Responsibilities:

• Management responsibilities for engineering staff including day to day resource and performance management, training and development
• Schedule quarterly project activities during design, development, testing, or release tasks
• Approve scope changes for projects
• Work closely with Product Management on requirements definition and analysis and project planning tasks
• Lead large projects during design, development, testing or release tasks
• Establish and manage department budget
• Project estimation and scheduling

 Requirements:

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Management Information Systems
• MBA/MSc/PhD preferred
• 5+ years of Managerial experience and 5+ years of Engineering experience
• Experience leading rapid prototyping or research team
• Experience managing PhD level researchers preferred
• Solid technical understanding and ability to actively engage in technical discussions with customers
• Proficient in one programming or shell language (e.g., Java, C++, C#, VB, perl, ksh, tcsh)
• Proficient in one operating system (e.g., Unix, Linux, Windows)
• Proficient in one Configuration Management tool (e.g., ClearCase, Subversion, CVS)
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

Scott Murray
Group Manager
H.T. Associates Inc.
Office: (847) 577-0300
smurray@htassociates.com

Responsible for architectural ownership providing overall vision, leadership and direction of an entire platform.  Provide high level analysis and guides other groups within the department. Provide mentorship and career development for subordinate employees.  Lead full cycle architecture across all domains through the Software Development Life Cycle process.

 Responsibilities:

• Communicate architectural decisions and intent with project team
• Map requirements and use cases to subsystems and components
• Define subsystem process model and dynamic interactions
• Monitor architectural/design conformance of implementation with project team
• Specify work plan to implement, maintain, or correct conforming software
• Understand and work with new software technologies to understand impact and applicability
• Ability to lead several multidiscipline architects to converge to a single architecture
• Ability to manage by influence to obtain buy-in across the R&D organization

 Requirements:

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics or another hard science or engineering degree
• MBA/MSc/PhD preferred
• Advanced degree in Mathematics ideal
• 15+ years relevant work experience with 3+ years as a Lead Architect or relevant work experience
• Architect Level Certification Preferred
• Ability to prototype a system end-to-end
• Ability to lead R&D specification, requirements, development and test teams to converge on a single architecture for a single architecture domain
• Knowledge of all existing standards for a single architecture domain
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Expert in all architectural domains and how design choices impact the architecture up and downstream as well as across architectural domains
• Successfully completes panel interview with Internal Architecture Group (all domains)
• Mentor two or more Architects

Scott Murray
Group Manager
H.T. Associates Inc.
Office: (847) 577-0300
smurray@htassociates.com

Manager of Architecture will be responsible for managing and leading a team of architects in data, reporting and ETL architecture that supports both OLTP and BI/Data Warehouse systems.  The individual must have strong management experience, ability to work with business and IT organizations and offer technical leadership that can ensure successful technical project execution and delivery.

 Responsibilities:

• Manage team of 12+ technical architecture resources to deliver technical design and solutions for OLTP and BI/DW system.
• Lead and facilitate in defining new technology roadmap, frameworks and solutions.
• Lead and facilitate cross organizational alignment in technology solution and delivery.
• Work effectively with both business and IT stakeholders.
• Manage and support vendor relationships.  Both technology vendors and staffing vendors.
• Identify and present new technologies that will benefit new or existing initiatives.
• Manage resource skill sets and capacity planning.
• Support budget planning and forecasting process.
• Provide mentoring and skill development of individual team member.

 Requirements, Skills, Experience, Education:

• Minimum 10 years in technical experience in delivering large scale OLTP and BI/DW systems.
• Minimum 7 years in technical architecture experience, especially in data architecture.
• Minimum 5 years in technical project management experience.
• Minimum 3 years in Reporting and ETL architecture experience.
• Minimum 3 years in designing systems that provides High Availability and Disaster Recovery capability.
• Strong knowledge and hands-on experience in OLTP and OLAP data model design.
• Experience and good understanding in SOA architecture.
• Strong experience in data warehousing, analytic reporting and ETL architecture.
• Experience coordinating information requirements of multiple projects, including assessment of usefulness, reliability and cleanliness of data from several sources.
• Ability to effectively present complex technical information to non-technical audiences and to senior decision-makers.
• Minimum 3 years experience with PostgreSQL and Oracle database 10g or 11g.
• Familiarity with Informatica PowerCenter and Pentaho.
• Experience with Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE) is a plus.
• Familiarity with Hadoop, HBase, Pig, HIVE, Sqoop.
• Strong working knowledge of SQL.  Knowledge in Oracle PL/SQL and XQuery is a plus.
• Experience in modeling with XML Types, XML DB, non-traditional database (non-RDBMS), like HBase, eXist, Hypertable is a plus.
• Strong SDLC knowledge, with excellent process and system documentation skills.
• Strong ability to identify risks and issues and escalate to project management.  Ability to provide risk mitigation and issue resolution recommendations.
• Solid understanding of Data Management and Metadata Management process and principles, with ability to effectively communicate and sell those ideas to others.
• Demonstrated success working in a team-based environment, working with business and technology.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills required.
• Strong communication skills required; technical and business writing skills are required.
• Experience with database performance tuning and code review is a plus.
• BS degree in computer science or related technical field is required.

