Senior Design & Development Engineer - OOD/PERL/UNIX

  • Company

    Barclays Global Investors (US)

  • Location

    San Francisco, CA

  • Compensation

    Market Rate

  • Position Type

    Employee

  • Employment type

    Full time

  • Updated

    19 Jun 2008

  • eFC Ref no

    414980
Barclays Global Investors is America's largest money manager, providing structured investment strategies such as indexing, risk-controlled active products, and exchange traded funds to investors worldwide. BGI has been at the forefront of developing innovative investment ideas, applying science and technology to the investment process.
Job Responsibilities

  • Develops, enhances and maintains new and existing software and applications throughout US Active Portfolio Management Systems. Work with Portfolio Managers, implement new strategies and field incoming issues. Work with other IT teams to resolve application and software issues within servers, databases, and other mission-critical systems.
  • Work in a highly collaborative environment with other members of the PM IT team, taking the lead in specific projects, thereby enabling participation in all areas of the software development lifecycle.
  • Develop a thorough understanding of business processes and information processing requirements. Identify and learn key concepts with regard to the client's business process and business model, and financial trading products and markets.
  • Evaluate documented resolutions and existing application implementation; analyze trends for ways to prevent repeated future problems.
  • Work with the PM IT strategic development team to recommend key requirements for productionalization of new trading applications.
  • Document the problem-solving process, including all successful and unsuccessful decisions made and actions taken, through to final resolution.

    Qualifications

  • 5+ years of enterprise software engineering / application development experience
  • Excellent SQL skills, preferably Sybase SQL Server and/or Oracle
  • Advanced skills in object-oriented design & analysis and object-oriented programming using Java or similar (C#, C++, Ruby, Python, etc.)
  • Understanding and practical experience with Weblogic (version 8+) and JBoss is strongly desired.
  • PERL experience is desirable
  • Experience in UNIX environments
  • Asset management/investment banking, or trading-related experience is highly desirable
  • B.S. (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field is required.

    Candidates with the following will have a distinct advantage:
  • Experience supporting front-office, PM or trading systems
  • Experience working in global teams
  • Curiosity and enthusiasm for understanding how key business and technical processes work, coupled with a desire to identify and implement opportunities to improve those processes

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