https://JOBS.CTRECRUITERS.COM/ en-us As a key member of the CIO leadership team, you will be the single point of accountability for all IT services provided to the Universal Banking organization. This position is also the single point of contact and escalation for the line of business into the Technology organization. Your focus will be on understanding the goals & challenges of the LOB and ensuring technology delivers fit-for-purpose services and solutions.

The Universal Banking Product suite provides critical services for Community Market core banking, International Baking, Digital Banking, Disaster Recovery Services, ACH, in both a cloud and data center configuration, comprising over $330m in annual revenue.

Your primary focus will be running client-facing technologies supporting the Universal Banking Business lines in a mission-critical 24*7 financial services environment as well as executing several large-scale transformational programs, including (but not limited to):

• • Partnering with development community to drive product modernization
  • Expansion of eCommerce Marketplace
  • Identify and execute efficiency enhancements via low code and process automation
  • Datacenter rationalization
  • Risk reduction via improved technical debt and vulnerability mgmt

 

Responsibilities & Deliverables

• Partner with key leaders of Universal Banking to understand their Technology needs and collaboratively develop Technology strategy
• Serve as Single Point of Accountability (SPOA) for all IT Services provided to these areas
• Serve as Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for IT services and escalations
• Track and communicate performance of all IT services delivered, from projects to daily operations
• Recommend, deliver and support technologies and services that meet current needs, and evolve strategies to meet future needs
• Drive process improvement to support delivery excellence
• Assist IT with prioritizing incoming workload and effective utilization of resources assigned to LOB projects
• Applies broad industry expertise to drive financial and operational performance
• Requires comprehensive understanding of internal and industry standards, as well as of the changing business environment
• Directs the resolution of highly complex or unusual business problems applying advanced analytical thought and judgement
• Sets technical / professional standards around which the organization will operate – beyond the function itself
• Leads large and complex multiple teams focused on execution of significant operating plans
• Leadership complexity is typically characterized by diversity of activities, scale of investment decisions and/or global reach
• Develops and executes own strategy to achieve key business objectives
• Directs and sets business, technical and operating standards for areas managed

The Required Skills, Knowledge & Experience

• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in client/customer facing roles
• Strong knowledge of banking industry
• Working knowledge of Community Market and International Banking
• Strong service delivery, time, project and priority management skills
• Experience managing critical and complex customer situations or incidents
• Strong mix of technical experience and strategic business acumen
• Broad and deep technology and process knowledge and the ability to provide solution leadership for the assigned LOB

 
]]> Thu, 14 Jul 2022 00:00:00 EDT 0 Enterprise Architect will engage with our larger customers and key deals to develop strategic relationships and support the development of relationships based around our 3.0 Services portfolio and engagement approach. The ideal candidate will need to have deep domain experience ideally in BSFI, process and architecture, in particular being able to take a view which extends outside of the company’s application into the up and down stream requirements. This position will be the primary touch point for these key accounts and move the company from a supplier to a partner.

 

Responsibilities & Deliverables:

Your deliverables as an Enterprise Architect will include, but are not limited to, the following:

 

• Build and maintain customer success through active account engagement, creating and maintaining relationships with the key technical and operations principals in our key accounts.
• Proactively build relationships with all accounts, expanding the sphere of influence within account base.
• Develop and manage complex solution requirements, turning business objectives into outcomes and able to articulate the C-level down through leading IT and operational stakeholders the value and differentiation of the company's proposition.
• Use a consultative sales approach to develop account plans and identify specific needs for each bank.
• Become a trusted advisor and operate as the primary point of contact for these accounts strategic and change programs.
• Strong relationship building skills both internally and externally.
• Active use of CRM for account activity and reporting.
• Responsive, reliable and results oriented.
• 25% travel required

 

Required Experience:

 

• • • 10+ years of experience in managing enterprise software, SaaS or FinTech solutions. Experience of managing complex projects, environments in a multi-supplier and in-house world.
    • Deep knowledge of the banking vertical required ability to articulate the end to end requirements for systems and process and the pros and cons of various approaches.
    • Knowledge of dev ops, Cloud would be advantageous.
    • Ideally worked both on the client side and on the supplier side with an understanding and ability to empathize of the competing requirements.
    • Demonstrated ability to build meaningful relationships and grow book of business through consultative sales methodology.
    • Ability to acquire in-depth knowledge of a client’s business, identifying challenges and opportunities as well as how to position solutions to address those needs.
    • Proven ability to understand and effectively communicate with multiple stakeholders.
    • Demonstrates deep product and industry knowledge including market trends and competitive intelligence.

]]> Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:00:00 EDT 0 Within the Fusion Invest Global Practice, reporting to the practice head, this company is looking for an Expert Business Consultant, who will utilize his/her knowledge of specific markets and the company’s solutions to lead the implementation of the Fusion Invest solution for customers.

Expert Business Consultants are the functional product experts within the Global Services organization. While remaining highly billable and working on customer projects, the Expert Business Consultant is also the leader and mentor of more junior consultants working within the Fusion Invest practice.

 

In addition, the Expert Business Consultant is very closely aligned with the sales, global solutions consulting and product organizations and is responsible for participating in the development of Statements of Work (SOWs) and for assisting the sales process during sales opportunities when business, market and solution knowledge is required.

 

Summary

In order to perform the role, the Expert Business Consultant requires:

• Extensive knowledge of the functionality of capital markets, investment management and buy side solutions
• Extensive market knowledge of capital markets, investment management, asset management and financial services in general.
• Strong communication and client facing skills in order to be able to present and implement the solution
• A deep understanding of the business drivers of customers

 

Responsibilities

• Successfully deliver Fusion Invest implementation projects and ensure high levels of customer satisfaction
• Analyze customer’s current business processes and scenarios.
• Specify, present and configure business processes and best practices for customers during Fusion Invest implementations
• Provide functional configuration, and work practices recommendations and/or solution suggest to customers during project implementations
• Assist project and delivery management in planning all aspects of projects, updating project status and risks, performing technical and functional reviews
• Communicate with customers to help define detailed requirements for Fusion Invest implementations
• Provide advice for customizing or implementing new functions in the solution
• Provide onsite consultancy services, with potentially extensive travelling required
• Pro-actively keep up-to-date with the product roadmap and latest developments, upgrades as well as industry trends, and communicate knowledge within the team
• Work with sales and global solution consultants to develop new services business from the existing customer base
• Provide input into the development of standards, tools, processes, documentation and templates to standardize and improve the execution of the implementation tasks and to aid training of new consultants

 

Core Competencies

• Customer focus and strong customer management skills
• Committed to providing excellent client service at all times to a very demanding customer base

]]> Wed, 23 Mar 2022 00:00:00 EDT 0 Solutions Specialist (Pre-sales)

This company is a leading global supplier of integrated business systems to retailers, manufacturers and distributors. We have over 25 years’ experience of delivering award winning solutions for more than 3,000 customers across 20 countries. Our success is built upon world class software, tailored by our industry expertise and delivered by our world class service.

