Current Openings

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.

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 client located in downtown Bellevue, WA has an immediate need for a expert level senior QA Architect for a full-time employment opportunity. Responsibilities:

• Spearhead design/development/usage of Automation framework.
• Develop test patterns to evaluate the solutions for performance, scalability, resilience and reliability
• Contribute to the quality of the solutions by identifying issues in architecture/design and implementation
• Demonstrate technical leadership and provide mentoring to fellow team members
• Suggest and influence process improvements and act as a change agent for the organization
• Work closely with the development and product management teams to ensure that the architecture/design honors testability, reliability, scalability and performance.
• Continuously increase the coverage and complexity of functional test cases using Java (TestNG, JUnit) and/or scripting languages (Python, etc.)
• Design and develop provide hands-on leadership for a fully automated suite of performance, scalability, load, stress, user experience testing.
• Manage and maintain the Continuous Integration server (Hudson experience is a plus)

Required skills:

• Demonstrated a high level of productivity, responsibility, and influence in previous positions
• Strong analytical thinking, logical reasoning, problem recognition, and problem resolution skills
• Excellent oral and written communication and personal/interpersonal skills
• 5+ years of quality assurance experience with proven ability to automate functional, stress, and volume test cases
• 2+ years of test automation experience in Java (TestNG, Junit)
• 5+ years of experience in developing back-end automation (API/Web Services testing – REST) test suites
• Solid experience with Distributed systems (Hadoop/Cassandra/Solr/Lucene a plus)
• Strong understanding of software development life cycle
• Highly detail-oriented
• Excellent time management

Desired skills:

• Experience with large data processing environments
• Experience in building a Cloud test platform (EC2 experience a plus)
• Strong knowledge of browser technologies (HTML 5.0, Javascript, XML, CSS)
• Strong knowledge of JMX based technologies
• Good balance of open source and commercial platform experience
• Knowledge of code and memory profiling tools for Java
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Knowledge of Hadoop, Cassandra, Solr/Lucene, Zookeeper, ActiveMQ
• Knowledge of Vmware or other Virtualization solutions

This is a great opportunity for a passionate and talented software engineer to join a growing development family that is developing mobile and web applications for our direct client located in downtown Seattle, WA.  Seattle location includes free parking.

You will work with the team to create high-quality, cutting-edge software products enabling customers to have the best possible experience with their home network. As a member of the software engineering team, you will be responsible for designing, maintaining, and implementing key functionality for these applications.

The following skills, qualifications and experience are required:

• Strong JavaScript development or Architect experience (5+ years)
• Experience with JQuery library
• HTML
• CSS
• JSON experience
• Browser compatibility – Chrome, FireFox, IE, Safari
• Experience prototyping with JavaScript
• 5+ years developing widely used consumer-facing software
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Additional skills which would be a plus:
• Embedded device experience
• Mobile experience
• Experience implementing version 1 sites
• Past architect experience
• Node.js
• HTML5 & CSS3
• WebKit
• DHTML or DOM scripting

We are looking for an experienced Writer / Editor for our client located in downtown Bellevue, WA for a 10 week project.  You will need to be able to tackle a bunch of ongoing writing projects ranging from a series of press releases to a large set of international marketing fact sheets. Our client is looking for extra hands on board during their busiest time of the season. However….. There is also a possibility of a full-time employment opportunity at the end of this project.  Our client has in-house editors and writers along to help guide this person, but you will need to be able to manage work independently and hit deadlines, ask questions, negotiate approaches and defend quality work.

This writer will:

• Develop and draft compelling articles and other complex content and help clients develop smart content approaches
• Produce a broad range of consistently high-quality content, including feature articles, blog posts, news releases, speeches and Q&As
• Help develop new types of Web content that tells a story beyond text, such as videos or interactive graphics
• Write documents that are consistently well organized and grammatically correct, which require minimal editing
• Contribute to large projects and assist in packaging together content
• Be comfortable with and curious about technology and has strong Web and PC skills

Qualifications:

• 4+ years in editorial position primarily writing
• Deep grasp of English language with strong writing and reporting skills
• Proofreading experience desired
• Experience working under deadline pressure
• Fluency in another language a plus
• Ability to multi-task, shift priorities quickly and concentrate under stressful conditions
• General knowledge of journalism, public relations, communications, high-technology or related fields desired

Technical Skills:

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite (particularly Outlook, Word and SharePoint)
• Proficiency with content management systems and Web publishing desired

We are looking for an Expert Director level Program/Project Manager for a very large enterprise level system implementation project with our client located on Mercer Island, WA.

