Due to a quick turnover on all my positions I have not been keeping up with my blog…

Over the past few months I have found that I am not getting the most out of posting information on my blog about the positions I’m trying to fill so I am going to hold off on updating for a while.

Core Java/Risk – Chicago, IL (perm)

Top tier proprietary electronic trading firm is seeking an exceptional Risk Developer to focus on supporting various facets of risk management.

We are looking for an individual with strong analytical and problem solving skills.  The risk developer will interact with the risk analyst, trading and development to proactively assess and manage risk exposure via reporting, monitoring and analysis.  The primary focus will be to create and maintain databases, reporting and analyses in support of these efforts.  The ability to draw conclusions from data and transform data, both at a detail and big picture level, into actionable information is a must.

To accomplish these goals, strong Java (or strong depth in a modern language), SQL (T-SQL ideally) and ASP.NET skills are a necessity in addition to a mathematical and/or risk background with 2-5 years of experience.  Previous risk experience and /or experience working with large data sets also required.

The successful candidate will have strong communication skills and demonstrated success working in a team environment by engaging in vigorous debate, treating fellow associates with respect, and the use of critical thinking skills.

Oracle HRMS – Oak Brook, IL (o contract to hire)

Job Title: Technical Analyst

Expected Start Date: 08/1/2010

Expected Duration (mo): 18, consultant with option to hire

Rate: Market, salary expectation $90-110K plus bonus

International travel required.

Position description: Provide technical expertise and leadership for the Oracle Core HRMS with Employee & Manager Self Service and iRecruitment.  Configure, implement and maintain complex environments. Key customers include I/S application development group, I/S Project Managers,  functional users and third party application service providers.

Application & Database Environment

• Provide on-going HR support for both production and multiple development environments, including iRecruitment, Core HR, Employee & Manager Self Service, application processes, future capacity planning, data integrations, and etc

• Provides governance for HR application environment standards (e.g., , backup/recovery standards, disaster recovery strategy, monitoring tools, etc.).

• Establishes application security standards. Implements security solutions across the HR application environment.

• Collaborates and consults with I/S business platforms to coordinate the development and deployment of  HR applications worldwide.

• Develop and implement backup/recovery strategy for HR application environments.  Perform recovery test sessions with vendors.

• Monitor performance of application environments.   Perform tuning of  HR applications when necessary.

• Create and maintain data integrations

Oracle 12 e-Business Application Support

• Function as HR Application System Administrator to provide daily support

• Migrate customized interface codes or configurations to various development environments

• Produce processes, reports, and other evidence to ensure compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley and other audit and compliance requirements

• Off hour support required.

Experience Required:

6+ years as a HR Oracle Technical Analyst

6+ years of implementing and supporting Oracle 11i E Business applications, Oracle 10g Application Server  and Oracle database

8+ year of technology experience

Experience Preferred:

Knowledge about Oracle iLearning, Performance Management, Compensation WorkBench a plus.

Converse in Chinese a plus

Required Technology Skills:

• Oracle 12 e-Business Suite

• Oracle Database

• Oracle Application Server (10gAS)

• Unix shell script

• SQL/PL SQL

Preferred Technology Skills:

• Delivers work and solutions on time, on budget and in a team environment that builds trust and respect.

• Good communications skills in build trusting partnership with technology team members and other technology resources which are needed to interface with to deliver solutions.

• Ability to work in a fast paced environment.

• Excellent negotiation and issue resolution skills.

• Ability to grasp technical concepts quickly, solid ability to translate technical verbiage into easily understandable language for the customer.

• Knowledge of IBM hardware platforms preferred.

• Development lifecycle and methodology understanding

• Change control discipline

• QA Testing Experience

• Relational Modeling Experience, Data Warehouse experience a plus

• Single Sign-on experience

Oracle Payroll – Oak Brook, IL (18 mo contract to hire)

Job Title: Technical Analyst

Expected Start Date: 08/1/2010

Expected Duration (mo): 18, consultant with option to hire

Rate: Market, salary expectation $90-110K plus bonus

International travel required.

