Posted: 4/4/2013 3:43:06 AM EDT
| Hey guys, what cities are best for software development in the finance/banking sector? |
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Hey guys, what cities are best for software development in the finance/banking sector? Houston, Dallas, San Antonio... I get calls from head hunters in all of those but I am not in a financial position to move even if I was inclined to. I've worked in financial and insurance amongst other fields and currently I'm working in medical software. There are a few software jobs in Austin also, but you would probably want to live outside in the burbs and commute in like I do rather than live in Austin. What platforms/languages do you do? As long as your technology footprint is something relatively in demand and you have at least 3-5 years industry experience but not more than 10-15 years you shouldn't have too much trouble finding a job right now. |
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Hey guys, what cities are best for software development in the finance/banking sector? Houston, Dallas, San Antonio... I get calls from head hunters in all of those but I am not in a financial position to move even if I was inclined to. I've worked in financial and insurance amongst other fields and currently I'm working in medical software. There are a few software jobs in Austin also, but you would probably want to live outside in the burbs and commute in like I do rather than live in Austin. What platforms/languages do you do? As long as your technology footprint is something relatively in demand and you have at least 3-5 years industry experience but not more than 10-15 years you shouldn't have too much trouble finding a job right now. +1 Austin is amazing for IT but not for finance/banking. Visa is moving 1600 IT jobs to north Austin and Charles Scwab is here but otherwise I haven't seen any IT jobs in finance or banking for a while. |
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Hey guys, what cities are best for software development in the finance/banking sector? Houston, Dallas, San Antonio... I get calls from head hunters in all of those but I am not in a financial position to move even if I was inclined to. I've worked in financial and insurance amongst other fields and currently I'm working in medical software. There are a few software jobs in Austin also, but you would probably want to live outside in the burbs and commute in like I do rather than live in Austin. What platforms/languages do you do? As long as your technology footprint is something relatively in demand and you have at least 3-5 years industry experience but not more than 10-15 years you shouldn't have too much trouble finding a job right now. +1 Austin is amazing for IT but not for finance/banking. Visa is moving 1600 IT jobs to north Austin and Charles Scwab is here but otherwise I haven't seen any IT jobs in finance or banking for a while. The Austin IT job market is a lot better than it was a couple years ago, but I wouldn't call it "amazing". It still has a long way to go before it is anything like it was prior to the .com crash. There are a few smaller finance/banking IT employers in town... Dimensional Funds Advisors, First Data Resources and a few others the names of which escape my memory at the moment. It still probably get about 3 pings from DFW, Houston, or San Antonio for every one in Austin and probably about 10 from out of state. I get so many from out of town/out of state that I've got a canned response I send back: "Thanks for your interest, however I am not considering opportunities outside the Austin, TX area at this time". |
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addison, plano, and one or two out towards fortworth as I recall.
downtown has one or two. if you have to stay in the finance sector. otherwise, richardson or plano are the 2 big tech sectors looking for software people. few newer places in frisco(startup). I do QA, so I hear about them way before they are ready to hire qa people. |
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For something in Austin consider BancVue
http://www.bancvue.com/about/careers.html Looks like they have openings available. |
| Note that a lot of software development may be outsourced. Austin has a lot of software dev positions there, likely due to UTA. Also DFW is very high-tech, pretty much outranking Silicon Valley. Irving hosts the headquarters of 30 of the Fortune 100 companies, including several financial powerhouses. Citigroup is hiring like mad right now, I keep getting pings from recruiters for them (but for sysadmin jobs, which is what I am). Also North Dallas, like someone mentioned, near Plano/Frisco/Allen. |
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You may try Robert Halff.... it's a head hunter firm.
By the by, is there a software package that will data mine stocks and ETFs etc.? I want to have an input list of say mutual fund ticker symbols, and it output the instantaneous data points for things like share price, total # shares issued, Net Assets or total worth or market value of company etc. Any recommendations? |
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Note that a lot of software development may be outsourced. Austin has a lot of software dev positions there, likely due to UTA. Also DFW is very high-tech, pretty much outranking Silicon Valley. Irving hosts the headquarters of 30 of the Fortune 100 companies, including several financial powerhouses. Citigroup is hiring like mad right now, I keep getting pings from recruiters for them (but for sysadmin jobs, which is what I am). Also North Dallas, like someone mentioned, near Plano/Frisco/Allen. Didn't Citi layoff a bunch of IT related folks a couple of months ago? |
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Didn't Citi layoff a bunch of IT related folks a couple of months ago? If that's the case, they're desperate to get them back. Although I regularly turn them down, knowing the state of the banking industry (especially the main ones around here, Citigroup, BoA, and JP Morgan-Chase). |
| I can't speak for every area, but experienced .NET developers are in high demand in the Dallas area. My company has a hard time finding qualified candidates, or they have already taken another position before we can even make an offer. I'm not in a position to make hiring decisions, but I do a lot of technical reviews and many do not go well. |
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I can't speak for every area, but experienced .NET developers are in high demand in the Dallas area. My company has a hard time finding qualified candidates, or they have already taken another position before we can even make an offer. I'm not in a position to make hiring decisions, but I do a lot of technical reviews and many do not go well. .NET? Down here in Austin it seems like .NET has basically disappeared. Well, disappeared maybe a little extreme... but it seems liike demand is way down from where it was. Even the demand for Java seems to have slacked off from what it was 5 years ago or so... LAMP and stuff like RoR seem like they are the hot platforms around Austin. My employer has been looking for LAMP people as well as traditional C/C++ and we've also had a hard time, at least finding people with the right amount of experience for the right price... We've run into a lot of very entry level people demanding salaries that people with 20+ years experience couldn't have gotten a few years ago. |
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I can't speak for every area, but experienced .NET developers are in high demand in the Dallas area. My company has a hard time finding qualified candidates, or they have already taken another position before we can even make an offer. I'm not in a position to make hiring decisions, but I do a lot of technical reviews and many do not go well. .NET? Down here in Austin it seems like .NET has basically disappeared. Even the demand for Java seems to have slacked off from what it was 5 years ago or so... LAMP and stuff like RoR seem like they are the hot platforms around Austin. My employer has been looking for LAMP people as well as traditional C/C++ and we've also had a hard time, at least finding people with the right amount of experience for the right price... We've run into a lot of very entry level people demanding salaries that people with 20+ years experience couldn't have gotten a few years ago. Flavor of the month? Definitely not. Node.js, ruby, python are definitely sexier and more appropriate for a start-up or small shop. And the open source ecosystem is miles ahead. I'm just saying there is a market for enterprise software for clients that do not automatically write off Microsoft technologies because of licensing costs. Also the jobs tend to be very stable which is very important to me at this point in my life. To each his own... |
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I can't speak for every area, but experienced .NET developers are in high demand in the Dallas area. My company has a hard time finding qualified candidates, or they have already taken another position before we can even make an offer. I'm not in a position to make hiring decisions, but I do a lot of technical reviews and many do not go well. .NET? Down here in Austin it seems like .NET has basically disappeared. Even the demand for Java seems to have slacked off from what it was 5 years ago or so... LAMP and stuff like RoR seem like they are the hot platforms around Austin. My employer has been looking for LAMP people as well as traditional C/C++ and we've also had a hard time, at least finding people with the right amount of experience for the right price... We've run into a lot of very entry level people demanding salaries that people with 20+ years experience couldn't have gotten a few years ago. Flavor of the month? Definitely not. Node.js, ruby, python are definitely sexier and more appropriate for a start-up or small shop. And the open source ecosystem is miles ahead. I'm just saying there is a market for enterprise software for clients that do not automatically write off Microsoft technologies because of licensing costs. Also the jobs tend to be very stable which is very important to me at this point in my life. To each his own... That's not exactly what I meant... I think the market in DFW and to maybe only a slightly lesser extent Houston are far more "corporate" than Austin, which is why there is a lot more market for stodgy technologies like .NET and J2EE. Big corporations are far more likely to buy into the licensed technologies... Around Austin the main place you'll see Microsoft oriented shops are in some of the state government agencies (not UT though) and places like the big medical centers. Startups and smaller companies are far more likely to be averse to paying a lot of licensing. I've gone back and forth between stable companies and startups, but I've found I have to jump to a smaller organization every so often or I don't get exposed to enough new stuff to stay relevant, and salaries at the big companies tend over time not to keep up with the jumps when moving around. Plus I get bored at big companies when after a certain period of time it seems like people get pidgeon holed and into a rut. Funny that is because it seems like the big companies don't have a problem paying when they hire someone new... just over time they are stingy with raises. |