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Friday, March 30, 2012

 

Position: ORACLE SOA ADMIN.

Duration 6 months,

 

H1 and C2 C is ok for this.

 

Job Title

:

Oracle SOA Administrator

Relevant Experience (Yrs)

:

8+ years of hands on experience is Weblogic and Oracle SOA Administration

Necessary Skills

:

  • Hands-on experience in Oracle SOA 11g administration
  • 8+ years of hands-on experience in Weblogic administration
  • Hands-on experience in shell scripting
  • Hands-on experience in web administration
  • Hands-on experience in SOA and weblogic performance tuning
  • Experience in Oracle SOA Suite 11g installation (including AIA) and maintenance
  • Hands-on administration experience in Oracle Service Bus and Oracle Coherence
  • Need to have excellent communication skills (including English conversation skills), demonstrate excellent problem solving and critical thinking skills.

Desired Skills

 

  • Knowledge in Database and operating System concepts
  • Knowledge in Oracle Access manager
  • Development knowledge in Oracle SOA Suite

Roles & Responsibilities

:

  • Install and build Oracle SOA Suite environments
  • Performance tuning of the SOA installation
  • Applying patches to Oracle SOA Suite environment
  • Maintaining the Oracle SOA environments and ensure 99% uptime
  • Work with offshore development team and pass on the requirement
  • Troubleshooting the issues related to the SOA application
  • Follow-up for issues with the product vendor

Generic Managerial Skills

:

  • Able to plan/track tasks/activities
  • Report progress/challenges to Project Manager

Education

:

Graduate in Engineering

Work Location

:

Columbus, OH

 

 

 

 

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Job Title: Data Modeler (Ref Code: 3/30/12 QJ )

Location: BLUE ASH, Ohio

Duration: 3 Months



Responsibilities :

This Data Modeler is responsible for leading in all facets of the data modeling for application enhancements and existing production systems of various sizes and complexities. The Data Modeler performs many of these tasks independently and communicates with the appropriate teams to ensure that assignments are delivered with the highest of quality and in accordance to standards. The Data Modeler may complete data modeling/analytics assignments when necessary to meet the needs of the business.

The data modeling/data administration group works with application teams to develop data structures that meet the business requirements. In addition to this, the group maintains the data naming glossary, enforces naming standards, ensures metadata definitions exist for all entities and attributes, generates efficient SQL against master data entities, and profiles and analyzes data to help design data models. For SOA applications, the data modeling group defines web services inputs/outputs, creates and maintains WSDLs and designs stored procedures.

 

 

 

 

Essential Job Functions:

Develop conceptual, logical, and physical data models for OLTP, DSS relational and DSS multidimensional database solutions.

Develop and implement strategies and methodologies in support of Master Data Management initiatives.

Lead or actively participate in end-user requirement gathering meetings

Facilitate modeling sessions and design walk-throughs with DBA and development team members

Work with DBA to convert logical data models to physical data models for implementation

Gather and maintain accurate metadata in Erwin models.

Work with Data Architecture team to ensure proposed database implementation conforms to client's corporate data strategy.

Provide operational support for existing models including impact analysis, logical and physical data model changes and metadata updates.

Follow corporate best practices for Data Administration and Data Modeling to support the corporate methodologies.

Write efficient SQL and store procedures against database tables on various platforms.

Profile and analyze data during the application development. Act as a data SME for developers, testers and business analysts.

Create and maintain the XML schema and collaborate with SOA developers during WSDL creation.

Tutor and mentor less experienced data models on data modeling best practices.

 

 

 

Minimum Position Qualifications:

3 - 5 years of transactional and dimensional data modeling experience on UDB, Oracle or SQL Server platforms.

Solid understanding of Master Data Management principles.

Demonstrated experience gathering and translating requirements into conceptual, logical and physical data models using Computer Associates Erwin data modeling tool.

Solid understanding of canonical model for an Enterprise Message System.

Experience using metadata repositories a plus.

Knowledge of SOA governance and design practices a plus.

Knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and complex workflows.

Strong communications skills both oral and written, with the ability to influence peers to senior level managers.

BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

 

 

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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

 

Job Title: Oracle DBA/System Administrator (Ref Code: 3-28-12 KRTC 1)

Location: Rockville, Maryland

Duration: 6 Months

 


 

 

Description :

Seeking a middle level DBA/System Administrator

 

 

 

Experience:

3-5 years

 

 

 

Skills Needed:

Oracle Database (11g) and/or Application Server (10/11g): Install, configure, manage, tune, backup, secure.

