This is a 4 month contract in Boston
Ideal candidate will have 2 years of Fund Accounting experience with some QA - can learn the Quality assurance portion on site.
Will be testing a fully integrated system that addresses all the major functions of transfer agency and shareholder record-keeping administration. It is an end-to-end solution that enables you to easily manage all aspects of shareholder interaction, from account activity to shareholder profiles to contact history.
Responsibilities:
* Review functional specifications for new features and translate functional requirements to testing requirements and product both high-level and detailed testing documents.
* Execute tests and report defects.
Requirements:
* Candidates must have an accounting or finance degree.
* Candidate must have 1 to 2 years experience Transfer Agency functions and/or Shareholder Account practices.
* Previous experience with testing and/or quality assurance required.
* Previous experience with the MSHARE product highly desirable.
* Must demonstrate initiative; be able to perform well under pressure and to handle a variety of complicated tasks.
* Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills in English are required.
Please contact Albert Barsoumian with qualified resumes via email at albert@collabstaff.com or via phone at 508-872-7402.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Senior Storage Engineer (NetApp)
Full time position
Financial client in downtown Boston
Overview
Our client is seeking a Senior Storage Engineer to join the System Engineering team who are responsible for design, maintenance, security, recovery, and support of the Storage Infrastructure. The person in the role will design, architect, and implement storage and backup solution in the mixed environment of Unix/Windows operating systems. Responsibilities Include: Develop and integrate disk storage based snapshots to provide mechanism for immediate snapback if a system needs to be restored rapidly due to application or operating system corruption of data. Develop and document standards/procedures/strategies/scripts that maximize the functionality and reliability while minimizing downtime. Provide technical assistance for applications installs, backup/recovery strategies, to address applications performance issues and general platform problem analysis.
Requirements:
• Deploy storage solutions into new and existing environments.
• Diagnose and resolve problems in multiple storage environments, coordinating with coworkers and vendors as necessary to facilitate maximum availability of client applications in financial and other mission critical environments.
• Work with clients and sales team to determine data storage requirements in business development opportunities.
• Perform storage workload modeling and prediction for sizing and troubleshooting.
• Perform capacity planning and reporting to ensure efficient use of storage.
• Closely monitor server storage performance and utilization, identify problems and recommend/implement solutions.
• Maintain replication relationships and recovery environments.
• Implement and document recovery procedures.
• Support recovery in the event of systems failure or disaster.
• Provide post-installation training and technical support to clients and coworkers.
Qualifications:
• 8-10 years of Storage Experience
• Must have a thorough understanding of Network Appliance (NetApp) products and architectures specifically 3xxx series and 6xxx series
• Experience with site to site and DR replication (ie SnapMirror and SnanVault)
• In-depth knowledge of general storage technologies: iSCSI, FC, SAN, NAS, DAS.
• Cisco MDS 9000 series switches knowledge.
• Compellent Storage Knowledge is a Plus.
• Prior experience or familiarity with alternative storage products is desirable.
• Solid understanding of networking and distributed computing concepts, including principles of network-routing client/server applications.
• Solid understanding of NFS and CIFS administration in a NetApp Environment.
• Knowledge of Distributed File Systems (DFS) beneficial.
• Comprehensive Experience in deploying and managing MS Active Directory, MS Exchange, and MS SQL Server.
• Understanding and Implementing ILM Policy with Tiered Storage.
• Prior experience deploying NetApp solutions in the field.
• Experience deploying and maintaining FibreChannel and layer 2/3 Ethernet networks.
• At least five years of experience in a technical support role in one or more computing environments.
• *NIX administration, and scripting knowledge desirable.
• Experience Virtualization Technologies a plus.
• Strong client focus and management of client expectations.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent teamwork skills.
• Ability to present and explain technical information to diverse audiences
• Ability to write clear proposals and technical documents.
• Strong interpersonal skills at all levels of management and ability to motivate team members to apply skills and techniques to solve dynamic problems.
• Solid project management skills.
• Ability to weigh various suggested technical solutions against the original business needs and choose the most cost-effective solution.
Please contact Albert Barsoumian with qualified resumes via email at albert@collabstaff.com or via phone at 508-872-7402.
Financial client in downtown Boston
Overview
Our client is seeking a Senior Storage Engineer to join the System Engineering team who are responsible for design, maintenance, security, recovery, and support of the Storage Infrastructure. The person in the role will design, architect, and implement storage and backup solution in the mixed environment of Unix/Windows operating systems. Responsibilities Include: Develop and integrate disk storage based snapshots to provide mechanism for immediate snapback if a system needs to be restored rapidly due to application or operating system corruption of data. Develop and document standards/procedures/strategies/scripts that maximize the functionality and reliability while minimizing downtime. Provide technical assistance for applications installs, backup/recovery strategies, to address applications performance issues and general platform problem analysis.
