Business Analyst

Transcend is hiring a Business Analyst to join the team. The candidate will be responsible for the following: help product & technology executive-level decision making. In addition, the candidate should be able to:

  • Run analysis & present strategic insights on globe-spanning projects.
  • Explain technical concepts.
  • Create functional requirements/designs, prioritization, release planning, strategy, & roadmap for new product features.
  • Perform data analysis.
  • Write SQL queries.
  • Use Microsoft Excel to troubleshoot issues.
  • Collaborate w/sales team to form demo script /story.
  • Assist the testing team in reviewing test cases & ad-hoc needs.

 

Requirements:

  • Master’s degree in Computer Science (CS) , Information Systems, Computer Applications or a related field of Engineering w/6 months of exp or Bachelor’s or equivalent with 30 months of experience.
  • Must have experience or academic coursework in SQL/DMS, SDLC,Agile, Scrum JIRA, Linux & operating systems.
  • Skills in project management, client interaction, & documentation.

 

Send resume:

Transcend Street Solutions

371 Hoes Lane, Suite #205

Piscataway, NJ 08854

 

Email: careers@transcendstreet.com

Production Support Engineer

Transcend is seeking a Product Support Engineer 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, supporting their collateral management, capital management, and compliance needs related to global capital markets transactions.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • 3+ years of strong production support (L3 support) experience.
  • Working Knowledge in Java, Linux, and SQL
  • Take ownership of user problems and be proactive when dealing with user issues.
  • Monitor all alerts and Report any issue that may significantly impact the business.
  • Monitoring, analyzing, troubleshooting problems, providing code fixes and testing
  • Create/develop/utilize application monitoring solutions to enhance application availability and performance in production
  • Conduct root-cause analysis as and when needed and propose a corrective action plan
  • Follow established set of processes while handling issues and for proper escalation of unresolved issues to appropriate internal/external teams
  • Responsible for reports, requests (like RFP), Maintaining the SLA (Service Level Agreement) and account payable records
  • Maintain logs of all issues and ensure resolutions according to quality assurance tests for all production processes.
  • Ensure on-time delivery of all assigned tasks – incidents, problem tickets, etc.
  • Adhere to the defined support delivery process/guidelines like Problem

Management, Incident Management, Change Management, SLA Compliance,

Productivity, other application goals, etc.

  • Identify and learn more about the software and hardware used/ supported by the organization.
  • Develop/propose innovative approaches on process improvements & automation possibilities
  • Experience in Finance (Banking) domain preferred
  • Work independently to be able to communicate effectively with users, and development and support teams during downtimes and when there are questions or issues to be addressed

Languages:

  • Core Java, Spring, JDBC, J2EE.
  • SQL, Query, Rest API, MongoDB.
  • Unix Shell scripting, Servlets, JSP, Security
  • Ticketing tools like Jira.

 

DevOps Engineer

Transcend is seeking an energetic, experienced, senior Dev Ops person who is passionate about applying technology to solve complex challenges. As Transcend Dev Ops Engineer, you will have the opportunity to be at the forefront of driving a major transformation. We are modernizing our DevOps practice, which includes implementing the latest DevOps philosophies and methodologies. As a part of this modernization effort, the ideal candidate will help train/ mentor the team on best practices within the DevOps space.

Qualifications & Experience

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or other related technical degrees; or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of DevOps experience including the use of Bitbucket, Git, and cloud-based solutions (AWS) or similar.
  • 3-5+ years of experience in CI/CD methodologies, automation pipelines, workflows, and tools.
  • 5+ years of career experience including software development, systems administration, and cloud-based application management.
  • Solid understanding of infrastructure, security, Linux, image hardening, scaling, fail-over, load balancing, etc. Strong experience with monitoring and alerting.
  • Hands-on experience in shell scripting, python, and cron setup.
  • Experience with Dockers, Kubernetes, and Ansible with a focus on Microservices deployment and scalability
  • Experience with automating the installation of various infrastructure services such as Middleware, Databases, etc.
  • Understanding business practices look for vulnerabilities and provides continuous monitoring and testing across all platforms.
  • Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.

Responsibilities:

 

  • Design, build, and maintain robust and scalable CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins.
  • Develop and implement automation workflows for infrastructure and application deployment using Ansible and Terraform
  • Work closely with development teams to integrate CI/CD processes into the software development lifecycle.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement cloud infrastructure solutions in AWS.
  • Develop and maintain tools for monitoring and logging in a cloud environment.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to infrastructure and deployments.
  • Manage source code using Git and Bitbucket and create efficient branching strategies.
  • Work with Linux systems to administer servers and troubleshoot issues.

 

If you are interested in this role, please submit your resume to careers@transcendstreet.com

Senior Business Analyst

Transcend is seeking a Business Analyst who is passionate about working with clients & technology to implement the Transcend solution within our Client’s environment.  This role will work with the business users and software developers to deliver advanced capabilities offered by Transcend software to solve collateral management, 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 and 8+ years of relevant experience is required. To thrive in this role, candidates should have a keen interest in the financial markets.

  • 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 Sr. Business Analyst will be responsible for leading the client implementations to support our client’s business initiative and drive adoption of our platform.  At times, you will work closely with our product development team to translate client requirements to develop the latest functionality on our platform.

  • 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
  • Work with business users to ensure understanding of Transcend application

Core Java Developer

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 and 10+ years of hands-on work experience.

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 (preferred)
  • Multi-Threading/Concurrency (preferred)
  • 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 work with the team to 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.

  • Work closely with software developers to produce robust core Java code primarily using core Java principles around multi-threading, messaging and caching technologies
  • 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
  • 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
  • Drives best practices across development, information security & other related areas