Windows 2003/2008 and RedHat Linux AS 5.0/6.0 administration

 

 

 

 

Optional skill set:

 

SQL Server 2005/2008 is a plus

Familiarity with JBoss/Tomcat Application Server

Exposure to security concepts is a huge plus

Ability to multitask, learn new skills/technologies. Work in a team environment but independently.

Ability to document procedures and follow them

 

 

 

 

Education:

Required a BS degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related technical discipline.

 

 

 

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Job Title: Business Objects Administrator (Ref Code:3-28-12 BB)

Location:
Owings  Mills, MD

Duration: 1 yr+ contract (strong possibility of extensions)




Description:



This position is the Admin for our BO environment is responsible for the BO environment and will work with the migration of our enterprise BO implementations to XI 3. Works with our development group, vendors, and our engineering and hardware groups.

This requires support outside of regular business hours. Position is Senior Tech person for our BO installation.

 

 

 

Skill Set:
- Business Objects Administration - Expert (5+ years)
- Business Objects Universe Design - Expert (5+ years)
- Business Objects Report Dev and Tuning - Expert (5+ years)
- SQL - Expert (5+ years)
- Informatica - Senior (3-5 years)
- Vender management - Intermediate (1-3 years)
- Print Production / reporting Knowledge - Intermediate (1-3 years)

 

 

 

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Job Title:Program Manager/ Vendor Management Analyst  ( Ref Code:32812KATFOR)

Location:Owing Mills . MD

Duration :8 months.

 


 

This position will be responsible for working with our strategic vendor partners and internal stakeholders to ensure that our engagements with our vendors are in alignment with industry best practices.

This role requires a hands-on driver of change, who is effective at leading change and can work semi-autonomously to execute on the strategic direction of the team. The candidate will help enable and drive continuous improvement across the organization by improving the effectiveness of our engagements with our strategic partners.




Responsibilities to Include:
Establish and communicate vendor governance standards, procedures, and tools for use in selecting, directing and managing relationships with third parties
Act as a change agent by working with the IT and Business Unit leadership teams to identify, recommend and implement transformational sourcing models based on business needs
Develop and execute on the strategic sourcing strategy to support day to day processing and all related administrative support activity in accordance with the teams policies and procedures
Partner with CareFirst IT teams to perform spend analysis and identify savings opportunities
Execute on relationship management strategies by which vendors are evaluated, selected and managed in accordance with established guidelines and best practices (RFI/RFP, Scorecards, Performance Metrics, escalation/response processes, etc.)
Define and track quantifiable measures of success for the team
Consult with IT teams on the construction and ongoing maintenance of their vendor engagements
Analyze and manage to resolution vendor issues escalated by internal teams
Assist in the ongoing development of security controls
Participate in, and possibly lead, projects to create, improve, or standard processes that support vendor operations in a global delivery model
Investigate, propose, and implement tools and processes to automate vendor reporting
Develop, improve, and report on measures of vendor performance
Work closely with compliance, procurement, and legal to ensure vendor programs comply with policies and vendor agreements conform to CareFirst best practices
Help to guide teams in capacity planning

 




Vendor Management Skills Needed:
Experience building and executing in a Vendor Performance Management program
Skilled in the development of service level agreements, performance metrics, and associated scorecards to evaluate results
Ability to support multiple vendor relationships concurrently
Strong skill set in the ITIL framework

 


 

Management Skills Needed:
Skilled in working with offshore teams and remote/virtual resources
Skilled in developing and executing on a change management plan
Highly skilled in influencing change, gaining buy-in, and building consensus to effect change
Strong meeting facilitation and leadership skills
High confidence level and ability to remain calm and focused to enable teams to come to agreement on next steps
Strong communication skills to include presenting business and technical ideas, and recommendations clearly in verbal, written and presentation formats.
Ability to lead teams of diverse teams with strong personalities or management styles
High aptitude for learning and understanding by reading the situation to identify next steps
Critical thinking skills to resolve problems and present solutions
Ability to prepare and conduct training to mentor teams on process, procedures and best practices
Strong skills with MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, and MS Word
Basic Working knowledge of HP Quality Center



Desired Experience:
Candidate will have 5+ years of experience working in a Vendor Management office, including 2+ years focused on IT vendor management
Candidate will have 3+ years of experience measuring vendor performance, including 2+ years working on IT related vendors
Candidate will have 5+ years of experience managing projects in a complex technical environment in a global delivery model
Candidate will have 3+ years of experience in ITIL / managed service delivery
Candidate will have 3+ years of experience with Program Management Office experience
Candidate will have 1+ years of experience in contract negotiation
Candidate will have 1+ years of experience in highly regulated industries (Healthcare, Financial Services, other)

 

 

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Job Title: Peoplesoft Technical Specialist (Ref Code: 3/28/12 KRTC)

Location: WASHINGTON, District of Columbia

Duration: 4 Months

 


 

Our client is seeking a PeopleSoft Global Payroll Functional Analyst for the duration of 5 months on consulting basis to work with our team of qualified, diverse individuals. The qualified consultant will become part of the HR System Renewal Project to Re-implement PeopleSoft HCM 9.1 along with Global Payroll implementation.

