ProData Team Positions USC

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(1) Requirements Analyst   (Location - Maryland, MD - Contract)

Industry/business domain - 
Number of Position - 2

Resident Status : (Greencard/US Citizen)

Years Experience : 10+ Years 
Clearance Requirement : Active MBI  required (Read Job spec)
Likely Start Immediate

Length: Long Term

Job Description:   

Requirements Analyst is responsible for leading requirements gathering activities, establishing relationships with agency stakeholders and teammates, facilitating requirements elicitation sessions with stakeholders to identify business requirements and with developers to identify software requirements. Analyst must follow agency Enterprise Life Cycle (ELC) methodology. Analyst will develop use cases as per the agency iterative methodology following the Agile/Scrum path.

Duties:  

• Develop detailed use cases from high level business requirements delivered from external organizations – 40%
• Own the requirements management process, leading business and software requirements elicitation sessions – 20%
• Update the Business System Requirements Report and other requirements-related deliverables – 20%
• Maintain requirements in requirements management tool – 20%

REQUIRED SKILLS:

Please note these are the top technical skills that a candidate MUST have. General knowledge of basic office software such as MS Office Suite as well as good communications skills are a given.

   

1.     Demonstrated experience facilitating requirements elicitation and other customer-facing sessions – 8 years

2.     Demonstrated experience developing high level business requirements as well  as detailed Use Cases  – 10 years

3.     Experience with documenting and decomposing requirements for a back-end system with heavy focus on database, data warehouse and Web Services  – 10 years

4.     Demonstrated experience in documenting requirements using Rational Tools  - 10  years

5.     In-depth understanding of the software development life cycle – 10 years

6.     An active MBI is preferred but not required to start. The agency will allow candidates to apply for their MBI's but not start on the contract until 45 calendar days after the MBI application is submitted, or when they receive their Interim MBI approval, whichever comes first. Should the agency reject the MBI application at any time after the candidate starts work, the candidate will have to depart and project and have his/her purchase order immediately terminated.

NICE TO HAVE SKILLS

Please note these are nice to have skills. It does not preclude a candidate who does not possess all or some of these skills from the selection process but this could be used as a differentiators between candidates. 

1.      Agency system and data knowledge experience

2.     Healthcare system experience

3.     Experience with ReqPro and RTC

(2) Data Modeler   (Location - Maryland, MD - Contract)

Industry/business domain - 
Number of Positions - 2

Resident Status : (Greencard/US Citizen)

Years Experience : 5+ Years 
Clearance Requirement : Active MBI required (Read Job spec)
Likely Start Immediate

Length: Long Term

Job Description:   

This individual will act as the Database Modeler for the project and will provide technical guidance to develop, update, and maintain relational databases in ORACLE RAC and Linux environment. The Database environment for the project is Oracle and for the data sources, it will vary depending upon the data source.  Prior experience with Oracle databases as DBA and developer will be required. 

Duties:  

• Provide end-to-end vision, showing how the project’s logical design will translate into one or more physical databases. This includes data flows. In support of this function, the contractor shall perform data analysis, modeling, integration and warehousing functions – 25%
• Provide support to the project team to convert business and functional requirements to design, develop, validate, and implement logical and physical data models. This includes both relational and dimensional models– 50%
• Provide support in the development and maintenance of data dictionaries – 20%
• Support compliance with agency data management standards. – 5%

REQUIRED SKILLS:

Please note these are the top technical skills that a candidate MUST have. General knowledge of basic office software such as MS Office Suite as well as good communications skills are a given.

   

1.     Demonstrated experience in Enterprise Data Modeling tool RDA – 5 years

2.     Demonstrated ability to review business and technical/application requirements and interpret them into logical data model. – 5 Years

3.     Ability to design physical database and generate DDL – 3 Years

4.     Experience with Dimensional Modeling, ER modeling, Star Schema design and full Data Warehouse lifecycle support – 3 Years

5.     Experience in defining/enforcing modeling and naming standards, with concise descriptions – 3 Years

6.     An active  MBI is preferred but not required to start. The agency will allow candidates to apply for their MBI's but not start on the contract until 45 calendar days after the MBI application is submitted, or when they receive their Interim MBI approval, whichever comes first. Should the agency reject the MBI application at any time after the candidate starts work, the candidate will have to depart and project and have his/her purchase order immediately terminated.

NICE TO HAVE SKILLS

Please note these are nice to have skills. It does not preclude a candidate who does not possess all or some of these skills from the selection process but this could be used as a differentiators between candidates. 

1.     Agency system and data knowledge experience

2.     Active MBI clearance

3.     IDA and rational products

4.     Informatica and ETL concepts

5.     AGILE iterative development experience

6.     Healthcare system experience

7.     Massively parallel database experience

8.     Ability to create technical documentation content and templates

(3) DBA Developer   (Location - Maryland, MD - Contract)

Industry/business domain - 
Number of Positions - 4

Resident Status : (Greencard/US Citizen)

Years Experience : 8+ Years 
Clearance Requirement : Active MBI required (Read Job spec)
Likely Start Immediate

Length: Long Term

Job Description:  

This individual will act as the Oracle Database Developer for the project and will development activities to design and develop relational databases in ORACLE RAC and Linux environment. The Database environment for the project is Oracle and this individual will provide technical support and suggest the best hands on practices and demonstrate hands on experiences to guide team to develop a secure database application as per agency security policy.  Prior experience with Oracle databases as a developer will be required.  This is a hands-on oracle database developer role for development environment and is not a production support DBA role.

Duties:  

·         Provide technical guidance to develop, update, and maintain CDR relational databases running in ORACLE RAC and Linux environment - 25%

·         Provide support on a wide range of database administration functions in a RAC configuration, including running test queries, troubleshooting database problems, maintaining version control of database entities, advising customers on new database features, and leading studies to evaluate the effectiveness of current database methods and procedures, investigation of issues arising from data loss and corruption. -  25%

·         Provide support to coordinate, organize and deliver DDLs generated to solve Data Change Requests (DCR) - 20%

·         Provide support in monitoring and optimizing database performance and tuning database operations both proactively and reactively -  10%

·         Provide support to co-ordinate, organize and deliver database code - 10%

·         Support compliance with agency data management standards - 10%

  

REQUIRED SKILLS:

Please note these are the top technical skills that a candidate MUST have. General knowledge of basic office software such as MS Office Suite as well as good communications skills are a given.

   

1.     Demonstrated experience in Oracle Real Application Clustering (RAC) administration and development for high-volume, complex data environments in Enterprise applications – 8 years

2.     Demonstrated experience in large data file handling, experience with insert only systems, time variant data handling, partition maintenance, materialized views and query rewrite – 8 years

3.     Demonstrated experience as DBA (creation and maintenance of the database, DDL/DML, back-up/restore strategy, replication strategy) and Data developer (creating stored procedures, triggers, supporting application development teams) in the Oracle environment  - 8 years

4.     Strong experience in SQL in the Oracle environment – 5 years

5.     An active  MBI is preferred but not required to start. The agency will allow candidates to apply for their MBI's but not start on the contract until 45 calendar days after the MBI application is submitted, or when they receive their Interim MBI approval, whichever comes first. Should the agency reject the MBI application at any time after the candidate starts work, the candidate will have to depart and project and have his/her purchase order immediately terminated.

NICE TO HAVE SKILLS

Please note these are nice to have skills. It does not preclude a candidate who does not possess all or some of these skills from the selection process but this could be used as a differentiators between candidates. 

1.    Agency system and data knowledge experience

2.     Active MBI clearance

3.     IDA and rational products

4.     Informatica and ETL concepts

5.     AGILE iterative development experience

6.     Healthcare system experience

7.     Massively parallel database experience

8.     Ability to create technical documentation content and templates

(4) ETL Developer  (Location - Maryland, MD - Contract)

Industry/business domain - 
Number of Positions - 6

Resident Status : (Greencard/US Citizen)

Years Experience : 8+ Years 
Clearance Requirement : Active MBI required (Read Job spec)
Likely Start Immediate

Length: Long Term

Job Description:  

This individual will act as the ETL Developer for the project and will be responsible for developing ETL application using Informatica.  This position requires demonstrated experience using the Informatica Suite of tools including Power Center, B2B, and Power. This position will develop Extract, Transformation and Loading (ETL) procedures for implementing data integration and data loading tasks in support of CDR Data Repository from agency and non-agency data sources.  The Database environment for the project is Oracle and for the data sources, it will vary depending upon the data source.  Prior experience with SQL on Oracle databases will be required. 

