Business Systems Developer – Asset Management recruitment
HighMark Capital Management is the wholly owned investment management subsidiary of Union Bank, N.A., providing a full range of investment solutions and managing over $17 billion for retirement plans, public agencies, corporations, educational institutions, foundations, endowments, and high-net-worth individuals. We are committed to outstanding research, a disciplined investment process and thorough risk management. Visit www.highmarkcapital.com for more information.
Major Responsibilities:
Plans and executes unit, integration and acceptance testing and criteria specification for system to meet business requirements. Designs details of automatic systems. Provides consultation to users in the area of automated systems. Projects assigned impact enterprise wide systems.
Responsible for developing the business requirements for system automation. Projects assigned are in the most complex areas and represent a significant financial investment to the Bank. Systems assigned are enterprise wide and use multiple databases and interfaces with various other systems. Assignments involve long range planning. Acts as the senior level project manager for larger projects. Develops and administers the project plan. Defines roles for team members. Serves as the principal coordinator on the project team for ensuring the project's success. Resolves conflicts, priorities etc. Accountable for project status to management. Manages and coordinates the implementation of the rollout. Consult with users and vendors for need assessment. Writes detailed analysis of users needs. Presents research and recommendation to management. Identifies solutions to unusual and complex problems requiring ingenuity, or innovative thinking. Monitors implementation and user satisfaction. Provide support task services to manager. This includes representing area's interest on various enterprise wide committees such as Quality Assurance or Risk Management committees.
Qualifications
- Typically requires 10+ years of in-depth business knowledge and system design.
- In-depth knowledge preferred of all processes/systems currently used: Longview Trading System (LVTS), PORTIA reporting system (SSC Inc, formerly Thomson Reuters PORTIA), Bloomberg, SWIFT Messaging.
- Excellent written communications skills required related to providing detailed business specifications, recommendations, reports, internal policy and presentation to management.
- Demonstrates strong leadership and consulting skills.
Add'l Skills Required:
- Expertise in VS.NET (ASP.NET) programming.
- Expert in writing database stored procedures, triggers views, on MS SQL Server database.
- Expert in batch scripting (Windows Powershell)
- Expert in file I/O formatting, providing connnectivity to intermediate systems.
- Expert in SQL Performance tuning: Rewrite improve tables/indexes/slow running SQL queries in legacy applications
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to talk to end-users and executives.
- Knowledge of investment management industry.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience working in both SQL server Oracle databases.
- Experience with design schedule of Informtica ETL Workflows
- Develop reports using Business Objects.
- Implement FTP based file transmission in the project
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