIED &AUTHORIZED FOR US WORK for this role or any others listed on http://www.QuantRec.com

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Mid to Senior Level FLEX Developers
Must have Strong Flex and SS Java
Financial Firm / NYC
100-125K base + bonus
(up to 250K for top talent)

Must specialize in Front End or GUI Development.


Must be able to develop visually appealing GUI's, for/with Rich Internet Content.

Must be able to connect FLEX front end to Java Middle Tier and ideally participate in some of the Core Java Middle Tier Development.

Must be able to work with users to define requirements and challenge users on business requirements - how solution will work and what it should look like.

Must have at least some FLEX, but the more the better, ideally they want GUI developers with a deep expertise in FLEX.

Technology called LCDS (Life Cycle Data Services) by Adobe is a big plus.

Must have some/basic database development skills, ie: code SQL Queries, Indexes, Tables.

Will also work with time series technology called KDB - they do not need to know, but will have opportunity to learn.

Extensive FLEX and LCDS experience is a plus.

Experience with KDB is a plus. Java Spring

Sybase Database

Unix shell scripting

Experience with building Financial applications

Sr Quality Assurance Role, NYC

Email IF QUALIFIED TO SPEC BELOW resume to quantrec @gmail.com
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MUST BE AUTHORIZED TO WORK IN THE USA.

THANKS.
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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...

Please BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2009 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). Also include the best times to reach you over the near term.

Feel free to call 24/7 if you are QUALIFIED &AUTHORIZED FOR US WORK for this role or any others listed on http://www.QuantRec.com

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Sr Quality Assurance Associate


Skills Desired:
* Experience with the Perl Net::LDAP
* Experience in Java
* Experience in Meta Directory or ETL products

Skills Required:
Technical Skills
* 5+ years experience testing distributed applications
* Through Understanding of SDLC, STLC
* Ability to write detailed test cases, test plans, and thoroughly document defects identified
* Accomplished practitioner with Unix command line and various Unix shells.
* Experience with scripting test automation using Perl, Shell.

SENIOR Quant: Data Analyst-Looking for individual to join Electronic Trading group to focus on US equities and Options-flow aggregation business.

SENIOR Quant STRATEGIST: Data Analyst-Looking for individual to join Electronic Trading group to focus on US equities and Options-flow aggregation business.

(**200-600k for the right candidates but you must be somewhere in this range**)
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Email RESUME IF US WORK AUTHORIZED/QUALIFIED TO SPEC.
PAY IS OPEN IF YOU ARE THE RIGHT CANDIDATE.
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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...

Goto http://www.QuantRec.com for updates on jobs, bookmark it!

You can fax in resume to 206-202-7703 as well.

PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2009 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.

Candidates MEETING MOST OF the SPEC below will be contacted PROMPTLY.
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SENIOR Data Analyst Quant, Looking for individual to join Electronic Trading group to focus on US equities and Options for flow aggregation business


Job Description: Candidates will use their strong technology and
mathematics background to develop, improve and evaluate all Flow
Aggregation Products (routing, internalization and market making).
Focus will be on data modeling and quant research on direct electronic
clients flows coming in that are interacting with the various client
and internal trading desk volumes

Key responsibilities:

· Work closely with internal and external trading groups to
optimize trading models in Dark Pool
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Improve logic in electronic execution products and create reports to
demonstrate benefits to clients

· Build database and back testing frameworks to determine
client profitability and pricing levels for distribution

· Data analysis, cleaning and visualization across multiple
sources of order, quote and execution data

· Work with business development to model new trading opportunities

Experience: Advanced degree in a quantitative field (typically math,
statistics or computer science) from a top program, demonstrating
excellence in academics and other areas.

· 2-5 years work experience at a leading Investment Bank, High
Frequency / Quant trading or technology firm is a plus

· Hands on experience working with and analyzing large /
complex data sets for business use

Skills: Proficiency in SQL and at least one of the following
languages: C++, Python, Matlab and Java
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Salary will be very generous and above market

MUST MEET MOST OF THE ABOVE CRITERIA TO BE CONSIDERED, THANKS!

NYC / Downtown - C++ UNIX Developer - Looking for highly experienced C++ / UNIX developers.

NYC / Downtown - C++ UNIX Developer - Looking for highly experienced C++ / UNIX developers. NO SPAM, NO OUTSOURCED/ CONSULTANTS, NO THIRD PARTIES, MUST BE AUTHORIZED TO WORK IN THE USA.

THANKS.
Email IF QUALIFIED TO SPEC BELOW resume to quantrec @gmail.com Looking for highly experienced C++ / UNIX developers.
NO SPAM, NO OUTSOURCED/ CONSULTANTS, NO THIRD PARTIES,

MUST BE AUTHORIZED TO WORK IN THE USA.

THANKS.
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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...

Please BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2009 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). Also include the best times to reach you over the near term.

