Computational Finance Engineer - Monitor110 (New York, NY)

Description

Rapidly growing financial intelligence firm seeks an extremely talented individual to join our team as Computational Finance Engineer. This is a highly competitive position in which the candidate will work with a unique and extensive set of unstructured, real-time Internet data in order to develop concrete theoretical and applied models for generating alpha. The candidate will be working under the guidance of well-known and established experts in the field of quantitative finance and artificial intelligence, and research may lead to one or more published whitepapers in respected journals, as well as contributing to product evolution.
The perfect candidate has a strong passion and determination to seek out profits through analysis of unconventional market data and test his/her theories in a practical environment. Candidates should be able to thrive in fast-paced environments with minimal supervision.

General Requirements

Applicants should hold an undergraduate degree in a quantitative discipline such as mathematics, computer science, engineering, statistics or economics, and should currently be enrolled in a graduate program in applied mathematics or statistics, mathematical or computational finance, operations research, or computer science. Candidates with previous research work in computational finance, artificial intelligence applied to finance, or a related field, will be given preference.

Successful applicants will have a strong theoretical understanding of quantitative methods used in finance, including volatility measures and price forecasting. He/she will also have a strong proficiency in statistics and probability theory, numerical methods and mathematical modeling.

Computation-specific Requirements

Applicants should have excellent skills working with Excel. Experience programming in Python and/or a statistical software package (R, Stata, SAS) is a big plus. Knowledge of other programming languages such as C++ or Java, scripting language such as Perl, or a mathematical package such as MATLAB or Mathematica, is also a plus.

Responsibilities

• Exploring theoretical and applied models for trading equities, fixed-income, and derivatives using unstructured data
• Identifying new sources of data that are of value to quantitative trading models and/or other research studies

International applicants must have high oral and written English proficiency and be able to present the results of their findings to internal and external audiences.

Relevant professional experience is preferred but not required.

About Us

Our small, but rapidly growing company is leveraging leading-edge technologies and data to create innovative financial intelligence solutions. Lead by highly reputable Wall Street and technology veterans with proven track records of entrepreneurial success, our well-funded start-up leverages advanced intelligence technologies to find tradable information on the web and provide our clients with this information before it becomes news. Our service enables our Institutional Investor clients to access, analyze and monetize information gleaned from the internet in a manner previously unthinkable. Our dynamic team shares the enthusiasm and drive to do something truly innovative and is backed with our own personal funds, strategic angel investors, a Tier 1 bi-coastal VC and the family office of one of the most famous and successful hedge fund managers on the planet.

In exchange for your talent and dedication, we are proud to offer an exceptional benefits package, including:

• Competitive salary
• Stock options
• Medical benefits (including vision and dental insurance)
• 401(k)
• Great location in NYC
• Free soda!

Please submit your resume/cv to: elyse [at] monitor110.com and list the job title in the subject line. Thank you.

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Quantitative Analysts - Princeton Brand Econometrics (New York, NY)

Princeton Brand Econometrics, the pharmaceutical industry's Gold Standard for forecasting and resource allocation, is looking for a Quantitative Analyst for our New York office. Send resume, salary requirements, and a covering letter to Barry Tannenholz at: b.tannenholz [at] pbeco.com.

Requirements:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree or Master’s in Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or Operations Research.
• Software Experience: Strong SAS experience desirable. Ability to program at a very high speed is essential.

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Director of Statistics, two positions (Fairfax, VA and Tampa, FL)

Number of Openings: 2
Title: Director of Statistics
Location: Fairfax, VA & Tampa, FL
Compensation: $105 - $140k plus strong bonuses and stock
Full Relocation Provided

Purpose:

Our client, a large financial services firm, is looking for a senior level executive to assist with the analysis of numeric, market and operational data.

Director of Statistics Responsibilities:

This Director performs advanced level and/or managerial oversight of the validation of complex statistical and arithmetic models utilized by multiple business lines. This position will be responsible for developing an understanding the model validation requirements and developing and administering a program to meet those needs in a manner that is independent of management. This work will require being a technical consultant and subject matter expert. Included in this role will be the actual performance of model validation and the oversight of work performed by other associates performing model validation work. In addition, this position will be responsible for assessing management's progress of implementing and adhering to model governance standards throughout the company.

• Manage and develop statistics and analytics professionals who develop predictive models that will be used by clients in the credit card, mortgage and checking business.
• Manage and develop statistics and analytics professionals who help develop strategies to assist with decision making process.

Director of Statistics Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in statistics, analytics, economics, or biostatistics
• 8+ years of applied experience
• Accomplished user of classic statistical tools (for example, linear models, logistic regression, hypothesis testing, sampling)
• SAS programming, solid on data step and several of the advanced statistical procedures, familiar with macros
• Experience in any of following: risk management, direct marketing, consumer lending, FICO scoring, mortgage lending, credit card or checking industry.
• Ability to apply analytical and problem solving skills to develop innovative solutions to complex problems.
• Knowledge and experience with any of the following: SAS, SPSS or SQL.
• Excellent teaching skills & extensive experience in leading change in complex business environments
• Superior communications skills

To be considered please forward your resume to: brendan [at] brixton.net

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Sr. MySQL DBA (Mountain View, CA)

Full Time Position

JOB SUMMARY:

We are seeking a strong MySQL DBA/Linux Systems Administrator to help contribute to our technology efforts. We are seeking a Database Admistrator who is ready to make an immediate impact with a fast growing, dynamic organization. The ideal candidate will have past experience maintaining a large group of database servers and have experience with scripting languages such as Bash, Perl. The DBA will be an advocate for system improvement and reliability, focusing on scalability, clustering, load-balancing, and automation. This person must have a passion for quality work.

