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Our client, a large insurance company in the Boston area, are re-engineering many of their core products. They are looking to engage software engineers to build out the front end of their customer facing portal. This is a highly visible project within the organization. The engineer will be responsible for building new applications and features, while providing support with troubleshooting of issues reported, and working with the business to measure the impact and deliver the solutions in timely manner.

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Develop and test cross-browser and cross-platform web experiments using HTML, CSS and JavaScript and JQuery.
  
• Develop and modify UI screens using HTML and CSS.
  
• Work with CSS Layouts, positioning, selectors, pseudo classes and media queries.
  
• Improve the functionality of the Web Application using JavaScript and JQuery.
  
• Traverse and modify the browser DOM and Use JQuery events to manipulate the elements depend on the user interactions like ready(), hover(), bind(), click(), keypress() etc.
  
• Work within the Optimizely toolset to program and set-up experiments.
  
• Use Optimizely to perform AB testing, multipage testing and multi-variate testing on the website.
  

This position reports directly to the VP and is within the IT Operations & Enablement organization. The successful candidate will be an energetic and clear communicator who has deep experience in project management. Responsibilities will include medium to large sized project management from standing up a new project to execution and stabilization. This position is located in Boston, MA with up to 25% travel to business partner locations.

Duties and Responsibilities include: 

• Manage execution of complex cross functional projects from beginning to end including all phases – planning, requirements, design, testing and cutover.
  
• Collaborate directly with the business and functional teams to define project scope and all required deliverables, activities, activity sequence, Work Break-down Structure (WBS) and work estimates to create a framework for the project schedule
  
• Manage all aspects of the project including the plan, resources, dependencies, change management and budget utilizing internal project management tools
  
• Work with stakeholders to prioritize and determine the project's acceptance criteria/critical success factors and manage stakeholder expectations throughout the project
  
• Ensure project objectives are met within the constraints of project scope, time, cost and required quality
  
• Actively monitor project dependencies and risks
  
• Leads, motivates, manages and supports assigned team members to ensure adherence to process and procedures and to maximize contribution to effectiveness and efficiency
  
• Coordinate and communicate with project resources, internal team, stakeholders and vendors on all aspects of project progression/status
  
• Measure progress and monitor performance (overall, scope, schedule, costs, quality)
  
• Actively manage risks including issue escalation and resolution
  
• Present project status in front of senior and executive leadership
  
• Adhere to and following the organizational integrated Change Control Process
  
• Conduct post project implementation reviews to document lessons learned and provide to organization to update applicable methodology, tools, templates

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business or Information Technology, or equivalent
  
• Proven experience in management and/or delivery of IT projects across infrastructure, operations and business systems.
  
• 7+ years experience delivering projects and has experience managing budgets.
  
• Desired experience in Web, Sales, and Marketing related functions
  
• Proficiency in project management tools
  
• Experience in supporting multiple projects concurrently
  
• Excellent analytical skills and advanced user of Excel or similar tools, with the ability to drive structured problem solving and solutions across broad stakeholder groups.
  
• Experience working with infrastructure related projects is desirable

Our client in Boston is looking for a senior level SAP Project Manager to manage an upgrade from R3 4.7 to ECC 6.0.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Drive and direct the SAP Upgrade project and associated teams to delivery.
  
• Ensure project objectives are met within the constraints of project scope, time, cost and required quality.
  
• Work closely with Product Development and functional teams to define project scope and all required deliverables, activities, activity sequence, Work Break-down Structure (WBS) and work estimates to create a framework for the project schedule.
  
• End to end project planning including Schedule Development, Resource Planning, Cost Estimating, Budgeting utilizing all internal project management tools.
  
• Coordinating and communication with project resources including SAP, internal team, stakeholders and vendors on all aspects of project progression/status
  
• Measuring progress and monitoring performance (overall, scope, schedule, costs, quality)
  
• Proactively manage project stakeholder satisfaction to position and secure customer reference and success story. Coaching & Mentoring
  
• Risk Management including issue escalation and resolution.
  
• Adhering to and following the organizational integrated Change Control Process
  
• Post Project Implementation review to document lessons learnt.
  

Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree educated in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or Business.
  
• 6 years + experience in a SAP implementation or SAP Development or Upgrade related project management role, preferably in a fast paced delivery environment.
  
• Project Management Tools proficiency
  
• Proficient understanding of SAP solutions
  
• Experience in managing multiple projects concurrently
  
• Extensive hands-on experience in producing and maintaining project deliverables such as, project charter, project management plan, status reports, project timesheets, communications plan, budget and schedule.
  
• Exceptional communication skills with fluency in both verbal and written English.
  
• Experience working with Technical Teams
  
• Ability to work with and manage 3rd party vendors
  
• Adaptability and flexibility to manage deadline pressure, ambiguity and change.
  
• Ability to negotiate consensus amongst diverse groups and impact the activities of others not in own reporting structure.
  
• Conceptual analytical thinking and decision making skills.
  
• Strong interpersonal skills; the ability to work well with people from different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience; competence in clear concise and tactful communication with senior management, clients, peers and team members.
  
• Experience with leading SAP technical upgrades
  
• Experience in delivering in a multi-vendor environment
  
• Experience with on shore off shore delivery models
  
• Demonstrated experience in teambuilding and leading teams.
  
• Demonstrated experience in managing issues, scope and quality while bring projects to successful completion within the cost and time requirements.
  

• Analytical Skills with ability to truly understand the full scope and impact of the project requirements
  
• Experience with Project Managing using a highly iterative and/or agile methodology
  
• Project Management Certification.
  
• Customer service orientation with ability to manage relationships with internal customers
  
• Ability to drive consensus among various internal stakeholders, including executive management and third parties
  
• Risk and issue management to all levels in the organization.
  
• Extensive experience in project reporting including executive level briefing
  
• Excellent multi-tasking and organizational skills 
• High degree of business acumen

Our client is a growing biotech company located in the greater Boston area. They are about to kick off an implementation of Veeva CRM and are looking for a Senior Project Manager to oversee that.This PM will work closely with the implementation partner and internal stakeholders to manage the successful delivery of Veeva CRM.

Responsibilities/Experience:

• Coordinate and manage the communication with the implementation vendor and internal stakeholders.
  
• Manage work streams, resources, timelines, and deliverables. Identify bottlenecks.
  
• Work with the implementation partner to create project plans.
  
• Previous CRM experience is a must. Veeva is preferred, but will look at SalesForce experience as well.
  
• Previous life sciences experience is required.
  
• 7+ years of overall project management with a focus on systems implementations. PMP is a plus.
  

The Sr. Project Manager is responsible for the planning and execution of IT projects that includes any and all phases of the project life cycle while incorporating system development life cycle. The Project Manager is accountable for delivering projects on time, within budget, and with high quality. This position focuses on the implementation of projects within the area of Information Security and HR technology Solutions.

Principal Responsibilities

• Identify necessary management structures for projects, and secure the management involvement required.
  
• Oversee and control any external resources contracted to the project.
  
• Continually identify, prioritize and mitigate project risks.
  
• Drive proper project chartering and setup.
  
• Maintain strategic alignment of projects by analyzing charters and reviewing with management decision makers, typically out of a PMO.
  
• Responsible for managing and preparing the IT portfolio status report and dashboard for IT-Steering Committee
  
• Forecast internal resource capacity by tracking the progress of projects across the portfolio, typically out of a PMO.
  
• Perform team management, driving motivation, collaboration and performance.
  
• Manage project administrators or junior PMs as needed, typically out of a PMO in a larger organization.
  
• Provide an environment conducive to the mentoring, coaching and training apprentice PMs.
  
• Estimate project costs and manage the budget (includes related scope control).
  
• Define and drive "rightsized" project management processes (especially, supporting quality assurance).
  
• Track short-term project metrics (for example, schedule variances and customer satisfaction) to drive improvement.
  
• Review the project's medium-term benefits (for example, to support business-case process improvement).
  
• Facilitate the definition of the project scope, milestones, tasks, deliverables and resource requirements.
  
• Establish a communication strategy in partnership with business and IT sponsors and effectively communicate project related information to team members, IT management, and customers throughout the project life cycle.
  
• Develop and maintains project plans, status reports, risk and issue logs, budget/ongoing project forecast of resources and materials and other project related artifacts.
  
• Technical PM will work with the Engineers to take the technology from POC to pilot to production.
  
