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Reference Number:
C06-0001417
Job Description:
Our client serves as an trusted investment advisor and asset manager to approximately 1,400 institutions located in 43 countries providing expertise from global equities and fixed income to currencies and commodities.
An independent structure and collegial culture are two of the main reasons investment professionals join our client and stay for their entire careers. Strong culture promotes excellence and sets the highest personal and professional standards.
This is what one our Consultant's says about our Client "Like many graduate students, I was attracted to ... for the firm's outstanding reputation. I had heard about the company's culture and that people come and stay with the firm. I now understand why."
Project Description:
The Senior Systems Analyst - Market Data Services will be responsible for the support of our Market Data Services infrastructure and will report to the Manager of Market Data Services. This position will work with MDS vendors and IS teams as required to identify and resolve technical problems and complete strategic infrastructure initiatives associated with our Market Data Services infrastructure. The primary job location is downtown Boston, but the Sr. Systems Analyst will also make regular trips to our client's offices in Marlborough, Massachusetts.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Provide tactical management and support of the vendor networks and servers associated with our Market Data Services infrastructure.
Document environments, migration plans and installation procedures.
Design and implementation of high impact mission critical projects.
Manage internal client needs and expectations ensuring issues are identified, resolved and escalated quickly and appropriately.
Engineer, install, configure and maintain the organization's Market Data environment.
Analyze problems, identify the cause of problems and implement timely solutions.
Share 24x7 on-call support responsibilities (see additional comments for more info.)
A solid understanding and deep appreciation of Market Data Services products, systems and networking are required. The successful candidate must bring a successful track record of building strong relationships with clients and vendors. Strong working knowledge and hands on experience with Unix market data service products, vendor services, TCP/IP, routers, and network switches is required. Previous project management experience is required. A Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related discipline plus 7+ years related experience in the financial services industry is a must.
Personal characteristics that would contribute to the incumbent ability to excel within this position are:
A collaborative team style.
Strong ability to work independently with little supervision.
Strategic in focus and maintains an enterprise view.
Excellent presentation, verbal, and written skills.
Significant responsibility for multiple components of a project, product and environment.
Adjusts to changing conditions.
A team approach to decision making and troubleshooting.
Willingness to thoroughly document environments and processes.
High level of self-discipline and conscientiousness needed to meet responsibilities.
Strong interpersonal skills including the ability to develop effective working relationships, demonstrated customer focus and work effectively in a team environment.
The on-call requirements may vary, and volume of after hour calls so far has been insignificant. The on-call rotation runs for a month at a time and most calls after hours are coming from the London area and pertain to the Reuters system.
Experience Level:
5+ Years
Requirements:
Tools/Technologies/Experience and Skills:
Must have 7+ years of experience directly related to Market Data Services:(Required).
Must have Direct experience of managing Market Data Services architectures and technical relationships with vendors such as Reuters, Thompson and Bloomberg:(Required).
Must have previous project management experience:(Required).
Experience of UNIX and Windows Operating Systems:(Required).
Knowledge of scripting languages, vi and shell environments: (Desirable).
Working knowledge of TCP/IP and Routing Protocols:(Desirable).
Provide tactical management and support of the vendor networks and servers associated with Market Data Services infrastructure: (Required).
Experience of Document environments, migration plans and installation procedures: (Required).
Experience of Design and implementation of high impact mission critical projects: (Required).
Experience of Managing internal client needs and expectations ensuring issues are identified, resolved and escalated quickly and appropriately: (Required).
Experience of Engineering, installation, configuration and maintenance of the organizations Market Data environment: (Required).
Proven track record and ability to deliver in a global environment: Desirable).
Strong project management and client support skills: (Desirable).
Relationship management experience: (Desirable).
Education:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
QUANTRONIX INC.
Founded in 1982, Quantronix Inc has become a respected international provider of staff augmentation personnel, on and off shore project development facilities and application software products. Our goal is to provide support of the highest quality: practical, timely, cost-effective solutions, developed within budget and delivering outstanding value to our clients.
We are a multi-faceted consulting company with a charter to provide high quality consulting services at a reasonable cost to its clients.
We provide experienced professionals with expertise in Applications Development, Operations, Systems Support and Management Consulting. This service is provided on a fixed price, hourly or permanent placement fee basis.
Our goal is to provide support of the highest quality and delivering outstanding value to our clients.
Since its inception, Quantronix has grown into a well-established highly regarded organization.
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