Scrummaster, Eden Prairie, MN

Scrum Master  (15-00698)

• Location: Eden Prairie, MN
• Position Type: Contract
• Duration: 8 months with possible extensions
• Notes: client is willing to hire off 2 phone screens

We have an urgent need for 2 top notch Scrum Masters ASAP.

Requirements/Experience:

• 5+ years of executing Agile/Scrum programs in a matrix environment
• Has a technical background
• Agile Coaching Experience

Regards,

David Martin
Technical Recruiter - All current GTT Openings!
Global Technical Talent, Inc.
28 Deer St. Portsmouth, NH 03801
Ph: (603) 516-4462 / Fax: (603) 431-4495
DMartin@gttit.com / www.gttit.com
 

Scrummaster, Chicago

Scrum Master
Down Town Chicago IL
Full Time

JD:-

Mandatory Technical / Functional Skills

• Certified Scrum Master

• Excellent communication skills is a must

• Experience with eCOM is must

• Experience with JIRA is preferred

• Should be able to work with more than one product owner at the same time

Roles and responsibility

• As a servant/leader, must be able to gain respect from his/her team as a team player and as a leader

• Must be able to facilitate and communicate effectively with teams (technical, non-technical) and all layers of management

• Must be able to ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and practices are applied

• Must be alert and quick to notice differences and issues as they arise and handle them

• Must be self-motivated, enthusiastic, high-energy, and capable of managing multiple priorities

• Commitment to continuous improvement of Agile and scrum practices

• Must be able to resolve conflicts, facilitate discussion and facilitate alternatives or different approaches

• Must be able to lead a team to self-organization

• Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings

• Track and communicate team velocity, sprint/release progress

• Understand backlog tracking and story creation/grooming

• Ensures that product demonstration meetings will be successful

• Assist with backlog maintenance

• Assist with prioritization and resolution of defects/bugs

• Assist team with making commitments through user story selection and estimates split into tasks

• Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills with a high attention to detail
 
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Regards,
                                                                                                                                                              
Salman Shaikh
Enterprise Solutions, Inc
630-246-6040 (Direct) 
Mail: salman@enterprisesolutioninc.com|www.enterprisesolutioninc.com
We are a Global company with over 800 consultants worldwide with a strong concentration in the USA where we have consultants working in over 40 different states.

Internal Wholesaler, DC

Title:  Internal Wholesaler – 2 positions (1025-1)
Location:  Washington DC area
Compensation: Depends on experience

Summary:
The position is responsible for promoting exchange traded funds and mutual funds to wirehouses, hedge funds, and institutional clients through telephone conversations and web-based presentations, assisting external wholesalers in territory management; and for qualifying prospects.  We anticipate that the incumbent will simultaneously develop market, product presentation, analytical and sales skills.

Requirements:
Introduce current and prospective clients to investment products and services through telephone conversations, web-based presentations, conference attendance and in-person meetings.
Cultivate and manage client relationships by responding to client inquiries, providing ongoing communication with clients/prospects, and ensuring that business partners provide exemplary services to our most important clients.
Responsible for qualifying prospects via responding to inquiries, cold calling, direct mail campaigns, etc.
Provide sales support to the outside relationship management team through client call backs, written follow up and lead generation.
Assists relationship managers and outside sales in securing meetings and ensuring that post meeting follow-up tasks are completed expeditiously.
Achieve specific goals, e.g. contacts, presentations, qualified lead generations, as established by the department head.

Requirements:
A Bachelor’s degree is required
A Series 7 and Series 63 required
Demonstrated record of successful customer service/client relationship management in the financial professional channel
Familiar with mutual funds
Ability to proactively call clients and prospects to secure appointments and conduct information meetings
Ability to conduct web-based presentations and to acquire in-person presentation skills
Excellent verbal communications skills
Possess in-depth understanding of the ETF and mutual fund industry, financial concepts, product knowledge, investment management, and client-service strategies
Be able to prioritize client projects and requests effectively
Understand the needs of clients in order to identify “critical” services they must have, competitive services they expect to have and additional services they would like to have
Possess breadth of product knowledge in order to act as main point of contact in dealing with clients and prospects
Possess intermediate proficiency levels in consulting to clients, managing relationships, obtaining and processing information required to provide services, and providing sales support required
Ability to travel 5% to 20%
Will accompany as needed ETF sales staff for presentations and attend as needed conferences

If you are interested in this opening, please email us a copy of your resume as an MS Word attachment.

