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- Senior Business Analyst - MS Dynamics AX - Arlington, VA
The Enterprise Business Solutions (EBS) team is responsible for the success of their customer business units (Accounting, Finance, Distribution, and others) in putting software systems to use in support of their business goals. To that end, the EBS organization designs, develops, implements, integrates, maintains and supports financial and other software systems - both commercial and custom built - supporting the company mission. The Senior Business Analyst is adept at matching business requirements to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) functionality and addressing gaps through process and/or software changes. Through continuous communication with all levels of the organization, the Senior Business Analyst documents and analyzes processes and works with business sponsors to devise technical solutions. The Senior Business Analyst understands business processes and leverages technology to optimize them.
Responsibilities
- Establish a strong, positive relationship with staff in the appropriate business units.
- Develop an understanding of how the business works from a process standpoint and how it uses the financial and related business systems. Act as a champion in the identification, development and implementation of best practices across the organization.
- Support the day-to-day activities of the business units by troubleshooting business system issues that are escalated beyond the departmental subject matter experts.
- Conduct and participate in planning and prioritization meetings with business representatives. Develop a prioritized list of project work including software modifications, report requests, and other business system-related development work to reflect the priorities of the organization.
- Serve as a liaison between functional staff and both internal and external technical staff to recommend, develop, and test program modifications, or introduce new functionality to the business community.
- Create or assist writing process documentation and standard work documents. Update these documents to reflect new and improved process changes implemented in ERP.
- Create functional requirements as an input to application design.
- Develop and test detailed functional designs for business solution components and prototypes.
- Supervise application build, test, and deploy activities.
- Effectively manage projects and programs, exhibiting leadership in process re-engineering and implementation of process, technology, strategy, and organizational change.
Required
- Bachelor's Degree in a related field such as business or technology.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) or Professional in Business Analysis (PBI) preferred.
- 3 years ERP implementation experience, either Microsoft Dynamics AX or other ERP products (i.e. SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft)
- Experience in requirements gathering process for IT systems.
- Experience in data migration.
- Experience with MSSQL server, SSRS is a plus.
- Experience with reporting, queries and business intelligence.
- Experience with technical solution description and documentation.
- Demonstrated knowledge in system upgrades, integrations, configurations, customizations and support.
- Strong, broad knowledge of functional business areas such as accounting, purchasing, planning, inventory, sales and customer service.
- Working knowledge of at least one software development methodology preferred.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft platform skills preferred.
- Ability to lead people, teams and projects.
- Results oriented / self-directed ability to drive change.
- Strong client interface and presentation skills.
- Strong business acumen.
- Excellent interpersonal skills - 'Customer Focused'.
- Manages expectations from the business sponsor effectively.
- Ability to quickly build relationships.
- Passion for learning.
- Strong time management skills.
- Strong analytical, numerical and reasoning abilities.
- Great communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Ability to work effectively both individually and as part of a team.
- Sr. Cyber Security Analyst (ISSO) - Arlington, VA
The Cyber Security Analyst works with the Director, Infrastructure and Operations, and the Sr. Manager Enterprise Networking to maintain and enhance the cyber security protection framework. Specific duties include day-to-day interaction with Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) and staff to ensure the proper operation of security appliances and services, collaborating with peers to define security architecture for ongoing and new initiatives, as well as configuration and maintenance of Application Delivery Control systems and services.
This position, with other members of the Enterprise Networking department, handles initial security and network event escalations, interacting with peers and managers in other departments to ensure rapid and accurate response to events and to ensure proper management notification and escalation take place.
This position will also routinely interact with the CTO, and participate in the business-wide corporate Cyber Security working group, helping to provide advice and counsel on relevant Cyber Security issues impacting our business and helping to inform policy regarding Cyber Security.
This position is ideal for someone who is smart, innovative and passionate about cyber security. The ideal candidate will have at least five years of cyber security experience and will want to learn and grow in a fast paced, dynamic, media environment. It requires a strong ability to communicate plans and ideas and collaborate with peers; preferably with a track record of presenting technical information, requirements, and policies to audiences ranging from technical to managerial. The ability to write clear instructions, policies, presentations, and position papers is required.
Responsibilities
- Manage day-to-day relationship with security and networking partners
- Respond to alerts and escalations in a timely manner
- Assist in developing and implementing cyber security policies, standards, and guidelines
- Develop, recommend, and test security controls to meet information assurance requirements
- Define and perform security audits, evaluations, and risk assessments of complex operational data processing systems and facilities
- Define and validate security tests, certifications, and evaluations of applications and general support systems processing sensitive and/ or confidential information as defined by the NIST Risk Management Framework
- Utilize the NIST Risk Management Framework, the Twenty Critical Security Controls and other standards as defined by CTO to assist during project and system development life cycle
- Maintain and enhance Application Delivery Control systems
- Collaborate with peers across the Technology and Operations as well as CTO to ensure best practices are in place with regards to systems integration and software development.
- Participate in any rapid-response Cyber Security event impacting the organization
Required
- 7+ years systems engineering or other relevant IT experience , including:
- 3 - 5 years of experience in application security
- 3 years of experience designing, managing, and maintaining Application Load Balancing and Application Delivery solutions preferred
- 3 years of experience making presentations and leading discussions with both technical and non-technical individuals and groups preferred
- B.S. degree in Computer Sciences, Information Systems, or related field required or equivalent combination of education and work experience
- Training and/or experience in at least two of the following preferred:
- IP and application security design and implementation
- Current security certification (ex. CISSP or SANS GIAC)
- Current F5 certification at the “C1” level plus at least 1 “C2” level certification
- Ability to work effectively on a day-to-day basis with Managed Security Services Providers (MSSPs)
- Ability to design and implement information and network security solutions, including BigIP F5 systems and Microsoft IIS solutions
- Ability to troubleshoot and correct problems related to IT and network security systems, web applications, Microsoft .NET systems, and LAMP architectures
- A full understanding of industry standard network and application standards and designs (network stack, application stack, etc.)
- Ability to establish policies to keep systems safe
- Ability to work effectively with large vendors to design and implement policies
- Ability to independently utilize a wide and varying variety of Web, GUI (graphical user interface) and CL (command line) based user interfaces using Microsoft Windows 7 and 8 based equipment. Other Skills/Abilities
- Ability to self-start, work independently, and lead others within expertise area.
- Ability to develop specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish assigned tasks.
- Detail-oriented and thorough
- Reliable, responsible, and dependable in fulfilling work responsibilities
- Ability to use relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards
- Ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to write clear instructions, policies, presentations, and position papers
- Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with internal staff, vendors, and customers
- Ability to work effectively as a member of a small team where flexibility and collaboration are key
- Ability to report to either Crystal City or Alexandria location as requested and to move between locations within an hour
- Ability to respond to emergency situations after work hours when necessary
- RP Project Manager (Permanent position) - Frankfort, KY
Responsibilities
- Works with appropriate customers to identify and coordinate new IT system developments and/or enhancements
- Works with appropriate customers to develop project scope of work documents and project plans that include an analysis of benefit, cost, work schedule and any related risks
- Assigns, schedules, trains, reviews, and monitors project work to ensure that progress is within expected guidelines and is completed on time and within budget. Mentors and provides expertise to other project team members
- Works with appropriate customers to identify the roles of project team members, project reporting structures and frequency of interaction and any training requirements that may be needed for a team member to complete an IT project
- Defines the responsibilities of parties involved in the project including customers, management, IT management, project team, vendors and others affected by the project
- Identifies, tracks, monitors and communicates project-related issues, scope changes, variances and contingencies that may arise during the implementation of IT projects. Facilitates amicable solutions with the appropriate customer(s)
- Maintains effective communication and working relationships with customers and project team members
- Identifies the technical approach to be used on a given IT project and manages the system development process including the development of a strategic plan, systems analysis, technical design, coding, testing and acceptance of an IT system and/or application
- Develops IT system review schedules, audits and acceptance tests for each phase of a project
- Identifies IT system design alternatives, researches existing IT systems in the marketplace and recommends viable IT solutions
- Develops Requests for Proposals (RFP), evaluates responses, and leads IT system selection teams
- Identifies and documents opportunities to integrate IT systems and resources to fulfill project requirements
- Prepares and presents oral and/or written technical reports and project presentations
- Organizes and conducts project team meetings
Required
- Minimum of 8 years overall implementation and upgrade PeopleSoft experience with focus on the Financials/HCM applications (version 9.0 or higher)
- Extensive functional knowledge and multiple hands-on implementation experience with PeopleSoft Financials
- 2+ years Project Management experience within PeopleSoft, including responsibility for budget and personnel
- Strong customer service orientation and ability to gain consensus
- Excellent verbal and written communication and facilitation skills
- Bachelors Degree highly preferred
- PeopleSoft Campus Solutions - Functional Consultants
(Student Records, Recruitment & Admissions, Student Financials & Financials) (Permanent Positions & Open for Contractors as well) - Frankfort, KY
Responsibilities
- Serve as a Functional resource for the full life cycle of development projects
- Work with Project Management Office to execute consulting and project planning methodologies, tools and standards, and provide ideas and strategies for improvements
- Create concise specifications that can be translated into a working code
- Design creative solutions to complex business problems
- Create specifications for modifications to PeopleSoft Campus Solutions based on a detailed understanding of PeopleSoft software, process best practices and client requirements
- Evaluate unit testing in accordance with existing development methodology
- Produce functional documentation for assigned programs. Provide end user knowledge transfer and training as needed
Required
- In-depth knowledge of the full range of PeopleSoft products and tools.
