Monday, July 26, 2010

OppenheimerFunds - Enterprise Data Warehouse Analyst, Senior Java Programmer

OppenheimerFunds, Inc. has been helping investors achieve their financial goals since 1960. We are one of the nation's largest and most respected asset management companies.

Position Responsibilities:
* Work closely with users to design, develop and implement applications, reports and ad hoc queries that provide business information to all levels of personnel.
* Develop and maintain Cognos Framework Manager metadata models based on user requirements. Develop and maintain Cognos Transformer OLAP models.
* Develop and support maintainable, high-performing Informatica ETL processes for data acquisition and integration in enterprise data components
* Support company-wide information data governance and quality programs with input and support from data management leadership.
* Contribute to support of Cognos and Informatica environments



Position Requirements:
* Understanding of relational database concepts (tables, indexing, views, aggregates, stored procedures)

One year experience developing and maintaining ETL/BI solutions with:
 Informatica Power Center in a UNIX or LINUX environment
 Cognos 8 Framework Manager/Transformer
 Oracle
 SQL
 Autosys

 Proficient with MS Office applications (Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint)
 Bachelor Degree or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
 Strong initiative, leadership and supporting communication skills


Optional Position Requirements:
 Experience in planning, designing, building and deploying solutions for enterprise data initiatives
 Understanding of logical and physical data modeling concepts
 Understanding of Informatica Power Center and Cognos product architecture and knowledge of integrated products
 Experience in Cognos multidimensional analysis, enterprise reporting, scorecards, ad-hoc query and analytics
 Experience with SQL Server, Sybase
 Experience developing UNIX shell scripts
 Prior use of version control applications (i.e StarTeam, Source Safe, CVS)

OppenheimerFunds is a thriving organization which provides a positive work environment, professional challenges, competitive compensation, and work/life balance.

Please visit us at www.oppenheimerfunds.com to learn more about our company and career opportunities.
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OppenheimerFunds, Inc. has been helping investors achieve their financial goals since 1960. We are one of the nation's largest and most respected asset management companies.
Based in the Denver Tech Center we are seeking a highly motivated, skilled, and experienced developer to join the firm*s internet development team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for using technology to solve business challenges using innovative and engaging web application interfaces for our clients. This job requires a candidate with a solid web development track record along with strong communication skills (interpersonal, written and spoken), a can-do attitude, creative imagination, who can contribute to a disciplined-but-entrepreneurial work environment. The individual will be a member of a cross-discipline team of analysts and developers dedicated to developing and maintaining the firm*s internet sites.

Responsibilities May Include:

Participate in all aspects of the system development life cycle with specific focus on the design, estimation, construction, unit and integration testing of both service- and web-tier components

Collaborate with our business partners as well as other development-, infrastructure- and QA- groups to deliver business-focused solutions on time and within budget

Develop high-quality implementations following established development processes

Maintenance of existing and implementation of new web applications

Provide post implementation support and on call production support of application suite

Share past experience and mentor fellow team members in improving the teams implementation and development discipline.

Identify and implement monitoring and preventative maintenance as required.

Keep abreast of the latest developments in Internet technologies


Competencies for Success:

7+ years experience building and supporting Java / J2EE based production applications.

3+ years experience in developing externally facing web applications using HTML. AJAX, JavaScript, CSS, DHTML and relevant open-source libraries

Demonstrated knowledge and experience working with MVC technologies including Struts, Spring MVC, JSF and JSP / JSTL

Experience with J2EE application servers, preferably BEA Weblogic

Experience working with Eclipse IDE and Apache Tomcat

Experience working with SVN and Maven and in a continuous integration environment

Proficient in SQL and RDBMs (Sybase, Oracle)

Proficient in UNIX

Proficient in XML and web-service related technologies, SOAP, XML Parsing, XPath and XSLT

Strong problem determination and trouble shooting skills

Demonstrated knowledge of Object-Oriented design including familiarity with various design patterns and UML

Experience working with website content technologies including search, analytics, content management systems.

Demonstrated knowledge of multiple languages / alternative frameworks including Grails, Rails, etc.

Demonstrated ability to learn and apply new technologies as the need arise.

Experience in working in a team-based agile development environment.

Excellent interpersonal and written & oral communication skills

Capable of working independently as well as in team environment.

Strong analytical and problem solving / trouble-shooting skills.

Demonstrated ability to delivery quality solutions while coordinating multiple assignments / deadlines

Strong analytical and problem solving skills

Ability to work within defined schedules and budgets

Previous experience with a financial services organization a plus

OppenheimerFunds is a thriving organization which provides a positive work environment, professional challenges, competitive compensation, and work/life balance.
Please visit us at www.oppenheimerfunds.com to learn more about our company and career opportunities.