Developer in New York, NY

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2 positions -
Lead Developer - CONTRACT TO HIRE OR STRAIGHT PERM
Sr. Developer - LONG TERM CONTRACT

Primary Function:
The risk technology group is embarking on building out a cutting edge risk management and aggregation technology framework. As part of this endeavor, for MBS and Fixed Income analytics, we are considering leveraging available off-the-shelf vendor systems such as PolyPaths. This position will play a key role in this effort while simultaneously providing tactical solutions for the risk managers in the interim. Candidates must have serious commitment, desire to succeed and the necessary dedication in taking this challenging task from concept to production.

Other functions:
Support, maintain and debug existing risk management applications.

Testing, deployment and configuration/release management

Follow proper Software Development Life Cycle approach, generate good time estimates and work to meet the projected schedules

Liaison with the business groups to gather business requirements and translate to functional and design specs.

Strive to develop good understanding of pricing and risk metrics for various financial products

Core Behaviors
Self-managed and results-oriented with sense of ownership
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Organizational skills needed to handle multiple, parallel assignments

Scope: Job involves design and development of a brand new integrated risk analytics platform for Mortgage Backed Securities and other fixed income products/derivatives for RBC Capital Market's Risk Management group. Initial responsibilities include rolling out PolyPaths, a vendor
system for fixed income portfolio analytics.

Core Requirements

. Must possess 5+ years of industry experience in application software development, at least 3 of which should be in the financial industry focusing in Mortgage Backed Securites and other fixed income products/derivatives/risk technologies.

. Proven track record in building or working with large-scale, distributed, multi-tier, multi-threaded applications

Strong knowledge of:
* Windows and UNIX operating systems and the .NET framework
* C++ (including STL), C#, Excel/VBA, Scripting tools such as Perl, ksh,
JavaScript and VB Script
* Relational databases (Sybase/SQLServer, SQL), stored procedures, triggers, etc.
* TCP/IP networking and client/server technologies
*Object oriented design/methodologies, design patterns, data structures and algorithms

.Ability to communicate directly with business users and effectively translate their requirements into software solutions

.Must have a bachelor's degree or equivalent in Science, Engineering, Mathematics or Finance.

Prior experience in the following areas is a big plus but not a must:

*off-the-shelf risk management systems such as Sophis, DerivativeSolutions, Polypaths.
*development of stand-alone and/or web-based GUIs
*development of programmatic interfaces for market data providing systems such as Reuters and Bloomberg and vendors in mortgage backed space such as Intex, AFT and LoanPerformance.

Other Desirable Skills

* C, C++, Java, C#/.NET, VB, Excel/VBA, 3rd party Grid Controls like ComponentOne, Infragistics and SyncFusion
* MS-Access, Crystal Reports, ADO, ODBC
*Tibco RV/EMS, JMS, MQ Series
*HTML, XML, XSLT, SOAP, Web Services

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