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Senior WebSphere Commerce Developer

Contract position in Bothell, WA/Atlanta, GA

Job Description:

As a Senior WebSphere Commerce developer you will be a key member of the eCommerce development team responsible for implementing WebSphere Commerce Enterprise sites in a high volume transaction environment.

You will be responsible for the design and development of solutions using WebSphere Commerce Enterprise 6.0 and 7.0 and upgrades of WCS 6.0 solutions to WCS 7.0. This is a hands-on application development role, including application extensions, integration testing, integration development and cutover activities.

Responsibilities:

• Translate business, and functional requirements into documented technical specifications.
• Full life cycle application development: design, code, and test technical solutions
• Conducting code reviews with consultants and junior level developers to ensure proper coding techniques and approach as well as adherence to standards
• Gather information from users to create specifications and develop code for new and existing systems
• Follow Software Change Management guidelines
• Customize underlying business logic for stores
• Hands on experience with web services (REST, SOAP, etc.)
• Implement session management, access control and caching features
• Customize administration tools
• Customize payment plug-ins
• Understand product catalog model and create/load data
• Test, troubleshoot, and debug code and environment issues with appropriate environment support teams
• Package and deploy customized code

Minimum Required Skills / Competencies:

• 4+years hands on WebSphere Commerce development experience (recent) with v6 or later
• 6-8 years experience with J2EE architecture and development including Servlets, EJBs, JMS, and JSP.
• Experience with WebSphere Commerce architecture
• Should have done at least one enterprise implementation of WCS
• Quick learner and problem solving ability
• B2B and B2C store development experience
• Demonstrated hands-on skills in two or more of the subsystems in WCS (ex: Order Management, Catalog, Marketing, Merchandising, etc.)
• Strong understanding of the WCS runtime framework and be comfortable working with Struts.
• Experience developing WCS EJB, access, and databeans
• Experience with Oracle 10g or 11g
• Experience with the data model and programming model for WebSphere Commerce
• Experience with WebSphere Commerce programming techniques and methods for extending the base
• WebSphere Commerce functionality based on the best practices and methodologies recommended by IBM

Preferred skills:

• XML and web technologies including AJAX, Web Services, and JSON.
• Direct Sales development experience a plus
• Experience in iterative and parallel development model is desirable 
•  WCS Commerce Accelerator and WCS Management Center
• Integration experience to fulfillment vendors, tax (Vertex), payment processing, e-mail service providers, and other ecommerce integrations
• Knowledge of WCS site administration including build and deployment and overall site architecture.
• Wireless industry experience desirable.
  

Production Operations, Cloud Specialist

Perm position in Boulder, CO

Overview:

The Production Operations, Cloud Specialist is responsible for the end-to-end deployment and service architecture for the company’s cloud-based, SaaS offering.  The individual in this role will be responsible for working with a team that routinely works with software architects, developers and product managers to develop, manage and maintain a high-availability web service offering deployed in Amazon’s Web Service platform. We are looking for individuals with experience in an Operations role where the management of a robust, resilient and elastic web service offering is their primary responsibility.

Job Description:

• Work with software architects and developers to design and deploy a cloud-based infrastructure ensuring the highest availability and reliability for a high-volume internet service.
• Implement and manage a state-of-the-art ProdOps group with the primary responsibility of maintaining a cloud-based offering.
• Diagnose and resolve production problems in the live environment and participate in an on-call rotation.
• Compose and maintain the body of documentation as it relates to the service platform.
• Ability to plan, draft and execute the necessary maintenance procedures to ensure a high-availability system.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years working with web-related technologies in a production operations capacity.
• Experience with the management and configuration of Amazon Web Services including EC2, S3, Elastic Load Balancer and CloudWatch.
• Experience with the Amazon Web Services developer API.
• A strong background in the creation, management and administration of virtualized hardware instances in a production environment.
• A strong background in Windows Server administration including security, IIS and network configuration.
• Experience with automation and configuration frameworks such as Chef or Puppet.
• Knowledge of the .NET 4.0 Framework, specifically C# and the configuration and management of WCF applications distributed as part of IIS or a Windows Service.
• Exposure to No-SQL technologies such as HBASE, MongoDB, CouchDB and or Cassandra is highly desirable.
  

Project Manager I

Contract position in Bothell, WA

Job Description:

• Manages projects throughout the infrastructure and software development project lifecycles including project scope, schedule, resources, quality, costs and change.
• Translates project requirements into project objectives and tasks, managing task assignment to project resources and reporting on and managing project scope throughout the lifecycle
• Develops detailed project schedules, resource plans, status reports, budget forecasts and influences the effectiveness of a team that integrates multiple functions/disciplines.
• Conducts project meetings, sets and manages client expectations by solving issues and changes when appropriate exercising Risk, Issue and Change Management best practices.
• Interfaces with all areas affected by the project, including end user, services organizations, vendors and implementations partners.
• Review project deliverables for accuracy and apprises management of issues effecting project status and offers solution to solve the issues.
• Ensure satisfactory transfer of custody and control of product upon completion (handoff) and close all project documentation and archive appropriate records.

Minimum Required Skills / Competencies: Position Requirements

• Sound understanding of Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) Discipline.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Need excellent meeting facilitation skills.
• Exceptional problem solving skills.
• Quick recall of multiple work streams.
• Calming demeanor in difficult circumstances.
• Ability to motivate project teams to build team morale and group commitment to project goals and deliverables.
• Ability to effectively manage time, prioritize work, and multi-task across several project assignments.
• Ability to manage, control and report on project budget
• Ability to interact and communicate professionally with all levels of staff and management as required to coordinate project deliverables, deliver status reports, and facilitate meetings.
• MS Office Tools (Word, Excel, Project, Powerpoint, Visio, Outlook)

Education & Experience:

• 1-2 years of Project Management experience using structured methodology required.
• Experience working with multiple vendors within tight timelines.
• Past experience understanding and communicating multiple work stream schedules.
• Prior cross-functional team management experience required.
• Demonstrated track record of successfully delivering solutions and managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Proven experience managing geographically diverse teams and/or teams in a matrix organization.
• Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college/university or equivalent work experience required.

