Careers at Transcend

Description:  

Transcend is seeking an experienced, mid-level Core Java expert that is passionate about applying technology to solve complex challenges. This role will drive the innovative development of our modular technology solutions delivering advanced capabilities for financial services, supporting their collateral management, capital management and compliance needs related to global capital markets transactions.

Responsibilities:

The Core Java Developer will produce robust Core Java code for advanced financial banking and trading applications, primarily using core Java principles around multi-threading, messaging and caching technologies.

Qualifications:

This role requires specific knowledge and skills including:

•     Strong Core Java concepts
•     Java Server side development experience
•     Working knowledge of building effective API(s)
•     Database technologies and SQL query experience (SQL Server / Oracle / etc.)
•     Java Message Service (JMS) – including point-to-point messaging, message types, message delivery to non-Java clients, etc.

Candidates should also be strong in:

•     Server-side programming technologies
•     Java Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) API
•     RDBMS concepts
•     Microsoft SQL server or Oracle database

Additional desired skills:

•     Spring
•     Multi-Threading/Concurrency
•     MongoDB or Hadoop
•     Some caching technology, such as Ignite or Coherence
•     Strong communication skills and teamwork

Locations: Piscataway, New Jersey and Hyderabad, India

To thrive in this role, candidates should have a keen interest in the financial markets. Please note that experience in Web technologies like JSP, JSF or Servlet is NOT required.

If you are hungry, curious and passionate about technology development in Java, please apply below.

Description:

Transcend is seeking a Business Analyst for Collateral and Liquidity Optimization who is passionate about working with clients & technology to translate requirements into a product capability. This role will work with the business users and software developers to identify and prioritize technical and functional requirements to create innovative solutions delivering advanced capabilities for financial services. Transcend’s solutions support a firm’s collateral management, collateral optimization, capital management and compliance needs related to global capital markets transactions.

Qualifications & Experience:

In addition to the below, a Bachelor’s of Science in Finance, Information Systems, Computer Science or related field OR a Bachelor’s of Science with at least 3-5 years of relevant experience is required. To thrive in this role, candidates should have a keen interest in the financial markets.

• 3-5 years of experience working in the Securities Finance, Derivatives, and/or Collateral Management business areas
• Able to take feedback constructively and iterate on ideas and solutions from multiple stakeholders with differing opinions
• Meticulous thinker who can effectively work out all the details when presented with big ideas
• A passion for championing innovation
• Experience working within an agile development process, specifically with Scrum and backlog management tools
• Understanding of user-centric design
• Experience with projects, involving front-end applications
• Ability to communicate effectively with all stakeholders; i.e. technical developers, business leaders and users
• Some technical / programming experience is preferred, but not required
• Experience in capital markets and/or financial services
• Detail oriented, demonstrating thoroughness and strong ownership of work
• Quick learner with a demonstrated strong aptitude for learning new business functionality and understanding how and why the business requires them
• Able to prioritize in a fast moving, high pressure, constantly changing environment; Good sense of urgency – problem management and escalation

Responsibilities:

The Business Analyst will be responsible for contributing to the design, specifications, resource planning and development of our products to meet the needs of our clients, ensure our competitive differentiation and lead to our business profitability. You may work with our product development team to develop the latest functionality on our platform OR work with client teams to implement our software to support client’s business initiatives.

• Requirements analysis, management, and communication
• Developing user stories and breaking down requirements into deliverable functionality
• Analyze business issues and identify solutions that meet business goals
• Analyze application/business domain data requirements and business rules, understanding the data flow from source to screen
• Recognize and predict use cases to help design intuitive applications
• Information Architecture
• Process Mapping
• Negotiate and communicate priority for new features and capabilities
• Work directly with business stakeholders, clients, designers, developers and engineers to coordinate the building of applications to spec and on time

Job Details:

Seniority Level: Mid-Senior

Industry: Financial Services, Computer Software

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Functions: Business Development, Information Technology, Project Management

Location: Piscataway, New Jersey

To thrive in this role, candidates should be very thorough and possess strong communication and organizational skills.  

If you are passionate about capital markets and have strong ideas about how financial services can optimize their cost, balance sheet or capital, apply today.

Transcend is seeking an energetic, experienced, senior software developer who is passionate about applying technology to solve complex challenges.  This role will drive the innovative development of our modular technology solutions delivering advanced capabilities for financial services, supporting their collateral management, capital management and compliance needs related to global capital markets transactions.  Our software is built using cutting edge technologies and our developers work on a variety of projects designing, building, enhancing and maintaining the code base for our core product (Transcend Software).

Qualifications & Experience

In addition to the below, a Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science or related field is required.

