Our client is looking for a senior business applications developer to own the key internal tools used by our clients sales and revenue teams. As the senior developer, you’ll be enhancing and expanding our SaleForce based CRM and sales applications and reporting infrastructure that interface with other key production systems and core financial systems. If you’re an exceptional developer, love learning the latest B2B technologies, and want to play a key role in driving our client’s business, this opportunity is for you.

Responsibilities:

• Work directly with the business team to gather and iterate on requirements
• Design and implement features that will enable the sales team to realize explosive growth
• Maintain high code quality and follow sound engineering practices

Qualifications:

• Experience with Salesforce CRM preferred
• Experience leading design and implementation of business critical applications
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to prioritize features by cost and value
• Ability to work in a fast, nimble environment with frequent change
• Expertise with at least one of Java, Apex, or C# for at least 5 years in a professional development environment
• Comfortable with HTML and Javascript
• Comfortable with SOAP web services
• Comfortable with SQL and database schema design
• Experience with other CRM frameworks acceptable: SugarCRM, Great Plains, Sage ACT!, ZOHO CRM, Netsuite CRM, or
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Software Development Engineer – Mortgages
Department:
Software Development/Engineering
Office:
Seattle
Location:
Seattle, WA
Zillow Mortgage Marketplace is changing the way people shop for mortgages. By providing a vibrant open marketplace with thousands of mortgage lenders, ZMM empowers consumers to educate themselves and choose the best loan for their situation. Would you like to join a small, passionate team dedicated to transforming an industry into a consumer-focused marketplace? Would you like your work to immediately affect millions of users? ZMM is growing quickly and needs a self-driven senior engineer who enjoys building scalable, performant systems and is passionate about delivering a high quality user experience.

You will need to have strong technical skills and experience:

• 5+ years Java coding experience (C++ or C# also acceptable) with strong code agnostic and OO design skills
• BS in Computer Science or related field
• Experience in team-based software development
• Experience in end-to-end product ownership (development, testing, monitoring, etc.)
• Ability to manage tasks involving multiple concurrent projects
• Ability to carry out assigned tasks with limited need for supervision

It will help if you have:

• Minimum 2 years experience with relational databases
• Solid experience with SQL and construction of complex SQL statements
• Experience building high-throughput, fault-tolerant, 24×7 applications
• Experience in architecting large systems from scratch
• Experience in complex statistical analysis of system, application, and user data
• Experience with Java technologies such as Servlets, JDBC, Tapestry, build tools like Maven and Ant

Background: Our client is seeking a “hunter” sales leader to open accounts in the United States for BPO opportunities in Logistics and Aftermarket services space. The current target industries for our client are Logistics (3PLs, Freight Forwarders, Shippers), Telecom, Cable, Satellite, and Home & Office Equipment service providers. Our client has a number of Fortune 500 customers but primarily focuses on midsize customer organizations. Our has a highly professional culture.

Role:
 This role is a high visibility / high impact role within a growing organization. The incumbent shall be a part of the leadership team and will contribute significantly to charting our client’s growth into new value-added services and geographies
 The Sales Leader will have primary responsibility across the US for building a predictable pipeline of new business to generate repeatable and profitable revenues across the service lines and industries mentioned above. Targets within large corporations will be CXO’s, Partners, Advisory firms, opinion leaders and channel principals.
 This team player will be responsible for new business development, growing pipeline of $20 million or more and closing new business of $10 – $12 million in a 12 month period
 The sales leader will be responsible for recruiting, motivating, monitoring, managing, and building a high performance, goal oriented team of sales professionals whom he/she shall lead to enable closure of contracts in a short period of time
 The sales leader will also work with other partner organizations to deliver services that may be beyond the current services that our client provides
 As the head of sales, the sales leader will be responsible for carrying out a value assessment and show benefits of the solution to be offered to the customer/prospect. He / She will work closely with solutions, transitions, and delivery teams to develop outsourcing solutions for clients

Pre-requisites / Experience:
 Minimum 10 years experience in selling services
 Success in selling unbranded / not easily recognized services of relatively unknown companies is a must with a past record of developing major accounts in the US
 Minimum 5 years experience in successfully selling outsourced services. Experience in the outsourcing sales arena is absolutely essential for success in this role. Specifically outsourcing to India. The ideal candidate would have worked in a small to medium size company of Indian Origin.
 Person must have – relationships and knowledge of BPOs, sales experience in selling to telecom, cable, satellite, hi-tech home and office equipment industries; and experience of selling BPO deals in the following domains: Supply Chain, Logistics, Procurement, Warranty, Field Service & Repair, Customer Service, Helpdesks, Fulfillment services
 Proven track record of building and maintaining long term relationships with customers
 Ability to independently open doors and develop new accounts – must also be able to leverage existing network to create quick traction in creating new accounts
 Must be Energetic, very hands on
 Excellent communication and presentation skills
 Location: NY area, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Detroit, Chicago, Denver.
 Base salary: $120-$150K.

Responsibilities
Work with IT partners and business teams to identify technology solutions to achieve business results
Ensure appropriate implementation of technology within the development and production environments
Perform engineering and design functions for client devices
Oversee the introduction of new client device technology by utilizing standard industry processes
Provide client device technical expertise in the development of information technology solutions to support business strategies
Establish, maintain and enhance relationships with business and IT partners
Maintain awareness of trends and issues in the area of client device technology
Evaluate new technology opportunities and provide analysis of their potential impact to business

Qualifications

Apple ACSA certification preferred
Minimum 5 years experience in Apple client/server engineering within a complex organization
Minimum 1 year experience with JAMF Casper Suite managing 250+ machines
Experience in Mac OS X Directory Services integration with AD/LDAPv3/NIS
Advanced Proficiency in Mac OS X Server administration
Proficiency in UNIX command line including Shell scripting and/or AppleScript
Knowledge of monolithic and modular deployment methodologies and image maintenance
Windows or Linux server experience a plus
Ability to work independently

IMMEDIATE MANAGER: Brand Manager (BM)
DIRECT REPORTS: Field Marketing Specialist (FMS)

PURPOSE OF THIS JOB: To establish the local face of an international brand, translating Our client’s global strategy to a key market.
The Field Marketing Manager (FMM) is responsible for executing Our client’s marketing strategies through Athlete Marketing, Events, Opinion Leader Marketing and Consumer Collecting, and maximizing local Communications output within a geographic market area. All Field Marketing activities adapt national strategies for relevant local sports, disciplines and scenes.

This implies on a market level:
• Management and execution of the strategic marketing direction of the brand; tailoring brand marketing initiatives to the local market landscape.
• Creation, planning and execution of marketing programs, sampling and events with a specific focus on communications.
• Integration of marketing into key sales initiatives to grow the user base and build brand awareness, brand love and word of mouth for Our client and product sales.

MAJOR ACTIVITIES TO ENSURE ACHIEVEMENT OF KEY RESULTS AND DELIVERABLES

1. Sports & Culture
• Maximize a strong ROI by creating and supporting key events/scenes/marketing opportunities that are reflective of the Our client Brand values and deliver a clear, strong, authentic brand message to the consumer
• Activate Our client Athletes, Events and Properties
i. Concept, create and execute original Our client small fires/athlete projects in market.
ii. Activate and leverage regional/national/global events, series and properties that fit within established local market business plan.
iii. Support select 3rd party sport and culture events that are relevant to the Our client brand and our key targeted consumers.
• Relationship Development
i. Identify relevant scenes for the market that are applicable to the Our client brand and business objectives. Prioritize those with the most potential to engage our target audience and broaden our reach.
ii. Entrench yourself and Our client through opinion leaders in relevant grassroots sport and culture scenes to impact key targeted consumers.
iii. Build a sustainable relationship with local authorities to facilitate the execution of Our client marketing activities.
• Innovation
i. Develop new ideas with a local network of opinion leaders that bring the brand to life. Utilize internal network of BMs, FMMs, Sport and Cultural specialists, HQ and approved agencies during creative process.
ii. Submit new ideas and local movements on a regular basis for events, athlete programs and opinion leader projects.

2. Communications
Set the market communication strategy and desired outcomes together with BU Regional communications manager with consideration for national programs and regional priorities and local branded events.
Prioritize resource allocation in relation to media outcome to ensure maximum ROI.
Deliver local media output for Our client programs, athletes, projects and events.
Outsource media-related activities to the right market experts and freelancers as needed to maximize the communication outcome.
Build solid relationship with local media outlets including general market, key scene focused and campus media (TV, radio, print, web and new media).

3. Consumer Collecting: Wings Team and SBM Program
• Through effective leadership of Field Marketing Specialists:
i. Ensure the Wings Team Program engages new users and drives trial to expand the consumer base.
ii. Drive distribution and visibility at and around campus in close collaboration with the area sales team.
iii. Collaborate with sales counterparts on the best strategic employment of Wings Team Sales Drives.
iv. Activate campus relationships and integrate Our client marketing strategies into functional and image building opportunities with college students on and off campus.
v. Utilize well-trained Student Brand Managers (SBM) as a work force for events and projects.
vi. Drive innovative programming targeting the college audience.
vii. Work in close collaboration with the Consumer Collecting Manager (CCM) to ensure alignment.
• Set clear goals together with the FMS for the Wings Teams and SBM Program to ensure the implementation of the strategic focus in market.
• Coach the FMS to continually reinforce best practice and delivery against a defined strategy.

4. Identify and selectively support collaborative sales and marketing opportunities
• Work in conjunction with the area sales team to ensure that marketing initiatives and programs are leveraged across the sales channel and the brand image is brought to life within the On Premise environment and with key distribution partners and customers.
• Actively participate in meetings with local sales team to align marketing & sales strategies.

5. Management & Administration
• Cultivate and develop FMS direct reports by establishing KPIs and ensuring execution against defined goals.
• Develop field marketing plan and budget in close collaboration with national specialists.
• Manage expensing, budgetary authorization and other administrative direct report responsibilities for FMS.

KEY RESULTS AND DELIVERABLES (WHAT DOES SUCCESS LOOK LIKE)

1. Engage new users and expand the consumer base, per capita consumption and share.
2. Well executed Our client events and projects that resonate and entrench the Our client Brand values with the key targeted consumer.
3. Robust local media outcome, stemming from local programs and by activating national programs locally.
4. Perfect execution of the consumer collecting programs (SBMs and WT) through FMS.
5. Relevant and impactful activities with key targeted consumers via developed relationships.
6. Strong distribution and availability across the market, particularly in and around universities. Integrated marketing efforts that drive consumer pull in cooperation with local sales team.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

1. Minimum 4 years grassroots marketing experience and 1-2 years management experience.
2. Bachelor’s Degree required.
3. Strong understanding of youth culture in sports and culture.
4. Exceptional communication skills, including presenting and training abilities. Empathy to work with very different stakeholders (journalists, sports and culture scenes, authorities).
5. Strong planning and project management competencies.
6. Ability to cultivate team environment.
7. Creative mind, with prior successes in driving the creative process.
8. Must be proficient in Microsoft Office applications and common IT tools.
9. Lives and represents the Our client Brand.
Additional Info:

Full-time employees are offered an exceptional benefits program that currently includes company-paid Medical, Dental, Vision, Life insurance and Long and Short-Term Disability.

If that’s not enough, we have an excellent 401k plan, a comprehensive tuition assistance program, company car/ car allowance and generous paid time off programs.

Our client is a fashion specialty retailer founded on a simple idea: offer each customer the best possible service, quality, value and selection. We are looking for an individual to work with problem analysis, resolution and general support for the Merchandising Systems Suite of applications.

The ideal senior programmer analyst is motivated, results oriented and committed to providing outstanding customer service every day. This individual will be the liaison to business analysts, assisting in planning and participating in project meetings.

Responsibilities

Provide ongoing support and troubleshooting of all production issues, utilizing Unix/Oracle, Pro*C and Java
Responsible for root cause analysis, permanent problem resolution, resolution documentation and problem ticket closure
Participate in rotational on-call responsibility
Lead responsibilities for the design, build, test and implementation of enhancements and break/fix
Mentor junior team members

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent preferred
5 years of programmer/analyst experience analyzing, designing, coding, testing, installing and maintaining complex software programs within ERP (enterprise) systems
Minimum of 2 years using Oracle Retail (Retek) Suite of applications (RMS, RSS, RPM, RDF, PL Price, or MFP)
3 years of experience working in a Unix/Oracle environment using PL/SQL, Pro*C, Korn Shell, Java, .Net, and/or C# programming a plus
Ability to write technical specifications, develop test, and manage the transition of modifications through the quality assurance and change control process
Excellent troubleshooting and problem solving skills
Ability to work independently while supporting a team environment
Strong verbal and written communication skills

Our client is a fashion specialty retailer founded on a simple idea: offer each customer the best possible service, quality, value and selection. We are looking for an experienced individual to manage critical Oracle Application software development projects and production support.

The Oracle HCM applications supported within Nordstrom provide a very challenging environment due to the complex setup and the number of employees. The ideal candidate should be able to look at the big picture and the impact that small changes may have on the performance and processing that take place..

Responsibilities
Partner with team members to understand business priorities, our existing Information Technology (IT) environment and strategies for corporate information system applications
Provide written and oral communication to stakeholders, explaining the architectural alternatives for development projects and influencing them toward strategic solutions
Lead project development teams through the solution strategy across the SDLC
Provide solutions on how architectural solutions will integrate into the Oracle EBS technical environment
Responsible for root cause analysis, permanent problem resolution, resolution documentation and problem ticket closure
Help lead the design, build, test and implementation of enhancements and break/fix
Mentor junior team members
Responsible for ensuring incremental releases to the financial and human resources Oracle Applications are of high quality and sound architectural design.
Ability to participate in multiple software development projects or production support
Enhance and participate in monitoring process to ensure quality and overall IT efforts
Regularly interact with IT management, supervisors and leads on project status, priority setting and resource allocations as well as department-wide efforts
Provide guidance to business partners, project managers and team members with respect to technical feasibility, complexity and level of effort required to deliver development projects

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent preferred
Minimum of 5 years of experience analyzing, designing, coding, testing, installing and maintaining complex software solutions for Oracle E-Business Suite
Ability to write technical specifications, develop test, and manage the transition of modifications through the quality assurance and change control process
Excellent troubleshooting and problem solving skills
Ability to work independently while supporting a team environment
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Excellent leadership and influencing skills
In depth experience with Oracle HCM is preferred as is business experience of HCM
Experience in a technical lead role
5 years of progressive experience in Information Technology, preferably software development
Proven experience leading integration efforts between applications

Our client is a fashion specialty retailer founded on a simple idea: offer each customer the best possible service, quality, value and selection. We are looking for a full time team member to support our MicroStrategy development projects.

The senior programmer analyst – will work closely with application architects, project managers and business analysts to drive all of the technical phases of the SDLC lifecycle (project design, development, test, implementation and support) on MicroStrategy related projects.