Job Summary:

• Leads large projects within the local PMO function which impacts both local and global processes
• Ensures IT governance/project management processes are followed
• Mentors and manages other team members
• Is able to influence and contribute to global PMO and GIT processes and is involved in global Shared Services initiatives and objectives.
• Support Program Managers in tracking and review of project status, risks, and financial implications
• Reviews project portfolios with Local Account Executives
• Oversees local PMO related tasks and global reporting
• Understands roles and responsibilities of Local and Global PMOs and how they interface
• Acts as liaison between local PMO and business customers/Account Executives
• Performs Process Modeling and Process Re-engineering
• Proactively manages issues related to local and global reporting and works with Senior Management / Local Account Executives to resolve them
• Prioritize internal and external demands
• Ensures timely and on-budget deliverables
• Manages requirements for additional PMO tasks and produces process proposals for adoption of new functions, within the team

Special Skill Requirements:

• Proven leadership ability with experience leading large enterprise level projects or changes within the global PMO function that impacts both local and global processes
• Experienced with implementing a large enterprise level complex IT system(s) or programs or managing a PMO team
• Have previous experience working with and interfacing across organization fo all parts of a business that utilizes a major IT application system
• May require occasional traveling regionally and globally
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to participate in and facilitate discussions with complex content. This includes an ability to compose reports with almost no grammatical errors and can communicate proficiently.
• PMP certification of something similar
• MS Projects
• Proven strong organizational ability/experience
• Insurance industry a plus

Essential Job Functions:

• Leads large projects or changes within the local and global PMO function that impacts both local and global processes
• Is proactively involved in Shared Services group wide initiatives and objectives
• Proactively performs Process Modeling and Process Re-engineering Networks at a global level to influence 1 of 2 and contributes to global PMO and GIT processes and procedures
• Co-ordinate and manage the Program Management Education Program (PMEP)
• Manage and administers Rolling Forecast and is able to deliver to required timescales for local PMO teams when necessary Produces process proposals for the adoption of new functions within global and local PMP teams
• Co-ordinate and facilitate the monthly GSM Pre-CITO review meeting
• Co-ordinate and manage the monthly Key Initiative Review meeting
• Manages a monthly portfolio review meeting
• Produces process proposals for the adoption of new functions within the team Multi-tasks between operational and project activity
• Mentors and manages other team members
• Manages business requirement analysis
• Proactively manages issues and hotspots identified within global and local reporting and engages with Senior Management to resolve them
• Proactively manages escalations from the local PMO teams Is able to prioritizes global PMO tasks in response to both internal and external demands
• Proactively engages with local PMO leads to ensure local Project Portfolio management is being conducted in line with global objectives
• Ability to perform all global related PMO tasks (including Key Initiative reviews, Pre-CITO summaries,) and is able to deliver them to the global reporting schedule
• Manage and support local PMO teams with training and the use of the Global Project Tracking Data base and is able to perform all global reporting and Management Information (MI) production, including Line of Business (LoB) consolidations
• Consolidates LoB program reporting with ability to prioritize Local PMO tasks and objectives in response to both internal and external demands and able to support other members of the PMO team in the delivery of their tasks
• Ensures standard methodology and processes are followed in Governance and Project Management in the reporting and tracking of project status, risks and issues in the Global Project Tracking database
• Review of project status, risks, issues and financial implications via the local reporting process and perform all local PMO related tasks (including Key Initiative Reviews, Pre-CITO summaries) and is able to deliver them to the global reporting schedules
• Understands requirements of PMO customers at both local and global level and is able to make informed decisions in response to customer requirements
• Acts as liaison between local PMO and business customers/Account Executives

If you are a Digital Marketing / Social Media Manager with 5+ years of digital and social media/marketing experience, please read on!  This is an exciting opportunity for someone to join our client, located in Kirkland, WA in fast paced and growing company.

What you’ll be doing:

• Set and maintain the strategic direction for all the company social media programs, created as a part of the overall company’s Marketing, PR and Communications platform
• Oversee, monitor, administer, curate and post all content on the company’s social forums
• Leading the company social media and digital marketing initiatives
• Enhance and maintain the websites for the company brands
• Establish and coordinate the strategy to be best in class in Digital Marketing as part of our overall Marketing strategy
• Daily monitoring, management and engagement presence in social networking sites, engaging with customers on company brand social sites, posting on relevant blogs and seeding content into social applications as needed
• Promotion of all Marketing, PR, and Communications projects and activations through social media
• Creation of seasonal and monthly editorial calendars, monthly campaigns and promotional plans
• Collaborate with customer service, product, and business departments to actively manage all social media communications and profile updates
• Lead coordination on work planning schedule and rollout of key PR tactics, Brand, and Team activities by month specifically for social media
• Leverage any and all education opportunities to learn best practices and developments in the social sphere from any and all partners and sharing this info with internal teams
• Seek out new online opportunities for company brands, presenting breakthrough ideas and working with individuals at all levels of the organization
• Establish measurements and use the right tools to track share of voice, reputation and sentiment, analyze and deliver key insights than can be used for strategic planning.

What you need for this position:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Journalism or Communications
• 5+ years of digital and social media/marketing experience. Prefer social experience to be primary focus of current scope of responsibilities with skew toward consumer brands
• Proven and substantive track record in formulating and driving marketing communications through digital engines targeting multiple audiences, as well as successful social media campaigns that resulted in tangible business results
• Deep understanding of digital marketing and digital production. Proven experience delivering effective and innovative digital campaigns
• Superior knowledge of social media, blogging, photo sharing, video sharing tools, platforms and applications
• Strong understanding of SEO and how it is affected by social; familiarity with the latest web development technologies and best practices is a bonus
• Must have excellent interpersonal and writing skills, with the ability to communicate and engage with users online
• Outstanding results as leader in a high-performing consumer goods business is a prerequisite
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills