Job Description:
The Client
Our client is the most trusted source of information for businesses and professionals. They combine innovative technology with unmatched analytic, data, news, display and distribution capabilities, to deliver critical information via multimedia platforms. Their media services cover the world with more than 2,200 news and multimedia professionals at 146 bureaus in 72 countries.

The Role
Our client’s R&D Systems Group is looking to add to their current talent with Linux System Engineers. This is a unique opportunity to work as part of a word-class team building, enhancing, and maintaining enterprise systems. The qualified candidate must be able to perform a variety of challenging assignments associated with Red Hat Linux System administration and engineering with high levels of functional independence. The team’s responsibilities include provisioning, installing, and upgrading servers, systems policy management, technical documentation, assistance on infrastructure-related projects, implementing best practices, and interfacing with application related teams.

Qualifications:
- BA/BS degree in Computer Science & 7 yrs of progressively responsible experience within the realm of systems administration / engineering.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Must function as a member of a team and thrive in a fast paced, interrupt driven systems environment
-Monitor resource usage, making required recommendations and adjustments
-Participate in on-call production support activities
-Coordinate activities with Vendors
-Responsible for contributing to the development of the organizations goals and objectives
-Recommend improvements to facilitate better management and monitoring of the environment
-Proactively create procedures to prevent and reduce the severity of outages
- Assist with the installation, configuration and management of the Linux infrastructure
-Analyze system performance and knowledge of system parameters for improvement of the utilization of system resources

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Job Description:
Our client is the most trusted source of information for businesses and professionals. They combine innovative technology with unmatched analytic, data, news, display and distribution capabilities, to deliver critical information via multimedia platforms. Their media services cover the world with more than 2,200 news and multimedia professionals at 146 bureaus in 72 countries.

Qualifications:
- Qualified candidates must have 6+ years of experience with large SAN infrastructure involving EMC, HP, Brocade and Cisco hardware
- Excellent technical skills experience with designing and managing large-scale and complex SAN/NAS storage arrays required, along with strong communication skills
- Must be capable of writing technical documentation, making presentations to an internal audience, interacting positively with upper management and outside vendors
- Experience working with EMC SRDF, EMC PowerPath
- A solid understanding of AIX and/or Solaris
- Knowledge of Linux or Windows a plus
- A good working knowledge of NAS, preferably Netapp
- Ability to write scripts in an administrative languages (perl, shell scripts)
- Strong inter-personal skills
- Capable of communicating effectively in oral/written format
- Capable of independent problem solving, self-motivated and self-directed
- Bachelors Degree or equivalent

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Job Description:
JOB DESCRIPTION
Our client is seeking a Junior Unix Engineer who will be responsible for all aspects of Unix and storage infrastructure. The responsibilities of the position include full lifecycle management of all Unix and storage systems and services, including specification, building/installing, tuning, maintenance, and troubleshooting.

RESPONSIBILITIES
Key responsibilities will include the following:
• Full lifecycle management of all Unix-based systems and services including trading and market data systems, locally-developed and third party application servers and services, database systems, monitoring/trending services, job scheduling systems, and web/DNS/backup/DHCP services
• Management of centralized NAS/SAN storage infrastructure
• Working with other engineering and development groups to determine support
requirements for new and existing services
• Improving/refining existing systems and storage technologies and processes

CANDIDATE PROFILE
The ideal candidate will have knowledge of and experience with the following:
• 4 year degree in computer science (or related field) from a top university
• 1-3 years of relevant work experience
• A strong understanding Unix/Linux operating system fundamentals, concepts, and practices
• Demonstrated ability and experience with at least one programming/scripting language (Perl, shell, c, etc.)
• Exposure to/knowledge of storage concepts such as SAN/NAS, RAID, network file systems
• A strong understanding of network fundamentals
• Outstanding troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills
• A careful, responsible approach to problem-identification and solving
• The ability and desire to learn a wide range of technologies
• The ability to work well in both individual and team capacities

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Job Description:
Our client is seeking a junior voice and data network engineer to design, implement and maintain voice, video and data infrastructures for a fast-paced environment. The candidate must be able to work independently and interface with all levels of staff.

Responsibilities

The candidate will work along with senior members of the staff and will have responsibility in the following areas:

· Assisting with Network design and architecture

· Dynamic routing protocols and redistribution

· Firewall and remote access solutions including Access-lists, NAT, SSL, and IPSEC VPNs

· Architecture & design of telephony infrastructures

· Maintaining and improving the company’s telephony infrastructure, including Avaya VoIP phones, Avaya Call Managers, and BT Syntegra Turrets

· Installing and Monitoring voice circuits

· Working with voice and video conferencing units firm-wide

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate will have had exposure to basic voice and data networking technologies. These include experience with the following:

· Cisco routers and switches

· A basic understanding of dynamic routing protocols

· TCP/IP fundamentals and IP Addressing

· Firewalls and NAT’ting

· VoIP telephones and systems and their interaction with the data network

· Telecommunications circuits – PRIs, ARDs, Data Circuits (T1/E1, DS3, SONET, Ethernet)

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Job Description:
Responsible for leading medium to large sized, moderately to highly complex projects, focused on business process, products and business strategies to drive people, process and technology solutions to business issues. These solutions will have a heavy emphasis on performance metrics, analytics, inventory segmentation, and predictive modeling. Key responsibilities include:
•Scope, plan, manage and monitor key business process engineering and functional requirements and deliverables to support technology solutions.
•Work directly with key business leaders and CIO and IT to identify and prioritize solutions to people, process and technology issues facing the business, including the development of business cases.
•Work directly with key business leaders and IT to document all business and technical requirements for technology solutions.
•Work directly with the organization to drive efforts to leverage and integrate tools, technology and metrics to ensure optimal staff performance.

PRIMARY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
•Work with IT Project Managers, Technical Analysts, and other project team members to define and document functional and technical requirements on complex business projects.
•Partner with the business to analyze feasibility, define and document business requirements and produce functional specifications for significant, large-scale and/or high complexity projects.
•Serve as subject matter expert to major business processes, including performance metrics, analytics, inventory segmentation and predictive modeling.
•Provide a lead role in the development of formal business cases, including the recommendation of business priorities with the highest value that are aligned with business and technology strategy, and advise business on options, risks and costs of people, process and technology solutions.
•Analyze emerging trends and work with business and IT leadership to ensure business needs are clearly understood and solutions meet the needs and expectations of the business. When appropriate, question and challenge business teams to understand goals, priorities, and requirements. Facilitate issue resolution and communicate decisions to relevant parties.
•Partner with business and IT leadership to integrate and leverage tools, technologies, and metrics to optimize claim processes, and analyze and communicate organizational impact and potential change management issues of proposed people, process and technology solutions to relevant stakeholders.
•Drive efforts to instill best practices in field and home office managers and supervisors on the usage and interpretation of claim business intelligence and predictive modeling tools.
•Design approaches for effective data capture and ensuring data integrity. Assist in defining the taxonomy for characterizing data elements.

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
IT Industry Knowledge
•Build and maintain a solid understanding of the major IT trends impacting the business
•Maintain a broad business and IT product knowledge, including the impact of industry trends, regulatory environment, and relevant best practices on the IT business and operations

Business Partnership
•Build and maintain an in-depth understanding of business process and products across Claims and IT and establish strong working relationships with business leaders, functional counterparts and vendors
•Use active listening to define business needs, and recommend the appropriate solutions based on a strong understanding of the business issue at hand
•Understand the Claim business and IT strategy and/or sourcing direction and how they impact the relationships with specific vendors

Teamwork
•Manage individual workload and deliver to agreed upon milestones
•Proactively promote consistent project-based performance measurement and skills development of junior staff
•Demonstrate strong ability to work in a team environment and foster cross-team collaboration

Knowledge Sharing
•Promote the use of knowledge management and knowledge sharing processes and tools
•Share/leverage successful products, processes and practices across IT
•Ensure documentation is captured appropriately and is easily assessable to the team members

Required Qualifications
•Bachelors required. MBA or advanced degree preferred
•10+ years of combined business, team leadership and technology experience
•5+ years of technology and/or consulting experience including managing client relationships (internal/external)
•Knowledge of CMM and Six Sigma methodologies and standards
•Demonstrated understanding of financial analysis concepts and tools, financial business case development and ROI modeling and measurement
•Clear understanding of IT environments and technologies, including business intelligence tools (Cognos preferred), with experience in eliciting and documenting functional and technical requirements in accordance with corporate best practices
•Deep understanding of, as well as ability to educate others, on property and casualty insurance claims business goals, performance metrics, analytics, and inventory segmentation processes
•Proven experience in process reengineering and business modeling concepts, including ability to solve problems that span business and technology
•Experience in driving the integration of performance metrics, analytics, and/or predictive modeling tools into business processes, resulting in improved strategic decision making, process efficiency, and data value
•Able to build effective relationships with business and IT leadership at all levels, with experience in initiating and facilitating discussions with multiple stakeholders, leading to effective and efficient issue resolution
•Excellent written and verbal communication skills
•Strong influence and negotiation skills

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Job Description:
Responsible for the design of analytics (i.e., text mining, SAS) and business intelligence architectural solutions and their integration into the existing IT architecture. This may include, but is not limited to:
•Manage business intelligence and analytics architecture in accordance with Corporate IT standards and methodologies
•Provide expert knowledge of analytics technical solutions and BI architecture to IT teams
•Serve as IT business intelligence domain expert to Business, Operations and IT teams, and external parties, if required
•Provide analytics technical guidance to the System Architects and IT Development or Business Systems Support Teams

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
•Manage IT business intelligence and analytics architecture in accordance with Corporate IT standards and methodologies
•Responsible for providing technical coaching of Analytics and Business Intelligence to developers on the most complex aspects of individual BI projects
•Establishment and enforcement of a concise series of technical standards for the deliverables of individual projects, as well as code inspections for the key technical aspects within these projects
•Work with business leaders to establish long-term technology planning for business intelligence and claim analytics platform and objectives
•Must demonstrate proficiency and success in the following areas:
•Business-driven methodology & project management
•Clear vision & planning
•Committed management support & sponsorship
•Data management & quality
•Mapping solutions to user requirements
•Performance considerations of the BI system
•Robust & expandable framework
•Provide technical guidance to the Systems Architects during the design phase
•Provide technical guidance to the BI Development Teams during the analysis, development and testing processes
•Provide technical input into the development of project initiation documents, including definition of objectives, scope, approach and deliverables
•Guide the selection of the hardware and software components the application will use for implementation and provide instruction on how to appropriately implement the application components using the respective hardware and software
•Conduct analysis of recommended processes and technologies to determine and validate the architecture needs for different system environments for IT; review and approve architectural designs if necessary
•Identify and communicate business, application and technical risks associated with application implementation
•Provide technical guidance and expertise for the development of large scale projects that involve IT and/or Corporate IT architecture
•Participate in IT-wide architecture working groups to stay current on the latest technology solutions and to ensure the proposed solutions are aligned to the current and future Corporate IT objectives

Technical Acumen

•Experience preparing large data sets and developing utility programs for text mining and the various stages of predictive modeling processes (preferably in SAS), following best practices
•Experience developing code for ETL processes leveraging industry technologies (preferably Informatica) following best practices
•Experience developing code for a rich user experience leveraging industry technologies (preferably Cognos), following best practices
•Proven capability to teach Business Intelligence development techniques and the decision rules how to apply them.
•Proven capability to provide efficient and accurate diagnosis of problems and application of appropriate solutions
•Proven experience in online analytical processing, analytics, data mining, business performance management, benchmarking, text mining, and predictive analytics.
•Thorough understanding of the latest trends in data warehouse and business intelligence technologies

Business Partnership
•Build and maintain an in-depth understanding of IT and business process and products across Claims and IT
•Establish strong working relationships with IT business and technology team members, vendors and related business partners
•Use active listening to define architecture and technical needs, and recommend the appropriate solutions based on a strong understanding of technology and business needs

People Development
•Manage individual workload and deliver to agreed upon milestones
•Proactively promote technical knowledge and skills development of junior staff in and analytics
•Demonstrate strong ability to work in a team environment and foster cross-team collaboration
•Create a strong morale and spirit in his/her team through fostering open dialogue and creating a feeling of belonging to the team

Knowledge Management
•Promote the use of knowledge management and knowledge sharing processes and tools
•Share/leverage successful products, processes and practices across IT
•Assist in evaluating knowledge sharing tools and making recommendations for knowledge management improvements

RECOMMENDED QUALIFICATIONS:
•Bachelor’s Degree (required) or Master’s Degree (preferred) in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
•7-10 years of Architecture experience
•7-10 years of relevant IT and business/industry work experience
•Proven experience in serving as an expert to system architects, developers and/or application support analysts
•Proven experience in online analytical processing, analytics, data mining, business performance management, benchmarking, text mining, and predictive analytics.
•Detailed knowledge of the following:
-Cognos database software and underlying structures
-SAS modeling software
-Text mining approaches, techniques and applicable software
-Informatica and ETL tools
-SQL language and complex data access procedures
•Experience with database and data analysis technology
•Strong understanding of IT environments, technologies in relation to business needs
•Proven practical experience with analysis and/or support to business processes
•Proven leadership experience in managing client relationships (internal/external)
•Strong project management skills, including ability to execute and prioritize a number of tasks simultaneously
•Experience in initiating, conducting and facilitating discussions with multiple stakeholders, and ability to translate the results and issues at hand to the business and to the IT teams
•Excellent written and verbal communication skills
•Strong interpersonal/relationship management skills

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Job Description:
Our client is looking for a Senior SAP Functional Lead for a permanent role in Atlanta, GA or Toronto, Canada.

