Job Details: FST Senior Hardcore Financial Technology Developer with Java & C#

Job Title: FST Senior Hardcore Financial Technology Developer with Java & C#
Job ID: 1017
Company: Sungard Consulting Services LLC
Position Type: Permanent
Pay Rate: 100,000
Skills: Java, C#, Strong Fundamentals
Date Posted: Jul-18-08

WE ONLY HIRE FULL TIME EMPLOYEES. NO THIRD PARTIES!

In addition to the specialized professional teams supporting each of our individual solutions, two SunGard consulting groups offer our customers more broadly based business and IT expertise. SunGard Consulting Services assists organizations in implementing and integrating IT solutions in support of strategic business goals. With expertise in both energy and financial services industries, SunGard Consulting Services applies industry knowledge, technology capability and a highly evolved project management methodology called Atlas to solve business problems. Based in Europe, Cadextan augments the staff of customer organizations with professionals specializing in enterprise integration, systems integration, business process management and business intelligence.

• Four of the top five commercial banks and three of the top five securities firms on the 2007 Fortune 500 have engaged SunGard Consulting Services.
• Three of the top five Fortune 500 mining and crude-oil production companies have engaged SunGard Consulting Services
• Two of the top five global energy companies have engaged SunGard Consulting Services.
• Four of the top 20 American energy companies have engaged SunGard Consulting Services.
• The top two European energy companies have engaged SunGard Consulting Services.
• Seven of the top fifteen financial services companies on the 2007 Fortune 500 have engaged SunGard Consulting Services.

The Financial Services Technology (FST) practice within SunGard Consulting Services is a project-based consulting firm that helps its clients build proprietary trading, risk and portfolio management software solutions for Hedge Fund Managers and Investment Banks. Formerly Finetix, LLC, our small teams of elite, hands-on developers execute engagements using Agile techniques and work on-site with our clients in New York City, Westchester County NY, Fairfield County CT and Houston, TX.

We are currently engaged in a number of challenging client projects that require senior developers with either Java or C# as their primary language of choice, plus proven hands-on experience in solving challenging data modeling or database issues. Strong fundamentals in software engineering and computer science are a must, particularly around data structures and concurrency.

A sampling of current projects includes:



Energy & Commodities Algorithmic Trading Development

Low-latency ECN Performance Optimization

Monte Carlo Risk Calculation Performance Optimization (using Data Synapse & Gigaspaces)

Hedge Fund Derivatives Processing Scalability & Workflow


Qualifications:
Candidates must have some or all of the following experience:



Strong Object-Oriented design skills in either Java or C#

Algorithm and Data Structure complexity

Multi-threaded design and programming (either Java or C#; both GUI and Non-GUI)

Design Patterns

Language-specific idioms

IOC (Spring/Spring.NET, Pico, etc..)

AOP (Spring, AspectJ, etc**)

ORM (LINQ, Hibernate, etc**)

Experience with JVM/CLR tuning (generational GC, etc**)

Continuous Integration (Maven, Cruise Control, etc**)

Automated Testing (JUnit/NUnit, etc**)


Experience in database fundamentals and messaging is not absolutely required but strongly preferred. This experience could include, but is not limited to:



Logical data modeling

High-volume data processing

Physical database design and tuning (SQLServer, Oracle, Sybase, DB2)

Message-driven system design (JMS/MDB, MQ, TIBCO, SonicMQ, etc**)

Data Warehousing & ETL (Informatica, SSIS, etc**)

Microsoft Analysis Services OLAP (SSAS)



Exposure and opinions on the applicability of advanced technology topics is strongly encouraged since our pipeline of future work will include projects that incorporate these technologies:



Functional Programming (F#, OCaml)

Complex Event Processing (CEP) (StreamBase, WebLogic, Esper/Nesper, etc**)

Grid Computing & Distributed Data Caching (Tangosol, Gigaspaces, Data Synapse, etc**)

Column-Oriented Databases (Vertica, etc**)

.NET 3.0/3.5

LINQ/DLINQ, WPF, WCF, Windows Workflow Foundation, etc**.


Experience working or integrating with the following vendor packages or markup languages is also a plus, including, but not limited to the following list:



Geneva

Panorama

Calypso

Endur

FIX & FIXML

FpML

Benefits effective first day of employment: Medical, dental, life, 401(k) and match

Location: [rss] US-CT-Stamford
Telecommute: No (Onsite Position)
Contact Name: Donna Thomson
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