Senior Summit Developer
Long Term Contract
Washington DC

Rate $100/hr.

Requirement:
Senior Summit Developer with Summit Gateway OpenLoader API Experience

Job Description
The sought-after resource would fill the position of a senior developer on the Summit team of the Information Management & Technology team.

This persons primary responsibility would be to reengineer and enhance a preexisting interface (trade feed) between the Bloomberg Trading System and Summit. This would involve:
leveraging knowledge of Summits OpenLoader API to augment the Loader Server Adaptor and Library to specification (experience with Summits OpenLoader API is mandatory);
coordinating development and testing activities with peers;
providing project implementation support;
providing detailed technical documentation where deemed necessary;
Competencies
The IMTTR unit develops, operates, and maintains critical financial applications for the Treasury Dept. The recruit would work with financial trading applications and should demonstrate an understanding of these and related applications in Treasurys lines of business.

Using existing staff as benchmark, it has been observed that the level of maturity required for this type of work is more frequently found in candidates having at least ten years of relevant experience.

However, the quality of the candidates work experience carries considerable weight in the selection process.

Candidates whose background and expertise satisfy most, if not all, of the following selection criteria are sought:

1. Degree, majoring in Computer Science/Information Systems, with a minimum of 10-15 years of relevant, development experience with financial systems using current technologies.
2. Sound understanding of and implementation experience with Summit Classic and/or Summit FT.
3. Demonstrated expertise in Treasury applications such as:
a. Liability Management systems: issuance and derivatives processing, analytics and reporting, mark-to-market and collateral management.
b. Investment Management systems: settlement, accounting and financial messaging.
c. Portfolio Management systems: analytics and financial valuation of complex structured transactions.
4. Demonstrated experience with Unix, C/C++, Oracle PL/SQL, XML, Summit API.
5. Experience and knowledge of systems design, project coordination, development and implementation of complex financial information systems.
6. Expertise in documenting and managing issues and actions for IT development projects.
7. Self-starter able to provide creative, effective ways of overcoming project management and execution challenges.
8. Knowledge of the institutions technical and operational infrastructure, relevant institutional policies and procedures; ability to effectively liaise with all concerned units on policy and technical issues.
9. Proven ability to support major technology initiatives and tasks of the unit including coordination of working teams and maintenance of close and constructive working relationships with management and staff in defining and resolving technology issues.
10. Proven conceptual, analytical and judgmental skills.
11. Excellent oral and written communication skills

In Summary:
Our client is seeking a senior Summit developer, preferably with experience in the liability and investment management areas.

This person should be able to take a high-level objective and deliver timely results with minimal supervision.