Consulting Opportunities

Project Manager (Infrastructure)

Overview:

Our client is a great pharmaceutical company in Cambridge. We are looking for Project Manager to work onsite and manage a variety of Infrastructure projects for them. Most of these projects will be smaller in scale, but there will be multiple projects running simultaneously. This is a contract position with a duration of 4 months. However, extensions are likely.

Some projects include:

Change of telephony and collaboration solution (to RingCentral & Glib)

Management of miscellaneous ongoing technical debt reduction (server decomm., P2V opportunities, etc.)

Qualifications:

At least 5+ years of experience as a Project Manager

Ability to create project plans, manage timelines vendors, scope, budgets, and resource allocation.

Understanding of common Infrastructure and Telephony products and concepts.

Proven track record delivery infrastructure related projects on time and on budget.

Job Type: Contract (868)

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T-SQL Developer
Overview

Our Client located in Wilmington is seeking a T-SQL Developer. The T-SQL Developer will be responsible for designing and developing T-SQL custom solutions to support a major data migration from legacy systems to new COTS and custom applications. Development activities will include developing new T-SQL objects (Stored Procedures, User Defined Functions, Triggers etc.) to address a specific need or solve a particular business problem. The position requires strong data management, problem-solving, business system, time management and reporting skills. This role will also work closely with software engineers and architects to ensure code is in alignment with documented T-SQL development standards or industry best practices. This is a contract position with a duration of 5 months.

Job Responsibilities:
- Working under the supervision of the Data Management manager, partner with business and data analysts to design, develop and maintain custom objects and procedures and other custom applications.
- Create/implement Transact SQL (T-SQL) for new applications and enhancements to existing applications
- Design/create/implement complex databases in T-SQL
- Gather and identify data requirements for new and existing systems / applications through collaboration with data analysts and business users.
- Adhere to the processes and policies.
- Experience with production support and troubleshooting issues based on support tickets
- Review queries created by other developers for adherence to standards and performance issues
- Interact with Database, Applications analysts and Business users for requirements gathering.
- Work with the quality assurance team to build test plans to validate that T-SQL modifications/new code meet the business requirements
- Create documentation when required for changes
- Maintain standards compliance
- Collaborates with key stakeholders including architects, software engineering, and project managers to report out development progress and escalates issues requiring attention
Job Requirements:
- BS in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent.
- At least 5+ years of expert T-SQL development experience with a heavy emphasis on stored procedures, user defined functions, and triggers.
- 5 years + experience with relational database design, schema creation and implementation
- Experience with working with different versions of MS SQL server
- Experience with performance enhancement/tuning for T-SQL Code as well as database objects (Tables, Views etc.)
- Proficiency with large data models
- Ability to work alone or with other members of a team
- Ability to provide solid solutions to current and anticipated business challenges
- Self-motivated and organized with the ability to work with minimal supervision
- Demonstrates the capacity to manage changing priorities
- Experience with agile project management techniques preferred
Job Type; Contract (866)

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CSV Engineer
Overview:

Our client is a pharmaceutical company located in Cambridge is seeking a IT Computer System Validation engineer to oversee planning, scheduling, documentation and IQ/OQ/PQ. This will be a hands-on Lead role and this person will be responsible for documentation, scheduling, and master validation planning. The CSV Lead will work closely with QA departments on their CSV standards.

The systems the CSV Lead will support include Drug Safety, Clinical Data Warehouse, Drug Submission, and Clinical Submissions Management.

Required Experience:
- 5+ years of overall CSV experience
- Must have prior experience documenting policies and procedures for an IT organization in a validated environment
- Must have strong experience creating documentation and validation plans in a GcP/GxP environment
- Previous Lead experience and a Clinical background is preferred
Job Type: Contract (871)

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Business Analyst / Apps Support
Description:

Our client, located just outside of Boston is seeking a Business Analyst/ Application Support Analyst. The Business Analyst / Application Support Analyst will act as the primary liaison between the client’s business stakeholders and the development / IT support organization. The Analyst’s main responsibilities will include supporting existing application(s) by managing the defect resolution process and performing detailed requirements analysis of application software enhancements, business use case creation, test planning, user acceptance testing, documentation, training and project tracking of all activities required to implement enhancements. Must acquire and maintain a thorough understanding of the client’s internal business processes and the applications supporting them.