 

Job Summary

We require highly talented individuals who can support our sales teams achieve the revenue and profitability targets of the business, through a deep understanding of our product portfolio and how it can be applied to deliver business value to our customers'.

To be successful in this role you will need the skills, experience and knowledge to:

• identify key value drivers of a customer’s business and use that information to customise your engagement approach and reframe the way customers view their business.
• use professional concepts, creativity, and sound judgment to solve a wide range of difficult problems in imaginative and practical ways.
• be driven by the customer’s success, which you will be able to use to rapidly establish a trusted relationship.
• Have excellent written and verbal presentation skills, with strong attention to detail.
• be efficient and effective under pressure.
• be proactive at managing priorities to support sales success.
• work with people at multiple levels within a customer hierarchy, from C-Suite to end-user.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the end to end Go to Market process for solutions providing sales enablement activities to achieve GTM objectives.
• Become a trusted partner for our customers across our industry verticals to be able to capture and address their business and technical needs.
• Innovate the solution design approach by considering new methodologies or technologies that could be incorporated into the customer solution to lower the cost base, improve output performance or delivery timescales.
• Prepare bid material for customer proposals and larger complex tender responses.
• Create and deliver customer facing presentations as part of the customer procurement process.
• Support contract negotiation and development – leading on the solution / technical aspects.
• Feed identified product requirements and enhancements into our Product teams.
• Be an active member of the Sales Enablement team for mutual support and coaching within the team.

]]> Thu, 19 Aug 2021 00:00:00 EDT 0 This company is a leading global supplier of integrated business systems to retailers, manufacturers and distributors. We have over 25 years’ experience of delivering award winning solutions for more than 3,000 customers across 20 countries. Our success is built upon world class software, tailored by our industry expertise and delivered by our world class service

 

Job Summary

We require highly talented individuals who can achieve the revenue and profitability targets of the business, through a deep understanding of our product portfolio and how it can be applied to deliver business value to our customers.

To be successful in this role you will need the skills, experience and knowledge to:

• identify key value drivers of a customer’s business and use that information to customise your engagement approach and reframe the way customers view their business.
• use professional concepts, creativity, personal connections and sound judgment to solve a wide range of difficult problems in imaginative and practical ways.
• be driven by the customer’s success, which you will be able to use to rapidly establish a trusted relationship.
• Have excellent written and verbal presentation skills, with strong attention to detail.
• be efficient and effective under pressure.
• be proactive at managing priorities to support sales success.
• work with all levels within a customer hierarchy, from C-Suite to end-user.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver revenue targets against your identified book of business for the US/NA/Europe territory.

• Become a trusted partner for our customers capturing and addressing their business and technical needs.
• Utilize your position as an industry leader to amplify the company’s message across all social and industry specific channels.
• Innovate the solution design approach by considering new methodologies or technologies that could be incorporated into the customer solution to lower the cost base, improve output performance or accelerate timescales.
• Own all aspects of the sales cycle (presentations, contracting, negotiations, etc.), coordinating with division counterparts at the company to best enable sales and deliver against customer needs.
• Technically astute and capable to bring to life the product portfolio to customers and prospects.
• Actively participate with the Sales team for mutual support, coaching, and growth.

Key Experience & Skills

• Tenured, senior executive rooted in consultative solution selling, delivering complex business solutions to enterprise/Fortune 100-500 customers within the Retail/Fashion Industry.
• Deep knowledge of ERP and/or Retail systems.
• Understanding of the fashion retail and/or supply chain space.
• Understanding of Microsoft’s portfolio, specifically Dynamics 365, and understand the relevance these tools have to the Retail/Fashion industry.
• Ability to deliver impactful sales presentations and demonstrations, tactically navigating a multi-faceted sales process within matrixed customer and partner organizations.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, demonstrating the ability to investigate the needs and problems of prospective customers, isolate those challenges, and align the company’s portfolio as the solution.
• Collaborative, driven, self-starter who is comfortable building new processes, optimizing current workflows, and proactively securing all resource necessary to ensure their success.
• Effectively manage multiple and possibly competing commitments at the same time able to prioritize and express needs clearly and concisely to senior leadership.
• Willingness to travel primarily within defined territory but also more widely to support GTM engagements as required.

With colleagues and customers all over the world, we’ve created a highly dynamic and international work atmosphere. The business that we are in is constantly evolving and because of this, there is always an opportunity to further your professional and personal growth.

As an employee, you can count on:

• An attractive salary
• An ambitious and international working atmosphere
• Appealing secondary benefits
• Being part of a growing, innovative and ambitious organisation with a wide array of potential future career opportunities

.

 
]]> Thu, 19 Aug 2021 00:00:00 EDT 0 Senior Business Analyst

Princeton, New Jersey

 

We are currently seeking a Senior Business Analyst with experience in business requirements writing and a background in the US Equities marketplace. This role is primarily focused on creating, documenting and implementing innovative business solutions for trading platforms from inception to launch and post-launch. The ideal candidate will be a team player, capable of working with other team members in a fast-paced environment, balancing multiple competing priorities to deliver projects in a timely fashion.

 

 

Roles and responsibilities:

• Creates detailed functional requirements and specification documents
• Strives to gather feedback from the technology, legal and operations teams to deliver a high quality work product
• Investigates facts and designs innovative solutions that address customer and business needs
• Creates product marketing material and collateral for internal and external users
• Designs comprehensive test cases for business functionality, peer reviews the Test Case Framework to ensure accuracy and completeness
• Provides timely status to management on initiatives, identifies risks and proactively recommends solutions
• Part of team responsible for day to day exchange operations

 

Qualifications:

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, Specialized second degree in a relevant discipline is a plus
• A minimum of 3 years of experience in gathering and writing business requirements
• Subject matter expert in a function with proven ability to drive and deliver business projects
• Understanding of day to day operations at an Exchange and/or at a Trading firm
• Experience with creation of test cases and competitive analysis
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, excellent problem solving skills
• Sound understanding of the software development life cycle
• Self-motivated and capable of working in a fast paced environment
• Working knowledge of the US Equities landscape is a plus
• Understanding of order routing strategies is a plus

 

 
]]> Mon, 16 Nov 2020 00:00:00 EST 0 Position Overview — Basic Functions and Responsibility A technically strong hands on leader with strong communication skills who will take ownership of the development and technical operations of the Enterprise Content Management platform built on Adobe Experience Manager (AEM).

