General

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

POSITION SUMMARY

Our client located in downtown Bellevue, WA is looking to add a seasoned, highly-motivated Software Engineer to our 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 place for you! Have you worked as a key player and thought-leader in agile engineering teams spread across continents?

SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop scalable systems that robustly implement machine learning algorithms to process large volumes of unstructured data in real time
• Apply a deep keenness to understand the science behind the technology to further the successful application of the science
• Provide thought leadership to the company for software design, algorithm design, and implementation of critical systems
• Participate in and help improve key processes including software requirements, software design, code review, and testing
• Stay abreast of technology trends, inform the organization on the emerging software and hardware technologies, and lead discussions about incorporating new technology that could impact the company roadmap

DESIRED EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• 5+ years as a software engineer, including major contributions to complex projects, preferably in both established and early-stage technology companies
• Strong computer science fundamentals
• Strong commitment to software development best practices and code quality
• Very strong coding skills in an object-oriented language such as Java or C#
• Experience with Apache stack (e.g. Hadoop, Cassandra, Lucene) a big plus
• Experience with High-Performance Computing architectures a plus, e.g. MapReduce, GPU-based computation
• Strong design and data modeling skills
• Familiarity with NLP, text mining and machine learning algorithms – highly preferred
• Proven ability to work in a startup-like environment with little supervision
• Initiative and creativity
• Demonstrated history of passion for tracking emerging technology trends

EDUCATION

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

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

We are looking for a talented IT Business Analyst for our client located on Mercer Island, WA.  You will be joining a dynamic team working on a large system implementation project.

Job Summary:

• Serves as a liaison between the Business and IT to provide solution to their business needs
• Understands customers’ objectives, processes, and products as well as the business systems capabilities
• Supports users in building business case, including cost/benefit analysis, risk assessment, and project scope
• Performs impact analysis and supports development of effort/cost estimates
• Develops and documents functional specifications
• Supports application testing, implementation, and training activities

 Experience Requirements:

• 4 year as an IT Business Analyst Level
• Excellent knowledge of SDLC
• Experienced with writing use cases
• Application and UAT testing experience
• Excellent written and oral skills in local language
• Able to take part in meetings and discussions and give information about own area of expertise, able to compose memos, simple letters and short texts.
• May require occasional traveling
• Bachelors degree or equivalent
• Insurance industry experience is a plus

 Essential Job Functions:

• Performs impact analysis of application changes across various components, holding an end-to-end view of the system
• Defines project scope
• Develops functional specifications
• Prepares Preliminary Systems Design document
• Understands customers objectives, processes, and products in order to make educated recommendations
• Acts as liaison between Business and IT, as assigned Supports the Application Subject Matter Experts in development of estimates / validation of suppliers# estimates Supports application testing, implementation, and training activities
• Performs quality review checks on project deliverables
• Supports users in building Business Case, including cost / benefit analysis, risk assessment, project scope, and development of a high level plan Drives day-to-day prioritization of work on capabilities, working with business

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