The Database Administrator will be responsible for the architecting, tuning, optimizing, and analyzing database implementations. Must be able to analyze and optimize database access from web applications that display complex data sets, provide custom reports, integrate with other existing systems, and utilize best practice techniques for high volume sites. The programmer must have strong inter-personal skills and be able to find the ideal way to implement requirements in a clean, elegant way.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design, document, and monitor the MySQL Database servers.
• Develop standards and procedures for maintenance and modification of database platforms.
• Provide systems architecture guidance in creating high availability systems.
• Provide direction in capacity planning, performance improvement, and storage management in partnership with Development teams.
• Plan and support the implementation of major architectural changes.
• Develop back-up and recovery procedures, including testing back-ups and data integrity.
• Proactive and reactive performance analysis, monitoring, troubleshooting and resolution of issues.
• Assist Business functions on delivery of daily business metrics data.
• Assist the company in developing a data driven business culture.
• Assist with complex query development/tuning.
• Assist with data-mining and data warehousing activities.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor's Degree in related field or comparable experience
• 2-4 years of Database Administration with MySQL on a Linux platform, 4+ years preferred
• Hands-on experience supporting large MySQL environments
• 5+ years of working in a UNIX environment
• Proven experience with database replication techniques, complexities, automation, monitoring, and high-availability strategies--use of 3rd party solutions in these techniques is encouraged
• Past experience with at least one scripting language (Bourne shell, Perl, PHP)
• Previous experience working with SA's in the areas of storage, backups, and database operations processes preferred
• Excels in a collaborative environment and is willing to own everything database

Connexus offers competitive salaries and incentives, a comprehensive benefits package, an exciting collaborative work environment, and outstanding opportunities for growth.

If this challenge is for you and you want to add to the success of our growing company, please submit a cover letter (with salary requirements) and resume to jobs@connexuscorp.com. Please put "MySQL DBA" in the subject of your email.

Connexus is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.

COMPANY SUMMARY

Connexus is the premier online, performance-driven marketing platform, offering a diversified, multi-channel approach to connect advertisers with their target customers. Within Connexus, we have the Netblue Affiliate Network and eMarketMakers. This combination forms one of the lead performance based affiliate networks in the marketplace. The combined group is dedicated to connecting the highest quality advertisers with top-performing affiliate publishers. Our expert team of affiliate marketing specialists works closely with partners and publishers to deliver the widest array of offers— both proprietary offers tailored specifically to its traffic, as well as branded offers direct from our advertising clients.
We deliver more than 20 million leads and customers a year on a performance basis for advertisers of all sizes and types, while driving strong yields for our publisher partners.

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Analytics Professional Certification

What does Data Shaping mean?

The term was created in 1999 to fill a gap between data mining and statistics. Data shaping is about employing advanced statistical techniques to problems usually handled by computer scientists (machine learning, knowledge discovery, artificial intelligence, web mining). A data shaper is a true software engineer or computer scientist, and a true statistician at the same time, capable of extracting actionable information from large data sets, in production mode, to optimize business.

What are the Requirements to be Certified?

Professionals with an approved resume are allowed to display our logo with the mention Data Shaping Certified on their resume. The repository of certified professionals, is accessible to employers. More than 1,500 people are DataShaping certified analytic professionals.

To be eligible, You need to have a graduate degree from a respected university, with recent analytical expertise either in biostatistics, statistics, quality control, econometrics, quantitative or computational finance, ETL, data warehousing, data analysis, CRM, artificial intelligence, data mining, knowledge discovery, pattern recognition, business intelligence, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, computer science, physics, operations research, predictive modeling, forecasting, time series, statistical programming (SAS, Splus, SPSS), customer profiling and segmentation, QA, six sigma, survey analysis, web analytics, text mining, bioinformatics, actuarial science, web mining, mathematics, market research, decision science, marketing databases, competitive intelligence, risk management, fraud detection or similar expertise.

Active recruiters serving the analytical community are eligible as well. Recent graduates with an analytical major and good grades, from a respected University, are also eligible, even if they lack work experience. Certification categories include

• DataShaping Certified Engineer
• DataShaping Certified Analyst
• DataShaping Certified Statistician
• DataShaping Certified Scientist
• DataShaping Certified Expert
• DataShaping Certified Professional
• DataShaping Certified Recruiter

You are welcome to use the category that best fits your profile.

How do I get Certified?

The DataShaping Certified status is granted after approval by our team of experts, including world class statisticians and data miners. There is no associated cost. To apply, e-mail us at vincentg@datashaping.com with DataShaping Certification in the subject line. You need to provide

• A link to your bio, resume or profile for us to check your qualifications
• Or a copy of your resume
• Your real name

Your credentials will be evaluated by our team.

Selected members of our DataShaping group or LinkedIn network, as well as outstanding professionals and people with resume accepted and listed on DataShaping are pre-approved. To check your status, please use the status box below. Once certified, you will be notified.