 She/He will be expected to work closely with the Enterprise Architecture team and the business partners to define and implement a roadmap to consolidate the numerous digital content properties on disparate content management systems at Scholastic on to the AEM based Enterprise CMS platform. This position sits within the Technical Services organization and reports to the Head of Platform Engineering.

 Essential Job Responsibilities/Primary Activities:

 Lead and own the development and technical operations of the Enterprise Content Management platform built on Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) as part of the overall STS transformation program. 35%

Work closely with the various business partners and the Enterprise Architecture team to define the enterprise web content management platform roadmap, gain shared vision and work cross functionally to deliver successfully to the committed milestones. Communicate program updates to senior leadership both in technology and business. 35%

Build a strong organization that is able to deliver on the roadmap while gaining business trust and confidence through a combination of mentoring, hiring and restructuring the current organization. 20%

 Work with vendors, suppliers/agencies and legal to review and approve contracts and SLA agreements and resolve or escalate issues as needed. 5%

 Miscellaneous day to day responsibilities including goal setting, performance evaluation, approving timesheets, etc. 5%

 Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of Adobe Experience Manager and experience with rolling out templates, micro sites, tagging and campaigns on AEM.

• Experience managing technical operations of AEM based Enterprise Content Management platforms.

• Proven track record to delivering enterprise initiatives working across organizational boundaries. Experience leading the development and implementation of large and complex digital properties

• String sense of ownership and accountability with a commitment to delivering quality outcomes that balance technical and business goals.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Comfortable interacting regularly with both technical subject matter experts as well as business owners of all organizational levels.

• Strong project management, people management and vendor/supplier/agency management skills

• 10+ years of experience in developing, enhancing and operating digital content platforms.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering.

• Ability to work in a matrixes organization

 
]]> Wed, 09 Aug 2017 00:00:00 EDT 0  

Marketing Experience Manager

You will have the responsibility for defining the vision, implementation processes, and day-to-day customer contact strategy for the Vodafone Global Enterprise Customer Experience Center in New York while aligning the go-to-market strategy, execution, and optimization of Customer Experience Centers globally.

You will create and facilitate a customer experience that demonstrates an understanding of the local markets and customer challenges while enhancing Vodafone’s reputation, communicating strategy and creating awareness of products & services. 

In the Americas, you will manage the Customer Experience Centre (CEC) facility to ensure achievement of the Americas business plans and targets. Globally, you will lead local CEC Managers to ensure a consistent experience, like processes, standardized KPIs, and common reporting methods.

You will benefit from a collaborative work environment where you’ll partner closely with our global account managers to drive real value for our customers, and you are skilled at discovering customer challenges, taking as much from what is said as what is not said. Using that information, you can paint a picture of what tomorrow looks like for our customers and how Vodafone technology fits into that vision.

Key accountabilities and decision ownership

•            Responsible for defining and owning the strategy for the CECs globally, in alignment with regional business plans, to enhance Vodafone’s reputation in the region through this highly visible took. Improve customer engagement and satisfaction and deliver the KPIs and targets

•            Responsible for supporting the delivery of the Americas field marketing execution plans by aligning the CEC activity plans with the local & global Marketing Plan and defining appropriate customer segments.

•            Host C-level customers in the New York CEC; run end-to-end experiences and demonstrations and facilitate customer innovation; hold immersive and future looking workshops and discussions.

•            Lead accountability for the customer journeys, content and assets required for CECs globally, working with key contacts internally & externally to deliver, e.g. Marketing, Partners, Agencies.

•            Manage global relationships with Sales, Marketing, Service, Product and Commercial leads to ensure that CEC activity is aligned with business objectives and targets.

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

•            Proven responsibility for leading the creation of, and managing an experience center or technical customer events, with presentation and facilitation skills across multiple job functions, cultures and languages. 

•            Strategic thinker who can facilitate a C-level conversation on business solutions with a solutions-selling approach; has an ability to translate complex business and technical strategies into easy-to-understand concepts.

•            Experienced B2B professional with minimum of 8 years’ sales, business development, marketing or event management experience in IT/Telco/High Tech.

•            Content Creation and Management experience; ability to tell a strategic story through visual mediums, leveraging global information for the Americas markets.

•            Ability to engage and influence C level customers, sales leaders, partners and other stakeholders balancing the needs of Global, Regional and Local perspectives.

Must have technical / professional qualifications:

•            Degree or higher in business studies, marketing or a communications discipline

•            B2B Marketing or Event Management skills

•            Communication skills – written and verbal

•            Innovation and creative skills

•            Facilitation skills

•            Persuasive, demonstrating executive presence and confidence across all levels of an organization

•            Must be intuitive and empathetic; able to draw conclusions from what is said as much as from what is not said

Key performance indicators:

•            Number of meetings booked in global CECs and % utilization of facility on par with or exceeds global CEC utilization rates.

•            Increased revenue generated from CEC visitors (higher total contract value and in-year revenue for customers utilizing CEC); an opportunity generator of +2 for each CEC visit (for each opportunity identified pre-visit, two opportunities documented and followed up post-visit).

•            Heightened customer awareness and perception e.g. NPS for those customers utilizing t

 
]]> Wed, 09 Aug 2017 00:00:00 EDT 0 A world leading total communications company with operations in 100 countries is rapidly expanding its US presence and invites you to be a part of its success as a National Account Manager. This company is committed to providing innovative products and services that enable multi-national organizations to stay agile and competitive - wherever in the world they do business. This company provides all of the speed, growth and excitement of a start-up, with the financial backing and footprint of a firmly established global corporation.