Responsibilities
Serve as technical lead for development activities on MicroStrategy projects
Identify and lead process improvements activities as it relates to development and production support processes
Work in collaboration with other technical leads to develop, implement and support new capabilities and projects within MicroStrategy
Leverage formal development tools and techniques throughout the SDLC life cycle
Support and help define department wide improvement initiatives internal and external to our team Work in all design, build, test, and implementation phases of a software development life cycle
Collaborate with and build strong relationships with all levels of IT and business
Perform analysis of complex business requirements to determine appropriate IT solutions

Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in information technology or equivalent professional experience preferred
5+ years of experience with the MicroStrategy reporting, design, and administration along with 2+ years in developing MicroStrategy Dashboards preferred
Strong proficiency in the MicroStrategy suite enabling the creation of reports, attributes, metrics, filters, and other report objects is essential
Must have the ability to analyze existing reports and systems and the ability to gather requirements from customers for new reports
Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills & strong written and verbal communication skills required
Hands on experience with multidimensional data warehouse structures such as star schemas and cubes are preferred
Position also requires experience with writing SQL and PL/SQL in an Oracle environment
Experience with Unix, Oracle, PL/SQL, Performance Tuning, ETL tools, near real time data warehousing, Dashboard / Visualization Techniques

The ideal candidate must:
• Have direct public relations experience, preferably at an establish agency
• Write exceptionally well across a broad spectrum of disciplines, including but not limited to news releases, media pitches, speeches, by-line articles, presentation materials, social media engagement, etc.
• Have proven success pitching media and garnering national and local coverage
• Have experience managing budgets
• Be attentive to detail
• Be able to prioritize and multi-task in a dynamic, creative, challenging and fast-paced environment

Ideally, the candidate will have:
• At least 5-10 years public relations agency experience with an emphasis on Media Relations
• 3-5 years’ management experience
• Possess a BA/BS degree
• Understanding of and ability to execute PR plans, strategy, and programs
• Ability to work with others in a team environment
• Positive attitude in deadline-oriented environment



Background in:
• Consumer products
• Retail
• Corporate Reputation
• Healthcare
• Technology

The Senior Project Manager reports to the Sr Director, Business Applications. This role manages assigned IT Business Applications projects, follows and contributes to the IT project management standards for the Company, and contributes to the management of the Enterprise Projects Portfolio.

Major Responsibilities:

Drives multiple projects from initiation through delivery ensuring completion of the project based on the agreed Business Requirements, on schedule and within budget constraints.
Develops, forecasts, and manages overall project budget while ensuring that goals are accomplished and in line with business objectives.
Initiates and directs project plans, project schedules, project meetings, prepares project reports, maintains accurate documentation to include schedules and cost plans, manages and controls for risks and all other aspects of assigned projects.
Establishes, plans, and schedules projects via live collaboration and communication with project stakeholders and project team members
Manages project close-out for project goal and ROI realization measurement
Provides consistent and accurate project status – keeps management informed of risks and deviations from base lined scope, schedule, or budget to include mitigation strategies.
Establishes and maintains functionally integrated project schedules to enable accurate resource capacity planning and prioritization and financial tracking
Leads, assists, or participates with business and IT planning processes; ensuring alignment with project sub-teams and functional partners through negotiations and communicates risk and mitigations in resolving conflicts.
Facilitates project team meetings, cross-functional communication and decision making, ensuring alignment with internal and external stakeholders.
Monitors and reports on project performance in a timely and accurate manner
Initiates corrective action plans to ensure projects meet baseline scope, schedule and budget when required
Ensures that projects are developed and executed in accordance with company procedures.
Monitors project activities ensuring the currency, quality, and integrity of the information, and providing consistency across the enterprise.
Participates and contributes in the planning, design, development, and implementation enhancements to project and portfolio management processes for continuous service improvement
Collaborates with cross-functional teams to assess impact of decisions in each of the functional areas and facilitate proposal of recommendations
Assist in the implementation of the portfolio framework and tools to consistently evaluate and prioritize IT investments to ensure alignment with organizational roadmap.
Works with project teams to ensure successful transition of solutions to operations for sustainment, restorability and recoverability prior to project closure.
Qualifications and Requirements:
6+ years of experience with Project Management of Enterprise-wide IT Business Applications and Business Intelligence/Reporting projects.
6+ years of experience with IT project management standardization and implementation in an environment that is undergoing business and systems transformation
Demonstrable understanding of SOP 98-1, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies and project management methodologies.
Must have experience managing business systems/application projects facing front-office and back-office organizations.
Must have experience managing projects utilizing Oracle Enterprise Business Suite and other packaged application suites as well as Software as a Service (Salesforce.com).
Must have experience managing projects utilizing custom developed applications

Experience working with vessel/container/shipping operations is preferred.

BA or BS degree in related field
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is preferred
Six Sigma certification is preferred

Capabilities:
Expertise in project management tools (MS Project, Excel, SharePoint, Visio, Project Portfolio Management Solutions)
Exceptional communication skills with business customers regarding project status, plans, cost and other items associated with project plan.
Requires strong coordination and attention to detail
Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to develop important relationships with customers and key stakeholders
Good conflict management skills.
Demonstrates the ability to develop trust and confidence with technical team members, the business stakeholders, company executives, and end-users..
Ability to translate strategy into action; strong influence, negotiation and presentation skills
Proven track record of good decision making and exercising sound judgment
Results and detail oriented; self motivated

Physical Working Conditions
This position is located in an office environment requiring the use of a keyboard, mouse and video display.
Requires site visits and movement around the marine terminal environment within offices, yards and construction sites.
Requires 20% travel.

- At least 10 years of experience designing/developing software for complex systems
- Experience with objected oriented design methodologies and tools (e.g., UML)
- Experience with Windows-based integrated development environments (ECLIPSE), virtual machine configurations, etc.
- Experience developing Microsoft Silverlight, XMAL applications. Proficiency in developing C# .Net, C++ and/or JAVA, J2EE application also desired.
- Experience developing application using third party vendor components. This includes quickly understanding vendor product design and documentation, communicating with vendor technical representatives, and using vendor supplied APIs for functional integration
- Experience working in dynamic and fast-paced team environments; comfortable researching and solving issues
- Experience writing/reviewing technical documents (e.g., design documents)
- Strong and demonstrated communication skills
- Ability to pass CBP background investigation (US Citizen or Green Card)

1. Description of the Work

OEM Ops Strategy Team – Business Intelligence Strategy Project

The OEM Operations Strategy Team is at the forefront of defining new technologies, processes and business models that will transform how global manufacturers of PCs and other devices do business with our client. Technological advances (cloud computing, mobile devices, etc.), innovative new business models and shifts in global markets are strong sources of change and opportunity. Our team drives high-value opportunities for our client and our customers/partners through innovation, world-class customer experiences and advanced backend capabilities. Central to the team’s charter is managing the strategic capability roadmap and turning early-stage opportunities into initiatives that will be funded and implemented. This process requires close collaboration with a broad variety of our client internal product groups, channel and implementation teams as well as external partners.

We are looking for a strong leader to work in close collaboration with many different groups within the OEM segment, Operations, Business Groups, IT and partners and act as a Global Initiative Business Intelligence PM Lead to help drive the overarching Business Intelligence strategy to meet the growing and dynamic needs of the OEM business.

Qualifications
• Senior-level Project Manager with a minimum of 5+ years of experience managing fairly complex global programs involving a variety of stakeholders, systems changes and the rollout of a new business models.
• 3-5 years of relevant Business Intelligence experience, including strategic planning and funding process of Business Intelligence capabilities from an organizational and technical standpoint
• Track record of proactively collaborating across groups with a clear focus on delivering results.
• Experience creating new business solutions and driving results across boundaries in an ambiguous environment.
• Methodology discipline – a willingness to apply standards and best practices to get work done effectively and productively, especially in the initiation/scope and planning phase of a complex project
• Strong people leadership and management skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and superior presentation skills.
• Proven ability to think strategically, perform cost-benefit financial analysis, risk mitigation and resource planning
• Deep passion for satisfying customer needs and achieving high customer and business partner satisfaction
• Experience directly working/interacting with senior executives
• Experience with our client’s Product Groups, internal Operations/IT capabilities and OEM partner processes preferred.
Key Responsibilities:
Project manage the initiation, scoping and planning phase for the strategic and global cross team Business Intelligence initiative.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Build relationships and collaborate with stakeholders and experts across our client to drive the Business Intelligence strategy

• Provide “best in class” industry knowledge and research in the fields of BI to the strategy development

• Orchestrating a cross-group project team, develop a comprehensive blueprint for Business Intelligence and a corresponding roadmap for the development of Business Intelligence capabilities over multiple years

• Establish and apply a structured Project Management approach to manage early stages of developing Business Intelligence capabilities, including for example the below PM deliverables:

1. requirement gathering

2. use case definition

3. gap and impact analysis of licensing, invoicing, supply chain and systems

4. Design and execute strong project communication plans to various levels of management via various communication vehicles

5. Drive virtual project team via project team meetings, minutes, follow-up and tracking to deliver approved scope, on schedule and within budget

6. Perform cost-benefit financial analysis, risk mitigation and resource planning

7. Manage and maintain alignment with other global initiatives

• Leveraging the cross-project team, identify how current and future business opportunities will be addressed by Business Intelligence capabilities and help prioritize investments accordingly

• Align the Business Intelligence capability roadmap with related capability roadmaps (e.g. Entitlement Management) and technology adoption plans

More about the Role

New advanced technology and process innovation provide rich information and unprecedented amounts of data from our client’s business with its OEM partners and from devices sold across the globe. Building the capabilities to turn this information into actionable insights that improve customer and partner experiences while growing our client’s business and optimizing operations is a big challenge with enormous potential.

A key aspect of the role will be to identify how rich information from advanced technologies and process innovation can be harvested, managed and leveraged effectively to provide business insight and improve operational processes. You will work closely with stakeholders across different our client organizations to identify opportunities for Business Intelligence to address business needs and create incremental value. Working with experts and stakeholders from our client’s OEM organization, Operations, Product Groups and IT, you will identify the organizational and technical Business Intelligence capabilities required to drive those opportunities. Leveraging the cross-functional project team, the PM will create the multi-year Business Intelligence Roadmap and play a vital role in strategic planning, funding decisions and implementation tracking.

Expertise and thought leadership in Business Intelligence from a technical and organizational standpoint, understanding of business priorities, ability to build consensus between different stakeholder groups and strong program management skills are key success factors for this position.

Project Dependencies:
Successful completion of project is dependent upon:

1. Availability of Our client staff and assistance in navigating internally for any issues. Further, Our client will provide access to necessary documentation, systems, SMEs (subject matter experts), interviewees/reviewers and budget on a timely basis to meet project schedule.
2. Timely approval by Our client when requested throughout project

Summary: Responsible for executing the internal audit plan which focuses on improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the Company’s risk management, internal control and business processes, in an independent and objective manner. Each audit must be performed in accordance with both internal and professional standards issued by the Institute of Internal Auditors.

Essential Duties:
Leads and participates in audit engagement planning, executing, reporting and debriefing audit findings to both the VP Internal Audit and client management
Understands company policy and procedures
Understand the business area being audited
Analyzes detailed business processes and transactions to assess effectiveness and efficiency of controls and risk mitigation activities
Leads documentation and testing procedures supporting SOX compliance, working closely with management and the external auditors
Identifies control environment improvement opportunities
Documents, presents and reports audit findings in compliance with methodology and professional standards
Is proactive in collaborating with and building strong relationships with clients located across the enterprise
Is factual and able to communicate findings without being intimidated by questions or challenges
Applies technical, business and problem-solving skills to audit process
Demonstrates the ability to lead a variety of business process, financial and operational reviews
Demonstrates effective decision making skills and the ability to work independently
Manages audit and non-audit projects to meet deadlines and project budgets
Provides clear, concise documentation using established tools and software
Executes a wide range of audit tests/procedures and accurately interprets results against defined criteria
Evaluates audit results, weighing the relevancy, accuracy and perspective of conclusions against the accumulated audit evidence
Interacts effectively with a wide variety of people in a wide variety of settings
Demonstrates effective time management skills
Exhibits creativity and innovation in recommending improvements to departmental audit practices and processes

Requirements:
Bachelors degree required in finance, accounting, business administration or related field.
Four plus years of experience (prefer 2 – 3 years of public accounting experience)
Demonstrated success in conducting significant audits
Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite
CPA, CIA or MBA
Excellent interpersonal skills
Excellent communication (written and oral) skills
Ability to work in a fast paced environment that has shifting priorities
Capacity to multi task
Self-starter with ability to build relationships
Knowledge of statutory and general accepted accounting principles (GAAP)
Experience with SOX compliance
Excellent analytical and project management skills
Excellent customer service skills with demonstrated accountability and professionalism
Physical Working Conditions:
General office environment
Travel 30%

Summary: Responsible for executing the internal audit plan which focuses on improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the Company’s risk management, internal control, and business processes, in an independent and objective manner. This position will also evaluate general IT controls, including system development controls relating to the Oracle conversion. Each audit must be performed in accordance with both internal and professional standards issued by the Institute of Internal Auditors.