Thank you,

Nicole Sarillo
BCI - Financial Services Recruiting
10 S. Wacker Dr., Suite 1250
Chicago, IL 60606
312-460-8111 x111
nicole@brokerageconsultants.com
www.brokerageconsultants.com

Risk Manager, CT

Title:  Risk Manager (888-3)
Location:  Connecticut
Compensation:  Commensurate with experience

Summary:
Private institutional investment management firm focused on increasing/improving quantification/automation in trading processes seeks experienced quant to create/run Risk Management function at established multi-asset class quantitative investment manager.

Responsibilities:
Work with CEO/CIO/other quants to develop firm-wide/cross-asset risk management framework
Maintain database of strategy and product risk/performance statistics
Understand/monitor quant strategies and develop summary/exception reports
Manage risk summary section in trading GUI
Enforce trader risk and capital allocation limits
Make suggestions for improvements to statistical validity of models/live trading strategies
Liaise with prime brokers/banks to manage capital and leverage for futures/currencies/derivatives strategies
Liaise with prime brokers/investors to manage capital and leverage of long/short and long-only equity products
Develop new equity/futures/currency options scenario analysis framework
Act as liaison between researchers/traders/operations/technology and CEO/CIO
Represent the firm externally as needed

Requirements:
5+ years experience working for a major financial institution in risk management/trading/quant analysis
MSc/PhD in quantitative discipline preferred (Physics/Computer Science/Applied Mathematics/Operations Research/etc.)
MBA with exceptional analytical background will be considered
Current knowledge of regulation in global equity/futures/derivatives markets
Familiarity with equity/fixed-income derivative pricing models
Solid grasp of VaR methodology including robust estimation
Deep understanding of statistics and financial economics
Strong communication/interpersonal skills
Programming experience required (Python/Linux strongly preferred)
Able to take a hands-on approach to analyzing data/managing databases/generating reports

If you are interested in this opening, please email us a copy of your resume as an MS Word attachment.

Thank you,

Lisa Curtin
BCI - Financial Services Recruiting
10 S. Wacker Dr., Suite 1250
Chicago, IL 60606
312-460-8222 x117
lisa@brokerageconsultants.com
www.brokerageconsultants.com

Technology Integration Specialist, Atlanta

Position: # 4403449 (Technology Integration Specialist)
Location: Atlanta, GA,
Contract: W2
Duration: 12 months

Job Description:
Role Definition:
Expert in professional Infrastructure team, supporting multiple business projects, maintaining and managing like-Production complex performance environment, exploring new technologies, improving processes and standards, building and troubleshooting, providing Infrastructure and Application support for Performance Engineering group. Looking out for Infra next generation in resources and tools.
Key Responsibilities:
Independently performing and leading complex Application Support team/tasks in like-Production distributed environment with diverse variety of tasks/challenges.
Planning, designing, programming and implementing Infra utilities/activities (automated or manual)
Ongoing learning of new product functionality, business perspective impact, alignment and close interaction with R&D, cascading the knowledge to the team at the level of documentation, sessions, tools and processes implications
Providing FE/MW (front end and middleware) professional guidance and coaching to project management and development teams and implementation groups as well as customer architects - internal and external Amdocs customers, including stakeholders without Infra understanding
Leading performance engineering team's deliverables: Reviewing Infra code/scripts, performing Code Drops, to meet KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and SLA (Service Level Agreement), and initiating LL (Lessons Learned)/RCAs (Root Cause Analysis) and sharing results
Close interaction with customer, great customer facing - providing application support through high-standard deliverables, following company methodology (in some cases defining the methodology and guidelines)
Performing risk analysis and suggesting the optimal solution or providing mitigation plan
Monitoring, analyzing and resolving application and middleware performance issues by adjusting performance configuration of systems, third-party SW (e.g. WebLogic, WebSphere, Tuxedo, IIS, Tibco)
Designing, developing, configuring and administering large installations of application, third-party SW (e.g. Tibco, OSB, WebLogic, WebSphere, Tuxedo, WebSphere, IIS), for Non-Production environments
Investigating new infrastructure technologies and developing solutions to meet business requirements
Building team knowledge capabilities and professional development, focusing on innovations and opportunities for saving
Being recognized authority in Amdocs in his domain, technology guru with advanced skills and vast knowledge, leading major architectural challenges and technical strategy developments, provide cost efficient E2E reusable solutions, represent SBG in Amdocs technical forums.
Critical Experiences and skills:
7-10 years of Experience as Integration Engineer in different stages of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) with strong knowledge of UNIX/Linux OS, understanding system calls, kernel, memory management, user management, permissions, IPCS, Networking, File Systems, etc
Proficiency in Programming and Shell Scripting including sed and awk, Perl, Python, PHP would be an advantage
Fluent knowledge of Databases, SQL store procedure knowledge
Oracle/MS SQLServer.
Deep understanding of the front end and middleware platforms (Tibco, WebSphere, WebLogic, Oracle Service Bus, IBM MQ Series, Tuxedo, Adobe, IIS)
Experience in integration, configuration, build out, troubleshooting, performance tuning of Middleware and front-end applications and working knowledge or Performance or Production environments including Java monitoring and debugging
Development background strongly preferred, ability to read and understand code Outstanding communication skills, ability to talk clearly and to the point, ability to write technical documents including ability to represent the team in design reviews, conference calls internal and proven experience working with customer face to face
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT related studies required