The Career Opportunity

Key Responsibilities:

• Impact the business: Lead exponential growth of the most strategic national accounts, with focus on client needs, proactive planning, and using your knowledge of the Global Enterprise products and services to solve client problems
• Think globally: This company is multi-homed with deep local presence, structured and resourced to support the global operations of today’s borderless enterprise. You will work closely with the global account management team to understand the client’s business across geographies and develop a strategy that secures and deepens the client relationship with the long-term focus of expanding the overall footprint
• Be the customer: Understand and anticipate the customer’s strategic and operational challenges and introduce new innovations and concepts to satisfy their business needs. Become a resource for customers by introducing them to industry specialists and third-party partners to educate and support their business requirements. Represent the customer view to inform the product roadmap development
• Be networked: Engage with local influencers and decision makers to assist in local, regional and global growth. Become the go-to person responsible for developing strong long-term relationships with key local decision makers
• Know the market: Assess customer, competitor and market trends to provide timely and accurate forecasting, evaluate risks and threats to the business and identify new areas of opportunity for this company.
• Take financial control: Deliver the local “P&L“ for the Global Enterprise accounts, provide insight into all financial targets per account and drive incremental, year-on-year growth

The Candidate Profile

 

Essential:

• At least five years of enterprise solutions sales experience within technology services – for example, cloud, hosting, M2M, telecommunications, or unified communications
• Demonstrated ability to influence at the C-level, network at middle management levels within customer and partner companies, and proven success with relationship management within multinational companies
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
• Ability to travel up to 50% at times

Desirable:

• Proven understanding of important financial concepts, purchasing practices and industry specific aspects of corporate customers
• MBA or Master’s Degree in similar field
• Ability to lead and manage an international and distributed team in a changing environment

 

Commitment from the company

This company is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best people by offering a flexible and motivating workplace in which talent is truly recognized and rewarded. We believe that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business and we are committed to creating an environment which values, celebrates and makes the most of people’s individual differences - we are not only multinational but multicultural too. At this company you will have access to our market leading benefits program.

We’re a brand that loves change – if it’s not happening naturally then we’re creating it ourselves. It’s in our DNA to push forward, to create a better future, to never rest and find new ways that help people communicate. To find that spark that empowers you is why we are in business - that’s what we mean when we say ‘power to you’.

 

 
]]> Thu, 25 Aug 2016 00:00:00 EDT 0 The second-largest U.S. equities market center, is actively seeking a hardworking, talented professional to join its Product Strategy & Management team, reporting to the Head of Product Strategy & Management.

Location: New York, NY

Responsibilities

The job will include, without limitation, the following responsibilities.  

• Assist Head of Product Strategy & Management in devising and executing on pricing strategy for Bats U.S. Equities and Options markets.
• Model transactions incentives, fee changes and new product pricing to evaluate financial impact and pricing competitiveness.
• Work with the Sales and Product teams to understand customer-product dynamics and help manage customer impact resulting from new pricing.
• Actively monitor customer trends, the competitive landscape and regulatory developments to ensure ongoing competitiveness and effectiveness of Bats pricing.  Identify opportunities and develop adaptive responses proactively.
• Oversee the implementation of pricing proposals across the organization from fee filing with the SEC to customer communication and system configurations.  This involves working with the Sales, Legal, Finance, and Technology teams.
• Drive continuous improvements in reporting metrics, business intelligence, process efficiency, etc. through project based activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Engineering or a related discipline. MBA preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years financial analysis, accounting, product management or consulting experience. 
• Demonstrated ability and experience in defining and developing pricing models or strategy.
• Must possess strong analytical, quantitative, and research skills.  Intellectually curious.
• Self-starter with the ability to multi-task effectively and independently within a fast-paced environment.
• Must be able to communicate with all levels of management and staff and be a strong team player.
• Highly proficient in Excel.  Proficient in PowerPoint.  SQL skills preferred.
• Working knowledge of a Business Intelligence platform (e.g. Tableau, Qlik Sense) desired.

]]> Fri, 26 Feb 2016 00:00:00 EST 0
You will also manage integrations with Kafka, Storm, Elasticsearch, Mongo DB and Redis.  Our hybrid infrastructure runs on high performance architecture in our managed Data Centers and leverages Cloud Technology Services where applicable.  We build and maintain a modern Platform as a Service – delivering efficient business value to our clients – and custom-build applications typically deployed as microservices. It’s cool stuff, and our engineers are smart and savvy.  
Responsibilities

• Build, monitor, and maintain production and development environments
• Design and deploy our PaaS platform using Mesos, Marathon, Docker, and associated tools
• Support our microservices architecture with applications/DBs such as Redis, HBase, and Kafka
• Develop automated deployment mechanisms using Puppet, Ansible, Foreman, Zookeeper, and similar tools
• Configure and administer a variety of virtualized (VMWare) environments
• Create and execute scripts to perform needed system functions
• Create tools which manage entire system lifecycle Collaborate with Conversion Rate Optimization Manager, and Creative and User Experience (UX) teams to develop creative assets and collateral such as new landing pages and the optimization of existing landing pages. 
• Work closely with Corporate Communications and Content Marketing on strategies and tactics such as content creation, distribution and link building to improve reputation management, launch new products, improve organic search performance, etc. 
Qualifications 

• 1-3 years’ experience with PostgreSQL (replication, backups, tuning)
• 1-3 years’ experience with enterprise storage arrays
• Extensive knowledge of the IP protocol suite and associated troubleshooting
• Experience with application monitoring tools
• Git or other source control system
• Puppet and/or Puppet module development a plus
• Ansible working knowledge is a plus
• Working knowledge of VMWare virtualization Tools
MySQL knowledge
• Tomcat and/or JBoss exposure
Excellent communication and problem solving skills

  ]]> Wed, 30 Dec 2015 00:00:00 EST 0 Job Overview:

The Information Security Architect is responsible for establishing and maintaining portions of the Scholastic Technology Service (STS) Security Program, which is designed to ensure that the company’s technology systems and information assets are adequately protected. 

 

The Security Architect:

• Plays a critical role to assure that the various technical, process and people elements of Scholastic's security program result in a security posture consistent with policy, regulatory, and customer expectations and requirements.  
• Is not only expert in the diversity of current risks and threats and means of addressing them, but also brings a broad technology background, including development and technology operations.  This broad background enables the security architect to liaise with a wide variety of technology leaders to build trust, provide guidance and work in a consultative fashion to design and implement effective security constructs, controls, and mitigations.
• Is a process owner for Scholastic’s Information Security (IS)-related risk assessment and identification activities, for the company's systems and information assets and for its technology-dependent strategic business objectives.
• A crucial element of this role is working with senior executives, line-of-business managers and other key decision makers to determine acceptable levels of residual risk for the company as a whole and for various internal departments and organizations.
• Is a proven thought leader, problem solver and integrator of people and processes, as well as an effective internal consultant.

 

Must possess:

o In-depth knowledge of Scholastic’s business environment, to ensure that the company’s systems and services are appropriately protected and fully functional.

o Solid domain competencies in a number of risk-related disciplines, including security, business continuity management, business continuity management, privacy and compliance.

 

 

Primary Responsibilities and Activities:

 

• Ensure that the customer and market facing security demands and expectations are well known (as they evolve and change over time), and that the related security designs either meet or are evolving to meet those demands.

• Meet customer and business expectations in avoidance of business risk, with regard to information security and privacy issues.