Essential Duties:
Leads and participates in audit engagement planning, executing, reporting and debriefing IT audit findings to both the VP Internal Audit and client management
Understands company policy and procedures
Understand the business area being audited
Analyzes detailed business processes and transactions to assess effectiveness and efficiency of controls and risk mitigation activities
Leads documentation and testing procedures supporting SOX compliance, working closely with management and the external auditors
Identifies control environment improvement opportunities
Documents, presents and reports audit findings in compliance with methodology and professional standards
Is proactive in collaborating with and building strong relationships with clients located across the enterprise
Is factual and able to communicate findings without being intimidated by questions or challenges
Applies technical, business and problem-solving skills to the audit process
Demonstrates the ability to lead a variety of business process and information technology reviews
Demonstrates effective decision making skills and the ability to work independently
Manages audit and non-audit projects to meet deadlines and project budgets
Provides clear, concise documentation using established tools and software
Executes a wide range of audit tests/procedures and accurately interprets results against defined criteria
Evaluates audit results, weighing the relevancy, accuracy and perspective of conclusions against the accumulated audit evidence
Interacts effectively with a wide variety of people in a wide variety of settings.
Demonstrates effective time management skills
Exhibits creativity and innovation in recommending improvements to departmental audit practices and processes

Requirements:
Bachelors degree required in finance, accounting, business administration, information technology or related field.
Four plus years of experience (prefer 2 – 3 years of public accounting experience)
Demonstrated success in conducting significant audits
Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite
CPA, CIA, CISA or MBA
Proficiency with Oracle applications and databases
Excellent interpersonal skills
Excellent communication (written and oral) skills
Ability to work in a fast paced environment that has shifting priorities
Capacity to multi task
Self-starter with ability to build relationships
Proficiency in IT auditing, including general computer, application and system development controls
Experience with SOX compliance
Excellent analytical and project management skills
Excellent customer service skills with demonstrated accountability and professionalism
Physical Working Conditions:
General office environment
Travel 30%

Abilities:
· Demonstrates thorough understanding of relational databases, normalization and denormalization.
· Understands metadata management, at an application and an enterprise level.
· Demonstrates a comprehensive knowledge of business intelligence best practices and procedures.
· Designs logical data models for small databases and applications as well as very large databases (VLDB).
· Adapts logical models into physical models appropriate for the business and technical environment.
· Understands application integration practices, risks and benefits.
· Uses and understands business intelligence reporting tools and ETL tools.
· Comprehends the risks of design choices and is able to plan contingencies for those risks.
· Experience with team leadership and able to guide a business intelligence team from requirements gathering to final implementation.
· Able to work as part of a team and follow the guidance of another Data Architect.
· Communicates clearly with business users in non-technical language.
· Demonstrates strong problem solving skills and an ability to work independently.
Responsibilities:
· Maintains and communicates strategic business intelligence architectural plans so that management and the development team(s) have a clear understanding of the vision and direction of the business intelligence data solution.
· Ensures that development activities adhere to the architectural strategy so that overall business intelligence data integrity is maintained.
· Develops and implements an Enterprise Data Model (EDM) within the business intelligence environment so that all aspects of the business data requirements are represented.
· Plans and develops a metadata management system so that all metadata is maintained at a central location using the same standards for all applications integrated with business intelligence.
· Creates a master data management system so that the business users can access the metadata to better understand the business intelligence data and to aid in strategic decisions by the business users.
· Develops, maintains and communicates enterprise data management standards so that all users of the data and metadata are able to more easily understand unfamiliar data.
· Performs initial data quality analysis so that design and implementation risks are diminished.
· Creates and maintains data domains to aid in the improvement of data quality.
· Designs an overall data quality plan so that future data warehouse costs are minimized and data integrity is maximized.
· Develops detailed test plans so that unit and integration testing is comprehensive and meets all possible data outcomes.
· Designs Operational Data Stores, Star Schemas and Snowflake Schemas so that data is available to users and for reporting in a timely cost effective manner.
· Directs the activities of other project architects, when necessary, so that design integrity is maintained.
· Performs implementation reviews to insure that data standards were followed and data integrity was maintained.
· Communicates to management on a regular basis the status of design, exceptions made to the design, risks and issues and strategies to limit risks and issues so that management has the ability to provide input and support and to make changes to the strategy when necessary.
· Evangelizes the Data Quality, Data Integration, Data Stewardship and Master Data Management programs so that the business better understands the data within the business intelligence environment.
· Initiate a System of Record program, so that data lineage can be clearly identified and maintained.
· Reviews and approves the data Universes used within the Business Objects environment so that reporting efficiency and accuracy is maximized.
· Develops and maintains data movement rules, so that the ETL process is clearly defined at every level and data lineage is clearly communicated to the business users.

Technical Skills:

Modeling Tools:
A minimum of five years experience using one or a combination of the following data modeling tools:
· Embarcadero – ER Studio
· CA/Platinum – ErWin
· Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB)
· Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler

DBMS:
Relational database modeling is a critical skill for success in this environment. Intermediate level SQL coding (join, outer join, union and subselect) is an absolute requirement. A minimum of five years with the primary RDMS’s is required. Candidates with extremely strong experience (five plus years) using the secondary RDBMS’s will also be considered. Candidates with expertise using RDBMS’s from both groups would be extremely desirable.

Primary RDBMS Experience:
· Oracle 10G, 11G
· Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Secondary RDBMS Experience:
· DB2
· Teradata

Data Quality Tools:
At a minimum, must demonstrate the ability to evaluate data quality using domain analysis, correlation and regression analysis. Experience with any of the data quality tools listed. Illustrates to management the cost effectiveness of good data quality management.
· Business Objects Firstlogic
· DataFlux
ETL Tools:
A minimum of one-year experience with one of the following ETL tools. Experience integrating the ETL tool with the Master Data Management program.
· Business Objects Data Integrator
· Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB)
· Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)

Business Intelligence Reporting Tools:
A minimum of three years of experience with one or more of the following Business Intelligence Reporting tools is required. The experience should include assistance with data integration within the tool.
· Business Objects XIR2 and XIR3 is the preferred reporting tool
o Web Intelligence,
o Desktop Intelligence
o Universe Design and Implementation
· Microstrategy experience may also be considered

Languages:
While coding is a minor requirement for this position, a minimum of three years coding in one of the following languages is required.
· PL/SQL
· Microsoft SQL Server
· Visual Basic/VB .Net

Operating Systems:
Different projects require skills in a wide variety of operating systems. Proficiency with any of the following is required. The ideal candidate will demonstrate proficiency in more than one environment.
· Unix (includes scripting and KRON)
· Windows Server

NOTE: This is more of a Systems Engineer with Security and compliance issue experience.

Responsibilities
Work in collaboration with IT Infrastructure and Development teams to apply security best practices at the right level to meet business objectives
Evaluate and recommend commercial hardware and software security products to augment and enhance the enterprise security program
Provide guidance to security analysts, business partners and IT staff when new projects are introduced to the business
Ability to install, configure and support security related hardware and software tools such as tokenization, web access management, identity and access management, web services security gateway etc.
Create and maintain project documentation related to security systems analysis and implementation
Participate in department on-call rotation

Qualifications

5+ years information security experience on Windows, Unix, and Linux platforms
2+ years experience administering and configuring tokenization, web access management, identity and access management and web services gateway technologies
Strong knowledge of application development with a focus on information security
Development experience with a variety of common scripting languages – SOAP, XML, XSLT etc.
Familiarity with current legal and regulatory requirements around information security and privacy, including PCI, SOX, HIPAA, GLBA, etc
Experience with a variety of common relational database systems and authentication/authorization methods such as SAML, LDAP, PKI a plus
Development experience with a variety of languages – Java, .NET, VB, etc.
BA degree in computer science or equivalent education and experience preferred

Title: Lead Data Warehouse Architect
Working as a member within the Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Support department, the Data Warehouse Architect will provide enterprise data warehouse architecture leadership for a Teradata enterprise data warehouse and multiple Oracle data warehouse environments. This individual will act as an expert in data architecture design for departmental data warehouse and business intelligence solutions.

Responsible for database design (physical & logical) and data model for enterprise initiatives, large projects, and high impact / high cost projects. Also responsible for formal review of Data Architects.

Responsible for the development and maintenance of conceptual, logical, and physical database architecture. Ensure project adherence to company wide data and database standards and policies.

Provides extensive technical, strategic advice and guidance to senior managers and technical resources in the creation, modification, and implementation of data standards, policies and databases.

Work with both technical and business stakeholders to understand the data needs for projects. Attend requirement sessions when necessary, communicating any concerns to project leadership.

Make recommendations and assess proposals for database optimization.

Review and assesses proposals requesting changes or upgrades to the existing databases, and provides recommendations as appropriate.

Review project database to ensure that they are built in-line with the stated design.

Translate complex technical terminology, concepts and issues in terms understandable to technical and non-technical management and resources staff.

Conduct formal review of Data Architects.

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree and 8 years of experience in IT with 5 years as a Data Architect.

5 years of experience leading work groups.

5 years experience in data architecture, data modeling, establishing standards and polices for information asset classes, and collaboration with application teams to inventory and classify existing information assets.

8 years of experience in diagnosing, isolating, and resolving complex problems pertaining to data infrastructure.

3 years of experience negotiating with others to create consensus.

Expert skills with database management tools, methodologies, and technologies exhibited through a portfolio that demonstrates best in class end-to-end data models that include multiple large and small scale data sources and complex applications that may include data warehouses and transactional systems.

Experience building and maintaining relationships within a team.

Experience utilizing verbal and written communication skills – articulating and communicating information and ideas to varying audiences and in multiple written styles (persuasive, informative, narrative) in order to negotiate/gain access to information and records.

Experience using analytical skills, tools and techniques to investigate information and to draw conclusions.

Experience in identifying operational issues and recommending and implementing strategies to resolve problems.

Preferred Qualifications:
Hands-on involvement with Teradata and Oracle data architecture (Logical and Physical Data Modeling) in data warehousing.

Advanced experience with Teradata (Inmon) and Oracle (Kimball) data warehouse design methodologies.

Responsible for application architecture for projects with enterprise-wide impact; approve design deliverables for projects; mentor first and mid level solutions architects.

Develops, maintains, and communicates processes and standard practices related to the design, development, and implementation of application solutions and patterns.

Fosters and encourages solution reuse within Business Units and at the Enterprise level.

In managing projects with enterprise-wide impact, facilitates and enables the integration of applications and business processes using common methods.

Responsible for the development & maintenance of conceptual, logical, and physical application architecture, in the research and development, planning, deployment, and training of application technologies, and the retirement of obsolete applications.
Provides leadership in the logical and physical design of application systems, and ensures design is consistent and well integrated with existing conceptual, logical, and physical application architectures.

Analyzes and estimates feasibility, costs, time, and resources needed to develop, and implement application systems for projects with enterprise-wide impact.

Researches and evaluates software technology, products, and solutions, and make recommendations on technology/production introduction, phase out, and retirement.

Assists in application portfolio management, standards development, maintenance, and governance.

Consults with clients to prototype, refine, test, and implement applications to meet needs.

Mentor first level and mid-level Solutions Architects.

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree and 10 years experience in IT, with a min of 5 years in application systems design, construction, implementation, and maintenance.

7 years of experience working with technical design process and models.

7 years experience –to identify & articulate needs, determine project scoping, creating a plan and estimating project costs, effort and duration.

7 years experience with enterprise architecture standards, processes & tools, including IT Architecture standards, Technology trends.

7 years experience with systems integration processes, methodology and tools.

5 years of experience in application architecture.

Experience with SDLC / SW development processes (RUP, Agile, Waterfall).

Experience utilizing verbal and written communication skills – articulating and communicating information and ideas to varying audiences and in multiple written styles (persuasive, informative, narrative) in order to negotiate/gain access to information and records.

Experience using analytical skills, tools and techniques to investigate information and to draw conclusions.

Experience in diagnosing, isolating, and resolving complex issues and recommending and implementing strategies to resolve problems.

Preferred Qualifications:
5 years of hands-on experience as an ETL architect in a Unix and data warehousing environment. Experience with Data Stage/Ab Initio/GoldenGate preferred.

3 years of Java/Web design and development experience, including managing application design, software development and maintenance and java report batch.

Experience with the IBM SOA software.

Experience with Business Objects Enterprise Java SDK and API specifications.

Experience in serving as subject matter expert to group with regard to high-level technical and business problems on multiple complex projects. Experience creating technical documents (architecture diagrams, frameworks, and guidelines).

Ability to provide recommendations to project plan for all areas of technical specialization, and forecast time and manpower required to complete necessary technical duties within area of expertise.

Location:Based out of Mexico City
Territory (Mexico City and the rest of LATAM)

Information Services Experience needed (preferably Academic/Government)

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

* To grow both new sales and existing base throughout the region for our clients products.
* To Lead and develop all staff to insure that they excel at all job requirements such as product knowledge, procedural knowledge, sales skills, and strategic account and territory management.
* This position is responsible for assessing the market opportunity and strategy and for achieving sales growth and development in accordance with the Sales Plan and approved budget.
* To take responsibility for identifying your own training and development on an on-going basis.
* To make positive efforts to promote personal safety and that of others by taking reasonable care at work, by carrying out the requirements of the law or following recognized codes of practice provided or advised by management to ensure safe working practices.
* To undertake any other reasonable duties as requested by your line manager/director on a permanent or temporary basis.

Qualifications

* Bachelor’s Degree is required.
* At Least 3 years sales leadership experience in the region.
* Fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.
* Working knowledge of English.
* Demonstrated sales leadership success.
* Knowledge of the academic and government markets in the region.
* Knowledge of production systems and processes.
* Awareness of Company vision and goals.
* A good team player with the ability to work on own initiative.
* Well organized and disciplined with regards policy, procedure and standards.
* Good oral and written communications.
* Can set priorities and be flexible in changing environment.

For the iOS, the person must have:
Strong background in Objective-C programming and worked on developing applications for iPhone or iPad. They will want to know what products they have in the market.

Sr. Software Engineer – Smartphone
Overview

Our Client is looking for a Senior Software Engineer for the Mobile Applications development team. This individual must be a highly motivated professional who enjoys working in a fast paced, agile development environment. This position will be responsible for bringing our client’s Games services to smartphone devices. This includes development of apps for Android, iOS, WebOS, and underlying technologies for distributing games on those platforms.
Qualifications:
· Expert in one or more of the following: C/C++, Java, Objective C
· Experience developing and deploying smartphone apps.
· Experience with HTML, CSS and JavaScript
· Experience with Linux/Unix environments
· Familiar with Subversion
· Bachelor’s degree in CS or equivalent training and certifications
Bonus Skills:
· Game development for smartphone devices a plus

Our client has gone mobile, and we are excited about this new way for home owners, buyers, sellers and professionals to tap into all the great information they has to offer. Our Clients iPhone, Android, and Windows Mobile applications are the #1 real estate applications on their respective devices. We are looking to hire a developer to join our mobile product development team. Someone with a track record of success developing mobile applications (preferably on the iPhone, Android, or Blackberry) platform is a plus.

Skills:
• Experience with at least one of Objective-C/Cocoa/Xcode, Java, or C++/C#
• Technical expertise in Ajax, XML, Web 2.0 application frameworks, tools and technologies
• Exposure to integrating RESTful APIs and web services with applications
• BS in Computer Science with a minimum of 2 years of software application and systems development experience
• A proven track record of high productivity in application, architecture, design, coding, debugging
• Ability to carry out assigned tasks with limited need for supervision
• The ability to work in a fast, agile-like and nimble environment with frequent change
• Excellent problem solving and critical thinking skills
• Passion for Web 2.0 and mobile applications
• Experience in developing mobile consumer software applications preferably on the iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile, or Blackberry platforms a plus.

Responsibilities:
• Work with a product team on the company’s iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile (and other mobile platform) applications
• Be involved at all stages of application development, from UI design to final testing
• Work closely with other developers to implement server APIs and services to support planned mobile functionality
• Work on an ongoing basis with UI designers, Program Managers and Testers in a team environment
• Consistently write performance-minded, highly-readable code using OO best practices

PURPOSE OF THIS JOB: To establish a local face of a global brand.
The Field Marketing Specialist (FMS) is primarily responsible for driving Red Bull’s marketing strategies through the management of consumer collecting programs: specifically Wings Teams and Student Brand Managers. In addition, the FMS supports the FMM in the execution of specific Red Bull Athlete and Event projects, maximizing Communications output and fostering relationships with local Opinion Leaders.

MAJOR ACTIVITIES TO ENSURE ACHIEVEMENT OF KEY RESULTS AND DELIVERABLES

1. Wings Team Program
• Set clear goals together with the FMM to drive trial that engages new users and expands the consumer base.
• Recruit, train and lead the market Wings Team.
• Coach the Wings Team Members (WTM) to continually reinforce best practice and delivery against defined strategy.
• Brief/manage Wings Teams to ensure that branded and supported events are harnessed as opportunities to best impact target consumers.
• Manage requests for the Wings Teams regarding sales support and sales drives within the region.
• Roll out and manage specific activation programs such as “Party Striker” etc.
• Recruit, train and manage team captains for each Wings Team to assist in administration, recruiting and planning.
• Coach and empower each Wings Team Member to play an active role in the planning process to ensure a constant flow of fresh mission ideas to grow user base.
• Network with local contacts and opinion leaders to generate broad reaching mission opportunities in line with strategy to grow user base.

