Wednesday, November 24, 2010

“Trade Surveillance Senior Developer - Mantas (AVP)” Permanent role based in Singapore with top tier Investment Bank. Basic Salary upto SGD 100K

“Trade Surveillance Senior Developer - Mantas (AVP)” Permanent role based in Singapore with top tier Investment Bank. Basic Salary upto SGD 100K + Bonus + Other Benefits.

Job Function:
The candidate is expected to perform design, development, testing and delivery of Compliance solutions in partnership with the Project Manager and Business Facing IT within the Surveillance space of Compliance IT. He/she will build in-depth knowledge of both the technical and business aspects of the systems and become well-versed in the business functions supported by the systems. Leading an application group within the larger team would see the candidate share their expertise with other team members. The candidate will be responsible for quality of the team’s work.

The candidate will also be involved in additional team lead activities. Such as: mentoring team members, planning and assigning work items, input to status reviews, communicating with IT and senior management.

The candidate will be expected to proactively improve their skills and take on greater responsibilities as they grow into their role. There are significant opportunities for career development and training.

Job Requirements:
• 9+ years development experience in investment banking in Trade Surveillance & Compliance IT
• Product/Domain experience: Mantas, Actimize, AML & Market Abuse
• 6+ years hands on Technical Back End Oracle PL/SQL Developer (9i/10g) & Database design (Oracle)
• 3+ years Team Leading & architectural design, documentation and estimations
• 3+ years Informatica
• 2+ years SQL performance tuning
• 2+ years doing code reviews
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills

This is a remarkable opportunity with superior challenges & career growth.

Overseas applicants with relevant experience are encouraged to apply.

If this interests you, Please send your CV to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com to initiate the process.

We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

“Project Manager – Infrastructure” based in Singapore

Job Function:
• Leads team on medium size projects in an outsourcing environment.
• Responsible for planning, milestones, costs, schedule, business and technical risk for the project.
• Interfaces directly with corresponding levels of customer's staff. Responsible for their financial baseline of the project, and accountable for project results as committed to the client.
• Estimate whole-project effort and schedule. Develop tracking indicators that will provide clear status visibility throughout the project.
• Demonstrate strong leadership skills and be capable of managing multiple project streams in parallel.
• The position demands related professional management experience and a proven track record of planning and executing successful projects.
• Proven experience of project managing the infrastructure element of mission critical applications that have complex infrastructure requirement.
• Ability to understand key project inter-dependencies of business requirements, application deliverables and the underlying base infrastructure.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with proven ability to interact across all levels of organization.
• Degree in IT or equivalent with a minimum of 4 years experience in managing medium size projects.

Experience: 7+ Yrs

Candidate preference: Any nationality, but should be in Singapore for F2F interview.

Contract: 1 year/ extendable

If this interests you, Please send your CV to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com to initiate the process.

We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Friday, November 19, 2010

“Senior SAS Consultant – Business Analytics & Data Mining” Permanent role based in Singapore

Job Function:
The Senior Consultant demonstrates in-depth practical and theoretical knowledge to deliver consulting/software services by defining project outcomes, organising their own work and the work of others. The role requires a working knowledge of a variety of technical processes as well as the ability to evaluate and modify approaches to meet requirements. Mentors and coaches colleagues. The candidate must be proficient in using SAS Enterprise Miner to build statistical models and analytical reports.

Job Requirements:
• Degree in Statistics/IT or equivalent technical studies/work experience or Master's degree in a quantitative field or related field with knowledge of data mining techniques
• 8-10 years of experience with at least last 4-5 years in the field of Business Analytics
• Sound knowledge in the model lifecycle management, statistics and data modeling techniques
• Data mining experience using Enterprise Miner and/or SPSS Clementine
• Forecasting experience using SAS ETS, SAS Forecast Studio or Equivalent Software
• Certification in SAS STATS is added plus
• Ability to performs the business analysis and able to build the mining models independently
• Ability to build analytical reports from the model results and interprets the statistical terms.
• Project management experience will be an added plus
• Ability to communicate with people with various technical backgrounds, think analytically, write and edit technical material, and relate statistical concepts and applications to statistical and non-statistical SAS users.
• Experienced in any three of the below listed models
o Churn prediction models with profiling
o Market basket model
o Cross-sell/up-sell model
o Segmentation models
o Application and behavioural scoring
• Industry Experience around Banking, Telecommunications etc.
• Subject Matter / Domain Knowledge around Customer Analytics / Fraud Management /
• Able to build ABT (Analytical base table) for the model undertaken
• Expert knowledge on usage of SAS Enterprise Miner
• Knowledge in SAS programming, advanced macros, stored process and SAS STATS/GRAPHS etc. are added plus.

This is a remarkable opportunities with superior challenges & career growth.

Overseas applicants with relevant experience are encouraged to apply.

If this interests you, Please send your CV to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com to initiate the process.

We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

“AVP Level - Senior Test Analyst (FX) - Manual Testing, SQL & Backend testing” – Permanent role based in Singapore with top tier Investment Bank.

Job Requirements:
• 6+ Years of experience of detailed manual functional testing & structured testing methodology
• Strong in SQL and backend testing experience
• Someone who can efficiently search UNIX logs, XML transactions, etc to find bugs or to help diagnose issues or potential issues
• Experience with e-commerce systems
• Experience gained in Foreign Exchange Cash & Options and/or Money Market

This is a remarkable opportunities with superior challenges & career growth.

Overseas applicants with relevant experience are encouraged to apply.

If this interests you, Please send your CV to srinivas.reddy@connectedgroup.com to initiate the process.

We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.