•           Cognos 10 expertise

•           Manage User access

•           Build Framework manager models

•           Design and build cubes

•           Build reports

•           Help work with the business to get them up to speed in Cognos

•           Keep on top of the latest features of Cognos

Please contact Daniel Vitalo      dvitalo@theassurancegroup.com

Top senior level Software Engineer; responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

• Produce functional and design specifications.
• Understand the requirement specifications.
• Understand the architecture of the product and underlying operating system.
• Develop new product or new features in existing products in a robust and performance aware manner.
• Develop unit test plans, unit test cases and conduct the tests.
• Resolve and debug complex system problems.
• Maintain existing product releases.
• Follow rigorous Actuate software development process to achieve product development goals and time frames.
• Work with Product Manager, Customer Support, and other internal organizations to address product requirements and resolve customer issues.

Qualifications:

• MS in Computer Science from a top school, with GPA of 3.5 or above.
• 5 years of professional development experience in Java, JSP and AJAX.
• 2 years of experience in Cloud Computing applications
• Knowledge of Amazon S3, EC2, RDS, Route 53 and Auto Scaling
• Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
• Strong understanding of web services technologies such as HTTP, WSDL, XSD, and REST
• Experience building scalable infrastructure software or distributed systems
• Experience resolving software problems in a multithreaded, server-side environment.
• Strong ability to troubleshoot and analyze software problems.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Capable of working as an individual contributor as well as a team player.
• A self-starter, motivated to take ownership of projects and drive tasks to completion.
• Experience in an Agile/Scrum development model

For immediate consideration, please send resume in MSWord format to tbrandreth@theassurancegroup.com

US Citizens, Green Card Holders, or EAD will only be considered for the positions.

The analyst is responsible for the implementation of solutions in inventory management, procurement, and production planning solutions across companies and instances of SAP using FI/CO or SD/MM modules. Implementation includes business requirements gathering, design, development, testing, and rollout of solutions within SAP and the associated integration points to external business applications. The analyst is also responsible for day to day support of the operational system.

Position Responsibilities:

• Gather business and system requirements
• Convert requirements to business processes and application design using best practice methods and considering a shared business environment.
• Customize module of SAP.
• Develop functional specification for interfaces, data conversions, enhancements and reports
• Design ABAP programs to support custom business requirements in the functional areas supported.
• Develop test scenarios and conduct unit, string, and integration tests
• Conduct end user training
• Creating RFC Interfaces
• Advise and act on corrective actions to stay on defined project schedules
• Provide proactive support for business customers to a high degree of technical competency in
  accordance with the business requirements and standard working practices.
• Share knowledge and identify areas for, and contribute toward, improvement.
• Identify opportunities for business process re-engineering that will provide value to the company.
• Take full responsibility for all manual and automated testing methodologies of software implementations.
• Prioritize, plan and manage work within a shared services environment.
• IT Process development
• Industry solution and tool evaluation
• Project Management

Position Requirements:

• 5+ years’ experience with the SAP FI/CO or SD/MM modules; 5-7 years business experience; Two full SAP lifecycle implementations.
• SAP 4.6 or higher version experience
• Inventory Management and Purchasing SAP configuration
• IT project lifecycle methodology
• Project planning and tracking
• ABAP program debugging skills
• ABAP development in Reports, Interactive Reports, ALV, OO ALV, Module Pool, Function Modules/BAPI/RFC, SAP Script, Smart Forms, ABAP Objects, BAdi, BDC, User Exits, SProxy, IDocs, ABAP, Enhancement
• User-exists and customer enhancements.
• Knowledge of integration points with the other modules
• Basic data  GL Accounts/Cost Centers/Profit Centers/Customer Masters/Vendor Masters
• Order to Cash Process
• Purchase to Payables Process

• User-exits and customer enhancements
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience required.

Contact Daniel Vitalo    dvitalo@theassurancegroup.com

This role focuses on server-side Java development with an emphasis on service-oriented architecture on a primarily open-source stack. Specific experience building web-based applications that deal with real-time data is very helpful.

Required Qualifications (candidate must possess all of these)

• BS in Computer Science (or related 4-year degree).
• 5+ years commercial development experience.
• Advanced understanding of Java including recent hands-on experience.
• Experience with high-volume distributed application architectures.
• Effective communication skills with both technical and non-technical peers.
• Self-starter capable of working effectively with minimal supervision.
• Understanding of agile software development methodology.
• Creative problem-solving skills.
• Authorization to work in the United States.

For immediate consideration, please send resume in MSWord format to tbrandreth@theassurancegroup.com

US Citizens, Green Card Holders, or EAD will only be considered for the positions.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT, information systems or related area is preferred. However, candidates with work experience will also be considered.
• Minimum 3 – 5 years experience in a helpdesk environment.
• Must have hands on experience supporting Mac OSX, Windows XP, Windows 7, Adobe Suite, Microsoft Office, Active Director, Blackberry, iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
• Must have Apple Certification: Desktop Repair Technician (ACMT).

Summary of Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Provide support to the user community including identifying, researching and resolving technical problems. Respond to telephone calls, emails, and requests for technical support. Identify technical problems from user error
2. Assist in creating a high quality help desk; documenting all requests and actions taken
3. Install approved software releases, system upgrades, patch and resolve software related problems
4. Maintain, analyze, troubleshoot, and repair computer systems, repair or replace components in laptops, desktops, printers and other peripherals
5. Rely on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Must have the ability to recognize problem areas, define solutions, and implement those solutions in a timely manner
6. Investigate errors and problems; perform root cause analysis in an effort to provide permanent resolutions
7. Support and maintain user account information including rights, security and systems groups
8. Work with IT team to identify and implement plans for technology upgrades, deployments and retirements
9. document processes, procedures, and standards to be used by the user community
10. Manage, optimize and support the ongoing creation and deployment of Windows OS and Mac OS workstations
11. Build software deployment packages and maintain the current environment with proper patching while following change control processes
12. Perform other IS/IT functions as work flow permits

For immediate consideration, please send resume in MSWord format to tbrandreth@theassurancegroup.com

US Citizens, Green Card Holders, or EAD will only be considered for the positions.

Job Requirements :

· Excellent Communication, Analytical, and Development skills.

· Expertise with .NET 3.5/4.0, ASP.NET, VB.NET, AJAX, SQL, JavaScript

· 3-5 years experience with C#

· Experience with LINQ/Lambda Expressions, Extension Methods Inversion of Controls and Dependency Injection Covariance/Contravariance

· Demonstrated knowledge of Design patterns, Refactoring, and Unit Testing

· Experience with Nhibernate or another ORM in a large application.

· Experience with Razor View Engine a plus

· In depth experience of the .NET page life cycle.

· Demonstrated Experience working on large-scale, enterprise web applications supporting more than 50k users.

Education

· Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Math or related experience

· Masters or PhD a plus.

Essential Functions

· Participate in software design meetings and analyze user needs to determine technical requirements.

· Modify, repair, or expand existing programs to correct errors, increase efficiency, upgrade interfaces, or improve performance: aka re-factor

· Participate in Research and Development, Proof of Concepts and evaluations of new technologies in order to better solve the problems we face.

· Research and remain informed of new technology and development tools.

· Involved in and familiar with all phases of software development lifecycle

· Experience working in Agile project teams.

· Inform, Mentor and Train colleagues and partners

· Write and understand reason for code in addition to participating in code reviews

For immediate consideration, please send resume in MSWord format to tbrandreth@theassurancegroup.com

US Citizens, Green Card Holders, or EAD will only be considered for the positions.

• Experience with any Content Management System (Drupal, Joomla, WordPress, etc.)
• Experience with PHP, Flash, JavaScript, CSS, XSLT, XML, HTML, HTTP, XHTML, Perl
• Red Hat Linux, Apache, MS-Windows
• MySql
• Experience with Stored procedures and triggers a plus
• Web 2.0 standards
• Involvement with a combination of architecture, design and implementation
• Search engine optimization
• Understanding of web server management
• Experience integrating with Web Services

For immediate consideration, please send resume in MSWord format to tbrandreth@theassurancegroup.com

US Citizens, Green Card Holders, or EAD will only be considered for the positions.

US Citizens, Green Card Holders, or EAD will only be considered for the positions.

Duties & Responsibilities:

The Basis Administrator will be presented with an opportunity to perform BASIS functions and responsibilities that include but are not limited to the following:

• Application support: CCMS, System & client copy, transport management, spool and job administration. The ability to maintain and improve administrative activities for all SAP servers with JAVA and ABAP stacks. Troubleshooting server and client workstations issues when they arise.
• Performance Monitoring and Tuning: Using workload analysis to fine-tune the systems for performance across the various layers: application, database and functional support. Basis knowledge of BW object hierarchy and ETL layer. Work closely with BW team to troubleshoot ETL or query performance issues.
• Assist with planning, designing, managing and implementing SAP within a defined landscape. Ability to install new SAP application and maintain application patch level by applying SAP Notes and service packs to JAVA and ABAP stacks.
• Adhere to the current BASIS policies and best practices with process development and documentation.
• Support SAP BPC Netweaver Edition, SAP ECC and Business Warehouse/Intelligence

Operational and Reporting solutions for multiple business units.

• System testing (includes integration testing and user acceptance testing)
  • Experience in working with a diverse and integrated team consisting of application developers, technical business users and business analysts are required.
  • Responsible for immediate SAP production issues.
  • Responsible for knowledge transfer and technical implementation of SAP ECC, BW and SAP BPC.

Skills & Educational Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Information Technology, Engineering or related area.
• 5 to 8 years of BASIS Administration
  • The ideal candidate will have participated in at least three full implementations of SAP Netweaver 7 or later.
  • Exposure to other facets of SAP, such as EEC/BW Security, Solution Manager 4.0 / 7.0, SAP BPC 7.5 / 10.0 and Unicode conversion experience a plus.
  • Experience as a MS SQL 2000/2005 Database Administrator.
  • Implementation and Administration experience with Java Stack and SAP Portal.
  • Working knowledge of Windows 2000 – 2003 (All Editions/Versions).
    • Experience with designing and implementing SAP Disaster Recovery solutions (high availability); and with SAN technology.

Send resumes to Daniel Vitalo                  dvitalo@theassurancegroup.com

US Citizens, Green Card Holders, or EAD will only be considered for the positions.

Duties and Responsibilities:                                   

• Design and develop data extracts from SAP and non-SAP systems
• Data modeling of Operational Data Store and Info cube structures
• Develop back-end design, construction and unit testing of the Info Cubes, Multi Cubes, and Info Packages and all back-end components (e.g. ODS, Transactional Info Sources/Data sources, Master Data, Info Objects, Transfer Rules, User Exits, Update Rules) as specified by end user requirements for reporting solutions
• Design and develop BI queries, BI and BPC reports and BPC DTPs & templates
• Comprehensive front-end BEx reporting (query, workbook design, and BI broadcast
• Analyze, design, develop, implement, and support SAP BPC Netweaver Edition, SAP ECC and Business Warehouse/Intelligence Operational and Reporting solutions for multiple business units using SAP BPC, SAP ECC, and SAP BW/BI database designs, data modeling, relational databases, OLAP, SQL and visual development environments.
• Responsible for immediate SAP production issues
• Ability to work with a diverse and integrated team consisting of application developers, technical business users and business analysts
• Work with business owners to define and analyze reporting and analytic requirement.
• Responsible for knowledge transfer and technical implementation of SAP BW and SAP BPC

Skills & Educational Requirements:

• Bachelors Degree in Information Systems or equivalent is required (Technical degree preferred)
• 5  to 7 years of relevant experience required including 4 to 6 years of SAP BW programming, design  and data modeling experience in 7.x and 2 to 3 years of SAP BPC (Netweaver Edition 7.0 or higher) application & template design, reporting and data transfer & transformation processing experience.

• Experience in designing BPC application, dimensions, properties and maintenance with SAP BPC on Netweaver platform.
• Experience in BPC application logic and data load packages.
• Experience in designing and maintenance of BW objects – Datasource, Info source, DSO and Cube design and DTPs.
• Experience in ABAP – understanding BADI’s in BPC and routines in BW/BI.
• Knowledge of BPC EvDRE toolset capabilities and reporting templates.
• Basic VBA experience is a plus.
• Experience in Financial Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting process.

• Knowledge of the SAP R/3 FI/CO modules is preferred

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills required
• Must be comfortable client interfacing

Send resumes to Daniel Vitalo                  dvitalo@theassurancegroup.com

US Citizens, Green Card Holders, or EAD will only be considered for the positions.

Description

The CRM/E-Commerce Administrator role is to supervise and maintain the installation, configuration, and support of the Sage customer relationship management (CRM) software through best practices and management of a technical team. This person will analyze and resolve Sage CRM program issues in a timely and accurate fashion as well as hold responsibility for monitoring data quality. The CRM/E-Commerce Administrator will also provide support to the E-Commerce website assist the user group on issues related to the design, development, and deployment of that is critical to the e-business operations.

Responsibilities:

• Providing help-desk support for all system users,
• Maintaining control of access rights, security setting and user privileges
• Provisioning all new users, providing system training and customization Providing a central point of contact for all change requests and system alterations
• Managing company data entered by CRM users
• Ensuring data is accurate across Projects, Companies, Contacts, Opportunities, etc.
• Identifying and correcting errors made by system users
• Ensuring all data fields are populated correctly at all times
• Inputting data and helping to edit/maintain integrity of data
• Helping to build custom reports and dashboards specific to different job functions/needs
• Importing and exporting data as required to synchronize back-end systems

Job Requirements:

• University degree or college diploma in business, communications or information technology
• Minimum of 2 years experience in CRM/Database Administration (SQLBase)
• Exceptional knowledge of marketing and sales processes and workflows
• Strong project management, data management, and training & support skills
• Ability to develop strong relationships and work with senior level executives
• Exception written and verbal communication skills
• Solid business acumen, management, and problem-solving skills
• Strong computer and communication skills
• Effective time management, organization, and leadership skills
• Experience with the Sage CRM system is preferred
• Experience with SAP is a plus