2. SBM Program
• Recruit, train and manage a team of college students to make Red Bull an integral and relevant part of a student’s life.
• Initiate, organize and supervise sales offensives together with the local sales team to ensure perfect distribution and visibility at and around campus.
• Activate campus relationships & integrate Red Bull into key usage occasions and the right image building opportunities with college students on and off campus.
• Lead the creative process within the SBM (and WTM) community to ensure a constant flow of new ideas to build loyalty within the collegiate audience.

3. Sports, Culture and Communications
• Create activities (original local events, activations of national event properties, athlete marketing projects) reflective of the Red Bull Brand values; deliver a clear, strong, authentic brand message to the consumer.
• Support select 3rd party sport and culture events that are relevant to the Red Bull brand.
• Support the FMM in all other activities as needed. Including, but not limited to:
i. Developing and executing specific Red Bull owned programs
ii. Activating National or Regional Red Bull programs
iii. Building and activating relationships with opinion leaders for local market impact
iv. Execution of Communications plans in local media
• Support FMM as needed in regional priorities in order to boost local output.

4. Identify and selectively support collaborative sales & marketing opportunities
• Support FMM to work in conjunction with the area sales team to ensure that marketing initiatives and programs are leveraged across the sales channel and the brand image is brought to life within the on premise environment and with key customers.
• In secondary markets, act as key marketing contact to local sales / on-premise counterparts.
• Actively participate in meetings with local sales team to align marketing and sales strategies.

5. Management and Administration
• Work in close collaboration with the Business Unit Consumer Collecting Manager.
• Coach and train direct reports (Wings Team Members, Student Brand Managers) to maximize their impact and cultivate their skills and brand knowledge.
• Manage expense reports, budget authorization and all other administrative paperwork for direct report responsibilities.

KEY RESULTS AND DELIVERABLES (WHAT DOES SUCCESS LOOK LIKE)

1. Consumer trial that engages new users and expands the consumer base, per capita consumption and share.
2. Perfect execution of the consumer collecting programs (SBMs and WT).
3. Relevant and impactful activities with key targeted consumers via developed relationships.
4. Support of the FMM on perfect implementation of defined sports and culture and communications projects.
5. Effective working relationships with on and off premise sales and excellent delivery of defined projects.

POSITION PROFILE: KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

1. Proven ability to manage, coach, and mentor a team.
2. Ability to cultivate team environment.
3. Exceptional communication skills, including presenting and training abilities.
4. Doer with a track record of accomplishment
5. Creative mind, with prior successes in driving the creative process.
6. Strong organizational, planning and project management competencies.
7. Must be proficient in Microsoft office applications and common IT tools.
8. Passionate about the Red Bull Brand.
9. Former SBM or Wings Team Member with a perfect understanding of consumer collecting preferred.
10. Bachelor’s Degree required.

Employment Type: Contract
Client: International Commercial Real Estate firm
Location: Seattle, WA
Status:
Duration: Long-term contract, all of 2011

Details: Our client’s CRM Development Team is looking for a contract .NET Developer to replace a consultant who recently left the organization. Person needs to have solid .NET 4.0 skills and overall solid experience both technically and customer facing within a MS Framework. Team is approximately 10 people in size and they have great teamwork and camraderie. Please apply for more information.

Our client is looking for someone who has worked with testing major mobile technologies, including the iPhone and Android platforms. The successful candidate should have an understanding of mobile: inventory, checkout, shopping cart, billing, order status, and related workflows for processing mobile orders.

This individual will work with Business Analysts, Developers, System Architects, Quality Assurance, Product Owners, and SCRUM Masters in developing the following testing artifacts: test plan, test strategy, and test cases.

Familiarity with major methodologies, such as: RUP, Waterfall and Agile, and SCRUM are preferred.

Core Skills:
Ø Excellent communication skills as evidenced in verbal and written presentations
Ø Ability to team with a wide variety of individuals while gaining consensus on test planning, test strategy and the depth of test cases to be covered in a given Sprint
Ø Ability to plan and develop test cases while building a test execution schedule which meets all guard rails defined by the Sprint
Ø Understanding of key QA Terminology, including: regression testing, unit testing, integration testing, system integration testing
Ø Ability to author and execute Test Cases within HP Quality Center (QC)
Ø Ability to query both the front end and back end and make sure the values match using a high level language such as MS SQL and/or T-SQL
Ø Ability to write concise and repeatable defects in our JIRA bug tracking system
Ø Ability to interface with our developmental vendor in coordinating, fixing, and ensuring that our customer experience is optimal Mobile App Key Testing Areas
Ø Ensure that the app works in all environments and ensures that appropriate gates are passed as software moves through the following gates: DEV / QA / UAT
Ø Develop a consistent and robust library of test permutations for testing the app
Ø Ensure that the Graphical display is consistent and has data integrity with back end systems
Ø Ensure that Correct SKUs, Inventory, and product availability is displayed on the app
Ø Ensure that: Add to Cart, Check Out, and status information is displayed correctly Ø Ensure that testing of new functionality during every Sprint includes a robust regression testing process as a certification process before the close of each sprint
Ø Ensure that as new versions of the app are deployed, that they work correctly and consistently with each Apple iOS Service Pack Upgrade
Ø Ensuring that all customer data from one user is obscured and unreachable using standard PCI Industry Security Standards Desired Skills:
Ø Developmental background in mobile retail platforms including the iPhone and Android
Ø Testing at one or more clients using developmental frameworks for the iPhone and Adroid systems
Ø Capable of building test harnesses which communicate directly with the mobile APIs for test certification purposes
Ø Capable of building data driven automated frameworks for testing our iPhone application
Ø 2+ years using Quality Center for writing and executing test cases
Ø Familiarity with Agile, SCRUM, RUP, Waterfall Nice to Have Skills:
Ø Background in Business/Process Analysis
Ø Prior developmental skills or from a developmental background in the mobile industry
Ø Quality Assurance Certification

About the position:

We are building a global intranet portal platform based on new SharePoint Server 2010 technology. This position will be part of a new agile development team that will engage in this project and it from the ground up. The team will deliver world-class enterprise search, personal sites and profiles, team sites and a global content publishing enterprise portal.

Senior Software Development Engineer – SharePoint / .NET We are looking for an experienced .NET developer (C#, Visual Studio) with strength in server-side SharePoint technologies and experience in developing custom web parts, custom Visual Studio workflows, deployment / solution packaging, and custom tools and utilities.

Must have:
- Experience in ASP.NET web development
- 5+ years’ experience in software development and complete development life cycle
Familiarity with Microsoft .NET development tools: Visual Studio, TFS
- Excellent design skills
- Excellent communications skills
- Aptitude for technical leadership, independence and initiative, and flexibility for work in a small dynamic IT development team

Should have:
- Knowledge and experience working using the SharePoint (WSS) and SharePoint Server (MOSS) object model and / or web services;
- Experience with SharePoint deployment constructs
- Familiarity with SharePoint development practices and tools: SharePoint Designer, InfoPath

Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico:

- Fully bilingual in English and Spanish
- Experience in Selling consulting and professional services (analysis, reconfiguration)
- Desired experience in sales and implementation of Digitalization Processes, Print to Mail, Mail Room Management.
- Desired experience in Digital Imaging and Work Flow.
- Ability to find and generate, develop and/or expand new/existing accounts
- Ability to identify product/services needs and opportunities in the customers’ organization and to configure solutions to meet the needs.

Windows Technology Engineer (Seattle, WA)

WHO WE ARE

Our client provides software solutions and technology services to containerized and general cargo terminal operators. Think moving containers around on ships, trains, and trucks is low tech? Think again. We provide the software and services that make intermodal international trade possible.

Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with offices in Central America, Europe, and Asia our client serves customers worldwide

ABOUT THE POSITION

We are looking for a hardworking, energetic, experienced engineer to join our Windows Technology group. The successful candidate will assume Tier III administration and support role within the group, which in turn cares for over 2000 users and 400 servers in a multi-domain, multi-forest environment.

To be considered for this position, applicants must have a minimum 5 years’ experience in a senior Windows administration role in a multi-site environment with demonstrated ability to perform at high levels in a complex, distributed, enterprise environment, and have extensive hands-on experience in the following technologies:

• Windows OS Infrastructure Administration/Support (AD administration, GPO, File services, DHCP, DNS, WINS)
• Microsoft Infrastructure Services (Exchange, WDS, SCCM, SQL, WSUS, Terminal Services/Citrix)
• Non-Microsoft Infrastructure Services (SEP Antivirus, VMWare ESX Virtualization technology, and Commvault Data Protection)

In addition, experience with the following technologies is considered highly desirable:

• Scripting and automation methodology (VBScript, PowerShell, WMI)
• Web Site Administration (IIS/Tomcat)
• System Security
• Microsoft Cluster Services

We are looking for someone with a can do attitude, but who also understands that just because it can be done doesn’t mean it makes good business sense. And while a mature and professional disposition is mandatory, that does not mean we want someone who lacks a sense of humor or has forgotten how to smile. We have a great work environment, and look for people that add something positive.

Job Description

Job Summary: Plans and directs all aspects of our clients’s clinical services in an office.
This position is responsible for ensuring quality therapeutic care to the clients of an individual office while adhering to the federal and state laws as well as the Ethical Standards of the BACB.

This position is responsible for establishing and monitoring treatment protocols for all clients in an office in accordance with our client’s policies and procedures.

Qualifications: Masters or Doctorate in ABA/Psychology/Education related field
BCBA or BCBA-D
Minimum 2 years in the field of ABA at supervisory level
Understanding and utilization of the following treatment models: (1) Applied Behavior Analysis, (2) Evidenced based practices, (3) Strengths-based, and (4) Crisis Prevention/ Intervention
Knowledge of Regional Center, Health Insurance, and other funding sources preferred
Flexibility with schedule and operations

Credentials: Maintain board certification
Pursue and maintain additional certification and trainings (i.e., CPI, CPR)

Reports to: Director of Operations

Collaborates with: Case Administrators
Other Clinical Directors
Corporate Clinical Director

Oversees: Clinical Supervisors
Senior Behavior Therapists
Behavior Therapists

Administrative Duties: Participate in Daily Situation Meetings with Director of Operations
Participate in weekly Clinicians Team Meetings
Assists clinical staff in analyzing and resolving case and training issues
Resolves clinical issues as independently as possible, seeking out appropriate support from relevant parties where needed
Attends and keeps abreast of vendor meetings and requirements
Communicate with payers and clients regarding clinical issues
Directly bill client specific tasks where appropriate
Participates in Pay for Performance model (P4P)

Vision: Provide clinical support and guidance to clinical personnel in an office
Provides clinical support and guidance to non-clinical personnel in an office

Hiring: Interview Clinical Supervisors and Senior Behavior Therapists where appropriate
Training and Organizes and oversees new hire training for Clinical Supervisors
Staff Development: Organizes and oversees new hire training for Behavior Therapists
Assess training needs to assist clinical department with clinical component of quarterly All Staff Meetings
Assess training needs to plan, develop, and implement on-going staff trainings
Directly evaluates Clinical Supervisors including direct observation, review of clinical products, and surveying others
Organizes and oversees evaluation of Senior Behavior Therapists and Behavior Therapists

Supervision: Provides on-going group supervision to Clinical Supervisors
Provides on-going individual supervision to Clinical Supervisors including at least 1 field-based observation per month (or as case load allows)

Direct Services: May directly assess, and supervise cases as decided with Direct of Operations and Case Administration
May directly conduct group parent training classes as decided with Direct of Operations and Case Administration

Clinical Model & Protocols: Contributes to and maintains standard protocols and procedures of our client
Review cases to evaluate performance and make clinical recommendations
Evaluate effectiveness of services and in collaboration with staff, devises improved techniques of implementation consistent with ethical standards, ABA methodology, and evidence based practices
Complete and/or review FBA/FA and progress reports
Oversee and/or directly provide group parent training

Our client has openings for experienced Requirements Engineers to join our team.
Existing CBP clearance is preferred, but not mandatory…and all candidates must be clearable up to (US Citizen with clear background). The work location is Reagen Building, D.C.

1. Strong Software Requirements Background

2. Familiarity with Requirements Analysis and Requirements Traceability

3. Preferentially someone with experience working with either a law enforcement agency or the intelligence community.

4. CBP BI or at least US Citizen that is clearable to get CBP clearance.

Description:
Our client has openings for experienced Requirements Engineers to join our team.

The Requirements Engineer works with clients and business partners to understand their business needs, vision, and strategy. The Requirements Engineer translates the business needs into functional and non-functional requirements for implementation by the software development team and for acceptance testing. The Requirements Engineer is the primary documenter and reviewer of requirements during the gathering phase to maintain quality, consistency, and thoroughness. The Requirements Engineer defines the foundation for product development after thorough analysis by capturing detailed descriptions of user needs and functional processes required to develop or modify a software product. The Requirements Engineer responsibilities include working with business analysts and/or user representatives to collect, track, manage, oversee functional and non-functional requirements, and prioritization of these requirements.

Minimum Requirements:

* A minimum of 10 years experience is required.
* Bachelor’s degree
* Possess a comprehensive knowledge on best practices of the requirements process and the entire software development life-cycle.
* Works well with others

Summary of functional responsibilities:

* Gather current client business practices and needs to develop in depth functional and non functional requirements.
* Elicit requirements via interviews, documents, and business analysis.
* Pursue and document detail for high-level business and user needs.
* Write detailed descriptions of user needs and processes.
* Manage client relationships and expectations during the requirements gathering phase.
* Ensure the project team, including: engineers, architects, quality assurance analysts, documentation specialists, and business analysts have clear, consistent, and testable requirements.
* Translate business problems into product and technology visions. Ensure that translated visions are in precise detail to support business requirements.
* Act as primary writer and analyst on several projects simultaneously.
* Provide guidance on devising effective and efficient approaches to achieve the project objectives.
* Define quality attributes, external interfaces, constraints and other non functional requirements.

Experience requirements:

* Specialized experience using requirements modeling methodology, such as UML, is highly desired.
* Proficiently dealt with clients at the business level, and with development teams at the technical level.
* Adeptly tailored and applied to a situation any acquired skills on requirements management principles and best practices.
* Authored Functional Requirements Documents and Technical Requirements Documents, and other system life cycle documentation.
* Managed documentation for more than one project and meet deadlines.
* Must be proficient with Microsoft Office tools
* Act independently under minimum supervision in all aspects of work.
* Demonstrate proven leadership skills in providing technical and administrative counsel to peers, including the review of work products for correctness and consistency.
* Provide advanced technical and analytical techniques based on client requirements.

Security Clearance:
Persons who fill this position will be required to satisfactorily complete a Background Investigation to determine suitability for employment at Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Current/Active CBP BI is preferred.