• Keeps user experience in the forefront of all users facing projects. Work with technical teams and business teams when developing technologies and communication plans to provide an optimal end user experience.
  
• Create strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning.
  
• Manage and negotiate project scope changes.
  
• Ensure that assigned projects are conducted in compliance with all department standards, policies, and guidelines.
  
• Efficiently identify and resolve project issues.
  
• Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project team members and other project managers.
  
• Escalate issues that require executive attention.
  
• Manage vendor contracts and drive deliverables to meet target dates.
  
• Ensure business inclusion throughout the management of the project schedule, project decision making, training, etc.
  

• Minimum 8-10 years’ experience in Business Transformation program and/or Project management area.
  
• Very good project management skills, with proven track record of leading broad, complex and/or strategic projects combined with the ability to execute at tactical project-level activities and tasks.
  
• Demonstrated experience with managing IT/Business projects in information security, access automation (experience with implementation of Sailpoint preferred)
  
• Demonstrated experience with HR processes, technology and experience implementing or migration HR related interfaces via API middleware
  
• Demonstrated experience managing projects in the biotech and/or pharmaceutical industry
  
• In-depth knowledge and experience defining project scope, team building, Business requirement and understand functional/technical specifications related to SAP, Finance, HR, Supply Chain Management or other business applications systems
  
• Strong knowledge and experience of Change management and regulatory compliance requirements including GxP, Computer Systems Validation, SOX, Security, Data Privacy ….
  
• Broad business acumen and understanding of software development processes, outsourcing and off-shoring.
  
• Proven experience working effectively in a matrix organization and ability to collaborate effectively across geographies
  
• Integrated process, people, quality and commitment-centric approach to getting work done.
  
• Ability to mentor and motivate many kinds of direct or indirect reports, teams and/ or project members
  
• Drive for high quality and ability to collaborate with other stakeholders to achieve high goals
  
• Ability to work with different cross-functional stakeholders to establish and ensure a reliable and productive working relationship
  
• Experience running a dynamic, growing organization in a fast-paced, challenging environment.
  
• Experience building relationships with executive leaders. Strong leadership and mentorship capabilities. Functional management experience in a corporate environment (includes hiring, management, assessment, correction as needed).
  
• Good written and oral communication skills including capacity to comfortably interface with senior leaders, including executive staff.
  
• Strong negotiation skills and ability to influence.
  
• Experience in hiring and management of project resources (internal and external)
  

• Bachelor’s degree Business management and/or Information Technology management
  
• Understanding and adherence to PMI’s or similar Project and portfolio Management methodologies
  
• PMP certification is a plus
  

Our client has continued to grow and add products to the portfolio, and the focus on promoting these products has been in the digital space, and the digital properties have begun to evolve at a rapid pace. Each product team has their own site and initiatives, and typically tight deadline that they are working to complete.

As the Web Systems Administrator, this individual will collaborate with the various functions as ideas are born in the various marketing groups, manage the development process ensure compliance through the MLR process and usher it through to a successful launch. They will be managing the entire portfolio and act as the subject matter expert and reduce agency costs when content and minor adjustments are made. Success in this role should result in a positive experience for our business partners with in the web development initiatives.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Establish a website standard that will support the marketing, corporate communication and internal websites system by developing a standard that leads to the selection, configuration, and deployment of a content management system and developing operational policies and procedures for ongoing support.
  
• Work with the business to understand initiatives, work with development agencies during the design and testing phases, and ensure proper testing, review and end user acceptance is obtained prior to deployment.
  
• Develop a cross functional governance structure that aligns goals and expectations.
  
• Working with Marketing Legal review (MLR) to ensure regulatory compliance, establish a repeatable workflow for submission.
  
• Upgrades Web system by conferring with vendors and services; developing, testing, evaluating, and installing enhancements and new software.
  
• Manage and maintain Marketo forms and supporting backend configuration to ensure enhancements maintain consistency with style sheets and functionality
  
• Manage and maintain Google Analytics, and Google Tag manager environment ensuring proper deployment and appropriate access is maintained with internal stakeholders as well as third party vendors
  
• Secures Web system by developing system access, monitoring, control, and evaluation; establishing and testing disaster recovery policies and procedures; completing back-ups; maintaining documentation. 

