Infogroup Northwest is a premier IT Staffing Firm for some of Portland's top Mid Sized and Fortune 500 companies. We have been voted by the Business Journal as one of Portland's Top Staffing Firms for 2009. Infogroup Northwest specializes in placing top IT talent in direct hire, contract and contract to hire employment opportunities. Infogroup Northwest is proud to offer Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits where we cover 100% of the monthly premium for working consultants.
Job Responsibilities Work with large retail merchant clients and internal development teams to define requirements, plan delivery, design web-site, point of sale and supply chain solutions and manage projects to go-live. This involves cross-team coordination, project management (scope, schedule, and cost/staffing), client-facing skills and technical leadership. Effectively manage customer expectations and resolve conflicts that balance client and company needs. Be accountable for driving the entire product lifecycle, requirements definition through specification, design, coding, quality assurance, implementation, integration and go-live. Clarify and drive project commitments as well as establish and maintain clear chains of accountability.
Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, balance the business needs versus technical constraints; and encourage risk-taking behavior to maximize business benefit. Tackle configuration and debugging tasks through issue isolation and deductive reasoning. Understand service interdependencies and drive towards technical solutions for multi-tiered systems.
Successful candidates will have the opportunities to work as part of a team to expand the merchant platform in several ground breaking areas. Interacting with a broad cross section of our organization and spanning wide range of technologies, this is an excellent opportunity for a motivated, energetic individual to have a large impact in a newly formed technology and business unit within our organization.
Candidate Requirements * Candidates must have a strong customer focus * Experience designing and managing the implementation of large enterprise systems * Essential program management skills include collecting business and technical requirements, writing detailed functional and test specifications, coordinating efforts to scope, schedule, and deploy new features sets; as well as analyzing cost/benefit of feature selection and communicating results throughout the organization * Key technical skill requirements include application development and design of high-performance, highly-available, and maintainable systems on a service-oriented architecture * Familiarity with web services, multi-tiered systems, workflow modeling and enterprise application integration is a plus * Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical field (e.g. computer science, engineering) plus 12 or more years of relevant work experience in Internet-related projects in a software applications environment including program/project management
* Must be able to pass a drug screen and/or background check.