Our client offers excellent compensation packages including salary commensurate with experience and benefits to meet your needs. Details are:
Immediately upon hire, employees are eligible to participate in, or receive, the following benefits:

· 15 days paid leave annually. We also recognize all Federal Govt Holidays.
· Up to 5% 401k match
· Medical and Dental insurance
· Short and Long Term disability
· Annual performance/salary reviews on hire date anniversary

Summary of Functions:
This individual is responsible for creating test plans, test cases, and automation scripts for testing of commercial location-based telecommunication systems. Will work closely with functional analysts and development staff throughout the lifecycle of software development releases.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

• Active participation in review of software life cycle deliverables, including functional specification and design documentation.
• Generate Test Strategy and Test Plan documentation.
• Execute test cases for telephony call flows, provision test data, verify results against Transaction Detail Records and log files.
• Unix shell scripting for automating test case execution and results verification.
• Follow corporate policies and procedures.
• Other functions as required.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Telephony network applications such as MSC, SUPL, GMLC, PDM, and LPS in GSM and WCDMA networks, cellular systems engineering, wireless positioning technologies.
• Protocols such as OMA SUPL, ULP, RRLP, MLP, RLP, PCP, PAP, HTTP, Qualcomm V1, E5, IS-801.
• Telecom test equipment: Tekelec (MGTS) or Inet (Turbo7/Spectra).
• GPS positioning technologies, JPL RINEX, WARN data feeds
• SQL database provisioning and data validation.
• UNIX system experience – Sun Solaris
• Data networking
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Quality orientation with a strong eye for detail.
• Exhibit strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Display high levels of self-motivation.

Experience & Other Requirements:

• Bachelor Degree minimum
• Minimum 3 years experience in a telephony testing environment
• Experience developing and executing test scripts for telephony applications
• Detail-oriented, with strong analytical skills

Summary of Functions:
This individual is responsible for creating test plans, test cases, and automation scripts for testing of commercial location-based telecommunication systems. Will be a member of a six-person test team and will work closely with functional analysts and development staff throughout the lifecycle of software development releases.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

• Active participation in review of software life cycle deliverables, including functional specification and design documentation.
• Generate Test Strategy and Test Plan documentation.
• Execute test cases for telephony call flows, provision test data, verify results against Transaction Detail Records and log files.
• Unix shell scripting for automating test case execution and results verification.
• Follow corporate policies and procedures.
• Other functions as required.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Telephony network applications such as MPC, MSC, PDM, and LPS in CDMA networks. cellular systems engineering, wireless positioning technologies.
• SS7, SIGTRAN, and IP-based transport and protocols such as J-STD-036, ANSI-41D, Qualcomm V1 and V2, E5, IS-801, IPv6/IPv4.
• Qualcomm PDM technology.
• Telecom test equipment: Tekelec (MGTS) or Inet (Turbo7/Spectra).
• GPS positioning technologies (AFLT, AGPS, Hybrid, etc)
• GPS data feeds (JPL RINEX, WARN) and Base Station Almanacs (BSA’s).
• SQL database provisioning and data validation.
• UNIX system experience – Sun Solaris
• Data networking
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Quality orientation with a strong eye for detail.
• Exhibit strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Display high levels of self-motivation.

Experience & Other Requirements:

• Bachelor Degree minimum
• Minimum 3 years experience in a telephony testing environment
• Experience developing and executing test scripts for telephony applications
• Detail-oriented, with strong analytical skills

This position is responsible for
Leading the 6-person Product and Services Strategy and Planning team responsible for driving business line and customer analysis initiatives, including
o Executing quantitative and qualitative analysis and generating actionable recommendations based on that analysis
o Performing customer volume and trading analysis, market forecasts and scenario analysis for different business initiatives or strategies
o Creating business tools, reports, analytics and metrics to facilitate high quality business decision making and performance tracking
o Developing centralized market making incentive support
o Enriching data to enhance analysis and data quality
o Performing ad hoc business analysis as requested
o Providing analytical support to individual product lines and other divisions throughout the company
Collaborating with business line managers on fee initiatives and pricing strategy and policies, including
o Developing and assessing fee levels and incentives to drive growth
o Being a thought leader in the evolution of the overall philosophy behind the fee structures used by the company.
o Playing a leadership role in the cross-functional team that manages the fee change process and interacts with customers on fee related issues.
o Managing and Coordinating fee optimization analysis and execution.

The Product and Services Strategy and Planning (PSSP) group is responsible for
Identifying and translating product, customer, market and competitive trends into asset-spanning opportunities and challenges
Facilitating collaborative development of cross-asset strategies, initiatives and contingency plans
Driving/collaborating on execution of cross-asset strategies, initiatives and innovation
Collaborating and coordinating cross-asset strategy, analysis, execution across the exchange with individual product lines, corporate strategy and other exchange divisions
The PSSP group also works with the product groups to coordinate and collaborate on their strategic planning and product management activities, manage initiatives and track progress and performance, and to conduct analysis and to optimize business policies, pricing and incentives structures.

Qualifications
Required:
Have strong business analytic skills and good business instincts.
Able to execute, coordinate and direct financial, operational and strategic analyses of current and proposed potential business initiatives.
Able to work effectively in a team environment – both as the lead coordinating team member and as a thought-leader and a team member.
Able to engage in and direct comprehensive research and analysis of potential business initiatives, often with limited direction.
Able to create and present qualitative and quantitative analysis cogently to senior managers in both written and verbal presentations
Able to work with and analyze complex data sets
Experience managing and developing direct reports, cross functional teams and multi-divisional projects.
Advanced degree

Preferred:
10+ years of work experience;
Experience developing business analytical tools and using of business intelligence tools
CFA or similar professional analyst credential
Experience in strategy or business development is preferred; experience in Over-The-Counter trading, trading back office and clearing, or trading related-IT is also desired

Key: Research and Planning, M&A, the ability to forecast what the tax effects of a transaction will be

The areas include:
Compliance. Assist with the preparation of federal and state income tax filings for the firm. Research issues related to the preparation of non-income and income tax returns
Audit Defense. Interface with federal and state auditors. Work with Director, Tax on strategy and tactics. Research audit issues and respond to auditor questions.
Tax Research. Research a variety of issues across a broad range of taxes, including transactional and project issues. Communicate findings in written and verbal form to a range of internal and external customers, most of whom are not tax fluent. Assist in identification of tax minimization opportunities.
Income tax accounting (financial reporting). Responsible for the preparation fo quarterly and yearend tax provisions for the firm, including preparation of financial statement disclosures. Will also work with the Director and Manager to improve process and output.
This role will work cross-functionally with a wide group, including staff, customers, vendors, and outside consultants. As such, the ability to effectively communicate tax technical terms to a nontax audience is very important. This position also requires the ability to work independently as well as the ability to manage over long distances

Qualifications:
7-8 years of generalist tax exp.
A bachelor’s degree in accounting with a Masters’ degree in tax (or progress towards degree) is required
FAS 109 exp.
Preferred:
Some exposure to international tax, including local foreign tax
CPA

Other strong considerations:
· Mergers and Acquisition exp., knowledge of tax strategies and other M&A tax situations…and outcomes a huge plus

The BI Tester will work as a member of the Business Intelligence team and will work closely with Business Intelligence Developers, Database Developers, as well the Testers of the QA team to define, create, execute, and maintain test cases for a variety of data warehousing, reporting and analytical solutions:

• Responsible for the test planning and test execution.

• Responsible for ensuring the consistency between the defined requirements, the implementation of the business logic at the database layer, and the user’s experience in interacting with that data.

• Responsible for coordinating with off-shore BI resources as needed.

Job Activities:
Plan, develop, and execute test strategies for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing efforts. This includes:

• Develop, maintain, and enhance test suites to verify the validity and accuracy of ETL processes, dimensional data, OLAP cubes and various forms of BI content including reports, dashboards, and analytical models.

• Run tests and coordinate others including off-shore testers, on-site testers, developers, project managers, and business user ‘subject matter experts, through the test execution.

• Troubleshoot, isolate, log, and regress bugs associated with new functionality and sustainment updates.

• Work closely with BI, DW, and DB Developers to understand, analyze, make solution recommendations and define test strategy for data design, ETL processes, and the testing of data.

Experience, Skills and Attributes:
• Minimum 5 years QA and/or Test experience
• Minimum 3 years DB and DW experience, including:
• Strong experience testing ETLs, SSIS packages, Stored Procedures, Data Validation, and Schema design.
• Demonstrated data analysis ability using SQL.
• Experience testing Analysis Services

• Ability to refine high level design ideas and requirements into concrete and measurable test criteria.
• Proactive and passionate about BI, testing, and data analysis.
• Demonstrated strengths in development of test plans, test cases, and test strategy.
• Strong data analysis skills including the ability to interpret the meaning of the data and the intent of the data processing design. Able to identify and communicate data that is correct or incorrect and why.
• Ability to manage multiple projects & deadlines effectively with a minimum of supervision.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Tools and Technologies:

MS SQL Server 2008
MS Excel
Familiarity with MDX,
Familiarity with XML
Familiarity with Excel Power Pivot
Familiarity with SharePoint 2010

Responsibilities will include:
• Developing opportunity prospecting and coverage plans, including deal pipeline development and maintenance
• Developing contacts and relationships with potential partners
• Oversight of financial valuation and business case analyses
• Contributing to transaction structuring discussions
• Managing due diligence processes and transaction execution efforts
• Managing investment banking and private equity relationships
• Presenting business case analyses and resulting recommendations to management
• Frequent interactions with customers, internal business owners and senior management required

Required: Bachelors Degree plus 7+ years investment banking, business development, corporate strategy or corporate consulting experience. MBA or CFA credential is preferred although substantial relevant experience may substitute. Ideal candidate will evidence competence in transaction structuring, negotiation, valuation and execution. Existing knowledge or aptitude for understanding the operational and technological elements of our business. Strong interpersonal skills and comfort with corporate officer and potential partner interactions. Team player with strong collaborative work skills / ethic and ability to lead cross functional teams. Full familiarity with MS Office Suite. Occasional travel to Europe, more frequently to NY.

The telephonic sales position is responsible for driving new business revenue in an assigned territory by selling appropriate solutions to specific corporate departments who currently do not subscribe to our client’s product and service solutions.

Accountabilities:
1. Meet or exceed monthly and yearly revenue objectives.
2. Develop strategic sales plans for prospects that include identifying new revenue growth opportunities in the assigned territory, developing creative demand generation strategies aimed at positioning our client as the superior source in meeting the potential buyers information needs, managing all resources necessary to secure the business, (i.e. technical and product support, tactical marketing, pricing, etc.), forecasting revenue, developing key contacts and business relationships with influential individuals and high level decision makers, and identifying competitive threats and developing effective countermeasures.
3. Sell the value of our clients products/solutions to corporate professionals within an assigned territory by articulating how our solutions meet their information needs. This will be accomplished through cold calling to secure first appointments, advancing appointments, closing appointments, consulting sessions and group presentations.
4. Develop an in-depth understanding of all LexisNexis business information solution products and competitive products to articulate the benefits and advantages of LexisNexis products, and handle customer concerns or objections
5. Utilize all required processes, tools and systems including TAOP and Siebel
6. Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:
1. Bachelors degree or equivalent experience
2. 3-5 years proven business to business solution sales experience in new business generation, preferably with complex products or solutions over the phone
3. Strong new business prospecting skills including but not limited to cold calling, networking, negotiation and closing
4. In depth industry knowledge and the ability to quickly develop an in depth understanding of our client’s products and services
5. Experience working as part of a team in a highly complex matrixed corporate environment
6. Understanding and expertise in computer hardware and software including Windows XP, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, and the Internet.
7. Executive level communication and presentation skills
8. Documented history of sales overachievement
9. Deep understanding of Strategic Selling (TAOP, Miller Heiman, etc), Value selling, Team Selling, and CRM systems (Siebel is preferred)
10. Strong time management, organizational and forecasting skills
11. Strong business acumen to understand the impact of your decisions on the territory performance as measured by revenue, profit and customer measures.
12. Executive presence to convince customers to purchase our client’s products and services.
13. Politically savvy to understand and manage the power relationships in the organization and in other organizations/firms. Includes the ability to identify the real decision makers and key influencers, and to predict how new events or situations will affect individuals and groups within the organization.
14. Ability to lift or carry laptop and collateral sales materials of approximately 25 pounds.

Our client is a leading global provider of business information solutions to professionals in a variety of areas, including: legal, corporate, government, law enforcement, tax, accounting, academic, and risk and compliance assessment. Our client helps customers achieve their goals in more than 100 countries, across six continents, with over 18,000 employees. Regardless of your location, you’ll work together with your colleagues as one team – a unified network of professionals who share a passion for solving problems, realizing results, and pushing the boundaries of what knowledge can do.

***Additional Locations for AE-BIS-Telephonic, home based position (a bit more junior) includes Florida, Phoenix, Ohio, Denver, Philadelphia (ask for details on this position)

This field based sales position exists to protect, secure, and grow the revenue position within an assigned territory. This role will grow this revenue stream via expert client management, strategic deployment of resources (e.g., professional consultants, marketing, etc.), and spearheading the penetration of our client’s solutions throughout specific departments in the enterprise.

Accountabilities:
1. Meet or exceed monthly and yearly revenue objectives
2. Develop strategic account plans for all customers in an assigned territory. This should include identifying sales retention and penetration strategies aimed at positioning our client as the superior source in meeting the potential buyers information needs to maximize revenue opportunities, using business analysis tools to identify and track revenue trends, recognize sales opportunities, target specific sales activities, and analyze competitive threats, managing and strategically deploying all resources necessary to secure the business, (i.e. consultants, technical and product support, marketing, pricing, etc.), developing key contacts and business relationships with influential individuals and high level decision makers.
3. Sell the value of our clients products/solutions to corporate professionals within an assigned territory by articulating how our solutions meet their information needs. This will be accomplished through secure first appointments, advancing appointments, closing appointments, consulting sessions and group presentations.
4. Develop an in depth understanding of all our client’s business information solutions products and competitive products to articulate the benefits and advantages of their products, and handle customer concerns or objections.
5. Utilize all required processes, tools and systems.
6. Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:
1. Bachelors degree or equivalent experience
2. 5-7 years proven business to business solution sales experience, preferably with complex products or solutions
3. Solid strategic account planning and penetration skills
4. In depth industry knowledge and the ability to quickly develop an in depth understanding of our clients products and services
5. Experience working as part of a team in a highly complex matrixed corporate environment
6. Understanding and expertise in computer hardware and software including Windows XP, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, and the Internet.
7. Executive level communication and presentation skills
8. Documented history of sales overachievement
9. Deep understanding of Strategic Selling (TAOP, Miller Heiman, etc), Value selling, Team Selling, and CRM systems (Siebel is preferred)
10. Strong time management, organizational and forecasting skills
11. Strong business acumen to understand the impact of your decisions on the territory performance as measured by revenue, profit and customer measures.
12. Executive presence to convince customers to purchase our clients products and services.
13. Politically savvy to understand and manage the power relationships in the organization and in other organizations/firms. Includes the ability to identify the real decision makers and key influencers, and to predict how new events or situations will affect individuals and groups within the organization.
14. Ability to lift or carry laptop and collateral sales materials of approximately 25 pounds.

