Are you a great thinker with strong organizational skills? Do you have a strong IT background? Would you be able to act as a liaison between various departments of a dynamic and solid organization? Then read on.

Responsibilities

•    Work and communicate with business users to develop and define strategies to best resolve business problems.
•    Collaborate with business representatives and technical staff providing analytical support to ensure system and business requirements are clearly documented and understood during the design, development, testing and deployment phases of a project.
•    Assist business users in evaluating efficiencies and effectiveness of business processes
•    Work with business users to define test plans for new systems and enhancements.
•    Help business representatives in preparing requirements for system changes.
•    Help with project planning including methods, schedules, tasks, and projects
•    Evaluate and recommend business and system analysis methods, tools, techniques and standards.
•    Supervise and manage IT Projects
•    Work and communicate with outside vendors to define requirements for system interfaces.
•    Work and communicate with business users to define reporting requirements

Requirements

•    BA/BS in related field
•    Proficiency in SQL
•    Proficiency in working with relational database systems such as MS SQLServer and Oracle
•    Experience with enterprise reporting systems such as Business Objects or Cognos
•    Very strong problem solving skills
•    Excellent organizational skills
•    Multitasking skills
•    3-5 years of experience as a business analyst or business systems analyst in the Healthcare industry.
•    Project management experience is a plus.

This is a permanent position located in NYC. Interested candidates please contact David Mills at dmills@e-richards.com.

“US citizens and Green Card Holders and those authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply.  Our client is unable to sponsor H1b candidates at this time.”

Are you an IT Administrator with extensive experience with Websphere Portals? Are you a strong thinker and communicator who can manage multiple and challenging tasks? Are you interested in being responsible for the implementation, growth, and routine support of Websphere environments? Then read on.

Requirements 

• High School Diploma (Required)
• IT Technical School Graduate or College Degree (Preferred)
• 5+ years IT related field experience
• The ability to manage multiple tasks under tight deadlines
• Willingness to learn, understand, and practice Interface's commitment to sustainability
• May require up to 20% travel
• Very strong problem solving skills
• Very strong verbal and written communication skills
• Very strong customer service skills and leadership skills when working with diverse teams
• Very strong knowledge of and experience with four or more of:
  • WebSphere Portal V6
  • WebSphere Application Server V6
  • Java programming technologies used in web development
  • Web integration technologies (ex. SOAP and RSS)
  • User Interface design and application usability
  • Deployment and devlopment of Portlets   
  • Basic use of IBM’s Portal and Portlet development tools

Essential duties

• Collaborates with WAS Administrator to install and configure WebSphere Portal including Portal including high availability and loading balance
• Collaborates with the WAS Administrator to undertake performance and tuning for all portal instances
• Maintains and establishes Portal and Portal Object level security
• Configures and imports Portlets, resources, document libraries and other Portal Content (may be standard or internationally developed)
• Works independently, and with users, to create new Portlets using standard tools (Portlet Factory) and basic programming, Advanced Portlet programming is carried out by the Portal Developer
• Understands and can “wire” together Portlets
• Primary evangelist for Portal.  Leads the “Portal Users Group” across the business units and drives toward optimum utilization of Portal as a business tool.
• Understands the relationship between Portal and other add-ons / bolt-ons and as required supports their implementation and ongoing operation
• Configures, implements and trains others on the use of WebSphere Content Manager for Portal
• Ensures adequate and proper architectural and day-to-day operations documentation
• Responsible for actively training other team members on effective Portal and Portlet administration
• Works with others to maintain and establish Portal templates
• 2nd / 3rd level problem determination and troubleshooting of Portal and Portlet issues and assisting developers with “unknown issues”
• Patch management for Portal
• Understands, implements and can train others on the workflow engine within Portal
• Assists others in the development of new applications or replacement of existing applications which will be deployed as Portal applications
• Supports SOX compliance by maintaining the environment within established guidelines and participating as requested in annual and other audits
• Maintains housekeeping
• Complies with safety rules and environmental regulations
• Is aware of departmental Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
• Performs other duties that are assigned
• Occasional lifting and moving of less than 50 lbs.