Requirements:
• Deploy storage solutions into new and existing environments.
• Diagnose and resolve problems in multiple storage environments, coordinating with coworkers and vendors as necessary to facilitate maximum availability of client applications in financial and other mission critical environments.
• Work with clients and sales team to determine data storage requirements in business development opportunities.
• Perform storage workload modeling and prediction for sizing and troubleshooting.
• Perform capacity planning and reporting to ensure efficient use of storage.
• Closely monitor server storage performance and utilization, identify problems and recommend/implement solutions.
• Maintain replication relationships and recovery environments.
• Implement and document recovery procedures.
• Support recovery in the event of systems failure or disaster.
• Provide post-installation training and technical support to clients and coworkers.
Qualifications:
• 8-10 years of Storage Experience
• Must have a thorough understanding of Network Appliance (NetApp) products and architectures specifically 3xxx series and 6xxx series
• Experience with site to site and DR replication (ie SnapMirror and SnanVault)
• In-depth knowledge of general storage technologies: iSCSI, FC, SAN, NAS, DAS.
• Cisco MDS 9000 series switches knowledge.
• Compellent Storage Knowledge is a Plus.
• Prior experience or familiarity with alternative storage products is desirable.
• Solid understanding of networking and distributed computing concepts, including principles of network-routing client/server applications.
• Solid understanding of NFS and CIFS administration in a NetApp Environment.
• Knowledge of Distributed File Systems (DFS) beneficial.
• Comprehensive Experience in deploying and managing MS Active Directory, MS Exchange, and MS SQL Server.
• Understanding and Implementing ILM Policy with Tiered Storage.
• Prior experience deploying NetApp solutions in the field.
• Experience deploying and maintaining FibreChannel and layer 2/3 Ethernet networks.
• At least five years of experience in a technical support role in one or more computing environments.
• *NIX administration, and scripting knowledge desirable.
• Experience Virtualization Technologies a plus.
• Strong client focus and management of client expectations.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent teamwork skills.
• Ability to present and explain technical information to diverse audiences
• Ability to write clear proposals and technical documents.
• Strong interpersonal skills at all levels of management and ability to motivate team members to apply skills and techniques to solve dynamic problems.
• Solid project management skills.
• Ability to weigh various suggested technical solutions against the original business needs and choose the most cost-effective solution.
Please contact Albert Barsoumian with qualified resumes via email at albert@collabstaff.com or via phone at 508-872-7402.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Delphi / Oracle / Crystal / C# developer
4 month contract position in downtown Boston
Candidate will ideally start on August 25th
Application Developer
We are looking for an experienced Delphi engineer to design and develop code for client/server and n-tier financial applications. The ideal candidate will have thorough knowledge of software engineering, and thrive in an atmosphere that values innovation, creativity, and collaboration.
Qualifications
Experienced in Delphi - 3+ years experience
Proficient in SQL (Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase).
Crystal Reports
Full knowledge of software development life cycle.
Excellent communication skills and problem solving abilities.
Ability to work individually and with other engineers in a collaborative manner
Other
Experience with large financial applications
WPF, WCF, WF
Multi threading
GUI design
Please contact Albert Barsoumian with qualified resumes via email at albert@collabstaff.com or via phone at 508-872-7402.
Candidate will ideally start on August 25th
Application Developer
We are looking for an experienced Delphi engineer to design and develop code for client/server and n-tier financial applications. The ideal candidate will have thorough knowledge of software engineering, and thrive in an atmosphere that values innovation, creativity, and collaboration.
Qualifications
Experienced in Delphi - 3+ years experience
Proficient in SQL (Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase).
Crystal Reports
Full knowledge of software development life cycle.
Excellent communication skills and problem solving abilities.