Duties:  

• Develop new ETL application using Informatica Power Center to load large amount of data from multiple data sources into Repository using Oracle database  – 40%
• Develop Data Integration procedures using Informatica suite of tools including B2B and Power Exchange – 10%
• Develop SQL programs and Stored Procedures as required for the ETL processes and Data Integration activities – 10%

·         Provide support to technical team, write the necessary required documentation as per the IRS development methodology for ETL processes, and Develop unit test plan, test cases and resolve ETL related test problems – 20%

·         Coordinate, plan, communicate, develop and review client presentations and documentation required under the agency Enterprise Lifecycle – 10%

·         Work with the application teams to understand the nature of ETL interfaces and the architecture of the application. Design the appropriate interface interactions for each, while being cognizant of opportunities for reuse and standardization of interactions across applications – 10%

  

REQUIRED SKILLS:

Please note these are the top technical skills that a candidate MUST have. General knowledge of basic office software such as MS Office Suite as well as good communications skills are a given.

1.     Demonstrated experience in designing ETL processes using Informatica for high-volume, complex data environments – 5 years

2.     Data warehouse data modeling experience – 3 years

3.     Demonstrated Strong experience using the Informatica Suite of Tools - Power Center version 8 or higher, Power Exchange version 8 or higher, B2B Data Transformation – 5 years

4.     Strong experience in the design and development of mappings, transformations, sessions and workflows in PowerCenter – 5 years

5. Strong experience in SQL in the Oracle environment – 5 years   

6. An active  MBI is preferred but not required to start. The agency will allow candidates to apply for their MBI's but not start on the contract until 45 calendar days after the MBI application is submitted, or when they receive their Interim MBI approval, whichever comes first. Should the agency reject the MBI application at any time after the candidate starts work, the candidate will have to depart and project and have his/her purchase order immediately terminated.

NICE TO HAVE SKILLS

Please note these are nice to have skills. It does not preclude a candidate who does not possess all or some of these skills from the selection process but this could be used as a differentiators between candidates. 

1.    Agency system and data knowledge experience

2.     Healthcare system experience

3.     Massively parallel database experience

4.     Ability to create technical documentation content and templates

5) Sr Application Integrator  (Location - Maryland, MD - Contract)

Industry/business domain - 
Number of Positions - 1

Resident Status : (Greencard/US Citizen)

Years Experience : 7+ Years 
Clearance Requirement : Active MBI required (Read Job spec)
Likely Start Immediate

Length: Long Term

Job Description:  

This individual will act as a Senior Application Integrator for the project and will be responsible for working with the application teams to understand the nature of interfaces and the architecture of the application. This person will design the appropriate interface interactions for each, while being cognizant of opportunities for reuse and standardization of interactions across applications.

Duties:  

• Coordinate and lead interface design sessions across the Project team as well as across multiple internal agency and external organizations (insurance exchanges, Health and Human Services, Treasury, Employers, Insurers. – 50%
• Work with the application teams to understand the nature of interfaces and the architecture of the application. Design the appropriate interface interactions for each, while being cognizant of opportunities for reuse and standardization of interactions across applications – 25%
• Implement standards-setting for interfaces with application interaction which make best use o existing standards for interfaces, messaging formats, and service deployment – 10%
• Provide input to data modeling activities, based on application needs – 15%

  

REQUIRED SKILLS:

Please note these are the top technical skills that a candidate MUST have. General knowledge of basic office software such as MS Office Suite as well as good communications skills are a given.

   

1.     Demonstrated experience in designing application interfaces to high-volume, complex data environments) – 7 years

2.     Demonstrated experience in designing agency systems and Interfaces – 7 years

3.     Technical team leadership experience in the area of interface design, complex data mapping and transformation rules – 7 years

4.     Deep understanding of agency data and processes – 7 years

5.     Systems analysis/systems engineering experience – 7 years    

         6. An active  MBI is preferred but not required to start. The agency will allow candidates to apply for their MBI's but not start on the contract until 45 calendar days after the MBI application is submitted, or when they receive their Interim MBI approval, whichever comes first. Should the agency reject the MBI application at any time after the candidate starts work, the candidate will have to depart and project and have his/her purchase order immediately terminated.

NICE TO HAVE SKILLS

Please note these are nice to have skills. It does not preclude a candidate who does not possess all or some of these skills from the selection process but this could be used as a differentiators between candidates. 

1.    Agency system and data knowledge experience

2.     Healthcare system experience

6) Software Configuration Manager  (Location - Maryland, MD - Contract)

Industry/business domain - 
Number of Positions - 2

Resident Status : (Greencard/US Citizen)

Years Experience : 8+ Years 
Clearance Requirement : Active MBI required to start
Likely Start 2nd week of Dec 2014

Length: Long Term

Job Description:  

This individual will act as the Software Configuration Manager and will support the agency team. Should be proficient in UCM ClearCase source code management such as  code merge and branch creation, multiple release source code management, incremental builds experience, Clear Quest skills.