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience as a web system administration professional
  
• Impeccable communication skills in written presentations, internal communications and the leadership of cross-functional meetings
  
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build productive, collaborative relationships across a broad array of functional areas; strong team player
  
• Strong organizational skills related to managing multiple tasks/resources and meeting deadline 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Expertise in web platform administration best practices
  
• Multi-Tasking with several different product line initiatives
  
• Self-starting quick study who can help generate and "sell" creative ideas and new approaches
  
• Ability to assess audience needs and identify/coordinate team resources to solve real business problems
  
• Ability to work well and counsel senior management and across all levels of an organization
  
• Presents him / herself with polish and poise
  
• Expertise in video capture and collaboration tools
  
• Passion for researching and applying new communication practices and tools
  
• Experience working in the pharmaceutical industry

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Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design and develop back-end micro-services and REST APIs for web applications.
  
• Collaborate with various front-end and back-end development teams on user-facing features and services
  
• Work with platform & system architects on software and system optimizations & enhancements, helping to identify and remove potential performance bottlenecks.
  
• Focus on innovating new and better ways to create solutions that add value and amaze the end user, with a penchant for simple elegant design in every aspect from data structures to code to UI and systems architecture
  
• Stay up to date on relevant technologies, plug into user groups, and understand trends and opportunities that ensure we are using the best techniques, tools and practices.
  
• Work with other software leads on developing and improving software development methodologies and processes.
  
• Focus on design patterns, test driven development, enforce code quality and standards, and document APIs.
  
• Lead & guide the fellow developers on the team through technical skill development and knowledge sharing.
  
• Collaborate with Scrum Master, business and technical analysts, developers, QA, and other IT team members to understand business & technical requirements that drive the analysis, design, and creation of quality technical solutions.
  
• Align technical solutions with business and IT strategic visions while complying with the organization's architectural standards.
  

• Expert knowledge of Java and related tools such as Spring Boot, JMX, JUnit, J2EE -> JPA, JAXB, Spring MVC, Maven
  
• Strong knowledge in developing front-end web applications using React.js, Backbone.js & node.js.
  
• Hands on experience using and developing REST APIs using micro services architecture
  
• Working knowledge of distributed enterprise architecture.
  
• Strong understanding of git, bitbucket, jira, confluence, swagger (api documentation).
  
• Working knowledge of Relational (MS SQL Server, MySQL, Aurora) and NoSQL database systems (Mongo, Redis, Memcached)
  
• Working knowledge of Agile / Scrum methodology
  
• Learns fast in a fast-paced environment
  
• Ability to visualize, articulate, and solve problems to make informed decisions. Organize and analyze a solution as part of a whole and its individual components.
  
• Respond well to change; handle multiple demands / priorities effectively; adapt to best fit with situation at hand; handle conflict effectively; willing to accept new responsibilities; take initiative and be accountable.
  

• Experience with cloud computing APIs (Amazon Web Services preferred)
  
• Experience with cloud computing services (Amazon Web Services like Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, ECS, and RDS preferred)
  
• Knowledge of dynamic server coding environments such as Python
  
• Interest in emerging platform-as-a-service / distributed application frameworks such as ECS, Spring, ElasticBeanstalk and Docker
  
• Interest in Server-less Architecture
  
• Understanding of build tools such as Jenkins.
  
• Prior experience of Microsoft Stack of technologies.
  

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology/Systems, related field, or equivalent experience
  
• 5 + years of relevant experience around design and development of distributed enterprise applications
  
• Insurance industry experience a plus, but not required
  
• AWS Certification is a plus, but not require

• Responsible for improvements to current processes.
  
• Facilitating/gathering requirements for new features and functionality.
  
• Responsible for scheduling new jobs based on requests from the client or project team.
  
• Responsible for resolving issues that impact our clients.

• Review site statistics and produce monthly usage reports.
  
• Create dashboard and detailed reports on site usage.
  
• Refactor existing workflows to improve efficiency.
  
• Work with various departments to define and document requirements for new functions and monitors to validate functionality
  
• Mentor junior associates
  
• Participate in off hours support rotation
  
• Adding new workflows to the enterprise scheduler (Control M preferred)
  
• Work with vendors and clients to set up FTP workflows

• Proficient in a scripting language such as PERL, Python, or Bash
  
• Job scheduling; Control M use preferred.
  
