Coba IT Consultants

Our client is currently recruiting for a Drupal developer to work for an Investment Bank based in Basel. Your role will be to develop Assist New Generation end user portal with new components like communities and user feedbacks (rate-us). Leveraging technologies like Lync, Neo and Connections to create a modern, efficient user experience. Development environment is Drupal. Responsibilities:  Additional resources needed to help build release 1 which is due in April 2012.   Experience / Skills:  - Drupal 6: development, theming and site building, 3 years experience  - German and English language  - Experience in usability and user guidance  - Communicative person, who works conscientiously on own initiative

We are currently recruiting for a Project Manager to work within our clients Human Resources department on a HR Change project. This role with working within an Investment Bank based in Zurich. In this role you will require good English and German language skills; French or Italian would be an advantage. Description  The project you will work on during this contract will be related to staff vetting. This contains mainly policy definition for external staff and implementation globally as well as vendor evaluation and realization of the vendor mandate. In addition to this you will support to set up the governance for professional and external staff.  For this role the following requirements and experience is necessary:  • Strong project management skills on a global base  • Profound HR experience combined with a good knowledge on staff vetting topics  • Good stakeholder management skills to deal with various HR stakeholder's as well as with external vendors together with Supply & Demand Management • You are committed, solution oriented and pragmatic with strong delivery skills  • You have drive and are well organized with a strong attention to detail and ability to manage and reduce complexity

We are currently recruiting for an Oracle DB Specialist to work for an Investment Bank in Zurich. Description Environment / Project description:  Responsibility for the database of 2 applications. One application is a data mart integrating various data sources and implementing business reports based on COGNOS. The other application is an advisory application to create client proposals for investments. Both databases are on Oracle 10 in a UNIX environment.  Task & Responsibilities:  Oracle DB specialist and developer to define and implement DB design, to elaborate migration concepts and to integrate various request from business service developers into the DB package.  Deliverables:  - Migration to Oracle 11 and x86  - Enhancements to data integration interfaces in Data Mart  - Documentation of existing data integration interfaces  - Business Continuity Management (based on Oracle Data Guard)  - Delivering (OLU) UNIX Packages  Required Experience / Skills:  - Oracle DBA Skills (up to Oracle 11), Performance Tuning, SQL, PL/SQL  - Data Warehousing, Data Migration Concept, UNIX, Shell Scripts, Packaging  Language: English & preferable German

Senior Sybase DBA is needed to join a business aligned database team supporting Sybase database products/platforms. The main responsibilities of this role include: providing level 3 specialist support for the Sybase environment in Switzerland and globally; working in a local and global support team of database administrators; working together with developers other distributed systems teams (eg. Unix); undertaking scheduled on-call service.   Required skills include: solid work experience as a Sybase specialist, up to and including Sybase ASE up to version 15 and Sybase Replication Server up to version 15; Sybase IQ up to version 15; 5 years of experience in Sybase ASE installation, upgrades, troubleshooting, database migrations, backup, recovery and maintenance; good knowledge of Sun Solaris O/S and Unix shell script programming; experience participating in documents review and testing application code in a test environment; very strong interpersonal and communication skills and experience holding a demanding client-facing role; ability to manage, prioritize and solve problems quickly and completely; proficiency with Sybase DBA tasks as well as with SQL commands to develop stored procedures and triggers; minimum of 3 years experience with Sybase replication server installation, upgrades, troubleshooting; MS SQL Server 2005/2000 is also require. Fluent English is a must, conversational German would be beneficial. Swiss permit holders or EU passport holders preferred.

