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Business Intelligence Analyst

SIQ — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:32:18 GMT

Business Intelligence Analyst We are seeking a Business Intelligence Analyst with excellent SQL and reverse engineering of complex SQL queries skills to assist a client whose commitment to customer satisfaction and quality has earned "highest ranking" status in multiple awards this year from J.D. Power and Associates, the leading conductor of independent customer satisfaction and products. You will be involved in extracting and translating business rules back into post-hoc architectural designs. Our client is a national provider of wireless voice, messaging, and data services capable of reaching over 268 million Americans where they live, work, and play. The value of their plans, the breadth of their coverage, the reliability of their network, and the quality of their service are meant to do one thing: help you stick together with the people who make your life come alive. Experience: * Experience as a systems analyst * Significant experience writing business rules * Significant experience in reverse-engineering software * Significant experience working on business intelligence projects * Systems architecture experience a plus * Telecom industry experience a plus Skills: * Highly skilled in SQL * Must understand SQL sentences and comments * Data modeling skills/experience a plus * Familiar with ERWIN a strong plus * Familiarity with Business Objects a plus * Familiarity with Teradata a strong plus Other: * Can come up to speed very quickly * Can work independently and as part of a team * Can start immediately The detailed job description is available here: http://www.agilerecruiter.com/agilecan/jobsview.php?RowId=1969 To indicate your interest and apply online securely, please follow: http://www.agilerecruiter.com/agilecan/starthere.php?job=1969 /j97708

Location: Seattle - 548 views

Director of Development, ALM Products

Alie — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:56:41 GMT

Serena Software is looking for an experienced Director of Development to lead a team in the creation of Project Portfolio and Agile application lifecycle management (ALM) products. In this role, you would be responsible for driving Serena’s software as a service (SaaS) and on-premise ALM products to market, and leading and coordinating with development centers distributed across the world to create new innovative application development tools and processes. Working with a top software technology leadership team, you will extend a services-oriented architecture and create and deliver new integrated ALM capabilities via both Serena's SaaS and on-premise channels. Expertise in agile development methods is a must as you will be responsible for directing several agile teams and driving agile capabilities into Serena’s industry leading ALM products. Responsibilities * Manage distributed teams of developers and testers to deliver quality releases on-time. * Implement agile methodologies to optimize the efficiency of engineering resources and achieve continuous process improvement. * Leverage new technologies to deliver new capabilities and optimize the productivity of development. * Oversee the evolution of the product architecture to SOA and Web 2.0. * Ensure features are developed with technical standards that result in code that is maintainable, easily enhanced, and consistent with architectural goals. * Work with product management to ensure a product roadmap that is achievable and create a development plan for product releases to support it. * Work with consulting to ensure products can be deployed and implemented providing world class services * Empower team members to achieve their best through collaboration and take pride in achieving common goals. * Foster individual career development and high morale. Attract and retain top talent. Qualifications * 8+ years managing software teams with experience managing at the Director level * Solid understanding of software development life cycles and experience implementing Agile Methodologies * Strong technical background with enterprise software development experience including C#, Java, databases, multi-tiered architectures, web-based technologies and SOA * Track record of creating and executing complex project plans, managing risk, and delivering on time * Experience delivering process improvement in an organization * Demonstrated experience working with global and offshore operations * Knowledge of enterprise scale applications running in critical environments requiring unparalleled performance and stability * Strong leadership skills and ability to inspire others to achieve success * Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, organizational and time management skills * Outstanding interpersonal skills and strong oral and written communication * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field APPLY ONLINE: http://www.agilerecruiter.com/agilecan/starthere.php?job=2037

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Location: Seattle - 626 views

Senior Program Manager

SIQ — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:20:25 GMT

Senior Program Manager Drive programs/projects from project initiation through delivery. Interface with clients on technical and business issues. Create and/or review multiple functional specifications that will be used as tools in making decisions as to how the product or service will be implemented. Provide Product Managers & Product Unit Managers with technical and/or analytical information. Organize cross functional activities ensuring the program/project is completed on schedule and within budget and quality constraints. Provide program/project schedules and status reports. Qualifications * 8-12 years work related experience. * Management skills, including ability to work within a budget and direct program/project (may be multiple). * Proven skills in traditional program management process areas, including but not limited to scope, time, cost, quality, risk and change management. * Ability to build consensus. * Ability to present persuasively across communication settings. * Ability to facilitate and manage dialog necessary for requirements collection, funcdtional analysis and documentation * Sound business-related skills including judgement and decision making skills. * Specialized knowledge as defined by program/project. * Sufficient familiarity with contemporary technologies (.net v2/v3, SQL, asp/aspx) necessary to manage a team(s) in a cross functional software engineering environment. * Ability to think strategically. * Ability to work independently and as part of a team. * Experience in creating and overseeing a creative and/or technical team (may be multiple). To indicate your interest and apply online securely, please follow: http://www.agilerecruiter.com/agilecan/starthere.php?job=1870 The detailed job description is available here: http://www.agilerecruiter.com/agilecan/jobsview.php?RowId=1870 /j96208

