065 MS Office 2010 deployment

6 months in NY

We are looking for a technical lead/support analyst that will support deployment of Office 2010 with client server integration of document management system eDocs (OpenText) or similar, Sharepoint
-Batch scripting, .net, windows registry development experience a must, MS sql, Sharepoint, Lotus Notes, Windows XP/7 a plus
-Will be involved in coding, designing and testing in support of roll out
-Create test cases and test scripts
-Execute test cases/scripts
-Debug scripted installation and results

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064 Core JAVA

6 months in NJ

Qualifications:

• Seasoned developer with extensive experience in financial services industry, preferably in investment asset management: buy-side or sell-side experience highly desired
• Core Java, SQL Server 2005/2008, Stored Procedures, Window command lines. Perl scripts (preferred), Unix command lines and scripts
• JMS (Java Message Service), XML, IBM MQ Series, WebSphere, Spring framework
• .NET, C#, SSIS/SSAS and Web Services is a big plus
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong analytical abilities
• Experience in SDLC

Bill Evans
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063 SAS Programmer

6 months in DE

Qualifications and Experience Required

1. Bachelor’s degree in IT/MIS with a minimum of 5 years progressive experience in Information Technology (mainframe, mid-range, Intel platform) is preferred.
2. A proficient level of knowledge and experience with SAS programming is critical.
3. A proficient level of knowledge and experience with scripting is required. Microsoft PowerShell experience is a plus.
4. Basic understanding of client/server infrastructure, HPC Grid computing desirable.
5. Basic skills in the handling of multiple file types, such as EBCIDIC and ASCII file types.
6. Basic knowledge and understanding of ETL (extract, transformation and load techniques).
7. Must be proficient with the Microsoft Office Suite of applications and possess the capability of producing professional-looking documentation, flowcharts, and proposals.
8. Basic understanding of international actuarial valuation processing and knowledge of various life insurance products is preferred.
9. Strong analytical background is required.
10. Knowledge of Change Control methodologies.

Bill Evans
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062 Mobile JAVA Developer

6 months in NJ


• 8+ years of software development experience
• 5+ years of Java (J2EE) Development experience including 3 years of experience developing sites for mobile devices and developing applications that interface with mobile device clients on various mobile platforms.
• Experience on iOS and Android platforms is a must
• Experience on Blackberry and Windows mobile platforms is a plus
• Java Certification is a plus.
• Must be proficient in SDLC processes
• Must be proficient in the Microsoft Office suite including MS Project and Visio tools.
• Must have good verbal and written communication skills.
• Must be able to communicate effectively with IT and business individuals and teams at all organizational levels.
• Must be a self-directed and highly motivated with an ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Must be a good team player.
• Strong facilitation and presentation skills along with relationship building abilities
• eBusiness experience a major plus
• Previous experience or knowledge of MetLife businesses / processes is a plus

Bill Evans
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061 Project Leader

1 Year in NY

Global HR Program Management and Strategic Design and Deploy Experience.

Designs, plans, and coordinates work teams. Provides technical support to project team members. Handles complex application features and technical designs. Designs and implements the components required for complex application features. May requires a bachelor's degree in a related area with at least 7+ years of experience in the field. Generally manages a group of applications systems analysts. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Typically reports to a senior manager.

Bill Evans
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060 FT Quality Assurance (QA) Specialist

Fairfield County

We are looking for a talented Quality Assurance (QA) Specialist to assist our development teams. This individual will investigate defects reported by clients, write and maintain quality assurance test scripts, record and track software defects and defect resolution, conduct formal functional, regression, performance and other quality assurance testing and participate in bug reviews.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

 Internet browser technologies: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari

 Knowledge of relational databases

 Microsoft Office Suite

 Excellent communication

 Detail-oriented

Preferred Skills and Qualifications:

 OnTime

 AutomatedQA TestComplete

 Performance testing software

 SQL programming experience

 An understanding of Object Oriented programming

 Oracle or Postgresql experience

 An understanding of the education industry  

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059 FT CONTENT DEVELOPER/TRAINER

Fairfield Ciunty
 Content Developer/Trainer, Customer Education

We are looking for an exceptional content developer and trainer to help us build and deliver training materials for our Customer Education Practice. This individual will develop Adobe Captivate Clips and other on-line and instructor lead training materials. This person will work closely with all the client departments and the client customers. We are looking for someone with experience delivering training to educators and/or education administrators.

