POSITION TITLE:    Network Architecture Director   SPECIFICATION NUMBER:    6478   LOCATION:     White Plains, New New York   COMPENSATION:    $225K+ Base  + Bonus   BACKGROUND   Our client’s need is for a Chief Network Architect to lead the Network Architecture group. Group responsibilities include:   §         Overall network architecture for delivering our client’s networking product §         Evaluation of products to be handed to operations for deployment and support §         Carrier interfaces and relationships §         Design and support of our client’s Network Operations Center (NOC) infrastructure. §         Security model for all network technologies   Candidate will perform network architecture as well as high level engineering tasks.   AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION – REQUIREMENTS TECHNICAL SKILLS   Areas of specialization include:   Network Infrastructure Design and Integration Layer 3/4/5 switching driven by Policy Management to deliver QOS / COS via TOS,RSVP, MPLS, 802.1p, 802.1pq, and 802.11 Multi-service networking (ie: ATM, VoIP, VoATM, H323, MPEG2, H.264 Video) Hands on Cisco 7000 class router and IOS experience Hands on Juniper and JunOS experience Specific MPLS WAN experience including support of MPLS 10a, 10b, and 10c carrier connections Internet connectivity and security Network Management   Requirements:   Ten+ years experience in relevant technologies and working environments. Proven technology leadership and problem solving skills Ability to interact with our sophisticated customer based on both a technological and business basis Ability to produce high quality documentation and presentation material Ability to work collaboratively   Technical Prerequisites:   LAN - Ethernet, ATM LANE, Multicasting, DVMRP, DiffServ, ToS, COS, QOS WAN - T1/E1, T3/DS3, Frame Relay, Sonet, STM1, STM4 ATM – PVC, SVC, MPLS, QOS (CBR, VBR, UBR, NRVBR) Protocols - TCP/IP, IPX, AppleTalk, SNA Routing Protocols -RIP, RIP2, OSPF, IGRP, EIGRP, and BGP4 MPLS Carrier class experience – MPLS 10a, 10b, and 10c Network Analysis Tools - Sniffer, HP Advisor, RMON Firewall – Knowledge of Stateful inspection, VPN   POSITION TITLE:       Contract Administration / Technology Procurement SPECIFICATION NUMBER:     10672 LOCATION:     New York, New York COMPENSATION:     $100K Base + Bonus SKILLS:    Position requires a junior to mid-level person with background in contract administration or technology procurement activities to assist senior members and bring added value to the group’s technology procurement and technology portfolio management activities.  Job Requirements:   Overall competencies/skills.  The ideal person for this position would possess:  Strong Analytical skills.  Detail oriented and well organized.  Self starter and able to work independently.   Strong Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint skills.  Microsoft Project skills.  Excellent verbal and written communication skills.  Database knowledge.  Contract management or procurement experience.  Client focus. Must be a team player. POSITION TITLE:       Data Modeler   SPECIFICATION NUMBER:     108144 LOCATION:     New York, New York COMPENSATION:     $130K Base + Bonus or $Hourly SKILLS:    Data Modeler.  Proficient in logical data modeling.  Ability to translate user requirements into data models.Both OLTP and decision support modeling experience with emphasis on Decision Support.  Solid knowledge of normalization and dimensional modeling.  Proficient in use of Case Tools especially Erwin.  General knowledge of Data Warehouse development methodologies especially Kimball and Inman.  Expert Knowledge of star / snowflake design concepts.  General Knowledge of data warehouse architectures (Staging areas, ODS, data marts).  Appreciation for ETL processing and how designs need to support and how design decisions impact.  Appreciation for types of decision support queries and how designs need to support and how design decisions impact.  Proficient in logical to physical transition including aggregation strategies.  General RDBMS experience RDBMS (preferably Oracle, also Sybase / ms sql server).  Solid conceptual knowledge of SQL and basic mechanical knowledge.   Knowledge of reference data design considerations.  Securities industry experience, preferably front office trading, compliance, and equities.  Knowledge of FIX protocol is helpful.  Good communication skills including ability to work with a team to get consensus on design decisions and ability to present designs to varied audiences. POSITION TITLE:       Development Manager - J2EE, Web, Documentum, Cobol, Perl SPECIFICATION NUMBER:     108128 LOCATION:     Jersey City, New Jersey COMPENSATION:     $140K Base + Bonus SKILLS:    This person will run a team. The team is responsible for all Maintenance work for Client & Book. It gets escalations from Production Support, does enhancements, data analysis and recon projects and technology upgrades. Requires to build and maintain a team cross-trained in all of our apps with diverse set of tech skills. This person will be working very closely with the Production Support team, the divisional resources and the Business/Ops people.  Strong Technology, Analytical and Management Skills: the apps he will be supporting run on Unix or Mainframe. They are using J2EE, Web Technologies, Documentum, COBOL and Perl.  Great Communication Skills (verbal and written).  