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Software Design Leader (Indionapolis, IN)

Job ID: 4116208
Company Name: The Kinsley Group
Job Duration: Indefinite
Required Travel: None
Position Title: Software Design Leader
Industry: Computer Software
Location(s): Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Posted: January 17, 2008
Min Education: BA/BS/Undergraduate
Min Experience: Over 10 Years
Job Function: Information Technology
Job Type: Full-Time
Entry Level: No

APPLY FOR THIS JOB

Contact Person: Heather Cooke
Email Address: HCooke [at] kinsleygroup.com
Apply URL: jobtarget.com/c/jobclick.cfm?site=805&job=4116208

THE POSITION

To solidify its position as the recognized leader in collection software, the company has created aggressive growth plans for the next two years. In order to support these goals, the Research and Development Division has reorganized its approach and resources, including the creation of a centralized Design Group. The company is seeking an innovative and entrepreneurial individual to lead this group in the design and delivery of industry-leading products.

This position will provide software design leadership with an emphasis on quality and simplicity in product delivery. In addition, he/she will define and develop a project management infrastructure, promote teamwork across the Design Department and software engineers by providing consistency in product designs and ensure software familiarity and reusability and maintain a keen awareness of industry tools and best practices. The successful candidate will need to establish and maintain effective relationships with Product Management and Engineering, balancing their needs and requirements in developing the best product for the customers.

In particular, this position will be responsible for leading and managing the department’s design projects, including:

• Developing and implementing a structured processes and procedures for project estimation
• Delivering training opportunities to employees on basic design tools and methodologies
• Ensure group participation in the development and compliance of standards
• Continually remain cognizant of product development and design needs
• Leading feasibility studies, benchmarking, and risk analysis to ensure product stability and consistency
• Building effective relationships with the following Groups:
  1. Technology Group
     • Understand our technology direction and translate into design tasks
     • Understand major product directions and provide design solutions consistent with planned product direction
     • Understand hardware and software connectivity needs and messaging interfaces
     
     
  2. Product Management Group
     • Work with the Product Management group to ensure the Design team:
     • Understands the business needs of our customers;
     • Identifies and understands the product requirement needs of our customers
     
     
  3. Quality Group
     • Ensure the Design team properly implements standard processes and adheres to quality assurance standards
     
     
• Providing leadership, coaching and ongoing feedback and development in order to build the competence of the team and implement the appropriate succession planning for the team. This will include the creation of a supervisory level within the group who will need to have the appropriate skills to conduct hiring, provide corrective counseling and recommend appropriate rewards and development for their teams
• Remaining abreast of current technological trends and best practices to ensure company’s products remain marketable and competitive. This will include proactively directing the study and research of technologies and how they may be applied to future initiatives and the evaluation of new technologies and software products to determine feasibility or integration into current or future products.

In addition, a Bachelor's degree (B.A. or B.S.) in Computer Science or Computer Engineering from four-year institution; or over ten years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience is required. Over five years of leadership experience in managing software designers, multiple large design projects, and influencing key management. Advanced technical and business knowledge in software development life cycle, quality assurance, project management, and other related disciplines is required. Knowledge of software modeling tools (UML, Entity Relationship diagrams, etc.) is required and the following experiences are strongly preferred:

• Formal application development methodology
• Service oriented architecture
• Graphical user interface design and usability measurement
• Database design
• Object-oriented application design
• Enterprise application design and development
• Web application design

The position is based in Indianapolis , IN and will come with a competitive base salary, profit-sharing incentive, attractive benefits and a relocation package.

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Senior Database Architect (Muncie, IN)

Job ID: 4116202
Company Name: The Kinsley Group
Job Duration: Indefinite
Required Travel: None
Position Title: Senior Database Architect
Industry: Computer Software
Location(s): Muncie, Indiana, United States
Posted: January 17, 2008
Min Education: BA/BS/Undergraduate
Min Experience: 3-5 Years
Job Function: Other
Job Type: Full-Time
Entry Level: No

APPLY FOR THIS JOB

Contact Person: Heather Cooke
Email Address: HCooke [at] kinsleygroup.com
Apply URL: jobtarget.com/c/jobclick.cfm?site=805&job=4116202

THE POSITION

This position is responsible for the overall architecture and design of databases, data warehousing and data mart systems and services. This individual will provide the optimization of database management systems in all products to achieve data integrity and performance goals. They also are responsible for creating/refining the data architecture, standards, policies and procedures to drive all database design and maintenance within the Research and Development Division. In particular, the successful candidate will be responsible to:

1. Create and maintain data architecture for products that will increase the robustness, performance, and scalability of the applications. (Approximately 50% of job)
   • Design and extend the persistence management layer that insulates the database from the application layer
   • Contribute substantially to the system architecture, and take ownership of the design and development of the database layer
   • Work with system architects to improve existing OLTP (online transaction processing) model, transaction cost reduction, and increase the overall data throughput
2. Provide data architecture standards, policies and procedures to drive all database design and maintenance. (Approximately 40% of job)
   • Assist in developing coding standards for Java, JDBC, stored procedures, triggers, and logical and physical schema design
   • Participate in design and code reviews, documentation of design, and implementation of methodologies to ensure high quality software
3. Establish an architecture roadmap for operational and business intelligence reporting, and provide guidance to the Product Management and Engineering Groups to assure compliance with the roadmap (Approximately 5% of job)
   • Tune SQL queries and database performance for OLTP and DSS (decision support systems) applications within the development environment
   • Provide input and participation to all defect analysis and defect reduction processes
   • Participate in the recommendation and implementation of process improvement action plans in conjunction with the Quality Assurance team
   