- In-depth knowledge of business functions and operations in Human Resources or Campus Solutions
- Minimum 3 years functional hands-on experiences in system implementation and/or provision of support services in PeopleSoft Campus Solutions 9.0 in various modules including Student Records, Student Financials, Academic Advisement, Contributor Relations, etc.
- Some knowledge and skills in PeopleTools and/or Oracle PL/SQL
- Able to work under pressure and minimal supervision
- PeopleSoft Campus Solutions - Technical Consultant (Permanent Position) - Frankfort, KY
Responsibilities
- Serve as a Technical resource for the full life cycle of development projects.
- Turn specifications into working code
- Develop or modify PeopleSoft Campus Solutions menus, panels, panel groups, records and tables
- Strong experience in data conversion, interfaces and reporting
- Evaluate the impact of custom modifications on both the system and the batch processes
- Perform unit testing in accordance with existing development methodology
- Produce Technical documentation for assigned programs
- Performance tune new and existing code
- Troubleshoot production issues
- Participate in peer to peer code/design reviews
- Design creative solutions to complex business problems
Required
- Knowledge of PeopleSoft architecture, People Tools 8.4+ / PeopleCode, PeopleSoft Integration
- Tools experience (Application Engine, Component Interfaces, Workflow), including scriptwriting and SQR development
- Demonstrated skills in the design and implementation of PeopleSoft development, execution, and operations support architectures
- Peoplesoft Campus Solutions Soluton Architect - Frankfort, KY
Responsibilities
- Manage the joint functional team in a shared leadership role, providing leadership to protect the assets of the project and coordination between program activities;
- Responsible for solution architecture of the specific PeopleSoft Campus Solutions ERP stream;
- Ensure project stream resources and sub leads are directed with integration from participating departments including but not limited to Student Services, Registrar’s Office, Continuing Education, ITS, Finance and HR;
- Provide PeopleSoft design and build guidance to the team;
- Provide solution leadership, organization and coordination of resources within the project stream as well as other resources in a functional and matrix program organization;
- Ensure a uniform approach across the project stream using existing methodology and practices;
- Ensure that PMO staff receives timely information to prevent risks and to maximize resource utilization to achieve a quality product on time, in scope and within budget;
- Oversee design, build, and especially testing activities during functional object and system integration testing;
- Endorse or approve project change requests to proceed through governance approval;
- Modify schedule to reduce risks while maintaining resource leveling;
- Provide feedback and guidance of best practices in PeopleSoft implementations, with particular focus on Campus Solutions reports, interfaces, conversions and enhancements (RICE);
Skills
- 10+ years of PeopleSoft Campus Solutions specific project implementation
- 5+ years of the lead role as Solution Architect
- Strong testing methodology and coordination experience
- Advanced enterprise project experience with 5000+ users
- Advanced communications skills in negotiation, influencing, persuasion etc.
