Posted in Jobs, Microsoft Visual Studio.Net on March 4, 2010

The GIS Sr. Developer - MOSS, will work closely with Sr. Applications Analyst in designing, developing, implementing and monitoring solutions built on the MOSS 2007 platform.
The development of solutions will be based primarily on core MOSS functionality, inherent workflow capabilities, integration of 3rd party tools and secondarily on custom developed applications on the MOSS platform.

- Experience with Infopath, XAML, SPD 2010, CAML, Jquery, document sets, BCS, Powershell and SPLINQ a plus.
-Knowledge of Metadata tagging standards and search indexing
-Experience with IIS Web Server (Configuration)
-Experience with Virtual Server or VM Ware a plus
-Knowledge of SSP and Central Administration Functions for MOSS 2007
- Minimum of five years of experience in SharePoint application development.
-Minimum of three years experience in developing applications on the MOSS 2007 platform using the appropriate tools (ASP, C#, WCF, SOA, XML, IIS, SQL, StSDev, StSAdm, etc.)
-Experience using Visual Studio 2008 or related IDE
-Knowledge of search indexing and development of search
-Experience with IIS Web Server
-Ability to write database queries, stored procedures and UDF
-Experience designing and deploying web-based technologies using Object-Oriented / User Control Methodologies
- Lead the design, development, customization and integration efforts of MOSS 2007 solutions involving Collaboration, Portals, Enterprise Search, Enterprise Content Management, Business Process and Forms, Customer Web Parts.
-MOSS features: Workflow (both in SPD 2007 and VS 2008), Records Management, Business Data Catalog, Content Deployment, and Localization
-Experience working with business processes and developing detailed analysis of how to effectively deploy SharePoint Services throughout the enterprise environment
-Solid understanding of the MOSS security model and integration with active directory
-Background in taking 3d party applications and orchestrating technology transfers.

Posted in Internal or IT Audit - SOX, Jobs on March 2, 2010

Responsibilities
• Manage the implementation of all aspects of the operating risk function, including implementation of processes, tools and systems to identify, assess, measure and monitor operating risk in the business lines.
• Assist in the development of and manage processes to identify and evaluate business areas’ operating risks and risk and control self-assessments.
• Manage the process for developing operational risk policies and procedures, risk limits and approval authorities. Monitor major and critical operating risk issues.
• Manage the process for elevating control risks to more senior levels when appropriate.
• Manage the corporate operating risk and control assessment reporting process as well as manage and maintain infrastructure elements (e.g. management reporting, including reporting to senior management Forums).
• Be a leader in developing and improving management reporting.
• Works with internal, external auditors and regulators to facilitate controls reviews by coordinating audits with internal resources. Tracking and facilitating documentation requests.
• Reviewing and reporting on open issues both prior to and subsequent to issuance.
• Establishes a positive corporative relationship with auditors and IT management.
• Prepares high-level descriptions of enterprise-level IT controls. Assists with the preparation of relevant documents for Audit Committees regarding IT controls.
• Responsible for supporting the quarterly Management Self Assessment (MSA) and SOX certifications. Interfaces with the SOX Internal Control Organization (ICO), Firm Operational Risk Department and Divisional Risk Oversight (DRO).

Requirements
• Bachelor degree in Economics, Finance, Business or Accounting, or related discipline
• 7 years of experience in business project management, risk management and/or risk and process consulting.
• CISA and prior Big 4 experience strongly recommended. Bachelor degree in Accounting, Business, Economics, Management Information Systems or related fields.
• Thorough conceptual and practical knowledge and understanding of SOX, Cobit and COSO.

Posted in E-Trading & FIX, Jobs on February 24, 2010

This position has primary responsibility for monitoring and support of trading system applications and exchanges including issue resolution, tracking and status reporting. Position will solve complex problems that require both technical and business understanding. The candidate will work with traders, back-office, exchanges, and developers to investigate and solve system issues and participate in business analysis.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Monitor trading systems and exchange/venues
* Research latent orders and liaise with trading exchanges and venues
* Reconcile trades and position breaks
* Identify, troubleshoot and respond to emergency situations impacting traders and/or exchanges
* Support straight through processing (STP) from the front to backend.
* Collaborate with Risk Management and Technical Services for production support
* Interact directly with traders to troubleshoot problems
* Participate in application release deployments
* Participate in change control procedures for rollout from development to production
* Cooperate with System Administrators to assist with forecasting system utilization

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:
* Demonstrated audit, problem solving and analytical skills
* Shell scripting, Perl, Python or other programming languages
* Knowledge of TCP/IP networking and troubleshooting
* Familiar with trading process including back office systems, front-end clearing systems and order entry systems
* Superior Microsoft Access, Excel, and word knowledge

EDUCATION AND WORK EXPERIENCE:
* Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Management Information Systems or equivalent work experience
* Experience working with order entry systems and policies and procedures of various exchanges.
* Previous experience with TCP/IP networking in a Linux or Unix environment
* Minimum 2-3 years experience administering proprietary applications in a Linux / Windows environment
* Experience supporting proprietary developed applications
* Previous scripting experience with Bash and Perl
* Minimum of 2-3 years of IT or application support experience working in financial services or electronic trading environment.