Preferred skills:

• Wireless, Telecommunications, and/or Sales industry experience preferred.
• Project Management Certifications preferred.
  

Senior Java Developer

Contract position in Seattle, WA

Our client is seeking a senior Java Developer to participate in all aspects of their project including:  design, programming, testing, documentation, quality assurance and implementation.

Requirements:

• The Senior Java Developer is proficient in web-based applications, databases, Web services, enterprise middleware and system interfaces across multiple computing platforms. 
• The Senior Java Developer is technically competent, has extensive knowledge and working experience in all aspects of application development, communicates effectively, and is able to work both independently and as part of a team collaborating on complex projects.  
• This position requires a self-starter with excellent communication skills.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years recent experience in java-centric software development.
• Senior level developer.
• Languages/Platforms/Frameworks: Java/JEE, JSF, MVC, Spring, JPA, Hibernate, JUnit, log4j.
• Cross-cutting standards:  XML/XSL/XSD, X/HTML, web services (SOAP/WSDL).
• Middleware:  Apache web server, Tomcat.
• Database solutions:  Oracle, MySQL, SQL.
• IDEs and Development Tools:  IntelliJ, Subversion, Ant, Maven, Jetty.
• Experienced with code versioning, branching and release methodologies.
• Understanding of secure design and coding practices.
• Experience and prior responsibility for jump-starting a java development environment.
• Motivated, energetic self-starter comfortable in a team-oriented environment.
• Attention to detail and firm commitment to quality and customer service.

Product Manager, Online and Ecommerce

Perm position in New York City (Soho/Tribeca)

Within our client's Sales and Marketing Technology department, the Product manager represents the interests of the business within the development process ensuring that customer requirements are captured and documented requirements and fully understood.

The Product manager should have a good knowledge of how the systems are developed and deployed and  play a leading role in developing the understanding and functionality of the platform.

Web - Application Support Analyst 4

Contract position in Bothellm WA

Job Description:

Recognized expert in their Application Support Discipline (Message Processing, Mediations, Provisioning, Billing, Web, Middleware, Retail Activation Systems, Payment Processing, etc…). This position is the final tier in escalation support prior to seeking involvement from management. An Analyst V would be considered a key member of any group, as they provide architectural and technical leadership to the entire team. They are also a lead contributor and participate on both the architectural and development design teams.

Minimum Required Skills / Competencies:

• 6-8 years experience required
• Business systems analytical experience required
• Experience working in the wireless industry (recommended)
• Provide Subject Matter Expertise in one or more core functional Application Support Discipline (Message Processing, Mediations, Provisioning, Billing, Web, Middleware, Retail Activation Systems, Payment Processing, etc…)
• Ability to prioritize and resolve multiple complex and critical issues.
• Forecasts and plans for supporting both applications functionality and capacity requirements in a rapidly growing, changing and complex environment.
• Protect and insure the stability of the operational systems as well as maintain the integrity of the data they contain
• Assist in determining the impact of operational issues and provide input into their resolution via data extraction and quantification
• Coordinate and prioritize all escalated activities, including testing, project management and implementation of system upgrades, enhancements, and bug fixes.
• Maintain cross-business responsibilities by providing end-user support to multiple organizations within the company when issues arise
• Frequent interaction with the business to integrate knowledge of the business and functional priorities.
• Assess critical path and assist in implementation of any project required by the business
• Available to provide 24 X7 support as required
• Strong experience working with Oracle on Unix using command line and GUI SQL tools.
• Strong knowledge of relational database design and support, including the support of large UNIX/Oracle based enterprise software systems
• System Analysis experience in the support/operation of an enterprise wide carrier class application, pref. a wireless environment (8+ yrs preferred)
• Experience in testing, quality and change management methodologies
• Previous experience in 24hrs/day, 7days/week system support capacity
• Must have at least 5 years of Window IS, .Net Platform experience.
  

Sr. SQL Server Engineer

Perm or Contract to Perm position in Seattle, WA

This is a position at a great company in downtown Seattle that develops SaaS solutions for the education market. Be part of a team where your contribution really makes a difference and the culture is one of collaboration and communication.

Position Summary

The Senior SQL Engineer collaborates with senior-level staff to architect, develop, test, and deploy critical business applications using current and past Microsoft SQL Server technologies.

Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Coordinate with the Client Support team to address platform defects and issues reported by customers.
• Manage, Operate, and Tune for performance, Online Transactional Databases and Enterprise Data Warehouse systems for optimal use.
• Create, program, and distribute systems for delivery of reports to internal and external users.
• Assist senior-level technical staff and Product Management to build, test, and deploy new features or enhancements to existing features.
• Utilize both Agile and traditional software lifecycle methodologies.
• Analyze performance of software databases and system interfaces and identify alternatives for optimizing the usage of computer resources.
• Apply generally accepted programming standards and techniques to assure efficient program logic and data manipulation.
• Participate in designing, coding, testing, debugging, configuring, and documenting and software.
• Provide assistance and routine consultation to users in the development of operating systems and software.
• Collaborate with others to develop alternative system and software designs.

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree (B.A.) in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related field.
• 6+ years hands-on development experience at an expert level with the Microsoft SQL Server platform, including Versions 2005-current versions for use in enterprise-level or SaaS implementations. 
• 5+ years hands-on development experience with enterprise data warehouse and business intelligence systems using custom or enterprise software.  
• 1+ years of experience in development of non-database components/systems using C#, VB.NET, ADO.NET, and ASP.NET.