Remarks:
Additional Job Details:
SQL, UNIX/Windows Shell Scripting, HTML, VB, .NET, Java preferred PL-SQL is advantage

New Policy!: If the client requires a background check, all candidates must have the background check complete before starting the assignment.

Background Check Required:


Thanks and Regards,
Indu Challa
Xoriant Corp.
609-619-5466
indu.challa@xoriant.com

Head of Execution Technology Development, CT

Title: Head of Execution Technology Development (688-2)

Location: CT

Compensation: Commensurate with experience

Summary:

Private institutional investment management complex consisting of an international team of researchers, traders and technologists who constantly work toward greater quantification and automation in the development of trading processes. Client is seeking a senior high-performance trading systems expert to lead a core development team in building a next-generation distributed, scalable, fault-tolerant, global and multi-asset trading system.

Responsibilities:

Solve real-world, complex problems with effective and innovative technology solutions

In partnership with other stakeholders, formulate an overall strategy, define product features and implement next-generation architecture

Provide technology and staff leadership, as well as hands-on software development contributions

Stay abreast of new technologies and spearhead best practices to ensure product quality and optimal performance and scalability

Requirements:

10+ years of hands-on coding experience building real-time, high-volume trading systems

Experience leading high performing teams of software developers

Have excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills

Possess exceptional analytical and technology architecture skills

Be fluent in various programming languages/techniques including C/C++, Java and Python

Experience integrating third-party application components with in-house developed solutions

Experience with agile development practices and automated continuous integration frameworks

Have a working knowledge of Unix/Linux

Master’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline or equivalent job experience

Any networking assistance that you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Lisa Curtin

BCI - Financial Services Recruiting

10 S. Wacker Drive, Suite 1250

Chicago, IL 60606

312-460-8222 x 117

lisa@bcius.com

www.bcius.com

Scrum Master/Agile Coach, Washington DC/VA

We are looking around 15+yrs consultant with stron Agile coach experience.

Our client is looking for an Scrum Master/Agile Coach for a long term project inWashington, DC/VA.

Job Title : Scrum Master/Agile Coach
Location : Washington, DC/VA
Duration : Long Term 

Requirement skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer science or equivalent, with minimum 10+yrs of relevant experience.
• Minimum 4+years experience as a dedicated Scrum Master and/or Agile Coach
• Experience in deep tool box of estimation, story slicing, retrospective, and other Agile techniques.
• Strong understanding of the Scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective
• Experience with the use and configuration of one or more Agile management tools, such as Jira, VersionOne, Rally, or LeanKit
• Ability to productively converse with business stakeholders and engineers alike
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills including the ability to effectively communicate with internal and external customers.
• Ability to use strong industry knowledge to relate to customer needs and dissolve customer concerns and high level of focus and attention to detail.

Thanks & Regards
Magesh,
Lorven Technologies Inc,
101, Morgan Lane, Suite 209, Plainsboro, NJ-08536
Work : 609-799-4202 X 202 |  Fax: 609-799-4204
Email: mage@lorventech.com | Web: www.lorventech.com
Gtalk: mage@lorventech.com
 

Sr. PM, Chicago

Senior Project Manager

Location: Chicago, IL

Duration: Long term contract

-Has day-to-day responsibilities for the work and deliverables.

-Ensures work products meet specifications.

-Provides regular updates as to progress, budget, and ability to meet commitments.

-Ten years of experience is desired.