Our client is a leading global provider of business information solutions to professionals in a variety of areas, including: legal, corporate, government, law enforcement, tax, accounting, academic, and risk and compliance assessment. Our client helps customers achieve their goals in more than 100 countries, across six continents, with over 18,000 employees. Regardless of your location, you’ll work together with your colleagues as one team – a unified network of professionals who share a passion for solving problems, realizing results, and pushing the boundaries of what knowledge can do.

Additional Requirements:
· Excellent analytical skills
· Excellent communication skills
· Exhibit team leadership
· Able to demonstrate impact beyond their own task assignments

1. .NET
a. C#
b. ASP.NET
c. MVC
2. UI
a. HTML
b. CSS
c. JS/JQuery
3. DB
a. SQL Server (200X)
i. T-SQL
ii. Stored Procs
iii. Functions
iv. Performance Tuning/Troubleshooting
v. Minor DBA abilities
4. General
a. Team Leader
b. Project management
c. Good Oral/Written communication

The field based sales position is responsible for driving new business revenue in an assigned territory by selling appropriate solutions to Corporations and Non-Profit Organizations who currently do not subscribe to Our Client.

Accountabilities:
1. Meet or exceed monthly and yearly revenue objectives.
2. Develop strategic sales plans for prospects that include identifying new revenue growth opportunities in the assigned territory, developing creative demand generation strategies aimed at positioning Our Client as the superior source in meeting the potential buyers information needs, managing all resources necessary to secure the business, (i.e. technical and product support, tactical marketing, pricing, etc.), forecasting revenue, developing key contacts and business relationships with influential individuals and high level decision makers, and identifying competitive threats and developing effective countermeasures.
3. Sell the value of Our Client to Corporate Legal and Compliance professionals and to business and professional users within an assigned territory by articulating how our solutions meet their information needs. This will be accomplished through cold calling to secure first appointments, advancing appointments, closing appointments, consulting sessions and group presentations.
4. Understand the value of Our Client products and pricing as well as competitive offerings and articulate Our Client benefits in a manner meaningful to a customer.
5. Develop an in-depth understanding of all Our Client products and competitive products to articulate the benefits and advantages of Our Client products, and handle customer concerns or objections
6. Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:
1. Bachelors degree or equivalent experience, JD preferred
2. 3-5 years proven business to business solution sales experience; preferably in new business generation and selling into the legal market
3. In depth industry knowledge and the ability to quickly develop an in-depth understanding of LN products and services
4. Understanding and expertise in computer hardware and software including Windows XP, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, and the Internet
5. Experience working in a highly complex matrixed corporate environment
6. Strong oral and written communication skills as well as presentation skills
7. Strong time management, organizational and forecasting skills
8. Strong new business prospecting skills including but not limited to cold calling, networking, negotiation and closing
9. Deep understanding of Strategic Selling, Value selling, Team Selling, and CRM systems (Siebel is preferred)

Our Client is a leading global provider of business information solutions to professionals in a variety of areas, including: legal, corporate, government, law enforcement, tax, accounting, academic, and risk and compliance assessment. Our Client helps customers achieve their goals in more than 100 countries, across six continents, with over 18,000 employees. Regardless of your location, you’ll work together with your colleagues as one team – a unified network of professionals who share a passion for solving problems, realizing results, and pushing the boundaries of what knowledge can do.

Our Client is a rapidly growing, privately held, software company headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. Recently recognized in the Inc 500/5000 list as one of the fastest growing companies in the US, and the Virginia Fast 50 list of fastest in Virginia, Our client provides a unique software solution for planning, prioritization, and resource allocation. Designed to support group decision-making with highly customizable prioritization frameworks, Our client is being used by marquee clients in the US such as the Joint Chiefs, US Navy, Army, and Air Force, USDA, Military Health System, every major US Intelligence agency, Departments of Transportation in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Minnesota, California, and Utah, along with commercial clients such as Johnson & Johnson, Boeing, Genentech, the NFL, NHL, and Major League Baseball, Amtrak, Lockheed Martin, and international clients such as Siemens, Petrobras, and Horizon Power among others.

We are seeking an experienced Government Sales Executive to join us as a key member of the team, leading the growth of new Government customers at both the Federal and State levels. The primary responsibilities for the Government Sales Executive are to pursue and close enterprise-class or business unit-level opportunities within various government markets that involve the sale of software license to solve the customer’s challenges. We are looking for candidates with a proven track record of building new customer relationships, managing complex procurement processes to secure high six and seven figure deal sizes, and achieving 100%+ quota targets. This candidate has the desire for significant compensation upside without limitation in a growing market. The sales focus is net new government clients in both mature buyer segments as well as ones that are less established, and will focus at both the Federal and State levels.
This position often works independently but always with the support of the existing sales assets, the executive team, channel partners, and sales consultants.
Duties and Responsibilities
Ability to articulate a new, innovative value-proposition in a clear and concise manner, understand customer needs, and provide leadership as to how the solution delivers to their needs.
Manage complex sales cycles with multiple stakeholders
Consistently and accurately forecast monthly and quarterly bookings
Build and maintain a book of renewable business with high customer satisfaction
Develop and execute strategies with corporate executives to penetrate new accounts
Demonstrate success in selling in both an individual and team selling environments
Understand the potential clients’ requirements, challenges, culture and environment
Stay abreast of clients’ drivers and current events affecting their organizations
Provide functional overview demonstrations that highlight to the customer the solution’s value proposition
Work closely with marketing and other sales assets to generate attendees for sales events (webinars, seminars, etc.) and provide diligent follow through with prospects after the events
Willingness to work in an early stage organization with expectations towards sustainable growth
May have travel requirements up to 25%

Job Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in a business related field preferred
Minimum seven years experience with complex/technical products and services, preferably in outside consultative style sales role
Enterprise software and/or software licensing experience
Ability to implement sales strategies and tactics to grow sales in a highly competitive market, relying on differentiating product features and business value rather than price
Experience calling on SES or General Officer/Flag level senior executives within the Government market, preferably in the financial and technology sectors
Understanding the buying decision making process in the target organizations
Proven track record meeting and exceeding annual quota year over year
Goal-oriented and incentive driven with a history of achievement
Excellent presentation skills
Ability to handle, adapt, and overcome change
Strong negotiation skills
Extreme attention to detail
Experience in early stage company desired

Location: Bellevue, WA

About the Engineer IV, Software Apps opportunity:

We seek a highly motivated Lead Software Engineer to play a key role in the entire software lifecycle for our mobile internet-based mCore application suite. This is an excellent opportunity to be a member of an experienced team of developers who work on products with a high degree of visibility both inside and outside of Motricity serving millions of users. As a lead software development engineer in the team you will be involved in all aspects of the development lifecycle, from architectural and design decisions to prototyping, coding, testing and releasing. A high degree of technical proficiency, as well as skill in leading others, is the key to success in this job.

Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Design, develop , troubleshoot, debug, deploy, and maintain the mCore application suite
2. Lead a multisite team geographically located across different time zones during the entire lifecycle of our projects.
3. Work on creating high performance, scalable applications using .NET and Java technologies
4. Communicate team progress, issues, and risks to Development Manager, Project Manager, and other stakeholders
5. Collaborate closely with our cross-functional scrum teams to ensure project delivery in a timely fashion
6. Help build a world class product development team from the ground up.

REQUIREMENTS:

Functional/Technical Skills:
§ Display strong object oriented design and programming skills.
§ Display strong experience in designing scalable, high performance systems using .NET and / or Java

§ Broad knowledge of relational database design and architecture.
§ Lead a multi-site engineering team geographically located across different time zones
§ Demonstrate a high level of accountability, initiative, flexibility, and the ability to manage workload and achieve results.
§ Display strong leadership skills and influence the work of others.
§ Have excellent trouble-shooting and problem-solving skills.
§ Adheres to agreed engineering standards and processes.

§ Works successfully cross-functionally across the Engineering, Operations, and Production teams in resolution of problems
§ Work to client deadlines, handling multiple simultaneous, complex tasks; and operating with minimal supervision.
§ Work as a team player, who “owns” his or her area and understands success requires a high degree of creativity to discover or create a solution.

§ Work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team and adapt well to changing priorities.
§ Proven knowledge of database systems (at least one of Oracle, SQL Server).
§ Strong English written, verbal, and comprehension skills required.
Technology
§ High proficiency in Java, C#, ASP .NET, SQL, Design patterns, and OO design. (It is acceptable to be highly proficient in only one of Java or C#, as long as the other language is known)

§ Additional skills using XML/XSL, perl a plus.

§ Agile development methodology.

Education & Experience

§ Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related equivalent.
§ 8+ years of industry experience (outside of school experience)

We seek a highly motivated Lead Software Engineer to play a key role in the entire software lifecycle for several mobile internet-based applications using our publishing platform, a key set of products for our client. This is an excellent opportunity to lead an experienced team of developers who work on several interesting products with a high degree of visibility both inside and outside of our clients HQ.

Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Lead a team of software engineers (working in Publishing product development area), and distributed across multiple time zones (US East, Ukraine, India) to meet the project goals.
2. Responsible for driving the design, development and deployment of software in an Agile fashion
3. Responsible for setting internal deadlines for the team and ensuring delivery of software according to schedule
4. Communicate team progress, issues, risks to Development Manager periodically
5. Work with QA and Project management to ensure project delivery in a timely fashion
6. Participate in scrum planning and prioritization meetings
7. Assists solution architect, product manager in defining business/product requirements.

REQUIREMENTS: Functional/Technical Skills:
* Adheres to agreed engineering standards, processes and programs.
* Works successfully cross-functionally across the Engineering, Operations, and Production teams in resolution of problems
* Lead a multi site engineering team geographically located across different time zones
* Demonstrate a high level of accountability, initiative, flexibility, and the ability to manage workload and achieve results.
* Display strong leadership skills and influence the work of others.
* Broad knowledge of relational database design and architecture.
* Proven knowledge of database systems (at least one of Oracle, SQL Server). * Have excellent trouble-shooting and problem-solving skills.
* Work to client deadlines, handling multiple simultaneous, complex tasks; and operating with minimal supervision.
* Work as a team player, who “owns” his or her area and understands success requires a high degree of creativity to discover or create a solution that will delight the client.
* Work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team and adapt well to changing priorities.
* Strong English written, verbal, and comprehension skills required.
* Knowledge of mobile applications and mobile web technology desired.

Education & Experience
* High proficiency in C#, ASP .NET, SQL, Design patterns, and OO design.
* Additional skills using XML/XSL, JAVA, perl and python a plus.
* Agile development methodology
* Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related equivalent, Master’s degree preferred.
* 8+ years of experience of industry experience (outside of school experience)

Data Processing: comprised of data analysts and application developers responsible for mail file production, data hygiene and conversion, and complex merge/purge processing.
Database Services: Responsible for customized prospecting databases for national brands that manage and analyze performance of large, complex integrated marketing campaigns.
Analytic Services: Performs business and marketing ROI analysis on nearly every direct marketing project in the agency.

In addition to managing the groups mentioned above, the DDSA will be responsible for the following six areas of focus (to support the agency and our clients):

Understand business goals and testing strategies of our clients, offering solutions and suggestions that allow us to achieve those goals most efficiently, and ensuring that the agency has the infrastructure and talent to support and report on these strategies.
Support daily production requirements of one of the largest direct marketing programs in the nation and a variety of diverse DM programs for other nationally recognized brands. Error free and on time delivery is required.
Maintain ISO 27001 Certification for client information data security. Ensure that we have a secure, scalable data infrastructure that allows us to automate, audit and streamline our data workflow across the agency.
Focus on product/process improvement to continually enhance our offering and stay competitive within the industry.
Provide detailed, accurate campaign analytics and reporting for program ROI and performance – delivering insights that drive future strategy and client engagements.
Develop and foster a flexible and responsive organizational structure; fostering innovation and collaboration; growing and retaining talent.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Manage multiple, external marketing data feeds (customer, prospect database, list rental, suppression and campaign response sources)
• Execute data hygiene processes (merge/purge, ACE, standardization) to produce consolidated, accurate views of the marketable universe
• Select and manage audience segments
• Create error-free mail files and reports to support direct mail production by multiple vendors
• Data support of campaign performance analysis, including match back processes and support of an OLAP cube reporting platform
• Identify opportunities for targeting; improve the quality and consistency of work while assisting our clients with the improvement of their own data delivery
• Reduce cycle time through automation and data warehousing strategies
• Cultivate an integrated perspective of direct marketing by seeing the big picture; utilizing your knowledge of various data/reporting & analytics platforms, and the selection of the appropriate toolset for each production process.
• Demonstrated expertise in the use of DM software/Postal Soft tools and custom applications developed in SQL.
• Lead and manage process improvement initiatives to include: automation of primary processes, existing procedures to identify inefficiencies and respond to client requirements
• Understand, embrace and champion standard operating procedures (SOPs) in order to protect the client and company from undue risks; ensure SOPs are current, efficient and serve our production needs.
• Possess in-depth understanding of modeling techniques and applications; (design of experiment would be nice too)
• Prior experience working on complex, data-driven assignments that require an ability to understand and navigate large data structures, manipulate and cleanse data and perform any and all necessary statistical analysis.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS REQUIREMENTS (position specifications; such as knowledge/education, skills, problem solving/decision making, risk/bottom line results, management responsibility – people and functions)

College degree or advanced degree
5+ years database marketing; data processing/warehousing experience in a production environment (agency, service bureau, client or print production facility)

• Expertise and comprehensive understanding of SQL database; programming principles, with hands on experience in process automation, writing queries and procedures

• Experience with USPS software applications (i.e. Postal Soft) and production environment

• Demonstrated knowledge of advanced database marketing, analytics and reporting; including OLAP cubes/reporting platforms

• Excellent communication, interpersonal skills

• Demonstrated ability to lead, motivate and manage staff

• Experience with SharePoint or other workgroup/workflow tools

• Ability to work effectively in a fast paced, deadline driven, highly dynamic atmosphere and react quickly to changes and shifting priorities
Bonus Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

Design/maintain and support Data Warehouse and OLAP processes, and ETLs
Knowledge of database reporting solutions such as SQL Server Reporting Services
Solid experience on fundamental system and database administration, tuning, backup/recovery, performance and tuning, problem determination and resolution

As one of the largest Integrated Direct Marketing agencies on the West Coast, our client currently offers a wide variety of digital marketing solutions to our clients – campaign-specific microsites and landing pages, email campaigns, web analytics, lead databases, banner and rich media campaigns, mobile marketing, Search and client portals – all managed and supported by our in-house team. We’re looking for an experienced manager who can help us expand our offerings and provide the technical and business leadership to make it happen.

The Director of Interactive Services is a high profile position and a key addition to our management team. Interacting across the agency with our Account, Creative, Operations and Media departments, this individual will provide the vision for the agency’s web development and digital offering and build process to ensure flawless execution for a wide variety of web projects from start to finish. This individual needs to be an experienced manager who can represent the department in the agency and lead our current team of web and Flash developers.