Posted in Jobs, Unix - Linux on January 11, 2010

The HPC administrator will be responsible for managing and maintaining the hardware and software used for our distributed computation environment. Technology responsibilities will include Hardware platforms, Linux OS, Scheduling Software, NAS/File Systems, and Disk Sub Systems. Admin will serve as the main point of contact for the Analysts utilizing the grid. Admin will work closely with the other IT teams including the Server Admin Team and Networking teams to ensure the grid meets the demands of the Quant community. The role will combine day-to-day support with ongoing engineering and planning of the Grid environment as it evolves.

* Serve as main point of contact ensuring the grid meets the demands of the Quant community.
* Assist in designing and implementing high performance file storage systems.
* Manage and support HPC scheduling software such as Condor, Maui, or Sun Grid Engine.
* Implements and supports performance monitoring and fault monitoring systems
* Monitors systems and storage performance, up to and including network components
* Compiles, packages, installs and upgrades software and operating system components
* Creates scripts and uses tools to automates frequently performed tasks
* Implements and supports SAN, NAS and direct-attached storage systems
* Develops, improves, documents and promotes standard operating procedures.
* Interact directly with traders, Quants and other IT staff to troubleshoot problems and issues
* Available to work nights and weekends as required

REQUIREMENTS
* Bachelors degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or a combination of education and work experience equivalent
* Minimum of 6 years administering Linux server systems.
* Prior experience in a clustered computer environment.
* Dell, HP/Compaq, Sun or IBM x86 server hardware experience
* Thorough understanding of IP networking concepts
* Working knowledge of cluster interconnect technology (i.e. Infiniband)
* Expert knowledge of high performance file systems and storage technologies such as Lustre, Ibrix or GPFS
* Extensive knowledge of Open Source clustering tools: Condor, Torque/Maui, Ganglia, MPI and PBSPro
* Solid scripting skills in Shell, Perl, Python and/or Ruby.
* Experience with system (Zenoss, Nagios) and log (Splunk, syslog-ng) monitoring/analysis tools
* Experience with Java and/or C++ is a plus.

Posted in Document & Content Management, Jobs on January 8, 2010

The Senior Analyst (Reddot/Opentext) develops and implements systems to meet the web services needs of the business, including intranets, extranets, internets, and portals. Key activities include project management of initiatives, all phases of the systems development life cycle; resolution of issues with existing systems; and providing technical guidance to other team members.

* Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in an Information Technology or Business Systems related discipline.
* Extensive experience in web technologies, including Intranet, Extranet, Internet, Content Management, Search and Portals.
* Exceptional track record on developing Enterprise Content Management strategy, along with a equally successful track record for implementing ECM Technology.
* Exceptional understanding of ECM principals and philosophies.
* Experience in ECM change management and the cultural implications of migrating to ECM standards and practices.
* RedDot architect with strong experience in a lead technical role implementing RedDot for a global environment.
* Working knowledge of best practice for the implementation of the Management and Delivery Server (Live Server)
* Exceptional technical and functional analytical skills.
* Experience in managing projects, following project management methodologies and supervising project team staff, including consultants.
Experience with Agile and/or DSDM.
* Experience in systems analysis, ie. understanding user requirements and implementing systems to meet the requirements.

Posted in C++ Financial Engineering, Jobs on December 23, 2009

Work on integration and optimization of trade capture, risk management, quantitative research and technology.

Responsibilities include hands-on development and unit testing of low latency trading applications, and collaborating with other people, such as traders and business analysts.

Qualifications:
* 7+ years C++ experience with STL, networking and in multithreaded systems
* Strong expertise in linux is essential, windows expertise is also valuable
* Experience working with 29w, TIB, or other messaging system is strongly preferred
* Experience with boost and newer C++ technologies is strongly preferred
* C# 2.0+ experience with focus on GUI development is helpful
* MS SQL or other SQL experience is desireable
* Experience working on financial applications and directly working with traders is very helpful
* Agile software development knowledge and experience, especially Test Driven Development a strong plus