Position Responsibilities:

 Author Professional Development material

 Delivering Professional Development courses

 Writing material for and administering the client U

 Work with the Manager, Customer Education and other the client teams to build a professional development curriculum

Required Skills and Qualifications:

 BA/BS degree

 5+ years experience in instructional design or training development

 Experience with video-editing tools (e.g., Adobe Captivate or Camtasia)

 Experience administering a Learning Management System (LMS) such as Learn.com/Taleo

 Exemplary written and verbal communication skills

 Strong presentation skills and comfort delivering training to a diverse audience

 Ability to articulate complex technological concepts in straightforward terms

 Excellent organizational skills

 Ability to work independently

Preferred Skills & Qualifications

 Knowledge of Longitudinal Data System concepts such as Data Quality, Data Privacy, etc.

 Experience working with public education sector staff (e.g., Administrators, teachers)

 Familiarity with data warehousing and business intelligence tools is highly desired

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058 FT SENIOR JAVA DEVELOPER

Fairfield County

The Senior Java Developer will develop and code enhancements and refinements to the client Data Manager. This individual must be able to be a team player, but also have the initiative to work independently. Responsibilities will include design, testing, development, documentation, quality assurance and development of next generation product platforms.

:

 8 to 10 years of software development experience.

 Core Java (JDBC, I/O, threading, etc.)

 J2EE Web Interfaces (HTML, JavaScript, Servlets, JSP, etc.)

 JDBC or Other Database Interface Experience

 RDBMS (Oracle and/or SQL Server)

 Full SDLC experience

 Experience with version control, unit testing, automated builds, and continuous integration

 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or related discipline

Preferred Skills and Qualifications:

 J2EE backend technologies (JMS, JTA, etc.)

 Hibernate ORM , Cayenne ORM

 Spring Framework , Apache Click

 Messaging (JMS, JAXM, MQ Series, or equivalent)

 Data Warehousing

 Web Services

 Eclipse IDE

 Java Developer Certification

 

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057 FT PROJECT LEAD

Fairfield County

Position Responsibilities: This position serves as the operational support contact for our customers and is responsible for delivering an excellent customer experience.

 Consistently achieve all milestones and deliverables on any assigned projects.

 Articulate and represent our customers’ needs and goals within the organization.

 Ability to gain in-depth knowledge of all of the client’s products and their capabilities.

 Support customers by managing and enhancing the  client customer support ticket resolution process

 Work with Project Managers to manage areas of enterprise-wide customer projects

 Develop expert knowledge of products and services, and effectively communicate offerings to our customers as appropriate.

 Build and maintain a continuous knowledge of customer and project status in order to identify potential issues and/or opportunities within or related to customer projects.

 Communicate the customer's goals and represents the customer's interests to the client team.

 Champion the customer support process across all the client teams

 Help the team exceed our customer support metrics

 Provides regular input on all account activity, including status and call reports on a weekly basis

Required Skills and Qualifications: The ideal candidate for this role is someone who enjoys being on the “front lines” and has exemplary communication and negotiation skills; a passion for data analysis; and a drive to help our customers use data to help students achieve education and career success.

 3-5 years of customer-facing experience in an account management, project management, or business analyst role

 Must have a demonstrated ability to work with data and the skills necessary to query and analyze datasets

 Proven ability to gain deep customer understanding in order to anticipate the customer’s needs, and help determine the ideal solution for support issues

 Technical competence (understand software, hardware, relational databases, SQL, etc.)

 A “hand’s-on” learning style and proven ability to “hit-the-ground-running”

 Comfortable supporting multiple customers and projects

 Extremely detail oriented

 Motivated, goal oriented, persistent and a skilled negotiator

 Superior written and oral communica

 Data Warehousing Experience

 Prject Management Experience

 Experience SQL Tools and programming (e.g., MS SQL Server Management Studio, SSIS, Toad, or Oracle SQL Developer)

 Experience with BI tools (e.g., Cognos, MS SSRS, or OBIEE)

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056 Senior Project Manager

6 months in Long Island

Project Management Responsibilities and Deliverables:

1. Assume all responsibilities associated with managing programs and projects as assigned.  This responsibility consists of many specific and defined work package elements, including: all overall program planning, project level monitoring and controls including Statement of Work (SOW), Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), Requirements Planning, Communications Plans, Risk Plans, Cost Expenditure Plans, Issues Tracking, Status reporting and their applicable administration efforts, i.e. scheduling meetings, recording minutes, etc.

At a minimum, the administrative tasks will include:

a.       Define, develop and control the program’s master schedule

b.       Coordinate, conduct and provide minutes for regular weekly Core Project Team status meetings

c.        Define, control and report on all project related issues

d.       Define, develop, control and provide monthly reports concerned with the program’s budget via detailed work stream reports and aggregated program financial summaries

e.        Define, develop, control and provide monthly Project Risk Management Plans

f.        Develop and distribute weekly project and allover program Status Reports

g.        The preparation and presentation of regular executive level progress, status and forecast positions

h.       Serve as the primary point of contact for all of the clients  disciplines effected by the assigned projects within the program

2. Establish, lead and control a cross-functional project team 
3. Ensure establishment / validation of Production Monitoring and support tools and processes prior to any production deployment
4. System and Operational Support Training planning as required
5. Validation of SOX compliancy for all application deployment processes, including the preparation and presentation of the clients Production Review Board (PRB) gating milestone approval
6. Planning and coordination of all test related activities to include, unit, integration, system, regression, performance, User Acceptance Testing, etc.

Key Personnel/Skill Set Requirements:

As stated above, the client  is seeking a program / project management skilled individual.  This candidate will need to demonstrate the generic skills and requirements listed below:

1. A minimum of six years of hands on Information Technology Project Management, including management of ERP systems upgrades and / or implementations
2. Skilled at applying structured Project Life Cycle methodology
3. The Project Manager will perform his / her duties via a matrix organization approach partnered with a Technology Manager who will provide technical expertise and the Project Management team who will provide process and procedure support and guidance.
4. Ability to define and document all required project level tasks
5. Capable of coordinating work activities over multiple organizations (including vendors) 
6. Ability to control and direct work over multiple, regional, geographic locations
7. Excellent verbal & written communications skills
8. Ability to effectively work with minimal supervision both individually and in a team setting
9. Highly organized and detail oriented
10. Perform multiple tasks and adjust priority based on workload or direction from management or customer
11. Experience in leading project teams consisting of skills that include a developers, functional SMEs and business analysts
12. Experience in the use of the MS Office tool suite and MS Project working with sub-projects and linked projects is required.  Experience with CA’s Clarity Tool would be a plus
13. Experience with multiple server hardware platforms and middle-tier and storage systems and software
14. Experience with Application development life cycles
15. Project Management Institute’s PMP credential is preferred

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055 DataStage ETL DEVELOPER

1 year in NY
  

DataStage ETL DEVELOPER (Consultant)

Position Responsibilities:

 Developing ETL using IBM InfoSphere DataStage

 Testing of ETL plans and processes

 Must perform work at offices in NY and at customer sites around the United States.

 Travel 10 – 20%

 Project timeframe - 6 months to 2 years

Required Skills and Qualifications:

 Bachelor’s Degree

 4 -7 years related experience

 High level of understanding of relational database schema

 Experience extracting, manipulating and loading data (ETL)

 Experience writing SQL statements for analyzing data

 Experience testing data load processes

 Good written and verbal communication skills

 Experience with logical and physical relational data models

 Experience with data integration projects merging data from multiple sources

 Experience with MS Word, Access and Excel

Preferred Skills and Qualifications:

 Extensive experience with IBM InfoSphere DataStage

 Knowledge of MS SQL Server, or Oracle DBMS

Bill Evans
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054 FT Sr. Manager Business Integration

