Responsibilities:

• Administration and support of Informatica
• Analyze system and application architecture to ensure that all functional and non-functional (performance, scalability, reliability, availability, and configurability) requirements are met.
• Explain designs and mentor team members on how to best support new systems.
• Evaluate and select tools and technologies needed for efficient support of the systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that applications are properly tested, configured, and deployed.
• Investigation and root cause analysis of software and system defects.
• Adapt configuration management tools for the needs of the Operations teams.
• Create and execute test plans, and analyze and report results.
• Interact with customers/users to support software acceptance process and act as a liaison between development and users; investigate and report problems.

Requirements:

• BS degree in Computer Science or related engineering field.
• 5+ years of relevant working experience.
• Excellent knowledge of Informatica administration and support.
• Working knowledge of Oracle/AquaLogic Service Bus and WebLogic a plus.
• Working knowledge of Hadoop a plus.
• Proficient in UNIX, Linux, Windows operating systems.
• Proficient in programming and/or shell scripting (e.g. Java, perl, ksh, ant)
• Working knowledge of JBoss Application Server and Tomcat.
• Working knowledge of Linux (RedHat) and UNIX (Solaris 10).
• Familiarity with Oracle 10g/11g, MySQL and PostgreSQL databases.
• Working knowledge of JMS standard and implementations (e.g. Apache Qpid) a plus.
• Ability to learn, apply and explain new tools and technologies quickly.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and Visio tools.
• Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

Interested candidates should email resumes to Lauren Nesslar @ lnesslar@htassociates.com.

This organization is a provider in the technology industry. The company is making money across the globe, is leagues ahead of their competition, and industry forecasts indicate they have only scratched the surface of demand for their products. They are in growth mode and hiring. If you are a commuter using public transportation, the location is ideal.

The business planning analyst role is responsible for supporting both the long term financial and strategic direction of the group as well as the day to day operating framework of the group.

Responsibilities:

Define, plan and facilitate monthly, quarterly and annual management calls and relevant materials as part of overall operating framework.

Support annual long term strategy planning process including market assessment, SWOTs, defining goals and strategies, 5 year roadmap and relevant investments.

Lead bi-annual budget exercise with Finance and Product Management teams. Work with finance to track monthly spend and adjust monthly estimates.

Manage cross organization opportunity review board and approval of access to its bank.

Manage the group’s intranet site, ensuring all internal stakeholders have intuitive access to up-to-date reports, presentations and other information

Ad-hoc analysis and support for management team. (This is a substantial part of the role.)

Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in either finance/economics/business.

2-5 years general business experience in consulting, operations, product management, sales, business development or project management roles.

Ability to interface with senior managers; strong oral and written communication skills.

Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment while meeting critical deadlines.

Ability to process and analyze large amounts of data to support business planning efforts.

Ability to form and maintain relationship with key stakeholders.

Proficient in Microsoft suite.

If this is not a good fit, consider referring this posting on to your friends, family, and colleagues.

This organization is an international corporation in the technology sector. The company is making money across the globe, is leagues ahead of their competition, and industry forecasts indicate they have only scratched the surface of demand for their products. This is an organization that will enhance your marketability in your future. If you are a train commuter, your job location is within a block or two of both stations.

Responsibilities:

•Support financial planning activities and product investment decisions for core operating divisions, which comprise all the major cost functions involved in the development, production and fulfillment of new and existing products.

•Create and maintain detailed Excel-based business cases / financial models to support accurate and timely monthly forecasts, semi-annual budgeting and long-term financial projections; these models are essential tools for effective decision-making regarding the Company’s strategic direction and capital investment.

•Communicate extensively with key personnel and build relationships across various organizations that facilitate results.

•Improve the accuracy and timeliness of the budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning processes with new tools, resources, and process changes.

•Develop a robust understanding of company products, its markets and its internal organization in order to be able to quickly detect issues and communicate them effectively to senior management.

Requirements:

•BA/BS/BBA degree required, Finance majors preferred (but will consider other quantitative/analytical academic backgrounds).

•2-5 years of relevant Finance experience.

•Experience with monthly and quarterly corporate forecasting and financial reporting.

•Strong financial analysis and modeling skills.

•Experience with Budgeting and Planning systems preferred, especially Hyperion.

•Detail-focused, highly analytical orientation.

•Demonstrated ability to think creatively and solve problems.

•Proven ability to meet deadlines and prioritize tasks.

•Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint required.

If you are reviewing this posting and you are not a fit, please feel free to distribute to your network of professional colleagues, friends, and family. This is a super career-making role that will be filled, and someone you know or someone they know could be that hire!

SUMMARY:

This Manager will build and execute a comprehensive strategy for global operations capacity and demand management for this business vertical.  This role reports to the Director of Program Management Office, and will build alignment and capabilities around global planning and process efficiencies pertaining to overall 3-4,000 resources; working with key business vertical stakeholders as well as senior management, product management, business vertical operations, software development, Finance, HR, and other groups.