   

Competencies and Experience

• Bachelor's degree (B.A. or B.S.) in Computer Science or Software Engineering from four-year institution and seven or more years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience in business, computers, management, or related fields are preferred.
• Strong technical leadership skills with extensive hands on experience.
• Proven innovative and analytical ability with extensive implementation skills.
• Expertise on DBMS kernels with distinguished achievements on database query optimization.
• Experience with design and construction of Data Mart and/or Data for business intelligence.
• Programming experience is required.
• Proven experience with object oriented design and development, using Java and JDBC.
• Experience with 3-tier e-commerce server side applications using EJBs (Enterprise Java Beans) or other component architectures (such as CORBA, DCOM, etc), Servlets, XML, SQL, etc.
• Specific experience with BEA/WebLogic (or other such application servers like WebSphere, ATG/Dynamo, etc.) is beneficial.

The position is based in Muncie, IN and includes a competitive base salary, profit sharing incentive, attractive benefits and a relocation package.

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Statistician/Analyst (Oakdale, MN)

Job Description:

The Statistician/Analyst provides insight to support the cost-effective revenue growth objectives of the enterprise operation using customer databases. The position will proactively provide data-driven information, analytic solutions in the areas of Database Marketing, Statistical Modeling and Segmentation, and Experimental Test Design and Statistical Analysis. The Marketing Statistician/Analyst works with various departments throughout the corporation, presents exciting opportunities and provides challenging and highly autonomous environment

Responsibilities:

Working with management, you will be responsible for identifying business questions and designing and implementing approaches to answering them, including using moderately complex database-related analyses and projects. Responsibilities include: marketing and referral campaign reporting and analysis, data mining, profitability analysis, customer attrition research and reporting, customer segmentation, identifying data sources and opportunities for statistical models, responding to requests from partners for specific customer reports and analyses.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Marketing, Statistics, Math, MIS, Economics or related field
• Proven analytical experience and with communicating results clearly and concisely to management in both written and oral presentations
• Collaborates well with others and successful at building partnerships
• Self-motivated and can work independently
• Able to keep larger goals in mind, along with attention to detail and quality
• 3-5 years in financial, marketing analysis and/or data mining experience
• 3-5 years SQL reporting and analysis query experience
• Proficient in Excel and other MS Office tools
• Creativity and flexibility as the data and infrastructure evolve

Preferred Skills:

• Experience in campaign design for effective measurement and analysis
• Experience with MDSS
• Experience participating in or building statistical models
• Advanced user and fluency in at least 1 statistical software package
• Experience with ad hoc analytical query tools

Please Email Resume and salary requirements to: jkujak [at] flsconnect.com

Location Oakdale, MN

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Financial Data Integration / Software Engineer (San Francisco, CA)

Join a team of quants creating investment insight!
Job #: STAR-QDATA

Why work at StarMine? Simple - because we are developing an innovative and sophisticated product in an environment that relishes complex problem solving in a team setting. We hire creative and competent engineers who are ready to work for an organization with a logical project development process and emotionally mature managers. Our work is never boring.

StarMine researches, designs, and develops quantitative stock selection models extensively used by both quantitative and fundamental portfolio managers at more than 400 of the top asset management firms around the world.

What will you do?

• You will solve complex problems using multiple programming languages (e.g., SQL, Python, R, S-Plus, SAS, C++, Visual Basic)
• You will maintain quality control of an entire historical database by inspecting and troubleshooting terabytes of data. Working with a database constantly accessed by our team of highly skilled researchers, you will also update existing data and load data from brand new sources and/or data vendors
• You will manage and maintain different databases of financial information, matching/mapping data across different systems and different historical time periods

What will be your challenges?

• StarMine is profitable and recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in North America (we have been included on the Inc 500 list the last three years). We must continuously create models that outperform the market, improving and expanding our products in a sustainable manner in order to meet growing customer demand.
• We are a highly skilled team of 9 quantitative researchers carefully built by hiring 2 to 4 top-notch people every year. We prefer to hire a few talented engineers who can complete extraordinary tasks instead of hiring a team of mediocre programmers. This allows us to average five new releases each year.
• Our strong commitment to accuracy requires strict attention to detail to ensure that our financial database is producing meaningful results-and we do this in a fast-paced environment. We expect our engineers to be successful working with new technologies and on a number of different projects simultaneously.

What skills do we seek in our employees?

• Strong SQL skills, object-oriented programming experience (C++ and STL a plus), and an interest in working in Linux. A strong knowledge of Excel is required, and familiarity with one or more statistical software packages such as R, S-Plus, SAS, and/or Matlab is beneficial.
• Intellectually curious, adaptive to new technologies, skills, and procedures, and an ability to demonstrate competency in your existing skill-set. Knowledge of financial datasets, or strong interest in quickly picking up knowledge of financial datasets, is crucial for this position.
• A commitment to quality, excellent written and verbal communication skills, and a history of attention to detail. Ability to figure out how to test time-series data and track the evolution of companies over their history is helpful in dealing with the unique challenges of working with financial data.

We recommend you complete our online interview process, where you will have an opportunity to respond to questions posed directly by the hiring manager. Feel free to call should you have any questions at US +1 415-755-1252.