MUST be a US Citizen or Greencard Holder!!!

Core Responsibilities and Requirements:

SAP Lead Functional Configurator * SD/MM

* 2-3 full lifecycle SAP implementation experience in SD/MM modules including an in-depth understanding of integration with FI. Understanding of ASAP methodology required.
* 5-6 years of related SAP experience
* Functional configuration experience with SAP ECC 6.0 (MM Purchasing and inventory management for 3rd party products ;Custom inventory movements; Pricing and Taxation; EDI; output determination; Vendor ; SD – Order to Cash : Customer and Materials Master Data, Order Types, Deliveries, Billing, Pricing, Taxation, Billing Plans, Revenue Recognition, SD-FI Integration, ABAP debugging Skills, Netweaver Technology exposure, exposure to ) is required.

* Experience with SAP Retail functionality a strong plus
* Ability to operate in a highly matrixed environment
* Strong business facing and planning skills
* Strong verbal and written communication skills; as well as demonstrating effective listening.

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Job Description:
My client, based in the Sarasota, Florida area, is looking to hire a Crystal Report Developer.

Client is offering a very fair Compensation / Benefits package.

Must have atleast 3 years of Crystal Report Development experience. Must have excellent communication skills.

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Job Description:
The successful applicant will join a small team which is responsible for all systems design, development and support throughout the firm. This group oversees trading systems, electronic trading interfaces, website with trading portal, desktop applications and related systems for front and back office in a dynamic trading floor environment. Responsibilities will include:

* Application design and development. This is a hands-on development position. Expect to participate in system architecture discussions and to develop and deploy production applications.

* Learning, understanding and supporting new and existing systems

* Working with the trading and sales desks to understand new user requirements

* New feature analysis, development, testing and deployment

* Electronic Trading interface development and support

More about the successful applicant:

* Proven problem-solving skills

* Creativity and pragmatism

* A team player, able to work independently as required

* Strong people skills

More about the firm:

* A small fixed-income dealer

* A small, closely integrated software development group

* A small hardware, telecoms and network support group

* This position affords the opportunity to gain exposure to every aspect of the firm*s operation.

Requirements

This position requires the following:

* A minimum of a bachelor*s degree in Computer Science or a closely related field

* At least 3 years of relevant experience with production systems

* Experience with .NET

* Experience with Visual C++ or C#

* Experience in financial services. Preference will be given to candidates with knowledge of fixed income products.

* The ability to work effectively in a dynamic environment

* The ability to formulate a robust system architecture

* Strong writing, verbal and communication skills

* Knowledge of Network Programming would be an advantage

* Experience with real-time systems would also be a plus.

Programming Languages

Existing and future systems will employ a combination of the following:

* .NET – This is a firm requirement for this position

* Visual C++ or C# – This is a firm requirement for this position

* SQL – This is a firm requirement for this position

* The successful applicant will be required to gain a working knowledge of other languages, tools and systems as needed.

Platforms

Windows XP and Windows Server

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Job Description:
Our client is looking for a Cognos report developer to join their team. This person will be responsible for analyzing business intelligence (BI) and reporting requirements, producing a range of reports, and developing value-add BI solutions. The individual will have the opportunity to work directly with business personnel across the firm including Finance, Operations, Accounting, and Risk Management, and will gain exposure to a broad array of financial products, procedures, and alternative investment strategies and concepts.

RESPONSIBILITIES
Key responsibilities will include the following:
* Analyzing business intelligence (BI) and reporting requirements, producing a range of reports, and developing value-add BI solutions

CANDIDATE PROFILE
The ideal candidate would possess the following:
* Proficiency in Cognos Business Intelligence Suite
* Proficiency in Cognos Report Studio
* Proficiency in Cognos Query Studio
* Proficiency in SQL Query Composition
* 3-4 years of experience in a financial services environment
* Cognos Best Practices beneficial
* Cognos Analysis Studio beneficial
* Cognos Framework Manager beneficial
* Cognos Server Administration & Tuning beneficial
* Cognos Transformer and Cubes beneficial
* Kimball Data Warehousing Methodology beneficial
* Multidimensional modeling, OLAP concepts beneficial
* Oracle Database Skills beneficial
* Informatica or ETL skills beneficial
* Strong written and verbal communication abilities, inter-personal skills, analytical proficiency, as well as professionalism are essential in this role

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