Financial services firms are recruiting more IT professionals this summer than a year ago, and they are looking for strong programming, database and operating system skills to keep their real-time banking and trading systems up and running."Technology is extremely important on Wall Street, where they have vast quantities of data that needs real-time analysis," says Constance Melrose, managing director of eFinancialCareers, an online listing of available jobs in the banking, trading and money management fields. "We have a lot of clients who are looking for technologists who can handle the speed, quantity and precision of that information."Techies interested in these posts will have a leg-up on the competition if they have experience in one key business area: risk management, a capability that was sorely lacking on Wall Street prior to the recession.

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