VP of Engineering - Startup

Location is midtown Manhattan

We're looking for a VP of Engineering for a consumer email service startup with a compelling offering.  As VP of Engineering, you’ll take charge of an existing code base comprising homegrown and third-party Python and JavaScript libraries on a foundation of Linux-based technologies and PostgreSQL. You’ll build a team that can evolve the existing product and quickly expand it to comprise new features in response to internal and external feedback.

To be successful, you’ll need:

• Startup experience. This is a startup environment. You’ll sprint for long distances while zigzagging as you learn with each step.
• Experience as a startup CTO, VP of Engineering, or lead of a team.
• Experience in hiring – and developing – team members to shape a successful team is required.
• Leadership.  You should be able to build an entire LAMP-based Web site on your own, but be smart enough to delegate and experienced enough to do it effectively.
• Hunger for big results. You and your team will have stock options, and it’ll be your job to make them valuable. You should have a hunger for new ideas: combing the Web looking for new libraries to try, new projects to play with, and new products to save you time.

This position is only for serious, experienced, technical leaders with an entrepreneurial spirit. You must think in services, be able to invent it here, but also be wide open to adopting others’ ideas, techniques, and code. Speed and efficiency are critical, and you must have the chops to sidestep rookie mistakes in your sleep. If you’ve always been the smartest person in your group --- you’ve joined projects midstream and quickly became the local authority – then this may be the fit for you.

More than most jobs, communication is key here. You must be able to explain your views clearly, to audiences of all technical levels. You must be able to provide constructive feedback to your peers, without condescending or insulting. Wallflowers are not going to fit. Jerks are not welcome.
 
The job is in midtown NYC. You’ll be paid what you’re worth, and you’ll get options, to boot.

Web Technical Delivery Manager

Contract position in Bellevue, WA

Job Description:

The Technical Delivery Manager designed to offload day-to-day project delivery oversight responsibilities from Sr Mgrs and Directors.

This role is accountable for stewardship of large, cross functional development and systems integration projects for our client. The Delivery Manager owns solution delivery and is ultimately responsible for development project leadership, management, quality, and timely delivery.

The Delivery Manager has to work effectively with Leadership and multiple stakeholders to apply customer relationship management practices, including the identification of appropriate, mutually agreed objectives.

The Delivery Manager must also be able to work effectively with and lead technical personnel (Development Team Managers, Systems Analysts, Developers, Testers), and clearly translate business priorities and objectives into technical solutions.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensures coordination of delivery teams within various domains
• Works with development leads to define code drops and coordinates the alignment of code drop dependencies
• Provide overall development project leadership, and direct project teams in the delivery of high-quality products within committed timeframes.
• Coordinates through the development managers all delivery activities and act as the escalation point for all development and build issues specific to projects.
• Coordinate with the development teams to ensure the right teams are working on the right build components at the right time, with clear expectations of milestones and goals.
• Coordinates and communicates night of deployment status and issues to leadership on planned deployment activity dates

Minimum Required Skills / Competencies: Experience:

• 3-6 years of software development and project ex+C301perience
• Prefer knowledge of application development and system architecture
• Experience with applications such as SAP, BI, Siebel, & Remedy are helpful
• Skills and knowledge acquired through Development, Technical Lead, or Project Management experience are required in each of the following areas: Project Management, Change Management, Release Management, Configuration Management, Systems Integration, Systems Development Life Cycle Methodologies, Quality Assurance and Testing, Requirements Gathering, and Systems Analysis and Design.
• Technically savvy (able to explain technical work to laymen)
• Good interpersonal skills
• Experience with off shore resources
• Some vendor management experience

Education and Training:

• A four year degree is required
  

ScrumMaster/Technical Project Manager

Contract to FTE position in New York City (Soho/Tribeca)

This role serves as a liaison between technical and non-technical departments, and communicates with other management, developers, product managers, and technical support specialists on product issues. The ideal candidate is experienced with both Scrum and traditional project management practices.

Responsibilities:

Support the product development process:

• Facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.
• Maintain process documentation.
• Ensure the development teams are practicing the Agile principles.

Support the Product Owner:

• Assist as needed with backlog maintenance.
• Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Assist with prioritization and resolution of defects/bugs.

Support the product team:

• Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices.
• Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions.
• Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution.
• Empower the team to self-organize.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or combination of relevant education and experience.
• Must be a Certified ScrumMaster with 5+ years of project management experience and 1+ years of ScrumMaster experience.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types.
• Ability to understand technical issues at a high level.
• A thorough understanding of Agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures.
• Exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills.
• Ability to coach the team to reach their highest potential.
• Collaborative approach to driving decisions.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills with a high attention to detail.

Personal Characteristics:

• Passion to proactively seek ways to improve processes.
• Self-confidence to be assertive when taking a position and ability to constructively resolve problems.
• Creative, resourceful, and innovative at tackling complex challenges.
• Demonstrated aptitude for acquiring knowledge and skills and readily adopting new technologies.
• Respectful, professional interpersonal working style.

eCommerce Category Manager

Contract position in Bellevue, WA

Job Description:

• This position is responsible for driving and managing the day-to-day sales operations of our client's e-commerce web sites.
• This individual has accountability for making decisions on maintaining and improving the overall customer experience for their online category, which will lead to increased conversion rates, take rates, sales, and customer satisfaction.
• He/she will be responsible for managing a piece of an organic sales channel that directly impacts +225 million online prospects/year and generates +350,000 gross activations per year.
• This individual will be responsible for recommending decisions that will help grow the online channel by +$50 million in revenue per year.
• This individual is responsible for partnering with internal Web team members, along with Product Development, Marketing, Customer Care, Finance, and Business Operations at the Sr. Manager and sometimes Director level to identify, define, help prioritize, and execute on web enhancements and projects in their area of ownership to ensure a high quality online product and customer experience, and to drive incremental improvement (sales, conversion rates) on the website.
• Manages and drives the day-to-day sales operations of their respective business category that include:
  • Key contributor in making decisions that will directly impact the customer experience for their respective area or product and expected to lead to +$50-$100 million in incremental revenue/year.
  • Website reporting as it relates to visits, page views, click through rates, conversions, sales, marketing investment productivity, and other data as defined by management.
  • Accountable for tracking the daily, weekly, and monthly metrics trends, and discovering potential issues/gains, then driving enhancements in their respective area.
  • Reports out stats and progress to his/her Sr. Manager and Director daily, weekly, monthly.
  • Develops and helps drive both short term and long term new customer acquisition and shopping improvement strategies/tactics that will impact +1 million visitors/day.
  • Thoroughly understands the team and enterprise business goals as they relate to the direction and strategy of their area of the business.
  • Is the Subject Matter Expert and owner of the web e-commerce customer experience of his/her respective category. This individual will identify areas of opportunity for improving conversion rates, sales, attach rates, etc.
  • Responsible for conducting A/B testing and Usability tests to increase conversion rates and improve the overall web shopping experience.
  • Will work internally/externally with Offers Strategy, Merchandising, Product Strategy teams, and external vendors to source content, products, ad tile and promotional real estate, and other new products/services that enhances the web experience.
• Actively monitors and identifies areas of improvement for their web category, and prioritizes decisions based on ROI that will directly impact +13 million new potential customers per year.
• Manages and deploys new product/site enhancements and collaborates with internal and external teams at the Sr. Manager and sometimes Director levels to help develop and launch enhancements.
• Develops a category strategy and sales forecast, product needs (where relevant) for their category, and regularly communicates out results to Sr. Manager and Director levels.
• Tracks and shares eCommerce competitive landscape and best-practices to make recommendations and decisions in the $1 million - $2 million range on future products/services for the website.
• Acts as a subject matter expert for enterprise related projects/offers/product-launches that may impact their online category and:
  • Is a key reviewer and decision maker on BRD’s and business cases that are created which can potentially impact the business by +$1 million - $2 million in NPV.
  • Ensures his/her respective category is represented
  • Participates and helps lead the implementation and launch for our channels (is the business owner for go/no-go decisions for the small/medium size projects)
  • Works collaboratively with both internal and external (including 3rd party vendors) for co-op support, development, resources, etc. to drive product/site enhancements, SLA’s, and maximizing the online customer experience
  • Receives business changes, translates into business requirements to submit to development. Ensure site changes are submitted with comprehensive requirements that maximize results. Reviews, analyzes website capabilities and documents requirements, defines scope and objectives, and manages to implementation overall business tactics.
  • Provides support for Mobile Broadband Category where necessary.
  • Performs other duties as assigned by management.

Minimum Required Skills / Competencies:

FUNCTIONAL and TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Proficiency with MS Office Tools (Word, Excel, Project, PowerPoint, Visio)
• Ability to effectively manage time, prioritize work, multi-task across multiple assignments simultaneously, and create deliverables with some direction
• Technical writing skills producing clear and unambiguous process documentation and project artifacts
• Some exposure to business process and system modeling tools (data flow diagrams, process documentation, etc.)
• Advanced skills/expertise with MS Excel, Project

EXPERIENCE:

• +7 years internet B2C commerce, driving business/sales strategies for large eCommerce websites (+$50 million/yr)
• +7 years online marketing and/or product management, and effective website merchandising for large brand name website (min 5 million unique visits/month)
• +7 years experience web analytics, forecasting, developing business cases, inventory management
• +7 years category management (online or offline): proven experience creating successful business requirement documents
• Advanced Excel (model building, pivot tables, graphing, etc), Word, PowerPoint and Visio
• Strong understanding of web design/development concepts and processes, and industry best practices for eCommerce
• Advanced experience in building business cases and business requirement documents
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge in HTML, JavaScript, and XML
• 2-4 years of experience as a business analyst or similar role
• Experience in telecommunications industry preferred
• Experience in internet/online, strongly preferred

COMPETENCIES:

• Flexibility and resiliency a fast-paced business environment
• Interpersonal, relationship building skills
• Strong analytical skills
   

Java Developer

Contract position in Redmond, WA

Description 

Our client, the leader in providing software and services to the Electric Utility Industry has an opening for a Contract Java Developer in its Redmond, WA location.  As a Java Developer, you will:  Design and develop large scale software product applications for the electric utility industry.  
This position is responsible for:

• Understanding of the full software development lifecycle including testing and implementation.
• Performing product design and bug verification which may require research and analysis.
• Operating under minimal supervision.
• Implementing a 3-tier Java application that supports web browser and web service access to data that resides in an Oracle database. The application will use several open source web-oriented toolkits including Spring Framework, Maven, Hibernate, and CXF. The application must be built in a highly-secure and highly-available manner.

Qualifications 

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
• 4-6 years Java development.
• 2 years of Oracle SQL and PL/SQL experience.
• 2 - 3 years’ experience working with:
• Spring Framework
• Web Services
• JDBC
• Hibernate
• Eclipse based development
• Maven preferred
• JUnit
• Soap UI preferred
• Selected Candidate will typically have four to six years of technical experience in software development. 
  

The following requirements are desired and will be used to differentiate all candidates who apply for this position.

• Energy sector domain knowledge

Key Competencies

• Good analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to take end-to-end ownership of tasks in a multi-technology environment
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Ability to occasionally work non-standard hours to accommodate business needs.
  

Senior Java Developer

Contract position in Redmond, WA

Our client has an opening for a Senior Java Developer in its Redmond, WA location. As Senior Java Developer, you will design and develop large scale software product applications for the electric utility industry.

This position is responsible for:

• Designing and developing large scale software product applications for the electric utility industry, operating under minimal supervision, utilizing the full software development lifecycle, including testing and implementation.
• Performing product design and bug verification which may require research and analysis.
• Implementing a 3-tier Java application that supports web browser and web service access to data that resides in an Oracle database.
• Utilizing several open source, web-oriented toolkits, including Google Web Toolkit, Spring Framework, Drools, Hibernate, and CXF.
• Building the application in a highly-secure and highly-available manner.
• May require occasional travel.
• May be required to work extended hours, carry a pager/cell phone and be on call.

General Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
• 6-8 years Java development.
• 2 years of Oracle SQL and PL/SQL experience.
• 2 - 3 years experience working with:
  o Spring Framework
  o Web UI
  o Web Services
  o JDBC
  o JavaScript
  o Hibernate
  o JMS
  o Eclipse based development
• Good analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to take end-to-end ownership of tasks in a multi-technology environment
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Ability to occasionally work non-standard hours to accommodate business needs.

The following requirements are desired and will be used to differentiate all candidates who apply for this position.

• Energy sector domain knowledge
• Experience with Google Web Toolkit
• Experience with Drools rule engine

Software Engineer - JavaScript

Direct FTE or contract to hire in Alexandria, VA

Position Summary 

Our client is recruiting for its consulting team to work on an exciting project with White House visibility. They are seeking a creative and energetic engineer who can provide commercial-grade software within time and budget constraints. Candidate will be expected to actively engage in design and development of ground-breaking software to provide quality, reusable solutions for our clients. 

Responsibilities 

• Design and develop leading-edge software.
• Work collaboratively with a team of developers in accordance with a design specification to build and deliver high-end software,
• Provide creative, innovative solutions for a variety of different industry channels.

Qualifications 

• Computer Science degree or equivalent work experience.
• 3-4 years Web application development experience producing commercial-grade applications, specifically in object-oriented JavaScript.
• Strong software design and development skills.
• Experience with JavaScript frameworks such as Dojo, EXT and YUI.
• Must be able to constructively contribute to a team environment.
• U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain security clearance required.

Desirable Skills 

• Experience with JSLint or similar code appearance and visual optimization tools.
• Ability to perform Unit Testing against developed code (JsUnit).
• Understanding of browser compatibility issues, in particular with Internet Explorer 9 and Google Chrome.
• HTML5 / CSrelS3, AJAX / JSON development experience.
• Experience with short and long term release cycles (Scrum/sprints) and Agile software development.
• An understanding of ADA Section 508 Compliance.

Must be a US Citizen or authorized to permanently work in the US

Software Engineer - Java

Contract to hire or direct FTE position in Alexandria, VA

Position Summary 

Our client is recruiting for its consulting team to work on an exciting project with White House visibility.  They are seeking a creative and energetic engineer who can provide commercial-grade software within time and budget constraints. Candidate will be expected to actively engage in design and development of ground breaking software to provide quality re-usable solutions for our clients.

Responsibilities 

• Pro-actively communicate with scrum team about project contingencies and obstacles
• Operate effectively in high-context environments,
• Make valuable contributions to architectural discussions and decisions
• Ensure that all implementation team members have the appropriate domain knowledge to effectively resolve ambiguities that arise during the development process, by either communicating knowledge that they have already obtained or escalating questions outside the scope of their knowledge
• Work with product owner, scrum master, and technical lead to write and review solution-oriented documentation that captures implementation details and describes the business needs that gave rise to them
• Consult with stakeholders as needed to assess user needs and validate solution implementation
• Responsible for scrum-release and pre-QA testing cycles to ensure the highest possible quality of deliverable
• Develop and maintain an understanding of the business as appropriate to the client, to address the business needs and high-level features that constitute the deliverables
• Program in languages necessary (e.g., Java, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, XML, CSS, etc.) to implement the business needs and high-level features
• Work closely with stakeholders and front-end vendors to ensure that deliverables effectively address the needs of clients
• Help prepare regular releases that demonstrate completion of milestones associated with user-identifiable progress
• Create internal and external documentation in compliance of the contract
• Demonstrate key features to stakeholders and potential users and document their feedback, including both formal presentations of sprint-based deliverables at the end of each sprint and informal presentations during the development process as needed to solicit feedback from stakeholders
• Report, document, and assist in tracking and documenting bugs, defects, and issues
• Maintain, test, integrate, and support software solutions throughout development and release cycles
• Work effectively with other members of the implementation team as well as stakeholder teams that support implementation and operations
• Assist other development team members in coming up to speed on specific code areas, and
• Participate in daily scrum meetings

Qualifications 

• Java fluency with 3+ years’ experience in Java software design and development for web-based, database driven applications running on Linux-based operating systems;
• Experience with the API standards and off-the-shelf application frameworks
• 2+ years’ experience in database development, preferably with Oracle or MySQL
• 2+ years’ experience programming with Hibernate
• 2+ years developing applications and application-modules within service-oriented architectures,
• Experience with XML and XML parsing technologies
• Experience with version control procedures in an environment that uses Subversion, Maven, Hudson and Nexus for continuous integration
• Experience working in a scrum-based agile development environment, including teams that require programmers to frequently work on each other’s code
• Experience with infrastructures associated with high-performance, high-availability web-service infrastructures.

Must be a US Citizen or able to permanently work in the US

Software Developer

Contract position in Seattle, WA

Job Description

This position is responsible for delivering stories on projects and developing the next generation of software for our client.  This position implements the architecture and development patterns employed by our client. This position encourages creativity and the enthusiasm of participating in a startup business with a wide range of software development opportunities.