All project artifacts according to EPMO guidelines. Execution of projects both IT and business

Thanks,

Indu Sharma

Technical Resource Manager

O: 630.625.1060

Project Manager / Scrum Master, Philadelphia

Project Manager / Scrum Master
Philadelphia, PA
Longterm Contract
INTERVIEW TYPE - FACE TO FACE
 
We are looking for Project Manager who have worked heavily on Scrum/Agile OR Scrum Master/Scrum Coach. Based out of Philly, PA.

• No of Positions: 3
• Project Manager / Scrum Master
• Location: Philly
• Duration: Long Term (1 year + extension)

We are looking for Local candidates or from surrounding areas (DE, NJ, NY, VA). Should come for F2F discussion
Roles & Responsibility:

• Manage large and complex multi-million dollar IT development Projects
• Leading distributed engineering and business teams, defining protocols and team structures, managing performance and growth of managers and technologists, Team Building and Mentoring
• Service Propositions, Value Enhancements, Portfolio Optimizations and Asset Monetization
• Program/Project Cost Estimations and Budgeting, Return of Investment (ROI), Payback Periods, NPVs, Profit and Loss and Cost Management
• Program/Project Scoping, Sizing, Effort Estimation, Forecasting, Planning and Scheduling
• Managing Project deliverable Quality and Program, Project and Operation Risks
• Stakeholder Management (includes Directors, Vice Presidents, CTOs, CIOs and country business leaders), Communication Strategy and planning
• Defining Project Organization Structure, Creating Project Governance Framework and Standardization of Project Practices and Controls

Detailed JD:

• We are looking for a Tech PM with excellent Communication Skills and 12 + years of working experience (Not more than 18 years experience).
• Certified Scrum Master/ Heavy experience on Scrum/Agile
• Work with IT functional areas to identify, propose and implement new technologies as solutions to business direction and strategies.
• Perform complex systems analysis, design and programming duties ensuring department standards and quality control processes are upheld.
• Must have experience in managing web based and Java Projects.
• Proficiency with XML, JSP, HTML, Javascript - Experience in Java design patterns.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum Methodologies .
• Telecom or Cable Domain is must.

If you are qualified, available, interested, planning to make a change, or know of a friend who might have the required qualifications and interest, please call me ASAP at (609) 799-4202 Ext.220 even if we have spoken recently about a different position. If you do respond via e-mail please include a daytime phone number so I can reach you. In considering candidates, time is of the essence, so please respond ASAP. Thank you.

NOTE:
THESE EMAILS ARE GENERATED BY KEYWORD AND I APOLOGIZE IF THESE SKILLS SETS DO NOT MATCH YOUR EXPERTISE, OR IF THE LOCATION IS OUT OF RANGE.

We do have other opportunities available. If you are interested, Please email me the most current MS Word version of your resume.
If you are not currently seeking employment, or if you would prefer I contact you at some later date, please indicate your date of availability so that I may honor your request.


Thanks & Regards
Alok,
Lorven Technologies Inc,
101, Morgan Lane, Suite 209, Plainsboro, NJ-08536
Work : 609-799-4202  EXTN 220|  Fax: 609-799-4204
Email: alok@lorventech.com | Web: www.lorventech.com
                             

Broker Service Representative, Elmhurst

Title: Broker Service Representative (1001-2)
Location:  Elmhurst, IL
Compensation:  Commensurate with experience

Summary/Responsibilities:
Answer incoming calls as well as monitor incoming emails and faxes;
Research and provide information as requested;
Act as liaison between Financial Advisors (FA's) and numerous departments within the company to handle requests and to resolve problems;
Receive, track, and resolve all customer service requests from FAs;
Comprehend complex functions and procedures and disseminate that information in a clear and precise manner to others;
Work in a fast-paced, high call volume environment while maintaining accurate, complete, and high quality work in a timely manner;
Effectively handle difficult customer service situations;
Prepare and maintain confidential records and reports;
Self-motivated team player and individual contributor.

Requirements:
Minimum 3 years of financial services industry experience;
FINRA licensed preferred;
Previous customer service experience within a financial services organization required;
Brokerage Operations experience required;
Excellent relationship building and communication skills, both oral and written;
Strong PC skills including knowledge of MS Office Products and Internet preferred;


If you are interested in this opening, please email us a copy of your resume as an MS Word attachment.