This is a permanent position located in Atlanta, Georgia. Interested candidates should contact Sarah Higgins at shiggins@e-richards.com. 

Are you interested in an exciting opportunity as an IT Administrator? Are you experienced with Websphere Commerce? Do you have the ability to manage many tasks and responsibilities? Then read on.

Requirements

• High School Diploma (Required)
• IT Technical School Graduate or College Degree (Preferred)
• 5+ years IT related field experience
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• The ability to manage many tasks and meet tight deadlines
• Excellent customer service skills and ability to pull together diverse people when working in a team
• Willingness to learn, understand, and practice Interface’s commitment to sustainability
• May require up to 20% travel
• Must possess the ability to work on medium to high complexity projects without direction
• Excellent knowledge of and experience with four or more of:
• Customer Service Operations
  • User Interface design and application usability
  • Web Commerce concepts and terminology
  • WebSphere Commerce V6
  • WebSphere Commerce Accelerator
  • WebSphere Commerce Sales Center
  • WebSphere Application Server V6
  • Marketing Concepts such as campaigns, e-Marketing, promotions and awareness adds
  • Product Catalog management, design, and configuration
  • Data Mining for an online business

Responsibilties

• Manage and configure security within the store
• Manage and configure catalog and store settings
• Perform the following as well as ensures adequate initial and ongoing training of business SMEs and end users on the use of Commerce Accelerator and Sales Center including:
  • Open and close the store
  • Change the store’s aesthetics
  • Maintain tax, shipping and fulfillment center settings
  • Review store business intelligence and statistics reports to track marketing and sales
  • Set up and utilize collaborative workspaces
  • Maintain catalog
  • Set-up auctions, up-sells or cross-sells, discounts, or Product Advisor
  • Maintain and keep updated customer registration information
  • Manage the end-to-end order process
  • View auctions available at your store
  • Provide real-time customer support through site’s live chatting
  • Monitor order management, operational, and customer service reports to track store sales
  • Manage customer segments
  • Work with campaigns, e-Marketing Spots, promotions, and awareness ads
  • Work with promotions, campaigns, awareness ads, and e-Marketing Spots
  • Document all outstanding payment transactions
• Support SOX compliance by maintaining the environment within established guidelines and participating as requested in annual and other audits
• Maintain housekeeping
• Comply with safety rules and environmental regulations
• Be aware and conscious of departmental Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
• Perform other duties as they are assigned
• Occasional lifting and moving of less than 50 lbs.

This is a permanent position located in Atlanta Georgia. If interested please contact David Mills at dmills@e-richards.com.

Are you a strong project manager with excellent communication skills and a degree in engineering? Are you looking for a permanent opportunity with a solid organization? Then if so read on.

Job Description

As project manager, you will be responsible for large, complex, multi-million dollar, and multi-year projects associated with our client’s 10 year plan. You will manage a defined program of distribution system projects for which engineering and/or construction may be provided principally by external resources (contractors and consultants). You will participate in the development and implementation of project management process improvements across the company. You will manage infrastructure projects that must be maintained and renovated at the same time. In this role, you will also provide project management, coaching, and mentoring to project team members and may serve as assistant project manager for other large, complex projects or programs.

Required Skills and Experiences

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business or Engineering.
• Extensive experience with Civil, Electrical, or Structural Engineering is preferred
• Ability to interact and communicate with many different types of associates
• Diverse project background
• Demonstrated experience with all nine knowledge areas of Project Management as established in PMBOK guide
• Must have ten years of related technical and project management experience, or electric utility experience including project management experience in electrical Transmission & Distribution.
• Demonstrated project management effectiveness leading cross-functional teams to complete electrical engineering and/or construction projects.
• Experience and proficiency in the use of project management information systems and planning tools such as MS Project or Primavera.
• Strong and effective communication skills.
• Knowledge and practice of project management methodology as outlined by the Project Management Institute.
• Certification as a Project Management Professional (PMP) is preferred.

