Sr. Applications Merger Engineer/Architect – Thousand Oaks, Ca – Direct Hire Direct Hire/ Full Time Employee

OFFER ACCEPTED – Candidate supposed to start on October 8th, but I always like to have backups just in case

 

DKKD Staffing’s recruiting team has been together for almost 20 years.

DKKD specializes in building IT teams from CIO/CTO/CISO to Helpdesk (Infrastructure & Applications) as well as staffing Human Resources, Internal Recruiters, F&A and Admins.

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TITLE: Sr. Applications Merger Engineer/Architect (Title subject to change) – Must be hands-on coder still

DURATION: Full Time Employed/ Salaried position. NO CONSULTANTS

SALARY: TBD (Unable to support H1, TN, OPT, etc)

LOCATION: Thousand Oaks, Ca

INDUSTRY: Finance/ Software

STAFF TO MANAGE: None – Sole IT/Applications person for the company. Hardware managed by outsourced vendor

# of EMPLOYEES: 25 (well established and financially secure company)

BENEFITS:
Position is bonus eligible (TBD)

• 401 (k) Company contributes 3% of salary regardless of employee participation. Match 1:1 with employee contribution.
• Healthcare Benefits PPO or HMO (we offer both): Medical, dental, vision – including dependents
• Continuing Education: Firm will sponsor employee’s education through Investment & Wealth Institute (IMCA) or CFA Institute.
• Vacation 15 days PTO

 

JOB SUMMARY:

• Are you looking for a career move to make a difference and work for a company where you could possibly retire by taking over their systems and IT?
• Do you have stability in your employment history?
• Have you been in charge of full cycle company application system mergers? 
• Are you self-driven and take ownership?

DKKD Staffing is looking for an autonomous Sr. IT Applications Merger Engineer to help our client merge their in-house systems and help the company grow. Our client has financial success, stability and longevity in their company. Very little turnover. We need to help them take their company and systems to the next level.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

As the Applications Merger Engineer, you will be 99% responsible for the entire migration and merger between 2 companies and their systems. This is not a 9-5 job. Think of it as a 14 year old startup reinventing the company. This is a very hands-on position. For probably the first year, you will be the only IT person with hardware support from a consulting company.

The ideal applicant will be somebody who is a developer, a systems person, somebody who has managed full cycle application projects and merged companies and systems.  The ideal person will preferably have worked for  a finance company or at least has knowledge of the finance industry and systems.

RESPONSIBILITIES
As the Sr. Applications Merger Engineer, you will be responsible for (and not limited to):

• Engineering – completely hands on
• Taking over everything about the migration from the system out of the Country to the US system
• Sole IT person for managing all functionalities in house and the migration.  (Build IT capacity eventually to manage & support all in house).
• Stand-alone IT person with a consulting company managing the daily hardware and desktops, phones support.

 

ENVIRONMENT: Longevity, stability, somebody who wants to grow with the company and retire with them. Casual environment, but not as casual as tshirt and flip flops. Very low turnover at company.

• 25 people in the company.
• Billion Dollar clientele

TIMEFRAME:

Step 1

• Work with partners and programmer to assess what is needed to begin actual merger
• Build operating capacity
• Ownership of systems and merger
• Drive process
• Build new tech environment as needed
• Keep all systems up and running 24/7
• Ideally somebody who has been the IT person programming at a small financial firm. More of the Software person.

Step 2

• Migrate functionality
• Develop

Step 3 (probably in about a year)

• Rejuvenate
• Rewrite and improve as needed
• Help company go to next level

STAFF TO OVERSEE: NONE – standalone – should be able to architect, engineer, program. Will work directly with the Partner who wrote the internal program. Eventually they might bring in somebody lower level to drive daily maintenance and other’s as needed.

REPORT TO: Managing Director/ Partner

BUDGETARY RESPONSIBILITY: No clue yet

IT ENVIRONMENT:

• 2 different environments are being used (database, clients, reporting, performance, accounts, etc.) and the goal is to have US and out of Country company merged on to one system. Probably a year or so project and then management of troubleshooting and maintenance.
• Current database system is about a 12-13 years old and will be the proprietary in-house system for all of the company. They recently acquired the source code license

Current Technology 

• SQL Database, SQL Server T-SQL
• VBA Microsoft Access
• C#
• All Windows Operating System

Education/Degrees/Certs: Not necessary, but College graduate nice to have. proven successful work related experience most important.

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