Duties:

Employ the technologies that comprise the client's technology stack to find creative and efficient solutions to implement new functionality or sustain and improve existing systems
• Follow and contribute to the architectural and development patterns employed at the client site when implementing the features to which you are assigned
• Follow agile or lean methodologies or approaches
• Help identify and then deliver assigned discrete development tasks as part of feature development teams
• Occasionally lead feature development teams

Qualifications:

• 3 years minimum experience designing, developing and shipping software products over multiple product release cycles with experience in:
• System Architecture with focus on SOA and n-tier design
• Designing for Performance with caching and threading models
• Development of database schema and stored procedures in a modern RDBMS such as SQL, Oracle, etc…
• Development of Web Services with WCF, REST
• Development of data interaction components with ORMs such as Entity Framework, Linq, ActiveRecord, etc…
• Development of Web Sites with MVC, AJAX, jQuery, CSS, Javascript
• Experience with agile or lean project management methodologies
• Experience with unit test patterns and practices, including test driven development approaches
  

Lead Developer-Ruby on Rails

6 mo. contract to FTE position in Kirkland, WA

Who You Are:

You are a web development master with excellent coding skills. You take pride in your work, writing clean, maintainable code. But you also prioritize your work and build what’s necessary to accomplish the business objectives at hand. You have led project teams in the past, and this has prepared you well to lead your own small engineering organization.

You Want:

• To build and run your own technical organization
• To spend your time writing code, not managing lots of people
• To receive an equity position
• To build cool technology that will have a positive, global impact

You Have:

• Experience leading projects with multiple team members
• A GitHub account (or portfolio) that rocks
• 2+ Years of Ruby-on-Rails experience
• 6+ Years of web development experience, ideally in a startup environment
• Worked on multiple large-scale deployments of high-performance websites
• Understanding of web analytics, A/B testing, and agile development methods
  Knowledge of Amazon Web Services (SQS, S3, EC2)
• A CS degree or equivalent experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
• Significant experience with Ruby and Ruby on Rails
• Comfortable reading and writing SQL

Valuable Additional Skills:

• Able to work with JavaScript and frameworks such as jQuery and Prototype
• Experience with HTML5/CSS
• Unix systems administration
   
  

Software Developer - C#, ASP.NET, HTML/CSS

Contract position in Renton, WA

Job Description:

• Assists senior developers in the development of functional specifications based on vision and scope provided by the Development Manager.
• Performs design work on new systems in the current-generation languages and platforms, exercising individual judgment to implement appropriate design patterns and practices.
• Implements functional specifications on the targeted products.
• Performs relational modeling under the supervision of senior developers to implement new database design within the context of the overall database structure and requirements.
• Performs literate programming, using adequate commenting and documentation tools.
• Adopts industry standard and team-specific coding practices.
• Provides reasonable estimates of time and materials required to complete vision and scope goals outlined by Development Manager.

Skills Required:

• Experience working with the current-generation languages and platforms or equivalent coursework.
• Experience working with multi-threaded development or equivalent coursework.
• Commitment to industry standard code practices and literate programming style.

Required experience and skill set:

• 5 years working with C# and .NET Framework a must.
• 5 years working with ASP.NET
• 5 years working with HTML4+ and CSS
• 3-5 years working with build tools such as automake and autoconf or Nant or similar technology a must.
• Some experience with SQL (T-SQL) a must.
• Some experience with Javascript and AJAX in the confines of .NET. 

Skills Preferred but Not Required:

• 2-5 years working in C++ (including STL) a good to have.
• 2-5 years working in WCF a good to have.
• Working understanding of both Windows and Linux a good to have.
• Experience working with multi-threaded libraries a very good to have.
  

Performance Scalability Engineer

FTE position in Boulder, CO

As a Performance Scalability Engineer, you will be involved in many aspects of the product, from architectural and design decisions to performance tuning the application in support of customer requirements.

• Responsible for building and running performance labs and designing performance test scenarios and services.
• Working with other Engineers on the Product Development team and will need to leverage your creativity and technical knowledge to enable release of rapid product iterations.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work with Development, Product Owners, and Program Managers to help gather requirements for performance testing of Prod-Dev releases.
• Effectively design and implement performance-based test plans.
• Build and manage performance labs based on desired architecture.
• Write code to create test scripts, build test scenarios, execute tests and analyze results.
• File bugs and pursue resolutions and perform subsequent regression testing.

Requirements:

Functional/Technical Skills:

• Planning and execution of complex software performance testing efforts
• Performance test plan creation, test case/script creation and execution
• Performance lab creation and maintenance
• Knowledge of Performance Testing and Load Testing with [what tools?]
• Strong networking, communication, negotiation, and organizational skills
• Programming skills in C++ and debugging skills a plus
• Knowledge of QA methodology in an Agile environment preferred

Education & Experience:

• 4+ years experience in the QA discipline, including writing performance test plans, developing test scenarios, and participating in reviews
• Experience testing on Web-based high-volume transactional systems
• Experience with Web Performance Testing and Load Testing
• Experience testing websites, web services, and databases
• Experience testing both Windows and Unix (or Linux) environments preferred
• Experience working in an Agile environment preferred
  

Support Guru

FTE position in Bellevue, WA

Job Description

You will join a small, energetic and passionate service team working on a business growing exponentially. We walk the walk by investing in you, challenging you and giving you the freedom, flexibility and support to be your best. We take your well-being seriously. It’s our business. Fire us up, and we’ll return the favor.

About the Gig

You will perform enterprise technical support for a cutting edge web service. You will troubleshoot user issues, foster a positive online community for our members, interact with customer representatives and work with our product development team to turn customer pain into customer delight (in a scalable way).

On a grander scale, you will play a key role at a high-growth high-tech company and work alongside execs as a critical team member. If you are looking for an exciting, demanding job that provides unique experience, holler.