This is a permanent position located in Shelton, CT. If you meet all of the above requirements please contact David Mills at dmills@e-richards.com.

“US citizens and Green Card Holders and those authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply. Our client is unable to sponsor H1b candidates at this time.”

Contact Sarah Higgins 508.540.1472

Senior Applications System Anaylst

The Seinor Applications Systems Analyst in responsible for day to day activities involved in technical development and application support, with additional focus on project planning. The Senior Applications Systems Analyst will be directly involved in conduction analysis, creating technical and end user documentation, coding, testing and end user communication. This person provides application and technical support to project team members, and may be called upon to supervise Applications Systems Anaylst on specific project functions. The Senior Applications Systems Analyst works on project teams to accomplish a variety of goals, including developing new features and enhancements.

This is an exemplt Level II position reporting to the Business Systems Manager

Responsibilities:

• Communicates effectively with users and actively engages them throughout the development life cycle to ensure development activities are on target and meet expectations.
• Creates well organized project plans and effectively communicates proposed project goals and objectives to all levels of user management.
• Independently resolves complex business and technical issues and proposes economical and feasible alternatives.
• Performs a variety of task to review, analyze, and modify business application systems including coding, testing, debugging, and implementation.
• Writes technical documentation including detailed design specifications to describe program development, logic, coding, and corrections.
• Develops and documents test strategies, ensures test strategies are executed, analyzes results to standards
• Confirms that changes and enhancements meet technical specifications and user requirements.
• Ensures user documentation describing system modifications, enhancements and operationg procedure are provided to users
• Uses business and technical experience to plan and accomplish project goals
• May be called upon to supervise project team members on specific project functions
• Provides application and technical support to project team members as needed

US Citizens and Green Card Holders and those authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply. Our client is unable to sponser H1b candidates at this time.

 

Contact Sarah Higgins- 508.540.1472

eCommerce Developer

Our client is a creative and dynamic company searching for an experienced developer with knowledge of commerce who will be responsible for the development, design, implementation, and upkeep of projects and features on their store’s website.

Responsiblities

• Developing software using Websphere Commerce Server version 6.0.4
• Examing site's existing code (code may be both customized and out-of-the-box) and fixing bugs in site
• Documenting in regular and formatted manner all changes, improvmenets, and fixes made to site
• Attendance and active participation in regular meetings and sessions concerning site development and projects

Requirements

• IBM Websphere Commerce Server V 6.04
• IBM DB2 8.2 with Windows
• Extensive experience with J2EE/JAVA/AJAX, JSP Custom tags
• Experience with CVS
• Experience writing UNIX shell script
• Ability to design and develop with IBM Websphere Accelerator
• Knowledge of the IBM WebSphere Commerce multi-tiered architecture
• Interfacing capabilities between Windows and I-Series

This is a 6 month+ job located in NYC. Please submit resumes to shiggins@e-richards.com

Contact Sarah Higgins – 508.540.1472

Technology Project Manager

As Technology Project Manager, you will provide project and application management for numerous complex business systems products. You will be responsible for the entire life cycle from project inception to delivery to the on-going operation of the system

Primary Responsibilities:

•  Provide project management of complex business system projects.
•  Own/manage the entire life cycle from project inception through release to operations (including all non-IT related functions such as training).
• Interface with corporate customers on appropriate business systems design, requirements, and development issues.
• Coordinate all phases of software configuration and deployment process.
• Develop and execute comprehensive project plans.
• Write all-inclusive functional specification documents including screen mockups and use cases.
• Collaborate with Engineering and business teams to scope projects and estimate resources needed to achieve project objectives.
• Collaborate with project team to maximize the utilization of team resources.
• Develop and monitor project schedules to ensure the timely completion of application development projects.
• Develop and maintain a thorough understanding of business requirements and processes within the assigned area.
• Provide oversight of projects and communicate status to management.
• Manage ongoing production support and systems enhancements including prioritization, scoping, planning, and delivery activities.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Management Information Systems or related field or direct equivalent.
• Recent experience as a Business Systems Analyst.
• Must possess strong written, oral communication and presentation skills.
• Willingness to accept varying levels of responsibility in support of projects and initiatives.
• Must demonstrate a positive attitude, entrepreneurial spirit, good problem-solving skills, self-starter, self-motivated, team player, with strong business acumen.
• Previous experience writing detailed functional specification and requirements documents with mockups and use cases.
• Strong knowledge of current IT concepts, terminology, practices, tools, and technology.
• Strong business analysis skills and experience.
• Experience managing IT development and infrastructure activities across a matrix organization.
• Experience with Agile/Rapid development methodologies as well as other more structured software development methodologies (Waterfall, Spiral, etc).
• Desired experience in managing Customer Relationship Management projects.
• Experience managing external applications (ECommerce) projects a plus.
• Experience managing projects with Microsoft Project and Visio.
• Project Manager experience a plus.

This is a permanent position located in North Andover, MA. If interested please contact Sarah Higgins at shiggins@e-richards.com.

 

Our client is looking for a WebSphere Portal Developer to develop, modify and maintain applications, applets, Portlets, skins, templates and RSS feeds, web services and other components used within their WebSphere Portal Implementation.

In this role you will:

• Work with Business Analysts, Portal Administrators and other to understand Portal Development needs and develop written requirements and programming specifications
• Design and codes all three layers; User Interface, business logic and Database interaction, as required for Portal based applications, including “skins” templates, custom content and Portlets
• Work within established development standards and tools suite
• Integrates JDE Portlets and other Portlets into the Portal
• Wire portals together
• Provide suggestions regarding site usability
• Understand Portal security and ensures that all new development fits into and support the established security structure
• Supports SOX compliance by maintaining the environment within established guidelines and participating as requested in annual and other audits
• Maintain housekeeping
• Comply with safety rules
• Comply with environmental regulations
• Be aware of departmental Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
• Perform other duties as assigned

Skills and experience:

• Willingness to learn and understand Interface's commitment to sustainability
• 5+ years IT related field experience
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Excellent communications skills, both written and verbal
• The ability to manage multiple tasks under tight deadlines
• Excellent customer service skills and the ability to pull together diverse working teams
• Excellent knowledge of and experience with four or more of:
  • WebSphere Portal V6
  • WebSphere Application Server V6
  • Advanced Java programming technologies used in web development
  • Web integration technologies such as SOAP and RSS
  • User Interface design and application usability
  • Development and deployment of Portlets
  • Advanced use of IBM’s Portal and Portlet development tools

• High School Diploma (Required)
• IT Technical School Graduate or College Degree (Preferred)
• Must be able to work independently without supervision in a team environment
• May require up to 20% travel

This is a permanent position located in Atlanta, GA if interested please contact Sarah Higgins at shiggins@e-richards.com.

“US citizens and Green Card Holders and those authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply. Our client is unable to sponsor H1b candidates at this time”.

Our client is seeking a Sr. WebSphere Developer/Lead with Strong Commerce experience to oversee other developers as well as develop, modify and maintaining applications, applets, portlets, skins, templates and RSS feeds, web services and other components used within their WebSphere Commerce Implementations.

In this role you will:

• Work with Business Analysts, Commerce Administrators and others to understand Commerce Development needs and develop written requirements and programming specifications
• Designs and codes all three layers; User Interface, business logic and database interaction, as required for commerce based applications, including “skins” templates, custom content and Portlets
• Works within established development standards and tools suite
• Develops store front pages
• Creates a new views
• Provides access control for views
• Uses proper development techniques for creating cached pages
• Maintains store text and property files
• Creates store pages that support globalization
• Handles errors in store pages
• Describes the provided business models
• Modifies store flows
• Regularly uses the following in development efforts:
  • XML technologies
  • J2EE architecture
  • Rational Application Developer
  • SQL and relational database concepts
  • J2EE development including JSP, JSTL, Java Beans, EJBs, etc

• Provides suggestions regarding site usability
• Work with and modifies the database structure as required to support development projects
• Create and configure payment plug-ins
• Extend the persistence layer
• Enforce access control in commands
• Create and extend commerce commands
• Handle errors in commerce commands
• Integrate with other systems
• Implement web services
• Configure support for MQ Series
• Supports SOX compliance by maintaining the environment within established guidelines and participating as requested in annual and other audits
• Maintain housekeeping
• Comply with safety rules
• Comply with environmental regulations
• Be aware of departmental Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
• Perform other duties as assigned

Skills and experience:

• 5+ years IT related field experience
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Excellent communications skills, both written and verbal
• The ability to manage multiple tasks under tight deadlines
• Excellent customer service skills and the ability to pull together diverse working teams
• Excellent knowledge of and experience with four or more of:

• WebSphere Commerce V6
• WebSphere Portal V6
• WebSphere Application Server V6
• Advanced Java programming technologies used in web development
• Web integration technologies such as SOAP and RSS
• User Interface design and application usability
• Advanced use of IBM’s Rational development tools

• Must be a self starter with the ability to work both independently without supervision and in a team environment.
• May require up to 20% travel
• High School Diploma (Required)
• IT Technical School Graduate or College Degree (Preferred)
• Willingness to learn and understand Interface's commitment to sustainability

This is a permanent position is located in Atlanta, GA. If interested please contact Sarah Higgins at shiggins@e-richards.com.

US citizens and Green Card Holders and those authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply. Our client is unable to sponsor H1b candidates at this time.

 Contact Sarah Higgins 508-540-1472

Websphere Portal Developer

Our client is looking for a WebSphere Portal Developer to develop, modify and maintain applications, applets, Portlets, skins, templates and RSS feeds, web services and other components used within their WebSphere Portal Implementation.

In this role you will:

•  Work with Business Analysts, Portal Administrators and other to understand Portal Development needs and develop written requirements and programming specifications
•  Design and codes all three layers; User Interface, business logic and Database interaction, as required for Portal based applications, including “skins” templates, custom content and Portlets
•  Work within established development standards and tools suite
•  Integrates JDE Portlets and other Portlets into the Portal
•  Wire portals together
•  Provide suggestions regarding site usability
•  Understand Portal security and ensures that all new development fits into and support the established security structure
• Supports SOX compliance by maintaining the environment within established guidelines and participating as requested in annual and other audits
•  Maintain housekeeping
•  Comply with safety rules
•  Comply with environmental regulations
•  Be aware of departmental Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
•  Perform other duties as assigned

Skills and experience:

•  Willingness to learn and understand Interface's commitment to sustainability
•  5+ years IT related field experience
•  Excellent problem solving skills
•  Excellent communications skills, both written and verbal
•  The ability to manage multiple tasks under tight deadlines
•  Excellent customer service skills and the ability to pull together diverse working teams
•  Excellent knowledge of and experience with four or more of:
  •  WebSphere Portal V6
  •  WebSphere Application Server V6
  •  Advanced Java programming technologies used in web development
  •  Web integration technologies such as SOAP and RSS
  •  User Interface design and application usability
  •  Development and deployment of Portlets
  •  Advanced use of IBM’s Portal and Portlet development tools
• High School Diploma (Required)
•  IT Technical School Graduate or College Degree (Preferred)
•  Must be able to work independently without supervision in a team environment
•  May require up to 20% travel

This is a permanent position located in Atlanta, GA if interested please contact Sarah Higgins at shiggins@e-richards.com.

“US citizens and Green Card Holders and those authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply. Our client is unable to sponsor H1b candidates at this time”.