Interviewing Tips

Prepare – Find out what type of interview you will be having – behavioral, telephone, etc.  Anticipate some of those types of questions and plan your answers.  Sample Interview Questions:   http://www.jobinterviewquestions.org/  

Show, Don’t Tell – You should always go into an interview with specific scenarios that demonstrate your leadership and analytical skills.  After you have come up with great answers to showcase your accomplishments, practice your responses aloud to make sure they flow well.  While this is definitely your time to shine, don’t be arrogant.

Grooming – Dress well and carry a nice portfolio or attaché.  Women, keep the jewelry to a minimum.  Skip the cologne and perfume – you don’t want to offend anyone…or trigger bad memories.  Take a breath mint just before your interview.

It goes without saying…or does it?  Be on time, but don’t show up too early.  Be friendly; show your future employers that you are a good fit for the organization.  Always take extra copies of your resume and a pen for note-taking.  Relax, otherwise your stress or nervousness can be perceived as uncertainty.

Listen – Don’t begin to formulate a response before the interviewer has finished asking his/her question.  Respond in a calm voice and provide answers that are tailored to the needs of the company.

Know Your Weaknesses – But don’t divulge the worst about yourself.  An interview is not the time to give away tons of personal information or lament what could have been.  When you speak to your opportunities, always give an example of what you are doing to correct it.  For example, you may have joined Toastmasters to bolster your confidence and make you a better public speaker.

Do Your Homework – Be ready to speak about the company.  Know sales figures, recent news about the company, pronounce names correctly.  You should be able to speak about what they do and why they are your employer of choice.

Ask Thoughtful Questions – it will impress your future employer and let them know that you truly understand the scope of the position for which you are applying.

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Working for one of the most prestigious financial services firms in the world, the Derivative Settlement technology team is responsible for development and support of the core systems used by Derivative Operations for managing client invoices, notices and payments for global products including Foreign Exchange, Credit Derivatives, Interest Rate Products, Commodities, Equities and Loans. The team has members in Tokyo, Bangalore, London, New York and Salt Lake City.

Responsibilities:

The developer will be responsible for building and supporting the global applications. The processing engines are written in C++ and JAVA with Sybase and use significant messaging technology. The user interfaces are mostly Visual C++ with C# being introduced.

The role requires an individual with a strong technical background, who will also be capable of quickly learning about the business, products, and operational and system flows. There will be opportunities for user interaction, as well as working closely with global team members from the other locations.

As the complex Derivatives markets and products mature and commoditize, along with the need to increase capacity, efficiency and control this is an exciting time to be working in this area.

Requirements:

Applicants must be a strong team player, highly motivated and responsible.
Must be proficient in:

C++
Sybase
Perl or Shell scripting
Unix/Linux

Desired Skills:
JAVA
Windows platform (application interface with MS office such as MS Word)
C#
Any experience with derivative products

Benefits:

Salary Range: $80-90K

Other Benefits: medical, dental, 401K

 Next Steps

Submit your resume and cover letter to Parallel HR Solutions and include the following information:

1. Specific type and amount of experience
2. Availability
3. Compensation expectations and current salary
4. Your authorization for Parallel HR Solutions to represent you for this specific position

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The Derivatives Confirms Technology team develops and maintains applications and technology infrastructure for workflow and document generation functionality. This globally deployed multi-tier system is developed in C++/Java, uses Sybase and UDB databases, and incorporates diverse technologies such as asynchronous OBJ/RV/DF messaging, XML generation and parsing, and MS Word/Outlook automation, runs on Solaris, Linux, and Windows server platforms. Additional ancillary applications include Java web applications, data services using resonance framework, and Business Objects reporting. Our platform, CCT (Common Confirm Tracking), is currently used by Commodities, Equities, Foreign Exchange, Interest Rates, Credit, Mortgages, Bank Loans and Futures middle office and operations users and is likely expand to further businesses in the future. Our team is located across New York, Bangalore, London, and Tokyo.

Responsibilities:

Heavy investment continues to be made in automating the confirmation process through electronic matching initiatives and adding additional controls around manual workflows. Additional regulatory scrutiny of the Derivatives businesses has added to the importance and time sensitivity around confirmation workflows.

Role Summary
  -Learn Confirms system and architecture including: confirm generation, rules and state transition processing, document filing and transmission, external system connectivity
  -Collaboratively work with global operational users and IT teams to develop new features for Confirms application as well as to analyze, support and fix existing system issues
  -Engage in system re-architecture and re-engineering efforts
  -Participate in design / code reviews and enforce best practices

Requirements:

As a member of the team supporting global clients, a successful candidate will be a self starter and highly motivated individual with strong analytical, technical, interpersonal skills and ability to quickly learn and adapt to dynamic business environment. Good communication skills are very important as role requires interaction with global client base and global technology team.

