Thursday, December 21, 2006

Developer - 3 plus years experience IBT - VB/Datafeed/ETL/Crystal focused LNDJAVB

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> Developer - 3 plus years experience IBT - VB/Datafeed/ETL/Crystal focused

> New York, NY - 85 base range

>

> Description and Duties:

>

> This position is for a Programmer on the Information Technology

> division's Investment Banking Technology (IBT) Knowledge Management

> team. The IBT Knowledge Management team is responsible for

> developing, maintaining, and supporting the eBanker application suite

> used by the Investment Banking Division (IBD). These

> applications cover a range of concepts within the banking community,

> including contact management, performance measurement, client

> communication, and management reporting. The team works closely with

> the business strategy team to design, build, test, and deploy

> solutions to increase the productivity of the banking community. The

> ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills and a strong

> technical background. They should also have experience developing and

> supporting a 24/7 financial system in a fast-paced environment, as

> well as experience in a broad range of technologies and a strong eye

> for good strategic and technology practices. The candidate should

> also be very comfortable communicating with business analysts and

> members of the business community.

>

> Responsibilities:

>

> * Work with IBT management and business strategy team to identify

> functional and technical solutions to meet business process

> requirements.

>

> * Develop effective software solutions to fulfill these requirements,

> operate comfortably in each tier of the application (database,

> infrastructure, middleware, presentation layer), and adhere to strong

> technical standards and best practices.

>

> * Use a range of strategies and expertise to explain to others the

> importance of ideas or concepts and technology solutions. Influence

> and drive decisions and direction based on technical expertise.

>

>

> Requirements:

>

> * 3 - 4 years of professional experience, preferably in a financial

> services environment (Wall St. experience a plus)

>

> * Ability to multi-task and switch gears to meet changing priorities

> and tasks to accomplish goals/objectives of the firm, not just

> individual tasks. Should be comfortable with ambiguity.

>

> * Able to proactively identify potential issues and propose

> resolutions, or identify future opportunities for improvement without

> guidance.

>

> * Ability to "manage up" well, including owning issues/support,

> managing expectations, and escalating appropriately to management.

>

> * Excellent oral and written communications skills - particularly the

> ability to convey and explain information, opinions, and arguments

> coherently and confidently both within the technology group and to end

> users.

>

> * Willing to readily share information and learning experiences, and

> proactively participating in technical/architectural team meetings and

> decision-making processes.

>

> * Proficiency with Sybase/SQL (relational database design, stored

> procedure development, building reporting queries), including ability

> to identify performance problems proactively and apply appropriate

> tuning. Comfortable understanding and working with data within a

> large (1000+ tables, 3000+ stored procedures) database.

>

> * Proficiency with Microsoft Visual Basic/VBA particularly in a

> Microsoft Office Development environment.

>

> * Proficiency designing and building resilient data feed processing

> systems.

>

> * Experience with ETL (Informatica) and/or ETL tool concepts

>

> * Experience with Crystal Reports, Crystal Enterprise Server,

> sub-reports, complex formatting, and charting

>

> * Experience with web-based J2EE development - proficiency with BEA

> Weblogic and familiarity with a Struts-like architecture a strong

> plus. Proficiency with XML/XSL, CSS, and JavaScript required

> (including familiarity with XML-over-HTTP/AJAX concepts).

>

> * Experience monitoring application infrastructure including

> understanding app server logs, managing disk space issues on shared

> resources, monitoring CPU and memory utilization, and database

> performance monitoring.

>

> * Experience working in a Linux environment, including performing

> builds/deployments of J2EE applications, shell scripting, and working

> with CVS.

>

> * Additionally, experience/exposure to the following areas is a plus:

> * Business Objects

* Data warehouse concepts

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