Technology Analyst (2024 Analyst Program)

Transcend is seeking an energetic, motivated, hands-on Technology Analyst who is passionate about applying technology to solve complex challenges. This role will be a part of our technology team driving the innovative development of our modular technology solutions delivering advanced capabilities for financial services, and 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. If you are interested in working at a fast pace, high energy, startup – Transcend is the place for you!

Responsibilities:

Transcend’s Technology Analyst will work with the leads and other developers 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.

  • Develop Java-based applications using Spring Boot and Microservices architecture.
  • Participate in the full software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to deployment.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop and implement software solutions.
  • Develop and maintain RESTful APIs
  • Contribute to the development of our data platform and Analytics projects.
  • Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
  • Perform code reviews and testing to ensure the quality of the codebase.
  • Keep up to date with the latest trends and technologies in software development.

Technical Skills 

  • Familiarity with relational and NoSQL databases
  • Familiarity with Caching and Analytical Databases like Elastic Search
  • Experience with RESTful APIs and web services
  • Experience with front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, React is a plus
  • Experience with data analysis and Analytics projects is a plus.
  • Experience with AWS is a plus.

Qualifications & Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Design, Financial Engineering, Data Analytics or related major with a GPA of 3.5 or above.
  • Strong written and communications skills that demonstrate a professional demeanor and the ability to interact and collaborate with others.
  • Detail-oriented, demonstrating thoroughness and strong ownership of work.
  • Quick learner with a demonstrated ambitious and curious mindset towards learning about the business and product.
  • Proficient in database software and ability to perform data analysis.
  • Strong problem-solving skills & high degree of organization.

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

Product Analyst (2024 Analyst Program)

Transcend is seeking a Product Analyst who is passionate about working with clients & technology to translate requirements into a product capability. This role will work with business users and software developers to identify and prioritize technical and functional requirements to create innovative solutions delivering advanced capabilities for financial services. The ideal candidate will have a high-level understanding of the business and financial markets.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop an understanding of company products to meet the company’s current and future needs and the benefits to our clients.
  • Responsible for contributing to the design, specifications, and development of our products to meet the needs of our clients, ensure our competitive differentiation, and lead to our business profitability.
  • Develop user stories and break down requirements into deliverable functionality.
  • Analyze application/business domain data requirements and business rules, understanding the data flow from source to screen.

Qualifications & Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Data Science/Analytics, Finance, Financial Engineering, Economics, Quant Finance, Operational Research, or related major with a GPA of 3.5 or above.
  • Strong written and communications skills that demonstrate a professional demeanor and the ability to interact and collaborate with others.
  • Detail-oriented, demonstrating thoroughness and strong ownership of work.
  • Quick learner with a demonstrated ambitious and curious mindset towards learning about the business and product.
  • Strong analytical skills & experience working with large data sets
  • Strong problem-solving skills & high degree of organization.
  • Experience with task planning

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

Administrative Assistant / Office Manager

We are seeking an energetic & enthusiastic candidate to join our dynamic team to play an integral role in the growth & success of our business. This is an opportunity to collaborate closely with the CEO, Business Manager and work alongside exceptional leadership team who are at the top of their profession, encourage one another in a team environment, and are rewarded for being both smart and kind;

In addition to core administrative and office manager duties, you will also have an opportunity to have a direct impact on the growth of the business, as you help us improve our business processes and contribute to our business development efforts. You will learn a lot from us – and hopefully teach us a thing or two as well!