Location: Seattle - 383 views

Business Systems Analyst, PeopleSoft, Finance, Work Flow Processes

SIQ — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:35:01 GMT

Join this very technical software development in test team in downtown Seattle! You will contribute to ongoing projects as well as help train and mentor other QA analysts. As a BSA on this team, you’ll interact with the entire Financial Dept (Controllers, Accountants, Financial Analysts, General Ledger, AP/AR, Procurement, etc.) as well as outsourced Developers to conduct analysis of customer needs and create requirements documents to enhance the functionality of PeopleSoft applications. You’ll be required to take on lead roles in driving smaller projects forward and coordinate enhancements. Some initiatives include Pay to Procure Optimization (P2P) charged with improving procurement workflows, archiving data workflows, adding enhancements, process improvements, provide suggestions on efficiency and implement new functionality. You’ll also be providing recommendations for process improvements and change management for smaller projects, including creating the necessary documentation for changes requested by clients to help minimize scope creep. You’ll have the opportunity to assist with improving our financial reporting as well. Experience: * Experience as a Business Analyst working with package software, including the upgrade process, along with experience working with vendors * Proven ability to work in a distributed environment; experience in a mainframe environment would be ideal. * Experience creating business requirements for reports and home grown software. * 2 – 4 years of PeopleSoft experience, particularly Financial Modules. * Proven analytical and project management skills, technical aptitude, excellent written and verbal communication skills, and demonstrated leadership ability. * Demonstrated ability to analyze business problems and recommend solutions, ability to track, and escalate systems problems. * Comfort with ITIL processes and be able to discuss the value of these processes with customers involved in joint projects. * Strong customer service skills and the ability to determine priorities with customer. * Ability to deal with ambiguity is a must * A strong desire to achieve results, a commitment to continuous improvement, and persistence in the face of obstacles. * Insurance knowledge is helpful * RUP experience is highly desirable as we’re in the process of implementing RUP To indicate your interest and apply online securely, please follow: http://www.agilerecruiter.com/agilecan/starthere.php?job=1987 The detailed job description is available here: http://www.agilerecruiter.com/agilecan/jobsview.php?RowId=1987

Location: Seattle - 154 views

Technical Program Manager

SIQ — Tue, 13 May 2008 04:15:40 GMT

Technical Program Manager Our client is looking for an experienced Technical Program Manager to be responsible for consistently managing the software project development lifecycle from requirements gathering and expectations setting through customer launch and monitoring. This position will work closely with software development team and managers to continually improve our products, services, and processes by which these are delivered. This is a unique and challenging ground floor opportunity to work with a highly skilled and motivated software development team in a positive, fast-paced environment where your experience, creative thinking and exceptional skills will be appreciated and rewarded. Responsibilities: * Drive product development cycle by driving trade-off decisions between cost, schedule, functional scope, and quality * Work with stakeholders to illuminate base product requirements and timing needs * Extend product feature definitions and refine scope when needed * Collaborate with technical staff to define technical requirements of product or service * Acknowledge systems architecture issues, including platform data usage/needs and other infrastructure challenges * Ensure that product architecture and technology decisions are consistent with corporate strategies and future expectations * Author project plans and functional specifications; drive other vital project artifact deliveries from other members of the team * Develop and drive product schedule commitments * Prioritize and monitor the activities of development, test and other delivery personnel to ensure project success with respect to schedule, cost and quality expectations * Motivate, mentor and collaborate with all members of the technical teams * Facilitate Change Management decisions and adjust assignments and expectations accordingly * Own project status and track against plan. Drive project communication across company by actively: * Communicating strategies, prospective methodology and tools among work group members, project team members, clients, and executive groups * Communicating progress, risk and cost management and other measures of delivery progress to project team members, clients and executive groups * When necessary escalate project status/issues/risks to management and other project stakeholders * Assist in the development and implementation of more mature technical project management processes, methods and tools Qualifications: * 5+ years experience as a Technical Program or Project Manager of complex enterprise products and multiple years of previous hands on experience as a Software Engineer * Very strong written and verbal communication as well as excellent leadership * Demonstrated ability to map business requirements to appropriate functional/technical requirements * Mastery of project management principles, tools and technical document preparation, such as project plans and functional specifications is expected * Experience with all phases of software product development lifecycle, including requirements definition, design, specifications, development, test, product release, and sustaining engineering * Intimate experience with different development methodologies is highly preferred * Exceptional troubleshooting, problem resolution, and customer management skills and abilities * Solid understanding of techniques to achieve scalability and high availability for software applications * Strong advocacy for change management principles * Experience in process and systems analysis, technical design, and launch of enterprise level systems is preferred * Direct experience with PMI or other project management toolset/certification is a plus and common office productivity tools is, of course, essential * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Mathematics, advance degree preferred Client will pay relocation for the right FTE To indicate your interest and apply online securely, please follow: http://www.agilerecruiter.com/agilecan/starthere.php?job=1786 The detailed job description is available here: http://www.agilerecruiter.com/agilecan/jobsview.php?RowId=1786

