The Profile Group, Inc. - A Technical Placement Firm

Major financial firm in Boston seeks a consultant to assist with the development of a centralized platform for their investment process, specifically Cash Management/Monitoring.  The contract will be to assist in the design, prototype and development of a high performing, intuitive front-end and user-interface, leveraging Web Services and Direct Database access.  They are looking to build next generation interfaces that provide unique stream-lined, context based experiences.  This contract should last approximately 6-12 months.

Company is a Microsoft Shop.  Their development environment is Microsoft .NET 4.0.  They are using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight (if needed) for front-end development, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) for their distribution mechanism, and ADO.NET Entity Framework (LINQ and Entity SQL) for our data access.  The internal database environment is SQL Server 2005 & SQL 2008 R2, but they access other financial systems based in Oracle via Web Services.  Standard Presentation quality reports are generated using Crystal Reports.

They have a team approach to software development where the team assists in the design and approach for the end product.  This is an excellent opportunity to work with an excellent team, in a collaborative environment with Microsoft’s the latest development platform.

Skill Set order of preference:

o    Overall development using the Microsoft .NET Platform .NET 3.5 SP1 and above. 

o   Highly efficient, optimized, and superior GUI design and development using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).  As much separation of GUI design and C# as possible.  They are using ADO.NET Entity Framework for our standard data access, so proven data-binding approaches are a must, against both standard Microsoft WPF controls as well as Infragistics 3^rd party controls.  They are looking for cutting edge user interface design and visualization – not just people “productive” with WPF

o   Data Access experience using WCF based web services

o   Data Access (CRUD) experience using ADO.NET Entity Framework

o   Financial Services Experience.  Understanding of financial markets, financial oriented data, and the ability to communicate with financial professionals is greatly desired.

o   Demonstrated ability to verify performance of the front-end against their standard client hardware.  Anything destined for production must be thoroughly vetted against their standard user-desktops.

o    Ability to develop all business logic in C# middle-tier, accessible via WCF-based Services.  ADO.NET Entity Framework will be used for data access.