• Systems monitoring tools; Nagios helpful.
  
• Excellent communication skills.
  
• Strong problem solving & analytical skills.
  
• Proficient in MS Office suite of tools (Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint) 

Preferred:

• Experience with open source systems monitor tools such as Nagios or Zabbix.
  
• Experience with Enterprise scheduling tools - Control M preferred.
  
• Experience with collaboration tools such as Confluence. 
• Experience with ticketing systems.
  

Our client is a software company located in the greater Boston area. Currently, they are looking for a Sr IT Project Manager that has a strong Salesforce background. This IT Project Manager should have a strong background managing Salesforce deployments and integrations for Sales and Service Cloud.

Responsibilities:

• Follow/enhance a repeatable framework for a project structure to account for all IT required tasks
  
• Develop detailed project plans for projects with clear identification of resources, dependencies, risks and milestones.
  
• Develop detailed cost estimates for the project. Develop change management procedures for the project and milestone signoff criteria.
  
• Drive integration project plans with clear metrics, operating mechanisms and regular updates to stakeholders.
  
• Identify and manage project risks; escalate as needed for resolution. Improve project management processes and increase efficiencies
  
• Manage relationships with cross-functional project partners/service providers
  
• Demonstrate flexibility to assist / manage projects in multiple competency areas (Finance, Marketing, etc.) 

Requirements: 

• 10+ years of overall IT project management experience
  
• 7+ years of Salesforce experience with a focus on Sales Cloud and Services Cloud, as well as a history managing large-scale integration projects
  
• Must have the ability to manage multiple systems integrators on-shore and off-shore
  
• Experience managing global Salesforce deployments is preferred
  

POSITION SUMMARY

Required Skills: 

• Minimum of 5 years of experience building Sharepoint sites
  
• Must have experience working with Metadata and tagging in Sharepoint. There is a big Knowledge Management component to this rebuild that is critical.
  
• Must be able to work independently and as a hands-on developer.
  
• Help to analyze and address any support requests, or issues, logged by our user community
  
• Act as liaison between the business and IT, to ensure users are kept informed and happy
  
• Document issues and resolutions, to share with internal customers

Job Description:

Required Skills:

• At least 5+ years of OBIEE experience building star schemas and writing SQL.
  
• Must be able to work independently and with little direction
  
• The right consultant will need to be able to interact with members of the business groups and key business stakeholders.
  

Job Type: Contract

This is with an organization outside of Boston who offer business platforms within the healthcare space.

• Experience designing and troubleshooting databases, Java applications, Weblogic services, and load balancers.
  
• Experience building sophisticated and highly automated infrastructure.
  
• Prior success in automating a real-world production environment.
  
• Experience with seamless/automated build scripts used for release management across all environments
  
• Strong cross-functional communication skills, with the ability to build trust and collaboration across functional silos
  
• Expertise in designing, troubleshooting, and scaling complex distributed systems.
  
• Experience with Ansible. Creating new, customizing exisisting Playbooks.
  
• Experience with compute, networking, and storage technologies, including direct experience with VMware-based environments.
  
• Experience with Linux and Windows operating system internals, administration, and networking.
  
• Experience developing playbooks, YAML, JSON.
  
• Understanding of agentless architecture.
  
• Makes logical and physical system architecture recommendations to avoid problems and increase system availability and stability.
  
• Maintains services in live customer environments including monitoring availability, performance, and system health.
  

Cultural (soft skills) 

• Ability to clearly communicate technical information within the organization and with customers.
  
• Scales processes and drives sustainability through automation, coaching and education.
  
• Hosts, documents, and encourages environment of blameless post-mortems in response to system incident resolution

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IT Project Manager-Oracle: 6 Month+ Contract

Our client is a software company located in the greater Boston area. Currently, they are looking for a Senior IT Project Manager to do an assessment of their existing Oracle environment and recommend to them whether they should upgrade on Oracle or move to an entirely new ERP solution. This IT Project Manager will work under their PMO and partner with Finance stakeholders to do a re-inventory of their Oracle environment. Once determined, the IT Project Manager will then manage the upgrade or re implementation.

• Follow/enhance a repeatable framework for a project structure to account for all IT required tasks
  
• Develop detailed project plans for projects with clear identification of resources, dependencies, risks and milestones.
  