Posted in Java WebSphere & BEA, Jobs on September 2, 2009

Lead efforts to define enterprise, system, level goals, principals, and guidelines. Development and maintenance of the architecture and design principles for applications, build, and integration. Apply Enterprise Architecture goals and principles to execute project architecture governance, which includes review, approval, and ability to influence project alignment to Enterprise Architecture goals. Define interactions between systems. Establish current state system architecture, future state models, and transition steps. Identify potential application reuse opportunities. Collaborate with other architects to define enterprise solution patterns and define optimal environment solutions for development, test, and production. Work with technical architects to determine the most appropriate application partitioning to achieve optimal performance, scalability, etc.. Collaborate with business and information architects to ensure application-level software components are derived from and consistent with the business object model. Ensure functional requirements are successfully implemented in the business domain/object model; identify the techniques and technologies that should be applied at the application level; define the system and operational requirements that the technical infrastructure must support. Participate in application/project design and review sessions and in collaboration with other architects to validate and ensure the application design is in conformance with the enterprise technical, information and business architecture. Resolve the potential implications and conflicts between the application architecture, with any constraints imposed by the application (logical/physical) design to the architecture; provide viable alternative approaches and recommendation. Abstract and describe logical enterprise systems architecture to a variety of audiences. Effectively negotiate and influence others, build and maintain relationships; communicate effectively with business teams, development teams, and executive management.

Job requires a Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related discipline or an equivalent combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and skills may be acquired. Six to eight years of experience in designing and implementing small to medium size information systems projects through the integration of new technology; gathering information system requirements, analyzing requirements to determine system data architecture; implementing information systems; and solving complex technical problems in information systems. Hands on experience in object oriented and component oriented software design and development (Java, J2EE), data modeling, hardware, design patterns, networks, and security. An understanding of the way technology and information architecture interacts with application architecture required.

Posted in Java WebSphere & BEA, Jobs on July 14, 2009

-Provide full life cycle support to new processes and systems to meet the needs of strategic initiatives, and integrate these processes and systems into existing applications.
-Design, develop, and test technical solutions to business problems.
-Provide technical guidance and support to junior developers and consultants to ensure all standards and procedures are met for a variety of complex applications.
-Provide senior level analytical and problem solving skills when addressing and resolving issues, assessing possible systems impacts, and recommending technical solutions.

Requirements
-Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related discipline
- At least 5 years of design and analysis experience using UML and Object-Oriented methodology, Java, J2EE (EJB, JMS, JTA, JSP, JNDI), SQL / DB2, Struts, Java Script and ANT
- Hands-on experience using Application Servers like Weblogic, Websphere or JBoss
- Hands-on experience with IDE tools like Eclipse, JBuilder, IntelliJ and configuration management tools like CVS, Clear Case and Clear Quest.
- Exposure to rule engines like iLog and Drools is a plus
- Any certifications in J2EE is a plus
- Knowledge in VB6.0, VB.NET/ASP.NET and IIS is desired.

Posted in Jobs, QA & Release Management on May 6, 2009

The individual in this role will be responsible for all QA testing related to front end trading and administration components. This will include evaluations of system enhancements and maintenance for front end tools used for real-time market trading, market viewing, position monitoring and risk monitoring. The successful candidate will develop a strong understanding of firm-specific messaging protocols for testing, as well as the use of middleware used for communication between front and back-end systems and troubleshooting problems at both the application and network layers.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
· Extensive testing with messaging middleware (TIBCO Rendezvous, IBM LLM)
· Establish manual testing suite for each GUI component where none currently exist
· Identify and implement means of reducing testing cycles through automation
· Collect QA test execution metrics as a means from optimizing the overall test planning, execution, and completion processes
· Work with development team to reproduce production problems reported by trading groups
· Test production fixes and conduct necessary regression testing in alpha-testing phase
· Develop and maintain test scripts and test cases for all applications and services released by development
· Work closely with current in-house C++ library code base
· Work closely with the QA Lead to optimize testing process
· Coordinate and build test harnesses and scripts for automated testing
· Discover and investigate reported software bugs
· Apply industry-standard quality assurance methodologies
· identify means of streamlining QA processes and procedures

Candidate Qualifications:
· 2+ Years of testing financial trading systems is preferred
· Experience with C++ in a Linux environment
· Experienced in developing test scripts and harnesses using Perl or equivalent
· Familiarity with Multithreaded programming
· Experienced with developing test protocols related to the trading business (Futures, Equities, Spot- FX, and Bonds) is preferred
· Experience with TIBCO Rendezvous, IBM LLM is preferred
· Proven track record in quality assurance working with large, complex software applications with high performance, scalability, & reliability demands
· Clear understanding of basic software development and testing processes
· Bachelor degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent

Posted in C++ Financial Engineering, Jobs on December 16, 2008

This individual will be part of a trading group working as a developer to implement high frequency black box trading strategies developed by traders. This position involves working directly with other traders and developers in the group in a highly flexible and fast-paced environment. This individual will not be trading in his/her own account. Prior exposure to trading and financial markets is not required.

