Infrastructure Architect must have the following skills:

• The holder of the vision across the enterprise, working closely with the stakeholders, selling the vision.
• Takes a holistic view and communicate to others to be able to understand the enterprise view to ensure coherence of all aspects of the project as an integrated system
• Experience leading major infrastructure migration initiatives
• Experience with data center automation initiatives and multiple data center configurations
• The ability to analyzes existing systems through an interview process with technology SMEs to develop a complete end-to-end Current State Architecture to drive and define the Future State Architecture
• The ability to document end-to-end application transaction flows through the enterprise
• Perform gap analysis between current state and the future state architecture to identify single points of failure, capabilities, capacity, fault tolerance, hours of operation (SLA), change windows,
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong facilitation and interviewing skills
• Resolve conflicts within infrastructure and application teams, business units and other architects
• Ability to work independently
• Good initiative and organization skills
• Deep knowledge specialist in a particular area such as infrastructure, process, and data
• If required can play the role of a solution architect.
• Market architecture best practices, guidelines, standards, principles, and patterns while working with infrastructure and technology project teams.
• Identify opportunities to cut cost without sacrificing the overall business goals.

Recruiter Information:

Bryan Hearn – Sr. Executive Recruiter
bhearn@htassociates.com
Other Job Openings: http://htassociates.com/category/recruiters/bryan-hearn/

 Technical skills:

• Be the point of escalation for complex AD issues
• Have a solid understanding of the Windows kernel, registry, network services
• Work with tightly-aligned 2nd and 3rd level technicians to ensure world-class level of service
• Define, prioritize, schedule, and monitor technical projects
• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation
• Experience with build automation, patch management, automated deployments and packaging
• Experience with backup tools (e.g., Veritas NetBackup)
• Experience with email archiving (e.g., KVS Enterprise Vault, Legato EmailXtender)
• Experience with Microsoft Cluster Services
• Experience with MOM
• Experience with anti-spam, anti-virus products

 ADDITIONAL SKILLS:

• SQL Server 2000/2005
• Strong familiarity with networking technologies: TCP/IP, DHCP, WINS, LDAP, DNS, SMTP, OWA, IMAP4, etc.
• Strong familiarity with storage technologies: SAN, NAS, CAS, EMC DMX, Clariion, Celera/NSX, Centera
• Strong experience with Citrix and distributed desktop environments and deployments
• Findustry experience preferred
• Familiarity with RedHat Linux Experience with ASP.NET/C# (particularly ASP.NET/WCF Web Services)
• Knowledge of with WinRM/WMI, preferably through C#, though PowerShell/VBScript are also acceptable.
• Familiarity with customizing MS deployment technologies… MDT 2010/2012 (LiteTouch and ZeroTouch), SCCM 2007/2012 OSD.
• Familiarity with Linux shell commands used in troubleshooting (tcpdump, lsof) etc.

Personal Skills:

• Have a hands-on, proactive attitude – an individual who truly enjoys complex technical challenges and takes pride in their work
• Serve as the subject-matter expert for the technologies above
• Be a self-motivated team player with a highly collaborative outlook
• Ready, willing and able to mentor junior personnel
• Able to set priorities and manage deadlines, project plans, work with other senior technologists, project managers, senior management, and power users
• Have experience in and be comfortable with demanding users in a high-pressure, 24×7 environment

Recruiter Information:

Bryan Hearn – Sr. Executive Recruiter
bhearn@htassociates.com
Other Job Openings: http://htassociates.com/category/recruiters/bryan-hearn/

(Northwestern Chicago Suburbs)

We are looking for a dynamic hands-on Senior Product Manager with experience in the consumer eCommerce space.  Software product experience is also a PLUS!

This individual will play a major part in the overall growth strategy of the organization.  The Senior Product Manager will be responsible for exceeding the company’s customer expectations through the formulation of strategic goals, executable roadmaps and hands-on day-to-day management activities.  Playing a pivotal role in the development of the organization’s online eCommerce sales, this individual will have direct ownership for products within the overall eCommerce platform.

Key areas of responsibility include strategic thinking, proven innovation, market and product requirements gathering and definition, working hand-in-hand with internal and external clients, design and technology teams, and guiding projects through the product development lifecycle. The role requires someone who is comfortable operating at a fast pace, is detail oriented, drives for results and takes pride in offering quality customer experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Promote and create customer loyalty through highly innovative, quality driven product strategies, roadmaps and feature sets
• Drive products and customer experience from concept to launch, working with cross-functional teams of Business Executives, Managers, Designers and Engineers
• Perform market definition, business planning, product profitability analysis
• Maintain digital space thought leadership by continually monitoring and detecting market changes and opportunities
• Capture, monitor and present hard data (KPIs) to back up assumptions and feature concepts
• Responsible for check-pointing deliverables ensuring deliverables match market opportunity
• People person who enjoys the role of customer evangelist

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required, MBA preferred
• 5+ years of Internet / Online Product Management  experience in consumer eCommerce or related fields
• Significant experience with key product management  functions: market research and competitive analysis, requirements definition, concept validation using mocks/wireframes and testing, product roadmap and working within organizations to effect positive change
• Track record of successfully shaping and  implementing business strategy for technical products or services
• History of productizing software solutions leading  to repeatable and optimized revenue streams
• Experience establishing clear project parameters supporting and enabling project team success
• Proven hands-on experience using eCommerce best  practices and iterative product development
• Attention to detail and fundamental understanding of  how change ripples throughout products and functional areas
• Cross business discipline understanding and experience

Please forward resumes to Jennifer at HT Associates:  Jroberts@htassociates.com

Director of Customer Marketing with B2B experience needed for Global Technology company in Chicago to help our client assist their customers in generating revenue through their products & services!

Must be BOTH Tactical as well as Strategic!

Prefer candidates from a technology driven industry!
Resumes maybe sent to Jennifer: Jroberts@htassociates.com

This is a high profile role within the organization to help support the company’s next generation of products and services while working with the sales organization to generate revenue along with the product development group.  Our  client is looking for an individual who can help “tell the story of the company, products and services along with the value!”

The Director of Customer Marketing must be someone who is engaging, understands B2B marketing as well as tier 1 and tier 2 suppliers and be a strong support to the B2B customer.

This person needs to be an exceptional leader of a team that becomes an indispensable resource to the sales organization and earns credibility by developing strong relationships with key internal departments/decision makers throughout the organization.  He/she will also quickly gain the confidence of internal and external customers as the subject expert of their assigned responsibilities.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

•    Develops and directs a dynamic customer marketing organization, capable of providing the needed support to our customers and Account Executives.
•    Develops and implements overall marketing policies, objectives, strategies and plans which maximize profitability, return on investments and enhance our market position.
•    Works with the senior sales team to lead the development of a marketing strategy to grow revenues consistent with the global strategic plan.
•    Team closely with sales to gather and synthesize near and long-term customer product and service requirements.
•    Team with product management to develop and launch new and innovative products and services.
•    Establish effective metrics for all key marketing initiatives, using these metrics to provide continuous insight and advice on key areas of success and areas for improvement.
•    Provides detailed analysis and insight into revenue trends by market segment and customer to help sales develop annual budget and monthly forecasts.
•    Ensures comprehensive analysis of the market place and of competitive activity.  Identifies areas for profitable exploitation with existing, new or improved products and services.
•    Develops effective working relationships with counterpart executives throughout organization to maximize business opportunities and ensure cohesion with marketing and sales plans and direction.
•    Manage a team of 8 to 10 employees across North America

QUALIFICATIONS:

•    Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business or Engineering with an MBA degree with a focus on marketing.
•    Minimum 8-10 years experience in a fast moving Sales & Marketing environment
•    Experience dealing with global customers and managing interactions within an international environment.
•    Demonstrable record of achievement in marketing and sales management.

Please forward resumes directly to Jroberts@htassociates.com

This role is for a large global technology company and will be a critical part of the compensation department, HR team, Sales and Field Operations organization.

MUST have experience with BOTH sales incentive and rewards compensation as well as Executive compensation plans

Minimum Requirements / Qualifications:

• 8+ years of broad-based compensation experience and incentive design experience with a large global Fortune 500, technology / Communications Company is required.
• Consulting firm experience and/or experience in finance is a plus
• Experience supporting and consulting with clients to address compensation issues
• Expertise in sales incentive design and services incentive design, including knowledge of plan design, accounting and financial implications, and governance procedures
• Undergraduate degree required, MBA highly desirable
• Strong consulting skills are required
• Strong executive presence and presentation skills are required
• Strong knowledge of current market practices and trends in sales compensation and technology / communications industry
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing incentive compensation programs

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for research and analytics for data products (BIG Data)
• Responsible for researching next generation data modeling techniques (Data Science) to build best-in-class location base data products
• Develop research framework to quickly prototype various data modeling techniques based on 200+ location based attributes
• Develop analytics framework to report product related analytics on an on-demand basis for marketing communication, quality verification and customer support
• Identify automated quality validations based on research/analytics to improve quality and reduce quality verification cost
• Develop new insights into data assets to expand use cases of data products/assets.
• Represent business at technology forums and technical customer discussions.
• Hire, develop and manage a team of researchers
• Manage Analytics development team under agile process

Qualifications:

• 15+ years of software framework development experience
• 3+ years of research experience in data products
• 3+ years of experience in building product analytics for internal and external use
• Experience with the Hadoop ecosystem, NoSQL databases (e.g. Cassandra, MongoDB, HBase) and/or high performance databases (e.g. Netezza, Vertica, VectorWise, Infobright) is essential.
• Experience/familiarity with business intelligence to include warehouse design, ETL design and build, reporting, OLAP, dashboards and predictive analytics
• Knowledge of data science tools
• Knowledge of various statistical software packages
• Experience managing agile development team and research scientist
• Excellent communication and public speaking skills
• Ability to travel up to 25%
• B.S./B.A. degree in Computer Science/Statistics/Computer Engineering, or other technical fields. Higher level degree is strongly preferred

• Responsible for design and architecture of next generation real-time BIG Data processing system
• Define overall architecture including key designs on integration standards for data collection, loading, processing and distribution
• Perform capacity analysis to make sure design is scalable and cost effective
• Work with product team to integrate key business requirements in the system architecture
• Oversee multiple complex projects with cross functional teams
• Develop new data infrastructures and explore new technologies to manage Big Data
• The chief architect must ensure that the extended architecture team is engaged, empowered, working on the right priorities, and executing effectively
• Act as a mentor to all engineering functions within the program

Qualifications:

• Strong foundational knowledge and experience with distributed systems and computing systems in general.
• Hands-on engineering skills – interest and ability to roll up sleeves and work along with other key architects and engineers in building some components of our leading edge data systems.
• Broad understanding of multiple technologies – These include NOSQL (Hadoop, Cassandra, HBase), DBMS (Oracle, Netezza, MySQL, SQL Server, Hyperion Essbase), ETL (Informatica, Ascential, Ab Initio), Reporting (Business Objects), OLAP (Hyperion, SSAS), performance tuning for high-end hardware and storage (HP, Sun, data warehouse appliances), OS (Solaris, HP-UX, Windows, Linux). Experience dealing with 100TB+ data sets.
• At least 5 years of data modeling experience and two or more implementations of data warehouse projects with raw data volume greater than 10 TB.
• Working knowledge of Application Server technologies to enable data services in support of products.
• Working knowledge of cloud based DevOps oriented SCM techniques including continuous build, continuous integration, continuous delivery.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to travel up to 10%
• B.S./B.A. degree in Computer Science/Statistics/Computer Engineering, or other technical fields. Higher level degree is strongly preferred.

