Our client, a financial services company, is seeking a CW Eagle Senior Developer
Location: Iselin, NJ
Position Type: Contract
Job Summary:
Looking for a Senior Developer to join Middle Office Technology - production support team for evening Trade processing and pricing support activity. Candidate must have significant hands-on development experience with the Eagle Investment Management System with strong expertise on the following Eagle Suite of Products: STAR, PACE, Account Reference Manager, Reference data management - SRM (Security Reference Manager), Pricing Center, Workflow Manager, Scheduler, Message Center, Data Mart, Reporting, and Performance Measurement module.
Investment Management Business areas supported include Corporate Actions, Trade Operations, Portfolio Accounting, and Pricing, Collateral Management, and Derivatives Trade workflow. Business and Operational knowledge of Equities, Futures, Forwards, Options, OTC and Cleared Swaps, Mutual Funds, Structured Products, ETF and Fixed Income Securities is necessary.
Responsibilities and Duties:
Liaise closely with Middle & Back Office operations (Trade Ops, Valuation, and Data Management), AOS (Level 1) support team and technology application teams to provide production support.
Perform technical analysis and development to troubleshoot production issues and triage with various teams to resolve production issues in a timely manner for trade processing, security mastering, pricing and valuation.
Provides full development, support and complex problem resolution that meet customer requirements and SLAs
Prepare and send communication banners for critical production issues impacting SLAs
Perform root cause analysis and perform on-going updates of production support procedures for various functions
Prepare operational metrics for daily production support activity
Improve operational efficiency by reviewing patterns and identify opportunities for automation
Act as a SME and business point of escalation for key production issues
Document current state functional workflows across the business areas defined in the summary and design end to end strategic workflows meeting key business and operational needs
Prepare documentation on known issues and troubleshooting steps
Interface with App teams on improving job alerts and notification
Work as part of an IT support team with other technology leaders, development staff and business analysts to create technical solutions for the support of Fixed Income, Equities and Derivatives products across the Asset Management Investment Operations eco system.
Required Qualifications:
10+ years of Buy/Sell side experience working at Hedge Fund/Investment Manager development related to complex and strategically relevant projects
Strong technical experience in creating solutions in EAGLE IWS, EAGLEML, Message Center, Panel, PACE ETL, UNIX shell scripting, XML, XSLT, MQ, MQFTE, Autosys, Sterling Integrator, Oracle 12c, SFTP and Data Distribution Framework knowledge. Data Lake knowledge on Zaloni will be a big plus
Strong expertise on the following Eagle Investment Systems suite of products: STAR, PACE, Account Reference Manager, Reference data management - SRM (Security Reference Manager), Pricing Center, Workflow Manager, Scheduler, Message Center, Data Mart, Reporting, and Performance Measurement module
Strong expertise on Trade Processing in Eagle with various OMS (Charles River, Bloomberg AIM, Murex) and Trade Settlement processing in TDMS (Trade Data Management System, a light speed product)
Strong expertise on Eagle Pricing Center in Eagle with various Pricing vendors (Reuters, IDC, MarkIT etc.) with exposure to IWS (Integration and Workflow Studio) module.
Understanding of Corporate Action, Trade Processing, Portfolio Accounting, Pricing, Derivatives workflows and Collateral Management business concepts are required
Prior experience as a developer for production support for Trade Processing, Pricing, Security mastering and Performance calculations is required.
Hands on experience with scheduling, monitoring and file transfer tools Autosys, Splunk, IBM Sterling Integrator and Connect Direct
Experience with data management products and tools, relational database systems, Data Mart, metadata management products and tools, ETL tools like Data Stage, Reporting tools like OBIEE and Tableau
Ability to write complex SQL to query large data sets within Eagle PACE across multiple schemas
Ability to document current and target state business process functional workflows using tools such as Microsoft Visio and PowerPoint
Bachelor's degree required in Computer Engineering or Equivalent
