Vichara helps clients optimally manage all aspects of proprietary technology development, including analysis, strategy, design, implementation, deployment and maintenance. Vichara also helps clients manage and transform their IT infrastructure through consolidation, integration, automation and virtualization.
► Senior Quantitative AnalystJob Description:
As a part of the Fixed Income Products Technology team, build and integrate custom prepay, default and other models for Risk Management and Risk Reporting supporting the Credit Risk and Front Office teams. The group focusses on building and integrating models with their valuation systems to evaluate how Agency MBS portfolio and other fixed income security portfolios will perform under changes in interest rates etc. As a Senior Quantitative Analyst your main responsibilities will involve:
Researching and modeling fixed income securities.
Model validation and testing.
Responsible for financial modeling, analysis and data collection, as well as the interpretation of market information, statistics, and pricing.
Qualification:
At least 5 years of experience working on interest rate, market risk and other models
Very strong econometrics knowledge (time-series, multi-variate statistics)
Phd. In Maths, Economics, Physics or similar
Experience with MBS data and prepayment modeling would be a definite plus
Locations: New York, London, Gurgaon, Hyderabad
Apply at career@vichara.com
► Senior Java Developer – Risk
Job Description:
As a part of the Client Services team build custom applications for Risk Management and Risk Reporting supporting the Credit Risk and Front Office teams. As a Senior Java Developer your main responsibilities will involve:
Designing and implementing new functionalities in Java, Spring, Oracle Coherence, Web Services, PL/SQL
Writing server-side code to implement business logic
Optimize existing and write new stored procedures.
Qualification:
A Java developer with at least 4 year of experience in Java and Spring
Strong SQL Skills
Financial Service background especially Risk will be a huge plus.
Locations: NY, London, Poland, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad
Apply at career@vichara.com
► Senior .NET Developer – Financial Services
Job Description:
As a part of the Latin American Client Services team build custom applications for Risk Management and Risk Reporting supporting the Credit Risk and Front Office teams. As a Senior Developer your main responsibilities will involve:
Designing and implementing new functionalities in ASP.NET, Qlikview and SQL
Writing server-side code to implement business logic
Optimize existing and write new stored procedures
Qualification:
A .NET developer with at least 4 year of experience in ASP.NET
Strong SQL Skills
Financial Service background especially Risk will be a huge plus
Strong English Communication skills
Locations: San Jose, Costa Rica
Apply at career@vichara.com
► Senior SAS Developer/ Architect
Job Description:
The Senior SAS Quant Architect will be responsible for the design, development, programming, and testing of risk and analytic systems, user interface, and the implementation of highly optimized SAS code related to security valuation, market state simulation, and reports for a large data set. Design, develop and test software to implement quantitative models, system /user interface, and required data transformations using SAS, Mathematics/statistics/financial libraries as well as procedural, object-oriented and scripting languages.
Qualification:
At least 10 years ( Architect) or 5 years (Developer) of experience with SAS in general and familiar with Base SAS, Macros, PROC SQL, IML, and SAS Enterprise Guide.
Hands-on working experience with SAS Risk Dimensions
Minimum 5 years software development related to financial models in fixed income or derivatives domain.
Prior hands-on working experience with FinCAD Analytics Suite for developer is strongly preferred.
B.S. or equivalent education in financial engineering is required.
Locations: New York, Los Angeles
Apply at career@vichara.com
► Project Manager – OMS – Black Mountain / Everest
Based in Los Angeles, the AVP/Sr. Program Analyst will be responsible for performing hands on project management and business analysis work to drive implementation of the Black Mountain Order Management System.
Qualification:
At least 5 years of Project and Process Management experience with large scale technology implementations, custom development, and data integrations
Direct experience with Charles River IMS or Black Mountain Systems (preferred)
Knowledge of the Financial Services industry, specifically the Alternative Asset Management arena a plus
Locations: Los Angeles
Apply at career@vichara.com
