* As a provider of Operations Support and Network Management Systems our client is on the cutting edge, fully aware of the evolving needs of the major Telco service providers.

Having taken on a new project the need for a Unix Systems Support Engineer has arisen.

The role includes installation, maintenance, configuration, upgrades and monitoring of all systems and products. You will be required to liaise with vendor technical support teams and internal developers to resolve application and product issues.

The successful candidate will have solid working experience in the following areas:

•  Unix (Sun Solaris)
  
•  Solid database exposure (SQL Scripting and administration).
  
•  Ability to troubleshoot.
  
•  Assess and evaluate to ascertain root cause analysis.
  
•  Veritas experience 

If you have worked for a telecommunications organisation in the past this would also be a plus, but is not essential.

This role is a fantastic opportunity to work in an exciting and fast moving environment. Although initially a six-month contract, there is the possibility of an extension.

We are looking for an experienced Team Lead/Senior Java Developer for our client who is one Of Australias largest financial institutions. In this role you will work closely with the business to deliver systems which underpin the success of our clients equity structured products business.

You will have:

• team leadership experience; mentoring and leading small teams of Java developers to deliver to short deadlines
• strong hands-on Java/J2EE development experience
• excellent prioritisation and time management skills; experience in effectively working with stakeholders to prioritise delivery
• the desire to take responsibility for the design, development and delivery of a core application; an advantage to have exposure to service orientated architecture design principles
• an advantage to have specific experience with Hibernate 3, Spring 2, EJB 3, JBoss 4
• a solid understanding of Relational Databases and SQL; an advantage to have specific experience with Sybase
• experience in the design and implementation of unit test cases
• the interest and motivation to learn about the business and a genuine interest in the financial sector and equity derivative products
• strong communication, organisation and problem solving skills with an ability to work under pressure
• a degree level of education, preferred disciplines include computing, engineering, mathematics or a computing related area
• a solid understanding of full lifecycle software development processes

• Opportunity for more responsibility in your role
• Central CBD location
• Dynamic, web based environment

You will be responsible for the delivery and implementation of new functionality and enhancements to existing functionality. You will interact closely with the business to determine requirements, propose solutions and provide status reporting. You will be responsible for division and allocation of tasks to the team. You will need to have strong problem solving abilities and a keen interest and experience in Java programming and OO design. It will also be advantageous to have an interest in equity derivatives trading, finance and mathematics.

More specifically your role will involve:

• Liaision with business stakeholders
• Management for the delivery and implementation of multiple small to medium projects
• Project planning, tracking and delivery
• Effort estimation, resource allocation and project priority management
• Issue escalation through to resolution
• Contribution to design discussions
• Team leadership
• Close working relationship with peers
• Timely communication of status to stakeholders

Ideally you will have:

• University degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent
• Strong project management experience
• Experience leading small development teams, including setting priorities, monitoring progress and re-prioritising as necessary
• Excellent knowledge of Java and object oriented software development
• Java experience using J2EE technologies
• Good analysis experience and technical implementation skills
• Experience delivering solutions within a growth industry
• Experience with application integration and production support
• Mature approach and ability to assume responsibility for projects and tasks
• Excellent communication and problem solving skills
• Ability to work effectively in a dynamic and fast paced environment
• Financial markets experience is desirable

The role offers:

• a genuine opportunity for fast progression for dedicated, technically competent individuals with a desire to deliver
• significant opportunity to gain exposure to Investment banking; specifically front office trading systems, pricing, deal capture and order flow
• membership of a team of experienced and talented professionals who will support your development on a mentoring based arrangement
• the opportunity to work on client and server side deliveries with diverse range of requirements, technologies and markets
• a technically challenging environment with first class tools and support
• opportunities for using experience gained whilst acquiring commercial experience in latest Microsoft based technologies.