Feel free to call 24/7 if you are QUALIFIED &AUTHORIZED FOR US WORK for this role or any others listed on http://www.QuantRec.com

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NYC / Downtown
C++ UNIX Developer

Financial Firm looking for Senior C++ Developer to develop server side
software for firmwide group which supports data warehouse and business
intelligence functions for the company. Person should have 8+years of
professional experience.

Must have:
* Experience developing large scale, distributed C++ based systems.
* Linux, understanding of Unix systems calls
* STL, Threading, TCP
* Basic SQL Coding skills

This group does not support directly support trading, therefore
financial services experience is not required. The group will happily
hire out of industry C++ developer with right raw coding skills and
intelligence.

VP Level hire, 125-150K base +bonus

Monday, June 7, 2010

Senior C#/Winforms 3.5/WCF Developer -Large Financial Company/ NYC VP -140/150K base +bonus

Senior C#/Winforms 3.5/WCF Developer -Large Financial Company/ NYC
VP -140/150K base +bonus
(CAN GO much higher for those in an above bracket) If qualified, email resume to QuantRec @gmail.com
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Please BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2009 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). Also include the best times to reach you over the near term.

Feel free to call 24/7 if you are QUALIFIED &AUTHORIZED FOR US WORK for this role or any others listed on http://www.QuantRec.com

You may fax a resume to (206)202-7703.
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Looking for senior developer to take on some team leadership responsibility for two other developers. Candidate should have 10+ yrs of experience.
Will rearchitect/ develop FX Trade Booking Application. Must have strong front end C# Winforms. Person must have strong Web Services with XML/SOAP. Would ideally have some TCP. Front end will be communicating with a Unix Backend. Some SQL also helpful.

Friday, June 4, 2010

QA Team Lead Large Financial Firm/NYC, NO OUTSOURCED SOLUTIONS, CONSULTANTS FOR THESE.

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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...

Goto http://www.QuantRec.com for updates on jobs, bookmark it!

You can fax in resume to 206-202-7703 as well.

PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2009 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.
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• Design & build test harnesses

• Design & execute frontend & backend test cases

• Implement QA process and testing automation projects to improve the overall testing cycle

• Participate in the development and support of the testing program aimed at supporting multiple testing efforts simultaneously

• Be a part of an ongoing effort to bring new testing knowledge into the team

• Assist with test strategy articulation, planning, and management of individual testing events

• Utilize appropriate testing tools

• Identify testable events and develop the test cases / test scripts

• Identify and capture test data to support the test cases defined by the testing team

• Leverage the testing process and test tool kit to create re-useable test assets

• Act as one of the team representatives to IT and user groups within relevant test phases

• Provide regular contributions to the test management reporting pack

• Understand the business risk and implications of introducing new software or hardware into the production environment

Skills Required

• Diploma (BSc) preferably in IT or Business with strong IT background

• Team leadership and experience working with offshore teams

• 10+ years of QA / Testing experience in large cross platform testing programs preferably in backend testing

• Experience testing UNIX/Linux , & Windows OS environment applications

• Testing/Working experience with financial industry and trading systems with product such as FX, Drives, Equity, OTC and Commodities

• Database experience in SQL, Sybase/Oracle, DB2

Thursday, June 3, 2010

QA Analyst /NYC Top Financial 125k base+ bonus

Position Title: QA Analyst
Financial Firm / NYC If qualified AND AUTHORIZED FOR USA WORK, email resume to QuantRec @gmail.com 110-125K base +bonus
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NO OUTSOURCED SOLUTIONS, CONSULTANTS FOR THESE.
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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...

Goto http://www.QuantRec.com for updates on jobs, bookmark it!

You can fax in resume to 206-202-7703 as well.

PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2009 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.
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Person will interact regularly and directly with business users and take part in the requirements gathering.

The QA Analyst must also be very technical with intermediate level or better coding skills in SQL and ability to work in both Windows and UNIX environment. Strong preference for BS in Computer Science and other technical skills below in full description.

Financial industry experience would be preferred, but not required. General Finance experience from other industries also desirable.

Looking for team member level person who will take on certain project leadership responsibilities, ideally with 8+ yrs of professional experience.
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• Design & build test harnesses

• Design & execute frontend & backend test cases

• Implement QA process and testing automation projects to improve the overall testing cycle

• Participate in the development and support of the testing program aimed at supporting multiple testing efforts simultaneously

• Be a part of an ongoing effort to bring new testing knowledge into the team

• Assist with test strategy articulation, planning, and management of individual testing events

• Utilize appropriate testing tools

• Identify testable events and develop the test cases / test scripts

• Identify and capture test data to support the test cases defined by the testing team

• Leverage the testing process and test tool kit to create re-useable test assets

• Act as one of the team representatives to IT and user groups within relevant test phases

• Provide regular contributions to the test management reporting pack

• Understand the business risk and implications of introducing new software or hardware into the production environment

Must Have Skills:

• Diploma (BSc) preferably in IT or Business with strong IT background

• 3-5 years of QA / Testing experience in large cross platform testing programs preferably in backend testing

• Experience testing UNIX/Linux , & Windows OS environment applications

• Testing/Working experience with financial industry and trading systems with product such as Fixed Income, Equity, Funding, Revenue, etc.

