Full Time Solution Architect- Financial Services

Telecommuting available  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Location: Telecommute with travel option is also OK

Domain knowledge:

Has a good handle on multiple asset classes
  • Equities
  • Options
  • Futures/Forwards
  • Fixed income (esp. bonds)
  • Structured finance & alternative assets (insurance)
  • Mutual funds, private equity, hedge funds
  • Trade lifecycle (including trade flow, settlement and clearing)
  • Knowledge of general risk measures
  • The Greeks
  • General understanding of how derivatives are priced would be a big plus but not required
  • Knowledge of Compliance/Regulatory areas would be a big plus but not mandatory

    Technology side:

  • A scripting language proficiency (Python, Ruby, etc.)
  • Understanding of data feed handling (ETL, market data, trade files, etc.)
  • Best practices for handling volume, frequency, etc.
  • Software and Enterprise patterns (esp. Enterprise Integration patterns)
  • Good understanding of open source technologies and components

    Soft Skills:

    Excellent Communication and presentation skills; ability to engage in white-boarding and brain storming exercises in client facing meetings

  • Comfortable with working in a multi-disciplinary globally distributed team across different time zones.
  • Assertive technical personality who can drive the solutions build up and engage with the Delivery and Sales support teams to drive the proposal and solution emergence till the end.
  • Ability to balance requirements, manage expectations, and drive effective results using a proactive attitude towards identifying and resolving issues
  • Experience presenting to customers, senior technical and executive audiences
  • Strong interpersonal and relationship development skills
  • Effective collaboration and teamwork skills both internally and externally
  • Have a high level of entrepreneurship and creativity
  • Sound problem-solving skills with ability to quickly process complex information and present it in a clear and simple manner
  • Comfortable with 15 % travel in a month to meet clients and engage in white boarding sessions or as part of proposal defense.

    Technical Requirements:

  • Should have at least 7 to 10 years of software development experience with progressive growth with total experience between 12 to 15 years.
  • Strong handle on J2EE/.Net technologies, Ability to do code-walk through, support effort estimations and mentor junior and senior developers.
  • Good understanding of portal solution abstraction, middle wares, exposure to multiple Databases (Relational, NoSQL).
  • Experience in some of the Industries such as Education, Media, Publishing, Retail, etc.
  • Actual Implementation experience on some of the solutions like web applications. Portals, DWH or building a reporting platforms.
  • Good handle on API management, Integration aspects of Portals with backend databases.
  • Knowledge of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks like TOGAF/ZACHMAN
  • Strong understanding of Dev Ops, Agile, Big data & Analytics platforms (conceptual level) and any experience on any of these a plus.
  • Expertize at an intermediate level on front end technologies like HTML 5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Angular.JS, Node.JS, Bootstrap, etc.
  • Enthusiasm for, and experience in, open source development
  • Expertise in developing strategies for high availability platforms including caching techniques, distributed computing, and horizontally scalable solutions
  • Demonstrated understanding of OO design patterns, MVC, scalable architectures and infrastructures, applications, and interfaces
  • End to End conceptual understanding of Front End/Back end/Middle Tier Technologies and the concepts of API ecosystem, Micro Services, Cloud Architecture, etc.

    Thanks and Regards

    Emil Thomas
    Senior Manager – Recruitment
  • Start date
    ASAP
    From
    Ness USA, Inc
    Published at
    12.04.2016
    Contact person:
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    Project ID:
    1108071
    Contract type
    Freelance
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