• Develop detailed cost estimates for the project. Develop change management procedures for the project and milestone signoff criteria.
  
• Drive integration project plans with clear metrics, operating mechanisms and regular updates to stakeholders.
  
• Identify and manage project risks; escalate as needed for resolution. Improve project management processes and increase efficiencies
  
• Manage relationships with cross-functional project partners/service providers
  
• Demonstrate flexibility to assist / manage projects in multiple competency areas (Finance, Marketing, etc.)
  

Requirements:

• 10+ years of overall IT project management experience is required
  
• 7+ years of Oracle Financials experience with a history working on large-scale upgrade projects
  
• A deep finance background is preferred but not required
  

Our client is a great pharmaceutical company in Cambridge. We are looking for an Security Analyst to help build and strengthen their security/infrastructure capabilities.

Experience & Qualifications Required:

• Knowledge of the NIST CSF and CIS Top 20 Critical Controls
  
• Understanding of common security concepts such as least privilege and multi-factor authentication
  
• Experience tuning and monitoring SIEM products such as Splunk, LogRhythm, and AlienVault
  
• Experience managing web content filtering services such as WebSense and Cisco Umbrella
  
• Security certifications such as Security+, CISA, SANS GIAC Security Essentials, advanced certs such as CISSP are nice to have
  
• Experience hardening network, Microsoft server, or AWS configurations nice to have
  

Job type: Contract 

Our client is a great pharmaceutical company in Cambridge. They are looking for an IT Manager to help strategically manage and build their infrastructure capabilities. This is a combination of hands on work along with strategic planning for a growing IT environment.

• Needs to be an enthusiastic technologist capable of providing strategic direction and managing day to day operations (including managing the MSP).
  
• Role manages MSP (RoundTower Technologies), one Server Admin, 3 perm and 2 contract Help Desk resources.
  
• Needs to be personable and engaging - This is a business facing role and not just a back office IT Manager
  

• AlienVault USM Anywhere for SIEM services
  
• Cisco/Meraki switches & firewalls
  
• Inifindat (SAN)
  
• Mobile Iron
  
• Druva
  
• Linux OS Support & Mgt
  
• Microsoft Server patch mgt
  
• Cisco Prime mgt
  
• VM ESX Host support & mgt
  
• Mimecast
  
• Cisco Umbrella
  
• Landesk Mgt
  
• Ivanti
  
• Office 365 Mgt
  
• Zoom Rooms – Conferencing capability
  
• RoundTower is current MSP
  
• RFP out for Managed Security Service Provider
  

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Duties & Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and implement a corporate wide data strategy with Data governance.
  
• Develop reusable services via application integration and automate flow of data between disparate sources
  
• Conduct source system analysis, and data profiling for lifecycle management.
  
• Define requirements for data matching and merging rules, survivorship criteria and data stewardship
  
• workflows that can be deployed in the MDM tool.
  
• Collaborate with the Enterprise Architecture teams to develop and deliver MDM solutions.
  
• Lead, support and contribute to Data Integration/ETL architecture.
  
• Assist with data mappings, data modeling, data profiling, query design, data flow design, data strategy and data governance etc. between multiple databases across multiple platforms.
  
• Project management of key initiatives for our customer facing and revenue generating custom applications
  
• Participate in capacity planning, deployment, automation and performance management of key applications
  
• Participate in management and automation of server configuration and application deployment for our custom applications
  
• Create functional specifications (detailed design) for system and configuration changes due to application modifications
  
• Develops and maintains the comprehensive systems architectures, frameworks and application interface documentation
  
• Works with senior IA staff and management to develop and maintain company technical processes and standards
  
• Reviews and approves technical designs for conformance to standards and architectural requirements
  
• Provides consultation and assists project teams in formulating solutions
  
• Must be able to perform under tight timeframes and execute problem solving skills
  
• Identifies and understands the key drivers that impact the business
  
• Performs business and technical requirements analysis and review
  
• Proactively learns about and evaluates emerging technologies (reviewing technical journals, team sharing, mentors, vendors, peer groups, special training)
  
• Develops information processing strategies and plans that add value and/or competitive advantage to customer
  
• Executes risk assessment utilizing established methodologies
  
• Develops relevant, repeatable criteria for assessing future risks and problems
  
• Develops appropriate metrics to measure total system performance
  
• Applies an understanding of the key vulnerabilities related to data transfer between internal/external systems to maximize data security and integrity
  
• Ensure that software development meets the highest standards and follows best practices and approaches to application requirements, design, development, testing, and deployment.
  