• Work directly with business units and other internal departments and organizations to facilitate IS risk analysis and risk management processes, identify acceptable levels of residual risk, establish roles and responsibilities related to information classification and protection, and to ensure that other managers are taking effective remediation steps.

• Create, disseminate and (as required) update documentation of Scholastic’s matrix of identified IS risks and controls.

• Play a critical role in managing executive level relationships across the technology and business organizations. 

• Coordinate information security and risk management projects with Scholastic personnel from the STS organization, lines of business, and other internal departments and organizations.

• Review risk assessments, analyze the effectiveness of Scholastic’s IS control activities and report on them, with actionable recommendations to STS Management.

• Be the central point of design and review and establish standards for the technical aspects of security to ensure that security components integrate into a comprehensive and effective security posture.  These aspects or components include: infrastructure and network; data protection mechanisms; policy; hardening and deployment standards and practices; application security.

• Work closely with the enterprise architecture function to ensure that security needs and constructs are included in all aspects of enterprise technology.

• Serve as a technical expert resource to infrastructure and operations staff on choosing, implementing, and configuring tools, products, and solutions to meet security objectives.

• Serve as reviewer and approver of all requested exceptions to technical standards as related to security.

• Follow up on deficiencies identified in monitoring reviews, self-assessments, automated assessments, and internal and external audits to ensure that appropriate remediation and mitigation measures have been taken.

 

 

 
 
Qualifications

 

Education and Training:

 

Education:

• Minimum Bachelor of Science required, with a focus on Information Technology or Information Security and architecture-related disciplines (e.g. computer science; security; enterprise architecture; software engineering).  A business degree is beneficial.

Professional Certifications:

• Candidates with the following certifications are preferred: ISC2, SANS, ISACA, or other recognized security professional credentialing organization

Experience:

 

• 8-10 years or experience in an enterprise technology environment, ideally with customer-facing systems and services.  Numerous roles are applicable – operations, application development, networking, systems and infrastructure architecture, or other as applicable.
• 5-7 years of experience in security roles with increasing responsibility and business-leadership exposure.  Previous roles may include information security analyst, application security or penetration testing, network-related security roles (firewall, intrusion detection, data loss prevention), or audit/compliance such as working to maintain SOX, PCI, and/or HIPAA compliance.

 

 

Evaluation of Success:

 

• The scope of the Security Architect’s role will be determined by the Corporate Information Security Office (CISO) and/or the Director, Information Compliance & Risk Management who will be responsible for evaluating the Security Architect’s performance.

• The Security Architect’s performance will largely be evaluated on the basis of success in identifying IS-related risks, and developing and implementing effective policies, with regularly tested controls, to manage those risks.

Required Knowledge and Skill:

• Solid understanding of application security, including secure coding practices and standards, penetration testing and overall secure SDLC practices.  Working knowledge of the use of common application frameworks in Java, .NET and others to avoid common classes of application vulnerabilities (e.g. OWASP Top Ten) is required.

• Strong infrastructure security skills including IDS/IPS, firewall, SIEM, server and OS hardening, malware detection, physical security, transport and at-rest encryption on file systems, DB, and other data persistence mechanisms.

• Previous experience in strategic planning and associated processes for budgeting and portfolio decision-making for business or technology goals is required.  The ability to distill requirements from non-technical staff and working relations and build road-maps and prioritize over time is also required.

• A track record of contributing to and leading cross-functional teams delivering technology services and solutions for internal business stakeholders or customers.

• Prior exposure to security and/or risk-related compliance audit is strongly preferred.

• Formal project management experience and/or skills are a plus.

 

 

Key Behaviors and Competencies

 

 

• In-depth understanding of strategic business risks.

 

• Ability to develop a comprehensive understanding of Scholastic’s business, market and industry and relate that knowledge to identified operations- and IS-related risks.

 

• Knowledge necessary to propose relevant responses to changing business risks and regulatory changes.

 

• Proven ability to communicate with people at all levels — from developers to the board of directors.

 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills — including the ability to effectively communicate security- and risk-related concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences — and strong interpersonal and collaborative skills.

 

• Strong skills as a negotiator, to facilitate commitment to, and sign-off on, appropriate levels of residual risk from line-of-business managers.

 

• High level of personal integrity, with the ability to handle confidential and otherwise sensitive matters professionally and with the appropriate level of judgment and maturity.

 

• High degree of initiative, dependability and ability to work with little supervision.

 

• Capable of successfully handling multiple high priority tasks in a team setting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
]]> Tue, 08 Dec 2015 00:00:00 EST 0 Senior Software Engineer – Data Services

Description

The Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for the delivery of enterprise data services in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) environment.  The Senior Engineer must work with multiple agile development teams to produce a consistent set of data services that can be utilized for data collection and distribution across multiple work streams: Master Data Management (MDM), Analytics, Enterprise Content Management (ECMS) as well as operational applications.  The ideal candidate will drive and champion test-driven and agile development, as well as promoting and evolving best practices within the organization. The Senior Software Engineer will be detail oriented, self-directed, self-motivated, with a strong capacity for working successfully and flexibly with members across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Work in partnership with Architecture, Master Data Management and ECMS teams to design, develop and deliver data and integration services across multiple technology domains.
• Ensure that code adheres to strict standards and best practices for accessibility, security, object-oriented practices and performance
• Identify ways to package  new and existing services and capabilities to provide a comprehensive SOA-based platform for data collection and distribution
• Model, design, and develop REST-based web services, service wrappers, service interfaces, APIs, messaging systems (e.g. via ESB technologies) and other integration patterns as may be required
• Model and implement solutions for different deployment and continuous integration scenarios, and assist in the development of a build/deploy environment
• Design databases and data messages exchanged among systems based on evolving standards in the domain
• Design and build a reusable, expandable and scalable data services platform that will integrate data from various sources and interfaces that include structured and un-structured data sources
• Produce documentation of standards and guidelines for technical and functional audiences, to include working code examples and interface definitions and templates. Provide leadership, mentoring, and technical training to other data service team members