Lower Fairfield County

Responsibilities:

•       Lead business analysis efforts and define business and functional requirements and process flows and delivery of all business analysis artifacts for internal & external client 

•       Drive the initiative forward, working closely with functional teams to contribute to solutions and planning

•       Clearly communicate business priorities and requirements to functional teams

•       Assist in the development of project plans with functional projects tracks

•       Support technologists during solution design and execution

•       Conduct System Testing to ensure requirements are accurately delivered

•       Plan, facilitate and conduct User Acceptance Testing and User Training with all necessary documentation

•       Work effectively at all levels with Business Units engaged in initiatives – sponsors, business managers, development, and testing teams

•       Develop a strong working knowledge of Affinion Group’s systems, applications, business processes and operations for effective exploitation in initiatives

•       Continually review, identify, and promote best practices and opportunities for improvement to the processes and organization based on observation and lessons learned

•       Manage day-to-day operational aspects of a project including change management, tracking of deliverables, and review of client artifacts before passing to the client

Requirements / Qualifications:

•       Bachelors Degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, MIS, MBA or equivalent experience preferred

•       Minimum of 5 years working as a Business Analyst or similar capacity supporting various size system integrations projects across multiple environments

•       Working knowledge of business analysis methodologies, SDLC and project management lifecycle

•       Methodology training, certification, and/or equivalent experience in project management discipline (Six Sigma, PMP, etc.)

•       Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills; strong Office skills including Visio, Project, Excel, and PowerPoint

•       Strong analytical and problem solving abilities; excellent communicator; written and verbal active listening

•       Demonstrate leadership ability to participate in strategic planning activities throughout the lifetime of a project

•       Ability to work in a multi-located team environment and promote collaboration among cross functional teams

•       Must take initiative and ownership of tasks and responsibilities

Must be able to manage multiple high-priority projects simultaneously







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053 FT APPLICATION ARCHITECT

Lower Fairfield County

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership
• Lead definition and management of technical development standards.
• Evaluate existing tools/technologies and make appropriate recommendations for projects
• Provide comprehensive consultation to business unit and IT management and staffs at the highest technical level on all phases of the project development cycle
• Research and evaluate alternative solutions and recommends the most efficient and cost effective solution for the systems design.
• Share and teach others, new technologies, design techniques, etc.
• Ability to evaluate complex client area requirements and processes and translate into sound reusable design.
• Ability to present multiple solution options solve the complex business and technical problems
• Provide highly technical consulting and leadership in identifying and implementing new uses of information technologies, which assist the functional business units in meeting their strategic objectives.
• Is highly accountable for the effectiveness, quality and timeliness of project design decisions and how easily these designs can be implemented.
• Ability to work effectively with multiple business areas and understand the impact of systems on these areas.
• Assign roles to project resources according to skills, interest, and availability
• Accurately estimate development work effort
• Perform/ensure quality assurance by reviewing testing results and performing code reviews
• Be responsible and accountable for meeting the expectation of the project sponsor
• Act as a point person for issues and questions on a project
• Mentor staff on the skills needed to advance in their career path

Requirements
• A minimum of 8 years experience in IT with minimum of 2 years .Net experience
• Experience in the use of UML / Rational methodology
• Extensive experience with project management methodologies and techniques (status reporting, issue management, risk management, implementation planning)
• At least 2 years defining and managing development standards.
• Extensive Expertise in Web, Mobile, and Service Oriented applications and technologies (.Net / J2EE)
• Extensive Expertise with Object-Oriented analysis and design
• Expertise with Microsoft development tools and exposure to open source technologies
• Database experience using SQL (Oracle preferred).
• Strong team building skills and ability to gain cooperation and to motivate others
• Ability to identify issues and proactively determine ways to resolve them
• An eagerness and ability to learn new skills
• Proactive, results oriented and positive attitude.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• The ability and desire to take full ownership of tasks and responsibilities
• The ability to manage multiple priorities across multiple business areas.
• Ability to communicate (verbal and written) with both technical and non-technical people at the appropriate level, in a clear concise manner.













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