Monday, July 25, 2011

3 top Recruiting Companies in China

Global : 1. korn ferry, 2.heidrick 3.spencer...
Local: 1.Career Inc; 2.Careerfocus; 3.Vastsea

Baron's and Company Hong Kong !

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Sr Core Java Developer

Sr Core Java Developer

New York

Experience Level-5-10 years



Looking for developer to join the Equity Derivatives team.​ This team is responsible for calculating overnight risk for the front office, including: traders, risk managers and Strats.​ These calculations are performed for all regions running 24/​5.​ The calculation include various Scenarios, PnL Attribution/​PnL Explain, and bucketed Greeks that are too compute intensive for real-time risk, as well as Mark Review analysis.​ The positions that flow through this infrastructure range from exotic Equity derivatives to vanilla Equity options, Equity Swaps and plain stocks, covering more than 500,000 positions globally.​ These results, which are mission critical to the firm, are delivered on a stringent schedule as very senior traders and risk managers use them for trading decisions in each location and to manage risk globally.​

This is a very technical team, where self motivation and technical skills are highly prized.​ The system that the team owns and continues to build is a widely distributed one with well over over 3,800 cores utilized to perform the calculations.​ The team has successfully introduced innovative approaches to both calculating results as well as collecting and reporting them, which involved new technologies such as Antlr, DataSynapse, and KDb.​ As part of its delivery and as one of the venues for delivery of results, the Scenarios system also interacts with intraday and end of day infrastructure so that everyone is exposed to all aspects of risk management in Equities.​ Going forward, the system has a great many more measures to calculate in order to provide a fuller view of risk to the business as well as improve efficiencies in order to lower compute costs as more exotic instruments are added and the overall number of positions grows.​ The team is also working on enhancing the main infrastructure to cover more applications that the group supports, to reduce the cost of supporting multiple infrastructures.​



Skills Required

Core Java 1.​5 and above
Multithreading
Spring
JUnit
SQL (sybase)
Perl/​Python/​Shell scripting
Linux
Excellent Communication Skills
Experience in complete dev cycle



Skills Desired

KDb
Derivatives Risk Management or Pricing
Experience or familiarity with distributed systems (e.​g.​ DataSynapse, Platform Symphony, Gemfire, etc)

Monday, January 04, 2010

Current Vacancy


Vacancy #:
12-0497 - Expires: 01/06/2010
Position Title: IT SPECIALIST (Full Time)
Job Level: 10


Hiring Contact: Daryl Potter
Business Unit: TD Wealth Management
Division/Region: Wealth Management Technology Solutions
Transit/CC: 1662


Report Location: 79 Wellington Street West, 4th Floor

Toronto, ON



Department Overview: The Account Management Solutions group provides subject matter expertise and leadership for enhancements, development, and maintenance initiatives across TD Wealth Management (includes DB, FP, PIA, PIC, MF, PB, Prepaid and TDWIS). The group is composed of the following three teams:
Account Management and Transfers (includes account opening systems, material changes, internal and external transfers)
Registered Plans, Cheques and Imaging (includes RSP, RIF, LRIF, LIRA, PRIF, TFSA RESP, RDSP, cheque production and document management)
Tax processes

Job Description / Accountabilities: Area of Focus and Scope of this Role:

This role is focused on:
Registered Plans and cheques legislation, regulatory matters and compliance
SOX and Privacy legislation, regulatory matters and compliance
Tax changes (initial focus on Federal and Quebec budget changes and IRS reporting)
Non-Canadian regulatory changes impacting Canadian wealth systems (e.g. Patriot Act)

Serving as the Account Management Solutions SME for the above areas of focus, the IT Specialist will serve to contextualize this specialized knowledge from a system-impacts and product perspective in support of DB, PIA, PIC, FP and TDWIS systems, platforms and supporting vendors by:
Keeping up to date on all proposed/pending and published regulatory/legislative and compliance changes
Providing impact analysis and downstream impact assessments for current Wealth initiatives, products, processes, applications and platforms
Provide strong leadership support for Senior Management strategic planning activities

The context for this IT Specialist focus will be on systems, applications, products and vendor activities related to all three Account Management Solutions teams:
Account Management and Transfers
Registered Plans, Cheques and Imaging
Tax

Nature of the Work Performed:
Research: A significant research component will be required including understanding of federal, provincial and other legislative, regulatory and internal compliance changes
Business Analysis: Systematic and well documented business analysis and impact assessments will be integral to the deliverables of this role