To apply for this position or refer someone you know, please use our online interview system managed by Accolo:

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Once you have completed the interview, your information will be forwarded to the hiring authority for decisions on next steps.

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DataShaping Job Alert - January 2008

News from Data Shaping solutions

• After 30 days of low activity, the job market for analytical professionals is getting better in US. Over the last three days, we have posted 30 new job ads, several hand-picked or from the hidden job market. We are receiving daily new requests, with a noticeable increase from governmental agencies or corporations interested in posting a large volume of job ads. The job market remains strong in UK.
• We have just launched our certification program. You are welcome to spread the word, and apply! There is no cost.
• Over the last three weeks, we have received many resumes as well as requests for certification or to join our group. We are still processing all these requests: if you contacted us, you should hear from us within the next 7 days.

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Knowledge Discovery Statistician (Arlington, VA)

We need an individual who will have an immediate impact on high-profile Department of Defense project. Our intent is to embed more advanced analytics into the framework of a developing software application we are continuing to improve. We will position your technical talent within this project to make a real impact. Our team is working directly with senior leadership on a critical initiative within the national security arena. You will work with the best, most competent teammates in the industry.

Ideal candidates are familiar with a variety of concepts, practices, and procedures, and will rely on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Expect a wide degree of creative license and latitude. This position will work with a senior Project Manager and report directly to the Principal Consultant.

Responsibilities

• Develop and evaluate algorithms and analytic techniques for challenging problems.
• Guide development team in embedding the selected algorithms and associated processes in software applications/products.
• Conduct analysis of available data sources to identify attributes valuable for modeling purposes.
• Define and implement processes to overcome data availability limitations and quality issues.
• Prove the quality of selected algorithms by building production-grade models against multiple data sets.
• Create and apply a repeatable model measurement framework.
• Develop methods to automate the entire modeling process, including model training, deployment, ongoing monitoring and adaptive learning.
• Participate in customer implementation projects, taking ownership of all modeling-related activities to ensure achievement of business results.

Requirements

• Advanced degree in applied mathematics or computer science, or equivalent experience.
• 2-5 years experience in data modeling, quantitative analytics. Proven knowledge/experience with various analytic techniques, predictive/segmentation modeling scenarios, (Logistic and OLS Regression, Decision Trees, Neural Nets, Multivariate Analysis, Factor and Cluster Analysis).
• Experience in predictive statistical models & segmentation.
• Knowledge and experience with statistical applications/analytical tools (i.e., SPSS, SAS, or Business Objects).
• Strong Unix and PC skills with knowledge of Microsoft Suite of Products.
• Proven organizational skills. Ability to handle complex, multi-tasking environment, meet deadlines and interact with all levels of management.
• Demonstrated communication skills (both written

Contact Sean Sebastian at: sean [at] bericotechnologies.com, or call (703) 224-8300 x120.
Visit us at www.BericoTechnologies.com

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Reinsurance Actuarial Analyst (Bermuda)

The D. E. Shaw group seeks a talented individual to join its reinsurance business in Bermuda. The Reinsurance Actuarial Analyst will play an integral role in establishing and growing the reinsurance strategy and will be involved in quantitative data analysis and model development.

Responsibilities:

• model expected profitability and risk on a per-contract and portfolio basis, using a combination of vendor and proprietary tools and techniques
• assist underwriting team with pricing and risk analyses for submissions
• maintain overall data integrity for the business
• work with counterparties and vendors to validate model assumptions and inputs
• contribute to ongoing development of analytical tools

General Qualifications:

• thorough understanding of probabilistic and statistical concepts and reasoning used in risk analysis for reinsurance
• undergraduate degree in mathematics, statistics, or another quantitative field
• proven ability to work independently
• excellent communication skills and strong attention to detail

The successful candidate will also fulfill two of the following three qualifications:

• part-qualified actuary designation
• minimum three years of reinsurance industry experience
• minimum two years of experience using RMS or AIR software for catastrophe modeling

Applicants should submit a resume and cover letter to DataShaping-Actuary@career.deshaw.com.

The D. E. Shaw group is a New York-based global investment and technology development firm with approximately $35 billion in aggregate capital (as of November 1, 2007), an international reputation for financial innovation and technological leadership, and offices in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Members of the D. E. Shaw group do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class.

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Internet Statistician (Orange County, CA)

Company: Automotive

Core Competencies:

• Mastery of statistical toolset e.g. SAS,SPSS,R,Matlab,etc
• Demonstrated experience in multivariate regression, cluster analysis, decision tree analysis, design of experiments required
• Knowledge of Data Cleansing, Data Modeling required
• Knowledge of performing statistical analysis on Internet traffic data, a plus
• Knowledge of SQL and relational databases required
• Application of statistical methods to marketing, a big plus

Preferred Qualities:

• Conscientious, organized and approachable
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Ability to be productive with little oversight
• Experience working with large databases (>10MM records)

Education and Job Knowledge:

• Phd preferred. Master degree plus 2-3 years of related work experience will be considered.

E-mail resume with cover letter to: career@sourceinterlink.com

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Sr. Analyst (Chicago, IL)

The Chicago office of a marketing analytics consulting firm is looking for a Sr. Analyst to spearhead analytical projects for their clients. Establish experimental designs for marketing programs and conduct analysis to determine effectiveness of marketing campaigns. Develop profiles, predictive models and segmentation schemes that will enhance client campaign performance. Deliver value-added insight into analysis results and recommend actions based on findings. Position is client facing so effective written and verbal communication is key. Occasional travel required. Must have an advanced degree in statistics, economics, mathematics, or related field, and SAS programming and Microsoft Office proficiency. Minimum of 5 years applied analytical database marketing experience and some web analytics experience highly desired. Salary to $95,000.

