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Job Description:

Our client located in Kent, WA is looking for a Senior Business Intelligence Developer to join their talented IT team. Interested individual must possess a passion for partnering with all aspects of the business to produce successful business strategies, find cost-effective solutions and increase value for shareholders. Essential for this position is extensive business intelligence design, development, and support experience using Microsoft software development tools and technology stack.

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of Business Intelligence capabilities. Help users “surface” hidden relationships, and create fresh business insights. Accelerate IT and business productivity via ad-hoc and self-service reporting, sophisticated multi-dimensional analysis, dashboards, etc.
• Hands-On leadership in the development of data delivery applications using Microsoft business intelligence tools, focused in SQL Server Analysis Services, SQL Server Reporting Services, Excel Services, Performance Point.
• Analyze complex business problems in collaboration with stakeholders and assess how automated systems and business process changes can solve them.
• Help drive a consistent set of standards across the company for application architecture and design, software development methodology, and other IT related areas. Participates in the development and maintenance of corporate data architecture, data management standards and conventions, data dictionaries and data element naming standards.
• Actively maintain and nurture relationships with business and technical leaders across organization in an effort to understand business opportunities, pain points and requirements as the foundation for engineering efforts, models and tools. Influence key individuals across the organization to achieve results.

Requirements:

• Minimum of ten (10) years development experience with extensive working experience in designing and building data warehouses, data marts. Expert developing multi-dimensional structures using SQL Server Analysis Services 2005/2008 as well as developing end user reporting in SQL Server Reporting Services 2005/2008 and with database reporting tools (Crystal Reports, MS Access, etc.). Understanding of building security models for drill level access to cubes as well as within the physical dimensional schema.
• Expert developing business applications in a SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 environment in both relational and multi-dimensional environments. Proficiency in TSQL, MDX, XML. Proven experience working within teams to design and develop medium scale, global, enterprise-wide business applications.
• Solid understanding of modern application architectures, development methodologies and tools is needed. Demonstrate advanced understanding of change and release management practices and tools. The candidate should have exemplary experience in software development.
• Expertise in the design, development and deployment of enterprise-level N-tier applications on the MS .Net platforms is needed.
• Experience with concepts, tools, and platforms that involve SOA, ESBs, orchestration, BPM, presentation-layer integration with portals is highly desirable.
• Must be comfortable with ambiguity and fast change with an ability to adapt quickly and easily. Ability to analyze complex problems and move them to resolution.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills. Positive attitude and ability to build strong relationships within the company and with external partners.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of experience and training.

Our direct client located in downtown Bellevue, WA has an immediate need for a seasoned, highly-motivated SDET (Software Developer in Test) for a full-time employment opportunity to join their core platform architecture and engineering team, working on a novel learning real-time relevance engine. If you are you passionate about building consumer-centric products leveraging cutting-edge science and technology, and you enjoy building web-based services that require scaling a nascent technology to high volume and high reliability, this is the job for you! Have you worked as a key player and thought-leader in agile engineering teams spread across continents? SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Run and maintain existing integration tests
• Create new functional tests based for the new features
• Create, run and maintain different performance applications
• Test and document deployment procedure

DESIRED EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• 5+ years as a software engineer, including stints in both established and early-stage technology companies
• Solid analytical ability to deal with ambiguity and to solve problems independently
• Ability to clearly communicate concerns about code and collaborate with other developers and program managers to effectively solve software challenges
• High level of personal accountability and “self-starter” attitude in order to make progress in ambiguous situations on schedule
• Java language programming skills (advanced)
• REST web services
• UNIX scripting
• JUnit (Advanced)
• Good understanding of the following concepts: Automated Techniques, Functional, Integration and Regression Testing
• Experience working with Cassandra is a plus
• Hudson knowledge is a plus
• TestNG framework is a plus

EDUCATION: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Software Engineering or related discipline. Advanced degree preferred.