Position Description: Provide technical expertise for the Payroll system.  Configure and support Payroll system.   Maintain multiple payroll environments.  Key customers include I/S application development group, I/S Project Managers, functional users and third party application service providers.

• Provide on-going payroll support for both production and multiple development environments.

• Provide governance for payroll environment standards (e.g., local extensions for legislative functionality, country reporting requirements, backup/recovery standards, disaster recovery strategy, monitoring tools, etc.).

• Manage payroll activities; configure & manage compensation policies & programs, understand, define & implement eligibility rules for compensation, monitor payroll processes end to end, reconcile issues or errors within the payroll system.

• Establishes application security standards. Implements security solutions across the payroll environment.

• Collaborates and consults with I/S business platforms to coordinate the development and deployment of payroll system specific to a country.

• Develop and implement backup/recovery strategy for payroll system.  Perform recovery test sessions with vendors.

• Monitor performance of payroll environments.   Perform tuning of payroll system when necessary.

• Create and maintain data integrations.

Oracle 12 e-Business Application Support

• Function as Payroll Application System Administrator to provide daily support

• Migrate customized interface codes to various development and production environments

• Provide performance tuning advice to hosting vendor and functional team.

• Produce processes, reports, and other evidence to ensure compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley and other audit and compliance requirements

• Off hour support required.

People/Relationship Management

• May coordinate the activities of other team members on a specific project assignment.

• Leverages relationships with vendors to implement and support payroll solutions.

• Builds and manages strong relationships with key customers and between teams within I/S, including managing expectations.

Experience Required (years & overall competencies):

6+ years as a Oracle Payroll specialist

6+ years of implementing and supporting Oracle 11i E Business applications, Oracle 10g Application Server  and Oracle database

8+ year of technology experience

Experience Preferred:

Knowledge about Oracle iLearning, iRecruitment, Performance Management, Compensation WorkBench a plus.

Converse in Chinese a plus

Required Technology Skills:

• Oracle 12 e-Business Suite

• Oracle Database

• Oracle Application Server (10gAS)

• Unix shell script

• SQL/PL SQL

• Oracle Core HRM

Preferred Technology Skills:

• Delivers work and solutions on time, on budget and in a team environment that builds trust and respect.

• Good communications skills in build trusting partnership with technology team members and other technology resources which are needed to interface with to deliver solutions.

• Ability to work in a fast paced environment.

• Excellent negotiation and issue resolution skills.

• Ability to grasp technical concepts quickly, solid ability to translate technical verbiage into easily understandable language for the customer.

• McDonald’s business experience preferred.

• Knowledge of IBM hardware platforms preferred.

• Development lifecycle and methodology understanding

• Change control discipline

• QA Testing Experience

• Relational Modeling Experience, Data Warehouse experience a plus

• Single Sign-on experience

• General knowledge of SQL Server, Access, VB, ASP, HTML & .NET.

• Experience in MS Office Suite – Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint,  and Visio

Oracle Aps DBA – Oak Brook, IL (18 month contract to hire)

Database Analyst

Expected Start Date: 08/1/2010

Expected Duration (mo): 18, consultant with option to hire

Rate: Market, salary expectations $90-110K plus bonus

Extensive International travel is required- to China.

Position description: provide technical expertise and leadership for the Oracle Environment database area.  Design, implement and maintain complex database environments and structures. Key customers include I/S application development group, I/S Project Managers, functional users and third party application service providers.

Database Environment

• Provide on-going database support for both Production and multiple development environments, including environment backup/recovery, monitoring, database availability, application processes, future capacity planning and etc

• Design and architect physical database environments. Ensures that the new/changed environment adheres to the enterprise-wide database global architecture.

• Plan, coordinate and implement multiple database related tools, including identifying the database version, the firewall ports, the hardware requirements and the support strategy needed

• Perform application and database clone as needed

• Recognizes when potential problems or conflicts exist between a database environment and the overall enterprise architecture. Escalates issues as needed.

• Manages externally-hosted databases and vendor relationship

• Uses performance metrics and tools to ensure adherence to negotiated service-level agreements.

• Provides input in the negotiation of service-level agreements (SLA’s) for database environments. Writes and/or documents SLA’s as needed.