Required Skills

• Install and configure PeopleSoft Financials and HR software in a Windows Server Platform.
• Troubleshoot processes uses by the PeopleSoft systems
• Monitor the performance and report on these monthly or as required
• Design & implement test and development environment
• Strong customer service, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to create and deliver status and project level presentations to business sponsors.
• Participation in “on-call” service rotation
• Upgrade software components and participate in hardware design
• Provide internal customers with technical support
• Provide cross training to peers in order to maintain a 3 person support structure
• Provide input into virtualization or the environment as feasible
• Provide proof concept, project documentation and lead/manage projects as needed in the area of PeopleSoft.

Required Experience

• 6+ years experience with PeopleSoft Administration. Must be proficient in the following areas: PeopleSoft PeopleTools and Application Installations, PeopleTools and Application Upgrades, Integration Broker, Environment Creation, Database Refreshes, Change Management, Migration of Objects, Performance Tuning , STAT administration and Production Support.
• Must have at least 4 years of experience with PeopleSoft Migrations
• Must have at least 4 years of experience with PeopleTools 8.x/9.x Administration
• Must have a working knowledge of PeopleSoft Architecture (Application, Web Server, Process Scheduler)
• Must have at least 4 years of experience working in windows 2003/2008 R2.
• Must have experience migrating PeopleSoft objects from one environment to another.
• Must have at least 4 years’ experience in SQL server 2005/2008.
• Experience in STAT 5.6 administration.
• Bachelors Degree preferred

Recruiter Information:

Bryan Hearn – Sr. Executive Recruiter
bhearn@htassociates.com
Other Job Openings: http://htassociates.com/category/recruiters/bryan-hearn/

Our client is looking for a team (4) of HR Consulting/Business Partners to help support the organization, each supporting diferent internal clients.  This is a highly strategic HR leadership role.

We are looking for candidates that have solid corporate HR experience with a world-class company. HR leadership for these business units includes advising and consulting on all areas of HR. This HR Director will be a “Generalist” that collaborates with business leadership, designs and executes strategic, long range, operational and developmental goals, and will engage in projects for the business and for HR. These HR leaders will be able to influence through data and analytics while having a highly collaborative approach.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a  strategic business partner to senior management, consulting on all areas  of HR and related issues.
• Develop HR strategic plans and budgets and establish strategic and long-term HR direction for the functional area. Ensures execution of plans.
• Oversee HR operations for a business area.
• Assist others in resolving high visibility HR issues and problems.
• Identify,  recommend, develop and implement programs or processes to address business needs.
• Engage regularly in project teams and may lead projects or assignments within their business unit and within HR.
• Establish and maintain strong working relationships with internal and external business partners.  Demonstrate strong coaching skills.
• Stay up to date on trends and developments within HR and the functional area within the organization you are supporting.
• High analytical capability. Comfortable driving and influencing decision making utilizing data.

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience with professional certifications preferred.
• Minimum  of eight years related work experience with demonstrated proficiency in all generalist capacities including employee relations, recruiting,  compensation administration, organizational design and development and established depth in talent management processes and practices

Please forward resumes to Jroberts@htassociates.com

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop database schemas, PL/SQL stored procedures, and database maintenance scripts.
• Maintain several Oracle development databases.
• Design and develop data warehouse components for a large (several terabyte, over 500 million rows collected daily) data warehouse.
• Develop SQL reports.
• Develop scripts using Perl, Python, and Java.
• Work with application developers to define database requirements.
• Optimize and tune database routines and sql.
• Define and implement database development products.
• Develop schemas for, and load, mapping data into Oracle databases.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Management Information Systems
• Possess a minimum of five years of software development experience with Oracle including SQL, PL/SQL, and tuning.
• Knowledge of OLTP and OLAP database design
• 2+ years experience with Perl.
• Experience with PHP and SAS preferred.
• Understanding of Oracle internal structures and DBA functionality.
• Import, Export, DataPump, and SQL*Loader experience.
• Proficient oral and written communication skills
• Must be a team-player with the ability to work within a collaborative environment
• Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle
• Proven ability to work independently with limited supervision
• Creative, resourceful and innovative problem solver
• Self-taught and self-teaching, with a demonstrated aptitude for acquiring knowledge and skills