To succeed in this role, you should be detailed oriented, a problem solver, results-driven and have a natural analytical way of thinking and be able to effectively explain difficult concepts to non-technical users. Excellent communication skills and problem-solving abilities are essential.

Responsibilities include:
- Serve as a liaison between the end users and IT support/development team to facilitate communication both ways
- Collaborate with end users to identify and analyze business needs and requirements and assess how the system can be used or enhanced to address them. Develop use cases and ensure that the requirements are clear, comprehensive, and testable
- Assess existing businesses process and applications to identify gaps that impede the business from reaching desired results and work with the client and IT support to develop action plans to solve the problem and explore improvement opportunities
- Coordinate with IT support to help translate requirements into solution design specifications and ensure that the proposed solutions meet the business needs
- Lead and manage the entire defect resolution and change development lifecycle of defects/changes requested by users and work with the client and IT support to bring them to resolution
- Record, troubleshoot and analyze system issues reported by users and where appropriate either 1) resolve the issue, 2) replicate it in the test environment and/or 3) assign it to IT support for resolution
- Develop Test Plans / Scenarios and conduct user acceptance testing to confirm that application changes and issue resolutions implemented by IT support meet the client’s business need. Coordinate testing activities to be performed by the end users
- Develop end user guides and documentation on an as needed basis
- Conduct meetings and presentations to share ideas and findings and train end users
- Provide leadership, training, coaching, and guidance to other junior staff
- Plan, execute, monitor and control small projects and project activities to ensure efficient and effective project completion. Identify project risks and develop and implement potential risk mitigation strategies
- Gather critical information from meetings with various stakeholders and produce useful reports
- Create productive and collaborative relationships with and between key stakeholders
- Other responsibilities as requested by the Project Manager
Qualifications
- A bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration or equivalent job experience
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in business analysis or a related field (Preferred)
- Certified Business Analysis Professional certification(s) (preferred)
- Proven experience planning, analyzing and documenting business requirements, process flow diagrams, UAT scenarios / plans, user guides, training documents and other relevant project artifacts
- Proven experience troubleshooting and researching application issues and working with users and IT support to bring them to resolution
- Exceptional analytical, quantitative, logical / structured thinking, and creative problem-solving skills
- Ability to effectively communicate ideas to cross-functional team members, technical team and management.
- Ability to critically evaluate, structure and distill large amounts of information and complex problems to their essence to derive specific takeaways and action plans and tailor messages to other team members and/or senior management
- Ability to effectively understand and assess complex situations, develop recommendations for problem solutions and improvements
- Employ proficient negotiation, consensus building and influencing skills; without authority, to effectively reach a positive outcome
- Strong customer service ethos and experience in customer service and client facing projects
- Ability to work well both independently with minimal supervision and to collaborate as part of a team
- Excellent planning, organizational, multi-tasking and time management skills and the ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
- Excellent personal and interpersonal attributes (e.g. integrity, reliability, oral/written communication and soft skills, keen attention to details, big picture thinking, ability to think outside the box, personal maturity, conflict resolution, emotional intelligence, results-oriented and a performance-oriented, highly self-motivated and directed, proactive, inquisitive, motivated, with leadership skills but collaborative personality)
- Ability to motivate fellow employees by fostering team spirit, an attitude of cooperation, trust and a commitment to the team and Organization including training and mentoring peers
- Experience creating detailed reports and delivering presentations
- Effective task and project management skills, ability to breakdown problems of different levels of complexity and bring them to closure
- Ability to work under pressure and deliver efficient results on time
- Strong working knowledge of software development cycle and Software development methodologies (Agile and Waterfall), change and release management
- Competency in the Microsoft Office Suite. Strong skills in Microsoft Excel, especially working with pivot tables and advanced formulas is required
Job Type: Contract (869)

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Data Warehouse Architect
Overview

Our Client located north of Boston is seeking a Data Warehouse Architect. The Data Warehouse Architect will be responsible for designing and architecting custom data warehouse solutions to support a major data migration from legacy systems to a new COTS and custom applications. The position requires strong SQL Server Data Warehouse design, architecture, problem-solving, time management and reporting and analytics skills. This role will also work closely with software engineers and help to ensure solutions are in alignment with industry best practices.This is a contract position with a duration of 5 months.

