C# .Net Investment Research / Yoh / Jersey City, NJ
Yoh/Jersey City, NJYoh has a contract opportunity for a C# .Net Investment Research professional to join our client in Jersey City, NJ.
Job Overview:
- Quantitative analysis for stock picking ideas and stock valuation
- Document/product creation, publishing and distribution workflow
- Management Information Systems (MIS) to meet all performance attribution, internal control and external regulatory reporting requirements
Job Responsibilities:
- Our client is seeking an Application Developer who will be based in the New York office working for GIR Technology on a number of key initiatives.
- Ranging from development support to working on full lifecycle enterprise wide applications as we expand our investment research footprint, the role will be both challenging and rewarding as the successful candidate interacts with a strong technology team steeped in innovative design, focused on delivery and maintaining strong business links with key users.
Job Qualifications:
- We expect the successful candidate to have a proven track record delivering Windows client desktop applications using Microsoft .NET technology.
- The candidate will get to work with new and recent .Net technologies, such as WPF, WCF, MEF, Linq.
- They should demonstrate knowledge and interest in the whole .NET ecosystem (both current and forthcoming technologies).
- Prior experience of working within the Microsoft Office environment (including VSTO) would be a strong advantage, as would experience of server side Java development.
- Knowledge of investment research and finance are not essential but experience in either of these areas would obviously provide a candidate with an advantage.
- Clear verbal and written communication skills will be crucial since the candidate must be able to gather requirements as well as influence and gain consensus for their designs with the global technology team.
- They should also be very comfortable to working with clearly defined project plans and be able to develop their own plans within a very short time.
Mandatory
- A minimum of 5 years commercial experience
- Strong C# .NET skills
- Experience of applying software development methodologies to deliver robust, well tested solutions in a rapid TDD environment.
Competencies
- Technical Skills Demonstrates strong technical skills required for the role, pays attention to detail, takes initiative to broaden his/her knowledge and demonstrates appropriate analytical skills
- Drive and Motivation Successfully handles multiple tasks, takes initiative to improve his/her own performance, works intensely towards extremely challenging goals and persists in the face of obstacles or setbacks
- Client and Business Focus Effectively handles difficult requests, builds trusting, long-term relationships with clients, helps the client to identify/define needs and manages client/business expectations
- Teamwork - Gives evidence of being a strong team player, collaborates with others within and across teams, encourages other team members to participate and contribute and acknowledges others' contributions
- Communication Skills Communicates what is relevant and important in a clear and concise manner and shares information/new ideas with others
- Judgment and Problem solving, Thinks ahead, anticipates questions, plans for contingencies, finds alternative solutions and identifies clear objectives. Sees the big picture and effectively analyses complex issues
- Creativity/Innovation Looks for new ways to improve current processes and develop creative solutions that are grounded in reality and have practical value
Preferred Job Skills / Experience / Knowledge:
- Practical experience working with the Microsoft Office platform and VSTO
- Knowledge of WPF, WCF, WinForms, Linq
- Experience of a Dependency Injection framework, e.g. Unity, Ninject, StructureMap.
- Experience of working with common build, test & productivity tools, e.g. CVS, Subversion, MsBuild, Hudson/ CruiseControl, NUnit, NCover, JIRA, Quality Centre.
- Experience with server side Java development.
- Experience with ObjectiveC development.
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Yoh, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V.
Tax Term: CON_W2
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