FILLED | Software Engineer in San Francisco : full time job

Software Engineer (Banking) – San Francisco, CA

Our client, a reputable and leading bank, is seeking a new Software Engineer.  This role is responsible for building and maintaining customized applications for various business units.

The Software Engineer will be work with existing IS resources, internal business users, and external vendors to build and enhance applications based on the requirements from the business users as well as from Data Management.

Responsibilities:

-          Responsible for working with various business groups and product leads to assist in gathering business requirements necessary for implementing enhancements or additional features to new and existing application.

 -          Architect, design, develop, deploy, and support new features or enhancements per business needs. This includes user interface, business services and backend database work.

 -          Development of technical documentation.

 -          Design data models and databases.

 -          Work with Engineering to design and build infrastructure necessary to run the applications.

Requirements:

1.     Excellent written and oral communications skills and ability to clearly define projects, objectives, goals, schedules and assignments.

2.     Good organization skills with strong attention to detail.

3.     Strong analytical thinking and excellent troubleshooting.

4.     Familiarity with project management and application development principles.

5.     Must possess ability to work independently with minimal supervision.

6.     Experience working in a team development environment

7.     Strong experience developing on the Microsoft stack: C#, ASP.Net, MVC, Entity Framework, Workflow Foundation, and SQL Server.

8.     Experience building web UIs with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and JQuery.

9.     Familiarity with object oriented design principles, dependency injection, design patterns, and test driven development.

10.  Experience with Visual Studio 2013.

11.  Knowledge of financial services industry is strong plus.

12.  Experience with TFS is a plus.

13.  Degree in Management Information System or Computer Science a plus.

FILLED | Business Continuity Planner (Disaster Recovery) for Bank – New York City, NY

Our client, a leading bank with a stellar reputation, is seeking a new Business Continuity Planner for their New York City office.  This role is responsible for the development of advance arrangements and procedures to ensure the organization can recover its most critical functions and customer services within stated Recovery Time Objectives, incurring the minimum amount of loss, possible. 

This role will be responsible for the Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning program, which  includes coordinating the design, development, maintenance, and testing (validation) of the overall disaster recovery plan for each critical functional area of the organization, as well as for the corporation as a whole. The Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning service must address three major elements of the recovery process: (1) the Emergency Response organization and the procedures for reacting to and coordinating recovery efforts; (2) the Recovery Support procedures for restoring key organization resources; and (3) the Business Resumption procedures for the continuation of critical business processes.

Responsibilities include:

- Business Impact Analysis and Risk Assessment
- Business Continuity Planning and Testing
- Technical Recovery Planning and Testing
- Emergency Crisis Management
- Policy/Standards Development and Maintenance
- Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning Training and Awareness

Requirements:

• ·         Minimum of 10 years experience working with Information System recovery planning and systems support.
• ·         BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• ·         Business Continuity and technical certifications strongly preferred.
• ·         Thorough knowledge and understanding of current disaster recovery planning techniques and software technologies, as well as the methods used in performing risk analysis and business impact analysis.
• ·         Ability to obtain a working knowledge of all areas of the organization and the ability to develop a clear understanding of the Bank’s key functional processes and critical customer services.
• ·         Working knowledge of Internet, networking (LAN and WAN), data and voice telecommunications, and distributed computing in order to assist in the preparation of recovery procedures in these areas.
• ·         Excellent written skills, and proven policy & procedures development capability.
• ·         Exceptional interpersonal  skills to interface with managers and staff at all levels within the organization and to effectively manager vendor relationships related to record storage facilities and disaster recovery services.
• ·         Strong project management skills.
• ·         Ability to meet deliverables on time and on budget.
• ·         Familiarity with office productivity tools, databases, and project management tools.
• ·         Experience managing consultants and vendors.
• ·         Ability to design, resource, conduct, status, and complete projects independently, with minimal supervision.
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• ·          Technical expertise – the ability to understand and communicate the technical aspects of computer security. 
• ·         Communication skills – the ability to verbally communicate technology-related issues and security-related issues to every level of the organization (end-users, IT staff, managers, vendors, contractors, etc.). Written communication skills are also important for writing security-related policies, standards and awareness documents.
• ·         Presentation skills – the ability to present Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning awareness programs and training to all levels of the organization.
• ·         Influence skills – the ability to influence people, as well as build collaborative relationships, to overcome the negative attitudes toward security.
• ·         Mediation skills – the ability to bring people with competing objectives together and reach appropriate compromises toward final solutions. Equally important is the ability to take a stand when needed, even when it’s unpopular.
• ·          Management or business skills – the ability to manage teams, manage multiple projects or problems, convey ideas and effectively bring security solutions to individual lines of business.
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• ·          Ability to work with diverse groups (in and outside the organization) and communicate security issues, disaster recover, and business continuity requirements.