Thank you,

Nicole Sarillo
BCI - Financial Services Recruiting
10 S. Wacker Dr., Suite 1250
Chicago, IL 60606
312-460-8222 x111
nicole@brokerageconsultants.com
www.brokerageconsultants.com

Scrummaster, Edison, NJ

My name is Sakshi and I'm an IT recruiter at Enterprise Solutions, Inc. I came across your resume on a job board and wanted to check if you are available for a project.About Enterprise Solutions: ESI is a staffing company with offices in Naperville, IL and Santa Clara, CA (Offshore Center: Noida, India).We develop and deliver Software and Engineering Solutions & Services to our Enterprise partners; we work relentlessly to keep our client and employees happy; and we measure our business success with the trust we earn from them.
 
Location: Edison, NJ
Job Description:  Scrum Master 
1. Purpose of the job
        Lead one or two Scrum teams in a large transformation program
        Be an Agile coach to other scrum teams 
3. Main responsibilities & Deliverables
        Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.
        Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and sprint timeline.
        Work closely with project owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.
        Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders.
        Direct and lead development team from project initiation through delivery of final product.
        Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
        Coaching the team to remove impediments
        Coaching the team to be self organizing and to not look at the Scrum Master for task direction
        Understands technical debt and helps the team in removing it.
        Help product owner maintain the backlog and assist in release planning
        Have good understanding Agile software engineering metrics
4. Key Competencies required
        Very good understanding of Agile development principles, practices and implementation
        Certified scrum master.
        Knowledge and/or experience of Kanban.
        Excellent communication skills
        Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
        Experience working in a distributed agile model
Qualifications
       years in a project management capacity
       years of relevant consulting or industry experience
       full life cycle implementations
       years experience participating in large-scale, full-life cycle Service Oriented Architecture implementations
       years of experience working in an Agile environment
       years working as a Scrum Master
       Experience in Test Driven Development, Continuous Delivery is a plus



Skills:Scrum
 

If you are qualified, available, interested, planning to make a change, or know of a friend who might have the required qualifications and interest, please call me ASAP at 630-246-6029  , even if we have spoken recently about a different position. If you do respond via e-mail please include a daytime phone number so I can reach you. In considering candidates, time is of the essence, so please respond ASAP. Thank you.
 
Warm Regards,
 
Sakshi Khanna
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Enterprise Solutions Inc.| Naperville , IL
Office: +1- 630-246-6029  | F: 630-955-5990
Email id : sakshi@enterprisesolutioninc.com
Gtalk: sakshi10.esi@gmail.com
 

Scrummaster, Lincolnshire

I wanted to reach out to you in regards to a new opportunity I have available in Lincolnshire, IL. Our client is looking for a Scrum Master for a Full time opportunity.

                     

I have attached the job description below. Please take a moment to look over it and let me know if you are interested in this opportunity. Please reach out to me immediately so that we can get the process going. Send me an updated version of your resume in a Word document.

If you are not on the job market, but know someone that is available and would be a good fit for this role, please pass along this email.

Title: Scrum Master

Location: Lincolnshire,IL (or possible remote)

Type: Perm

Rate: 90 K with a 15 % bonus

Responsibilities

•             Enforce the agile tenants as interpreted by our team, removing impediments and promoting transparency.

•             Commitment to exceptional results, a strong desire for continuous improvement and the ability to build a collaborative culture within our team.

•             Facilitate daily stand-ups and ensure the integrity of the agile process by capturing velocity and removing obstacles to drive projects to successful release.

•             Interact with product owners and regular contact with senior management.

•             Ability to hold team members accountable, set clear sprint performance standards, resolve sprint performance issues, keep team engaged and on task

•             Knowledge within the ASP .NET framework and enforce code and build best practices

Knowledge and Certification

•             Must be a Certified Scrum Master

•             3+ years of ScrumMaster experience

•             3+ years of information technology experience

•             Ability to deal with multiple projects and deadlines

•             Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle

•             Demonstrated experience working in and leading teams that leverage Test Driven Development and Continuous Integration processes

•             Must be self-motivated as well as creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems

•             Data driven analysis skills for measuring and managing delivery

•             Experience with relevant business software e.g. Microsoft Office applications

•             Experience using Agile tools or Scrum templates

•             Excellent team player with the ability to influence and negotiate

•             Ability to understand and communicate technical issues

•             Highly adaptable to changing environment

•             Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse teams

•             Demonstrated knowledge of test driven development and virtues of coded unit tests.

•             SM needs to have situational awareness with an understanding of when to listen and when to be assertive.

•             Strong analytical and problem solving skills with a high attention to detail

Veronica Cano, IT Recruiter

Veredus - Talent To Transform

Corporate Address: 4300 W Cypress St #900, Tampa, FL 33607
Website: www.vereduscorp.com 
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