Responsibilities

  • Office management including office space organization & administration, ordering supplies, managing vendor relationships, ensure the functioning of office services.
  • Provide organizational & administrative support for CEO/Founder of firm such as scheduling, calendar management, client meetings, travel arrangements, etc.
  • Event planning and coordination with management team for internal company events, client events as well as sales & marketing conferences.
  • Global team travel arrangements & coordination as required
  • HR Administration, including coordination of recruiting & onboarding processes, management of new employee setup, annual benefits enrolment, etc.
  • Real Estate & building management, including communication with internal & external stakeholders, creative solutions for office space needs and exploring options.
  • Identify ways to improve office efficiency, cost management and/or introduce new tools in conjunction to working closely with India to streamline processes.
  • Maintain effective communication channels within the organization by drafting and distributing internal memos, newsletters and other communication.
  • Effectively manage conflicting priorities. This involves organizing workflow, and teaming up with colleagues to accomplish tasks and balance workloads.
  • Handle/protect sensitive and highly confidential information.

Requirements

  • 2-5 years of experience in a fast-paced environment, ideally a start-up
  • Bachelor’s degree
  • Experience supporting senior executives
  • Tech savvy with tools (Microsoft Office Suite outlook, PowerPoint, excel, etc.)

A successful candidate will possess:

  • Highly organized and very focused on the attention to detail.
  • A passion for the role, the business and running things efficiently.
  • Excellent judgment, emotional intelligence and an ingrained sense of urgency and priority.
  • An even-keeled professional, confident personality; stable and consistent in all work but with the ability to ramp up to crisis mode when called for. He or she will not allow stressful, high-pressured environments and tight deadlines to affect his or her work.
  • Friendly attitude with the ability to fit into a strong teamwork-oriented organization.
  • Strong problem-solving capabilities, the ability to anticipate upcoming challenges and present multiple scenarios and solutions.
  • An outstanding work ethic, with exceptional multi-tasking and organizational skills paired with a can-do attitude.
  • Strong writing, editing/proofing, research and verbal communications skills.
  • An ability to learn quickly; picking up the pace and delivering projects on time with minimal supervision and errors.
  • A strong sense of accountability and ownership, with a willingness to learn and lead others; highly resourceful.
  • Flexibility, motivation and team-orientation.
  • The highest levels of integrity, discretion and kindness.
  • A pleasant and highly professional interpersonal and phone manner.

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.

 

Sales Account Executive

Transcend is hiring a talented Account Manager to lead sales strategy for the North American fixed-income finance segment. This person will be responsible for originating license revenues and promoting Transcend to prospects and existing clients. As a Sales Account Manager at Transcend, you will be a part of a rapidly growing company driving real change in the global capital markets. You will be working in an inclusive culture of seasoned professionals. You will be a true stakeholder in the long-term success of our growing company partnering closely with marketing, product and management teams. If you are excited to join a rapidly growing fintech firm delivering cutting-edge solutions, Transcend is a great place to accelerate your career.

Qualifications & Experience

In addition to the below, a bachelor’s degree with at least 5-10 years of relevant domain and enterprise sales experience is required. To thrive in this role, candidates should have a keen interest in the financial markets, technology and driving client success.

  • Experience selling enterprise software into global markets businesses with expertise in fixed income/repo as it relates to collateral, funding and liquidity drivers.
  • Entrepreneurial with ability to execute sales strategies from originating to closing new licensing deals.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to build and maintain long term relationships.
  • Confident, strategic thinker capable of developing client specific solutions
  • Organized with attention to detail.
  • Must be self-motivated and able to manage numerous complex client engagements.
  •  Team player driven to achieve new revenue acquisition.

Responsibilities:

  • Work with broader Transcend team including sales, marketing and product to develop and execute revenue strategy to meet performance targets and company objectives.
  • Pitch and demo Transcend products.
  • Farm and develop prospective sales opportunities.
  • Think creatively to derive client-specific solutions.
  • Work with product and management teams to make sure product evolution generates maximum revenue opportunity.
  • Proactively manage a portfolio of clients by developing strong partner-focused relationships to ensure maximum adoption of Transcend solutions.
  • Prepare and present formal client pricing proposals.
  • Drive software license sales opportunities from origination through to close.
  • Keep abreast of market trends and best practices.
  • Help develop sales best practices, tools and metrics to support rapidly scaling global team.