You must:

• Have a Zappos/Starbucks/Nordstrom/Ritz service and support mindset
• Be wicked smart and want to get smarter
• Be resourceful, upbeat and LOVE making customers happy
• Have stellar written communication, web and computing skills
• Strong skills in MS Office products; HTML a plus

Requirements:

• College degree (or Senior in college)
• A strong dollop of EXCELLENCE somewhere in your resume
• Marketing or accounting experience a plus

Characteristics:

• Smart
• Humble leader
• Meticulous
• Techy and in love web/SAAS applications
• Keep us fresh and on our toes
  

Lead Software Engineer - C++/COM

Contract position in Bellevue

Be a key contributor to the architecture, design, development, and maintenance of a wide-variety of client-side, desktop applications for a large and growing user base. This is a hands-on Lead who will drive and oversee a team of 2-4 individual contributors.  Lead experience preferred but open to someone with senior experience who is interested in moving into a Lead role. 

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to hands-on design and coding of client-side software projects.
• Help review and advise how client-side software projects will be architected, designed, and implemented.
• Debugging and maintenance of client-side software.
• Investigate new technologies as needed.

Technical Skill Level:

• Minimum of 10 years of professional programming experience.
• Minimum of 7 years experience with and strong technical expertise in C++, Windows SDK, multithreading, COM, GUI development, and object-oriented programming in an MS-Windows environment is required.
• Lead experience is preferred but open to someone with senior experience who is interested in moving into a Lead role
• Experience with network communications, ATL, client-side ActiveX  controls, web-browser plug-ins, and advanced JavaScript/DHTML is preferred.
• Experience with VS2010 and Perforce is a plus.
• Experience developing mass-market commercial software is a plus.

Professional Skill Level:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills required.
• Must be strong contributor, with the ability to write software both within a group setting and independently.
• Must possess ability to see projects to production with minimal oversight, and proactively coordinate with peers and other disciplines (PM, QA, etc.) as needed.
• Must possess the strong problem solving skills needed within a new product development setting.
• Must possess ability to quickly get up to speed in unfamiliar code bases.
• Must possess ability to quickly learn and apply new technologies.
  

Software Engineer - Java

Contract to hire or direct FTE position in Alexandria, VA

Position Summary 

Our client is recruiting for its consulting team to work on an exciting project with White House visibility.  They are seeking a creative and energetic engineer who can provide commercial-grade software within time and budget constraints. Candidate will be expected to actively engage in design and development of ground breaking software to provide quality re-usable solutions for our clients.

Responsibilities 

• Pro-actively communicate with scrum team about project contingencies and obstacles
• Operate effectively in high-context environments,
• Make valuable contributions to architectural discussions and decisions
• Ensure that all implementation team members have the appropriate domain knowledge to effectively resolve ambiguities that arise during the development process, by either communicating knowledge that they have already obtained or escalating questions outside the scope of their knowledge
• Work with product owner, scrum master, and technical lead to write and review solution-oriented documentation that captures implementation details and describes the business needs that gave rise to them
• Consult with stakeholders as needed to assess user needs and validate solution implementation
• Responsible for scrum-release and pre-QA testing cycles to ensure the highest possible quality of deliverable
• Develop and maintain an understanding of the business as appropriate to the client, to address the business needs and high-level features that constitute the deliverables
• Program in languages necessary (e.g., Java, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, XML, CSS, etc.) to implement the business needs and high-level features
• Work closely with stakeholders and front-end vendors to ensure that deliverables effectively address the needs of clients
• Help prepare regular releases that demonstrate completion of milestones associated with user-identifiable progress
• Create internal and external documentation in compliance of the contract
• Demonstrate key features to stakeholders and potential users and document their feedback, including both formal presentations of sprint-based deliverables at the end of each sprint and informal presentations during the development process as needed to solicit feedback from stakeholders
• Report, document, and assist in tracking and documenting bugs, defects, and issues
• Maintain, test, integrate, and support software solutions throughout development and release cycles
• Work effectively with other members of the implementation team as well as stakeholder teams that support implementation and operations
• Assist other development team members in coming up to speed on specific code areas, and
• Participate in daily scrum meetings

Qualifications 

• Java fluency with 3+ years’ experience in Java software design and development for web-based, database driven applications running on Linux-based operating systems;
• Experience with the API standards and off-the-shelf application frameworks
• 2+ years’ experience in database development, preferably with Oracle or MySQL
• 2+ years’ experience programming with Hibernate
• 2+ years developing applications and application-modules within service-oriented architectures,
• Experience with XML and XML parsing technologies
• Experience with version control procedures in an environment that uses Subversion, Maven, Hudson and Nexus for continuous integration
• Experience working in a scrum-based agile development environment, including teams that require programmers to frequently work on each other’s code
• Experience with infrastructures associated with high-performance, high-availability web-service infrastructures.

Must be a US Citizen or able to permanently work in the US

QA Engineer - Working on cutting edge Cloud technology 

Contract to FTE position in Bellevue, WA

Job Description

This is a fantastic opportunity for a passionate QA Engineer to join a growing team working on cutting edge cloud technology.  Our client's Engineering team is looking for an experienced QA engineer to architect test plans, design test cases and provide hands-on leadership during test execution. The Engineering team utilizes a highly collaborative sprint team development model that requires deep QA involvement on all engineering projects from start to finish. The QA Team is also counted on to provide significant engineering leadership during the Release End Game phase. The solution being delivered is a combination of software and hardware (servers, network & storage), so a strong hardware background is a plus. Candidate must be passionate about efficiently delivering high quality enterprise class solutions to the market.

Job Functions

• Test case development and execution.
• Test results analysis.
• Test automation implementation.
• Deep involvement on sprint teams.
• Development of test processes to improve test efficiency.
• Root cause analysis of software and hardware related issues.
• Work with development engineers to drive to closure on problems found, including recreating failures and verifying fixes.
• Configure hardware systems for test execution.

Primary Qualifications

• Passion for QA
• Deep understanding of software development processes.
• Solid problem solving skills and detail oriented.
• Strong teamwork, communication, and initiative to learn a must.
• Experience in one or more scripting languages.
• 3-5 years experience.
• BS in CS, EE.
  