To succeed in this role, you will possess most of the following:

• top class academic achievement and some demonstrable commercial software engineering experience
• high motivation levels as well as the ability & desire to learn quickly are essential
• C++ experience preferred (desire to acquire essential) with demonstrated Windows 2000/XP skills within a real time systems problem domain (highly desirable)
• demonstrable experience in VB6
• the ability/desire to support front-line support for systems
• exposure to VB.Net and C#
• a firm understanding of RDBMS, preferably Microsoft SQL Server
• a strong desire to work closely with the business on IT solutions
• excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

In this role you will work closely with the business enhancing and supporting a key risk management system that is rapidly expanding in use and features. The main technology used by the risk management system is Python and database stored procedures written in Transact-SQL. There is potential for this position to pick up some Java development so knowledge of, or a desire to learn, Java would be advantageous.

Ideally you will have:

• Extensive Dynamic or Scripting language experience - ideally Python. A candidate without Python, but a strong programming background, will be considered if they can demonstrate capability and motivation.
• Strong SQL skills is essential
• Knowledge of Transact-SQL will be highly regarded
• Experience with Sybase will be useful, but not essential
• Some Java knowledge would be an advantage.

Other skills:

• Tertiary qualifications in computing, engineering, mathematics
• The desire to work directly with the business to solve business problems with IT solutions
• Ability to prioritise and switch between multiple ongoing tasks
• The interest and motivation to learn about the Fund Product Division business
• Strong communication skills - both verbal and written
• A solid understanding of development processes SCLC, Application Support and System Operations.

This is an excellent opportunity to build your career within a professional environment where innovation and training is encouraged and rewarded.

Our client which is one of australias leading financial institutions is looking to hire experienced environment/ configuration specialists with a track record for successful configuring and maintaining multiple test and production environments. You will be responsible for the successful deployment and maintenance of J2EE components and applications on the test platforms and rollout of these systems to production. You will work closely with senior stakeholders in the technology team and have a high level of autonomy and responsibility for the management of environments.

You will have the following responsibilities:

• Manage and maintain test environments and coordinate releases into the environments
• Manage shared services code conflicts by working with development managers
• Work closely with production support team to migrate applications from test into production
• Develop and configure tools to assist and streamline configuration and change management
• Build and configure tools to mitigate risk and provide auditable and robust release process
• Assist in development and adoption of a continuous build process
• Proactively drive collaborative development processes through automation, continuous builds, source code replication, code coverage etc 
• Assist the environments manager in capacity & environment planning to support multiple development deliveries
• Facilitate tools and processes for effective communication and cooperation among various IT teams within the EMG division.

Ideally you will have:

• Solid experience in application development with demonstrated experience with UNIX (Solaris) operating systems and scripting (Perl/Shell/AWK) 
• Familiarity with Jboss or equivalent application server administration
• Experience with Message Oriented Middleware (Preferably Websphere MQ, JMS)
• Experience in designing, implementing mature efficient processes, procedures and documents for release and environment management
• Good understanding of database technologies (ideally Sybase, SQL, Stored Procedures)
• Good knowledge of Java and object oriented software development.  Experience with Agile methodologies would be well regarded
• Experience with application integration and middleware technologies in a SOA architecture would be valued.

• Tertiary qualifications in computer science or equivalent would be well regarded but not essential

• A mature approach and the ability to assume responsibility for projects and tasks 

• Excellent communication skills and sound problem solving skills
• Ability to work effectively in a dynamic and fast paced environment

Technical Environment encompasses:

• Eclipse, Ant, JUnit, Cruise Control, Bamboo, Ivy
• Java 1.4, 1.5 
• Sybase 
• Unix
• JBoss 4+ or equivalent application server 
• J2EE (JMS, EJB2/3, Hibernate2/3, Spring)

Our Client offers a wide range of equity based, listed and unlisted financial products to retail, institutional and corporate clients. They are a leading provider of CFDs, warrants, OTC executive options, capital protected investments and structured products. It is also a boutique money manager through various investment management vehicles.

The growth of the group has generated a number of exciting opportunities for Technologists. Operating as a core part of the business and considered to be part of the front line, you will create and develop leading technology platforms which are critical to the success of the Equity Markets business. As part of this growth you will have an excellent opportunity for a capable Senior Technical Business Analyst to interface between the business and development teams working on various business critical projects.

Reporting to the Senior Project Manager, you will liaise extensively with the business and technical stakeholders to discuss business and technology issues and requirements. You will develop detailed technical specifications and work closely with the applications development teams and testing teams. In this role, you will be working in a fast-paced, team environment working closely with the business on a regular basis.

Ideally you will have:

• extensive experience in the delivery of mid/large sized projects or similar role in financial services is essential
• strong problem solving skills, with accurate decision making abilities under pressure 
• strong written and verbal communication skills 
• technical skills to perform data analysis
• excellent interpersonal skills
• ability to work individually and as part of a team
• an understanding of commercial business drivers and an appreciation of these in the context of technology

You will have:

• experience as a Test Manager of multiple teams, with in-depth testing experience, ideally with a background in financial institutions, specifically financial markets
• comfort in a fast paced, commercial, delivery driven and highly ambitious business
• excellent people management skills
• excellent communication skills and ability to work with clients, business, developers, senior managers and other team members
• clear, pragmatic and context aware understanding of the testing function
• strong sense of ownership and self motivation, with a passion for delivering quality
• strong attention to detail and high analytical ability
• experience at the testing coal face. Preparing, executing and managing test design/test cases, data, strategies, plans and schedules
• experience with test management and automation tools, ideally the Mercury suite.

Working closely with the development team and business you will produce testing deliverables, to include Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Designs (Test Cases and Test Data) and Test Execution Results. You will be involved in maintaining the integrity of the team’s core offering, ensuring delivery of software of the highest standard. You will also be involved in executing system, regression, performance and user acceptance testing in accordance with agreed test cases and test plans. This will include identifying and documenting all software defects within timeframes. You will also assist in the standardisation and continual improvement of the testing processes and methodology. In this role, you will be working in a fast-paced, team environment working closely with the business on a regular basis.

Our client offers a wide range of equity based, listed and unlisted financial products to retail, institutional and corporate clients. They are a leading provider of CFDs, warrants, OTC executive options, capital protected investments and structured products. It is also a boutique money manager through various investment management vehicles.

Ideally you will have:

• Sound testing experience with a background in financial institutions, specifically financial markets
• Experience with Test Case Management products and Test Automation Tools, ideally the Mercury suite
• Some knowledge of preparation of test strategies and test plans 
• Experience with SQL and Unix scripting
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work with clients, the business, developers, senior managers and other team members 
• Strong sense of ownership, with a passion for delivering quality 
• Experience in preparing test design/test cases and test data 
• In depth understanding of testing methodologies and test deliverable
• Strong self motivation with demonstrable initiative and flexibility

Our client is seeking senior front office developers to join the their technology team. You will be co-located with the traders in a fast paced and challenging environment. The position involves working closely with the trading desk delivering front office solutions. You will need to have strong problem solving abilities and a keen interest and experience in the equity derivatives business. The successful candidate will be a proactive team player with a drive for success and a discipline to meet project deadlines under pressure.

Candidates should have experience developing front office trading systems and a good understanding of equity derivatives trading, quantitative analysis, finance and mathematics.

This is an outstanding opportunity to play a key role in developing a new global front office trading system from the ground up and gain unique exposure to equity derivatives trading. This role offers excellent career advancement as well as comprehensive training.

Technical requirements:

• Strong programming and design skills in Java
• Enterprise Java - J2EE (EJB, JMS, XML), Web Services/RMI
• High performance Java and tuning
• Exposure to open-source tools such as Eclipse, JUnit and Hibernate
• Interest in design patterns, SOA, Agile and XP
• Strong relational database experience (ideally Sybase)
• Experience of at least one OO method (ideally UML)
• Good development knowledge on UNIX (ideally Solaris 8)

Professional requirements:

• Equity Derivatives experience
• University degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent
• Proven application development experience
• Excellent problem solving & communication skills
• Ability to work well under pressure to provide timely and accurate solutions to systems problems

The growth of the Equity Markets business has generated a number of exciting opportunities for Technologists. Operating as a core part of the business and considered to be part of the front line, you will work on leading technology platforms which are critical to the group’s success. You will be co-located with the business in a fast paced and changing environment.

You will be part of an established application support desk in Sydney; and collectively with other support desks in London and New York form a global model. You will escalate problems to and follow up with the development teams based in Sydney and Hong Kong, as required.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Ad-hoc troubleshooting and support for user queries & system issues
• Extensive intra-bank liaison, especially with the business areas
• Extensive interaction with the associated development teams and other support desks
• Managing small projects on a day to day basis
• Ongoing support of trading and clearing systems
• Ability to troubleshoot simple database issues
• Coordination of DR / BCP testing and liaising with local and remote infrastructure personnel

Ideally you will have:

• Sound technical experience in fast paced working environments. (Experience in Banking and Trading Room environments is ideal but not essential)
• A strong customer service focus and the ability to deliver quality support
• Good communication skills along with a strong customer service focus
• The ability to work effectively within local and distributed teams
• The flexibility to cheerfully deal with conflicting and ever changing priorities
• The ability to work well under pressure to provide timely and accurate solutions to systems problems

Technical requirements:

• University degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent
• Strong relational database experience (ideally Sybase)
• Good working knowledge of UNIX (ideally Solaris 8) and SQL

Technical desirables:

• Programming and design skills in Java
• Exposure to open-source tools such as Eclipse, JUnit and Hibernate
• Experience of at least one OO method (ideally UML)
• Application development experience

This is an excellent opportunity to develop a career within a rapidly growing business where technology is core to its success.

In this role, you will be responsible for:

• cross-team co-ordination of environment state and readiness
• the release management of applications to testing and production environments
• delivering and responding to tight timeframes
• building and maintaining relationships with the development team, infrastructure support services and the business
• clear communication with IT and business stakeholders for releases and environment status
• driving improvements in tools and processes which contribute to a more stable and risk-averse environment
• working as a part of an Operations team working within established policies and procedures.

You will work closely with the technical stakeholders and will be required to work with minimal supervision.

Ideally, you will have:

• experience in managing complex production environments; especially n-tier message-based systems with service oriented architectures
• experience in troubleshooting release and environmental issues
• a strong appreciation of key business drivers and an understanding of the IT impact upon the business
• exceptional attention to detail and the ability to multi-task
• strong commitment to completion and delivery
• the ability to work well under pressure.

From a technical point of view, you will have experience in:

• UNIX experience (preferably Sun)
• JBoss Application Server, CVS, ANT, & Java-based applications
• release management tools and processes
• working with relational databases, preferably Sybase.

We are looking for an experienced Delivery Manager to join our Account Team aligned to the Structured Products business. In this role you will work closely with the business to deliver systems which underpin the success of our equity structured products business. You will be responsible for the development and delivery of applications and will involve the full lifecycle of an application, from initial delivery through to production stability and will be focused on Structured Products platforms. You will work closely with the Structured Products Account Manager and stakeholders in the business and have a high level of responsibility for the successful delivery of your projects.

Responsibilities:

• Liaise with business stakeholders throughout the full project lifecycle
• Project planning, tracking and delivery
• Effort estimation, resource allocation and project priority management
• Managing dependencies between projects and teams to ensure successful delivery
• Issue identification, prioritisation escalation through to resolution
• Contribution to design discussions
• Team leadership
• Close working relationship with peers
• Timely communication of status to stakeholders

Ideally you will have:

• Experience in a business consulting role managing multiple stakeholders
• Strong project management experience
• Experience leading small development teams, including setting priorities, monitoring progress and re-prioritising as necessary
• Excellent knowledge of Java and object oriented software development
• Good analysis experience and technical implementation skills
• Experience delivering solutions to tight timeframes
• Experience with application integration and production support
• Mature approach and ability to assume responsibility for projects and tasks
• Excellent communication and problem solving skills
• Ability to work effectively in a dynamic and fast paced environment

The following skills would be an advantage:

• UNIX experience
• University degree in computer science or equivalent preferred
• Financial experience
• Experience with Agile methodologies
• Technical Environment:
• MS Project, JIRA, Excel, Visio
• J2EE (JMS, EJB2/3, Hibernate2/3, Spring)
• JBoss 4+
• Java 1.5
• Sybase
• Eclipse, Ant, Ivy, JUnit, Bamboo

·  Excellent time management

• Great Career Development
• Excellent communication
• Competitive salary