If interested, please send your resume to: egransky [at] smithhanley.com. Reference 3015604.

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Sr. Director/Ex. Director, Commercial Data Management (MA)

Straube Associates, a national search/consulting firm, has been retained to recruit a Senior Director/ Executive Director, Commercial Data Management for our client, a growing and successful $1.2B pharmaceutical company with headquarters located west of Boston. The position reports to the VP, Commercial Analytics and Decision Support.

Responsibilities:

As a senior member of the Commercial Analytics leadership team, the Senior Director/Executive Director, Commercial Data Management will be responsible for designing, developing, identifying, maintaining and administering the external and internal information resources for commercial analytics, including the integrated reporting and analysis function. Partners with the Information Technology group to establish a corporate data warehouse and the associated business rules and system processes to provide internal departments with accurate and secure information, in order to provide the Company a competitive advantage. Develops long-term strategies for continual improvement of the data, through the identification and validation of new data sources, and the development of new processes and systems for data standardization and management.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Creates and maintains a stable, accurate, commercial analytics environment, by partnering with internal customers.
• Provides business leadership to define a logical (scalable) data warehouse architecture and related information systems for data loading, management, and reporting.
• Leads and directs the development of short and long-range commercial business information sources and management plans.
• Furnishes professional advice to VP’s, Directors, and Managers on information sourcing and management; makes presentations to boards, committees, task forces, and other groups as needed.
• Insures that assigned areas of responsibility are performed within budget; performs cost control activities; monitors revenue expenditures in assigned area to assure sound fiscal control.
• Determines work procedures, prepares work schedules, and promotes workflow; studies and standardizes internal process development procedures to improve efficiency and effectiveness of operations.
• Assigns duties and checks work for exactness, neatness, and conformance to policies and procedures.
• Conducts a variety of studies, reports and compiles related information for decision-making purposes as relates to commercial information solutions and service.
• Coordinates the interfacing of information and systems across commercial and other business areas to facilitate and improve the management decision-making process within the Company.
• Exercises independent judgment, discretion and analysis in coordinating and approving the development and design of information solutions for business to meet expanding or changing business requirements.
• Maintains awareness of state-of-the-art sources, tools, management techniques, compliance requirements, problem solving techniques and computing solutions, especially in the areas of Commercial Data Analytics, Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence.
• Serves as coordinator for business unit or division on IT governance committee; helps to prioritize IT requests and services for commercial analytics.
• Recognizes and identifies potential areas where existing policies and procedures require change, or where new ones need to be developed.
• Keeps up contacts within the business organization, and with IT systems and programming personnel; within the enterprise, maintains contact with internal customers using commercial analytics services; maintains contact with external suppliers and vendors to evaluate and assess state-of-the-art information sources, tools, techniques and methodologies.
• Participates in cross-functional project teams and resources special business development projects as directed.
• Hires and Supervises commercial analytics data management support staff, both business and technical to meet service needs; assists in hiring of other business support staff, as requested; hires and supervises temporary and/or contract personnel as needed.
• Serves as a member of various employee committees; coordinates activities with other departments and work groups as needed.

Education:

Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering or similar technical degree. MBA preferred.

Experience:

• 8+ years of Sales and Analysis preferably in the pharmaceutical industry.
• 5+ years of experience with Data Warehousing, and Computer Analytics systems; direct experience with Oracle, Microstrategy and Hyperion products preferred.
• Extensive knowledge of Excel, Access, and MS Project, Power Point, sales force automation systems, territory alignments, resource allocation, incentive compensation, and contact management, call reporting, sample accountability, contracting, and comprehensive business reporting.

The client offers an excellent compensation and benefits plan including bonus and stock options. A comprehensive relocation package is available.

Email resume with salary history to:

STRAUBE ASSOCIATES
853 Turnpike Street North Andover, MA 01845
Email: sstraube [at] straubeassociates.com
Fax: (978) 687-1886
www.straubeassociates.com

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Senior Analyst, Market Research Analytics - Takeda (Deerfield, IL)

Uniquely Takeda…it’s a commitment to helping people worldwide.

At Takeda, we’re building our company the right way by putting people first. It’s a commitment to the patients we serve and to the employees who share our passion for making a difference. We’re working together to improve life worldwide. And we’re inviting you to join us.

We have an excellent opportunity for a Senior Analyst, Market Research Analytics at our corporate headquarters in Deerfield, IL.

You will perform the following functions in this key role:

• Serve as internal consultant to provide leadership in areas of critical business need, including project planning, meeting management, and presentation of analysis from secondary market data sources.
• Work closely with brand teams, sales and finance to provide business critical insight and coordination of cross-functional teams.
• Lead others in the performance of secondary market data analyses in the areas of market forecasting, segmentation, customer targeting and program ROI.
• Lead the team development of a deep understanding of specific therapeutic areas including current and future market trends, and adds significant insights into future market direction.
• Apply model building and coding skills to conduct various kinds of analysis on market dynamics such as resource allocation and forecasting using techniques such as optimization, regression, and Monte Carlo simulations.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and timelines simultaneously.
• Prepare and give presentations to senior management on matters concerning market planning and analysis, product selection, and changing business environment.
• Ability to use market knowledge to guide senior teams' strategy.
• Manage vendors on analytic plans, methodologies, and final deliverables.
• Lead recruiting efforts for new analysts.
• Responsible for mentoring associate analysts and providing performance feedback.