Strategic Planning: A forward looking leadership and strategic planning focus is required to ensure optimal deployment of Wealth resources in an ever changing legislative and regulatory environment (including input into annual initiative-budget planning activities)
Relationship Building: in order to be successful, key relationships (internal and external) will need to be developed to ensure accurate and holistic analysis and recommendations are delivered
Project Management: there may be some opportunity to serve as Project Manager on Tier 3 projects depending on the nature of initiative recommendations, business needs, resource availability and capacity constraints within the business



Qualifications / Skills / Experience: Strong verbal and written communication skills are essential for this position.
The successful candidate must be able to articulate complicated concepts, provide meaningful analysis and formulate clear recommendations in a fluent, professional manner to mixed audiences (business, operations, technology and vendor partners) of both peers, senior managers and executives
The candidate must be equally comfortable working independently and as a member of a project team.
The successful candidate should have either Wealth experience, IT experience (or both) with a natural appetite for research and analysis and an interest in shaping development strategy for a complex organization.
Existing knowledge of some or all of the following would be an asset: SOX, OSC, IIROC, Basel II Capital Framework, and/or regulations covering TDCT (FCAC, AML, Privacy)

Note: The successful candidate is not expected to have a full grasp of all regulatory bodies and publications but should have an interest in and aptitude for researching and absorbing new material, prepared to provide value-added analysis, and then develop and communicate clear, strategically meaningful recommendations to Senior Management on these topics.



Specific Educational Requirements / Accreditations: Post-secondary degree/diploma (preferably Business with an IT Focus or comparable work experience)
CSC or comparable accreditation demonstrating a broad knowledge of the Canadian investment industry including its regulators, products and practices
Project Management courses would be an asset












For general comments/questions regarding this vacancy please contact:
TD First 1-888-833-4778 (1-888-TDFIRST) or tdfirst@td.com.
Please note, these comments/questions will be directed to TD First, not the hiring manager.


Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Fixed Income Portfolio Management Applications Integration Technical Lead

Fixed Income Portfolio Management Applications Integration Technical Lead

Status:Full Time, Employee
Job Ref Code:090039771
Job Location:New York, NY 10001

JPMorgan Chase is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $1.1 trillion and operations in more than 50 countries. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and businesses, financial transaction processing, asset and wealth management, and private equity. Under the JPMorgan, Chase and Bank One brands, the firm serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients.


If you're interested in working in an environment where leadership, excellence, integrity and diversity are among our core principles, then explore the opportunities at JPMorgan Chase. Further information about careers at JPMorgan Chase can be found on our website: www.jpmorganchase.com.

As a Fixed Income Portfolio Management Applications Integration Manager, you will lead and hands-on implement front office solutions into our application environment. Responsibilities would include: Develop and manage the project/application's business case, develop an execution approach, design integration solutions, and manage other technical resources assigned to the effort. Analyze and discuss the potential risks/benefits involved in using the specified technology solution to address the business requirement. This role typically requires the integration of solutions with different applications or data environments. This role therefore will require successful partnership with other application owners, operations groups, and data sources across the firm and externally.


You will also promote and monitor compliance of application development activities with audit and information risk policies. Manage the control self assessment process to assess gaps and develop action plans addressing these gaps. Act as an interface with internal and external audit groups. Provide action plans to mitigate risk and help implement them, when applicable. Monitor financial delivery and issue management processes, escalating issues and variances to budgets where necessary. Evaluate recommendations relating to business opportunities, investments, financial regulations and similar financial projects or programs. Work with Release Manager to ensure proper operations turnover and SLA updates. Lead the post-implementation review evaluating project results, including client satisfaction. College degree, specialized training or equivalent work experience


* Minimum Seven years of combined business, application development, operations and IT experience required

* Deep knowledge of Fixed Income products and their data structures.

* Experience with trading systems, as well as projects in multiple technologies, functions (e.g. transaction management, risk management etc.) and industries

* Experience developing data integration solutions for an application environment

* Experience with IT or Operation in supporting the Portfolio Management process within an Institutional Asset Management Organization

* Excellent written and verbal communication skills

* Ability to develop strong client relationships

Sunday, November 01, 2009

Engergy Company

Imperil Oil, Shell, BP, EnCanada, Suncor, Sycrude, ExxonMobil

Monday, September 07, 2009

Data Warehousing read

RECOMMENDATIONS: If you are a business person trying to understand what your computer people are talking about re data warehouses, data marts or business intelligence, this is a good starting point.
But, if you are an IT/IS/computer person, skip this book and read Ralph Kimball's "Data Warehouse Toolkit", then graduate to his "Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit" (covers many more aspects), and Bill Inmon's "Corp Information Factory". These 3 books, and a DBMS specific book (e.g. "Oracle 8i Data Warehousing") will be all you need for your first few projects.

