Friday, August 29, 2008

Business Objects Support Analyst $800/day - New York City

Title: Business Objects Support Analyst

Location: New York City

Type: Consultant

Rate: $800/day

Length: 6 months plus

Industry: Financial Services


Description

· Providing 2nd level application support for a global shared service based upon Business Objects 6.5 and XI 3.0 enterprise suite of products.

· This includes Crystal Reports, Web Intelligence and Desktop Intelligence content types among others.

· Support a customer base of 70 plus reporting projects for over 6,000 end-users.

· Provide senior level expertise in all areas of Business Intelligence (Business Objects/Crystal) to junior level support team.

· Support customer reporting applications built with the standard Web Intelligence portal as well as customer portals built with the any of the Enterprise SDKs (.NET and J2EE).

· Maintain, support, deploy and monitor a federated global shared infrastructure regionally deployed on over 20 servers on the following platforms: V6.5 on Solaris 8 with WebLogic, V6/5 on Windows 2003 Server with IIS, Business Objects XI 3.0 on Windows 2003 Server with Weblogic/IIS.

· Lead infrastructure projects, such as platform upgrades, environment patching, and hardware replacements.

· Deliver process documentation for centralized repository administration, general user/group security administration, and change management for the reporting project teams.

· Supplement product teams’ expertise by providing senior leadership to support team in areas of enterprise product settings, tunings and recommended configurations.

· Work hand-in-hand with product team providing iterative feedback on set of best-practice standards and support procedures to be used by application and support teams.

· Cleary communicate support priorities and escalation points\procedures to junior level staff.

· Work with product team to define specifications for value added tools which can improve or automate support processes.

· Provide infrastructure consultancy using best practice deployment architecture for new SDK applications.

· Maintain procedures and perform tests for Business Contingency Planning/Disaster Recovery.

· Document infrastructure deployments, support policies and procedures.

· Provide 24 x 5 on-site support and on-call support during weekends.


Coordinate internal Business Objects support operations to:

o distribute and assign internal support calls

o execute change management tickets on-time and correctly

o follow-up on escalated issues

o support the internal 24x7 help desk

o improve support efficiency


Qualifications Required Skills:

Minimum of 8 years IT experience with 5 years of Business Objects experience and 2 years of Client Support experience.

Experience with:

· Business Objects/WebIntelligence 6.x

· Business Objects XI,

· Unix (Solaris)

· Windows 2003 Server/IIS administration

· WebLogic (or another J2EE application server)

· Web Infrastructure (ASZ, DMZ, Firewalls, WebServer and Application Servers)


Desired Skills:

Experience with Siteminder Integration, Crystal Reports, Xcelsius, .NET and/or J2EE development.

Personal Skills:

· Excellent oral and written communication skills

· Team oriented

· Leadership skills

Contact:
Team@SolutionsByNetTECH.com * Tel: 201-222-5390

C++ Developer (3 Openings) $1,100/day - New York City

Title: C++ Developer (3 Openings)

Location: New York City

Type: Consultant

Rate: $1100/day

Length: 6 months plus

Industry: Financial Services


Description

· Development of trading systems in a Global Cross Trading environment for a diverse set of assets classes.

· Develop trading platform infrastructure connecting multiple sites, exchanges, ECNs and liquidity providers.


Qualifications

· Server-side development using C++/C on a Unix/Linux platform. C++ is the critical skill required.

· In-depth knowledge of TCP/IP, multi-threading, scripting, OOP, relational databases and generally used flavors of Unix/Linux.

· Exchange link experience (high frequency, low latency trading) and development skills are highly desirable, as is multi-cast messaging experience.

· Experience in developing trading platform infrastructure connecting multiple sites, exchanges, ECNs and liquidity providers are ideal.

· Knowledge of networks to separate trading and non-trading data traffic for ensuring smooth order flow and completion.

· Minimum 3 years experience in the financial industry preferred. Market data focus is ideal.

· Market data knowledge and/or trading floor experience preferred.

· FIX experience a huge plus.

Contact:
Team@SolutionsByNetTECH.com * Tel: 201-222-5390

.NET Developer $1,100/day - New York City

Title: .NET Developer

Location: New York City

Type: Consultant

Rate: $1100/day

Length: 6 months plus

Industry: Financial Services


Description

· Assist with performance investigation and instrumentation in existing .NET source code base.

· Help build out coordinated latency monitoring solution across multiple languages and platforms.

· Use monitoring data to isolate performance bottlenecks and review existing implementations.


Qualifications

· Minimum 3 years experience with Windows NT, C#, .Net and GUI; must be a good C# developer.

· Preferred experience in the financial industry, ideally knowledge of trading floor activity

· Some experience or experimentation with Windows Presentation Foundation

· Experience with XML and HTTP preferred

· In-depth knowledge of OOP, relational databases and generally used flavors of Unix/Linux.

Contact:
Team@SolutionsByNetTECH.com * Tel: 201-222-5390

UNIX Systems Administrator (3 openings) $750/day - New York City

Title: UNIX Systems Administrator (3 openings)

Location: New York City

Type: Consultant

Rate: $750/day

Length: 6 months plus

Industry: Financial Services


Description

· Support highly volatile front office Equities and Prime Services Production environment with over 2400 servers.

· Suggest and implement technical solutions that ensure control, manageability and integrity of the environment to maximize service availability to the users.

· Provide a point of contact for dealing with and resolving complex faults and issues.


Qualifications Work Experience:

5 + years of experience with UNIX

Experience working on a large multi-disciplinary project.

5 + years of experience with Linux and Network troubleshooting skills


Technical Skills/Knowledge:

· Experience with Iplanet, Weblogic web servers.

· Support 24 * 7 front office trading environment.

· Initiative, decisiveness and self-motivation.

· Minimum of 3 years in a large UNIX environment working in a server with VCS clusters.

· Experience with being on-call and working a shift-based Rota, and appreciation of weekend working practices and change management.

· Ability to manage own workload and work independently for prolonged periods.

Contact:
Team@SolutionsByNetTECH.com * Tel: 201-222-5390

Senior Accountant (2 Openings) $150k to $200k - New York City

Title: Senior Accountant (2 Openings)

Location: New York City

Type: Employee

Salary: 150k to 200k +

Industry: Financial Services


Senior Accountant Opportunity in NYC

This growing top-tier financial services firm is seeking to add a senior accountant to the team. Experience in SEC reporting (10K, 10Q, 8K, etc) and Accounting Policy required. The successful candidate must have 10+ years relevant experience. This is an excellent opportunity for a team-oriented individual.

Contact:
Team@SolutionsByNetTECH.com * Tel: 201-222-5390