Vb.Net Developer

Client: Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) Title: Model Validation Engineer Location: Hybrid Onsite (Chicago IL) 3 days/week Mandatory Contract: 12 months Target Rate: $95/hour C2C Visa Status: USC, GC, H4, H1B Summary of 'Must Have' Skills: - Proven experience in Production Environment, Continuous Integration Cycles - Agile Environment experience - Object Oriented Design/Development expertise - Need 3 years of production-level programming background - Language preferred; C#, .Net Or see below - SQL - Time Series Analytics - Data Analytics skills (telling the story with data) - Statistical Visualization experience Large Financial Data Sets experience (Trading, Commodities, Interest rates, Etc.)
Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills .
Responsibilities and Requirements: Maintain and service the Model Validation Group Servers.
Design and maintain systems for the manipulation and visualizations of data to support model back testing.
Design, implement, and maintain data storage and retrieval methods for high-volume financial data.
Need 3 years production-level programming background - Language preferred; C#, Net OR 1 of the following : C++, SQL, VisualStudio, IntelliJ/Eclipse (or SpringSource); R language, Java.
Software design: effective application of design patterns, expertise in object-oriented design Create documentation for new code and test cases.
Manage GIT repositories for the model validation group.
Implement and manage model change impact tests and model stress tests.
Recreate production analysis in various test environments.
Nice to haves: Advanced Degree - (preferably in quantitative subject) Scientific programming and strong mathematical background