Client Summary:
The client is a leading hedge fund manager with over $12 billion of net assets under management. The firm focuses on investment strategies primarily within the global fixed income markets with the objectives of capital preservation and absolute return without significant correlation to equity, interest rate, and foreign exchange markers.
The clients office is located in Boston's historic back bay and they place a large emphasis on making sure that their 140 employees are supported, motivated, dedicated, and intellectually curious. The firms culture can best be described as "entrepreneurial" and "collaborative."
Responsibilities:
- Learn existing application and database framework
- Troubleshoot, maintain and enhance application infrastructure and related operations
- Work with members of the Back Office to determine automation needs
- Develop applications in the approved technologies to meet all requirements
- Analyze, select and integrate vendor software where necessary
- Adhere to current development processes including documentation, code standards, and testing
- Liaise with internal colleagues and external counter parties to ensure seamless integration is achieved when implementing or enhancing applications
- Work as a technical intermediary between Back Office staff and application vendors
Qualifications:
- Experience with the .NET development platform, specifically C#
- Experience with Microsoft SQL server
- Experience with Microsoft technologies WPF and Web API
- Understanding of application design patterns, components and abstraction
- Minimum 4 years of prior related experience preferably with a financial services firm
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Finance, Economics, or a related field
- Strong technical and project management skills
- Ability to challenge current processes in order to improve them
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with others
- Ability to work well under pressure and within a deadline driven environment
If interested, please submit your resume!
