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UX Designer

11 month contract
Right to Hire position 
Location:  Preferably Portsmouth, NH however if it becomes difficult they can work in Jacksonville, Fla or Livingston, NJ
 
Responsibilities: The UX Designer will work on the UX Design Operations team, collaborating with designers, product owners, product managers, and developers as well as business stakeholders to create strong design solutions for our web technologies. They will produce wireframes, workflows and low-fidelity prototypes to effectively communicate user experience strategies and UI interactions. They will conduct research to ensure the UX approach meets the needs and expectations of the intended audience. We are looking for a detail-oriented thinker with a strong technical background and a knack for combining business needs and customer desires into intuitive experiences. Duties: • Iteratively design wireframes and low-fidelity prototypes, to help define the user experience and interfaces for both new and existing products and features, given technical limitations. • Assess the usability of new and existing products, and make constructive suggestions for improvement, grounded in data, testing or analysis. • Conduct UX research, including: usability testing, interviews, and surveys. Socialize the key findings and record them into a research-based knowledgebase for future reference. • Leverage research in initiatives and your designs; to raise the profile of UX design as a rigorous, data-driven discipline within the organization • Annotate low-fidelity prototypes to communicate detailed interactions and design rationale- to be referenced by the development and business teams. • Champion adoption of our common design system within wireframes and propose new design patterns into our common design system • Participate in UX design team workshops to identify problems and possible ideate solutions. • Participate in peer reviews and critiques of designed artifacts and deliverables for effectiveness. Qualifications: • Bachelor’s degree along with relevant UX experience • Work samples that demonstrate your solution to a complex problem. Strong ability to convey UX concepts to team members. • Understanding of digital design, user experience and information architecture. • Understanding of how research and analytics data can help guide design decisions. • Understanding of design patterns and visual design systems • Team-oriented attitude • Excellent time management • Experience in prototyping software (Axure, Balsamiq, etc.) • Experience conducting usability studies, moderating sessions and communicating insights
    
REQUIRED: • Bachelor’s degree along with relevant UX experience • Experience in prototyping software (Axure, Balsamiq, etc.) • Work samples that demonstrate your solution to a complex problem. • Strong ability to convey UX concepts to team members. • Understanding of digital design, user experience and information architecture. • Understanding of how research and analytics data can help guide design decisions. • Understanding of design patterns and visual design systems • Experience conducting usability studies, moderating sessions and communicating insights
    

UX Designer

11 month contract
Right to Hire position 

Location:  Preferably Portsmouth, NH
Possibly:  Jacksonville, Fla or Livingston, NJ
 
Responsibilities: The UX Designer will work on the UX Design Operations team, collaborating with designers, product owners, product managers, and developers as well as business stakeholders to create strong design solutions for our web technologies. They will produce wireframes, workflows and low-fidelity prototypes to effectively communicate user experience strategies and UI interactions. They will conduct research to ensure the UX approach meets the needs and expectations of the intended audience. We are looking for a detail-oriented thinker with a strong technical background and a knack for combining business needs and customer desires into intuitive experiences. Duties: • Iteratively design wireframes and low-fidelity prototypes, to help define the user experience and interfaces for both new and existing products and features, given technical limitations. • Assess the usability of new and existing products, and make constructive suggestions for improvement, grounded in data, testing or analysis. • Conduct UX research, including: usability testing, interviews, and surveys. Socialize the key findings and record them into a research-based knowledgebase for future reference. • Leverage research in initiatives and your designs; to raise the profile of UX design as a rigorous, data-driven discipline within the organization • Annotate low-fidelity prototypes to communicate detailed interactions and design rationale- to be referenced by the development and business teams. • Champion adoption of our common design system within wireframes and propose new design patterns into our common design system • Participate in UX design team workshops to identify problems and possible ideate solutions. • Participate in peer reviews and critiques of designed artifacts and deliverables for effectiveness. Qualifications: • Bachelor’s degree along with relevant UX experience • Work samples that demonstrate your solution to a complex problem. Strong ability to convey UX concepts to team members. • Understanding of digital design, user experience and information architecture. • Understanding of how research and analytics data can help guide design decisions. • Understanding of design patterns and visual design systems • Team-oriented attitude • Excellent time management • Experience in prototyping software (Axure, Balsamiq, etc.) • Experience conducting usability studies, moderating sessions and communicating insights
    