  -Analyst/Developer with 2-6 years experience.
  -Strong team player with sense of ownership and initiative
  -Experience in software life cycle
  -OO Analysis and design and familiarity with message based architectures
  -Strong C/C++ and/or JAVA
  -UNIX with Perl and/or UNIX scripting
  -Sybase

Benefits:

Salary Range: $80-90K

Other Benefits: medical, dental, 401K

Next Steps

Submit your resume and cover letter to Parallel HR Solutions  and include the following information:

1. Specific type and amount of experience
2. Availability
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The Derivative Settlement technology team is responsible for development and support of the core systems used by Derivative Operations for managing client invoices, notices and payments for global OTC products including Foreign Exchange, Credit Derivatives, Interest Rate Products, Commodities, Equities and Loans. The team has members in Tokyo, Bangalore, London, New York and Salt Lake City.

Responsibilities:

The Support Specialist will be responsible for providing first level support to our global applications during Salt Lake City working hours. The global team provides 24 hour coverage, and hence the role will involve taking over support from New York, and passing on to Tokyo in the evening. The server processes are written in C++ and JAVA with Sybase and use significant messaging technology. The user interfaces are mostly Visual C++ with C# being introduced. The applications are mostly real-time transactions with some end of day processing.

Specific tasks will include:
- Monitoring the health of the production applications
- Reacting to system outages in a timely manor
- Researching user queries
- Resolving issues by
- Restarting processes
- Replaying messages
- Fixing data errors
- Documenting recurring issues
- Continuously improvement of system stability
- Recommending application changes
- Changing run scripts and job schedules
- Appropriate escalation and communication of issues
- Reporting of problems and system outages
- Responding to user requests for data

The role requires an individual with a strong technical background, who will also be capable of quickly learning about the business, products, and operational and system flows. There will be significant user interaction, as well as working closely with other embers of the technology team.

As the complex Derivatives markets and products mature and commoditize, this is a great opportunity to learn about the most interesting financial instruments, as well as contributing to the success of the firm.

 Requirements:

Analyst/Developer with 1-3 years experience.

Must be a strong team player, highly motivated and responsible.
C++
Sybase
Perl or Shell scripting
Unix/Linux

Preferred Skills:
JAVA
Windows platform (application interface with MS office such as MS Word)
C#
Any experience with derivative products

Benefits:

Salary Range: $60-70K

Other Benefits: medical, dental, 401K

Next Steps

Submit your resume and cover letter to Parallel HR Solutions and include the following information:

1. Specific type and amount of experience
2. Availability
3. Compensation expectations and current salary
4. Your authorization for Parallel HR Solutions to represent you for this specific position

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This is a unique opportunity to lead and grow your own team with a prestigious financial firm. The right candidate will be positioned for long-term career growth and the chance to grow technical, business and leadership skills with exposure to a broad range of products and business flows.

The Derivatives Operations technology team is responsible for applications which service the needs of the Derivatives Operations group from trade capture through to final settlement with the client. The suite of applications covers trade processing, reconciliation, settlements and confirmations including Foreign Exchange, Credit Derivatives, Interest Rate Products, Commodities and Equities all within a high volume, highly scalable distributed environment.

Responsibilities:

The role to lead the Salt Lake City Confirms & Settlements teams offers the chance to work in a global business in close partnership with Operations and Technology management across The Americas, Europe and Asia. As the complex Derivatives markets and products mature, there is a need to increase capacity, efficiency and control. This is an exciting time to be joining the global team.
The role will allow the individual to gain:
 -Team leadership experience including managing, building and growing a team
-Detailed understanding of the derivatives processing flows.
- Direct involvement with senior managers/users in Operations
- Exposure to C++/Java, MFC, messaging, Fitness, Industry Standards and Utilities (SWIFT, CLS, DTCC)
- Experience of building high performance applications and Workflow

The main duties of this role encompass team leadership, project and technical management and client service. The successful candidate will be the senior contact to the Salt Lake City Derivatives Operations team and will need to forge a strong working relationship and build an excellent understanding of the business flows.

He or She will also:
 -Provide thought leadership within the global team both functionally and technically
 -Manage several concurrent projects and deliver quality results to schedule whilst balancing the need to adapt rapidly to changes in business priority
 -Effectively support the production environment.
 -Manage and participate within global projects across several regions
 -Analyze new business requirements and determine appropriate technical solutions.
 -Coach and mentor more junior team members
 -Lead a team of up to 12 analyst/developers

Requirements:

As a member of a team supporting global clients, a successful candidate will be a self starter and highly motivated individual with strong analytical, technical, interpersonal skills and ability to quickly learn and adapt to dynamic business environment. Good communication skills are very important as role requires interaction with global client base and global technology team.
 -Strong team player with sense of ownership and initiative

 -Analyst / Developer with 6-8 years experience
 -Experience in software life cycle
 -Team leadership experience
 -Business knowledge in derivatives a plus

Benefits:

Salary Range: $125K base

Other Benefits: medical, dental, 401K

 Next Steps

Submit your resume and cover letter to Parallel HR Solutions  and include the following information:

1. Specific type and amount of experience
2. Availability
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Working for one of the most prestigious financial services firms in the world this role will be responsible for the expedient provisioning of technical services and products (voice, market data, remote access, accounts, messaging etc.) globally to our predominantly internal and in some cases external clients. In these roles, the individual will be required to ensure the successful completion of a high volume workload within established service levels according to documented standards and best practices; and with a high degree of quality.