Qualifications

• Strong communications skills and the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical people and work with a variety of internal and external development groups
• Good foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in basic data structures, graphs, algorithms, JVM concurrency, thread-safe design, OO design and services architecture
• Experienced at software performance, scalability, maintainability, reusability and security
• Practitioner of Agile/Scrum and test driven development
• Ability to lead design sessions, provide guidance on development tasking and participate in architecture and code reviews
• Work both independently as well as within a team involving technical partners and domain subject matter experts to consistently develop and implement  high quality, secure, scalable software within expected time and budget
• Ability to operate in a fast paced agile environment with ability to change rapidly
• Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / MIS or equivalent experience required.
• Minimum five (5) years’ experience in software engineering and design.
• Strong core Java, OOD, Design Patterns, SOA, REST-based web services
• Test driven development (TDD) methodology and tools
• Proficiency with XML/XLST/JSON/JSON-LD
• Knowledge of open source technology such as Linux and Apache stacks
• Maven, Jenkins or other continuous integration
• AWS services such as RDS and S3
• Messaging and ESB
• Demonstrable knowledge of both stream and ETL/Batch data aggregation patterns
• AWS services such as RDS, Redshift, Kinesis and S3
• Multiple DBMS storage engines, models  and access methods, such as MySQL, SQL Server, and Oracle
• In addition, the following experience is beneficial:
• Experience with Master Data Management, Data Warehousing and Analytics
• Experience in web-publishing and product delivery
• Experience NoSQL, such as MongoDB, Graph database (OrientDB, Neo4J, or Blazegraph)
• Experience with RDF/SPARQL
• WS02 API/ESB Management
• Scala, Python

]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2015 00:00:00 EST 0 Senior Data Architect

Position Overview:

Based in New York City the Data Architect position plays a critical role within the Technology Services group. The organization is responsible for overseeing the continuous development, improvement and operation of eCommerce, EdTech applications, Enterprise applications, Internet and Intranet applications. Currently, these systems support multi-million page views per day on the internet, and millions of eCommerce and non-eCommerce transactions per year.

Reporting to the Executive Director of Data the Data Architect will understand and enable Scholastic Company objectives by creating and communicating a strategic vision for Scholastic’s data assets. She/he will develop, communicate, and continuously refine an architecture which enables the achievement of Scholastic’s strategic objectives. Additionally, the Data Architect will advocate, support and enable the implementation of that architecture within the context of a well-defined and realistic roadmap.                     

Position responsibilities will include the following:

• Develop an understanding of the Corporations existing Data components and future technical and stakeholder product requirements.
• Map the current data structure to the future state with a realistic transition plan and roadmap that integrates with the strategic objectives of the company.
• Drive an agile-based approach to implementing data services and solutions to deliver value rapidly and evolve to the future state.
• Work closely with individuals across the STS (Scholastic Technology  
• Services) organization to help promote awareness of the data architecture and ensure that enterprise assets of competence are leveraged.
• Lead Data Architecture Review Board to help ensure that technology implementations across Scholastic are in line with the Customer Information Architecture principles and vision.
• Be an advocate for Big Data Technologies and its practical implementations.
• Bring a “hands-on” perspective with these technologies and an understanding of the “right tool for the right job”.
• Understand current BI/Data Warehouse/Reporting landscape, assess and make recommendations for future course in line with an overall Data Architecture.

Position Requirements:

The successful candidate will possess the appropriate educational credentials (Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering/Masters preferred) coupled with extensive enterprise level customer (B2B and B2C) data project technology solution architecture and implementation experience within a high volume customer facing business.

 She/he will have 10+ years of product and enterprise architecture experience directly related to data, analytics, reporting and information lifecycle management. Additionally, the role requires 5+ years experience architecting high volume, high availability data integrations and services including Service Oriented and Micro Services architectures. This will also include     experience with and a demonstrable understanding of the strengths of multiple data persistence technologies; relational, document, graph, Hadoop, etc.

 The Data Architect will have developed and implemented:

• Data architectures in a hybrid data environment which combine on premises SaaS and IaaS solutions.
• Self Service BI/Data Discovery/Data Exploration/Hub-Spoke BI
• Semantic data systems (RDF/OWL/etc)

They will have experience with one or more data processing systems including Storm, Spark, Kafka, MapReduce, etc. Additionally, the successful candidate will have experience with Information Lifecycle Management including Master Data Management, Data Security, High Availability, Disaster Recovery.  A proven track record building and providing technical leadership on cross functional teams is required. They must possess the skills to build an effective business relationships, establish and maintain shared architectural vision, and partner effectively with a large and diverse stakeholder community. 

Opportunity/Compensation:

 This position will offer the individual an opportunity to be part of an industry leader with a mission to engage children in learning and the joy of reading. She/he will serve in a critical technical role that is in the beginning of a 3 year, $100M technology transformation program to include a cultural transformation to create an engineering work place that is fun, engaging, and on the leading edge of technology. The Corporation will pay a competitive compensation package with an excellent benefits package. They recognize the financial impact of relocation, and provide a progressive relocation package. The successful candidate will have high visibility within the organization and will be in an excellent position to make both a significant contribution to the Corporation, as well as provide for future career-broadening assignments based on performance.
]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2015 00:00:00 EST 0 Application Architect

The Application Architect will play an essential role in a major technology transformation being undertaken this 2 billion dollar global company.

The Application Architect will provide enterprise-wide leadership on application development and integration, as well as deep involvement in the design and development of core applications and platforms that are key areas for digital engagement with students and teachers.

Responsibilities:

• Provide architectural leadership on the development of custom software, adoption of open source applications, selection of packaged and SaaS applications, and integration of applications with other systems and the overall enterprise.
• Connect application architecture to the business needs of the company by working closely with business leaders.
• Build and maintain the current-state and future-state applications architecture views for the enterprise.
• Deliver various artifacts as part of the enterprise application architecture, including implementation models, technology matrices, communications diagrams, application use-case diagrams, migration/distribution diagrams, etc.
• Collaborate with program architects across the organization on the details of the application architecture for their particular domain.
• Champion best practices on software engineering throughout the organization.
• Drive exemplar proofs-of-concept or pilots that leverage our technology and establish the path for other similar projects.
• Work with other architects around business, data, systems, and security needs and how applications best participate in the overall enterprise architecture.
• Establish standards around development technology stacks, including languages, containers, frameworks, libraries, and design patterns.
• Participate on the architecture council to provide governance and build processes to guide and sanction critical architectural decisions.
• Monitor market/technology trends along with vendor strategies and determine potential impact to our businesses and systems.
• Develop, document, and present recommendation proposals, including selection criteria, evaluation, analysis of options, tradeoffs, justifications, and final selections.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 8-10 years of experience designing and developing complex software solutions, minimum 3 years in architect roles with demonstrable growth in scope and complexity of the roles filled.
• BA or BS in a technical discipline, advanced degree strongly preferred.
• Extensive experience as a software developer and software architect in one or more complex enterprise environments, with a strong focus on customer-facing web and mobile applications supporting multiple lines of business.
• Strong experience with building modern SaaS web applications that support 10s of millions of customers.
• Experience with services-oriented architecture and supporting technologies, defining services, establishing the service usage patterns within the enterprise including orchestration, composition, messaging patterns.
• Experience with modern REST API based architectures and supporting their implementation in a large technology eco-system.
• Experience in agile software development methods, specifically providing architecture leadership as part of an agile organization.
• Experience in education, publishing, and/or digital media is highly preferred.
• Solid knowledge of the software development lifecycle
• Experience with project management methodologies and best practices
• Ability to work in a fast paced, demanding, and fluid environment.
• Ability to understand the big picture and the short term perspectives of specific situations.
• Ability to influence others to achieve results.