You must possess the following requirements and experience to succeed in this position:

• Bachelor's degree in an analytical field such as statistics, operations research, management science, industrial engineering, economics, math, etc.
• Minimum of 4 years market research or quantitative experience.
• Complete understanding and application of quantitative principles, concepts, practices, and standards surrounding the use and manipulation of secondary market data sources.
• Extensive knowledge of market research principles and practices including industry.
• Project planning and management skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Vendor and budget management.
• Basic people and team management skills including measuring and delivering performance feedback.
• Ability to manage internal and external resources (people, information, technologies, time, and capital); allocate resources appropriately, given organization, group and individual goals and objectives to align with business goals.
• Knowledge of coding techniques in SAS and VBA, and advanced Excel skills.
• Proficient in one or more of MS Office, MS Access, VBA, SPSS, or SAS programming.

Email your resume to mflaskamp@tpna.com and start a quality career with Takeda!

We are an equal opportunity employer.
www.tpna.com
No Phone Calls or Recruiters Please.

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DataShaping Job Alert - December 2007

About the DataShaping Network

Our network now consists of

• DataShaping.com: Main site, meta job board, comprehensive job listing, resume listing, various other resources (salary surveys, job board directory, etc.)
• AnalyticTalent.com: Our blog for job seekers, with featured job ads, monthly job alert
• AnalyticBrain.com: Our blog for recruiters
• AnalyticGroup.com: Google group where job seekers can subscribe to receive more frequent job alerts (daily or weekly). Featured job ads, and a few job ads submitted by recruiters and not available on DataShaping (job posting is free but moderated).
• Other resources, such as our data mining meta directory or open book project.

Why choose DataShaping for your career search?

• Many jobs from the hidden job market, thanks to our numerous contacts
• Relevant job ads
• Fresh job ads, very few duplicates, large spectrum of industries, companies and areas of expertise
• Many job ads have a direct link (e-mail) to the hiring manager
• Job alert sent once a month
• Accepted resumes are published in nice HTML format, at no cost

What does Data Shaping mean?

 
The term was created in 1999 to fill a gap between data mining and statistics. Data shaping is about employing advanced statistical techniques to problems usually handled by computer scientists (machine learning, knowledge discovery, artificial intelligence, web mining). A data shaper is a true software engineer or computer scientist, and a true statistician at the same time, capable of extracting actionable information from large data sets, in production mode, to optimize business.

Data Shaping Certification

We will launch our certification program in 2008. Professionals with an approved resume will be able to display our logo with the mention Data Shaping Certified on their resume, at no cost. We will create a repository of certified professionals, accessible to employers. For a preview, click here.

Featured Jobs

More than 100 job ads have been added since our last job alert. More than 1,500 analytic job ads from hundreds of companies have been published in 2007.

• Database Analytics Consultant (Arlington, VA)
• Quantitative Analyst (New York, NY and Cupertino, CA)
• Software Developer (New York, NY and Cupertino, CA)
• Quantitative Developer (New York, NY)
• Middle/Back Office Software Developer (New York, NY)
• Chief Scientist for a Hot Online Advertising Company (Bay Area, CA)
• Senior Executive, Data Analytics (New York, NY)
• Chief Scientist (New York area, NY)
• Risk Analyst, Lending (Vienna, VA)
• Reinsurance Actuarial Analyst (Bermuda)
• Internet E-Marketing Analyst (Memphis, TN)
• Donor Care Workforce Analyst (Memphis, TN)
• Senior SQL Server Database Developer & Administrator (Los Angeles, CA)
• Investment Data Analyst (Baltimore, MD)
• Sr. Ecommerce Business Analyst (Redmond, OR)
• Manager Pricing & Portfolio Analysis (Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada)
• Analytics Engineer, Operations Algorithms and Analytics (Sunnyvale, CA)
• Assistant Product Manager - Travelers (Hartford, CT)
• Chief Technology Officer (San Mateo, CA)
• Mgr/Sr. Mgr Risk Management - American Express (Phoenix, AZ)
• Manager, Biometrics (CA)
• Ph.D. or Master's level statisticians - Batelle (Columbus, OH)
• Data Architect, Up to $100,000 a year (Kansas City, MO)
• Marketing Measurement and Analysis, All Levels (Nationwide)
• Business Analyst (Irvine, CA)
• Senior Statistician - AdKnowledge (Kansas City, MO)
• Lead Scientist - Fair Isaac (San Diego, CA)

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Database Analytics Consultant (Arlington, VA)

Join our dynamic company, a lead provider of litigation support services in the United States and abroad. Servicing over 1500 clients and corporations, including a majority of the AmLaw 200 index of top law firms in the U.S. ONSITE3 provides digital imaging, electronic data discovery, computer forensics, coding, litigation copying, digital and offset printing services.

Are You or Someone You Know Interested In An Excellent Opportunity?

ONSITE3 needs a Data Mining Analyst to work in our Arlington, VA location!

The Data Mining team plays an integral role within the organization. In this role, someone must be a proven problem solver and possess the keen ability to utilize cutting edge tools in data mining and analytics. Someone who is very experienced gathering, organizing and comparing information in preparation of discovery and pre-litigation.

Database Analytics Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Filter the databases to target specific information
• Create queries to generate pattern recognition results
• Normalize data whenever necessary
• Create database reports for logical output to attorneys
• Design or customize components of the data mining software to perform the purported functions necessary for this project
• Communication (verbal and written) to other consultants at ONSITE3 and potentially to our clients
• Ability to mine and analyze transactional electronic data
• Transform data from multiple platforms/environments into usable reports for a large scale litigation matter to allow decision making from the Attorneys

Experience

• Minimum: Bachelor of Science in engineering, mathematics, or computer science
• Minimum of 3-5 years in the following:
• Experience with SQL, Oracle, Crystal Reports
• Experience with Perl, VBScript, and PL/SQL a plus
• Analytics/Problem solving experience a must
• Data migration experience essential
• Data warehousing/business intelligence experience a plus

Our company offers competitive salary, excellent benefits and unlimited potential for growth in a high-speed work environment. Onsite is committed to providing a safe and healthy work environment therefore enforces a drug free workplace policy.

Send resume to: MDrummond [at] onss.com

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Senior Executive, Data Analytics (New York, NY)

Company: global telephony/information services provider
Position: Senior Executive - Data Analytics
Location: New York

Key executive responsible for analyzing company-generated and third party data in order to identify new business opportunities for the company.

Responsibilities

• Develop a world-class data analysis environment that ensures the attainment of corporate business objectives.
• Develop a process by which all of the company-generated, and third party, data can be properly filtered and analyzed, so that new business opportunities can be identified, on a regional/ global basis.
• Once a potential new business opportunity has been identified, the individual will promote it to whichever departments are most relevant. The individual should feel comfortable in championing and presenting their own findings and ideas.
• Provide strong business leadership through collaboration with key executives, particularly the CEO Technology.
• Enhancing a data-centric approach to new ideas. This will allow the company to create better, richer services that will further enhance current offerings.
• The individual will help to shape the corporate strategy and focus.
• Ideally, will identify several significant new business opportunities per quarter.
• Provide input into the development of corporate strategy from a data analysis perspective.
• Rapidly assimilate and comprehend the company's current product portfolio, architectural heritage, product development processes and its core IP.

Qualifications & Experience

• Should have worked at a consumer focused company that leverages technology to enhance revenue streams
• Ability to develop and prototype new services/products in support of strategy
• Expertise with data warehousing, data mining and analytics. Expertise with SQL
• Expertise with High Volume Data applications
• Experience with multiple data formats (SMS, voice, etc.)
• Experience with advertising relevancy / targeting engines
• Experience/familiarity with website and Internet technologies
• Experience deploying new consumer-based products via the internet and/or mobile networks
• Understanding of and familiarity with voice recognition, text-to-speech and speech-to-text technologies

Skills & Personal Characteristics

• Create an environment for innovation
• Ensure employees feel "bought in" to the strategy
• Highly creative; ability to understand how future technology trends can/will drive the business
• Highlight problems quickly; identify potential solutions and present all options/recommendations
• Develop a highly-collaborative environment where anyone (from all levels/departments) can present ideas
• Ability to identify when decisions need to be made and then quickly executing against agreed upon strategy
• Understanding of global strategy
• First-rate technical skills must be combined with a sound understanding of business requirements. Candidates must display the intellectual stretch to understand each functional area from a business/customer perspective rather than just a technical perspective.
• Be comfortable as an individual contributor (roll up his/ her sleeves) or managing a small, highly talented team
• Will display a real hunger for success and will work with aggression, energy and an expectation that others will do the same.
• Highly self-motivated and objective driven. Will demonstrate a hunger to win.
• Relentless pursuit of hitting objectives
• Sense of Urgency
• Be willing to raise issues that impact business (productivity, efficiency, cost-management, strategy)
• Champion change

Contact: Jim Frye. E-mail: jaf [at] execuseek.net

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Chief Scientist for a Hot Online Advertising Company (Bay Area, CA)

OfferPal Media is a Web 2.0 online advertising start-up that provides an innovative online consumer acquisition service, on a pay-for-performance basis. OfferPal Media enables online merchants and advertisers to grow revenues, acquire quality customers and maximize brand reach through blogs, websites and social networks.

We are a fast growing startup company founded by successful serial entrepreneurs and funded by top-tier VCs. The company is still in stealth mode with a broader public launch planned for Q108.

Come join us and help us charter new territory in data science while changing the nature of online advertising! The Chief Scientist will be responsible for designing and developing state-of-the-art, data-driven exploratory system for deriving insights from massive amounts of data. End results include software that makes money and potentially publications. The Chief Scientist will work as part of a team to process data, code algorithms, conduct experiments and analyze and report results. We are looking for a:

• A keen scientific mind with expertise in techniques for extracting insights from massive amounts of data.
• A Ph.D. in machine learning with solid background in statistics is a plus.
• The ability to use object oriented languages such as Java and/or scripting languages to manipulate data, develop and test algorithms is also required.

WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN US?

We offer a flexible, fun and friendly work environment and a great compensation package. We are passionate about providing a great experience to our consumers. We have created an environment where our talented and energetic team can excel and have fun doing it!

Contact: Naghi Prasad. E-mail: nprasad [at] myofferpal.com

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