 

This position requires flexibility, creativity and initiative. Candidates should be self-starters who enjoy working with an international team of people. Candidates must be able to multi-task their workload assignments. Candidates must be fluent in spoken and written English, have strong writing and communication skills, and be team players.

 

 

 

Responsibilities include

Able to take a high level objective and deliver results with minimal supervision.

Has high level of confidence, maturity, and commitment, and who has demonstrated the drive to achieve and succeed in previous work experiences.

Work closely with the Peoplesoft Functional leads and end users to understand business needs and requirements and prepare the functional and technical design documentation for the identified Gaps.

Assist the client in the implementation planning, fit analysis,configuration, testing, and roll out of Global Payroll.

Gather and analyze requirements through personal research, interviews, analysis of supporting documentation and business process descriptions and use cases.

Decompose high-level business and user-defined requirements into system functional/technical requirements and design documents.

Complete requirements analysis and verification; ensure that requirements statements are complete, consistent, traceable, unambiguous, feasible and verifiable.

Participate with team members in prioritization of identified requirements.

Participate in peer reviews and inspections of requirements documents.

Manage requirements traceability information and assist tracking the status of requirements and ensure the solution meets the business requirement.

Develop effective testing plans and scripts, as well as defining expected results for all tests.

Provide overall support to ensure the successful design, testing and implementation of the products.

 

 

 

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree with minimum of 4 years of relevant experience

Minimum of 2+ years of experience with PeopleSoft technology

Minimum of 4+ years of experience gathering requirements

Good experience with Peoplesoft Global Payroll, working knowledge with

Global Payroll Rules, arrays, formulas, brackets, variables, etc.

Excellent listening, analytical, oral and written communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills

Familiarity with various process modeling techniques (activity hierarchy diagrams, data flow diagrams, sequence diagrams, workflow diagrams, system interface diagrams)

Excellent functional documentation skills

Ability to organize work, prioritize tasks and manage multiple and changing priorities

Ability to work as a member of a team or independently as requested

Basic familiarity with PeopleSoft Human Capital Management

 

 

 

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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Job Title: Sr. IT Project Manager with financial Experience(Ref Code: 3-27-12 KF1)
Location:
Vienna, VA
Duration: 6 months+

Description:


To provide project management for large scale, multi-dimensional corporate level projects.


Skills Required:
* PMP certification (current)
* 10-15 years of project management experience required. This experience should include at least 10years of each of the following:
* Experience driving SDLC in web projects like mobile apps, online apps or Website redesign.
* Experience managing cost, scope, schedule, and quality for medium-sized, cross-departmental projects:
* multiple teams
* multiple, department level sponsors
* significant, internal divisional impact
* targeted, external customer impact
* Experience managing projects following a lifecycle methodology
* Experience delivering technology solutions using project management best practices
* Experience negotiating and deciding issues amongst teams and stakeholders related to project content, project execution, and team interaction
* Experience lines of communication with: team members, Community of Practice, business and technical staff, business sponsors, stakeholders, governance body, senior management
* Experience building a project management discipline, including growing institutional knowledge regarding industry standards for project management.


Desired:
* Banking or financial industry experience is desired

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Friday, March 23, 2012

Job Title

:

Senior J2EE Lead Developer

Relevant Experience (Yrs)

:

7+ years of experience.

Necessary Skills

:

·         J2EE, AJAX, XML, SQL, Web Services, Agile/Test Driven development

·         Deep experience with distributed programming techniques

·         Experienced working in EC2 cloud instances and deployments on cloud.

Desired Skills

 

·         Experience with No SQL DB (mongoDB, dynamoDB, Casendra etc).

·         Domain experience in Publishing and content-centric business areas.

·         Exposure to multiple software development methodology, e.g. Agile, Iterative etc.

Roles & Responsibilities

:

·         Prepare regular status reports to management that are clear and concise.

·         Apply object-oriented design principles, industry best practices (e.g. design patterns) and company policies and procedures to design and implement changes for web-based applications.

·         Learn quickly and develop creative solutions, encompassing software integration, performance, reliability, manageability and security

·         Interacts with other Engineering personnel as well as with Product Management, Project Management, Quality Assurance, Technical Support and Customer Support personnel in order to complete their job responsibilities.

