Seeking Technical Lead Secaucus, NJ Contract to Permanent
BridgeView IT is seeking a Technical Lead Secaucus, NJ Contract to Permanent
The project: Business Intelligence & Reporting (BI&R), Technical Lead
The Business Intelligence & Reporting organization is responsible for the end-to-end delivery of programs to develop and maintain Clients global business intelligence platforms. The team is geographically dispersed and comprises of all disciplines required to deliver IT solutions for our customers, including project managers, business analysts, application engineers, quality assurance & testers and implementation managers. In addition the function works closely with the Enterprise & Solution Architecture and Infrastructure & Operations teams.
The Business Intelligence & Reporting Technical Lead is responsible for technical delivery of Business Intelligence solutions within a multi-year, multi-million dollar internal global Business Intelligence program at our Clients entity. These programs may consist of interrelated projects under an overarching program or may comprise a single large multi-year program. The Technical Lead will lead a global application engineering team and manage all application engineering activities, including technical analysis and design, work breakdown structures, build and unit test within a program, working closely with the program/project manager and our customer to ensure project success.
The role requires mastery of the Client Software Development Lifecycle including analysis, design and estimation through to build and unit test. Scope, cost, time, issue, risk, resource, communication and stakeholder management are key responsibilities of the role in addition to coaching and growing the application engineering team. This role requires significant proven experience at delivering Business Intelligence solutions on the Microsoft technology platform including SQL Server 2008r2 including (SSRS, SSIS, SSAS), SharePoint 2010 and .NET 4.0.
The Technical Lead supports the Program/Project Manager in the overall delivery of the firms strategy including process improvement, funding and portfolio management, multi-year roadmaps and the delivery of approved programs and projects.
Required Skills:
15+ years application engineering experience including full life-cyle and functional/non-functional experience specifically on the Microsoft platform including SQL Server (SSIS, SSRS, SSAS), .NET, SharePoint 2007/2010
8+ years experience leading application engineering project teams
5+ years experience with business intelligence (Enterprise Reporting, Analytics and Data Warehousing)
Excellent experience in client-facing roles within blue chip organizations
Experience of application engineering team management with medium/large multi-location teams on multi-year Business Intelligence projects/programs
Work experience in a professional services industry, preferred
Work experience in a global role, preferred
Microsoft certification preferred
Proven track record of successful delivery of application engineering within Business Intelligence programs/projects with personal accountability for the functional and non-functional application engineering design and execution within large, complex programs/projects typically more than $5m in value and 18 months in duration that includes the use of supplier and off-shore resources
Significant experience with implementing and maintaining application engineering disciplines for Business Intelligence technologies, vendors and products on the Microsoft platform including SQL Server (SSIS, SSRS, SSAS), .NET, SharePoint 2007/2010
Senior application engineering experience and able to take an active hands-on keyboard engineering role
Track record of customer focus and stakeholder management based on openness, trust, and delivering on promises
Mastery of application engineering methodology, tools and templates (includes planning, schedule development, scope management and cost management) including Risk Management and life cycle management tools such as Team Foundation Server
Supporting the Program Manager in managing to contract; ensuring clients and suppliers alike perform in accordance with original agreement
Management skills to lead a Application Engineering team across one or more large, complex Business Intelligence global programs/projects simultaneously
Proven IT delivery background with experience across the systems development life cycle with experience in all program/project phases plan, initiate, elaborate, design, build, test, implement.
Leader in the use of Application Engineering methodologies, processes, standards tools and techniques within the Business Intelligence domain
Strong team working skills across matrixed client, supplier and geographically dispersed virtual teams
Strong communication and interpersonal skills (includes negotiation)
Excellent written and verbal communication skills must be able to communicate fluently in English both verbally and in writing
Overview of responsibilities:
Successfully deliver technical solutions within multi-million dollar, multi-year global business intelligence programs for the IT Services organization through:
Acting as the single point of application engineering accountability for BI&R project/program managers on assigned engagements
Planning and managing delivery of all application engineering activities for assigned program/projects including working closely with off-shore 3rd party vendors to deliver projects to time, cost and quality requirements primarily on the Microsoft technology platform
Ensuring that application engineering and architecture standards are met as prescribed by IT Services through the effective implementation or use of approved processes, methodologies and deliverables primarily based upon the Microsoft Business Intelligence technology platform
Researching and evaluating alternative technical solutions with the Application Architecture team and proposing the most efficient and cost-effective solution while minimizing risk to the project and firm
Guiding the application engineering team to translate Application Architecture deliverables into more detailed Solution Design Documents and the resulting build deliverables including significant amount of hands-on coding and code reviews
Leading the application engineering delivery and management of engineering resources, resource plans and work breakdown structure within a program/project ensuring these align with approved standards
Managing engineering team workload, performance and delivery targets within a program/project including recruitment and annual reviews of staff
Develop and maintain strong working relationships with other IT Service groups and customers to expedite delivery of IT solutions
Provide technical guidance and coaching and expertise to team members, colleagues and/or customers
Assisting in the broader development of application engineering policies, standards and procedures
Make the appropriate decisions and approvals in order to successfully deliver multi-million dollar global business intelligence programs
Monitor and manage the program/project application engineering baseline to ensure activities are occurring as planned - scope, budget and schedule and managing variances
Proactively identify risks, issues and problems on programs/projects - leading engineering and project/program team to develop risk management and issue management plans
Ability to clearly articulate problems and proposed options and solutions and apply judgment in implementing application engineering methodologies, processes and practices to ensure security, resilience, maintainability and quality of Business Intelligence solutions
Ability to quickly adapt to changing requirements and customer demands
Ability to prioritize personal and team workloads to best meet organizational objectives
Analytical skills and problem solving skills needed to manage multiple factors on a program/project simultaneously
Demonstrate business analytics to manage and meet sponsor and customer needs
Leads application engineering teams to deliver technical solutions for global multi-million dollar, multi-year program/project to schedule, budget and scope
Leads program/project application engineering teams consisting of cross functional, global, and virtual groups; directly supervises staff; assigns responsibility to members; monitors progress of the daily activities
Recruits and undertakes personal development of team to develop their skills and maintain industry-leading knowledge in their areas of responsibility including, where necessary, performance management of staff members
Coaches, mentors and supports less experienced staff and is accountable for the performance and results of a team within own discipline or function
BridgeView IT is a technology placement firm assisting a national network of clients identify and hire the highest-caliber IT professionals. Our management and senior recruiting specialists have successfully supported the IT marketplace for over a decade, and we have grown into a world class organization, with operations in major U.S. markets. BridgeView ITs mission is to build long-lasting relationships through successful candidate placements, to conduct business with utmost professionalism and courtesy, and to achieve rewarding business performance results.