Sunday, August 30, 2009

J2EE Team Lead Barclay Capital

J2EE Team Lead

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Company
Barclays Capital
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Location
USA-NJ-Morristown
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Compensation
Competitive
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Position Type
Permanent
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Employment type
Full time
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Updated
28 Aug 2009
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eFC Ref no
563727

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Main Function

Job responsibility:

* Manage a team of developers and lead J2EE initiatives
* Design, develop and maintain the Prime Broker Database system
* Analyze, design and develop software using industry standard languages and technologies, including utilizing Java/J2EE, Tibco, WebLogic, Sybase, and Unix
* Work closely with business

Main Function

Job responsibility:

* Manage a team of developers and lead J2EE initiatives
* Design, develop and maintain the Prime Broker Database system
* Analyze, design and develop software using industry standard languages and technologies, including utilizing Java/J2EE, Tibco, WebLogic, Sybase, and Unix
* Work closely with business to understand requirements/issues and provide technical solutions
* Coordinate efforts across peer IT groups and business to deliver projects
* Understand and maintain an J2EE based ETL system and work on platform enhancements/rewrites
* Spearhead built of new ETL platform using Informatica Powercenter
* Coordinate with the infrastructure and engineering teams on changes that will be made to the production environment and production support

Job requirements:

* Experience in financial industry knowledge, prime broker and prime reporting
* 10 years of experience in software development with at least 2 years experience in team lead role
* 4+ years of experience in application architecture and design
* Experience with J2EE application development
* Web technologies; including J2EE, Web Services, and Messaging
* Hands-on experience with XML/XSL and Web Services
* Experience in Weblogic Application Server, JMS / Tibco RV, Hibernate ORM Mapping, JSP/Servlets
* Extensive knowledge of Systems analysis and design, database design and modeling
* Expertise in object-oriented analysis and design. Broad understanding of design patterns
* Experience in ETL/Informatica Powercenter
* Experience in database/Sybase, Unix and schell scripts
* Independent problem solving skills
* Knowledge in Distributed caching framework ( Tangosol

【分享】US Shipping Address

by worldy (.) at 2009.8.14 19:44 (#5485232@0)
<本文发表于: 相约加拿大:枫下论坛 www.rolia.net/forum >
关注这个问题好长时间了。

自从迷上了户外活动后,装备的采购、更新也列入日程,虽然俺不是器材派。加拿大这边MEC的商品、服务、价格还是不错的,但很少减价销售,反正我看上的几件东东都从不减价,而美国的几家户外店经常有打折销售,有时网购还免邮费。每次看到REI.COM 的商品特价销售时,都心里痒痒的,多伦多这里不像温哥华的朋友们那么方便可以订货后开车过境去美国取,离多伦多最近的REI的店在底特律那边,往返要 800公里,到店里取货根本不现实。

以前我曾经在REI网上订货后邮寄到多伦多,邮费大概$30美刀,加拿大邮政局要代收custom charges ($35多加元),还要收$5的手续费,算下来,REI的折扣就没享受多少了。

而且有些商品是不能邮寄到加拿大境内的,比如始祖鸟的背包、衣服。

前几个月,猛google 了一下,发现了有几家美国公司专门提供US Shipping Address 的服务,看了网上的测评、反馈,我最后确定试试这两家的服务:

US Address:
http://www.usaddressinc.com/

CBI:
http://www.cbiusa.com/

这两家公司都是在大瀑布美国一侧,开车一个多小时就可以到。

电话与这两个公司联系,服务态度都很好,方法也简单。

我后来分几次在REI订购了背包、滑雪板、滑雪靴、衣服等物品,直接SHIPPING 到US Address Inc 的地址,随时在网上track UPS # , 看到“delivered”就可以去大瀑布那边取货了。

每次是从Lewiston 出关、进关。
这个公司就在190高速的边上,出关后5分钟就到了。
该公司不管重量每个PKG 都是手续US$5
觉得他们的服务还不错。

在美国购物后,如何进关?
我每次是上午去,下午返回,进关时如实报告物品的种类和价格,每次都很顺利,海关的工作人员简单问了下,一挥手就让我过去了。

但如果采购大件物品或价格高的物品,比如单反相机等要慎重。