DescriptionOur client, a global financial services firm and a market leader in securities, asset management and credit services, is seeking a Desktop Application Engineer Type of position: Contract, 8 months Location: New York, NY We are looking for an experienced and hands-on senior-level engineer to work in our Desktop Applications Engineering team. We oversee the horizontal suite of critical enterprise products (Office, Outlook, Acrobat, Internet Explorer, Firefox, IM clients, JRE runtime, etc) that exist globally on over 60,000 desktops. This includes product and vendor management, integration engineering, governance, and custom development to leverage our investment in these products We are looking for the person to be able to contribute to many of the ongoing initiatives in this space and owning engineering tasks from beginning to finish. Required skills: Strong and proven ability to work in the End User Computing environment and deliver enterprise solutions Excellent verbal and written communication skills. In-depth knowledge of Windows Operating System and Windows productivity tools. Hands-on Experience with Active Directory and Group Policy Deep knowledge about software packaging tools and deployment cycle Good script language programming skills (eg feel comfortable with VBScript/JavaScript/PowerShell) Self-motivated and strong ability take on new challenges Desired skills: Experience with Sun Java Runtime. Adobe Air and other desktop runtime Experience with Adobe Reader and Acrobat Professional integration, management and development support. Development languages, C#/Perl
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