REQUIRED: • Bachelor’s degree along with relevant UX experience • Experience in prototyping software (Axure, Balsamiq, etc.) • Work samples that demonstrate your solution to a complex problem. • Strong ability to convey UX concepts to team members. • Understanding of digital design, user experience and information architecture. • Understanding of how research and analytics data can help guide design decisions. • Understanding of design patterns and visual design systems • Experience conducting usability studies, moderating sessions and communicating insights
    

Jr Project Manager/ Mergers & Acquisitions
Location Pasadena, CA
1 year contract

Primary Responsibilities • Manage the branch bank acquisition conversion project to completion, ensuring overall quality and timely execution of deliverables. • Communicate project progress to key stakeholders, through regular meetings and timely updates. • Facilitate decision making as it relates with rationalization of products and services and the bank core systems conversion. • Establish project roles and responsibilities, assessing availability and allocation of resources for successful preparation, collaboration and implementation of the conversion project • Develop and maintain processes that drive the adoption of best practices required throughout the conversion process. Qualifications • Minimum of 5 years retail branch banking experience required • Project Management, Project Administration, PMP Certification or equivalent experience required • Previous merger/acquisition experience required (end user experience sufficient) • Systems conversion experience required (end user experience sufficient) • Product/service rationalization experience preferred • Excellent communication, presentation and meeting facilitation skills. • Strong initiative and decision making skills, as well as the abilities to work as part of a team and build trust with key partners.
    

Qualifications • Advanced level in all Microsoft Office Applications. • Minimum of 5 years retail branch banking experience required • Project Management, Project Administration, PMP Certification or equivalent experience • Previous merger/acquisition experience required (end user experience sufficient) • Systems conversion experience required (end user experience sufficient) • Product/service rationalization experience preferred • Excellent communication, presentation and meeting facilitation skills. • Strong initiative and decision making skills, as well as the abilities to work as part of a team and build trust with key partners.
 
  
Required:
☐  Bachelors’ degree
☐  Project Management, Project Administration, PMP Certification or equivalent experience
☐  Minimum of 5 years retail branch banking experience
☐  Advanced skills in all MS office Applications
☐  Product/service rationalization experience


 


 

VMWare VRealize Cloud Engineer
 
Looking for a skilled VMWare vRealize Cloud Engineer who will work with the team on their strategy to leverage VMWare environments in the Public Cloud.

• Experience working with VMware vRealize Automation (vRO) and VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) version 7.5
• Experience with Public Cloud VMWare ecosystems CloudSimple/AVS or VMWAre Cloud
• Experience working with Public Cloud (Azure) and Hybrid Cloud integration with vRA and vRO
• Experience developing vRO workflows and actions using JavaScript
• Experience with vRA/vRO system integration using REST API to external systems such as Service-Now and VMware NSX
• Experience working with VMware vCenter
• Working knowledge of Converged and Hyper-Converged infrastructure
• Experience with administration of Windows and Red Hat Linux servers
• Strong verbal and written communication skills including the ability to document technical information

Nice to have:

• Experience developing with Puppet
• Experience developing with Python
• Experience developing with Powershell
• Knowledge of DevOps practices
• Knowledge of PaaS

Mid-size hedge fund seeks Risk Management systems focused Quantitative Developer

Job Description:
Will be involved in development, enhancement and support of risk systems and modeling of data structures for Equities, FX, Credit, Rates, Volatility and Exotic products.

• Enhance and develop fund’s global risk management platform. Support, maintain and improve existing production risk management systems, participating in monitoring performance, maintaining code source control, ensuring code and processes are well-documented.
• Build tools to extract data, transforming and loading into the risk platform and ensure consistency and accuracy of risk data.
• Integrate portfolio management system with third party risk vendors  (RiskMetrics, etc.) for prices, valuations, positions and risk measures.
• Assist risk managers to identify, evaluate and manage the risks of trading strategies across multiple asset classes including equity indices, single name equities, corporate bonds, fixed income and FX.
• Assist in the enhancement and support of existing risk systems and applications (Valuation, Risk, Pnl Predict, Pnl Explain, Scenario Analysis).
• Work with risk managers with the visualization of risk info.  
• Model data structures and processes for all asset classes, equities, fixed income, FX, volatility and exotic products

Requirements:

• BS/MS in computational field, comp science, math, physics, etc.
• Strong Python coder
• Hands-on with databases, T-SQL / SQL Server
• Strong Excel/VBA skills, visualization tools, Tableau experience, is a plus

Manager of Business Applications
Job Description

Seeking an experienced and motivated individual to lead and manage business application team and work a dynamic, high-tech manufacturing company.