Scott Murray
Group Manager
H.T. Associates Inc.
Office: (847) 577-0300
smurray@htassociates.com

• Software implementation, design and review
• Software development of application or system components 
• Requirements definition and analysis
• Unit testing of developed code
• Investigation and root cause analysis of software and system defects
• Understand the technical aspects of the products used to support the configuration management activities of the development process
• Interact with customers/users to support software acceptance process and act as a liaison between development and user community
• Investigate and report problems

 Requirements:

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Management Information Systems
• 5+ years of engineering experience
• Must have strong experience in Java and Oracle pl/sql.  Familiarity with WSDL, XML, XSD, Jboss, Linux/UNIX, SOAP a big plus
• Ideal candidate will also possess experience in ClearQuest, Shell Scripting
• Proficient in one operating system (e.g., Unix, Linux, Windows)
• Proficient in one Configuration Management tool (e.g., ClearCase, Subversion, CVS)

Scott Murray
Group Manager
H.T. Associates Inc.
Office: (847) 577-0300
smurray@htassociates.com

We are looking for a technical, results-oriented, and quality-focused individual with strong data warehouse and business intelligence development skills. This individual will develop BI solutions utilizing OBIEE (Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition) to ensure the long term reliability, scalability and maintainability for large scale, multi-application enterprise data warehouses.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with business analysts, business owners, users, architects, and DBA’s to ensure the creation of production-quality designs and implementations.
• Manage multiple tasks and changing business requirements.
• Enforce standards, design styles and best practices.
• Perform full Data Warehouse life-cycle systems development.
• Design BI strategies and solutions using OBIEE.
• Manage unit, system and integration testing for accuracy and performance.
• Develop and generate standard and ad hoc reporting capabilities from new and existing data sources in a Data Warehouse environment.
• Translate business rules into ad-hoc queries and reports.
• Create a wide variety of analysis including comparisons, trending and what-if analysis.
• Design and Develop Reports, Dashboards and Scorecards using OBIEE.

Requirements:

• Ability to thrive in a fast paced environment with multiple ongoing projects concurrently
• BS in Information Systems or equivalent
• 2 -5 years experience developing BI solutions
• 4+ Years Experience OBIEE of expertise in all aspects of OBIEE and/or Siebel Analytics Applications including analysis, design, development, configuration, Customization, validation and deployment
• Extensive Design and Development experience using the Metadata Repository (RPD)
• Complete working knowledge of OBIEE user, object and data security
• Knowledge on OBIEE Aggregation awareness, caching capabilities and OBIEE Delivers
• Ability to convert functional requirements to high level and low level design documents
• Strong Knowledge on Dimensional Data Modeling concepts
• Expertise in Oracle (10g/11g) relational database systems and PL/SQL
• Expertise in SQL Server (2005/2008) relational database systems
• Strong SQL tuning skills
• Experience in data analysis, data profiling and validation
• Knowledge of Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence (BI)
• Familiarity with MS Office applications

Scott Murray
Group Manager
H.T. Associates Inc.
Office: (847) 577-0300
smurray@htassociates.com

• Project lead role in ensuring Platform Operations achieve required service level agreements both internally and externally.
• Develop, implement and manage the Operations Tiered Support Model.
• Project lead role in establishing operational quality controls.
• Platform releases from test status to operational / production status.
• Operational issues and status with other operational group leads including overall system optimization, content throughput, troubleshooting and recommend solutions and improvements.
• Project lead role in ensuring operational policies and procedures are maintained that relate to the setup and maintenance of the infrastructure, including updates, patches, backup and disaster recovery.
• Project lead role in working with cross functional groups including R&D, Tech Ops and others to ensure functional and user requirements are met.