Job Responsibilities
- Working under the supervision of the Data Management manager, partner with business and data analysts to architect and design SQL Server Data Warehouse solutions.
- Help guide and design robust reporting and analytics capabilities based on business requirements.
- Gather and identify data requirements for new and existing systems / applications through collaboration with data analysts and business users.
- Create documentation when required for changes
- Maintain standards compliance
- Collaborates with key stakeholders including architects, software engineering, and project managers to report out development progress and escalates issues requiring attention
Job Type; Contract (865)

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Senior Project Manager
Background:

One of our pharmaceutical clients located in New York, is upgrading Windows 7 to 10 globally. They need a well rounded project manager with infrastructure and Windows migrations/upgrades experience. The project is currently in planning phase and te PM will be responsible for base-lining the plan and schedule then migrations by each corporate department.

Required Skills:
- 15+ years of Project or Program Management experience preferably within Infrastructure
- Global Windows 7 to 10 upgrade experience
- experience supporting projects from the planning phase
- PMP certification preferred
- Experience delivering in an unstructured environment
Job Type: Contract (855)

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R&D Project Manager
Overview:

Our client, is doing a global upgrade to the latest eLN vendor cloud application. There are currently 1000+ scientific users using the current application. Their current eLN is on premise and highley customized. They anticipate that the integration to LIMS, SDMS and a fair amount of customization will be needed.

Requirements:
- 7+ years Project Management within R&D Life Sciences
- At least one global eLN implementation or upgrade
- Experience driving delivery with global teams
- eLN platform experience preferred
- Experience planning and estimating Computer System Validation efforts
- Past working experience with scientific user community
- PMP preferred
Job Type: Contract (861)

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Full Stack Solutions Engineer
Overview:

Our client, located outside of Boston, is building their next generation of platforms to better serve their technical and customer needs. As the Senior Solutions Engineer, you will be focused on building solutions on cloud infrastructure. You will also be contributing to architectural solutions and partnering with business stakeholders, technology staff, and external vendors to enhance and support our cloud infrastructure. You enjoy contributing as a member of Agile teams, working closely with other developers in designing and development of disparate technologies and services, interfacing with cloud and on-premise infrastructure.

Their Digital Business Transformation is revamping the they make decisions, set priorities, and use their technology systems to deliver content and other services to their customers. These initiatives include implementation of new content management systems (MarkLogic, Contentful), a new eCommerce platform (Magento), increasing our analytics and marketing capabilities with Adobe, and much more! They are investing in their people, their online products, their our IT team by deploying the latest technology and modern cloud-based solutions. If you’re seeking to grow your skills in a collaborative learning environment where new ideas are encouraged, this is the right place for you.

Responsibilities:
- Comfortably works at all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (including product design, planning, development, implementation, and product/system test) and at all levels of the software stack in heterogeneous technical environments.
- Serves as a mentor to other developers, and shares expertise through knowledge sharing sessions and other forms of collaboration tools.
- Creates and architect RESTful APIs and microservices on our internal and cloud platforms to support online products and services.
- Works with solutions architects, business analysts, and other stakeholders to identify, review and make recommendations on development approaches that are most suitable to current and future business needs.
- Evaluates industry best practices and third-party software solutions, and demonstrates current knowledge relating to relevant technology trends.
Qualifications:
- Technology agnostic in designing software solutions on cloud platforms including AWS or Azure.
- Object-oriented application building in open source platforms including JavaScript and .NET Core with a major focus on middle-tier technologies e.g., Node.js, Express, etc.
- Experience with Mulesoft and Janrain (Akamai) are a major plus.
- Should have familiarity with DevOps practices (e.g., continuous integration and deployment, automated testing, etc.).
- Demonstrated comfort with Agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Kanban).
- Experience with testing frameworks.
- Understanding of relational and No SQL databases, such as SQL Server, MySQL, MongoDB or MarkLogic is highly desirable.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, problem solving, multi-tasking, and leadership skills, and the ability to independently accomplish responsibilities as a member of multidisciplinary teams are important.
- An interest in learning and embracing new technologies, products and applications, and flexibility to adapt to changing tasks/priorities to support business needs are critical.
- Demonstrated ability to produce design, requirements, and architectural documents.
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Program Manager (Manufacturing)
Overview:

Our client, located in Cambridge, is building out a state of art gene therapy manufacturing site. They are seeking an IT Program Manager to help support the infrastructure implementation and qualification for: cabling, networks, hardware, servers and telephony. This resource will need experience in GmP processes and planning the qualification of infrastructure. This is a contract position with a duration of six months.