People and Organization skills. POSITION TITLE:       J2EE, Databases, SOA, Middleware, Application Servers, ETL - Developer Architect SPECIFICATION NUMBER:     108210 LOCATION:     Jersey City, New Jersey COMPENSATION:     $140K Base + Bonus or $Hourly SKILLS:    Enterprise Data Initiative - EDS.  Essential: Good verbal and written communication skills.  Proven record in systems architecture using a variety of technologies: J2EE, Databases, SOA, Middlware, App Servers, Presentation Layer technologies, ETL, Workflow, Business Rule Engines.   Nice-to-Haves: Experience with financial industry applications or reference data management.  This is a Hands on development position.  Will play key role in the archirecture of the strategic platform.  Will work with other EDS architects to evaluate, select and incorporate  technologies into our architecture stack. POSITION TITLE:       J2EE, Web Technologies, Documentum, Cobol, Perl - Development Manager SPECIFICATION NUMBER:     108206 LOCATION:     Jersey City, New Jersey COMPENSATION:     $130K Base + Bonus or $Hourly SKILLS:    Enterprise Data Initiative - EDS.  Strong Technology, Analytical and Management Skills:  the apps he will be supporting run on Unix or Mainframe. They are using J2EE, Web Technologies, Documentum, COBOL and Perl. Great Communication Skills (verbal and written).  People and Organization skills. This person will run the STEP team.  The team is responsible for all Maintenance work for Client & Book.  It gets escalations from Production Support, does enhancements, data analysis and recon projects and technology upgrades. Requires to build and maintain a team cross-trained in all of our apps with diverse set of tech skills.  This person will be working very closely with the Production Support team, the GTI resources and the Business/Ops people. POSITION TITLE:       J2EE, Web Technologies, SOA, Data Warehouse - Senior Development Manager SPECIFICATION NUMBER:     108204 LOCATION:     Jersey City, New Jersey COMPENSATION:     $145K Base + Bonus or $Hourly SKILLS:    Enterprise Data Initiative - EDS.   Strong Technology, Analytical and Management Skills:   J2EE, Web Technologies, SOA, Data Warehouse.  Business Process Modeling and Re-engineering.  Data Modeling.  Architecture.  Reference Data Management a plus!.  Strategic Mindset.  Great Communication Skills (verbal and written).  Leadership skills. This person will be working very closely with department director,  other managers in team, technologists across EDS and in other departments.  Will play significant role in formulating technology strategy.   He will be selecting and incorporating new technologies into our architecture stack, he'll participate in creating execution roadmap, he will meet with business people, he will lead projects, etc. POSITION TITLE:       Equities Business -  Business Side Role SPECIFICATION NUMBER:     108134 LOCATION:     United Kindom, England COMPENSATION:     $130K Base + Bonus or $Hourly SKILLS:    Around 5 years or so experience, he needs to be a bit of an all rounder and ideally would have experience with: PC Excel, VB/VBA development.  Unix/Linux scripting, ksh, perl. Programming experience in either Java, C++ or C.  Market data e.g. Bloomberg, Reuters.  Trading systems, order entry/management.  Systems integration. POSITION TITLE:       Futures - Head of Global Futures Technology SPECIFICATION NUMBER:     108220 LOCATION:     Jersey City, New Jersey COMPENSATION:     $130K Base + Bonus SKILLS:    Head of Global Futures Technology  - Jersey City (Back Office).  Responsibilities: Lead a global team of approximately 15 persons, supporting the Global Futures Listed Derivative business. Role includes support for trade processing, books records, client and regulatory reporting functions. Regions covered include the US, Europe, Asia Pac and Australia.  Skills: People Management and Leadership, Strong Knowledge of the futures business.   Technologies Utilized: Sungard's GMI Product, AS400 Operating System, Web Interfaces to Clearing Corporations.  Salary Range: 130Base, 175 - 225 Total Comp. POSITION TITLE:       Incident Management Specialist SPECIFICATION NUMBER:     106158 LOCATION:     New York or Hopewell, New York or New Jersey COMPENSATION:     $115K Base + Bonus SKILLS:    The Incident Management Team is rapid response emergency care unit that is the first point of contact for low touch businesses when something does not work as expected, and an escalation point for the service desk for high impact incidents.  Responsibilities include:  rapid engagement of operational and technical expertise; identification of impacted parties; assignment of responsibility for running the incident and mitigating business risk, transparent facilitation of the incident call.  An Incident Management Specialist is expected to do the following with minimal supervision:   Facilitate the resolution of outages and crises across multiple teams.  Assess and ensure that all appropriate groups are working on resolving outages in a timely manner.   Quickly determine the severity of outages in terms of business impact and technical complexity.   Notify, escalate and communicate to senior management the existence and status of outages.  Document the actions and results that take place during service restoration.  Qualifications:  3 – 5  years of experience directly managing application or infrastructure services (or comparable experience).  Excellent verbal communication skills.  Ability to keep cool and perform in a high pressure environment w/ demonstrated ability to make accurate, fast decisions.  Assertive but diplomatic.  Relentless - strong desire to see things through to completion.