• Very strong database experience in SQL, Sybase/Oracle, DB2

• Frontend Testing experience

• Experience working directly with BA and Developers for requirements gathering and writing test requirement directly from business/IT requirements

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

• Experience using Mercury Products like Quality Center, and/or Test Director

• UNIX shell scripting and/or Perl programming

• Experience building back-end automated test harnesses especially on DB level

• Experience working with offshore teams

• Some team leadership experience

• Strong team and task management skills

• Experience Testing Mainframe, C#, .NET, Informatica/ETL applications

• Experience using Quick Test Pro

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Is the Pay Czar the 'Weakest Link'??

Is the Pay Czar the 'Weakest Link'??

Senior Data Modeler Large Financial Company/ NYC VP Level, 10+ yrs experience

Senior Data Modeler
Large Financial Company/ NYC
VP Level, 10+ yrs experience
130-150K base +bonus, Email resume QuantRec @gmail.com IF QUALIFIED & AUTHORIZED FOR USA WORK.
NO OUTSOURCED SOLUTIONS, CONSULTANTS FOR THESE.
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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...

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Key is, person must be able to design and tune a data model for high volume trading system in a complex XML, messaging environment. Person must be expert level, capable of taking on full ownership of project of the develpoment and integration of this system while leading small team.

Trades and Position Storage team is designing and implementing renovated Sales and Trading Database that captures complete life cycle events and trade facts across several asset classes. The position is for a senior level (Vice President) Data Integration architect and delivery lead who will work with several sales and trading applications to change /enhance/ map the trade flow to the new database model. This role will give the unique opportunity to work horizontally across trading systems and understand the trade message flow through various components in Trade Capture plant. This will require understanding complexities of a very high volume / high performance trade capture systems that will include business analysis, message analysis, database analysis, development and implementation of infrastructure to support that.
Major Roles and Responsibilities include:
• Work with the team to understand and implement the new data model.
• Work with upstream systems to analyze, coordinate and implement the message model and changes needed to capture trade data into the new data model.
• Designing / enhancing the metadata model to allow various processes to write to databases from messages and object byte-streams.
• Define and lead the metadata effort to map different messages to object model and to physical model providing one stop shop data dictionary.
• Design and develop infrastructure and innovative tools to make this major enterprise level change possible.
• Manage/ lead a team of junior resources who will work together with the candidate to help him/her achieve the desired migration and reconcile the legacy database(s) with the renovated data model.

Must Have:
The position requires 5 – 10 years of expert level hands on experience on
UNIX / Linux, Perl, Messaging services, XML, XSLT, Database (DB2 and Sybase) SQL development and tuning, regular expressions and good understanding of application development and flow based architectures.

Mid level experience in data mining and development skills using Java or C++.

Good understanding of client-server applications and distributed systems and must have “whatever it takes to get the job done” attitude.

Should Have:
Financial Industry experience, Very good communication skills, good project management skills, Knowledge of version controlling systems like perforce is a plus.
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Sr Java Developer/Data Architect - Client Financing Analytics

Large Financial Company / NYC 130-150K base + bonus (up to 250K)
Email resume QuantRec @gmail.com QUALIFIED AUTHORIZED FOR USA WORK.
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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...

Goto http://www.QuantRec.com for updates on jobs, bookmark it!

You can fax in resume to 206-202-7703 as well.

PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE your salary requirements (2009 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.
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VP Level, 10+ yrs experience

Key is: Person must have strong Java for development of numerical/ quantitative type software as well as strong data modeling skills. Person must have financial services experience.


Client Financing Analytics within the Funding Technology area is seeking a senior Java developer and data architect to own and evolve its warehouse of client analytics for the Prime Brokerage and Equity Swap clients. The work involves two aspects (run in parallel), first architecting the data model, sourcing the data from a number of sources and optimizing the store for performance and on-line analytics. Secondly, we need to perform a number of quantitative analysis steps, so to enable that we plan to build a set of services and calculators that would leverage this data and ultimately produce some metrics that will enable our businesses generate new revenue.

Must Have:

Strong knowledge of Java (server side), familiarity with persistence frameworks, SOAP services.

Knowledge of at least one major RDBMS, strong SQL skills, experience with designing data models, building ETL feeds, data validation.

Excellent communication skills - the job entails communicating directly with the business


Should Have:

DB2/UDB, Microsoft Analysis Services, Datamarts, Time Series data and analysis.

Front-end: Excel + VBA/C#.

Working knowledge of financial products: equities, equity derivatives (swaps, options, futures), bonds

Senior