Infrastructure Solutions Architect required global Infrastructure Services within a Technology Services area of our banking client based in London. The Infrastructure Solutions Architect (ISA) is a senior technical resource with a strong depth and breadth of knowledge across the infrastructure environment. The ISA’s primary function is to liaise with senior application development and architecture representatives to provide infrastructure design consultancy and guidance. The ISA will be aligned to a business technology function and understand the technology strategy and roadmap for this area, along with the current development projects in place. This knowledge, coupled with knowledge of the GIS infrastructure standards and principles will ensure optimised infrastructure design and highlight any exceptions, risks and issues. The ISA will also take ownership of the more complex infrastructure solutions designs and ensure compliance during the design lifecycle to Technology Governance. The role requires cross functional thinking, to work closely with Product Engineering, Strategy & Architecture, and other functions and in particular the relevant Infrastructure Service Manager (ISM) from the Service Delivery function. Strong technical knowledge is essential along with a good understanding of financial business units to provide optimised infrastructure designs to meet business requirements. A key objective of this role is to develop close working relationships with technology teams both locally and in our regional hubs to ensure that technology solutions and products delivered by engineering are globally consistent and meet business needs.   The role is required to act as the primary infrastructure design contact for senior development managers and application architects within business technology areas, providing advice, guidance and a holistic view of the current and future infrastructure estate. Gain and maintain comprehensive understanding of the road maps, strategy and projects within the relevant business technology function. Take ownership of complex infrastructure solution designs, analysing and contributing to requirements and assisting with creation. Maintain technical oversight of the project throughout the life cycle where applicable. Support application development, infrastructure engineering and operational functions in the production and ongoing management of engineering and solution road maps. Provide consultancy to the strategy teams by understanding technology trends in products and services, couple these with the business requirements and articulate opportunities or risks. Contribute to the overall infrastructure strategy. Drive the evolution of infrastructure solutions, products and technologies created by the engineering functions including data centres service platforms, end user facilities, networks and trading services to ensure robust, scalable and cost-efficient technology platforms are available globally for the group of businesses.. Participate in the infrastructure design review and architecture review processes as part of the overall technology governance framework. Influence at both peer and senior manager level in order to gain consensus for proposed solutions. Identify the organisational impact of proposed solutions and engage appropriate SMEs to address and articulate ongoing support requirements. Plan and schedule workload to achieve departmental objectives. Develop existing relationships and establish effective working relationships with peers and senior management. Market the product catalogue of engineering technologies to operational and application development groups. Provide design leadership and education across technology areas.    Deliverables:   Ensure business aligned projects are engaged early in the infrastructure design review process and that fit for purpose solutions are designed and produced using approved patterns and standards. Drive operating efficiencies and synergies delivered through optimising technology deployment as part of infrastructure design and incorporate in the design output. Provide documented and syndicated infrastructure designs including technical & business risks and opportunities. Achieve senior management and technology executive understanding and consensus on proposed design solutions.    Scope:   Optimisation of infrastructure solution designs. Identifying opportunities to improve the efficiency of adopting infrastructure technologies through effective collaboration with all projects. Identifying efficiencies that can be achieved through the adoption of new infrastructure technologies. Ensuring that operational and regional models are considered as part of the overall design process and contributing non-functional requirements to the project. Approving proposed solution designs as part of the overall technology governance process. Developing relationships with business aligned ISMs and project teams to ensure designs are fit for purpose. Assisting with assessing overall costs of ownership and taking steps to reduce where and when appropriate. Ensuring that regional requirements are taken into account in the definition and implementation of road maps and architecture.   People Management:   None - Member of the Solution Design team of 20   Background   Experience in infrastructure design as part of a broader technology function. Strong general and current technology knowledge. Background in infrastructure architecture and engineering. Experience of working in a matrix managed structure within a complex global organisation. Ability to analyse an issue and determine if this is symptomatic of a broader problem. Ability to leverage current knowledge, skills and experience to deliver commercially and technically viable solutions both within and outside current area. Ability to differentiate between tactical/operational and strategic options. Ability to influence at business senior manager level and at a technology executive level. Ability to influence and negotiate with external IT product and service providers. Ability to manage multiple, different, types of complex activities simultaneously.   Business knowledge; Broad understanding of business processes, services and operations for more than one division of the Bank.   Technical Knowledge; Senior infrastructure technologist with broad experience in all infrastructure technologies. Ability to lead projects from a senior infrastructure specialist role to assist project managers. Experience of managing technology vendor relationships and partnerships. Retains up-to-date knowledge of infrastructure industry trends and developments. Strategic approach motivated by long term results.   People Management; Ability to manage a number of technical resources engaged in complex design work. Ability to lead technical workshops with participants from all levels including senior management. Able to build effective relationships and trust with all stakeholders.   Other; Excellent communicator at group and individual level. Stamina and determination  tenacious with a deep drive to improve both infrastructure and service. Strategic approach  motivated by long term results.        