Requirements:
- 10+ years IT infrastructure PgM experience
- Experience supporting a GmP manufacturing site IT build out
- Experience working with construction PM to align schedule and milestones
- Experience working with system integrators to schedule and manage the infrastructure implementations
- Planning experience for qualification of infrastructure- CSV
- Experience working in smaller stakeholder environments
Job Type: Contract (870)

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Clinical and Statistical IT PM
Description of Role:

Project Manager / Business Analyst for R&D Capabilities will be responsible for managing and tracking all activities associated with the development and/or enhancement of new business capabilities including in the R&D space. This will include but not limited to business process definition, operational model definition, system implementation, training, and communication planning for these capability builds as well as support for post implementation and system administration activities.

Description of Role:

Project Manager / Business Analyst for R&D Capabilities will be responsible for managing and tracking all activities associated with the development and/or enhancement of new business capabilities including in the R&D space. This will include but not limited to business process definition, operational model definition, system implementation, training, and communication planning for these capability builds as well as support for post implementation and system administration activities.

Specific Projects / Required Experiences / Systems Experience Needed:
- Experience managing and implementing life sciences content management systems including:
- Statistical System Architecture and Support (DWise, Pinnacle21) – evaluate current environment, help support existing environment, review scalability plans, develop future architecture / support model, lead implementation of future solution (~70%)
- Electronic Trial Master File System – Veeva – evaluate current eTMF capability (~15%)
- Clinical Trial Transparency (CTT) – Xogene – lead implementation of CTT solution (Xogene) (~10%)
- Electronic Lab Notebook (eLN) – aid in develop of eLN roadmap (~5%)
- Experience partnering with business leads to evaluate and document business requirements and use cases
- Experience managing successful projects including project dashboard/status updates, stakeholder management, vendor management, timeline management, and tracking of key risks, issues, activities, and deliverables
- 4+ years working in a regulated pharmaceutical organization, CRO or FSP
- 10+ years as a project manager and business analyst
Job Type: Contract (854)

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Clinical Systems Manager
Overview:

Our client is an established yet emerging biotech/pharmaceutical company with a number of ground breaking therapeutic products in the pipeline. They are in the process building out a clinical application portfolio and need someone to drive this process from a technical and functional perspective. This role will include implementing a number of SaaS based clinical and regulatory systems. The right person for this role will have a broad background managing vendors, deliverables, and doing technical integration work for Clinical systems.

Responsibilities:
- Work with Clinical teams and vendors to implement and support stable and maintainable Clinical applications to solve real challenges throughout the production pipeline
- Work closely with users to understand and collect their requirements, and help facilitate solutions
- Work collaboratively as part of vibrant team
- Perform technical integrations between various clinical and regulatory systems
- Help improve the overall design and architecture of the suite of applications
- Some Clinical applications include (PleaseReview, Medidata EDC, Argus, Endpoint IRT, Veeva eTMF, and more).
- Some Regulatory applications include (Veeva RIM, EXTEDO, Rosetta, and more)
Job Type: Contract (852)

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Business Analyst (Manufacturing and Tech Ops)
Overview:

Our client, an emerging pre-commercial pharmaceutical company, is looking to engage a Senior Business Analyst to help lead a manufacturing plant build out. The employee will be helping selecting and implement a greenfield plant LIMS, eLN, MES, ERP and more! Experience leading in Manufacturing/GmP system implementations is a must! This is a contract position with a duration of six months.

Other Requirements:
- Experience planning and implementing LIMS, ERP, eLN and MES
- Experience partnering with manufacturing and quality stakeholders
- CSV and validation experience
- Requirements gathering for manufacturing processes and systems
Job Type: Contract (839)

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