System Analyst

Background:
A client-facing, business and technical staff position responsible for all aspects of managing production Charles River IMS systems for multiple Clients as part of the Charles River Software as a Service (Saas) offerings which includes Application Management for hosted and non-hosted clients.
Responsibilities:
This role will involve working closely with Clients, providing expert level remote management, administration and support for Client production Charles River IMS solutions, including:

• Client assistance in optimal use of the system
• User administration/privileges
• Parameter configuration changes
• System availability
• Application and database performance tuning
• Daily operational processing monitoring and support
• Charles River IMS and database software patches
• Charles River IMS version upgrades
• Assistance with problem support and resolution
• Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery assistance
• Working with Charles River colleagues to smoothly transition new Clients to production operation.
• Working with vendors as partners to deliver a tightly integrated, seamless service to Charles River Clients.
• Participation in the development and on-going refinement, enhancement and continuous process improvement for the services.
• Participation in the investigation, implementation, and operation of 3rd party tools to enhance/improve, automate, and streamline the delivery of the services.
• The role will involve periodic out of hours support and/or weekend work.
• Occasional travel to customer sites may be required for planning and review meetings.

Skills, Experience & Qualifications Required:

• Experience with Financial Services Investment Management, Trading or related systems highly preferable ( e.g. Charles River IMS)
• Proven ability to partner with various internal departments to deliver superior customer service.
• Experience in MS SQL Server, Oracle, and/or Sybase database configuration, operations, and basic administration functions.
• Any experience with the following is preferred: servers, operating systems, networks, scripting, XML, programming languages, job scheduling software, system monitoring software and disaster recovery/business continuity.
• Excellent customer service skills, technical troubleshooting skills, and interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.

Bachelor's degree in a technical or analytical discipline such as Computer Science, IT, Financial Engineering, Engineering, Science, Economics, Math or Statistics preferred.

Pay Rate: $30.00-$55.00/hr DOE