- Ability to manage, coach, mentor, train other staff, including project resources
- Oracle Fusion Functional Consultant (Finance) - Frankfort, KY
Requirements
- 10 + years of experience in Oracle EBS & 1 year mandatory implementation experience on Oracle Fusion Financials (MUST HAVE)
Experience
- Minimum 1 year experience in Oracle Fusion Financials ( On premise or on the cloud)
- Minimum 8+ years of Implementation experience in Oracle Financial Modules
- Should have experience of implementing Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Cash Management, Fixed Assets, General Ledger, FAH and R12 features like SLA
- Domain experience in Finance and Accounting preferably in Higher Education is desirable
- Good Communication Skill is a must and the candidate should know how to articulate the solution to the stakeholders as this role involves discussion at various levels with business users and clients.
- Responsible for gap analysis of functional flows, provide solution design, perform POC’s and demo for the Gaps solution from standard solution sets as well customized solutions.
- Very good understanding of implementation life cycle and must have worked as a lead consultants for Finance suite
- Good functional experience who can independently solution business requirements and recommend industry best practices.
- Should be able to lead cross functional discussions to analyze the requirements and brainstorm the solutions.
- Good technical knowledge will be a plus and a fair understanding of technical architecture is a must.
- ASP.Net & RoR Developer - Arlington, VA
The Application Developer will be working with the latest technologies (ASP .Net, MVC, Ruby on Rails, C#, JQuery, Web Services, XML) to support Insurance and Financial Services business initiatives. Working on business and infrastructure projects, this individual is key to the integration, design, development, implementation, and production support.
Full Agile application life cycle, including design, test driven development, testing support, and implementation of projects in support of business goals
Collaborate with team members to refine and enhance application development frameworks and system architectures.
Production monitoring and application supportRequirements: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems Technology or relevant experience
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS), Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD), and/or other industry certification preferred
5+ (or 3+ for junior positions) years progressive systems development experience
Familiarity with automated unit testing methodologies and tools, such as NUnit
Agile development methodologies experience (such as Scrum and Extreme Programming)
Motivated to collaborate as part of a team to resolve problems and discuss solutions.
- Systems Administrator and Database Manager - Annapolis, Maryland
5 year experience as Administrator with Oracle database experience (certification preferred)
- PeopleSoft Developers - Annapolis, Maryland
Minimum of 3 years with PeopleSoft HCM and/or Financials in a development role
- Sr. PeopleSoft Security Specialist - Annapolis, Maryland
Minimum of 5 years in PeopleSoft security role
- PeopleSoft Training Specialist - Annapolis, Maryland
Minimum of 5 years as a PeopleSoft Test Lead/Sr. Consultant
- PeopleSoft - Procure to Pay Support - Annapolis, Maryland
Minimum of 3 years with PeopleSoft AP, PO, ePro
- PeopleSoft - Order to Cash Support - Annapolis, Maryland
Minimum of 3 years with PeopleSoft BI, AR
- Senior PeopleSoft Functional Consultant - Annapolis, Maryland
Senior Functional Consultant with Inventory and Asset Management Experience - minimum of 5 years with PeopleSoft
- Sr. SQL Server Developer - Norther Virginia
The Application Developer will provide technical leadership for SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services) and Data Warehouse applications over full-cycle development including requirements analysis & documentation, design, development, testing and implementation of applications that support business goals, help support these applications once they are in production; and simultaneously perform technical work on mid scale projects.
Lead/participate in code review sessions to ensure applications and processes and support existing architecture, follow defined guidelines and coding standards and meet user requirements.
Collaborate with end users, provide exceptional customer service and become trusted business adviser
Manage problems, tasks and projects
Provide technical and/or functional application representation for projects
Develop and maintain Reporting Services reports and Data Warehouse processes
Collaborate with end users to develop detailed requirements
Participate in code reviews
Develop and maintain comprehensive SSRS system end user documentation
Requirements and Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Information Systems Technology or 7-11 year of equivalent experience
Hands-on experience with Business Intelligence/Analytical Reporting tool, 4-8 years, Brio and/or SQL Server Reporting Services a plus
Experience with ETL (Extract Transform Load) tool
Leadership and development of others in the development and deployment of small-to-mid size projects
Insurance and Healthcare knowledge a plus
Excellent communication skills
Team player, flexible/adaptable, responsible and accountable
- Sr. Web Application Developer - Northern Virginia
The Employee Benefits website team is seeking a User Interface (UI) Developer to work in our dynamic IT department on the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of the NEB system front-facing screens. As a key contributor on the NEB Application team, the Senior Application Developer will be responsible for the web portal that supports the Insurance and Financial Services business initiatives. This individual will collaborate on both business and infrastructure projects, in accordance with the established NEB development framework and processes.