Duties and Responsibilities: Implement black box strategies in C++ and deploy on LinuxSupport and maintain existing code base

Knowledge and Skills:
• C++
• Understanding of multi-threaded programming
• Experience debugging multi-threaded, concurrent applications
• Experience with performance tuning
• Ability to work within a team and work independently
• Experience with Linux preferred
• Knowledge of operating systems and network preferred

Education and Work Experience:
• BS in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent
• At least three years of hands-on development experience

Posted in Clinical - Electronic Medical on October 2, 2008

We currently have a need for a Senior Application Coordinator in support of our professional billing and hospital billing software (specifically Resolute, Epic’s product for billing). As a Senior Application Coordinator you will be responsible for achieving an in-depth knowledge of the Resolute software to provide second level support to the entire revenue cycle. In addition, this role has the following responsibilities:

1)Leads or participates in small business and IT teams towards solution and implementation
2)Serves as a bridge to the end users, to our clients, business partners, and vendors
3)Serves as the primary support contact and coordinates all questions and issues that arise during the project
4)Works collaboratively with process design, interface, testing, and deployment teams, requiring significant customer focus
5)Demonstrates strong detailed analytical thinking, problem solving and results oriented skills

Basic Requirements:
1)3-5 years of recent experience with Hospital Billing or Professional Billing, ideally with Epic Resolute
2) Benefit engine and work queues are critical and required experience.
3)IT experience with maintenance of masterfiles (database managers or data directories), interfaces, and protocols
4)Application implementation and installation experience

Posted in Internal or IT Audit - SOX, Jobs on August 28, 2006

Fifth largest public accounting firm in America (6000 professionals) is looking for people for its Tax Practice in its Chicago and Deerfield, IL offices.

Company is looking for professionals in the following verticals:
*Private Client Group (high net worth individuals, partnerships, and trusts)
*Commercial
*Real Estate
*Financial Services – Hedge Funds
*Service & Not-for-Profit

at the following Levels
Position Salary Range Requirements
Associate $50k - $65k 1-3 yrs Public Tax, BS Accounting, work toward CPA
Sr. Associate $60k - $80k 3-5 yrs Public Tax, work toward CPA, MS Tax, BS Accounting
Manager $80k - $110k 5-10 yrs Public Tax, CPA/JD, MS Tax, 2 yrs as supervisor
Director $90k - $110k 8-12 yrs Public Tax, CPA, BS Accounting, MS Tax, 2 yrs managing large & complex engagements

Positions require experience with:
*preparing complex tax returns/issues for high net-worth individuals, corporations, partnerships and trusts
*strategic tax planning and compliance
*deal structure consultations
*business advisory services including accounting and financial matter representation
*researching tax laws and developing tax savings strategies

Real Estate Vertical also requires knowledge of the real estate ownership “life cycle” from acquisition due diligence to disposition and related federal and multi-state income tax and estate planning implications for its owners.

Posted in Internal or IT Audit - SOX, Jobs on May 23, 2006

RISK MANAGEMENT MANAGER

The Risk Management Manager will be the will be the provider of regulatory
compliance, internal audit, loan review, or related consulting services for
mid-market firms in the Great Lakes Region. Also will conduct Sarbanes-Oxley
compliance engagements consisting of interviewing, documentation of control
environment and monitoring.

The Risk Management Manager will be responsible for:
- Supervising and managing financial services internal audits consisting of
planning, conducting the audit, report writing and managing costs
- Delivering profitable services that appropriately utilize the Firm and
client resources
- Providing timely, high quality client service that meets or exceeds
client expectations
- Demonstrating expertise in various facets of risk management services
- Providing consulting advice that enables clients to increase shareholder
value
- Keeping abreast of changes in industry regulations, and develops own
competency through continuing education and by obtaining additional
professional certifications
- Demonstrating the ability to develop business and build a strong
reputation in the marketplace
- Demonstrating commitment to the Firm?s People Philosophy by modeling
appropriate behaviors and acts with respect and dignity in interactions
inside and outside the Firm
- Providing appropriate and timely performance feedback to those supervised
- Attracting, developing and retaining top talent

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications:
- Managerial experience with a regional, national Big Four public
accounting firm or a corporate internal audit department
- Bachelors degree in accounting or business field
- Strong project management skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong analytical skills and knowledge of controls
- Seven to nine years experience in a combination of external and internal
audit providing services in some or all of the following areas of risk
management:
Sarbanes-Oxley Consulting
Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Services
Sarbanes-Oxley IT Consulting
Internal Audit Outsourcing and Consulting
SAS 70 Services
Business Risk Assessments
Information Security
Internal Controls for Private Companies
Forensic Consulting
Production and Operational Effectiveness Services
Business Process Improvement
Operational Reviews
Productivity Improvement Consulting
Profit Enhancement Program
- Ability to travel locally 25% to 40%

Additional qualifications preferred but not required:
CPA, CIA, CISA, CFE or CMA certification
MBA or Masters in business field