Current Open Positions

Project Manager - Compliance & Loan Administration

Location: Charlotte – this role would be primarily remote. May require consultants to come on-site in Charlotte 5% of the time, about once a month.

Start date: Early to mid-March

Duration: 1 year+, conversion to full-time is possible

Client Description:

Our client is an American Bank Holding, Wealth Management company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. Our client is looking for a Project Manager to cover two programs; Compliance System: End to End project oversight for a compliance system implementation and Loan Administration Remediation: operations heavy and API upgrades.

Qualifications:

• 2-10 years of effective Project Management in the Wealth Management sector
• Experience in compliance system implementation
• Experience in loan administration remediation
• Experience with SDLC
• Experience with Agile methodology
• Experience with JIRA or similar development productivity tools
• Microsoft office suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, etc.)
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to liaise and influence a range of internal and external stakeholders
• Bachelor's Degree
• High motivated and self-starter

Job Type: Contract

Salary: $60.00 - $85.00 per hour

Project Manager - Trade Settlement & Wealth Management

Location: Charlotte – this role would be primarily remote. May require consultants to come on-site in Charlotte 5% of the time, about once a month.

Start date: Early to mid-March

Duration: 1 year+, conversion to full-time is possible

Client Description:

Our client is an American Bank Holding, Wealth Management company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Qualifications:

• 2-10 years' of effective Project Management in the Wealth Management sector
• Experience in T +1, trade settlement cycle
• Experience in Wealth Management Operations and Technology, the project will cover both sides
• Experience with SDLC
• Experience with Agile methodology
• Experience with JIRA or similar development productivity tools
• Microsoft office suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, etc.)
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to liaise and influence a range of internal and external stakeholders
• Bachelor's Degree
• High motivated and self-starter

Job Type: Contract

Salary: $60.00 - $85.00 per hour

Mission

 
Committed to ending preventable cataract blindness worldwide. Today, 100 million live with cataract blindness and visual impairment due to cataract. Why? Because there are simply not enough specialists to perform cataract surgery. A surgery that can restore sight and restore lives to the 100 million people in need.

 This non-profit organization has the technology to educate surgeons. The most life-like high fidelity virtual eye surgery simulator available the only one of its kind. They have the training. An instructor-led simulation-based program that teaches eye doctors cataract surgery. They are working with premier global partners. The very best leading educational institutions around the world, training the next great surgeons.

 Surgical eye-care simulation-based training is what they do. Helping people to see again is why. Come join their team and use your gifts and talents to make a difference everyday!

JOB SUMMARY

 The focus of this position will be to develop a Performance Management strategy for the organization, supporting infrastructure and lead the implementation of the strategy. Extensive knowledge and experience in software development, hardware, networking, performance monitoring and optimization is required. The position will report to the Head of Global Innovation and Technology.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop a robust performance management strategy.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to implement a robust performance management ecosystem and supporting systems.
• Ensure successful and timely incident management, problem management and change management tasks related to performance matters.
• Build and implement a comprehensive performance reporting system based on KPIs and trend analysis to improve existing systems and processes.
• Implement a code review process and monitor/manage code quality across all development teams and systems.
• Facilitate and manage Architectural Committee Meetings, including postmortems and minutes.

Requirements

REQUIREMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or technology/engineering field required.
• Minimum 5-10 years of experience in software development - focus on performance optimization strongly desired
• Good understanding of computer hardware, software, and networking
• Good understanding of CPU & GPU architectures and operation as it pertains to software performance optimization.
• Applied experience in performance optimization of application stacks/ecosystems with multiple independent systems with different code-bases.
• Good understanding of software development lifecycle, agile development methodologies and gathering non-functional requirements from stakeholders and product management
• Strong applied experience of performance management and optimization as it relates to:
  • C++ and .NET applications
  • Multithreaded Applications
• Applied experience of scripting languages (Python preferred)
• Applied experience with:
  • Application Performance Monitoring & Observability Tools
  • Performance Analysis and Code Profiling Tools
• Experience with basic Windows and/or Unix System Administration
• Experience with statistical data analysis and visualization.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills required with the ability to communicate optimally and influence at all levels of the organization in a multicultural environment.

 DESIRED KNOWLEDGE AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with:
  • Visual Studio
  • .NET Framework (4.7.2+)
  • PowerShell
• Experience with the Linux OS
• Knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps Systems
• Basic understanding of 3D visuals programming, OpenGL, GLSL
• Experience with Relational Databases, Data Engineering and Database optimization (MSSQL Preferred)
• Understanding of ITIL

The Role:

The Trading IT Support and FIX connectivity specialist will be well versed in design and implementation of FIX configuration and platform support. Ideal candidates must have very knowledge with FIX connectivity support experience in a production environment with expertise regarding FIX vendor practices and configuration standards. Onboarding, configuration/scripting, and project management skills are all requisite. This is a fully hands-on role in a real-time trading system environment. In depth understanding of interacting with vendors like NYFIX, ATR, Eze, Instinet-Newport, etc.

Hybrid Schedule: # days on-site, 2 days remote

Skills:

• Some understanding of FIX at is pertains to Equities and Options order lifecycles.
• Application log file analysis, reporting. This analysis must include scripting and/or programming as needed to do intricate / near real-time analysis in an ad-hoc environment.
• Understanding of network layer as it pertains to FIX connectivity, intra/extranet vendor interactions, etc
• Familiarity with buyside vs sell-side practices, physical and logical setup requirements gathering, testing and change management procedures.

Technical Musts:

• Perl or similar scripting and some development knowledge with Java and SQL
• Direct production trading system experience

Business Analyst Margin Lending – Contractor
Location: Greenwich Street, NYC/Hybrid 3 days Onsite/2 WFH
Contract position through the end of March with probable extension.

Bank’s Global Wealth Management delivers a wide range of products and services covering capital markets, managed investments, portfolio management, trust and estate planning, investment finance and banking.  By building on the strengths and capabilities across the firm to transform the way they serve clients across the wealth spectrum, delivering the full range of high tech and high touch capabilities,  and ultimately help them achieve their goals.

Client is looking to fill a Business Analyst (BA) position within the Margin Lending segment of the Private Bank and Wealth Management businesses. This is to support the client on Margin Lending technology transformation, and the BA would be working with business and technology teams to define user stories, requirements, design, test, and production solutions with technology teams.

Skillset/experiences required:

• 5-10 years of business analysis experience in the Private Banking and/or Wealth Management industries
• Previous Margin Lending (e.g., process, calculations, LV, underwriting) knowledge a MUST
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Good technology delivery experience, including understanding SDLC process
• Agile and/or waterfall delivery experience