Sr. Project Manager

Hansell Tierney is seeking a Sr. Project Manager for a contract-to-hire or permanent postion in Seattle.

QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Strong understanding of Microsoft Office products
• Strong understanding of Microsoft Project and Visio
• Knowledge of technologies including Silverlight or Flash, .NET, IIS and SharePoint
• Ability to identify and resolve problems in a timely manner, gather and analyze information skillfully
• Ability to demonstrate accuracy and thoroughness, monitor own work to ensure quality and apply feedback to improve performance
• Ability to adapt to changes in the work environment, manage competing demands and is able to deal with frequent change, delays or unexpected events.
• Ability to identify, assess and communicate business risk on production support and project initiatives to all levels of the organization
• Ability to be at work and on time
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to respond to leadership direction with limited oversight
• Ability to manage self and solicit feedback to continually improve performance
• Ability to speak up if unsure of role, assignment, direction or individual performance
• Ability to focus on end customer value and business results
• Ability to productively and collaboratively work in a team environment
• Ability to multi-task
• Detail oriented
• Strong organizational skills
• Computer skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent leadership skills
• Excellent analytical skills
• Excellent listening skills
• Excellent negotiation skills

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or Business
• More than eight years of experience in project management
• PMP Certification preferred

Application Developer

Hansell Tierney is seeking a Sr. Application Developer for a contract-to-hire or permanent position in Seattle.

SUMMARY
Work, design, code, maintain and support high quality .NET-based insurance applications in a small team environment.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following:
• Works closely with other developers, project managers, and business analysts to define, design, code, build, test, implement and support high-quality .NET-based insurance applications
• Makes architectural design recommendations
• Performs unit and system testing on each assignment
• Provides accurate time estimates for all development assignments
• Collaborates well with IT and business resources to identify the best and most cost-effective solutions for the business
• Willing and able to work on both projects and production support efforts
• Willing to be on-call on an as-needed basis
• Ability and desire to mentor and share technical knowledge with other developers
• Interact with other developers to determine optimal development techniques
• Delivers the highest quality results on time and within budget
• Maintains state-of-the-art knowledge within areas of responsibility
• Complies with and supports all corporate, department and unit policies and procedures
• Works independently, but keeps IT management, peers, project teams and business customers informed of projects, activities, risks and issues within assigned areas of responsibility
• Performs other related duties as required or requested

SUCCESS for the .NET Application Developer position is measured by:
1) Consistently delivers solutions on time and within budget
2) Follows coding standards
3) Minimal coding bugs released into production
4) A positive and collaborative teamwork style

QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Expert knowledge and demonstrated working experience with C#
• Expert knowledge and demonstrated working experience with SQL Server
• Expert knowledge and demonstrated working experience with T-SQL
• Expert knowledge and demonstrated working experience with web technologies and architecture (IIS, ASP.NET, Web Services, WCF)
• Working knowledge of SSRS a plus
• Working knowledge of Infragistics a plus
• Working knowledge of Window Services a plus
• Ability to identify and resolve problems in a timely manner, gather and analyze information skillfully
• Ability to demonstrate accuracy and thoroughness, monitor own work to ensure quality and apply feedback to improve performance
• Ability to adapt to changes in the work environment, manage competing demands and is able to deal with frequent change, delays or unexpected events
• The ability to identify, assess and communicate business risk on production support and project initiatives to all levels of the organization
• Ability to be at work and on time
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to respond to leadership direction with limited oversight
• Ability to manage self and solicit feedback to continually improve performance
• Ability to speak up if unsure of role, assignment, direction or individual performance
• Ability to focus on end customer value and business results
• Ability to productively and collaboratively work in a team environment
• Ability to multi-task
• Detail oriented
• Strong organizational skills
• Computer skills (Microsoft applications; QA / testing software tools a plus)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent analytical skills
• Excellent listening skills
• Excellent negotiation skills

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
A Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or Business/Economics or the equivalent in related work experience
Four to six years of experience in the insurance industry or a related financial services industry.

