My downtown client, a cutting- edge web technology company that has recently gone public, is looking for a Senior Interface Design and Graphics Developer to join their team on a full- time basis. The UI Developer will be involved in the complete product development lifecycle of web interfaces, including participation in requirements gathering, application design, developing code, testing, deployment and maintenance.
Experience: Candidates MUST HAVE extensive web-based development experience in JavaScript, DHTML, CSS, XML, and Macromedia Flash. The successful UI Developer should also have an eye for interface design and a strong sense of innovation and ownership. Experience with Ajax and .NET development a plus, but not required. They must also be able to work well with stakeholders on the business side to ensure solutions meet their needs.

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Microsoft CRM Senior Development Consultant

OPPORTUNITY:
Under its core purpose of "Building Value with Values," Crowe Chizek and Company LLC (www.crowechizek.com) provides innovative business solutions in the areas of assurance, benefit plan services, financial advisory, forensic services, performance services, risk consulting and tax consulting. Crowe Chizek, a Crowe Group LLP entity, was founded in 1942. One of the top 10 public accounting and consulting firms in the United States, Crowe also serves clients worldwide as a leading independent member of the Horwath International global professional services organization.

The world leaders in technology products and process systems recognize Crowe Chizek as a leading consulting firm in helping clients develop and implement technology solutions to solve business issues. Our technology consulting practice has been helping clients maximize their technology investments by enhancing legacy systems and implementing new Web and network applications and processes that build shareholder value, improve performance and create competitive advantage. We provide services in areas such as industry specific applications, system integration and business processes. We also help clients select or develop systems or processes and assist them in the implementation. There is a tremendous opportunity to learn just in terms of Croweâ??s growth and stability, have challenging client work, and work with a high quality team.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Crowe Chizek is looking for a MS CRM Senior Application Consultant for the Performance Group in our Indianapolis, IN or Oak Brook, IL office. The position requirements include CRM installation, configuration, requirements gathering, business analysis, training and technical development/programming.

QUALIFICATIONS:
The following skills are required:
â?¢ Microsoft .NET development (especially C#, ASP.NET, and VB.NET)
â?¢ Javascript
â?¢ Basic adminsitration of Microsoft Windows 2003 Server
â?¢ Basic project management skills
â?¢ Basic business anlysis skills
â?¢ Excellent communication (oral and written)
â?¢ Microsoft SQL Server Development and Adminsitration

The following skills are highly desired, but not required:
â?¢ Microsoft Dynamics CRM adminstration, implementation, customization, or usage
â?¢ Other CRM application experience
â?¢ SharePoint technical experience
â?¢ SQL Integratoin Services and/or BizTalk Server development experience
â?¢ SQL Reporting Services report development
â?¢ SQL Analytical Services development
â?¢ Custom application requirements definition and design
â?¢ Experience with company Sales, Marketing, and/or Customer Service processes

* THIS POSITION REQUIRES TRAVEL.

EOE
M/F/D/V

The Managed Meta Data Environment (MME) Architect has responsibility for assessing requirements and defining the strategy, technical architecture, implementation plan, and delivery of enterprise meta data environment solution. The MME will capture both business and technical meta data to support management and utilization of operational and decision support systems at the enterprise level of major organizations.



The MME Architect must have prior experience leading successful meta data repository implementations as well as a broad background and experience with IT application development. This individual is responsible for establishing the long-term strategy and technical architecture as well as the short-term scope for a multi-phased MME effort. This person must have strong professional consulting skills and the ability to communicate well at all levels of the organization.



. Find/generate executive level support for the enterprise MME initiative

. Define key business drivers for the enterprise MME initiative

. Deliver a project scope that directly supports the key business drivers

. Define technical requirements and architecture for the MME

. Determine MME extensions, tailoring, and customization requirements

. Recommend/select MME tool(s)

. Direct capture and integration of meta data into the MME

. Direct meta data access and information delivery

. Define security requirements for the MME

. Define meta data standards for the MME


Experience: -MUST HAVE 4+ Years of Rochade experience

-Must have prior experience leading successful meta data repository implementations as well as a broad background and experience with IT application development.

-Must have strong professional consulting skills and the ability to communicate well at all levels of the organization.

-Required Experience:

. Experience in leading successful enterprise MME efforts

. Technical familiarity with enterprise meta data repository tool(s)

. Strong data/meta data modeling skills

. Strong business and communication skills

. Broad based information technology experience

. Strong professional consulting skills

. Current knowledge of the meta data market; vendors, and standards bodies

. Understanding of various BI tools

. Strong understanding of ETL tools

. Strong understanding of API protocols, ODBC and/or JDBC,

. Relational Database Experience is a MUST.

. Strong analytical and problem solving skills.

. Strong comprehension and communication skills.

. Strong technical skills.

. Expert meeting and project facilitation skills.

. Capacity to develop a clear understanding of the business needs and incorporate these needs into technical solutions

Education:

. Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university required or equivalent work experience

. BS/MS in Engineering, IT, or Computer Science preferred



This is at least a 1 year contract.



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Microsoft CRM Development Manager

OPPORTUNITY:
Under its core purpose of "Building Value with Values," Crowe Chizek and Company LLC (www.crowechizek.com) provides innovative business solutions in the areas of assurance, benefit plan services, financial advisory, forensic services, performance services, risk consulting and tax consulting. Crowe Chizek, a Crowe Group LLP entity, was founded in 1942. One of the top 10 public accounting and consulting firms in the United States, Crowe also serves clients worldwide as a leading independent member of the Horwath International global professional services organization.

The world leaders in technology products and process systems recognize Crowe Chizek as a leading consulting firm in helping clients develop and implement technology solutions to solve business issues. Our technology consulting practice has been helping clients maximize their technology investments by enhancing legacy systems and implementing new Web and network applications and processes that build shareholder value, improve performance and create competitive advantage. We provide services in areas such as industry specific applications, system integration and business processes. We also help clients select or develop systems or processes and assist them in the implementation. There is a tremendous opportunity to learn just in terms of Croweâ??s growth and stability, have challenging client work, and work with a high quality team.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Crowe Chizek is looking for a MS CRM application consultant at the Manager level for the Performance Group in our Indianapolis, IN or Oak Brook, IL office. The position requirements include CRM project management, requirements definition and design, general business process consulting, business analysis, installation, configuration, requirements gathering, training and technical development/programming.

QUALIFICATIONS:
The following skills are required:
â?¢ CRM application usage / consulting expereince
â?¢ Strong process improvmenet / consulting experience
â?¢ Microsoft .NET development (especially C#, ASP.NET, and VB.NET)
â?¢ Javascript
â?¢ Basic adminsitration of Microsoft Windows 2003 Server
â?¢ Basic project management skills
â?¢ Basic business anlysis skills
â?¢ Excellent communication (oral and written)
â?¢ Microsoft SQL Server Development and Adminsitration

The following skills are highly desired, but not required:
â?¢ SharePoint technical experience
â?¢ SQL Integratoin Services and/or BizTalk Server development experience
â?¢ SQL Reporting Services report development
â?¢ SQL Analytical Services development
â?¢ Custom application requirements definition and design
â?¢ Experience with company Sales, Marketing, and/or Customer Service processes

* THIS POSITION REQUIRES TRAVEL.

EOE
M/F/D/V

We are currently seeking to fill a Sr. Developer position for our client in Chicago, IL. We invite you to review the position requirements below and apply today if your skills match our need.



Qualifications:

1. Programming:

- Well versed in object-oriented fundamentals.

- Experience in developing applications using C and C++ on Windows as well as UNIX.

- Experience in developing application using C# (.NET)

2. UNIX:

- Programmer with extensive skills and understanding of UNIX internals, with emphasis on AIX and Sun Solaris.

- Should be comfortable with Makefiles, compiling C/C++ programs using various compiler ex: CC, GCC.

- Should be comfortable in writing shell scripts (C, Bourne, Kron scripts)

3. Other:

- Significant SQL query experience

- Practical Experience with Unit/ Regression Testing

- Good communication and writing skills.



In addition to great career opportunities, Harvey Nash is proud to offer its valued contract professionals a number of benefits including health insurance and 401(k) matching. Apply now if your skills and experience are a good match for the position and remember this: At Harvey Nash, the door to opportunity is always wide open.

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Our client, a leading provider of navigational technology is growing and expanding as they acquire competitors and expand their reach. This expansion necessitates a Customer Marketing Manager responsible for strategic and tactical marketing activities focused on customer renewal programs for both business-to-business and consumer clients of navigational aid data. Product marketing activities center on relationships with automotive dealers and consumers. The focus is on increasing end-consumer adoption of technology updates and upgrades for digital map devices.

The Customer Marketing Manager will lead a team of three customer marketing specialists in yielding customer growth and repeat business based on advances in map technology and ever-changing maps. A history of working directly with customers (sales), excellent presentation skills and spreadsheet data management are essential. This Customer Marketing Manager spearheads initiatives targeted at increasing the adoption of map updates for online portals and global positioning navigational systems.
Experience: The ideal candidate has an understanding of the automotive industry and a background in technology: software or database marketing, with experience dealing with OEM customers’ requirements. 5+ years in business-to-business product marketing plus frequent consumer-facing history is required. A background in identifying and resolving big picture infrastructural and internal issues (spanning departments from legal to accounting to finance and communications) is desirable. This Customer Marketing Manager spearheads map marketing initiatives globally and brings to the table product management, technology prowess, database or software-related and even a technology sales background. Bachelor's degree required, MBA preferred. Teamwork, teamwork, and then some creative sales abilities also helpful.

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RIVERPOINT is looking for a Java Developer that can work independently doing Java J2EE development with a Sybase backend. Does not have to be a Sybase expert, but some experience with Sybase would be good. Experience with in Sybase and Oracle stored procedures is ideal.

Duration: 6-12 months

Location: downtown Chicago

Excellent communication required

Please forward resume to rmaresco@.

Experience: Java, Oracle, Sybase, Stored Procedures

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We are currently seeking to fill a Systems Designer position for our client in Chicago, IL. We invite you to review the position requirements below and apply today if your skills match our need.



Responsibilities:

- Analyze, design, and develop new website functionality according to business specifications and technical design. Will work closely with business users and project leads to better understand and refine requirements.

- Keep abreast of current and emerging technologies in the area of web development and user experiences.

- Make recommendations for management consideration of emerging technologies and may be asked to prototype those recommendations.

- Will be responsible for defining and documenting technical design of requirements and communicating that design to business owners and developers. Will also participate in user interface design sessions.

- Develop estimates for completion of development tasks and communicates and/or documents those estimates for both the business community as well as other team members.

- Prepare and execute unit test scripts.

- Analyze, document and present test results.

- Responsible for ensuring that developed code meets functional requirements prior to meeting with, or presenting to, business users.



Required Qualifications:

- A minimum of 7 years of applications programming and analysis experience

- A minimum of 4 years experience working in a J2EE development environment

- Strong Experience in the following technologies: BEA Weblogic, Hibernate, Struts Framework, HTML/DHTML/Javascript, XML/XML Parsing, Ant scripting, Structured Query Language (SQL), Eclipse IDE, JUnit, Spring Framework, Ajax

- Strong analytical, problem solving, and communication skills

- Familiarity with HPUX, Shell Scripting, CruiseControl is a plus



Apply now if your skills and experience are a good match for the position and remember this: At Harvey Nash, the door to opportunity is always wide open.

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This individual is responsible for developing and implementing extensions to the base meta model in the meta data repository, and developing and maintaining the data model for the meta data mart. The individual in this role should have a thorough understanding of multidimentional and third-normal form modeling as well as experience with repository meta models.



This individual will modify and maintain data model for meta data produce, including any data marts against meta data model.
Experience: Must know meta data.

Backend technology does not matter.

Rochade is a plus.



This is a contract to hire position after 3 to 4 months.

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Ajilon Consulting has been a premier provider of information technology (IT) business solutions since 1969. With over 50 offices in North America and 10,000 employees worldwide, Ajilon Consulting is a company full of opportunities and exciting new challenges.



*We are currently for a highly experienced PROJECT MANAGER/ program manager to control and keep track of projects which span many different teams throughout the project lifecycle.

*From Scope/Requirements gathering to UAT and production, there we need to have a holistic approach to program management which will follow the project from initial prioritization to delivery.

*To this end a program manager to lead and build a small team of approximately 3 to keep all projects within client's transparent, and on schedule.




Experience: 1. Minimum of 5 - 7 years experience with expertise in managing all phases of systems development from concept through implementation and maintenance.

2. Overall responsibility for structuring a project, performing the detailed planning, and managing project execution and completion of moderate or large projects.

3. Defines the phase deliverables, tracks milestones and incurred expenses versus planned expenses, schedules roles and resources, evaluates risks and recommends contingency plans.

4. Manages the development of the technical strategy. Assigns resources and tasks, and manages quality assurance, resolution of issues, status reviews and reporting, development of standards, change control, customer support, and compliance with all policies and procedures.

5. Able to facilitate workshops such as JAD, RAD and DRP sessions.

6. Excellent communication skills

7. Excellent planning skills with ability to work with groups build comprehensive plans.

8. Ability to influence project teams for schedules, priority and scope

9. Good grasp of investment management process

10. Good grasp of operational aspects of investment management process

11. Detail oriented

12. Ability to lead a team of project managers

13. Excellent follow through

14. Proven project/program management skills.

15.Excellent grasp of development process

16. Good estimation skills for development and operational tasks.





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Job Description:
- Candidate will do phone follow up with customers, data entry and reconciliation of information.
- Able to hit the ground running and begin to add value in days
- Able to quickly come up to speed on business concepts.
Experience: Skills Required: - ASP.NET, and VB.NET, VB - Developing in .NET technologies - SQL Server experience - Stored Procedure development experience - Consulting experience - Architecture experience - OOAD - ADO.NET - ClearCase - ClearQuest

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Our client, located in the north suburbs of Chicago currently seeks a Citrix Server Engineer for a 6 month+ project engagement.

Must have at least one year of Citrix Presentation 3 & 4

Required skills:

2+ years of the following: Windows 2000/2003 Server, Citrix Presentation Server 3 &4, SQL, Batch Scripting, VB scripting


Description:

Will be responsible for the architecture implementation and management lifecycle of Citrix and Terminal Server deployed applications as well as the Citrix and Terminal Server infrastructure designed for the Microsoft Windows operating system in a multi-user environment.

Will complete documentation for quality, standard operating procedures, standards, disaster recovery, work instructions and proposals. Tasks will include management of existing application infrastructure; application usage and other reporting metrics; application server consolidation and growth management; resource forecasting; cost analysis and quoting. Other technical tasks will include management of hardware and software load balanced application designs, new application provisioning, and management of the unattended installation scripts for server side applications.

Tasks will include:

Deployment of Citrix and Terminal Server deployed applications
Design, management and monitoring of thin client infrastructure
Performance monitoring and analysis of Windows based servers
Hardware selection, design and disk RAID configuration to achieve the appropriate system performance and I/O
Application implementation over large volume, well connected networks to highly latent, small bandwidth WAN connections

Engineers are required to have solid knowledge in application layer services like SMB, RPC, ICA, RDP CIFS and the TCP/IP protocol.


REPLY TO: mcgstb @ netscape .n e t


(INCLUDE SALARY HISTORY FOR CONSIDERATION)
(PLEASE INCLUDE JOB TITLE IN SUBJECT HEADING)
(WE ARE UNABLE TO SPONSER OR TRANSFER H1B-VISA'S)


Location: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Compensation: BASED UPON QUALIFICATIONS

Experience: REPLY TO: mcgstb @ netscape .n e t

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We have several clients in the Chicago Downtown area that are looking for desktop publishing help! Our clients need desktop publishers who have experience as document specialists for high volume companies. Must have experience formatting documents, creating power point presentations and meeting deadlines.<br/><br/>All applicants applying for U.S. job openings must be authorized to work in the United States. All applicants applying for Canadian job openings must be authorized to work in Canada.
Experience: Must be an expert in Power Point and Word. Must know Quark, Illustrator and Photoshop. Must have at least 2+ years preparing and producing documents. Must have experience working in a corporate setting.

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RIVERPOINT is looking for a Java Developer that can work independently doing Java J2EE development with a Sybase backend. Does not have to be a Sybase expert, but some experience with Sybase would be good. Experience with in Sybase and Oracle stored procedures is ideal.

Duration: 6-12 months

Location: downtown Chicago

Excellent communication required

Please forward resume to rmaresco@.

Experience: Java, Oracle, Sybase, Stored Procedures

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We are currently seeking to fill a Network Specialist position for our client in Chicago, IL. We invite you to review the position requirements below and apply today if your skills match our need.



Responsibilities:

- Install, configure, maintain and support the LAN/WAN internetworking environment to ensure it provides the defined functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability requirements

- Perform routine patching and upgrades to the LAN/WAN internetworking environment

- Perform production support and optimization activities working closely with developers and the business users which includes proactive monitoring, problem triage and resolution, and root cause analysis

- Proactively research and locate the necessary tools and processes to identify troublesome trends as they develop

- Perform non-production support to project teams

- Develop and update handbook documentation to ensure that all procedures are documented and repeatable

- Develop and update detailed design and configuration documents

- Participate in the execution of performance, high-availability, and disaster recovery testing

- Continuously strive to improve the environment by identifying opportunities and recommend solutions for improving service efficiency and effectiveness. Participate in IT initiatives to address service issues; keep abreast of technical aspects of the web computing environment and have a working knowledge of department specific applications

- Provide recommendations for continuous improvement

- Develop strong cross-team relationships with business and technical teams



Required Qualifications:

- Minimum of 3 years of experience administering and supporting LAN/WAN internetworking environments based on Cisco technologies

- Thorough understanding of OSPF, IGRP, EIGRP, and BGP protocols and experience with Frame Relay & MPLS as well as dealing with multiple ISPs and carriers. Experience configuring and troubleshooting with Cisco family products (Cisco routers, Catalyst switches, VPN Concentrators, PIX and LocalDirector)

- BS in Computer Science or related field required

- Highly motivated self-starter with excellent organization skills and a passion for working with technology. Must be able to work unsupervised.

- Strong understanding of operational processes and strong analytical and problem ownership/resolution skills

- Sound writing skills

- Work flexible schedule to meet support and project demands



Apply now if your skills and experience are a good match for the position and remember this: At Harvey Nash, the door to opportunity is always wide open.

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This individual is responsible for developing and implementing extensions to the base meta model in the meta data repository, and developing and maintaining the data model for the meta data mart. The individual in this role should have a thorough understanding of multidimentional and third-normal form modeling as well as experience with repository meta models.



This individual will modify and maintain data model for meta data produce, including any data marts against meta data model.
Experience: Must know meta data.

Backend technology does not matter.

Rochade is a plus.



This is a contract to hire position after 3 to 4 months.

To Apply to this job go to http://www.GadBall.com or click here

Our client, located in the north suburbs of Chicago currently seeks a Citrix Server Engineer for a 6 month+ project engagement.

Must have at least one year of Citrix Presentation 3 & 4

Required skills:

2+ years of the following: Windows 2000/2003 Server, Citrix Presentation Server 3 &4, SQL, Batch Scripting, VB scripting


Description:

Will be responsible for the architecture implementation and management lifecycle of Citrix and Terminal Server deployed applications as well as the Citrix and Terminal Server infrastructure designed for the Microsoft Windows operating system in a multi-user environment.

Will complete documentation for quality, standard operating procedures, standards, disaster recovery, work instructions and proposals. Tasks will include management of existing application infrastructure; application usage and other reporting metrics; application server consolidation and growth management; resource forecasting; cost analysis and quoting. Other technical tasks will include management of hardware and software load balanced application designs, new application provisioning, and management of the unattended installation scripts for server side applications.

Tasks will include:

Deployment of Citrix and Terminal Server deployed applications
Design, management and monitoring of thin client infrastructure
Performance monitoring and analysis of Windows based servers
Hardware selection, design and disk RAID configuration to achieve the appropriate system performance and I/O
Application implementation over large volume, well connected networks to highly latent, small bandwidth WAN connections

Engineers are required to have solid knowledge in application layer services like SMB, RPC, ICA, RDP CIFS and the TCP/IP protocol.


REPLY TO: mcgstb @ netscape .n e t


(INCLUDE SALARY HISTORY FOR CONSIDERATION)
(PLEASE INCLUDE JOB TITLE IN SUBJECT HEADING)
(WE ARE UNABLE TO SPONSER OR TRANSFER H1B-VISA'S)


Location: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Compensation: BASED UPON QUALIFICATIONS

Experience: REPLY TO: mcgstb @ netscape .n e t

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We are currently seeking to fill a Systems Designer position for our client in Chicago, IL. We invite you to review the position requirements below and apply today if your skills match our need.



Responsibilities:

- Analyze, design, and develop new website functionality according to business specifications and technical design. Will work closely with business users and project leads to better understand and refine requirements.

- Keep abreast of current and emerging technologies in the area of web development and user experiences.

- Make recommendations for management consideration of emerging technologies and may be asked to prototype those recommendations.

- Will be responsible for defining and documenting technical design of requirements and communicating that design to business owners and developers. Will also participate in user interface design sessions.

- Develop estimates for completion of development tasks and communicates and/or documents those estimates for both the business community as well as other team members.

- Prepare and execute unit test scripts.

- Analyze, document and present test results.

- Responsible for ensuring that developed code meets functional requirements prior to meeting with, or presenting to, business users.



Required Qualifications:

- A minimum of 7 years of applications programming and analysis experience

- A minimum of 4 years experience working in a J2EE development environment

- Strong Experience in the following technologies: BEA Weblogic, Hibernate, Struts Framework, HTML/DHTML/Javascript, XML/XML Parsing, Ant scripting, Structured Query Language (SQL), Eclipse IDE, JUnit, Spring Framework, Ajax

- Strong analytical, problem solving, and communication skills

- Familiarity with HPUX, Shell Scripting, CruiseControl is a plus



Apply now if your skills and experience are a good match for the position and remember this: At Harvey Nash, the door to opportunity is always wide open.

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We are currently seeking to fill a Windows Architect position for our client in Chicago, IL. We invite you to review the position requirements below and apply today if your skills match our need.



Responsibilities:

- Work closely with business and technology counterparts to understand the enterprise objectives and initiatives and their impact on the Windows architecture environment

- Develop and maintain the enterprise Windows architecture strategy and associated reference architectures/blueprints (based on Microsoft platform technologies such as Windows 2003 Server, Active Directory, Exchange, Citrix, and Virtual Server) that are aligned with the enterprise objectives and initiatives and the overall technical strategy with respect to budget, functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, realistic implementation schedules and adherence to architectural goals and principles

- Develop and maintain the business case and roadmap (project plan, budget, and interim architectures) that are aligned with the overall project portfolio to implement the enterprise Windows architecture strategy and architectures

- Develop documents and present to communicate and build consensus with business and technology counterparts on the enterprise Windows architecture strategy, associated reference architectures/blueprints, and roadmap

- Develop, maintain, and enforce common conventions, standards, and technologies across the IT landscape

- Oversee the selection, design, and implementation of the appropriate Windows solutions needed to deliver the Windows architecture strategy and architectures

- Provide technical leadership and hands-on support to project activities to ensure solutions are being implemented per the architectures

- Provide Level 3 escalation support to project and operations activities

- Provide thought leadership on Windows architecture and conduct technical research to stay abreast of trends and identify points of view and new technologies that will improve the business or technology landscapes

- Lead small teams of architects and engineers in the development of the Windows architecture



Required Qualifications:

- Minimum of 5 years of experience performing Windows architecture work and experience as a Windows architect in a leadership role

- Extensive experience designing, implementing, and troubleshooting Windows technologies

including Windows 2000/2003 Server, IIS, Active Directory, Exchange, Citrix, Virtual Server, and VMWare.

- Knowledge of SMS, MOM, VirtualCenter, SQL Server, and Clustering services.

- An understanding of network basics including LAN/WAN topology, WINS, and DNS. Familiarity of SAN and NAS environments and diskless operation.

- BS in Computer Science or related field required, Masters preferred

- Strong business and technical acumen

- Ability to translate highly complex and ambiguous problems into actionable components and lead the solutioning efforts

- Experience with blueprinting and developing conceptual, logical, and technical architecture models

- Excellent communication, presentation and relationship skills, especially the ability to articulate advanced technical topics and build consensus among business and technical constituents

- Self-starter with excellent organization, administrative, interpersonal skills and project



Preferred Qualifications:

- Very strong technical leadership and ability to command respect at all levels of the organization

- Experience developing high level plans and budgets

- Experience leading and developing small teams of architects and engineers

- Very strong technical leadership and ability to command respect at all levels of the organization



Apply now if your skills and experience are a good match for the position and remember this: At Harvey Nash, the door to opportunity is always wide open.

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Our client, a leading provider of navigational technology is growing and expanding as they acquire competitors and expand their reach. This expansion necessitates a Customer Marketing Manager responsible for strategic and tactical marketing activities focused on customer renewal programs for both business-to-business and consumer clients of navigational aid data. Product marketing activities center on relationships with automotive dealers and consumers. The focus is on increasing end-consumer adoption of technology updates and upgrades for digital map devices.

Lead a team of three customer marketing specialists in yielding customer growth and repeat business based on advances in map technology and ever-changing maps. A history of working directly with customers (sales), excellent presentation skills and spreadsheet data management are essential. This Customer Marketing Manager spearheads initiatives targeted at increasing the adoption of map updates for online portals and global positioning navigational systems.
Experience: The ideal candidate has an understanding of the automotive industry and a background in technology: software or database marketing, with experience dealing with OEM customers&#146; requirements. 5+ years in business-to-business product marketing plus frequent consumer-facing history is required. A background in identifying and resolving big picture infrastructural and internal issues (spanning departments from legal to accounting to finance and communications) is desirable. This Customer Marketing Manager spearheads map marketing initiatives globally and brings to the table product management, technology prowess, database or software-related and even a technology sales background. Bachelor's degree required, MBA preferred. Teamwork, teamwork, and then some creative sales abilities also helpful.

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We are currently seeking to fill an EDI Systems Designer position for our client in Chicago, IL. We invite you to review the position requirements below and apply today if your skills match our need.



Overview:

The Systems Designer will work in an effective and timely manner within the CRM-EDI IT Application Team and business units. He/she will also work with external customers to refine EDI document specifications, participate in EDI project implementations and support production EDI systems (including off-hours support) as well as performing analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging, support and implementation of in-house computer programs in accordance specifications and standards. Limited travel may be required.



Required Qualifications:

- Excellent analytical, problem solving, interpersonal and communication skills.

- Thorough knowledge of applicable programming languages, tools, and other application information technologies.

- Must have the ability to quickly come up to speed, work proactively with others in a team environment and meet deadlines.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills desired.

- Must demonstrate strong time management skills, high work initiative, adaptability, and superior judgment.

- Must be able to function as an experienced member of the staff, to mentor new and/or less experienced team members, and to provide input to project planning efforts.

- Relevant and demonstrable experience with EDI (AS1/2, ANSI X12 standards), XML, ftp, http, public/private key certificates, EDI translators (IBM WebSphere DI preferred; Gentran or WebMethods is acceptable) and EDI-INT (EDI over Internet) server applications (Inovis BizConnect BizManager).

- Strong knowledge of mainframe environments, including commonly accepted tools for development and testing (ISPF/TSO, JCL, Panvalet, Intertest, etc.); experience with mainframe online processing, batch processing and commonly used file structures.

- Strong COBOL, DB2, CICS, SQL application development experience required.



Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience developing XML transforms/translations.

- May be called upon to review the work of others and perform QA testing.

- Ability to work with internal and external customers in a professional and courteous manner.



Education/Years of Experience:

- 8 to10+ years development experience in IBM S/390 environment.

- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience.



Apply now if your skills and experience are a good match for the position and remember this: At Harvey Nash, the door to opportunity is always wide open.

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We are currently seeking to fill a Data Architect position for our client in Chicago, IL. We invite you to review the position requirements below and apply today if your skills match our need.



Responsibilities:

- Work closely with business and technology counterparts to understand the enterprise objectives and initiatives and their impact on the data architecture environment

- Develop and maintain the enterprise data architecture strategy and associated reference architectures/blueprints that are aligned with the enterprise objectives and initiatives and the overall technical strategy with respect to budget, functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, realistic implementation schedules and adherence to architectural goals and principles

- Develop and maintain the business case and roadmap (project plan, budget, and interim architectures) that are aligned with the overall project portfolio to implement the enterprise data architecture strategy and architectures

- Develop documents and present to communicate and build consensus with business and technology counterparts on the enterprise data architecture strategy, associated reference architectures/blueprints, and roadmap

- Develop, maintain, and enforce common conventions, standards, and technologies across the IT landscape

- Oversee the selection, design, and implementation of the appropriate solutions (e.g. Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Data Quality, Metadata Management, Data Modeling) needed to deliver the data architecture strategy and architectures

- Provide technical leadership and hands-on support to project activities to ensure solutions are being implemented per the architectures

- Provide Level 3 escalation support to project and operations activities

- Provide thought leadership on data architecture and conduct technical research to stay abreast of trends and identify points of view and new technologies that will improve the business or technology landscapes

- Lead small teams of architects and engineers in the development of the data architecture



Required Qualifications:

- Minimum of 5 years of experience performing data architecture work and experience as a application architect in a leadership role

- Skills in Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Data Quality, Metadata Management, and Data Modeling

- BS in Computer Science or related field required, Masters preferred

- Strong business and technical acumen

- Ability to translate highly complex and ambiguous problems into actionable components and lead the solutioning efforts

- Experience with blueprinting and developing conceptual, logical, and technical architecture models

- Excellent communication, presentation and relationship skills, especially the ability to articulate advanced technical topics and build consensus among business and technical constituents

- Self-starter with excellent organization, administrative, interpersonal skills and project management



Preferred Qualifications:

- Very strong technical leadership and ability to command respect at all levels of the organization

- Experience developing high level plans and budgets

- Experience leading and developing small teams of architects and engineers

- Very strong technical leadership and ability to command respect at all levels of the organization



Apply now if your skills and experience are a good match for the position and remember this: At Harvey Nash, the door to opportunity is always wide open.

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The Managed Meta Data Environment (MME) Architect has responsibility for assessing requirements and defining the strategy, technical architecture, implementation plan, and delivery of enterprise meta data environment solution. The MME will capture both business and technical meta data to support management and utilization of operational and decision support systems at the enterprise level of major organizations.



The MME Architect must have prior experience leading successful meta data repository implementations as well as a broad background and experience with IT application development. This individual is responsible for establishing the long-term strategy and technical architecture as well as the short-term scope for a multi-phased MME effort. This person must have strong professional consulting skills and the ability to communicate well at all levels of the organization.



. Find/generate executive level support for the enterprise MME initiative

. Define key business drivers for the enterprise MME initiative

. Deliver a project scope that directly supports the key business drivers

. Define technical requirements and architecture for the MME

. Determine MME extensions, tailoring, and customization requirements

. Recommend/select MME tool(s)

. Direct capture and integration of meta data into the MME

. Direct meta data access and information delivery

. Define security requirements for the MME

. Define meta data standards for the MME


Experience: -MUST HAVE 4+ Years of Rochade experience

-Must have prior experience leading successful meta data repository implementations as well as a broad background and experience with IT application development.

-Must have strong professional consulting skills and the ability to communicate well at all levels of the organization.

-Required Experience:

. Experience in leading successful enterprise MME efforts

. Technical familiarity with enterprise meta data repository tool(s)

. Strong data/meta data modeling skills

. Strong business and communication skills

. Broad based information technology experience

. Strong professional consulting skills

. Current knowledge of the meta data market; vendors, and standards bodies

. Understanding of various BI tools

. Strong understanding of ETL tools

. Strong understanding of API protocols, ODBC and/or JDBC,

. Relational Database Experience is a MUST.

. Strong analytical and problem solving skills.

. Strong comprehension and communication skills.

. Strong technical skills.

. Expert meeting and project facilitation skills.

. Capacity to develop a clear understanding of the business needs and incorporate these needs into technical solutions

Education:

. Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university required or equivalent work experience

. BS/MS in Engineering, IT, or Computer Science preferred



This is at least a 1 year contract.



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We are currently seeking to fill a Security Architect position for our client in Chicago, IL. We invite you to review the position requirements below and apply today if your skills match our need.



Responsibilities:

- Work closely with business and technology counterparts to understand the enterprise objectives and initiatives and their impact on the Security architecture environment

- Develop and maintain the enterprise security architecture strategy and associated reference architectures/blueprints that are aligned with the enterprise objectives and initiatives and the overall technical strategy with respect to budget, functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, realistic implementation schedules and adherence to architectural goals and principles

- Develop and maintain the business case and roadmap (project plan, budget, and interim architectures) that are aligned with the overall project portfolio to implement the enterprise security architecture strategy and architectures

- Develop documents and present to communicate and build consensus with business and technology counterparts on the enterprise security architecture strategy, associated reference architectures/blueprints, and roadmap

- Develop, maintain, and enforce common conventions, standards, and technologies across the IT landscape

- Oversee the selection, design, and implementation of the appropriate security solutions needed to deliver the security architecture strategy and architectures

- Provide technical leadership and hands-on support to project activities to ensure solutions are being implemented per the architectures

- Provide Level 3 escalation support to project and operations activities

- Provide thought leadership on security architecture and conduct technical research to stay abreast of trends and identify points of view and new technologies that will improve the business or technology landscapes

- Lead small teams of architects and engineers in the development of the security architecture



Required Qualifications:

- Minimum of 5 years of experience performing security architecture work and experience as a security architect in a leadership role

- Extensive experience designing, implementing, and troubleshooting security solutions including authentication, authorization, encryption and audit capabilities as part of an overall system design

- Excellent understanding of mitigating controls at the systems, network, and application level (VPN, Firewalls, Intrusion Detection, server hardening, SSO, encryption technologies)

- Technology/information risk management experience in analyzing business processes and the related technology that supports these processes.

- Experience in performing risk assessments and identifying mitigating controls

- BS in Computer Science or related field required, Masters preferred

- Strong business and technical acumen

- Ability to translate highly complex and ambiguous problems into actionable components and lead the solutioning efforts

- Experience with blueprinting and developing conceptual, logical, and technical architecture models

- Excellent communication, presentation and relationship skills, especially the ability to articulate advanced technical topics and build consensus among business and technical constituents

- Self-starter with excellent organization, administrative, interpersonal skills and project management



Preferred Qualifications:

- CISSP, CISA, CISM, GIAC certifications preferred

- Good understanding of information security and risk management frameworks such as CobiT,

ISO17799, and COSO

- Very strong technical leadership and ability to command respect at all levels of the organization

- Experience developing high level plans and budgets

- Experience leading and developing small teams of architects and engineers

- Very strong technical leadership and ability to command respect at all levels of the organization



Apply now if your skills and experience are a good match for the position and remember this: At Harvey Nash, the door to opportunity is always wide open.

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We are currently seeking to fill a Programmer/Analyst position for our client in Chicago, IL. We invite you to review the position requirements below and apply today if your skills match our need.



Responsibilities:

- Analyze, design, and develop new website functionality according to business specifications and technical design. Will work closely with business users to better understand requirements.

- Must keep abreast of current and emerging technologies in the area of web development, and make recommendations for management consideration of emerging technologies.

- May be responsible for the defining technical design requirements and communicating those requirements to the business owners. Candidate will participate in user interface design sessions.

- Develop estimates for completion of development tasks and communicate and/or document those estimates for both the business community as well as other team members. May be asked to defend those estimates by communicating development approach.

- Prepare and execute unit test scripts.

- Analyze, document and present test results.

- Responsible for ensuring that developed code meets functional requirements prior to meeting with, or presenting to, business users.

- Convert business requirements into program specifications.

- Analyze impact of proposed solutions on business applications.

- Develop, implement, and maintain application systems and programs.

- Ensure satisfactory functioning through testing, analysis of results, and correction of deficiencies according to business requirements.

- Provide application assistance to support, technical, and operation areas.

- Travel may be required.



Required Qualifications:

- Strong analytical and problem solving skills

- Has initiative and is self-disciplined

- Knowledge of business and technical environments

- Hands on experience with all layers of website development

- At least 2 years hands on experience with J2EE development including development for external facing web applications

- Experience with Hibernate, Struts, HTML/DHTML, XML and SQL



Preferred Qualifications:

- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field

- Familiarity with JUnit, Rational RUP, Spring Framework, Java Server Faces (JSF) and AJAX a plus

- Familiarity with HP/UNIX is a plus

- Oracle DBA experience a plus

- Experience working with BEA WebLogic a plus

- Experience with PVCS a plus



Education/Years of Experience:

- Minimum of 5 years IT experience, with the following specific experiences: 2 years of J2EE programming experience; 2 years of Struts experience; 2 years of HTML/DHTML programming experience; 1 year of UNIX

- Minimum of 2 years experience working in a large organization

- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or Information Systems, or equivalent work experience

- Must be able to work some weekends, nights, and holidays



Apply now if your skills and experience are a good match for the position and remember this: At Harvey Nash, the door to opportunity is always wide open.

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We are currently seeking to fill a Sr. Developer position for our client in Chicago, IL. We invite you to review the position requirements below and apply today if your skills match our need.



Qualifications:

1. Programming:

- Well versed in object-oriented fundamentals.

- Experience in developing applications using C and C++ on Windows as well as UNIX.

- Experience in developing application using C# (.NET)

2. UNIX:

- Programmer with extensive skills and understanding of UNIX internals, with emphasis on AIX and Sun Solaris.

- Should be comfortable with Makefiles, compiling C/C++ programs using various compiler ex: CC, GCC.

- Should be comfortable in writing shell scripts (C, Bourne, Kron scripts)

3. Other:

- Significant SQL query experience

- Practical Experience with Unit/ Regression Testing

- Good communication and writing skills.



In addition to great career opportunities, Harvey Nash is proud to offer its valued contract professionals a number of benefits including health insurance and 401(k) matching. Apply now if your skills and experience are a good match for the position and remember this: At Harvey Nash, the door to opportunity is always wide open.

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BASIC FUNCTION:
This position is responsible for leading and coordinating activities of business application system development or support team using existing and emerging technology platforms.


Experience: JOB REQUIREMENTS:
1) Bachelor Degree with 3 years experience OR Technical Certification or College Courses with 4 years experience OR 5 years experience
2) SQL experience
3) Experience with relational database design and creating stored procedures
4) Experience with database performance tuning with medium to large databases
5) Experience in leading system design using data modeling and common modeling tools
6) Knowledge of typical data loading, transformation, cleansing, messaging tools that are common in the industry
7) Ability to debug and problem solve T-SQL code issues with application development team
8) Excellent verbal and written communication skills and Analytical skills
9) PC proficiency to include Microsoft Excel, Access and Word.

PREFERRED JOB REQUIREMENTS:
1) Team Lead experience
2) DB2 or Sybase experience. Knowledge of disaster recovery restore procedures
3) Knowledge of insurance industry.


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We are currently seeking to fill a Security Architect position for our client in Chicago, IL. We invite you to review the position requirements below and apply today if your skills match our need.



Responsibilities:

- Work closely with business and technology counterparts to understand the enterprise objectives and initiatives and their impact on the Security architecture environment

- Develop and maintain the enterprise security architecture strategy and associated reference architectures/blueprints that are aligned with the enterprise objectives and initiatives and the overall technical strategy with respect to budget, functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, realistic implementation schedules and adherence to architectural goals and principles

- Develop and maintain the business case and roadmap (project plan, budget, and interim architectures) that are aligned with the overall project portfolio to implement the enterprise security architecture strategy and architectures

- Develop documents and present to communicate and build consensus with business and technology counterparts on the enterprise security architecture strategy, associated reference architectures/blueprints, and roadmap

- Develop, maintain, and enforce common conventions, standards, and technologies across the IT landscape

- Oversee the selection, design, and implementation of the appropriate security solutions needed to deliver the security architecture strategy and architectures

- Provide technical leadership and hands-on support to project activities to ensure solutions are being implemented per the architectures

- Provide Level 3 escalation support to project and operations activities

- Provide thought leadership on security architecture and conduct technical research to stay abreast of trends and identify points of view and new technologies that will improve the business or technology landscapes

- Lead small teams of architects and engineers in the development of the security architecture



Required Qualifications:

- Minimum of 5 years of experience performing security architecture work and experience as a security architect in a leadership role

- Extensive experience designing, implementing, and troubleshooting security solutions including authentication, authorization, encryption and audit capabilities as part of an overall system design

- Excellent understanding of mitigating controls at the systems, network, and application level (VPN, Firewalls, Intrusion Detection, server hardening, SSO, encryption technologies)

- Technology/information risk management experience in analyzing business processes and the related technology that supports these processes.

- Experience in performing risk assessments and identifying mitigating controls

- BS in Computer Science or related field required, Masters preferred

- Strong business and technical acumen

- Ability to translate highly complex and ambiguous problems into actionable components and lead the solutioning efforts

- Experience with blueprinting and developing conceptual, logical, and technical architecture models

- Excellent communication, presentation and relationship skills, especially the ability to articulate advanced technical topics and build consensus among business and technical constituents

- Self-starter with excellent organization, administrative, interpersonal skills and project management



Preferred Qualifications:

- CISSP, CISA, CISM, GIAC certifications preferred

- Good understanding of information security and risk management frameworks such as CobiT,

ISO17799, and COSO

- Very strong technical leadership and ability to command respect at all levels of the organization

- Experience developing high level plans and budgets

- Experience leading and developing small teams of architects and engineers

- Very strong technical leadership and ability to command respect at all levels of the organization



Apply now if your skills and experience are a good match for the position and remember this: At Harvey Nash, the door to opportunity is always wide open.

To Apply to this job go to http://www.GadBall.com or click here

We are currently seeking to fill a Windows Architect position for our client in Chicago, IL. We invite you to review the position requirements below and apply today if your skills match our need.



Responsibilities:

- Work closely with business and technology counterparts to understand the enterprise objectives and initiatives and their impact on the Windows architecture environment

- Develop and maintain the enterprise Windows architecture strategy and associated reference architectures/blueprints (based on Microsoft platform technologies such as Windows 2003 Server, Active Directory, Exchange, Citrix, and Virtual Server) that are aligned with the enterprise objectives and initiatives and the overall technical strategy with respect to budget, functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, realistic implementation schedules and adherence to architectural goals and principles

- Develop and maintain the business case and roadmap (project plan, budget, and interim architectures) that are aligned with the overall project portfolio to implement the enterprise Windows architecture strategy and architectures

- Develop documents and present to communicate and build consensus with business and technology counterparts on the enterprise Windows architecture strategy, associated reference architectures/blueprints, and roadmap

- Develop, maintain, and enforce common conventions, standards, and technologies across the IT landscape

- Oversee the selection, design, and implementation of the appropriate Windows solutions needed to deliver the Windows architecture strategy and architectures

- Provide technical leadership and hands-on support to project activities to ensure solutions are being implemented per the architectures

- Provide Level 3 escalation support to project and operations activities

- Provide thought leadership on Windows architecture and conduct technical research to stay abreast of trends and identify points of view and new technologies that will improve the business or technology landscapes

- Lead small teams of architects and engineers in the development of the Windows architecture



Required Qualifications:

- Minimum of 5 years of experience performing Windows architecture work and experience as a Windows architect in a leadership role

- Extensive experience designing, implementing, and troubleshooting Windows technologies

including Windows 2000/2003 Server, IIS, Active Directory, Exchange, Citrix, Virtual Server, and VMWare.

- Knowledge of SMS, MOM, VirtualCenter, SQL Server, and Clustering services.

- An understanding of network basics including LAN/WAN topology, WINS, and DNS. Familiarity of SAN and NAS environments and diskless operation.

- BS in Computer Science or related field required, Masters preferred

- Strong business and technical acumen

- Ability to translate highly complex and ambiguous problems into actionable components and lead the solutioning efforts

- Experience with blueprinting and developing conceptual, logical, and technical architecture models

- Excellent communication, presentation and relationship skills, especially the ability to articulate advanced technical topics and build consensus among business and technical constituents

- Self-starter with excellent organization, administrative, interpersonal skills and project



Preferred Qualifications:

- Very strong technical leadership and ability to command respect at all levels of the organization

- Experience developing high level plans and budgets

- Experience leading and developing small teams of architects and engineers

- Very strong technical leadership and ability to command respect at all levels of the organization



Apply now if your skills and experience are a good match for the position and remember this: At Harvey Nash, the door to opportunity is always wide open.

To Apply to this job go to http://www.GadBall.com or click here

We are currently seeking to fill a Systems Designer position for our client in Chicago, IL. We invite you to review the position requirements below and apply today if your skills match our need.



Responsibilities:

- Analyze, design, and develop new website functionality according to business specifications and technical design. Will work closely with business users and project leads to better understand and refine requirements.

- Keep abreast of current and emerging technologies in the area of web development and user experiences.

- Make recommendations for management consideration of emerging technologies and may be asked to prototype those recommendations.

- Will be responsible for defining and documenting technical design of requirements and communicating that design to business owners and developers. Will also participate in user interface design sessions.

- Develop estimates for completion of development tasks and communicates and/or documents those estimates for both the business community as well as other team members.

- Prepare and execute unit test scripts.

- Analyze, document and present test results.

- Responsible for ensuring that developed code meets functional requirements prior to meeting with, or presenting to, business users.



Required Qualifications:

- A minimum of 7 years of applications programming and analysis experience

- A minimum of 4 years experience working in a J2EE development environment

- Strong Experience in the following technologies: BEA Weblogic, Hibernate, Struts Framework, HTML/DHTML/Javascript, XML/XML Parsing, Ant scripting, Structured Query Language (SQL), Eclipse IDE, JUnit, Spring Framework, Ajax

- Strong analytical, problem solving, and communication skills

- Familiarity with HPUX, Shell Scripting, CruiseControl is a plus



Apply now if your skills and experience are a good match for the position and remember this: At Harvey Nash, the door to opportunity is always wide open.

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We are currently seeking to fill a Network Specialist position for our client in Chicago, IL. We invite you to review the position requirements below and apply today if your skills match our need.



Responsibilities:

- Install, configure, maintain and support the LAN/WAN internetworking environment to ensure it provides the defined functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability requirements

- Perform routine patching and upgrades to the LAN/WAN internetworking environment

- Perform production support and optimization activities working closely with developers and the business users which includes proactive monitoring, problem triage and resolution, and root cause analysis

- Proactively research and locate the necessary tools and processes to identify troublesome trends as they develop

- Perform non-production support to project teams

- Develop and update handbook documentation to ensure that all procedures are documented and repeatable

- Develop and update detailed design and configuration documents

- Participate in the execution of performance, high-availability, and disaster recovery testing

- Continuously strive to improve the environment by identifying opportunities and recommend solutions for improving service efficiency and effectiveness. Participate in IT initiatives to address service issues; keep abreast of technical aspects of the web computing environment and have a working knowledge of department specific applications

- Provide recommendations for continuous improvement

- Develop strong cross-team relationships with business and technical teams



Required Qualifications:

- Minimum of 3 years of experience administering and supporting LAN/WAN internetworking environments based on Cisco technologies

- Thorough understanding of OSPF, IGRP, EIGRP, and BGP protocols and experience with Frame Relay & MPLS as well as dealing with multiple ISPs and carriers. Experience configuring and troubleshooting with Cisco family products (Cisco routers, Catalyst switches, VPN Concentrators, PIX and LocalDirector)

- BS in Computer Science or related field required

- Highly motivated self-starter with excellent organization skills and a passion for working with technology. Must be able to work unsupervised.

- Strong understanding of operational processes and strong analytical and problem ownership/resolution skills

- Sound writing skills

- Work flexible schedule to meet support and project demands



Apply now if your skills and experience are a good match for the position and remember this: At Harvey Nash, the door to opportunity is always wide open.

To Apply to this job go to http://www.GadBall.com or click here

We are currently seeking to fill an EDI Systems Designer position for our client in Chicago, IL. We invite you to review the position requirements below and apply today if your skills match our need.



Overview:

The Systems Designer will work in an effective and timely manner within the CRM-EDI IT Application Team and business units. He/she will also work with external customers to refine EDI document specifications, participate in EDI project implementations and support production EDI systems (including off-hours support) as well as performing analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging, support and implementation of in-house computer programs in accordance specifications and standards. Limited travel may be required.



Required Qualifications:

- Excellent analytical, problem solving, interpersonal and communication skills.

- Thorough knowledge of applicable programming languages, tools, and other application information technologies.

- Must have the ability to quickly come up to speed, work proactively with others in a team environment and meet deadlines.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills desired.

- Must demonstrate strong time management skills, high work initiative, adaptability, and superior judgment.

- Must be able to function as an experienced member of the staff, to mentor new and/or less experienced team members, and to provide input to project planning efforts.

- Relevant and demonstrable experience with EDI (AS1/2, ANSI X12 standards), XML, ftp, http, public/private key certificates, EDI translators (IBM WebSphere DI preferred; Gentran or WebMethods is acceptable) and EDI-INT (EDI over Internet) server applications (Inovis BizConnect BizManager).

- Strong knowledge of mainframe environments, including commonly accepted tools for development and testing (ISPF/TSO, JCL, Panvalet, Intertest, etc.); experience with mainframe online processing, batch processing and commonly used file structures.

- Strong COBOL, DB2, CICS, SQL application development experience required.



Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience developing XML transforms/translations.

- May be called upon to review the work of others and perform QA testing.

- Ability to work with internal and external customers in a professional and courteous manner.



Education/Years of Experience:

- 8 to10+ years development experience in IBM S/390 environment.

- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience.



Apply now if your skills and experience are a good match for the position and remember this: At Harvey Nash, the door to opportunity is always wide open.

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Apex Systems Inc. is seeking Java Developer to perform application development and maintenance. The openings include: Application Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead, Web Application Team Lead, and UI Team Lead. These are full-time permanent opportunities

If interested then reply with an updated resume and contact information.

Experience: Each positions require uniqe java requirements. Some of the the technologies include: JSP, JBOSS, XML, EJB, Hibernate, AJAX, Javascipt, Servlets, Struts, SQL, EJB, and others.

If you have some or all of these skills, then you may qualify!

To Apply to this job go to http://www.GadBall.com or click here

We are currently seeking to fill a Data Architect position for our client in Chicago, IL. We invite you to review the position requirements below and apply today if your skills match our need.



Responsibilities:

- Work closely with business and technology counterparts to understand the enterprise objectives and initiatives and their impact on the data architecture environment

- Develop and maintain the enterprise data architecture strategy and associated reference architectures/blueprints that are aligned with the enterprise objectives and initiatives and the overall technical strategy with respect to budget, functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, realistic implementation schedules and adherence to architectural goals and principles

- Develop and maintain the business case and roadmap (project plan, budget, and interim architectures) that are aligned with the overall project portfolio to implement the enterprise data architecture strategy and architectures

- Develop documents and present to communicate and build consensus with business and technology counterparts on the enterprise data architecture strategy, associated reference architectures/blueprints, and roadmap

- Develop, maintain, and enforce common conventions, standards, and technologies across the IT landscape

- Oversee the selection, design, and implementation of the appropriate solutions (e.g. Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Data Quality, Metadata Management, Data Modeling) needed to deliver the data architecture strategy and architectures

- Provide technical leadership and hands-on support to project activities to ensure solutions are being implemented per the architectures

- Provide Level 3 escalation support to project and operations activities

- Provide thought leadership on data architecture and conduct technical research to stay abreast of trends and identify points of view and new technologies that will improve the business or technology landscapes

- Lead small teams of architects and engineers in the development of the data architecture



Required Qualifications:

- Minimum of 5 years of experience performing data architecture work and experience as a application architect in a leadership role

- Skills in Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Data Quality, Metadata Management, and Data Modeling

- BS in Computer Science or related field required, Masters preferred

- Strong business and technical acumen

- Ability to translate highly complex and ambiguous problems into actionable components and lead the solutioning efforts

- Experience with blueprinting and developing conceptual, logical, and technical architecture models

- Excellent communication, presentation and relationship skills, especially the ability to articulate advanced technical topics and build consensus among business and technical constituents

- Self-starter with excellent organization, administrative, interpersonal skills and project management



Preferred Qualifications:

- Very strong technical leadership and ability to command respect at all levels of the organization

- Experience developing high level plans and budgets

- Experience leading and developing small teams of architects and engineers

- Very strong technical leadership and ability to command respect at all levels of the organization



Apply now if your skills and experience are a good match for the position and remember this: At Harvey Nash, the door to opportunity is always wide open.

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BASIC FUNCTION:
This position is responsible for implementation and oversight of standards, tools, processes and procedures for application development across multiple projects within the Corporate Governance Program. Responsible for coordination and planning related to application development between teams. Establishing direction, standards and procedures for software development, maintenance and enhancement. Overseeing the development of application systems within a large, multi-project, multi-platform environment. Multiple software development, maintenance and support efforts on multiple projects, Multiple concurrent development and support teams in local and remote sites, Developing approaches, and procedures for application development, enhancements and product evolution. Planning and implementing Program Level common services and managing common service functions and features evolution Coordinating with Testing, Operations, Change Control, Release Management, Enterprise Architecture Services, Database Operations, Data Conversion teams, Service Desk support, Problem Management and other teams that have no reporting structure to this position. Responsible for managing and monitoring application performance


Experience: JOB REQUIREMENTS:
1) Four years software application development experience with a Bachelors Degree in Computer Sciences or related software development and deployment experience OR Five years of work experience with a Technical Certificate or college courses OR Six years of work experience.
2) Minimum 3 years leading software development projects using formal methodologies in a multi-project environment.
3) Strong Application systems testing experience.
4) Strong application systems support experience.
5) Strong planning and organizational skills, analytical and problem-solving abilities. 6) Excellent verbal and written communication skills, leadership skills and ability to communicate, influence and develop strong working relationships with business and operations support teams.
7) Demonstrated project experience managing software development and deployment projects across all phases.
8) Managed development teams in the following environments: UNIX, AIX, WINDOWS, CICS (batch and interactive) and DB2.

PREFERRED JOB REQUIREMENTS:
1) Mainframe USS, CICS, WAS (batch and interactive).
2) Distributed environments AIX, Windows, WAS.
3) File structures VSAM, DB2 4.
4) Languages: COBOL, JAVA, SQL, JCL 5.
5) Formal Methodologies: SDLC, RUP.
6) Tools: WebSphere, Endevor, Rational, CVS, Zeek, Zeena, Omegamon


To Apply to this job go to http://www.GadBall.com or click here

DoubleClick enables agencies, marketers and publishers to work together successfully and profit from their digital marketing investments. Its focus on innovation, reliability and insight enables clients to improve productivity and results. We are currently seeking a motivated Technical Account Manager.

The Technical Account Manager (TAM) is a client facing position in the Global Technical Services (GTS) Client Services team. The TAM provides technical account management and support to clients to enable them to meet their online marketing objectives using DoubleClick technology, including implementation, training, and end user support. This is a technical role in a fast paced, independent, innovative environment with a strong client services focus.

Responsibilities:

Looking for more cultural diversity? We have the perfect destination that works for you. How about exploring Chicagos diverse cultural cuisine, not to mention the museums, tours, cruises, aquariums, the planetarium and incredible festivals all year long. Okay now that we have a great place for you to live, lets look at the great opportunity for your new career.

What we are offering to you.

The opportunity to use your experience from your exposure to projects that required multi threaded, real time programming and/or messaging systems (TIB)

Use all the knowledge you have from your Exposure to all stages of developing trading or risk management systems (analysis, design, implementation, testing). We will offer you the opportunity to be as creative as the sky is high!

I dont want to say we are giving you the opportunity to work for one of the best in class, but I have to because we are! You will be given the once in a lifetime opportunity to work with the best in technology, and you will be on the front side of making it the best. However, in order to give you this awesome chance, we only want the best of the best to apply. You will not work with the same situations every day so you will need to show us your awesome leadership abilities and your amazing communication skills

IF you have worked with credit/fixed income/OTC derivatives this experience will be a definite plus as you have to have this to be considered as part of our future team. I say team because we are definitely that and only want true team players. This is not a place for the faint of heart nor is it a place for someone who cant work productively as part of the team.

Are you truly looking for a dynamic working environment? (trading desk), well we have that right here and waiting for you. We enjoy work and we enjoy life but we work really hard and fast and only want true professionals who want to work hard and fast as well.

We are offering you the opportunity to take ownership of the task and hand and drive it through to completion. Its up to you to make it successful with your leadership and technical skills.

What is the actual position you ask (and wheres the laundry list?)

I dont like boring ads when we arent looking for boring people and I really dont like posting laundry lists, but Ive been told some of our more excellent candidates need them so here it is

We are in need of a server side Senior Developer within the Global Rates IT team. The responsibilities will include C++ development that is a part of the project to upgrade/replace the existing components and systems that generate live and end of day P/L and Risk for Rates desk globally.

The intention is for this role to focus on server side development as well as contribute to early stage of the project (design and analysis).

Development environment:
- Operating Systems: LINUX, Windows
- Databases: Sybase/Comparable RDBMS ( Oracle, SQL server)

Responsibilities:
To support Global Rates business. IT strategy is to revamp the existing legacy P/L and Risk systems and eliminate the existing dependency on vendor systems. This role will be a key contributor to the team focused on upgrading live and end of day pricing, valuation and risk engines. The current teams capability require this additional resource to focus on the new development and move forward with the strategy.

Programming Language:
- C++, Perl.
- SQL, XML
Good to have:
- .NET/C#

If you have the technical skills as well as want to discuss what we can do to help advance your career, contact us as soon as possible as this position will not last long.

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BASIC FUNCTION:
This position is responsible for quality assurance (QA) on new applications and modifications to existing applications; verifying business specifications have been implemented as requested and existing functionality continues to perform; working with Business Analysts to understand functionality implemented within each release; developing test plans for each release and assisting with scripting of new application functionality when needed; scheduling QA testing to meet rollout schedules; supporting roll-outs to various environments, including production, which will require working outside the normal business hours.


Experience: JOB REQUIREMENTS:
1) Bachelor Degree with 2 years experience OR Technical Certification or College Courses with 3 years experience OR 4 years experience with 5 years experience testing software and
2) 3 years using automated testing tools such as Rational SQA products
3) 3 years experience developing and executing test plans and scripts for major software version releases
4) Experience leading major testing efforts:; ability to meet demanding roll-out schedules to various environments as well as working outside normal business hours 5) Ability to communicate effectively with Business Analysts to ensure application functionality and requirements have been incorporated into test plan development and scripting for each release.

PREFERRED JOB REQUIREMENTS:
1) Experience and proficiency using these automated testing tools: Rational Team Test Studio, Robot, Test Manager, and Clear Quest Bug Tracking software
2) Experience in the Health Insurance industry.


To Apply to this job go to http://www.GadBall.com or click here

We are currently seeking to fill a Programmer/Analyst position for our client in Chicago, IL. We invite you to review the position requirements below and apply today if your skills match our need.



Responsibilities:

- Analyze, design, and develop new website functionality according to business specifications and technical design. Will work closely with business users to better understand requirements.

- Must keep abreast of current and emerging technologies in the area of web development, and make recommendations for management consideration of emerging technologies.

- May be responsible for the defining technical design requirements and communicating those requirements to the business owners. Candidate will participate in user interface design sessions.

- Develop estimates for completion of development tasks and communicate and/or document those estimates for both the business community as well as other team members. May be asked to defend those estimates by communicating development approach.

- Prepare and execute unit test scripts.

- Analyze, document and present test results.

- Responsible for ensuring that developed code meets functional requirements prior to meeting with, or presenting to, business users.

- Convert business requirements into program specifications.

- Analyze impact of proposed solutions on business applications.

- Develop, implement, and maintain application systems and programs.

- Ensure satisfactory functioning through testing, analysis of results, and correction of deficiencies according to business requirements.

- Provide application assistance to support, technical, and operation areas.

- Travel may be required.



Required Qualifications:

- Strong analytical and problem solving skills

- Has initiative and is self-disciplined

- Knowledge of business and technical environments

- Hands on experience with all layers of website development

- At least 2 years hands on experience with J2EE development including development for external facing web applications

- Experience with Hibernate, Struts, HTML/DHTML, XML and SQL



Preferred Qualifications:

- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field

- Familiarity with JUnit, Rational RUP, Spring Framework, Java Server Faces (JSF) and AJAX a plus

- Familiarity with HP/UNIX is a plus

- Oracle DBA experience a plus

- Experience working with BEA WebLogic a plus

- Experience with PVCS a plus



Education/Years of Experience:

- Minimum of 5 years IT experience, with the following specific experiences: 2 years of J2EE programming experience; 2 years of Struts experience; 2 years of HTML/DHTML programming experience; 1 year of UNIX

- Minimum of 2 years experience working in a large organization

- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or Information Systems, or equivalent work experience

- Must be able to work some weekends, nights, and holidays



Apply now if your skills and experience are a good match for the position and remember this: At Harvey Nash, the door to opportunity is always wide open.

To Apply to this job go to http://www.GadBall.com or click here

BASIC FUNCTION:
This position is responsible for quality assurance (QA) on new applications and modifications to existing applications; verifying business specifications have been implemented as requested and existing functionality continues to perform; working with Business Analysts to understand functionality implemented within each release; developing test plans for each release and assisting with scripting of new application functionality when needed; scheduling QA testing to meet rollout schedules; supporting roll-outs to various environments, including production, which will require working outside the normal business hours.


Experience: JOB REQUIREMENTS:
1) Bachelor Degree with 2 years experience OR Technical Certification or College Courses with 3 years experience OR 4 years experience with 5 years experience testing software and
2) 3 years using automated testing tools such as Rational SQA products
3) 3 years experience developing and executing test plans and scripts for major software version releases
4) Experience leading major testing efforts:; ability to meet demanding roll-out schedules to various environments as well as working outside normal business hours 5) Ability to communicate effectively with Business Analysts to ensure application functionality and requirements have been incorporated into test plan development and scripting for each release.

PREFERRED JOB REQUIREMENTS:
1) Experience and proficiency using these automated testing tools: Rational Team Test Studio, Robot, Test Manager, and Clear Quest Bug Tracking software
2) Experience in the Health Insurance industry.


To Apply to this job go to http://www.GadBall.com or click here

BASIC FUNCTION:
This position is responsible for leading and coordinating activities of business application system development or support team using existing and emerging technology platforms.


Experience: JOB REQUIREMENTS:
1) Bachelor Degree with 3 years experience OR Technical Certification or College Courses with 4 years experience OR 5 years experience
2) SQL experience
3) Experience with relational database design and creating stored procedures
4) Experience with database performance tuning with medium to large databases
5) Experience in leading system design using data modeling and common modeling tools
6) Knowledge of typical data loading, transformation, cleansing, messaging tools that are common in the industry
7) Ability to debug and problem solve T-SQL code issues with application development team
8) Excellent verbal and written communication skills and Analytical skills
9) PC proficiency to include Microsoft Excel, Access and Word.

PREFERRED JOB REQUIREMENTS:
1) Team Lead experience
2) DB2 or Sybase experience. Knowledge of disaster recovery restore procedures
3) Knowledge of insurance industry.


To Apply to this job go to http://www.GadBall.com or click here