Position : SAS Developer with C/C++ and SQL
Location: downtown Manhattan
Duration: 12 months
Rate: 8/hr professional day
Important: Candidates must be available to do an in person interview.
Job Description:
- Design, develop and implement applications that support equities, options and fixed income market surveillance and regulation.
- Perform full System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) responsibilities including: gathering and analyzing requirements, designing and developing application software, preparing application documentation and deploying applications into production.
- Maintain and modify existing surveillance applications
- Stay current in various areas of regulation and be able to convert user surveillance requirements into technical specifications
- Diagnose reported application problems and work with operations staff to remediate production problems
- Ensure that we adhere to established design and security standards
- Work with quality assurance team to ensure applications integrity through development of test suites.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
- Bachelors Degree in engineering or science related field, or equivalent work experience
- Must be able to work independently with minimal supervision and interact effectively with internal customers and management
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- 3 to 5+ years of demonstrated hands-on experience in application design and development and proven technical leadership
- Extensive knowledge and experience in SAS with very large transaction databases in the Windows or UNIX environment
- C or C++ and SQL experience preferred
- Experience in the financial services or securities industry required
- Experience in the securities or commodities exchange preferred
- Must be able to handle multiple project simultaneously
Vijay K Paidi