eFinancialCareers

• Location

  China-Hong Kong

• Compensation

  Top Salary offered for the right candidate

• Position Type

  Employee

• Employment type

  Full time

• Updated

  19 Aug 2008

• eFC Ref no

  428341

U.S Investment Bank with an enviable reptuation for providing innovative products and services to their clients. Regarded as one of the best employers this is an excellent opportunity for a smart I-Bank professional to take the next career step with this prestigious company.

Principal Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will be expected to work across various business areas (Equity Capital Markets, Debt Capital Markets, Bank Loans, Leveraged Finance, Structured Finance) to design and develop web-based applications using Java based technologies like Spring, Hibernate and also enable these web apps to have Web 2.0 capabilities using JSF, AJAX, etc.

There are several major development projects currently underway to replace legacy systems, so the candidate will be working with the core tech team on the next generation of capital markets systems. There are multiple opportunities to work with new technologies and make significant contributions that help define the technical direction for the team. Also will use some agile methodologies like unit test and continuous builds.

Other responsibilities includes adding enhancements to existing applications and also supporting various Capital Markets system. Teamwork is key and most projects involve working closely with the New York, London and Asian IT teams.

The person in this role is expected to perform a pivotal role within the global team having primary responsibility for Asia, driving and manage multiple projects with global and regional impact as well as being focused on technical implementation & delivery and support. The vast majority of applications are global and web-based, serving the needs of the diverse user base and business workflows.The role may also require liaising with other technical teams within the organisations, e.g. DBAs, Systems Administrator, Help Desk, other core infrastructure teams as well as vendors.

Experience / Skills: Required

• 5 - 8 Years application development experience 
• Strong core Java / J2EE
• Strong SQL
• Experienced with some web technologies like JSP, Struts, JSF, JavaScript and HTML
• Unix, Sybase familiarity
• Good OO Analysis and Design skills
• Good analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Good interpersonal, business-facing skills
• Ability to perform under pressure in time-critical situations using sound judgment & professionalism
• Ability to integrate into and work well within a global team
• Person should exhibit a flexible attitude and dynamic approach to supporting applications/users as well as undertaking development projects.
• Preferred
• Knowledge of the various open source Java libraries
• Spring framework
• Linux experience
• Weblogic / JBoss / Tomcat Application Servers
• Automated Testing and Build Tools
• Hibernate / other O-R tools - JSF / Struts / ExtJS / other Web Frameworks
• AJAX 
• Perl/CGI
• Financial industry knowledge within a front office environment having interacted with Traders This an immediate need with our client interviewing next week (w/c 06.10.08)

Please send your full resume in WORD format, personal bio, current and expected salary to Gary Griffin, Senior Consultant - David James Recruitment gary.griffin@davidjamesrecruitment.com