Duties:  

• Develop and implement source code configuration strategy and policy. Branch and merge source code; establish procedures to effectively manage the functions of change control; and configure and maintain software baseline library using Rational ClearCase– 50%
• Support development and maintenance of Configuration Management Reports to document changes and updates to development, test, and production environments for each build, sprint, and release in the iterative development lifecycle – 25%
• Generate Configuration Management Reports including code changes resulting from changes to CPE systems, code change that impact CPE systems, code changes that impact other projects,  project code changes that impact projects, Code changes from defects and Change Requests, Linkages and dependencies for all changes– 25%

  

REQUIRED SKILLS:

Please note these are the top technical skills that a candidate MUST have. General knowledge of basic office software such as MS Office Suite as well as good communications skills are a given.

   

1.     Demonstrated hands-on experience in Software Configuration and change management processes and implementation across different environments (Dev, Test, Prod) – 8 years

2.     Demonstrated experience in creating and maintaining UCM and branches for multiple release management in Rational ClearCase – 8 years

3.     Very strong skills in Rational Clear implementation for code merging, check-in, check-out, versioning, and administration - 7 years

4.     Strong communication skills and able to work across organizations  – 7 years

5.     In-depth understanding of the software development life cycle for implementing Enterprise level systems – 5 years

6.     Experience with Rational Tools – ClearCase, ClearQuest, Rational Team Concert, Infosphere Data Architect, RequisitePro and experience integrating them – 3 years

       7.  Current Active MBI Clearance required on Day 1 to start

NICE TO HAVE SKILLS

Please note these are nice to have skills. It does not preclude a candidate who does not possess all or some of these skills from the selection process but this could be used as a differentiators between candidates. 

1.    Agency system and data knowledge experience

2.     Healthcare system experience 

3.    Rational Requisite Pro

7) Deployment SME  (Location - Maryland, MD - Contract)

Industry/business domain - 
Number of Positions - 2

Resident Status : (Greencard/US Citizen)

Years Experience : 7+ Years 
Clearance Requirement : Active MBI required to start
Likely Start 1st week of Dec 2014

Length: Long Term

Job Description:  

This individual will act as the Deployment SME on the project team and will support the review and development of system build strategies, deployment strategies, and deployment models; including, SAN; Oracle 11g Database Server; Java application servers of WebMethods on a cluster configuration environment on top of Linux; the external interface of ETL using Enterprise Informatica Platform on top of Unix and Greenplum.

Duties:  

• Develop and maintain deployment scripts and procedures to support building, deploying and integrating database DDLs/Scripts and Java applications in a Redhat Linux environment using VM Ware's Virtual Environment, including J2EE architecture (webMethods, JavaAPI), GreenPum and Informatica.– 50%
• Support the review and development of system integration strategies; including, SAN; Oracle 11g Database Server; Java application servers of webMethods on a cluster configuration environment on top of Linux; the external interface of ETL using Enterprise Informatica Platform on top of Unix; Greenplum; disaster recovery considerations – 20%
• Develop guidance and solution concepts to solve system and integration issues arising from development, test, performance, and production environments  – 20%
• Support the review and performance of deployment readiness for production – 10%

  

REQUIRED SKILLS:

Please note these are the top technical skills that a candidate MUST have. General knowledge of basic office software such as MS Office Suite as well as good communications skills are a given.

   

1.     GreenPlum and data migration experience is ideal, Unix, Linux, VI, SQL, proficient Shell scripting, able to comprehend DB scripts, analytical, and team player – 5 years

2.     Demonstrated deployment experience in Oracle 11g running on Linux, RAC, ASM, backup/restore, and performance tuning – 7 years

3.     Demonstrated deployment experience in ETL (Informatica),  EMS SAN concepts, Veritas, and EMS SDRF – 7 years

4.     Experience as deployment specialist  for enterprise application built on top Java, Oracle and Informatics ETL – 7 years

5.     In-depth understanding of the software development life cycle for implementing Enterprise level systems – 5 years

6.     Current Active MBI Clearance required on Day 1 to start

    

NICE TO HAVE SKILLS

Please note these are nice to have skills. It does not preclude a candidate who does not possess all or some of these skills from the selection process but this could be used as a differentiators between candidates. 

1.    Agency system and data knowledge experience

2.     Active MBI clearance

3.     Oracle 11 g
4. Healthcare system experience
5. Java

6.     Informatica and ETL concepts
7. WebSphere

8.     WebMethods

 

 8) Performance Analyst  (Location - Maryland, MD - Contract)

Industry/business domain - 
Number of Positions - 2

Resident Status : (Greencard/US Citizen)

Years Experience : 7+ Years 
Clearance Requirement : Active MBI required to start
Likely Start 1st week of Dec 2014

Length: Long Term

Job Description:  

This individual will act as the Performance Analyst on the project team and will be responsible for Performance testing and troubleshooting across all the component of the application. Will also be responsible for Performance and scalability issues in an Oracle, WebSphere/WebMethod, and ETL (Informatica) environment.

Duties:  

Job Duty 1 with 40% of time - Support performance test execution in development, test, and production environments for each build, sprint, and release in the iterative development lifecycle.

Job Duty 2 with 20% of time - Support the design and development of a test strategy to perform environment and system integration validation; including ETL, using Informatica, Java Data Access, and web services technology.

Job Duty 3 with 20% of time - Support development and maintenance of unit test cases; test cases and/or user stories; and test reports.

Job Duty 4 with 10% of time - Support the development and maintenance of Defect Reports for development, test, and production environments for each build, sprint, and release in the iterative development lifecycle.

Job Duty 5 with 10% of time - Attend the daily and weekly SCRUM meetings to track product.  

  

REQUIRED SKILLS:

Please note these are the top technical skills that a candidate MUST have. General knowledge of basic office software such as MS Office Suite as well as good communications skills are a given.

   

1.     Demonstrated experience in Performance Testing using Rational tools  – 7 years

2.     Demonstrated experience in setting up the performance testing strategy for a data warehouse application  – 7 years

3.     Experience conducting performance testing  builds for enterprise application built on top Java, Oracle and Informatics ETL technologies – 7 years  

4.     In-depth understanding of the software development life cycle for implementing Enterprise level systems – 5 years

5.     Current active MBI clearance required on Day 1 to start

NICE TO HAVE SKILLS

Please note these are nice to have skills. It does not preclude a candidate who does not possess all or some of these skills from the selection process but this could be used as a differentiators between candidates. 

   

1.    Agency system and data knowledge experience

2.     Active MBI clearance

3.     Oracle 11 g
4. Healthcare system experience
5. JAVA

6.     Informatica and ETL concepts
7. WebSphere

8.     WebMethods
8. Rational Clear Quest  

9) Senior Systems Tester  (Location - Maryland, MD - Contract)

Industry/business domain - 
Number of Positions - 4

Resident Status : (Greencard/US Citizen)

Years Experience : 7+ Years 
Clearance Requirement : Active MBI required to start
Likely Start 1st Week of Dec 2014

Length: Long Term

Job Description:  

This individual will act as the System Tester and led the development of test cases and execution for the iterative development on project across all the phases of the project.

Duties:  

·         Support the design and development of a test cases to perform environment and system integration validation; including database/backend testing, ETL using Informatica, and web services technology  – 40%

·         Support development and maintenance of unit test cases; test cases and/or user stories; and test reports  –  20%

·         Support performance test execution in development, test, and production environments for each build, sprint, and release in the iterative development lifecycle –  20%

·         Support the development and maintenance of Defect Reports for development, test, and production environments for each build, sprint, and release in the iterative development lifecycle –  10%

·         Attend the daily and weekly SCRUM meetings to track product and defect backlogs. Provide action item lists within 24 hours of attendance –  10%

  

REQUIRED SKILLS:

Please note these are the top technical skills that a candidate MUST have. General knowledge of basic office software such as MS Office Suite as well as good communications skills are a given.

   

1.     Demonstrated Experience with testing database interfaces and Java application on JBoss , and ETL (information) in a multi release project environment  – 7 years

2.     Demonstrated experience with back-end testing with along with sound experience  in iterative methodologies (Agile/Scrum) – 7 years

3.     Demonstrated experience in development and execution of test cases for Unit Testing, System Integration testing and Performance testing - 7 years

4.     Expertise in creating testing plan and test case for data warehouse applications including web services testing – 7 years

5.     Demonstrated experience in Rational tools (testing and defect management): Rational Clear Quest, Rational Clear Case – 5 Years

6.     Ability to write SQL queries in Oracle environment to conduct back-end testing and validation – 7 years

7.     In-depth understanding of the software development life cycle for implementing Enterprise level systems – 5 years

8.     Current Active MBI Clearance required on Day 1 to start

   

NICE TO HAVE SKILLS

Please note these are nice to have skills. It does not preclude a candidate who does not possess all or some of these skills from the selection process but this could be used as a differentiators between candidates. 

1.    Agency system and data knowledge experience

2.     Active MBI clearance 
3.  SOA Test, SOAP Test

4. Rational Requisite Pro

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