• Technical Skills
  • Strong Core Java concepts
  • Java Server side development experience
  • Working knowledge of building effective API(s)
  • Database technologies and SQL query experience (SQL Server / Oracle / etc.)
  • Java Message Service (JMS) – including point-to-point messaging, message types, message delivery to non-Java clients, etc.
  • Server-side programming technologies (strong)
  • Java Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) API
  • RDBMS concepts
  • Microsoft SQL server or Oracle database
  • Spring
  • Multi-Threading/Concurrency
  • MongoDB or Hadoop (preferred)
  • Some caching technology, such as Ignite or Coherence (preferred)

• Additional Non-Technical Skills
  • Experience in capital markets and/or financial services
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Strong analytics skills, with ability to proactively identify issues before they become major problems.
  • Able to thrive in a fast paced, deadline driven environment
  • Detail oriented, demonstrating thoroughness and strong ownership of work
  • Quick learner with a demonstrated strong aptitude for learning new technologies and understanding how to utilize them
  • Able to prioritize in a fast moving, high pressure, constantly changing environment; Good sense of urgency – problem management and escalation
  • Strong oral and written communications skills that demonstrate a professional demeanor and the ability to interact with others with discretion and tact

To thrive in this role, candidates should have a keen interest in the financial markets. Please note that experience in Web technologies like JSP, JSF or Servlet is NOT required.

Responsibilities

Transcend’s Senior Software Developer will develop software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle.

• Determines operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
• Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.
• Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.
• Improves operations by conducting systems analysis; recommending changes in policies and procedures.
• Updates job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
• Protects operations by keeping information confidential.
• Provides information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service issues.
• Accomplishes engineering and organization mission by completing related results as needed.
• Supports and develops software engineers by providing advice, coaching and educational opportunities.

Locations: Piscataway, New Jersey and Hyderabad, India

Transcend is seeking a QA Lead Engineer for Collateral and Liquidity Optimization who is passionate about working with technology to understand and test highly innovative solutions with advanced capabilities for financial services and act as a QA Lead.  This role will work with the Product Specialists and Dev Leads to understand requirements to test various products in Transcend such as firm’s collateral management, collateral optimization, capital management and compliance needs related to global capital markets transactions.

Qualifications & Experience

In addition to the skills mentioned below, a Bachelor’s of Science in Information Systems, Computer Science or related field OR a Bachelor’s of Science with at least 5 years of relevant experience along with at least 2 years of experience in working as a QA Lead Engineer is required. To thrive in this role, candidates should have a keen interest and understanding of the financial markets.

Required Skills:

• At least 2 years of recent experience working in the Securities Finance, Derivatives, and/or Collateral Management business areas
• Comfortable in working in a Unix/Linux based environment such as writing Shell Scripts, Setup QA environments, in-depth troubleshooting of issues with deployed applications
• Strong understanding of Database concepts and hands on with writing complex SQLs
• Hands-on experience in developing test plans, test cases, test scripts and test reports on multiple projects of varying size
• Strong communication skills and ability to lead testing efforts across multiple projects
• Hands-on experience in working with Automation Testing Tools such as Test Complete (preferred), Selenium and ability to create and execute strategies for the automation testing
• At least 5 years of experience in working with Agile process, Scrum, Kanban, and JIRA

Optional Skills:

• Confluence, GIT/SVN SCM, CI/CD Tools such as Jenkins, Postman, SoapUI.

Behavioral Skills:

• Able to take feedback constructively and iterate on ideas and solutions from multiple stakeholders with differing opinions
• Meticulous thinker who can effectively work out all the details when presented with big ideas
• A passion for championing innovation
• Detail oriented, demonstrating thoroughness and strong ownership of work
• Quick learner with a demonstrated strong aptitude for learning new business functionality and understanding how and why the business requires them
• Able to prioritize in a fast moving, high pressure, constantly changing environment; Good sense of urgency – problem management and escalation

Responsibilities

The QA Analyst will be responsible for supporting the planning, design and execution of system testing on simple to complex implementations. The QA Analyst will work collaboratively with Product Owners and Software developers execute and validate test cases based upon requirements.

• Review user requirements documents to ensure that requirements are understood and testable
• Identify test requirements from specifications, map test case requirements and design test coverage plan.
• Develop test plans, test cases, test scripts and test reports on multiple projects of varying size.
• Recognize and predict use cases to help test various scenarios based on user requirements
• Hold and facilitate test plan/case reviews with cross-functional team members.
• Execute and evaluate manual or automated test cases and report test results.
• Validate that user expectations are achieved during the testing process.
• Isolate, replicate, and report defects and verify defect fixes.
• Identify any potential quality issues per defined process and escalate potential quality issues immediately to management.
• Work directly with product owners and developers to coordinate end to end testing, defect management and sign off.

Location: Piscataway, New Jersey