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Location: Seattle - 167 views

Program Manager, Email

Classmates — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:41:51 GMT

About Classmates.com Classmates Online, Inc., founded in 1995 and based in Renton, WA, is a leader in online social networking. The company operates Classmates.com (www.classmates.com), connecting millions of members throughout the U.S. and Canada with friends and acquaintances from school, college, work and the military. Its Classmates International subsidiary also operates leading community-based networking sites in Sweden, through Klassträffen Sweden AB (www.stayfriends.se), and in Germany, through StayFriends GmbH (www.stayfriends.de). Classmates Online is a wholly owned subsidiary of United Online, Inc. (Nasdaq: UNTD). For more information about United Online and its Internet subscription services, please visit www.untd.com. Learn more about Classmates at www.classmates.com/cmo/about. The Opportunity: This position is responsible for the timely development and deployment for a variety of projects for the Classmates Online Email Program. Join the Program Management Office at Classmates and be responsible for facilitating scope agreement, project objectives, participants and schedules to ensure the timely delivery of projects. This position acts as the lead for the Tactical Email Program Manager to coordinate change control and resource allocation with strategic initiatives. The successful Program Manager will consolidate input and be liaison to internal groups such as Sales, Marketing, Information Technology, Executive Management, and the rest of the PMO team. They will facilitate resolution of technical, design, product development and operational readiness issues. They will be responsible for managing the overall deployment plan and schedule for major releases including new or enhanced features, coordination for operational readiness, and communicating status to cross functional project stakeholders. The Job Requirements: •Three to five years experience leading large project and or program development teams through complex development cycles, managing multiple, large-scale projects focused on strategy, vision, and eBusiness technology. •Three to five years experience managing successful consumer software development programs/projects in a web-based environment. •Solid consensus-building ability and strategic consulting experience. •Exceptional internal and external client management and interaction skills, including high-level vision and leadership ability – be able to frame the problems facing implementation. •Working knowledge of technologies and design components specific to the Internet and software development. •Experience writing high-level design documents (functional and technical specifications) and executing project plans from these documents. •Two years of experience with projects using technologies such as Java, J2EE, Oracle, on a Unix platform preferred. •Excellent written, oral, presentation, organizational, and leadership skills are required. •Project management skills including: project management principles, tools, and techniques, Microsoft Project required. •BS Degree and project management certification (PMP) preferred. •Working knowledge & experience of MS Project Server a plus. How to Apply: United Online has a great site http://jobs-untd.icims.com/ for you to apply directly to the position online (please make sure when applying you select the correct region). If email is more convenient, please type the job number only in the email subject line (e.g. Job 1234) and send to untd@agents.icims.com. Please make sure your resume is in Word doc format when submitting. Position is located at Classmates corporate headquarters is in Renton, Washington. United Online and its family of companies are Equal Opportunity Employers.