Manager of Product Development

FTE position in Boulder, CO

Reporting to the Vice President, Product Development, the Manager of Product Development is a seasoned technologist with at least ten years of relevant professional experience, at least five years in a hands-on technical capacity. This person is a master of advanced software development practices, experienced building and leading teams who use Agile - Continuous Delivery, CI, TDD, and other XP practices to deliver very high quality software products with rapid rates of change.

Responsibilities:

• Implement a state of the art product development life cycle, from writing a line of code to release onto a multi-tenant SaaS production environment
• Dramatically increase automated test coverage at multiple levels, and a build-promotion process to accelerate feedback and defect discovery
• Help establish QA strategy, metrics, state-of-the-art continuous delivery infrastructure
• Mentor and recruit top talent, grow leaders by giving accountability and opportunities for growth
• Work closely with product management to plan product road-maps and release plans
• Define and manage production release process of whole product (code, environments, lots of custom data)
• Prioritize features vs technical debt retirement amid changing demands, conflicting priorities, and resource constraints
• Contribute to design and architecture, do code reviews, audit quality, and establish “whole product” mentality to create a SaaS product with enterprise reliability
• Collaborate with Product Management, Support and Professional Services to ensure market adoption and thrilled customers
• Manage an outstanding team of Software Engineers and Quality Assurance pros

Required Skills/Experience:

• 3+ years in supporting iterative and incremental software development teams
• Experience coaching teams, Product Owners, and Stakeholders in Agile, XP and/or Scrum
• Prior Manager/Director level experience is required

Technical Ability:

• Mastery of state of the art software development and QA as applied to product development, expecially XP development practices, non-GUI automation, and continuous delivery pipelining
• Knowledge of the .NET framework (C#) and associated technologies preferred, Java and other OO and scripting technologies a plus
• Experience with Web Services (WCF) and SaaS / cloud deployment models
• Understanding of DDD, design patterns, and refactoring techniques
  

SolutionsIQ Managing Consultant
 
Do you enjoy collaborating with clients to define and implement solutions related to corporate strategy, organizational change, and project and portfolio performance based on an understanding of their challenges and business needs? SolutionsIQ, a leading provider of Agile consulting, training, and distributed Agile software development, is looking for Managing Consultants to lead organizational change and business transformation initiatives.

Ideal candidates have experience in conducting organization-wide Agile adoption, a history of working on one or more Agile teams, project and program management experience, formal business case development expertise, and a Master’s degree in Business Administration.

Responsibilities:
Engagement procurement and expansion:

• Participate in new business development activity with the SolutionsIQ sales team
• Develop client proposals and SOWs in conjunction with SolutionsIQ business stakeholders and service providers
• Actively seek and secure engagement expansion and extension opportunities
• Monitor and manage client expectations and customer satisfaction
  Engagement delivery:
• Act as the engagement manager responsible for SOWs and contractual commitments
• Conduct client needs assessments
• Work with client executives to define and manage programs associated with Agile and Lean organization change, process improvement, and project and portfolio enhancement
• Work collaboratively with other SolutionsIQ team members to design and enhance SolutionsIQ service offerings

Key responsibilities may also include:

• Identify, build, and fulfill successful client solutions, working collaboratively across SolutionsIQ's service line and operating groups
• Manage all day-to-day aspects of each client engagement
• Help identify and develop client relationships and new business opportunities
• Manage engagements of various sizes (sometimes concurrently), with responsibility for financial performance and customer satisfaction
• Deliver insightful analysis and candid recommendations under ambiguous and politically challenging circumstances. Present analysis and recommendations to clients, from day-to-day contacts up to C-level management
• Oversee relationships with third-party vendors and agencies
• Contribute to practice development by participating in improvement initiatives and augmenting intellectual capital
• Train/mentor other consultants

Qualifications:

• Ability to travel domestically up to 50%, with occasional international travel.
• Demonstrated interest in and basic familiarity with Agile and/or lean principles and practices
• Minimum 5 years as a consultant, including leading multi-party, multi-month engagements
• Minimum 5 years of working with organizational change, project portfolio management, business process improvement or large program design and management
• Bachelor’s degree

Desired Experience:

• Experience in conducting organization-wide Agile adoption
• History of working on one or more Agile teams
• Project and program management expertise
• Experience conducting gap analyses
• Formal business case development expertise
• Master’s degree in Business Administration
• Deep domain knowledge in one or more of the following areas:
  o Organizational change management
  o Business process improvement
  o Project portfolio management
  o Program definition and management

Professional Skills Requirements:

• Ability to build, manage, and foster a team-oriented environment.
• Ability to work creatively and analytically in a complex and challenging client environment.
• Ability to perform and thrive in a collaborative environment.
• Excellent leadership and management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage the expectations and interests of diverse stakeholder interests
• Demonstrated executive presence, with the aptitude to compellingly articulate value propositions, credentials, and best practices.
• Demonstrated focus on business value and ROI. 

As an Agile professional, why would you choose SolutionsIQ?

When we ask our employees this same question, they explain that the best part about working at SolutionsIQ is the opportunity to collaborate daily with an outstanding group of Agile experts from a diverse set of backgrounds.

Everybody at SolutionsIQ is committed to Agile values and principles. From the day we began using Agile practices in 2004, our commitment has steadily grown. Today we use Agile in running the entire company--“we practice what we preach!” We help our clients to successfully adopt practices like Agile engineering practices (XP), Scrum, Lean, and Kanban. We provide management consulting services, including organizational change management, program planning and management, and portfolio management. We also use Agile to build and deliver software for our customers. These software development projects are a laboratory for our Agile consultancy. We encourage our Agile practitioners to participate as students and as thought leaders in the Agile community.