 

 

 

 
]]> Tue, 03 Nov 2015 00:00:00 EST 0 Objective:

The Analytics Architect will play an essential role in a major technology transformation. This person will provide enterprise wide leadership to design future state Business Intelligence and Analytics solutions based on the business need of the company. Reporting to the Chief Architect, this person will work closely with the Analytics team, portfolio office and business leaders at various levels. The Analytics Architect will have deep involvement in the design and development of Enterprise Data Lake and Self-Service / Visual Data Discovery platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Provide architectural leadership on the design and development of enterprise data lake, adoption of open source data integration tools, selection of packaged and SaaS data integration components, and integration of applications with other systems across the enterprise.
• Align analytics architecture to the business needs by working closely with the business leaders, program leads and portfolio management office.
• Build and maintain the current state and future state business intelligence and analytics architecture views for the enterprise.
• Collaborate with enterprise data architect and other portfolio/program architects across the organization to make sure analytics domain architecture align closely with the portfolio/enterprise level architecture.
• Develop conceptual architecture diagrams, data/process flow diagrams; evaluate/select tools and technologies that align with enterprise architecture guidelines.
• Champion best practices on enterprise data management, data integration, dimensional data modeling and visual analytics/self-service data discovery throughout the organization.
• Establish standards around development analytics technology stack, including languages, frameworks, data storage, and design patterns.
• Drive exemplars, proofs-of-concept or pilots related to BI & Analytics that leverage our technology stack and establish the path for other similar projects.
• Participate on the architecture council to provide governance and build processes to guide and sanction critical architectural decisions related to analytics, enterprise data processing and management.
• Monitor market/technology trends along with vendor strategies and determine potential impact to our businesses and systems.
• Develop, document, and present recommendation proposals, including selection criteria, evaluation, analysis of options, tradeoffs, justifications, and final selections.
• Take an active and insightful role in group discussions at various levels. Simplify and explain complex concepts to any levels. (e.g. technical experts, senior management, business community etc)
• Lead design sessions and conduct code reviews.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in the field of enterprise data management, integration and analytics. Ideal candidate possesses 5+ years of experience in solutions/domain architecture related to business intelligence and analytics utilizing emerging technologies.
• Strong business acumen and drive to solve complex business problems using emerging and established technologies in a data driven organization.
• Extensive architectural level experience in traditional data warehousing (EDW, ODS, ETL/ELT) as well as emerging big data technologies such as Hadoop, logical data warehouses, cloud based data warehouses with special focus on Amazon Web Services (S3, Redshift, EMR, Sqoop, Kinesis, DynamoDB, Data Pipeline, Spark).
• Successful track record of architecting elegant and efficient business intelligence solutions which have had a direct positive impact on desired business outcomes.
• Exposures to end-to-end BI & Analytics life cycle (requirement gathering, business/data analysis, solution architecture and development, data modeling, data engineering and data visualizations).
• Demonstrated expertize in designing and implementing enterprise wide visual data exploration & discovery platforms such as Tableau.
• Experience with services-oriented architecture and supporting technologies, defining services, establishing the service usage patterns within the enterprise including orchestration, composition, messaging patterns.
• Strong data engineering and visual analytics background. Prior experience with traditional BI technologies such as MicroStrategy, Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Business Intelligence suite (SSAS, SSRS, SSIS, Sharepoint), Informatica, etc.
• Experience in agile software development methods, specifically providing architecture leadership as part of an agile organization.
• Experience in education, publishing, and/or digital media is highly preferred.
• The ideal candidate will be distinguished not only by mastery of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing disciplines, but also by a passionate commitment to end user satisfaction.
• Demonstrated expertise in building and managing relationships with business users, project/program management, senior management, business partners, vendors, and consultants.
• BA or BS in a computer science or related discipline, advanced degree in computer science, information management, analytics or related disciplines strongly preferred.

 

 
]]> Tue, 03 Nov 2015 00:00:00 EST 0 SCRUM Master

The SCRUM Master will implement plans, strategies and policies to help guide and direct employees. Will supervise and coordinate organization's operations and make sure employees have the resources needed to do their jobs. Build the organization’s image by working collaboratively with the company's business partners. Enhance organization’s reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments. The SCRUM Master will display leadership skills of integrity, strategic planning, decisiveness, sound business judgment, flexibility, analytical thinking and people management. The SCRUM Master will ensure that the Technology Product Managers are working closely with the Technology team leads to identify, prioritize, and complete projects for their assigned area

Responsibilities include:

• Align business and technology roadmaps
• Proactively seek to understand each division’s business objective and champion those objectives to deliver business value
• Create, maintain, and communicate a calendar of technical events in support of the business objectives
• Ensure that the deliverables meet the business requirements
• Foster collaborative communication among technical and business teams
• Ensure proper project planning occurs and that estimates for scope, effort, cost, and schedule are properly defined, communicated, and accepted by key stakeholders
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion
• Review project deliverables to ensure completeness & adherence to standards
• Manage risks and issues
• Set and manage business expectations
• Gain trust of Business partners by ensuring the team is consistently completing high-quality deliverables
• Establish position as expert and trusted advisor
• Manage staff for optimum performance
• Determine staffing requirements
• Hire and train new staff
• Set employee goals and objectives
• Develop staff to maximize potential
• Monitor staff performance including performance reviews
• Delegate work assignments to staff to attain objectives
• Allocate use of available resources
• Monitor and assist staff with work progress

 

Qualifications

• Exceptional verbal, written and communication skills
• Ability to establish goals and set clear expectations, prioritize activities and follow through to completion
• Excellent interpersonal skills including negotiation, problem resolution and customer service
• Strong presentation skills
• Ability to quickly understand the scope of the project and identify key success and risk factors
• Experience working with third party vendors with an understanding of systems integration
• Enthusiastic team-player
• Able to clearly and regularly communicate status, issues and risks to project stakeholders
• Bachelor’s Degree; Master’s degree a plus
• Must be highly organized and able to multi-task
• Experience with software development life cycles
• Expert with Microsoft Word, Project, Excel, Visio & PowerPoint
• Ability to react to project adjustments and alterations promptly and efficiently
• Ability to lead in a high pressure, multicultural environment and motivate other staff
• Self-starter who will take ownership and initiative

]]> Tue, 03 Nov 2015 00:00:00 EST 0  

 A technically strong hands on expert Software Engineer to lead development efforts for highly visible, cutting edge consumer facing websites built on the Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) CMS Platform for highly recognized and distinguished consumer brands. We are seeking a highly motivated and technically proficient Java engineer with deep experience developing and leading projects on the AEM platform including, but not limited to: designing and developing site architecture, custom components, custom workflows, Digital Asset Management (DAM) customization, object model designs (Java APIs), implementation strategy, unittesting and deployment.