• Provides governance for database environment standards (e.g., consistent object names, backup/recovery standards, disaster recovery strategy, monitoring tools, etc.).

• Establishes database security standards. Implements security solutions across the database environment.

• Collaborates and consults with I/S business platforms to coordinate the development and deployment of databases worldwide.

• Develop and implement backup/recovery strategy for all database environments.  Perform test recovery sessions.

• Monitor performance of database environments.   Perform tuning of databases when necessary.

• Create and maintain data integrations

Oracle 12 e-Business Application Support

• Function as Application System Administrator to provide daily support

• Migrate customized interface codes to various development environments

• Provide performance tuning advice to development team

• Produce processes, reports, and other evidence to ensure compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley and other audit and compliance requirements

• Apply Application patches as required by Functional team

People/Relationship Management

• May coordinate the activities of other team members on a specific project assignment.

• Leverages relationships with vendors to implement and support database solutions.

• Builds and manages strong relationships with key customers and between teams within I/S, including managing expectations.

Experience Required:

6+ years as a Oracle DBA/Application DBA

6+ years of implementing and supporting Oracle 11i E Business applications, Oracle 10g Application Server  and Oracle database

8+ year of technology experience

Experience Preferred:

Knowledge about Oracle iLearning, Performance Management, Compensation WorkBench a plus.

Converse in Chinese a plus

Required Technology Skills:

• Oracle 12 e-Business Suite

• Oracle Database

• Oracle Application Server (10gAS)

• Unix shell script

• SQL/PL SQL

Preferred Technology Skills:

• Delivers work and solutions on time, on budget and in a team environment that builds trust and respect.

• Good communications skills in build trusting partnership with technology team members and other technology resources which are needed to interface with to deliver solutions

C#/Pivotal – Parma, OH (direct hire/perm)

They are seeking a Programmer analyst seeking a long  term career opportunity with a solid company getting into new technology like business intelligence and CRM .

They are seeking a PA with excellent  C# and SQL Server skills ( 5 years experience) They are implementing the CRM system Pivotal which is built on a .NET framework with Information Builder’s IWAY as the middleware. Experience with Pivotal is a huge plus.   The candidate will be involved in package modifications , establishing business rules and will get experience in data movement , and aggregation.

Market Analytics – Chicago, IL (6+ month contract)

Description

The Senior Business Intelligence Analyst reports to the Business Intelligence Director and is responsible for the carrying out all activities associated with the measurement, analysis and reporting of Online businesses.

Core Responsibilities:

·         Lead all activities associated with the measurement, analysis and reporting of Online business

·         Manage utilization of web analytics tools and serve as point of contact to client service, technology, search and other internal teams

·         Serve as a team expert in database management and technical implementation of web analytics tools

·         Develop on-going, and ad-hoc, reports to track key site performance metrics; content usage, site traffic, and funnel optimization.

·         Analyze web site performance and trends to provide business insights as well as recommendations for changes

·         Utilize data-driven insights to make recommendations for performance optimization

·         Identify areas of improvement, drive implementation, and measure results.

·         Create a clear data strategy and development for analytical developments; deliver business insights and strategic implications.

·         Works on complex problems, analyzing and evaluating current business methods and procedures for improvement

·         Effectively present results and learning of strategic insights

Qualifications:

·         5+ years in a senior business intelligence role; specifically with web based analysis

·         2+ years experience working for an Internet company, consultancy or Internet division of a company

·         Must have experience working with website measurement and analysis tools, such as Google Analytics, Cognos, Omniture, Web Trends

·         Advanced Excel Skills

·         Data expertise  – knowledge of SQL queries,  MS Access, other DBs

·         Knowledge and experience with DART

·         Experience working with ComScore Media Metrix or Nielsen Netratings

·         Knowledge of statistical analysis and data mining tools such as SPSS or SAS

·         Must have strong attention to detail and the ability to work independently through obstacles

·         Ability to work in a highly matrixed environment required

·         Previous experience working in a highly competitive and dynamic environment required

·         Strong interpersonal, analytical, project management, and communications skills

·         Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks

·         Strong verbal and written communication skills, ability to articulate views crisply and convincingly

·         Able to proactively work toward a goal without significant structure or rules

