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• Company

  Jacobs Levy Equity Management

• Location

  Florham Park, NJ

• Compensation

  Competitive

• Position Type

  Employee

• Employment type

  Full time

• Updated

  09 May 2008

• eFC Ref no

  301145

Recent growth in the systems development staff requires additional technical oversight and project management resources.

Jacobs Levy Equity Management is widely recognized as a leading provider of quantitative equity strategies for institutional clients. Building on the pioneering research of its founders, Bruce Jacobs and Ken Levy, the firm focuses on detecting opportunities in U.S. equities and exploiting them through engineered, risk-controlled portfolios designed to provide consistent value-added. Jacobs Levy currently manages portfolios for a prestigious global roster of more than 50 corporate pension plans, public retirement systems, multi-employer funds, endowments, and foundations, including over 25 of Pensions & Investments’ “Top 200 Pension Funds/Sponsors.”

Job Description:
This position will be responsible for establishing and leading an architecture/design team to develop and implement advanced systems. Responsibilities will be in the areas of systems architecture, technical leadership and project management.

The position will be responsible for

• architecting solutions that integrate the functional applications that support research, trading, portfolio management and securities accounting,
  
• providing technical and engineering leadership in all areas of application development, and
  
• managing critical projects that cut across these functional areas.

Candidates must be able work directly with professional investment staff to collect and interpret requirements and deliver products that meet their needs. The successful candidate will be able to work independently as well as in a team environment.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze business needs to determine requirements
  
• Establish and lead an architecture/design team to develop and implement advanced systems
  
• Implement structural changes to the present architecture
  
• Evaluate full system processes across all functions, ensuring complete system integrity
  
• Allow for future growth of the organization, business development, and corresponding technology support
  
• Consider upgrades or replacement of existing architecture components
  
• Establish best practice guidelines for development
  
• Document all new and existing systems with standardized software documentation protocol
  
• Establish formal code review processes
  
• Participate in management IT strategy planning
  
• Assist in building and managing teams that will develop the solutions

Requirements:

• Minimum of 10 years systems development experience using C++ and object-oriented programming
  
• Minimum 5 years database experience working with Microsoft SQL Server
  
• Minimum of 5 years systems architect and project management experience
  
• Experience in working in a Microsoft environment using Visual Studio
  
• Experience developing applications in support of investment management processes
  
• Good working knowledge of investment related data and systems
  
• Experience in full software development life cycle
  
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
  
• Ability to coordinate with internal personnel and external systems support vendors

Compensation:

• Open, depending upon education, experience and skills
  
• Competitive health benefits, profit sharing, paid holidays and vacation following 90 days of employment

Company is a renowned preeminent quantitative investment firm, managing over $20 billion in U.S. equities for a select and sophisticated institutional clientele. Qualified candidates must meet all of the above requirements, live within a commutable distance of Morristown, NJ and be eligible to work in the U.S.