FILLED | Director of Business Development:Financial Services Technology

Reporting to the SVP Sales and; Business Development, the Sales Director will drive revenue initiatives of complex, multimillion dollar, multi-year, SaaS deals with North American Financial Institutions. This is a strategic, executive sales position.

Major Responsibilities:
• Develop and lead a sales strategy and account plan for Strategic and Target Accounts.
• Develop new opportunities through cold calling, prospecting, networking; follow up from inside sales generated leads.
• Maintain a visible presence with ISVs/enterprises/software enabled firms and personally close key deals. Contribute to solving customers' development challenges by applying a combination of technology, business, interpersonal, and professional experience.
• Achieve aggressive sales and profit targets.
• Achieve high levels of customer acceptance and satisfaction, resulting in the renewal of contracts.
• Continue to grow strategic accounts through executive relationships, technology and business leadership, and company alignment.
• Provide accurate sales forecasts; maintain accurate and timely contact and sales pipeline information.
• Leverage market knowledge and customer feedback to enhance company strategy, positioning, solutions, and marketing efforts.
• Stay abreast of marketing trends and business drivers and the corresponding technology solutions required.
• Function as a creative, effective leader both within and outside the company, demonstrated by actions and results.

Profile:
• Combines the attributes of presence, confidence, professionalism, and authenticity.
• Driven, self-starter, high sense of urgency; hands-on, roll-up-the-sleeves; strong desire and ability to make direct, positive impact on the company's bottom line.
• Developed business/sales acumen.
• Strong blend of analytical and communication skills; can create and implement plans with tactical efficiency.
• Background that combines the sophisticated training from a large company with experience from a smaller, developmental organization.
• Strong organizational and proven time-management skills; meets deadlines and maintains clear and concise documents and records.
• Team player with the ability to interact across company organizations.

Experience:
• Professional technology sales executive with a minimum of seven (7) years of sales experience; proven track record of exceeding sales targets; experience selling strategic technology, business consulting, or strategic services to CTOs, Vice Presidents and CEOs. Must be familiar with SaaS and Managed Service offerings and can work with clients to recommend appropriate business operations outsourcing solutions
• Track record of proactively approaching, opening and managing complex, multi-year, multi-tier deals with enterprises; proven and quantifiable record of aggressively growing sales and exceeding quotas, with deals sizes in the range of $2 - 10M.
• Superior contract negotiation skills; good at negotiating win-win agreements at the senior executive-levels.
• MUST HAVE experience in selling systems to Financial Institutions.

Requirements:
• Bachelors degree; MBA preferred.
• Significant travel within the selected geography.
• Computer literate. Competent in MS, Windows-based and SFA applications.

Location and type:
Full-time employment in Burlingame, California. Will accommodate remote office for right candidate.

Compensation and benefits:
Compensation will be a competitive salary with benefits, including health, dental, and vision, 401k with fully vested company match, and generous paid time off / holidays. Pre-IPO stock options are available for the exceptional candidate.