Unix System Administrator required to join the regional and global Unix team of bank based in Geneva   Tasks & Responsibilities:  - Act as Subject Matter Expert on RedHat Enterprise Linux 3/5/6.  - Lead/participate in infrastructure projects  - Third Level Support of Sun Solaris and Red Hat Linux distributed server environment liaising with regional and global counterparts  - Understand business priorities; adequately prioritize work accordingly to meet business objectives.  - Drive for improvements and implement them in regional or global scale.  - Communicate and collaborate with other internal partners for designing, planning and coordinating for implementation and ensure work is completed in a timely manner.  - You will be expected to drive the execution of innovative solutions.  Write technical documentations for related infrastructure and installs which will include, but not limited to, the following technologies:  - Clustering, Filesystem, Volume Manager, Disksuite, ZFS, RHCS  - OS: Redhat Linux, Oracle Solaris, Solaris Zones, VMWare,  - HW: Sun Fire and enterprise product line, Fujitsu Prime power series, HP DL servers, IBM Blades and SAN/NAS storage    Ad hoc /on-call support during weekdays and weekends is required.    Required Experience / Skills:  - At least 5 years experience in supporting UNIX based distributed computing environment with massive number of servers.  - Prior industry experience is not mandatory, though will be considered favourably  - Solid understanding of a UNIX-based operating systems both Redhat Linux and Solaris 8/10 are required. - Also knowledge of virtualisation technologies, such as Vmware is required    Skills with some at least 2 of the following products are mandatory:  Veritas foundation suite  Veritas Cluster Server  Redhat Cluster Server  Suncluster  Ability to write scripts in administrative languages (for examples. Tk, Perl, ksh, sh, csh, SQL)  Familiarity with fundamental networking / distributed computing and storage environment concepts and technologies  LAN, WAN, routing protocols, NFS, DNS, NIS, LDAP, SAN, NAS, Fibre Channel, etc.  Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

We are currently recruiting for a Business Analyst in Data Warehousing to work for an Investment Bank based in Zurich. Our client is currently looking for a candidate with several years experience in Business Analysis and in-depth, good technical knowledge of the following banking areas;Finance, Sales & Marketing, Operations, Data Warehousing (sourcing / reporting). Technical skills required for this position include: • Good understanding of computer science • Methodical and structured way of working (Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, UML, RUP) • Excellent analytical and organizational skills • Quick learner and flexibility • Reliability and team spirit • Quality awareness • Several years experience in Business Analysis Languages: • German and English, spoken and written

Our client is currently recruiting for a Unix System Administrator to work for an Investment Bank based in Zurich.   You role will be to support and operate Business Network Connections based on Jive. As well as manage and solve 2nd and 3rd level support tasks Execute system changes / deployments / configuration changes on the Jive application systems    Required Experience / Skills:  - Certified Linux and Unix Sys-Admin - Jive Application knowledge would be beneficial (including language and soft skills) - Spoken and written English and German on a good/excellent level  

Our client is currently recruiting for a Senior Linux Kernel Engineer who can contribute to the lower-level areas at the heart of the XenServer virtualization platform. The successful candidate will have a passion for Linux and will be comfortable tackling low level code in both the kernel and user space, capable of optimizing memory management on modern x86 platforms and with the potential to help develop the next iteration of the Xen hypervisor. Responsibilities are varied, typically including; participating in the design and development of new features; debugging of issues that may be complex in nature and span multiple components; enhancing the product by identifying and implementing improvements in areas of fragile code. Key requirements: • Experience with Linux/Unix kernel development • Extensive operating system development experience  • Very good knowledge and understanding of the x86 architecture • Strong skills in C; x86 assembly desirable • Able to produce clear and thoughtful software designs and communicate these to others, whether internally within the XenServer team or external partners. Additional skills: • A general understanding of virtualization technologies is desirable; past XenServer or Xen experience is a plus but not mandatory • Experience developing a hypervisor would be a strong advantage • Candidates should have plenty of prior Linux development experience, preferably in an enterprise or datacentre environment rather than working with embedded systems.  • Bachelor’s degree preferred (ideally in Computer Science), though strong candidates without a degree will be considered • Experience collaborating on open source software projects would also be an advantage

Our client is currently recruiting for a Senior Project Management Officer to work as part of a small team of professionals who are responsible to coordinate and execute the various activities of the project office. In your role you will manage project office tasks for the project work stream managers and support them on content issues. This position offers the opportunity to grow into a project manager role while gaining insights into various aspects of client reference data.  Main tasks of this role include:  - Active support of program management and work stream leaders in planning and tracking their projects  - Agree detailed timelines and tasks across all work streams  - Coordination and monitoring of project work stream progress  - Preparation and distribution of consistent project reporting, progress reporting and issue management  - Project organization (agenda, minutes, document handling)  - Preparation of presentations for senior management  - Facilitation and prioritization around ad-hoc topics with relevant stakeholders  - Contribution to content and deliverables of various project work streams  You should have some of the following qualifications:  • Degree from a University or FH with preferred follow-up education and experience in Project Management  • A minimum of 4 years experience and proven track record in a PMO and/or Project Management Function in the banking or financial services industry  • Excellent communication skills at management level  • Proven experience in reporting  • Ability to liaise with project stakeholders and manage relationships while being assertive to ensure completion of tasks  • Fluency in German and English both oral and written. English native speaker preferred.  • Proficiency of MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint and Word), MS Access and MS Project desirable • Business process modelling experience is a plus