Ability to work individually and with other engineers in a collaborative manner
Other
Experience with large financial applications
WPF, WCF, WF
Multi threading
GUI design
Please contact Albert Barsoumian with qualified resumes via email at albert@collabstaff.com or via phone at 508-872-7402.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Business Systems Analyst
Contract to hire Business Systems Analyst
Responsibilities include:
-Gaining a complete understanding of the problem presented
-Analyzing and developing a number of different solutions to the problem
-Identifying pros and cons to each solution and working with the team to come up with the plan of action
-Gathering and documenting business requirements
-Understanding clients' business above and beyond the immediate requirements
-Converting requirements into functional specifications
-Working with department members to determine timetable for user requests
-Using prior systems design experience to translate client business requirements into application Logical Designs that conform to the application architecture
-Developing an in-depth understanding of the core business functionality for specific sub-systems within our application and leveraging off existing functionality to satisfy new client requirements
-Conducting walkthroughs of all completed specifications with representatives from all interested areas (e.g., development, testing, client management) to ensure the design is complete and the development estimates are accurate
-Acting as the main liaison between the business users and the development staff to ensure proper implementation of requirements within the expected timetable
-Communicating material modifications of business requirements to business users
-Conducting interviews with business, technical, and problem experts to identify and communicate issues and gathering comprehensive information for use in problem identification and resolution
-Ensuring that proper documentation is completed and distributed in a timely manner to communicate status and resolution of issues
-Working with third-party suppliers to implement new system or modify existing tools
-Consulting directly with clients, system architect, client managers, development staff, and business analysts to complete logical designs
-Resolving open issues, clearly identifying and explaining base assumptions, and explaining the Logical Design in a manner understandable to business user and developer
The ideal candidate would also meet the following requirements:
Technical Acumen
-Conceptual knowledge of information technologies and methodologies
-Experience in business analysis and requirements definition for IT systems
-Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Office suite and Visio
-Ability to learn new applications
Consulting Aptitude
-Demonstrated problem solving skills with the ability to probe and research issues in depth
-Ability to synthesize new business requirements and processes
-Strong organizational and analytical skills
-Understand the "big picture" view as it relates to the day-to-day activities and tasks
-Good team player and understands the goals of the department
-Proven experience in requirements gathering of all sizes of projects
-Experience with all components of a project lifecycle such as planning, analysis, design, construction and testing
Professional Skills
-Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, including the ability to facilitate meetings
-Good interpersonal skills and the ability to influence and negotiate with other departments
-Self-motivated; comfortable working in a team, as well as independently
-Able to think on your feet, multitask, and meet deadlines
-Adaptable, flexible, detail-oriented, and comfortable working in a fast-paced and frequently changing business environment
Please contact Albert Barsoumian with qualified resumes via email at albert@collabstaff.com or via phone at 508-872-7402.
Responsibilities include:
-Gaining a complete understanding of the problem presented
-Analyzing and developing a number of different solutions to the problem
-Identifying pros and cons to each solution and working with the team to come up with the plan of action
-Gathering and documenting business requirements
-Understanding clients' business above and beyond the immediate requirements
-Converting requirements into functional specifications
-Working with department members to determine timetable for user requests
-Using prior systems design experience to translate client business requirements into application Logical Designs that conform to the application architecture
-Developing an in-depth understanding of the core business functionality for specific sub-systems within our application and leveraging off existing functionality to satisfy new client requirements
-Conducting walkthroughs of all completed specifications with representatives from all interested areas (e.g., development, testing, client management) to ensure the design is complete and the development estimates are accurate
-Acting as the main liaison between the business users and the development staff to ensure proper implementation of requirements within the expected timetable
-Communicating material modifications of business requirements to business users
-Conducting interviews with business, technical, and problem experts to identify and communicate issues and gathering comprehensive information for use in problem identification and resolution
-Ensuring that proper documentation is completed and distributed in a timely manner to communicate status and resolution of issues
-Working with third-party suppliers to implement new system or modify existing tools
-Consulting directly with clients, system architect, client managers, development staff, and business analysts to complete logical designs
-Resolving open issues, clearly identifying and explaining base assumptions, and explaining the Logical Design in a manner understandable to business user and developer
The ideal candidate would also meet the following requirements:
Technical Acumen
-Conceptual knowledge of information technologies and methodologies
-Experience in business analysis and requirements definition for IT systems
-Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Office suite and Visio
-Ability to learn new applications
Consulting Aptitude
-Demonstrated problem solving skills with the ability to probe and research issues in depth
-Ability to synthesize new business requirements and processes
-Strong organizational and analytical skills
-Understand the "big picture" view as it relates to the day-to-day activities and tasks
-Good team player and understands the goals of the department
-Proven experience in requirements gathering of all sizes of projects
-Experience with all components of a project lifecycle such as planning, analysis, design, construction and testing
Professional Skills
-Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, including the ability to facilitate meetings
-Good interpersonal skills and the ability to influence and negotiate with other departments
-Self-motivated; comfortable working in a team, as well as independently
-Able to think on your feet, multitask, and meet deadlines
-Adaptable, flexible, detail-oriented, and comfortable working in a fast-paced and frequently changing business environment
Please contact Albert Barsoumian with qualified resumes via email at albert@collabstaff.com or via phone at 508-872-7402.
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