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Position Title – WR737001092014

Lead Software Engineer – Markit EDM/MS/Java/Oracle - Asset Mgt. – Marlboro, MA – Excellent Package

Excellent Compensation Package - Base + Bonus + PS

Relocation Possible for Exceptional Candidates

Company

Large, successful, and growing Boston based Investment Management Firm - Great Company - Lots of Upside - Excellent Compensation Package - Bonus - Profit Sharing etc. Join a team oriented, collaborative, results focused environment and become part of an elite organization with great growth possibilities.

Position Summary:

As member of Investment Administration Applications, this individual will be responsible to lead the Security Master development team to design, develop, and implement enhancements and maintenance changes to the custom built application software, including Oracle Forms and Java based applications, and packaged software, including Markit EDM.

In this role, the individual will participate in all design and development activities to successfully deploy new systems and enhancements. The Lead Software Engineer is a hands-on development role and a mentor to other team members. Currently, an implementation of a New Security Reference Data platform is underway using Markit EDM. This is a great opportunity to join my client’s team and design lasting solutions to build the new generation Security Master.

Responsibilities:

Specific responsibilities include:

Provide leadership to the development team supporting the existing Security Master applications and engaged to build the Markit EDM application:

· Lead the design and development efforts of the application development team

· Recommend system designs and incrementally improve the maintainability and functionality of the existing system

· Provide practical technical solutions to various business problems

· Deliver solutions balancing the technical needs of the application with prioritized business requests

· Clearly communicate with all members of the applications, infrastructure, and business teams to ensure understanding

· Create standards and best practices for the development team to follow

· Become an expert on the Markit EDM tool and provide this technical expertise to others on the team

· Clearly communicate with all members of the team

· Articulate and document design decisions and technical concepts concisely and in an organized manner

· Proactively identify major issues, risks, and dependencies, and manage them to minimize impact to the overall implementation

Required Skills and Competencies:

Technical:

· 8+ years of software development experience, with methodologies such as Agile - Experience in Financial services preferred.

· 8+ years of proven analysis and technical design, development, and architecture experience in a database application environment

· 2+ years leading technical teams including managing an offshore development team

· Must possess excellent relevant hands-on development experience in some of the following technologies: SQL Server, Oracle, SQL tuning, PL/SQL, Java, UNIX, Markit EDM experience required.

· Creativity, attention to detail and leadership skills

· Ability to solve problems in a logical, methodical, and time efficient manner

· Ability to understand legacy in-house applications and highly complex and interrelated systems and processing

· Experience in the QA discipline, including understanding of testing approaches and their implications to software maintenance

· Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to write technical documentation

· Flexibility: ability to work independently and in a team environment

· Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related discipline

Keys to this Role:

1) We are seeking a strong Technical Lead Software Engineer (Not a Manager), to lead a team of Consultants (on/off shore model) that are building the next generation Reference Data Platform (Markit EDM)

2) The role is 50% leadership and 50% hands on (Architecture, Design and Coding). This individual will be a senior resource that has strong Leadership, Technical aptitude, Vision and Delivery skills.

3) Technology: The ideal candidate will have experience with Markit EDM, which is a customizable package that largely uses the Microsoft stack. If the candidate does not have Markit EDM they will need to have experience working with another software package that requires strong Engineering skills (engineering patterns, design patterns, hands-on customizations, creating standards, etc.)

4) There are also Java and Oracle applications within the platform. A strong candidate will be able to lead a team of developers across several technology stacks (Microsoft, Java, Oracle, etc.)

5) Leadership and Vision: Excellent communication skills are required as this individual will interface with senior members of the business.