Overview:

Working with the Senior Project Manager (SPM), the Functional Project Manager (FPM) will be responsible for coordinating the efforts of multiple work groups (internal groups, client groups and contracted groups) to accomplish the stated project objectives and manage stakeholder expectations. The FPM will monitor and maintain the progress and mutual interaction of all parties so as to minimize risks to the project objectives, maximize benefits to client and to the company, and restrict costs. The FPM is accountable for ensuring that everyone on the team knows and executes his/her role, feels empowered and supported in the role, knows the roles of the other team members and acts upon the belief that those roles will be performed. The FPM will maintain communication and reporting to ensure the SPM and primary stakeholders are kept abreast of project developments, and bring to attention any milestones or objectives that are at risk.

Responsibilities:

• Assist SPM with developing and refining the project plan.
• Creating and/or maintaining documentation, forecasting, and communication tools.
• Creating testing procedures for various work processes and technical functions.
• Effectively apply existing methodologies and enforce project standards, while making recommendations for enhancements.
• Facilitate group meetings to monitor progress and ensure quality communication.
• Monitor and manage project schedule and milestones.
• Carefully review deliverables prepared by our team before forwarding to client.
• Monitor, manage and report to SPM any conflicts or risk to objectives.
• Assist with financial forecasting, and monitor adherence to budgets.

Professional Competencies:

Technical

• PMP certification highly preferable.
• Documented experience with IT projects with a scope of at least $1 million.  Experience with healthcare IT projects in particular is highly preferable.
• Familiarity with relational databases, GUI applications, and integrated system design.
• Understand basic revenue models, P&L, and cost-to-completion projections, and make decisions accordingly.
• Strong experience with project management software. Experience with Clarizen highly preferable.

Communication/Leadership

• Able to articulate well and convey complex ideas with clarity, professionalism and composure.
• Understand how to communicate difficult/sensitive information tactfully.
• Deliver engaging, informative and well-organized written and oral presentations.
• Encourages and motivates all team members.
• Resolves/escalates issues in a timely fashion.
• Tracks and shares lesson learned.
• Develops lasting relationships with clients that foster future ties and opportunities.

Our customer located in Seattle, WA is seeking a CAFM/CMMS Systems Analyst to join their growing IT team. The qualified candidate will be responsible for developing, implementing and supporting the systems implementation, configuration and integration of CAFM/CMMS/IWMS technological solutions. This person will be responsible for interacting directly with business users, business analysts and subject matter experts to gather and clarify systems requirements and translate requirements into system functionality, integration processes and database requirements.

Major responsibilities include:
• Application Integration Development, Support and Administration
• System Integration Design, Configuration & Implementation
• Business process Integration documentation
• Technical proficiency with CAFM/CMMS/IWMS technologies and practices.
• System and UAT Test planning and execution

Skills and Experience Requirements:
• Business requirement and process documentation
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong system/software development life cycle experience
• 3-5 years’ experience in technical analysis of enterprise systems
• Prefer experience with CAFM/CMMS/IWMS solutions ( FM:Systems a plus)
• Hands on technical configuration or development
• Application Systems Configuration and Administrative Skills
• SQL & Database expertise (MySQL, MS-SQL, Oracle)

Our client located in downtown Bellevue, WA has an immediate need to add a Data Engineer for this full-time employment opportunity to work on a critical data component of their platform. This will be a position responsible for creating and maintaining Domain Expert repositories, which are similar to ontologies in semantic web technologies.

SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provision data from different sources to be used for development and/or maintenance of DEs
• Associated tasks may include: scraping; cleaning of scraped data; indexing; integration with 3rd-party software
• Develop and maintain user interfaces of applications using DEs
• Development of hands-on knowledge of clients’ software products

DESIRED EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• 3+ years experience as an SDET-level developer
• 3+ years programming experience writing C# and .NET software with web services integration
• 2+ years experience writing applications on Microsoft SQL Server; must know how to write, use and manipulate SQL queries
• 2+ years experience using AJAX, JSON, XML, JavaScript, server-side HTML
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Demonstrated ability both in working independently, as well as in being an effective team member

EDUCATION: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Software Engineering or related discipline.