Senior Business Analyst

Hansell Tierney is seeking a Sr. Business Analyst for a contrat-to-hire or permanent position in Seattle

SUMMARY
Provide application, functionality, process and technical consulting to business groups in order to solve the right business problems through the most cost-effective solution.  Analyze business needs to help scope, plan, design, develop, test, and rollout projects.  Proactively learns insurance products, processes and related applications in order to aid the business in taking full advantage of technology and applications functionality.  Identifies opportunities for and facilitates continual business process improvement.  Effectively works alongside Project Managers, business subject-matter-experts, and IT subject-matter-experts in the creation of project deliverables. 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Partners with business resources to increase revenue and profitability by solving the highest-value business problems through technology, applications functionality and process improvement
• Works with business partners to elicit and document business requirements for new software applications, new business processes, enhancements to existing applications, and integration among applications, databases, and third-parties. 
• Facilitates prioritization of application maintenance efforts with the right business resources so that developers are working on the highest value changes possible
• Identifies and leads resolution of complex business problems through technology, applications and/or business process improvement; proactively escalates problems and/or brings in the right additional resources when necessary. 
• Solves business problems with existing solutions before creating new enhancement or project requests; appropriately leverages application, automated and process solutions
• Leads small projects when necessary (delivers the right solution on time and within budget), following company’s project management methodology
• Researches new technologies/business solutions; makes recommendations based on business requirements
• Works with Project Manager to scope and plan the overall work effort for a project
• Develops cost / benefit analysis
• Documents current and future work flows, processes, and procedures
• Works with Project Manger to develop plans and materials for testing, training, and roll-out
• Facilitates prioritization of work efforts and solution options.
• Supports the tracking and reporting of project status
• Complies with and supports all corporate, department and unit policies and procedures
• Can works independently, but keep IT management, peers, project teams and business customers informed of projects, activities, risks and issues within assigned areas of responsibility
  

KEY SUCCESS CRITERIA for the Business Systems Analyst role:

• All deliverables (e.g., Process Maps, Requirements, Cost/Benefit Analysis, Test Plans, Presentations, Work Plans, etc.) are consistently produced on time and with the highest accuracy and quality
• A positive and collaborative teamwork style

QUALIFICATIONS and/or EXPERIENCE
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• 5+ years experience performing business systems analysis
• Prior insurance or financial services industry experience preferred
• Experienced developing business processes, business requirements, and cost/benefit analysis
• Experienced working with third-party vendors
• Proficient with Microsoft Office toolset (e.g., Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook)
• Basic understanding of Project Management methods, processes, deliverables, and tools
• Ability to identify and resolve problems in a timely manner; gather and analyze information skillfully.
• Ability to productively and collaboratively work in a team environment
• Ability to multi-task
• Detail oriented
• Strong organizational skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills

EDUCATION

A Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business/Economics or the equivalent in related work experience

Senior Project Lead – Advanced Applications

We are seeking a Senior Software Design Engineer / Project Leader to lead a group of 4-5 software design engineers to develop advanced application software running on a proprietary platform.

The position would report to the President of a small company and to a small Advisory Board of industry visionaries.

We are looking for an individual with exceptional drive and talent who wants to grow with the best mentors working on a breakthrough project. The applicant should possess most, preferably all, of the following qualities at a senior level:

• Bachelors, Masters, or PhD degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
• Hands-on participation in development of deployed software systems
• Experience in managing small to medium size software development teams
• Deep understanding and complete fluency in programming principles and algorithms relating to searching, databases, and object-oriented techniques.
• Knowledge of one or more major computer languages preferably C# and the .Net and WPF frameworks.
• Understanding of browsers, HTML and XML standards and usage
• Understanding of user interface principles

Web Application Developer

Hansell Tierney is seeking a seeking a Sr. Web Applicaion Developer for a long-term consulting position in Seattle

SUMMARY

Senior level .Net developer to work on a team developing a new application. The project is an N Tier enterprise application leveraging Microsoft technologies. The developer will work closely with other developers on the project, often in a paired programming environment.

SKILLS REQUIRED

Sucessful candidate will have proven experience working in an agile environament with expert level experience in:

• .Net Enterprise Application Development (5 years)
o Demonstrate having developed physical N Tier enterprise projects
o Experience Data, Business and Client layers of projects
o Authentication and Authorization

• ASP.Net Development. (3 years)
o ASP.Net Ajax
o Javascript
o ASP.Net Webforms

• SQL Server ( 5 years)
o SQL Server 2005+
o Stored Procedures
o Queries

• HTML Page Design (2 years)
o Page layout and design using Master Pages
o Design using Cascading Style Sheets

• Other Development Skills
o Experience working with mock objects
o Working within a continuous integration environment
o Developing code in a testable manner
o Working with source control tools (Subversion, Tortoise)

• Team skills
o Collaborative, project focused
o Paired programming skills

Technologies used on project:

o .NET Framework 3.5
o ASP.NET 3.5
o SQL Server 2005+
o T-SQL
o C#
o AJAX
o HTML
o CSS
o Javascript
o XML
o Codesmith
o CSLA
o LINQ
o LinqToSql
o Inversion of Control (StructureMap)
o CruiseControl.Net
o Mocking tools (Moq) o
Windows Communications Foundation (WCF)