The Manager of Business Applications manages the day-to-day technology operations and staff for the Business Applications and Systems Department.

The Manager will directly manage a team consisting of application developers, administrators and business system analysts to ensure that global business applications and systems are implemented, properly maintained, supported and secure.

The Manager is the primary IT representative for the business applications assigned to their portfolio and acts as the application owner.

This is a highly visible and influential role that supports a number of critical business functions.
Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Oversee the development and implementation of corporate and department initiatives, and issue resolution.

• Manage application lifecycle management and successful delivery of projects and enhancements

• Manage staff and be accountable for personnel actions, including hiring, performance and salary reviews, disciplinary action and termination.

• Be responsible for ensuring that key goals are met on a short and long-term basis by leading the IT team on crucial projects within the accepted time and resource constraints.

• Research and present new technical offerings to improve efficiency and internal controls.

• Ensure a secure framework and change management process to mitigate risk.

• Review and confirm that requirements and resulting systems are documented and that all best practices and standards are followed.

• Develop and maintain relationships with business stakeholders at all levels to ensure alignment with their business objectives and strategy.

• Plan, schedule, and manage onsite technology operations.

• Develop annual goals and objectives for the function.

• Manage risks related to financial and security compliance and also risks relating to project and program delivery.

• Assist with the management of the Business Continuity program.

• Provide on-call support for the business operation.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Experience initiating, leading, delivering and managing cross-functional projects ranging from large transformation initiatives and custom solutions to cloud offerings; experience with enterprise resource planning (ERP) and enterprise performance management (EPM).

• Proven experience working and partnering with business controls and internal & external audit reviews.

• Experience with best practice integration methods and having worked in complex integration environments using on premise and cloud infrastructure; components of integration will include Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce.com (SFDC) and various .NET platforms.
• Experience with one or more Development methodologies (i.e. Waterfall, Agile).

• Knowledge of database design and management.

• Knowledge of security controls and user administration.

• Experience translating business problems into IT solutions via a structured methodology.

• Thorough understanding of project management, resource management methodologies and project life cycle process.

• Demonstrated leadership skills with the ability to manage, coach and train staff.

• Strong planning and organizational skills.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Strong verbal and written communications skills.

• Ability to work cross functionally within IT and the business.

• Mentoring and coaching skills.

• Experience working in a controlled and validated environment (Sarbanes Oxley) preferred.

• Knowledge of and ability to administer personnel actions, including performance and salary reviews, hiring, discipline and termination.

• Knowledge of manufacturing and operations, with preference for knowledge of accounting and finance.

• Experience with Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) processes preferred.
Education and Experience Required

• Bachelor’s degree in technical field required. Computer science or management information systems degree preferred.

• 7+ years of relevant work experience required in the business application domain, including 3+ years in a leadership role.

• MUST BE Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin, Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect
• Experience writing complex SPL queries for dashboards, reports and apps
• Experience in translating business requirements into concrete data analytics solutions
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2019.
• Microsoft Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and 10.
• Microsoft Office 2016, 2019.
• Microsoft Active Directory.
• Familiarity with network technologies.
• IT security-related certifications such as CISSP, CompTIA Sec+, GSEC, CHE =or (ISC)².

Job Description:
Primary responsibilities are to develop and implement test plans and bug verification scenarios utilizing software requirements and test scripts. This candidate will be responsible for isolation of software defects and bugs and validating that fixes are implemented. Required to ensure that new and /or modified software applications meet standards and requirements. Should possess strong logical skills and ability to think out of box. Strong written and verbal communications skills are essential. Should have a strong knowledge of the software development lifecycle and quality assurance best practices, methodologies and standards.
 
Experience:

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree and 1-4 years of relevant experience or equivalent working experience.
• Proven experience as a Quality Assurance Tester or similar role.
• Experience with testing methodology including strong analysis of requirements documents to prepare test plans, bug verification scenarios and automation scripts.
• Experience with identifying and properly reporting software issues.
• Hands on experience with TestRail and Jira. (Preferred)
• Hands on experience with Cucumber and Selenium. (Preferred)