DELIVERABLES:

Will lead the development and implementation of a centralized, consistent, coordinated ability to manage resources spread across the operations regions, multiple production facilities and outsourced resources.

• Tasked with leading the development of a comprehensive strategy for global operations capacity and demand management for the business vertical.
• Provide high level global operations view and transparency of Capacity and Demand, systematic issues and action plan to resolve.
• Will provide predictive analysis of issues, drive to create a predictable operating environment to support risk mitigation.
• Will assist regional and production planning groups for scenario analysis, work through issues across groups. Drive operations issues between groups to resolution.
• Lead the development of relevant global capacity and planning information, metrics and reporting.
• Will lead the development, implementation and manage a prioritized plan for improvements and best practices for regional and global planning process, tools, metrics and reporting through the business vertical and operations leadership team.
• Will lead and manage the coordination and support for regional planning and scheduling groups/teams.
• Lead and manage communication effort to provide transparency upfront of impacts to plan, dependencies and forecasts of risk from upstream activities to improve planning for the operations planning groups.
• Tasked to lead and manage effort to provide long range operational forecasting; planning and support for forward planning; forecasting project mix scenario analysis/value maximizing/optimization.

BACKGROUND:

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferred disciplines; Computer Science, Engineering and there is a strong perference for an advanced degree.
• Ten years plus previous related work experience or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Five years plus experience in operations management with short/long range planning and complex data models with proven ability to access and manage complex global scenarios.
• In-depth experience in Master Scheduling or Production Planning in a global multi-plant environment desired. Experience in Lean/Six Sigma or similar continuous improvement methodology experience.
• Extensive experience with logistics and basic planning components such as demand management, capacity requirements planning, forecasting, operations planning, master scheduling, material requirements planning, performance measurements, and continuous improvement.
• Solid business acumen in decision making and demonstrated experience working with senior leadership to form creative solutions and effectively implement.
• Possess a track record of leading cross-functional business leadership at executive and operational line management levels to achieve challenging objectives across various organizations. Experience in a multi-cultural environment desired.
• Deep experience with analytical data modeling, solver, pivot tables and ability to evaluate multiple alternatives to yield the best decision (Regression Analysis, Statistical Analysis).

If this is of interest

to either you (please send a copy of your resume) or if there is someone you can refer please respond to my email address SSchmidt@htassociates.com. Regards, Steve

• Provide technical leadership in the development and support of the JDA / Manugistics Suite.
• Lead the design, development, and testing of interfaces and application enhancements.
• Closely partner with the business to understand their needs, document requirements, and deliver solutions.
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications.
• Utilize SDLC process to ensure timely and quality deliverables..
• Evaluate and implement best practice technical processes.
• Mentor team members and provide end-user support.

 SKILLS

• In depth experience with JDA/Manugistics Demand Planning, Fulfillment, and Collaborate modules.
• Experience with JDA version 7.2 or greater.
• Experience and knowledge of Oracle Database version(s) 9i or 10g.
• Project management experience; PMI certification a plus.
• Comprehensive understanding of Supply Chain Planning. 
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills, self motivated and requiring minimal supervision.
• Proven ability to manage the delivery of integrated solutions to tight schedules.
• Team player with strong customer focus and the ability to translate user specifications into technical designs.
• Highly organized being able to adapt to an ever changing environment while managing multiple tasks at once.
• Excellent communication, analytical, interpersonal, and organization skills.

 Location: Chicago.  Duration: Permanent

• Lead and participate in the definition, planning, testing, deployment, and ongoing technical support of the client’s customer-facing Dynamic Content Management Platform. 
• Define, implement and support the 24×7×365 multi-tiered application technology and infrastructure, and disaster recovery capabilities.  Take charge of support systems and content health monitoring, capacity alerts, automated emergency response and technical troubleshooting.
• Project Lead and technical expert for platform technology and infrastructure support; provide and fulfill 24×7×365 SLAs both internally and externally.
• Serve as the technical expert in multi-site, high-performance, high-availability platforms
• Test, deploy, optimize and manage the technology platform and associated systems
• Execute upgrade release governance from requirements through user test, performance tests and low-impact deployment to production
• Technical responsibility for overall system performance optimization, content throughput, system health troubleshooting and recommendation of upgrades and improvements.
• Manage regular user acceptance tests production operations, simulations, and knowledge transfer of upgrades to the Operations Group during deployments
• Lead cross-functional efforts for platform improvement with Research & Development for architecture / requirements / design upgrades.

Requirements:

• Extensive technical project leadership experience
• Broad experience with real-time, high-availability systems (required)
• In-depth experience with high performance, large systems operations
• Experience with on-line (Web-based) transaction processing
• Experienced with data warehousing, web services, cloud computing, modern IS infrastructures desired
• Experience with performance tuning, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, security, and multi-site operations desired
• Skilled in building working teams for short to mid-term projects
• Ability to work with minimal supervision and provide the necessary support to resolve system problems/questions       
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Systems Engineering

 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