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Software Developer

Original URL: http://www.craigslist.org/sfc/sof/42413404.html
Posted by: bgi.recruiter34 at barclaysglobal.com
Posted on: 2004-09-14,  9:03AM

<p align="left">Software Developer <BR>

<p>Overview<BR>

The Global Market Data IT team is a global team of 11 software developers who are responsible for the support and enhancement of BGI's strategic Market Data system (SUMS). The team is located in London and San Francisco.

<p>The SUMS system acquires, normalizes, and cleanses market data from more than 70 data providers before publishing it to other BGI systems.<BR>

We are in the process of reengineering SUMS into a web-based application, which will allow the application to be used throughout BGI. We also have a number of strategic projects either already in progress or scheduled for the coming months.

<p>This role will involve the full software development lifecycle – from working with Business Analysts to help define use cases, through development, testing, release and support.<BR>

<p>The SUMS application is built using object oriented Perl and HTML::Mason on Unix using test driven development and design patterns.<BR>

<p>Responsibilities<BR>

<LI>Working with business users to help define use cases

<LI>Providing estimates of development effort based on use cases

<LI>Technical design of solutions to meet business requirements

<LI>Development and unit testing

<LI>Deployment and ongoing support </p>

<p>Skills and Requirements<BR>

<LI>Strong Object Oriented Perl essential

<LI>Strong SQL experience – preferably Sybase essential

<LI>Experience of test driven development desirable

<LI>Financial Services experience desirable

<LI>Working knowledge of design patterns and another OO language (e.g. Java , C#) preferable

<LI>Good HTML/Javascript design skills preferable (should be able to show screen shots, demo's etc)

<LI>HTML::Mason / Apache experience a definite plus

<LI>Experience developing in a team based environment using CVS a plus </p>

Interested applicants should send a resume (in a Word document) detailing why you believe your skills and abilities are a good match to bgi.recruiter34 at barclaysglobal.com. Please include the job title and id number in your resume and cover letter.

<p>Managing Retirement Dreams for Over 25 Million People Worldwide<BR>

Headquartered in San Francisco with offices worldwide, Barclays Global Investors (BGI) <http://www.barclaysglobal.com> is a trusted investment manager to many of the world's largest public and private pension and investment funds. Our 2,100 employees help ensure that people from postal carriers to automotive assembly line workers to executives have predictable financial performance for their future. BGI's manages over US$1 trillion in assets and we're backed by the resources of our parent Barclays PLC, one of the world's largest financial services firms. BGI clients include Citibank, Sony, the US Federal Employees Retirement Plan and London Business School.

For the over 30 years since our San Francisco founding, BGI has been at the forefront of financial innovation creating the first index fund, the first lifecycle fund, building the preeminent risk-controlled active management team and performance record, becoming the world's largest and most successful exchange-traded fund business and becoming the largest institutional manager of hedge fund assets in the world. BGI differentiates itself from other investment managers by its focus on value creation to investors by consistently managing the cost, risk and expected returns across every global investment product we offer. You may be familiar with our current advertising campaign supporting our iShares product <http://ishares.com>.

<p>BGI's culture and history of superior performance is driven by our people, and an intellectually stimulating environment which values absolute integrity, constant protection of client interests, timely execution of our commitments, and honesty and transparency in our dealings.<BR>

BGI's San Francisco headquarters is located at 45 Fremont (near Market Street) and is easily accessible by BART, and Muni. More information about careers at BGI can be obtained at <http://www.barclaysglobal.com/about/careers/?r=19&a=34>. 
 
 
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