 Requirements:

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Operational Engineering, Systems Engineering, etc.
• 5+ years in project leadership experience
• 3+ years experience with real-time, high-availability web systems
• 3+ years experience with online transaction processing
• 5+ years experience with large systems operations
• Experience with network infrastructure operations, including operating systems (Unix and Windows), disaster recovery, high availability, security, and database concepts
• Excellent skills in forming working teams for short to mid-term projects
• Must be able to work with minimal supervision to provide the necessary support for technology problems/questions
• Excellent skills in documenting operational procedures
• Experienced with data warehousing
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Experienced with working in a 24/7 operation
• Excellent skills in project management, scheduling, performance tracking, and team budget management
• Experienced with working within ISO Guidelines Standards a plus

Scott Murray
Group Manager
H.T. Associates Inc.
Office: (847) 577-0300
smurray@htassociates.com

Responsibilities:

• Software design and review
• Software development of application or system components
• Requirements definition and analysis
• Unit testing of developed code
• Investigation and root cause analysis of software and system defects
• Maintain and run tools and processes that support and automate software product release
• Understand the technical aspects of the products used to support the configuration management activities of the development process
• Adapt configuration management tools for the complex needs of the development teams or the management of the development process
• Generate, monitor and maintain Baseline Audit, and Configuration Item Version Control
• Publish release packages and records
• Deploy the development artifacts to a staging area for release to production
• Enforce process compliance
• Create and execute approved test plans and analyzes and report results
• Decompose requirements for testability and provide feedback to the requirement gathering process
• Interact with customers/users to support software acceptance process and act as a liaison between development and user community
• Investigate and report problems

Skills Requirements:

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Management Information Systems
• 5+ years of engineering experience
• Proficient in HTML,CSS, JavaScript (AJAX, DOM, JSON) and Java skills
• Thorough grasp of cross-platform cross-browser compatibility issues and code optimization.
• Hands on experience with Google Web Toolkit.
• To be able to consume / integrate services with presentation layer, knowledge in RESTful services (JAX-RS) required.
• Strong Web 2.0/ Rich Internet Applications (RIA) knowledge and experience
• Experience in mobile development using Android or Objective C is a huge plus.
• Working knowledge in XML, XSLT, SOAP and WSDL
• Working knowledge in component frameworks like Spring
• Proficient in Java, Servlets and JSP/JSTL.
• Proficient in one operating system (e.g., Unix, Linux, Windows)
• Proficient in one Configuration Management tool (e.g., ClearCase, Subversion, CVS)
• Design and implement front-end business applications
• Responsible for creating and delivering any graphical elements required for interface design.
• Experience in mobile development using Android or Objective C is a huge plus.
• Proficient oral and written communication skills

Recruiter Information:

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

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with, and lead software engineers to develop and support integrated test frameworks, including driving requirements, prioritizing, and assigning work.
• Make resourcing decisions for work based on priorities, team abilities, demands, and needs.
• Communicate status of development activities across all needed organizational levels.
• Continually drive enhancements to standard operating procedures and tools to improve efficiency, remove roadblocks, increase quality of output, and adapting it to scale.
• Work closely with Stakeholders at all levels on requirements definition and analysis and project planning tasks
• Understand and drive the vision of automated testing throughout the test organization. Be an advocate for automation throughout all activities.
• Management responsibilities for engineering staff including day to day resource and performance management, training and development. Staff will include both on-site and off-shore.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• Masters degree is a plus
• 10+ years of Engineering experience, with increasing responsibilities
• Strong knowledge of Java, SQL, and scripting languages.
• Familiarity with test automation and automation frameworks is a plus.
• Working knowledge of Linux (RedHat), Unix (Solaris), and Windows.
• Familiarity with SOAP, REST, BPEL, WSDL and WS-* standards.
• Familiarity with Oracle 10/11, and PostGres databases.
• Familiarity with Apache projects, and open source servlet containers such as JBoss and Tomcat.
• Test knowledge and experience in automation is a plus
• Experience in software performance engineering and testing is a plus
• Experience with agile methodology a plus
• Experience with standard Development process tools: IDE’s, compilers, version control systems, and defect tracking tools.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Visio, and UML modeling tools.
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Creative, problem-solving approach with developed multi-tasking ability.
• Ability to effectively function in a fast-paced and constantly changing environment.