Position Requirements:

5+ years experience within an interactive agency environment, managing web development and online marketing campaigns, including web site development, database management, email campaign management, and web analytics.
• Hybrid of technical visionary and a business manager who is able to develop and manage an outstanding web development organization while building workflow process and controls.
• Detail-oriented execution is a must-have skill to oversee projects from start to finish — from scoping and defining, development to testing, execution and reporting.
• Ability to represent the department as the subject matter expert on what is possible to support the campaign vision and collaborate with Development, Creative and Account teams. Suggests alternative technical solutions to meet client requirements more efficiently and/or improve the product offering.
• Ability to scope and define agency projects, and assess the resources required to execute these projects.
• Stays current on emerging technology developments and competitive offerings, proactively developing and evangelizing new product offerings consistent with customer needs – such as Mobile Marketing and Social Media.
• A passion for online marketing and advertising.
• Bachelor’s Degree required.

Leadership Skills:
• Full P&L responsibility for the Interactive Services department
• Exceptionally strong interpersonal, negotiation, influence and relationship management skills that enable collaborative working relationships to be developed with other departements.
• Manage the day-to-day operations of the Web Development team providing leadership, communication, prioritization, and decision-making activities
• Customer focused – both for internal clients and our ultimate end clients
• Must be able to provide technical and detail-oriented support to our internal teams, while managing and overseeing numerous projects simultaneously.
• Lead a focus on continual product improvement.
• Project Management and departmental workflow management experience.

Ability to manage multiple projects of varying complexity on concurrent timelines within deadlines and constraints
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Must be extremely detail-oriented without losing sight of the big picture.

Technical Skills:
• Experience leading teams that design, Build, Test & Maintain highly scalable Web applications
• Knowledge of ASP, ASP.NET, HTML, AJAX, CSS, VBScript, JavaScript, Flash, Silverlight, dHTML, XML and other common web development technologies.
• Experience working in Microsoft Visual Studio
• Strong understanding of relational databases. Experience utilizing MS SQL Server including writing efficient queries and stored procedures and using SQL Server Management Studio is a big plus. (5+ years experience)
• Creates and monitors the set of policies that establish standard coding practices, deployment frameworks, tools, and testing methodology
• An understanding of web/campaign analytics, including usage of various analytics tools and software programs
• Proficiency with Source Managment systems such as MS SourceSafe or Subversion.
• Familiarity with Web 2.0 technologies and standards
• Experience with email marketing platforms via SaaS Email Service Providers (we’re a Responsys shop).
• Establish and define a standard methodology for quality assurance, to ensure that all deliverables are bug-free. Experience establishing QA / Testing protocols and plans.

Our client is getting ready to kick off a major project around their new Web Publishing Platform. This person will interact with both the Manager and Architect on high level design and assessment. In addition, they will work closely with the remaining SW Engineers on the team to coach, lead, mentor with new projects and development efforts.

Job Description: We have an opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer Lead to join our talented Development Team to position and enhance our clients web portal. As a Senior Software Engineer you will contribute to our clients success by designing, developing, implementing, documenting and maintaining systems applications.

Responsibilities and Deliverables:
· Analyzes, designs, develops, implements, documents and maintains applications systems, working on moderately complex to highly complex work tasks or project assignments.
· Gathers, analyzes and translates business and non-functional requirements into a solution design. May lead meetings to define business requirements and technical solutions. Manages tasks, estimates resources, establishes timelines and prioritizes work.
· Designs, develops to specifications and maintains application code in accordance with the current development and project management methodologies and practices.
· Manages work assignments according to current project methodologies or as directed.
· Prepares required documentation for the portion of work assigned.
· Provides technical assistance and problem resolution for assigned systems. Leads resolution of production support problems in accordance with problem management policies and procedures. Leads resolution of production support incidents in accordance with incident management policies and procedures.
· Coordinates with vendors for problem resolution and change requests.
· Ensures that applications changes follow change management policies and procedures.
· Provides technical guidance to ensure that installed systems are working effectively and that proposed systems will meet organization’s future needs.
· Prepares periodic and ad hoc status reports for each assignment for department manager and project manager.
· Identifies and provides recommendations for system process improvements.

Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent training and experience.
· 5+ years engineering experience creating and executing implementation strategies for complex systems.
· Strong OO Design skills
· Up to date Experience with Java EE technologies (Servlet, JSP, JSF, JTA, JDBC, etc)
· Strong experience with ORM frameworks (prefer Hibernate)
· Experience with Dependency Injection frameworks (Spring, Guice, CDI, etc)
· Experience with Unit Testing frameworks (JUnit, TestNG) and Mocking frameworks (EasyMock, Mockito)
· Experience with modern IDE (Eclipse, Netbeans)
· Solid knowledge of source control systems (SVN, CVS) and Continuous Integration systems (Hudson, Cruise Control)
· Familiar with the following a plus: Maven, Struts, Websphere Application Server
· Ability to apply complex principles, theories and concepts of the technical discipline and provide solutions to a wide range of complex tasks, projects and problems.
· Ability in all phases of technical writing for information or infrastructure systems.
· Ability to participate in on-call rotation for 24×7 service requirement.
· Ability in all phases of technical writing for information or infrastructure systems.
· Actively participates and collaborates with others on one’s own team and across our clients for the achievement of business goals; effective presentation skills.
· Executes effectively by using resources efficiently, meeting deadlines, and keeping others informed of work plans and progress toward goals.
· Ability to work on multiple assignments simultaneously.
· Retail industry experience a plus.

Our client is a fashion specialty retailer founded on a simple idea: offer each customer the best possible service, quality, value and selection. They provide great customer service goes beyond the selling floor. Our client’s IT organization is seeking a SharePoint Architect/Farm Administrator to join its Process & Collaboration Team.

The ideal candidate for this role is motivated and results-oriented with the ability to work with a diverse group of individuals within the company. This position will work closely with IT and business teams across the organization on SharePoint infrastructure and development projects.

Responsibilities

Responsible for infrastructure, topology code repository/deployment, and administration of multiple MOSS/2007 SharePoint farms and environments
Provide technical support, mentorship, and guidance to the SharePoint Services team
Partner with the development team to produce solid solutions that align systems with both industry and organizational standards while ensuring all applications are in compliance with established standards, guidelines and industry best practices
Produce and maintain documentation for supported systems including architecture diagrams, technical specifications, and detailed design documents
Support the implementation and maintenance of solutions developed with SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio
Work with defect tracking, source code control and software release systems to ensure high-quality software release
Maintain infrastructure of all applications and ensure the team meets their service level agreements
Manage the deployment and testing of regular patches to multiple environments
Present solutions to the Enterprise Architecture organization and regularly leverage their expertise for support and guidance
Champion governance and usage guidelines for all SharePoint environments and create/maintain processes related to those initiatives

Qualifications

5+ years of Windows SharePoint Services v3 (WSS 3.0)
4+ years experience with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007), IIS 6.0, ASP and .NET 1.1, 2.0, 3.0 and above, Windows Server 2003 and 2008, Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007, and SQL Server 2005
5+ years of experience in an application architecture role to include development, implementation and maintenance of large-scale systems across multiple platforms
3+ years professional experience in Microsoft .NET (C#, VB, ASP) development and professional experience with IIS/ASP, XML, HTML, and JavaScript
3+ year professional experience with SharePoint development
3+ years professional experience with relational databases, preferably SQL Server
Ability to provide 24×7 on-call support
Strong understanding of IT processes, applications, technologies and tools, including languages, technical architectures, testing methodologies, databases, system design and modeling
Proven experience in work effort estimating, hardware and/or software configuration
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or related field preferred

Details: Reports directly to the Manager of Enterprise Architecture. Looking for a seasoned Data Architect to assist in both short-term and long-term goals and initiatives for the IV Technology Group. High level focus will be 50% on Data Structure in Documentum and 50% working on enhancing current Data Architecture.

TITLE: Data Architect

LOCATION: Bellevue, WA

Our client is seeking a highly skilled, motivated and experienced Data Architect.

This position will play a key technical role in influencing various technical and business decisions within IV. The data architect will work with the developers, users and other architecture team members to ensure that the solutions are built on a world-class enterprise wide model. The data architect will act as the SME on key enterprise data and content management initiatives and will influence the technology roadmap of the organization.

Responsibilities:

Member of several project and virtual teams to deliver guidance and key architecture artifacts.
Create data architecture descriptions and models that will be used by the development organization as the basis for their overall solution design.
Facilitate and drive architecture trade-off analysis on architecturally significant decisions.
Partner with the software development organization to identify risks, improvements and key opportunities to optimize solutions.
Analyze and Integrate information from disparate systems to create comprehensive Data Models.
Review current operational data structures and recommend optimizations as warranted.
Understand the complete lifecycle of the data and how information interacts with business process.
Aid in the maturity and evolution of the IV architecture capability maturity.
Contribute to the IV standards library that will be used for decision making on all new and existing solutions.
Develop specific architectural best practices that will guide technology decisions that are consistent with the strategic objectives of IV
Collaborates extensively throughout the firm to ensure business needs around data quality are met.
Establish governance and data stewardship models.
Key Qualifications and Required Skills:

Must be a highly motivated, self-starter, possess excellent communication skills, and be able to work both independently and on a team.
Exceptional analytical skills, to critically evaluate the information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts; decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a more general understanding. .
Must have strong interpersonal skills and have the ability to build strong professional relationships.
Ability to resolve conflicts and present reasoned alternatives to difficult or contentious problems.
Ability to facilitate meetings and drive discussions to achieve defined objectives.
Hands on experience with ETL and Data Integration Tools.
Must possess solid SQL skills, experience with Data Quality/Data profiling tools is a plus.
7-10 years of progressive experience in database management, relational database modeling and design, data architecture and data warehousing.

Summary Description:
This candidate is expected to be fully competent to work on complex development assignments and deliver solutions qualified for in-network product operation. Candidate must be able to document solution well enough to allow customer’s staff to administer after installation and validation. Candidate is expected to have a firm grasp of Java, SQL, Bourne Shell Scripting, and Unix. Candidate must have skills necessary to design, develop, and maintain Operation Systems Support (OSS) applications and provisioning Web GUIs; develop operational metrics; and convert approved wireframes into functional CSS, HTML, Java, JSF Web pages.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:
Senior developer who can:
· Develop applications in multiple programming languages including MySQL, SQL, UNIX shell scripting, Java, JavaScript, HTML, and light C++.
· Maintain and develop OSS applications from architecture, through design, coding, debugging, and deployment. Collaborate on and support writing of specifications.
· Lead fast-paced design review workshops with developers, system engineers, customer representatives, business analysts, marketing management, etc.
· Lead or participate in peer reviews with senior manager and supervisor, followed by all-team formal reviews.
· Write front-end, middle-tier, and back-end Java code for Web GUIs.
· Write manual and automated unit tests to integrate with code.
· Ensure that each coding path is unit tested and bug free.
· Participate in full integration testing.
· Rapidly address issues and fix defects discovered during formal QA testing.

Candidate Qualifications:

Education:
• Bachelors Degree (preferably in Computer Science or similar discipline) from a four-year college or equivalent experience.

Knowledge & Skills:
• Quality orientation with a strong eye for detail.
• Structured approach towards development of processes and procedures.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Detail-oriented, with strong analytical skills.

Experience:
• Minimum 2 years experience building Web sites.
• Minimum 5 years programming experience developing software using Java.
• Minimum 2 years of programming Web applications experience with CSS, JavaScript, XML, and HTML.
• Minimum 2 years hands-on development experience in JSF, XHTML technologies like IceFaces
• Minimum 3 years programming experience in writing complex SQL queries.
• Experience with JBoss Seam.
• Minimum 2 years shell scripting experience (Bourne Shell a plus).
• Strong data analysis skills a must.
• Proficiency in a UNIX environment.
• Experience deploying and configuring Java and Web applications on Solaris platforms.
• Successful experience working with an agile-style software development team.
• Strong ability to communicate and document (white board, Visio diagram, design documents, release notes, etc.) the architecture, design, and test strategy of your products.
• ClearCase experience preferred.
• Excellent JavaScript skills.
• Cross-browser development and issues resolution between IE and Firefox.
• Firefox JavaScript debugging.
• IE JavaScript debugging.
• Perl experience a plus.
• Ice Faces experience a plus.
• Ant experience a plus.
• Motivated self-starter who likes working as part of a productive, supportive, fast-paced team.

Responsibilities:
-Member of several project and virtual teams to deliver guidance and key architecture artifacts.
-Create solution architecture descriptions and models that will be used by the development organization as the basis for their overall solution design.
-Facilitate and drive architecture trade-off analysis on architecturally significant decisions.
-Partner with the software development organization to identify risks, improvements and key opportunities to optimize the solutions framework in support of business initiatives so that agreed upon service levels for timely, accurate, and efficient information systems solutions are met.
-Drive technical design and architecture with the software development organization.
-Present solution designs to governing bodies for validation and approval.
-Aid in the maturity and evolution of the Company architecture capability maturity.
-Contribute to the Company standards library that will be used for decision making on all new and existing solutions.
-Develop specific architectural best practices that will guide technology decisions that are consistent with the strategic objectives of the Company.
-Acquire the necessary technical and business knowledge and perform technology and product research and evaluation to support LOB operations and software developments needs.
-Collaborates extensively throughout the firm to ensure integration of business processes and applications (new and legacy).
-Work with third party vendors and Company to develop and/or integrate their applications into company products to ensure that applications are in accordance with company product standards and guidelines.
-Evaluates new trends, technologies and software products to determine feasibility and desirability of incorporating their capabilities within the Company’s internal products.

Key Qualifications and Required Skills:
-Must possess top notch communication skills, the drive to succeed, and the ability to work independently and on a team, to multi task, and deliver quality results.
-Exceptional analytical skills, to critically evaluate the information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts; decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a more general understanding.
-Risk Management skills, to identify, analyze, and raise the visibility of risk factors.
-Ability to build strong professional relationships and be seen as a trusted advisor by business constituents.
-Strong interpersonal skills to resolve conflicts and present reasoned alternatives to difficult or contentious problems.
-Ability to facilitate meetings and drive discussions to achieve defined objectives.
-Possess excellent problem solving and analytical skills to create logical and innovative solutions to complex problems.
-Ability to critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, and translate what is being asked into core underlying requirements.
-Strong written and verbal communicator with the ability to capture and document requirements and specifications thoroughly and clearly.
-Advanced demonstrated experience with object oriented design and development techniques using Microsoft technologies.
-Comprehension and application of advanced architecture styles such as: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Composite Style Architecture Cloud Computing (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) -Demonstrated expertise in a variety of application development technology concepts, practices, and procedures.
-Comprehensive knowledge architecture modeling.