Showcase the latest web technologies in product development
Develop and maintain site-wide XHTML, CSS and JavaScript code, as well as general UI coding standards
Advance product design and User Interface (UI) standards in accordance with business goals
Engineer and support unit testing with a goal to deliver high quality implementations
Partner with lead developer(s) to determine product direction
Understand and promote best practices to ensure NEB website performance and accessibility
Create high-quality product prototypes
Take ownership of projects, tasks, and issues through the point of completion
Collaborate with end users to provide exceptional customer service as a trusted business advisorRequirements and Qualifications
Proven ability to be effective on multiple projects simultaneously, and the motivation to collaborate as part of a dynamic team
Expertise in client-side technologies: HTML5, XHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript
Advanced AJAX knowledge, including best practices and limitations
Experience writing unit and functional tests
Sound debugging skills
Knowledge in building a cross-browser compatible web product
Agile development methodologies experience (e.g. Scrum and Extreme Programming)
Experience with ASP.NET MVC and/or Ruby on Rails a plus
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Systems Technology or 4-8 years equivalent experience
Effective documentation skills combined with a demonstrated attention to detail
Exemplary problem solving and service delivery skills, particularly in the presentation and education of technological issues and solutions
- BizTalk Developer - Northern Virginia
Our client has started integrating major applications utilizing BizTalk and web services. As this work continues, this position will play a key role in the integration design, development, implementation and production support.
They are currently seeking a BizTalk Application Developer with 5+ years of experience to work in their dynamic IT department. As such, the position will be responsible for full life-cycle development of applications in the BizTalk Server environment and related technologies such as Data Direct, InfoPath, .NET Framework and SharePoint.
- Configuration Manager / Systems Integrator - Northern Virginia
This configuration management position requires a specific skill set that is drastically different from other members of client's application development teams. A dedicated configuration manager ensures that best practice configuration management (CM) processes for code building, code deployment, code source control, release management, test environment management, change management and server administration are developed and executed.
The successful candidate will possess 3+ years experience in managing builds, deployments and releases for .NET applications, as well as fundamental source code management experience (branching, merging, permission, etc). The client's preferred tools are TeamCity, NCover, NDepend, FXCop and StyleCop. Programming tools will include JavaScript, Perl, ASP.NET, SharePoint, BizTalk. A person skilled in documentation and system administration will also have advantages.
- IT Project Manager - Northern Virginia
Our client seeks a project management professional with 5-8+ years of experience in gathering requirements, modeling use cases, documenting business processes, creating test plans, performing independent testing, capturing test results and managing medium-to-large projects.
Ability to communicate and train technical as well as non-technical personnel will crucial to the success of this role.
- SQL Server Developer, SSRS, SSIS, C#, VB - Montgomery County, Maryland
The successful candidate will lead a team of application developers to provide software development and support of critical systems and web sites. This position will act as mentor to developers and provide solutions that include in-house development and vendor software integration to meet the needs of the customer.
Contribute to system architecture design, code reviews, risk management analysis and assurance of best practices in the life-cycle development including analysis, design, testing, implementation and documentation. Participate in code reviews to ensure system integrity, as well as perform software analysis and integration.
Requirements
BS degree
Microsoft Certification (MCTS, MCPD, MCAD, MCSD) a plus.
Strong problem solving and analytical thinking.
Proven ability to lead and coach others.
7 -10+ years overall IT experience.
5+ years of Web development (JavaScript, HTML, XML, C#, ASP.NET)
3+ years experience with SQL Server.
3+ years using .NET framework.
2+ years SharePoint Portal and WSS (MOSS a plus)
2+ years MS Content Management Server.
Exposure to BizTalk a plus.
Experience with SSRS.
Experience using SiteMinder for security management.
Knowledge of Agile(Scrum) development methodologies.
Experience with source control systems, preferably Subversion.
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