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Location: Seattle - 231 views

Project Manager

SIQ — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 03:00:55 GMT

Project Manager This may be the opportunity you've been seeking to utilize your Project Management skills and contribute to an exciting Seattle leading edge company. If you have a strong desire to work with a progressive team of professionals in a creative and technical environment, and have the ability to communicate effectively while building rapport and credibility with business and technology leaders, we'd love to talk with you. Contacts: This position will have cross-department scope and worldwide impact. The person in this position will interface with users and business points of contact from all main centers of business. Responsibilities * As an escalation point for project related team members, has authority to make decisions within that context. * Would be point of contact for project related vendors and would work out initial drafts of SOW with said vendors. * Tactical role for development, rollout, and implementation of IT systems * Project manager would do data collection, negotiation, status reporting, and facilitate key decisions from a wide range of internal business people – from SAP subject matter experts, functional managers, directors, VPs, SVPs, including members of the E-Team. * This position is responsible for project budgets. Expectations are to set and manage the financial aspects for the implementation of the network projects. * Manages project task dependencies on program tasks or milestones * Resolves project issues and facilitates decision * Prepares and publishes project status reports and metrics * Documents project plan, project schedule, change control plan, communications plan, risk management plan, and other standard project management deliverables Qualifications * 4-year degree * PMI certification, equivalent experience, or enrolled in PMI certification program * 2 years project management experience, preferably in an Agile/Lean environment * Demonstrated ability to create and manage from a project schedule with detailed tasks, dependencies, and leveled resource allocations * Ability to communicate effectively and build rapport and credibility with business and technology leaders of all levels * Consulting skills * Ability to flourish in high stress environments * Strong conflict resolution, negotiation, and facilitation skills * Strong Interpersonal, Influence, & Leadership skills – the Project Manager has accountability for other's project deliverables but does not have supervisory responsibility * Thorough understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle and the different development methodologies * Vendor package systems implementation project management experience desired * Project management or development experience in a multi-tier development environment desired * Project management or development experience with .NET, ASP, SQL Server, Web 2.0, or SAP desired To indicate your interest and apply online securely, please follow: http://www.agilerecruiter.com/agilecan/starthere.php?job=1859 The detailed job description is available here: http://www.agilerecruiter.com/agilecan/jobsview.php?RowId=1859 /j94408

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Location: Seattle - 265 views

Technical PM

Alie — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:15:28 GMT

This Business Intelligence Team is seeking a Sr. Technical Program Manager that has experience working in a Software Development environment, lighter in processes, and has excellent communication skills and can handle working in political environments. Long term contract in Redmond, WA This position would gather requirements, write specs, coordinate review meetings, coordinate development, test, deployment and operations, communicate cross-team and cross-group, and have a strong technical and development background. Successful candidates will have a positive attitude, a desire to learn, and a demonstrated technology and development background. In addition, excellent technical problem solving skills, ability to manage systems and processes, good communication, and decision making skills, and the ability to meet expected timelines under pressure. A Degree in Computer Science, Business or related field, or relative work experience is required. To indicate your interest and apply online securely, please follow: http://www.agilerecruiter.com/agilecan/starthere.php?job=1633 The detailed job description is available here: http://www.agilerecruiter.com/agilecan/jobsview.php?RowId=1633 /j9121707

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Location: Seattle - 475 views

Sr. Program Manager

Alie — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:52:37 GMT

Our team is looking for a proactive and creative Senior Program Manager to be a key contributor for our client in driving their online search flagship product. This is an exciting opportunity to utilize your skills to contribute to the continued growth and success of this critical part of our client's business. QUALIFICATIONS & RESPONSIBILITIES: - Ensure the development team is responsive to the needs of other organizations including Product Management, Customer Support, IT, and Sales. Also work to make other organizations responsive to development team needs. - Propose workable solutions to problems by analyzing business and technical trade-offs among alternatives, and use objective judgment and influence to formulate and drive consensus on recommendations. - Ensure development team is responsive to the escalation process, resolving field issues quickly and assisting with internal communications relative to Root Cause Analysis and Service Level Agreement impact of service disruptions. - Manage projects through their entire life cycle, including: conceptual design, requirements gathering via user story definition, software development and test, deployment to production, and on-going maintenance. - Create, drive and optimize project plans and schedules within and across projects and cross-functional teams. - Set and meet deadlines with quality deliverables, effectively adapting and modifying plans based on changing data or conditions. Assist in planning and ensuring that a project tracks to scope, resources, time to market, and budget constraints. Work diligently to remove roadblocks from team members on a day-to-day basis to ensure their productivity and efficiency. - Anticipate, identify, document, and manage key program risks, proposing appropriate mitigation and contingency plans. Identify cross-functional dependencies and track and report on their progress. - Assist in ensuring adherence to quality & other relevant standards (e.g. interoperability, architectural compliance, UI guidelines). The detailed job description is available here: http://www.agilerecruiter.com/agilecan/jobsview.php?RowId=1450 To indicate your interest and apply online securely, please follow: http://www.agilerecruiter.com/agilecan/starthere.php?job=1450 /j9100207

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Location: Seattle - 10 views