In this role, the individual will focus on:
o The fulfillment of technical services orders for adding, modifying and / or removing services, entitlements and products in one or more of the following disciplines
o Voice and voicemail provisioning on various platforms: Avaya, Cisco IPT, Centrex, Mitel, Nortel, trading turret technologies
o Market Data products, services and exchanges
o Account Administration for Windows, Kerberos, Exchange, Mainframe ACF2, RACF, AS400
o Corporate Directory changes
o Remote access
o Messaging: List management, faxing, instant messaging, FTP
o Audio Conferencing Establishment
o Provisioning administration for various internally infrastructure applications
o Day to day queue management of provisioning technical requests including reviewing Service Level Agreements (SLA’s) and Life Cycle
o Request handling with a sense of urgency
o The updating and timely closing of all tickets for requested items and swift escalation of issues if required.
o Timely and proactive communication with global stakeholder groups’ and requestors to meet fulfillment guidelines.
o The adherence to established service levels and quality standards
o The updating, maintenance and periodic review of process documentation
o Participation in global event services meetings
o Identification and escalation of automation / transformation opportunities
o Providing metrics for provisioned services
o On occasion, the gathering and posting of evidence for audits
o The Client event services function is a 24 x 7 operation. Positions need to be filled for all shifts.
o The ability to work reasonable amounts of overtime

The candidate should meet these additional requirements:
• Some understanding of one or more technical services (voice, Market data, accounts, messaging, remote access, invoice processing)
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to diligently follow guidelines.
• Effective communication skills. This position will require the candidate to be in contact with the business for escalated issue and working on a daily basis with corresponding support teams.
• Must be responsive.
• Must be able to efficiently document process and procedures.
• Teamwork – This position involves not only working well with others within one team but with many resolution groups globally.
• The ability to be aware of and diligently follow standards and practices for many different technology areas.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office products: Excel, Outlook, Word
• Ability to manage high volume queue of tasks simultaneously in high pressure environment where change is commonplace.
• Individual must be able to handle multiple interrupts and be able to multi-task effectively

Benefits:

Salary Range: $17-$24

Other Benefits: None

Relocation Assistance: N

Travel: N

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• Provide Project Leadership
  • Effectively direct (and potentially lead) the work of other engineers and laboratory technicians to achieve objectives as necessary
  • Identify, break down and solve complex problems, and provide technical direction to others
  • Independently plan and execute to achieve design and development objectives
  • Participate as a member of a cross-functional team or lead a cross-functional team to deliver to business-critical product development commitments
• Impact Project Execution
  • Using expert technical skills, conceive, plan and lead development activities from concept through successful commercialization
  • Leverage understanding of first engineering principles, advanced engineering methods, data and judgment to influence the course of product development activities
  • Develops deep customer understanding and identifies unmet needs and potential new product concepts
  • Ensure compliance all quality policies, procedures and practices as well as with all local, state, federal and safety regulations, policies and procedures

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Experience in SQL,Linux,Unix.
Manual and Automated testing both exposure.
Well versed with Software Testing Life cycle.
Experience with JIRA or any other Bug tracking system.
Software Testing (Will consider Web testing).
QA /Testing Work exposure  on Agile testing methodologies can be offered .

Required to be involved in SDLC from beginning to end.

 Required to work closely with all organizations involved in the development of new applications or enhancements to current applications.

 Required to review and understand system design requirements and required to develop test plans, test cases, test scripts and testing results reports.

 Understanding of software design and API creation. 

Junior Level : 3+ years

Senior Level : 5-7 years.

Compensation :  Excellent in Industry. (DOE.)

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Our client is a large stable company which strives to hire the best of the best. They have a great working environment and great work / life balance in a state that is ecologically diverse and offers a great standard of living.

We are looking for Sr., Lead and Principal Engineers that are strongly rooted in open source technologies and have an interest in working on highly performance oriented technologies in an Agile environment. We prefer very hands on technical individuals who have also demonstrated leadership skills and attributes.
- Strong Java SE skills, preferably through release 1.5.
- Solid SQL ability.

And possess many of the following:

- Proficiency in Object Oriented design and programming.
- Experience with Object Relational Mapping (ORM), especially Hibernate.
- Experience using web presentation technologies such as JSP, JSF, Ajax, Jamon, Velocity, or FreeMarker.
- Use of web container technologies, especially Tomcat.
- Proficiency with IDE-based development, especially in Eclipse.
- Proficiency building unit tests, especially using JUnit.
- Proficiency with Ant, and SVN or CVS.
- XML and related technologies such as XSD, JAXB, XSLT, etc.
- Experience with large databases and systems.

Other abilities we would like include:

- Experience building web services, especially using the REST style.
- Programming in C and C++.
- Team lead experience.
- Development on Linux.
- JavaEE related experience such as EJB, Spring, etc.
- Experience with Maven.
- Database schema definition.
- Experience using Oracle 10G.
- Experience with JMS.

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