Experience with one or more of the following a plus:

-Architmate Unified Modeling Language (UML).
-Business Process Modeling (BPM).
-Demonstrated use of .NET application development technologies as well as a solid understanding and practical use of specific Microsoft development technologies such as: SharePoint, BizTalk, C#, ASP.NET, XML, SQL Server, Silverlight, WCF, WF and WPF.
-Expertise in large scale enterprise architecture such as CRM, ERP or outsourced hosted solutions.
-10 years software product development experience including at least 5 years as a software/application/solutions architect in the definition and implementation of -software/application architectures.
-Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering or Computer Science; Master’s degree desirable.

Overview of Role
This is an exciting role with a perfect blend of advanced technology and client facing responsibilities. We are seeking a highly motivated Technical Lead/Senior Developer to join a team that is focused on building and supporting an industry turnkey application. In this role you will be focused on design, development and deployment of high quality solutions and the infrastructure that support it.

Key Responsibilities
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate core competencies in the following areas:
• Work with customers and partners to gather and understand their requirements.
• Understand and analyze functional Specifications and help shape them to address our customer deployment needs
• Design solutions to meet the requirements, write the technical specification, build and work with quality assurance teams through delivery of the feature or release.
• Lead and support offshore and onshore members of a development team
• Deploy and support the Microsoft CRM application and integration with backend services/applications.
• Advise, guide, and review work completed by offshore developers for specific project and work packets.
• Work closely with operations engineers to ensure application availability and optimal performance using monitoring and routine health checks.

Requirements
The successful candidate will possess the following required degrees, certificates or competencies:
• 4+ years CRM technical/functional/Configuration experience on industry leading CRM packages like MSCRM, SalesForce, Siebel or Oracle.
• Experience developing applications that use SQL Server databases
• Experience developing applications that use .NET (VB.NET http://VB.NET, ASP.NET or C#)
• Developing .NET (C#) plug-ins for Dynamics CRM Platform events
• Developing custom .NET web pages and/or web services for Dynamics CRM • Developing .NET assemblies for Dynamics CRM Workflows
• Developing client-side Javascript for CRM entity form events
• Developing SQL Reporting Services Reports
• Using TFS 2008/2010 for branching, code reviews, and bug tracking
• Strong analysis / design skills
• Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills
• Sound knowledge of SDLC
• Excellent time management skills
• Team work expertise – sharing knowledge, coaching and support
• Demonstrated success working with individuals with a wide range of backgrounds to facilitate group problem solving in dynamic organizations.
• A self starter with ability to work with flexibility, efficiency, enthusiasm, and diplomacy both individually and as part of a complex team effort.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to set priorities, meet deadlines and manage projects.
• Ability to lead and motivate others.

Huawei GUIs, reports, and operational metrics tester.

This will be testing provisioning GUIs, so GUI, UNIX, and SQL skills are the focus. B2B, SOAP, and WSDL skills are a big plus.

Job Description:
Summary of Functions:
This individual is responsible for testing a wide variety of business process applications for monitoring, administrating, and reporting against business-critical applications in the telecommunications industry. Will work closely with functional analysts, development staff, and end users to fully understand product requirements and to deliver quality products.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

· Active participation in review of software life cycle deliverables, including functional specification and design documentation.
· Generate Test Strategy and Test Plan documentation.
· Execute test cases for web-based GUIs, Unix batch processing environments, and a wide variety of SQL query-based reports and data presentation applications.
· Unix shell scripting and test case execution.
· SQL query results verification
· Follow corporate policies and procedures.
· Other functions as required.

Knowledge & Skills:
· Solid test methodology skills and practices.
· Very capable SQL query skills.
· Solid Unix Scripting abilities and very comfortable and knowledgeable of Unix batch execution environments.
· Quality orientation with a strong eye for detail.
· Exhibit strong verbal and written communication skills.
· Display high levels of self-motivation.

Experience & Other Requirements:

· Bachelor Degree minimum
· Minimum 3 years experience in Unix and SQL processing environments
· Experience developing and executing test scripts for telephony applications
· Detail-oriented, with strong analytical skills

Job Description:

Summary of Functions:
This individual is responsible for creating test plans, test cases, and automation scripts for testing of commercial location-based telecommunication systems. Will be a member of a six-person test team and will work closely with functional analysts and development staff throughout the lifecycle of software development releases.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

· Active participation in review of software life cycle deliverables, including functional specification and design documentation.
· Generate Test Strategy and Test Plan documentation.
· Execute test cases for telephony call flows, provision test data, verify results against Transaction Detail Records and log files.
· Unix shell scripting for automating test case execution and results verification.
· Follow corporate policies and procedures.
· Other functions as required.

Knowledge & Skills:

· Telephony network applications such as MSC, GMLC, SMLC, and LPS in GSM and WCDMA networks. SS7 and PSTN systems engineering, cellular systems engineering, wireless positioning technologies.
· Protocols such as TCP/IP, OMA MLP, RLP, PCP, HTTP, SNMP
· Telecom test equipment: MLP Simulators.
· UNIX system experience – Sun Solaris
· Data networking
· Unix Shell Scripting
· SQL database provisioning and data validation.
· Quality orientation with a strong eye for detail.
· Exhibit strong verbal and written communication skills.
· Display high levels of self-motivation.

Experience & Other Requirements:

· Bachelor Degree minimum
· Minimum 3 years experience in a telephony testing environment
· Experience developing and executing test scripts for telephony applications
· Detail-oriented, with strong analytical skills

Looking for the following skills:
• UNIX
• Protocols such as TCAP, MAP, IS-801, SIGTRAN, TCP/IP.
• SS7 (signaling system 7)
• Telephony

Summary Description:

This individual is responsible for creating test plans, test cases, and automation scripts for testing of commercial location-based telecommunication systems. Will be a member of a six-person test team and will work closely with functional analysts and development staff throughout the lifecycle of software development releases.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:
· Active participation in review of software life cycle deliverables, including functional specification and design documentation.
· Generate Test Strategy and Test Plan documentation.
· Execute test cases for telephony call flows, provision test data, verify results against Transaction Detail Records and log files.
· UNIX shell scripting for test case execution and results verification.
· Follow corporate policies and procedures.
· Other functions as required.

Candidate Qualifications:
Required
Telephony network applications such as CDMA & GSM, SS7 and PSTN systems engineering, cellular systems engineering, GPS and navigation experience, Short Message Service Centre, PDE/PDMs, MSC.
Protocols such as TCAP, MAP, IS-801, SIGTRAN, TCP/IP.
Telecom test equipment: Tekelec (MGTS) or Inet (Turbo7/Spectra).
UNIX system experience – Sun Solaris.
Data networking.
UNIX Shell Scripting.
Quality orientation with a strong eye for detail.
Exhibit strong verbal and written communication skills.
Display high levels of self-motivation.
Experience & Other Requirements:

· Bachelor Degree minimum.
· Minimum 3 years experience in a telephony testing environment.
· Experience developing and executing test scripts for telephony applications.
· Detail-oriented, with strong analytical skills.
· Must be able to work at TCS office Monday through Friday.

Organizational Relationship:

Reports directly to Quality Assurance Manager.

Location:
This position will be located in Seattle, WA – Location Services.

Key Words:
Most desired:
· UNIX
· Protocols such as TCAP, MAP, IS-801, SIGTRAN, TCP/IP.
· SS7 (signaling system 7)
· Telephony

Additional search terms
· UNIX Shell Scripting
· CDMA (code division multiple access)
· GSM (global system for mobile communication)
· PTSN (public switched telephone network)
· Cellular systems engineering.
· GPS (global positioning system)
· SMS (short message service)
· PDE/PDMs (positioning determining entity)
· MSC (mobile positioning center)
· Tekelec (MGTS)
· Inet (Turbo7/Spectra)
· Sun Solaris
· SQL

We are a young, aggressive, company. We have a comfortable professional culture which encourages entrepreneurship. We are looking for folks who want to work in this type of culture. We believe our benefits are superior to most of the large firms out there (nice 401k match, low-employee cost insurance options, etc.) 25-30 or so employees to date.

The program we support, under Unisys, is called the Land Border Integration initiative. It is CBP’s flagship program to secure the inbound & outbound land border ports of entry across our northern and southwestern borders. LBI’s predecessor is the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI). The entire Unisys team (including A1C) performed exceptionally as the lead on the WHTI program. The program has been widely recognized as a tremendously successful partnership between Govt and Industry. I’ve included a few links below:

http://gcn.com/Articles/2009/10/12/GCN-Awards-State-CBP-Glance.aspx

http://gcn.com/Articles/2009/10/12/2009-GCN-Awards-for-Government-IT-Systems.aspx?Page=9

This is an exceptional program, with many years remaining. The work is challenging…yet professionally managed and executed by the Unisys team. LBI is critical to our nation’s security.

Key points for design/developer position:
- Looking for broader experience than just web development
- Looking for proficiency in C++, C# technologies in additional to JAVA (Various Projects with varying skillsets needed on this long term project)
- Looking for complex application development experience that involves integration of hardware components (e.g., document readers, control systems), multi-threading programming, and addressing issues like application response time & performance
- Looking for experience integrating systems (e.g., messaging)

Required Experience
• At least 10 years of experience designing/developing software for complex systems
• Experience with objected oriented design methodologies and tools (e.g., UML)
• Experience with Windows-based integrated development environments (ECLIPSE), virtual machine configurations, etc.
• Experience developing application in C# .Net, C++ and/or JAVA, J2EE
• Experience developing application using third party vendor components. This includes quickly understanding vendor product design and documentation, communicating with vendor technical representatives, and using vendor supplied APIs for functional integration
• Experience working in dynamic and fast-paced team environments; comfortable researching and solving issues
• Experience writing/reviewing technical documents (e.g., design documents)
• Strong communication skills
Desirable Experience
• Knowledge of Pedestrian Application Server, US Pedestrian, US Arrival, current pedestrian processes to support design, development, integration of system components within the Pedestrian environment
• Knowledge of VPAIS, Outbound VPC, current outbound processes to support design, development, integration of system components within the Outbound environment
• Knowledge of CBP backend systems that may be leveraged for enhanced US Pedestrian capabilities (i.e. ESTA, CAOS)
Educational/Professional Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree with minimum 10 years of related experience OR equivalent experience and training. (Master’s degree in relevant field preferred.)
• Ability to successfully pass DHS/CBP background investigation

* Senior level business analyst with a 6 – 10 years of process design, requirements definition and workflow design and analysis
* Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis
* Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs
* Proactively communicate and collaborate with internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following documents as needed: Functional requirements, Business Requirements Documents, Use Cases, Process Workflows
* Work independently with users to define concepts and under direction of project managers
* Drive and challenge business units on their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plans
* Strong analytical and product management skills required, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills
* Ability to interact professionally with a diverse group of executives, managers, and subject matter experts
* Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs
* Be the liaison between the business units, technology teams and support teams

* Consistently delivers high-quality specifications and documentation

Our client is using a BA tool called Appian. Knowledge of this would be a huge plus.

Business Process Management skills is also a plus

Locations-Arlington, Va, NY, Miami, FL

Duties & Responsibilities:

* Responsible for actively forming and maintaining business relationships with contacts at major law firms and corporate in-house legal departments.
* Develop lists of prospects and setup appointments to host presentations (both in-person and via webinars) to educate prospects on company capabilities / service offerings.
* Follow up with leads via e-mail & phone conversations.
* Consult your clients on best practices, sharing your information and guiding them to select the correct services for their project requirements.
* Accountable for responding to client requests in a timely manner.
* Responsible for mentoring and supporting Jr. Account Executives through the sales cycle.
* Engage in industry networking events to further develop business relationships.
* Keep up to date with latest industry news and relevant advances in application and technology and share this news with peers/supervisors.
* Attend weekly Sales department meetings & webinars to learn about new service offerings, client information, important court rulings, and happenings.

Requirements:

* Bachelor’s Degree with Technical Focus (Business IT, Management Science, CS, etc)
* Formal legal education a big plus
* 2-4 years proven success in legal e-discovery sales
* 4+ years proven success in technical sales
* Formal sales training preferred
* Experience with SalesForce
* Ability to work in a fast paced environment
* Ability to work independently and self-motivate
* Ability to manage time effectively and stay on task at all times
* Ability to work nights and weekends as necessary
* Possess excellent listening, writing, verbal skills and strong attention to detail
* Ability to place heavy commitment to putting clients’ business goals ahead of their own

Benefits:
Qualifying candidates are eligible for full benefits, including medical/dental, short/long term disabilities, individual retirement, parking, gym membership, cell phone, laptop, yearly bonus, paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays.

Requirements:
- Bachelors degree in a technical field
- 1-4 years demonstrated professional experience
- 1-2 years experience using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
- Experience using e-Discovery processing tools such as LexisNexis Law PreDiscovery, IPro, Nuix a huge plus
- Experience administering review tools such as Concordance, Summation, Ringtail, iConect, Relativity a huge plus
- Development experience a huge plus
- Strong understanding of Microsoft Windows operating system
- Experience navigating and moving data across Windows networks
- Should be well organized and exhibit strong attention to detail
- Must be able to multi-task and prioritize duties among a varying workload
- Must have the ability to adapt to new specifications and meet stringent deadlines
- Be prepared to work in a fast-paced environment
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Must be dependable and on-time
- Flexibility in work hours a big plus
- Must be willing to go the extra mile to get the job done

Responsibilities:
- Loading data into custom database system for filtering, indexing and searching
- Running searches and generating reports based on client requirements
- Exporting resultant data from database system into client-specified load file format
- Validating client deliverables and ensuring that all data is accounted for
- Troubleshooting issues as they are encountered and working independently to ensure that tasks are completed on time
- Writing and executing custom SQL queries on databases to meet customer requirements
- Customizing and executing stored procedures in SQL management studio per client request
- Entering job specifications and requirements into internal job tracking system
- Checking and updating job tracking system to maintain high level of collaboration
- Maintaining data integrity throughout the entire processing life-cycle
- Multi-tasking requests without impacting turnaround times of individual tasks
- Troubleshooting and resolving any potential client issues as they are encountered
- Researching sound methods for handling of un-common file types
- Staging data for hosting on an online document repository
- Performing administrative tasks via online document repository and helping troubleshoot any issues encountered by the client

About the Company:
Recently named to the list of 500 fastest growing companies, we are a fast-paced organization in our 8th year of business, looking for energetic and motivated individuals interested in growing with us. We encourage innovation and problem solving, and believe in constantly training our employees on all levels. We operate in a Google-esque environment with very little hierarchy. Our office is located just one block from Courthouse metro, off of the orange line, in Arlington.

Benefits:
Qualifying candidates are eligible for full benefits, including medical/dental, short/long term disabilities, individual retirement, parking, gym membership, cell phone, laptop, yearly bonus, paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays.

To apply for this position:
* In a brief cover letter (either in the body of the email or attached letter), please exhibit how your nature, as well as past experience has readied you for a position in a company like ours. Also, please describe how your goals could align with the dynamic nature of the work we do as well as our firm’s culture.
* Please put the following in the email subject (and nothing else): “E-Discovery Database Analyst, [NAME]” (i.e. “E-Discovery Database Analyst, John Smith”).
* Please attach your resume in one of the following formats: Word (DOC/DOCX) or Adobe Acrobat (PDF)