Recruiter Information:

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

The Manager of Engineering will direct the activities of a release management and tools support. This position oversees the analysis, design, development, programming, debugging, configuration, testing and modification of tools enhancements and/or new tools. Establish operational objectives, work plans and delegates assignments to subordinates. Provide leadership for multiple teams (Release Management and Tools Support). Responsible for budgeting, administrative management, project estimation, and scheduling of function projects. Provide performance management and career development for subordinates.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee support of all engineering tools used in the organization, including hardware it is hosted on
• Identify the components of the release, work to facilitate phase transitions for testing, staging and deployment throughout the entire release cycle.
• Plan and manage shared elements of the release (e.g. user documentation, release notes, etc.) along with planning for the migration of the code base through the various test and staging environments, including to production.
• Communicate progress of release projects across all needed organizational levels.
• Motivate team members to ensure the prompt delivery of accurate information and issues for resolution
• Continually drive enhancements to standard operating procedures and tools to improve efficiency, remove roadblocks, increase quality of output and adapting it to scale.
• Works cross functionally to improve application quality, reliability and performance

Requirements:

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Management Information Systems
• MBA/MSc/PhD preferred
• 5+ years of Managerial experience AND 10+ years of Engineering experience
• Proactive planning and organizational skills to meet time sensitive deadlines.
• Solid technical understanding and ability to actively engage in technical discussions with customers
• Proficient in one programming or shell language (e.g., Java, C++, C#, VB, perl, ksh, tcsh)
• Proficient in several operating systems (e.g., Unix, Linux, Windows)
• Experience with Java technologies.
• Experience using and administrating version control management tools (e.g., ClearCase, SVN)
• Experience with tools like JIRA, Confluence, Fisheye, Crucible
• Apache/JBoss installation/maintenance experience
• Build Management (Ant, Maven) experience
• Scripting experience (e.g. with UNIX shell, Perl)
• Knowledge of network and web application administration (network configuration, Apache, MySQL, etc.)
• Development process tools: IDE’s, compilers, version control systems(i.e. Rational ClearCase), and defect tracking tools (i.e Rational ClearQuest).
• Strong technical aptitude for quickly learning new technologies
• Ability to handle and complete multiple assignments under tight deadlines
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, clearly communicates to all levels–excellent listener.
• Team-player- works well in a highly collaborative & inter-dependent environment.

Recruiter Information:

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

The Establish operational objectives, work plans and delegates assignments to subordinates. Expectations include: provide leadership for multiple teams, budgeting, administrative management, project estimation, and scheduling of function projects. Provide performance management and career development for subordinates.

Direct the activities of a software development function for software application enhancements and new products.  This position oversees the analysis, design, development, programming, debugging, configuration, testing and modification of software enhancements and/or new products for internal or customer applications.  Establish operational objectives, work plans and delegates assignments to subordinates.  Provide leadership for multiple projects and teams (Design, Development, Test and Release).  Responsible for budgeting, administrative management, project estimation, and scheduling of function projects.  Provide performance management and career development for subordinates.

The position requires: technical skills, leadership, attention to detail, adaptability, excellent communication, strong interpersonal skills, great organization skills and self-motivation and commitment. It also requires ability to manage budgets, make hardware decisions and experience with developing and deploying strategies within the system test organization.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee system test activities
• Define system test strategy working with users and development community
• Deploy agile test methodologies as appropriate
• Communicate status of system test activities across all needed organizational levels.
• Motivate team members to ensure the prompt delivery of accurate information and issues for resolution
• Continually drive enhancements to standard operating procedures and tools to improve efficiency, remove roadblocks, increase quality of output and adapting it to scale.
• Works cross functionally to improve application quality, reliability and performance
• Management responsibilities for engineering staff including day to day resource and performance management, training and development
• Schedule quarterly project activities during design, development, testing, or release tasks
• Approve scope changes for projects
• Work closely with Product Management on requirements definition and analysis and project planning tasks
• Lead large projects during design, development, testing or release tasks
• Establish and manage department budget
• Project estimation and scheduling

Requirements:

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Management Information Systems
• MBA/MSc/PhD preferred
• 5+ years of Test Managerial experience AND 5+ years of Engineering experience
• Strong Test industry knowledge
• Experience with agile test implementation
• Experience with test scripting and test automation
• Proactive planning and organizational skills to meet time sensitive deadlines
• Solid technical understanding and ability to actively engage in technical discussions with customers
• Proficient in one programming or shell language (e.g., Java, C++, C#, VB, perl, ksh, tcsh)
• Proficient in several operating systems (e.g., Unix, Linux, Windows)
• Experience with Java technologies and databases, especially database products testing
• Knowledge of network and web application administration (network configuration, Apache, MySQL, etc.)
• Development process tools: IDE’s, compilers, version control systems(i.e. Rational ClearCase), and defect tracking tools (i.e Rational ClearQuest).
• Ability to handle and complete multiple assignments under tight deadlines
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Visio, and Power Point
• Creative, problem-solving approach with developed multi-tasking ability
• Ability to effectively function in a fast-paced and constantly changing environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, clearly communicates to all levels–excellent listener.
• Team-player- works well in a highly collaborative & inter-dependent environment.
• Able negotiator.

Recruiter Information:

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