• Follow and adhere to IA policy and procedure (including change management)
  
• Participates in numerous audit efforts (e.g., ISO, AABB, Financial Audits, etc.).
  

Basic Qualifications:

• 8+ years of progressively responsible, post-baccalaureate experience in Business Intelligence or Data Management, Enterprise Integration architecting and implementing enterprise data and analytic solutions
  
• 6+ years of experience participating in or leading Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence implementation teams, managing project scope, and providing technical leadership.
  
• 6+ years of experience with database design, from conceptualization to database optimization, using common cloud and on-prem platforms, such as AWS Redshift, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, BigQuery,SQL Server, Teradata, Oracle, etc.
  
• Deep experience or knowledge in foundational information management arenas, such as Master Data
  
• Management, Data Governance, Modern Data Architecture, and Data Integration
  
• Experience in Data Architecture/Modeling, ETL, Data Quality and MDM tools, Data Quality Services, and Master Data Services
  
• Experience in architecting and implementing emerging technologies/tools, such as AWS, Hadoop,
  
• TIBCO, Cloudera, and/or Hortonworks, to address predictive analytics and unstructured data use cases
  
• Experience in designing and implementing Next Generation Architecture solutions incorporating Big
  
• Data, NoSQL, Cloud-Based Analytics, and Real-Time Analytics
  
• Experience in working with large volumes of data from disparate data sources across complex business processes and functions.
  
• Energetic, self-motivated candidate with high productivity, creative problem solving skills, and the ability to multitask, prioritize, and manage multiple projects with competing deadlines.
  
• Highly-developed people skills with a focus on mentoring and providing strong leadership to team members along with specific supervisory experience.
  
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including ability to build and maintain positive working relationships with team members, internal customers, high-level staff and external vendors, strong customer service orientation, good writing skills, ability to communicate technical issues to non-technical audiences. 

Our client is building out a technology team to support the growth of their Manufacturing and Laboratory groups.

The Automation Engineer will serve a key role supporting the delivery and administration of the Site Process Control System and other shop floor control platforms. The individual will assist in configuration/customization of the system, maintaining necessary procedures, and provide system training to users. Activities will also include cross training of other digital manufacturing systems.

Job Responsibilities: 

• Install, configure and maintain Process Control Systems and the interfaces between the PCS and other Digital Manufacturing Systems.
  
• Supports the continual improvement of PCS and other shop floor control platforms
  
• Participate in validation activities in conjunction with IT, Validation and QA related to implementation and on-going support
  
• Configure/customize PCS and other shop floor control platforms to support change requests
  
• Conduct user-training sessions for staff members
  
• Assist in evaluation or product enhancements and capabilities, implementing upgrades as required
  
• Support initial and routine upgrade system risk assessment and testing activities. 

Qualifications & Experience Requirements:

• A Bachelor degree in science, technology or another relevant academic discipline.
  
• A minimum 2-5 years of experience implementing and maintaining cGMP Manufacturing Automation Systems.
  
• A working understanding of cGMP and manufacturing operations and practices.
  
• An understanding of computer systems validation practices (GAMP).
  
• Strong communication skills (verbal and written).
  
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and collaboratively on cross-functional teams.
  
• Knowledge of systems such as Allen Bradley PLC platforms, DeltaV, SCADA systems, PI Historian, iFix, Industrial Ethernet networks is preferred.
  
• Must have proven experience supporting applications in a GMP environment. Any experience with Veeva Vault, Quality Management Systems (Trackwise), and Document Management Systems (in a GMP environment) is a plus.
  
• This person must be comfortable working a fast-paced environment and juggling multiple projects at once.
  
• Experienced managing multiple vendors, writing IQ’s, gap protocols, and working closely with Lab, Quality, and Manufacturing teams.
  
• This role is a blended role where this person must be comfortable and capable of working closely with the business, leading projects and initiatives, and being the hands-on engineer driving implementations.