 

• Translates business requirements into technical details relevant to AEM
• Resolves functional and technical issues relating to AEM
• Provides technical leadership on complex projects that require eCommerce, campaign, targeting, and social with the AEM platform
• Creates technical documentation as part of client deliverables
• Provides technical leadership and mentoring of team members.

Qualifications

 

3+ years of development/implementation experience using AEM including hands on experience developing templates, components, OSGi services, and integrations.

Working knowledge of AEMs multi-site manager, campaign integration and content translation strategies.

7+ years of Java web programming experience

2+ years of experience with modern JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as jQuery, Backbone.js, AngularJS, and/or other MVC frameworks.

Strong communication skills with the ability to effectively interface with business as well as technical teams.

Good business analysis/design skills with architecture and implementation experience.

Bachelors degree in Computer Science or Engineering
]]> Fri, 02 Oct 2015 00:00:00 EDT 0 A technically strong hands on expert who can provide thought leadership in the areas of Solr capabilities, including indexing, configuration & optimization for the web properties. She/He must be able to design, build and support business requirements around SOLR/Lucene search engine and SEO. The candidate should have a solid understanding of overall search architecture including design and implementation of user interface changes for search solutions using HTML5, JavaScript, and Open Source JavaScript frameworks.

• Practical hands on knowledge about Solr – Knows Schema.xml, solrconfig.xml, dismax, tie parameter, optimization, and optimization.
• Strong knowledge of Lucene API, taxonomy and search optimization techniques. Adept at programming in Java and experience with ETLs.
• Serves as the subject matter expert (SME) for search optimization across  web and content properties.
• Determines and develops architectural approaches and solutions, conducts business reviews, documents current systems and develops recommendations of how to proceed with the applications
• Evaluates existing or proposed systems for the business, and devises computer systems and related procedures to solve the business need
• Devises or modifies procedures to solve problems considering system(s) capacity and limitations, operation time, and form of desired results
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability with a commitment to delivering quality outcomes that balance technical and business goals.

Qualifications

 

• 10+ years of experience in the eCommerce/Content space with a focus on search engines (GSA, SOLR, Lucene, etc.)
• 5+ years Search Engine Optimization experience.
• Experience on Demandware based eCommerce Platforms and/or Adobe Experience manager based web CMS platforms.
• Knowledge of Google Analytics and Webmaster tools
• Experience working with technical SEO tools such as Screaming Frog, SEMRush, and Moz.
• Understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Strong communication skills with the ability to effectively interface with business as well as technical teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering

 
]]> Thu, 01 Oct 2015 00:00:00 EDT 0 Employee Status

-Regular

Description

• Title: Senior Applications Developer
• Department: Scholastic Technology Services
• Reports to: Manager/ Senior Manager/ Director of Applications Development
• Location: New York City, New York

This company is responsible for overseeing the continuous development, improvement and operation of e-Commerce, Enterprise applications, Internet and Intranet applications.  Currently, these systems support multi million page views a day on the internet, and millions of e-commerce and non commerce transactions per year.

The online environment is split between open source technologies and Vertical stacks from Redhat, Demandware, Adobe, Oracle, Microsoft  and AWS.  Part of the Engineering best practices various technologies, frame works, tools like Jenkins, Artifactory, Restassured, Jacoco, Sonarqube, Sellenium, Junit etc are adequately used.

The Application Development team is responsible for the coding and integrating of the various applications running on the diverse web site.  It works closely with the Project Management Office on approved scheduled projects. 

The team is generally responsible for:

• Application development employing J2EE and Microsoft standards

• Integrating vendor packages

• Database modeling and scripting

• System documentation

• Production defect repair and enhancements

POSITION OBJECTIVE: 

This person must understand the functional requirements and technical specifications of projects necessary for implementing technical solutions. This person must work effectively both as an individual contributor as well as a member of the development team in designing, developing and testing software application solutions.

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES: 

The Senior Applications Developer’s responsibilities include:

• Reports to the Manager/Director of Applications Development

• Work as technical leads and architects and write and implement technical specifications related to the company’s web initiatives.

• Work with other members of the Applications Development team to implement technical specifications.

• Work with functional groups both internal to Scholastic Technology Service Group (e.g., project management, network operations.) and external in order to provide tightly integrated solutions between the web applications and the legacy backend systems.

• Be well-versed in the technologies chosen for developing Scholastic’s web application solutions (e.g., J2EE applications, JBOSS,Websphere App Server, Demandware, Adobe, Mongo DB, No SQL, Web Servicess, Open DJ, Forgerock,Solar, Search Engines,, Ajax, EJB, Struts, MQ, LDAP, DB2,Oracle, SQL Server database, MySQL,WSo2, Steboetc.).

• Write and review application code for web applications.

• Design and build applications for scalability and redundancy.

• Adhere to industry standards and Scholastic Technology Service Group-defined guidelines and principles for software engineering.

• Provide technical guidance to more junior members of the development team.

• Write documentation as needed.

• Continue to develop technical skills and learn new technologies as needed.

• Possess good communication, team work and accountability.

SCOPE/DIMENSION:

This individual will:

• Implement (i.e., design, develop, unit test) technical solutions for web applications based on the functional requirements and technical specifications.

• Adhere to project scope and timelines with both Agil/SAFE and waterfall approaches.

• Support and maintain online, ecommerce applications.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS:

This individual will have working relationships with various teams within Scholastic Technology Service Group and other divisions of scholastic:

• All members of the Scholastic Technology Service Applications Development team

• Members of the Scholastic Technology Service Network Operations team

• Members of the PMO team (e.g., Project Managers)

• Outside vendors and consultants

Qualifications

In order for this individual to be successful, he/she must:

• Implement reliable and scalable web application solutions and e-Commerce applications.

• Have the ability to work as an individual contributor as well as a member of a development team

• Possess a BA or BS degree from an accredited university.

• 6-12 years of Software development

 
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