·         May contribute to significant decisions regarding technical approach to problems presented.

·         Work in teams with our software engineers and managers, product managers, project managers, quality analysts, and automation engineers to develop the next generation of our e-learning products

Work Location

:

NYC, NY

 

 

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Job Title: Oracle DBA (Ref Code: 32312 MURSWA)

Location: Cincinnati, Ohio

Duration: 6 months to extent.

Rate :DOE

 

This is an H1 and C2C position.

 

Required Skills / Responsibilities:

·         Oracle 10/11g DBA with Cognos / Datastage experience

·         Database tuning and performance monitoring.

·         Application tuning and performance monitoring.

·         Maintain application performance at its peak level by capturing the wait events and resource intensive SQL statements from AWR and ASH reports. Perform root cause analysis on these items and implement appropriate measures to optimize them. Gather trace information by setting events like 10046, 10704, etc and process the trace files with tkprof utility to analyze the wait events and the resource intensive SQL statements. Apply various SQL tuning techniques, data volume and distribution analysis, indexing options, join validations, pre summarization and aggregation of data, set-based processing, Top-N SQL, query rewrite, etc, to optimize such SQL statements. Investigate the occurrences of bind peeking in the database environments and resolve them by implementing SQL outlines and profiles. Capture AWR baselines at various stages of batch and online processing and compare them to identify the root cause behind the performance difference between a normal system response and a slower one.

·         Design and implement materialized views by consolidating operational data from various data sources and organize them to a state which would help the data warehouse queries by avoiding resource intensive operations like summarization, aggregation, complex joins, etc. Leverage the power of DBMS_MVIEW package to assess the possibility of fast refresh of materialized views (MVs), tune the MVs, and validate the execution plans to ensure the implementation of query rewrite. Apply data compression techniques as appropriate to conserve space and optimize database performance.

·         Do general technical trouble shooting and give consultation to BI Operations and the Project teams.

·         Building queries, stored procedures, materialized view, refreshes etc. that meets business needs / BI team.  

·         Design schemas, build tables, FKs, PKs, etc. Work to build a structure that meets the business needs in general and the BI team.

·         Installation, configuration and upgrading Oracle database software and related products.

·         Establish and maintain backup and recovery policies and procedures.

·         Take care of the Database design and implementation.

·         Implement and maintain database security (create and maintain users and roles, assign privileges).

·         Setup and maintain documentation and standards.

·         Plan growth and changes (capacity planning).

·         Work as part of a team and provide 7×24 supports when required.

·         Collaborate with other support groups (e.g. DBA, Platform, etc.) to establish proper support for BI team and meeting SLA.

·         Excellent communication and process skills

Skills Desired:


• PeopleSoft Finance/HCM/HR, Portal, and EPM applications.

• Knowledge of RAC, CRS, StandbyE
• Experience with routine Database Management tasks – Backups, Alerting, Monitoring etc.
• Knowledge of Enterprise Management, Grid Control

 

Job Title: QA Manager experienced in Agile-scrum methodology

Location: Hightstown, NJ

Duration: Long Term


 


Relevant Experience (Yrs):

8+ years working experience. 2+ years' experience in QA Lead position

 

 

Technical/Functional Skills


•Experience in working in Agile-scrum methodology having understanding of QA process in Agile environment

•Experience in functional testing

•Experience in performance testing

•Experience in automated functional testing

•Strong experience in testing web applications

•Knowledge of testing tools like HP LoadRunner, QTP etc.

•Desired to have experience in testing services/APIs

•Excellent in documentation and analytical skill

•Strong verbal and written communication skills

•Should have experience in working in an onsite-offshore and cross-functional team model

•Ability to manage multiple tracks

 

 

 

Roles & Responsibilities

  • The person working this position is expected to manage QA process for a business unit and to directly work with Senior Director for reporting and tracking.

 

  • Will be managing QA Leads and manage and track multiple projects

 

  • Co-ordinate with development, QA team and other stakeholders

 

  • Generic Managerial Skills

 

 

 

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or equivalent and above

 

 

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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Job Title: Cognos Developer (Ref Code: 3-21-12 KF1)

Location: Washington DC

Duration: Long Term


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Job Description:

The candidate should have combined business analysis and OLAP/Relational Database technical background, a proven record of accomplishment, and a minimum 6 years of workplace experience.

The candidate should have an understanding of the development and documentation of user requirements. The candidate should have strong oral and written communication skills.

The candidate should have an excellent understanding of the Cognos OLAP tool, particularly of Cognos Series 8 (Framework Manager, Report Studio, Query studio, Event Studio, Analysis Studio, and Connection). The candidate will also potentially carry out development in a relational database/data warehouse environment; therefore, he or she should have a background in designing tables and views in relational databases and be able to use PL/SQL proficiently. Knowledge of Oracle databases is a must.

 



The candidate should have:

In-depth theoretical understanding and practical expertise with regards to data warehousing architecture and methodology
Min. 5 years of hands-on data warehousing expertise covering all aspects of software project life-cycle, i.e. business and data modeling, data analysis, system design, development, etc.
Experience in working with the large-scale (100+ entities) relational data models
Thorough understanding of relational and dimensional data modeling techniques
Min. 3 years of hands-on expertise with Oracle databases, especially 9i/10g
Strong knowledge of SQL, PL/SQL, performance tuning techniques for working with the large volume tables
Familiarity with data modeling tools such as ERWIN (3.5 and 4.1)

Familiarity with various process modeling techniques (activity hierarchy diagrams, data flow diagrams, sequence diagrams, workflow diagrams, system interface diagrams)
Excellent communication and facilitation skills
Excellent understanding of the Cognos OLAP tool, particularly of Cognos Series 8 (Framework Manager, Report Studio, Query studio, Event Studio, Analysis Studio, and Connection)

This position requires flexibility, creativity and initiative. Candidates should be self-starters who enjoy working with an international team of people. Candidates must be able to multi-task their workload assignments. Candidates must be fluent in spoken and written English, have strong writing and communication skills, and be team players.




This individual will carry out the following business analysis and technical responsibilities for DOTS/IDG Reporting project on Cognos 8 platform:

Prepare technical specifications from user requirements
Develop and maintain Cognos Framework models and packages.
Develop and maintain reports using Report Studio and Query Studio.
Develop analytical reports using Analysis Studio.
Develop Cognos Transformer cube models such as dimensions and measures using specs modeled after user needs.
Trouble-shoot cube and query build issues and errors.
Validate cube and query data from the reporting system back to the source system.
Attend requirements definition meetings with business users and document meeting outcomes

Monday, March 19, 2012

Position: SR. APPLICATION DEVELOPER - JAVA/WS (Ref Code: 3-19-12 KH3)

Location: WOODLAWN, MD


Our client in Woodlawn, MD has a contract opportunity for a Principal Sr. Application Developer - Java/WS for a long-term contract position.

 

 

Position Description:

The Senior Java/Web Services Programmer shall have extensive experience in developing, maintaining, and supporting applications and computer/network operating system and other system software.  Has prime accountability for major projects and will develop detailed and robust requirements, code, test, and implement proposed systems.   Hands-on experience with projects supporting Service Oriented Architecture principles.  Works without technical oversight or as the leader of a team as required.   May serve as a Work Order Manager or Back-up Work Order Manager.  Shall also possess strong oral and written communications skills in order to clearly and effectively convey issues, reports, and other deliverables to SSA counterparts.

 


Required Skills:

  • Experience with J2EE technologies such as Core Java, JSP, EJB, JDBC, JMS, WASD, Web sphere, RAD and Servlets.
  • Experience with Web Service Technology and Security
  • Service Definition Language (WSDL), WS-Security, Web Services-Interoperability (WS-I), Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM), SOAP With Attachments (SWA)-
  • Experience with J2EE Framework/ORM such as Struts and Hibernate.
  • Solid OOD/OOP foundation with experience in UML diagramming and design documentation.
  • Database experience such as Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, SQL and JDBC.
  • Strong XML processing experience such as XSD, XPath, XSL, XSLT, etc.
  • Experience with JavaScript, HTML, SSL.
  • Experience with complex programming, program debugging, data analysis, problem analysis and resolution issues within OO application systems.
  • Communication skills to present ideas and concepts effectively; strong and proven problem solving.
  • Self-managed with the ability to mentor others.
  • Communication skills to present ideas and concepts effectively.
  • Familiarity with project management frameworks.

 

Desired Skills:

Self starter, highly motivated individual, and a team player who adapts to a dynamic work environment.

  1. Ability to investigate/research issues, determines impact, and provide solutions.
  2. Experience with version control software such as MKS and CSS.
  3. Familiar with Web Service technologies such as Apache Axis, SOAP and  WSDL.
  4. Familiar with Rational Unified Process, CMM/CMMI.
  5. Familiar with MS Project and Visio.
  6. Familiarity with IT Governance frameworks.

 


Education:

An undergraduate degree (BA/BS) from an accredited university in Computer Science, Information Technology or a computer related field with 11 years, or a Masters degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a computer related field with 9 years of experience.


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