·         Strong analytic skills and an inquisitive mind

·         Degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Management Science, or related field preferred

C# Developer – Chicago, IL (4 month contract)

Looking for a skilled, highly motivated freelance software engineer to join a small virtual team for a short term project.  Engineer must have extensive experience delivering web based, software solutions using ASP.NET.  Candidate must also have experience delivering & scaling public facing web sites and be able to tackle defined tasks and work in a collaborative environment.
Senior Resource Responsibilities / Requirements:

4-6 Years of C# experience
4-6 Years of ASP.NET experience
Experience managing and delivering an end-to-end website solution.
Extensive front end ( HTML & CSS ) experience
Experience with Unit Testing & Source Control with Subversion
jQuery experience
Very good communication skills, both written and verbal
Experience working within a Agile managed, story-based software project
Fluent in English
Familiarity with MVC as a pattern
Bonus Points for experience with:

ASP.NET MVC
.NET 3.x & LINQ
CSS & HTML skills
REST
ORMs
EIDTR or other Security Certification
Django and/or Rails

SQL DBA – Chicago, IL (perm/contract to hire)

Sr. Database Administrator

We are seeking a Database Administrator to join the technology team.  A successful candidate will be responsible for administering, building, maintaining, and optimizing databases.  This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated individual to join a growing organization.

Primary responsibilities

• Ongoing support and administration of existing production, staging, QA and development database environments

• Configure and tune database servers for best sustainable performance

• Review SQL code and implement all changes to the development and production databases

• Work with development teams to optimize SQL queries used in custom applications

• Provide database expertise to the software development teams

Skills required in areas:

• Expert Level Experience installing, configuring and maintaining PostgreSQL, ideally EnterpriseDB Advanced Server

• Thorough understanding of relational database/schema design, SQL queries and query optimization, and stored procedure development

• Strong skills in optimizing and tuning databases and queries

• Experience with replication and high availability technologies

Ideal Candidate Attributes

• Experience working with different database platforms (SQLServer, PostgreSQL, mySQL, etc.)

• Ability to manage multiple, simultaneous issues

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Development background a plus

• Experience in a financial markets environment a plus

Technical knowledge and Experience and Educational Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree or equivalent education and work experience is required

• 3+ years hands on DBA experience

• 1+ years of experience working with PostgreSQL

Database Development and Integration – Oak Brook, IL (open ended contract)

Primary Project: Hands-on technical resource responsible for development of Supply Chain tracking database.

Full time developer with experience using web facing tools to integrate different ERP databases into a single consolidated data set

Proven experience developing C# .NET applications via Visual Studio 2008 (advanced)

Experience integrating data from SAP and Oracle Database Systems into a clean customer facing solution.

Excellent problem solving & logic skills

Ability to analyze application code to understand what it is doing and make modifications

Must have good documentation skills (application design & code)

Understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC)

Must have good communication skills to talk with other developers to design and implement cohesive solutions

OS scripting experience utilizing (VBscript or Jscript & WMI & batch files)

Use of SVN for code repository

Development of applications that use XML data repositories

Understanding for Windows registry, how to manipulate and retrieve values

Secondary Project: Assisting in the integration & automation of Microsoft Windows 2008 Hyper-V virtualization into our restaurant environment.  This includes configuration, scripting and remote deployment of host hypervisor and creation & customization of guest virtual machines.

Understanding of hardware, operating systems, networking & application layers and how they all work together (Computer Science degree preferred)

Windows XP Tablet preferred

Development of networked applications (P2P, client server)

Develop and test remote installation capabilities

Develop test cases and handoff documentation

Provide level 4 pilot support

Create and localize guest virtual machines (Windows XP, SCO Unix)

Process mapping (basic)

Quality assurance processes

Hardware experience (diagnostics, configuration)

OS scripting experience (VBScript, WMI, batch files)

Basic networking skills (Ethernet understanding and associated standards) and associated devices (routers, hubs, etc)

Deployment capabilities (WinPE) (basic)

RDP & RemoteApp (basic)

Pxe (pixie boot) (basic)

Active directory

SCCM / SCOM

Wireless technologies & troubleshooting