Hot Jobs at Centerstance

PERMANENT / DIRECT HIRE

Senior PHP Developer

Portland, Oregon
$80-90K

Required skills and background:

·         Experience designing, developing, and managing the production environment of a RDBMS.

• Strong command and recent OOP/MVC development experience is required.
• Recent development experience with PHP5 is required.
• Comfortable and capable developing with XHTML and JavaScript.
• Experience with web services, such as Rest, XML-RPC and/or SOAP.
• Test-driven development, such as PHPUnit, and Continuous Integration, such as CruiseControl, experience is required.
• Experience with Subversion or other VCS.
• Experience working with UNIX shell.
• Bachelors’ degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.

Desired skills and background:

• Command of Zend framework.
• Recent Java development experience.
• Experience with Ajax and/or JSON is strongly desired.
• Command MySQL5, design through production, is strongly desired.
• Recent experience applying agile or other similar development methodology is preferred, but not required.

Software Test Engineer

Beaverton, Oregon
Perm
$60-70K

• Real-world testing experience that goes beyond slogging through manual test case spreadsheets.
• Full SDLC (specification through maintenance) experience.
• Iterative development experience.
• Documented history of professional development.
• Shrink-wrap software experience
• Detailed knowledge of the Windows platform.
• Programming experience (scripting languages (Perl, Python, PowerShell, etc.), C++, or C#.)
• Reference shelf includes books by Myers, Kaner, Bach, Marick, Whittaker, and Beizer among others.

Data Feed Operations Analyst

Portland, Oregon
$40-55K + Bonus

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in management information systems, business, or related field.
• Four years of related experience.
• Experience with business process analysis and design a plus.
• Experience pulling data/reports using SQL or PL/SQL
• Proven project management skills with the ability to keep track of, prioritize and report status of multiple tasks.
• Exceptional organizational skills, with the ability to follow through on tasks.
• Proven ability to work with changing requirements and priorities using internal and external resources.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with team members, Member Firms, Carriers and vendors.
• Experience with life insurance and/or financial services a plus.
• Experience with Quality Assurance and vendor relationship management a plus.

Senior Internal Systems Support Analyst

Portland, Oregon
$50-70K + Bonus

Requirements:

• BS/BA Information System or related degree
• MCDST with a minimum of two years experience with certificate or MCSE with a minimum of two years experience with certificate.
• Help Desk Institute Analyst or other certification.
• Ability to be flexible on hours.
• Strong working knowledge of PC skills: Windows XP, Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007, Active Directory, Group Policies and Internet Explorer.
• Strong working knowledge of workstations, printers, laptops, PDAs, Video Conferencing, etc.
• Experience with providing personal, desk side support to clients in a professional environment.
• Understanding of financial applications.
• Experience with project management methodologies.
• Familiarity with Knowledge Management methodologies (KCS)
• Experience with help desk management software (LANDesk, Magic, Remedy, HEAT, etc.)
• Strong experience with automated software distribution tools.

·      Working knowledge of Windows Active Directory.

• Excellent customer service, time management, prioritization, and organizational skills.
• Thorough, detail-oriented work habits with good follow-through and follow-up.
• Ability to meet aggressive deadlines and work with a high level of customer service.
• Ability to analyze challenging technical issues and develop new solutions in a timely and accurate manner.
• Ability to wear a pager/cell phone/PDA for after hours support.

CONTRACT/CONTRACT-TO-HIRE

Senior Project Manager

Portland, Oregon
6 month contract
$50-70/HR

Requirements:

• A dynamic, results-oriented, detail-driven project manager with 5+ years of project management experience.
• Expertise in developing detailed plans for complex projects involving challenging requirements, limited resources, and fixed deadlines.
• Expertise in developing financial/work estimates and of budget tracking.
• A proven track record of managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Familiarity with software project and project management concepts, practices and procedures including familiarity with project management software such as Microsoft Project.
• Demonstrated skills in requirements gathering, resource organization, project/task prioritization and schedule development.
• Demonstrated ability to make project assessments, and to intervene as required to get projects on track.
• Expertise in both written and interpersonal communication, in relationship building, and in collaboration in a cross-functional team comprised of diverse personalities, skill sets, and levels of experience.
• Excellent organizational skills, focus, and attention to detail.
• Ability (and preference!) to work in a dynamic, fast-paced, hectic, and energetic environment.
• Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Project, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio.

·         Bachelor’s degree required.

• 5+ years of direct client interaction and demonstrated ability to effectively deal with a wide variety of competing demands.
• Minimum of five years project management experience in client-facing software development or systems integration.
• Knowledge and proven application of project lifecycle methodologies. PMI or other similar professional certification preferred.
• Significant experience managing complex, technical projects in a professional services or related environment.
• Excellent communication and leadership/facilitation skills.
• Proven ability to deliver in a fast-paced environment.

Nice to Have:

• PMP Certification
• Experience using Agile methods (e.g. SCRUM, RUP, etc.)

Lead Web Architect/Developer

• Opportunityfor a lead role in architecting, developing, and shipping

• Act as both lead architect for front and back-end web system as
  well as key implementer of Ruby on Rails database driven web
  applications
• Implement applications with standards compliant HTML and CSS
• Work closely with product and project managers, engineers, and
  senior management to define and refine platform to meet the needs of key stakeholders
• Contribute new and innovative ideas to rapidly evolving web application

·         Write technical software specifications and documentation

Skills and Knowledge:

• Strong software development background, familiar with all
  aspects of the software development life cycle

·         Demonstrated Ruby on Rails experience including at least two major projects

·         Experience with other scripting languages such as Perl, Python, or PHP

• Comfortable with Mac OS X, Linux, Apache, Mongrel, MySQL, AJAXand other open source tools and technologies
• Experience with software quality management tools such as SVN or git

·         Understands the importance of continuous integration and automation

·         Database design and administration experience.

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering preferred

·         5+ years experience in web-based system architecture design and development

Experience:

·         5+ years experience in web-based system architecture design and development

·         Experience providing technical leadership to others

Java/WebSphere Developer (2)

Portland, Oregon
6 month contract
$50-70/HR

Required Skills:

• Java/J2EE
• SOA
• Web Services
• JDBC
• JSP
• Scripting

Senior Java Developer

Downtown Portland
6-12 month contract

$50-70/HR

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Minimum 10 years of development experience with at least 7 years experience with Java/J2EE.
• Database development experience on Oracle 9i/10g.
• 2 years of PL/SQL development experience.
• Experience with Java based Web Services framework such as Axis or XFire.
• Demonstrated expertise in Struts, SQL, JDBC, JSP, JMS, EJBs, Hibernate, Spring, Ant, Log4j, CVS, AJAX.
• Experience working on Agile projects.
• Experience with WebSphere Application Server 5 or later.
• Experience with Eclipse based IDE (Rational Application Developer experience preferred.)
• Experience writing unit tests with JUnit and working in a continuous integration development environment.
• Positive attitude and self-motivated.
• Capability to work effectively with other team members.
• Ability to work with minimum direction.
• Capability to analyze, diagnose and resolve complex programming and system problems independently.
• Capability to effectively communicate with coworkers and all levels of management.
• Ability to effectively adapt to rapidly changing technologies and methodologies and apply them to technological and/or business needs.
• Proven leadership skills and ability to technically direct the team.
• Ability to mentor and coach other team members in technical matters.

.NET Web Applications Developer

Portland,Oregon
6 month contract
$35-40/HR

Required Skills:

• 2+ years recent commercial web applications development experience.
• Strong understanding of.NET framework, ASP. Net, C# and JavaScript.
• Proven ability to work as part of a development team.
• Experience in agile development environments.
• Experience working with source code management tools.
• Ability to work across a wide range of disciplines including Web User Interfaces, Mobile Devices, Web Services, and Application Services.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with analytics and or business intelligence solutions.

Desired Skills:

• Experience with Visual Studio Team System.
• Familiarity in companies focused on Software as a Service architectures.
• Familiarity with Windows Communication Foundation.
• Experience with template driven or code generated software.

SEATTLE/TACOMA POSITIONS

Business Systems Analyst – Oracle E- Business Suite

Seattle, Washington
Perm
$80-90K

Requirements:

• 2+ years in a business analyst or similar role.
• 2+ years experience with Oracle E-Business Suite. Experience can be in accounting (GL/AR/AP), or in order management and manufacturing.
• Strong accounting/finance knowledge; degree in accounting or finance a plus.
• Proven track record of troubleshooting and resolving issues.
• SQL experience a plus.
• Project management experience a plus. Proficiency with requirements gathering and issue resolution highly desired.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.

Senior Developer

Tacoma, Washington
12 month Contract

Requirements:

• Leadership in the area of software development best practice.
• Experience with designing and implementing large-scale complex distributed applications.
• Ability to run large JAD (joint application design) sessions.
• Experience developing applications for financial firms.
• Experience in SCRUM methodology: product backlogs, burn down charts and velocity.
• Experience using NUnit for unit testing.
• Working knowledge of WCF, WF and WPF.
• Experience in environments utilizing continuous integrations tools.
• Demonstrate understanding of Russell’s business and its needs and problems. 
• Well-thought analysis, program design, and coding.
• Effective problem isolation and resolution.
• Demonstrated ability to build successful client relationships. 
• Pioneers technical or business approaches.  Challenges existing paradigms.  Seeks out, recognizes, and adapts good ideas into system design.
• Consideration of a broad spectrum of issues and concepts and leverage of ideas across many areas. 
• Demonstrates an understanding of all phases of the project/product life cycle and an understanding of project management methods.  Recognized expertise in one or more specialties and the ability to apply them to complex business problems. 
• Discuss complicated business or technical concepts and problems with users, peers, and managers. 
• Make effective presentations.
• Write clear, well organized documents on complicated topics.
• Negotiate with users requirements, time commitments, and approaches.
• Discuss and document status of assignments or projects. 
• Individual time management (planning, monitoring, and evaluating).  Accurately estimates time required for own project tasks.  Plans and coordinates work of others when in the role of project leader.

7- 12 years of experience in each of the following areas:

• Taking software from concept to completion in a rapid development environment.
• Leading software teams in agile environments that includes close interaction with business users, QA teams and project managers.
• Leading software teams greater than 5 developers.
• Programming competence and problem solving utilizing MS tools, such as .NET and SQL Server 2000/2005.
• Experience working in a web based application environment. 
• Gathering requirements and designing application architecture. 
• One or more strong technical or functional specialties.
• Demonstrated leadership.

·         Demonstrated one or more strong technical or functional specialties.

FTE POSITIONS WITH CENTERSTANCE

Senior Configuration Consultant

Seattle, Washington
$80-100K + 14K variable bonus

Requirements:

• B.S. Computer Science, Software Engineering, MIS or equivalent work experience.
• 5 - 10 years in one of the following: consulting or client service delivery.
• 2-5 years experience contributing as a direct resource on enterprise software deployments.
• 2-5 years CRM application experience.
• Experience with system implementation, analysis, and data modeling. Deep Knowledge of CRM systems and implementation required, specifically with Salesforce.com.
• Business Process Engineering / Re-engineering background, in the areas of sales, marketing, and/or customer support.
• Proven ability to manage and oversee complex together with fast moving projects in growth company.
• Advanced external client management and client relationship building skills.
• Proven track record of customer focus including the ability to foster long-term client relationships.
• Excellent written and oral communication and relationship building skills.
• Advanced group facilitation and presentation skills.
• Ability to establish and maintain focus including solid time management skills.
• Be self-motivated and driven to exceed customer and project goals, while contributing to a successful team and dealing with a wide variety of competing demands.
• Ability to communicate effectively with a diverse spectrum of individuals, including C-Level executives, Sales, Marketing, Customer Support, and IT staff.
• Software application proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite including MS PowerPoint, MS Project, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Visio.
• Proven ability to work with a remote team and sales force.
• Experience with Quick Arrow and project management certification (i.e. PMP) a plus but not required for consideration.

Sr. Java Developer

Portland, Oregon
$90-120K+ Bonus

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Minimum 10 years of development experience with at least 7 years experience with Java/J2EE.
• Database development experience on Oracle 9i/10g.
• 2 years of PL/SQL development experience.
• Experience with Java based Web Services framework such as Axis or XFire.
• Demonstrated expertise in Struts, SQL, JDBC, JSP, JMS, EJBs, Hibernate, Spring, Ant, Log4j, CVS, AJAX.
• Experience working on Agile projects.
• Experience with WebSphere Application Server 5 or later.
• Experience with Eclipse based IDE (Rational Application Developer experience preferred.)
• Experience writing unit tests with JUnit and working in a continuous integration development environment.
• Positive attitude and self-motivated.
• Capability to work effectively with other team members.
• Ability to work with minimum direction.
• Capability to analyze, diagnose and resolve complex programming and system problems independently.
• Capability to effectively communicate with coworkers and all levels of management.
• Ability to effectively adapt to rapidly changing technologies and methodologies and apply them to technological and/or business needs.
• Proven leadership skills and ability to technically direct the team.
• Ability to mentor and coach other team members in technical matters.

Portland, Oregon
3 month contract

$30-50/hr

Responsibilities: