by Ronald Barron | Mar 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: Bitfocus
About Bitfocus, Inc.:
Founded in 2003, Bitfocus, Inc. is changing the way communities nationwide integrate software, systems, data, and policy to innovate and strengthen the nation’s social safety net. We develop software and administer data systems that affect and change lives, connecting our most vulnerable populations to the most effective resources available in their communities. Our products empower organizations and communities to better leverage their resources, helping them to become data-driven in their efforts in all areas of health, human, and social services.
Our diverse and inclusive culture has played a key role in our success at Bitfocus. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or disability.
This is a fully remote role at a fully remote organization.
Our Core Values:
- People First. Always.
- Live in the WOW
- Elevate our Mission
- Start with Yes
- Take Detours
- Practice Humility
- Paint with Numbers
- Speak the truth in kindness
- Grow Together
- Unite in Excellence
About Our Professional Services Team:
Our Professional Services team sets us apart from other software companies. A mission-driven team of analysts, communicators, strategists, and technologists, Professional Services tackles some of the most significant challenges facing communities and catalyzes their success with Clarity Human Services. With expertise in statistical, technical, and policy analysis, we collaborate with community leaders, share knowledge gained working with communities across the country, and take the lead on a variety of projects and initiatives to help our communities meet their goals around ending homelessness.
Success/Impact Statement:
Professional Services Senior Project Managers at Bitfocus are experienced professionals who are passionate about supporting their team of project managers to help communities use technology and data to move the needle on ending homelessness.
As a Senior Project Manager, You Will:
Supervise and Mentor
- Supervise a team of project managers, providing support, feedback, and mentoring to help them use and build their project management skills.
- Provide project leadership both within your team and across the department to ensure that all projects meet department and company standards.
- Model department and company values to set an example for junior staff
Lead and Support Internal and External Projects
- Work with customers and/or Bitfocus teams to define project requirements, scope, timelines, and objectives.
- Work with customer stakeholders to translate needs and business processes into Clarity functionality.
- Attend relevant stakeholder and community meetings to provide input and gain system knowledge.
- Complete and/or obtain resources to complete tasks outlined in project workplans.
- Track project progress and update relevant Bitfocus staff and/or customer stakeholders.
- Create comprehensive project documentation including requirements documents, SOWs, workplans, decision logs, configuration logs, etc.
Provide Subject Matter Expertise
- Advise customers on a variety of subjects including
- Federal and regional requirements for homelessness response systems
- Clarity Human Services functions and solutions
- Pros, cons, and other considerations for any given solution
- Industry trends and best practices
- Create internal and external documents summarizing workflows, solution comparisons, configuration options, etc.
- Develop presentation content such as software demonstrations, training, and progress reports to project leadership, and present in front of remote and in-person audiences.
Develop Strategies and Manage Operations
- Support department Director in carrying out company vision for Professional Services department
- Work with Director to continue to build and refine department and project management infrastructure
- Actively participate in conversations around department strategy, planning, and capacity building
You Will Love This Position If:
- You seek and are inspired by new ideas and new ways of thinking.
- You never let your ego get in the way.
- People always tell you you’re a good listener.
- You’re ready to “pivot” like you’re a professional dancer.
- You’re obsessed with understanding the big picture.
- Gantt charts and process diagrams soothe your soul.
- “Bringing order to chaos†is your personal slogan.
- You love helping team members reach their maximum potential
Required Experience That Drives Success In This Role:
- Project management experience, including:
- Creating and managing project schedules and work plans
- Tracking project progress and identifying areas for improvement, making adjustments as needed
- Coordinating stakeholder communication around project milestones and timelines, providing consistent updates on progress, as well as any adjustments
- Assigning tasks to other team members as needed, and communicating expected deliverables
- Coordinating with other departments for effective use of resources
- Experience managing complex projects including large scale projects, projects that are politically sensitive, projects involving multiple stakeholder groups, and other projects with challenging dynamics
- Subject matter expertise in one or more of the following domains:
- Coordinated Entry
- HMIS
- HUD and/or Federal Partner Requirements
- HUD and/or Federal Partner Reporting
- Continuum of Care Roles and Responsibilities
- New Customer Software Implementation
- Data Quality Improvement
- Data Analysis
- Experience supervising and motivating teams of people
- Enthusiasm for technology and learning new software applications and database products
- Ability to quickly build advanced knowledge of Clarity Human Services, HMIS System Administration, and related subjects
- Ability to work both independently and within a team environment
- Innovative thinking to identify best practices when approaching problems and resolving conflicts
- Ability to create thoughtful structure in ambiguous situations and implement effective processes
- Excellent organizational, time management, people management and influencing skills
- Ability to work effectively with civic and other community leaders, social service agency staff, and a variety of other stakeholders
- Emotional intelligence: ability to “read the room,†recognize and de-escalate customer frustrations, and recognize and manage your own emotions
- Strong analytical abilities with working knowledge of descriptive statistics and (basic) analytics tools
- A background in HMIS, the homeless services Continuum of Care, and/or the human services system
What Makes You Stand Out:
- Excellent business/proposal writing skills
- Significant coordinated entry knowledge and experience
- Sophisticated project management experience with large, politically sensitive projects
- Proven experience successfully and diplomatically working with stakeholders who do not share your goals
- Proven experience inspiring teams toward excellence
- Driven, self-motivated, and enthusiastic
- Experience using Clarity Human Services or another HMIS software, especially as a system administrator
How Bitfocus Will Support You:
- Robust onboarding and training support
- A unique, friendly, and caring culture! Hear more from our employees on Glassdoor.
- Medical, dental, vision insurance
- Medical insurance covered at 100% for employees
- 401K Retirement Plan
- 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave
- Paid time off
- Paid volunteer time off
- Bitfocus primarily uses Apple computers; all new employees receive either an iMac or MacBook Pro to use in their role at Bitfocus
- Opportunities for professional growth and development
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by Ronald Barron | Mar 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: Lucas Group
Lucas Group is looking for a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to join our client’s rapidly evolving IT security environment. This role is one of the primary bridges between the technical and non-technical side of security. The ideal candidate understands standards and best practices within security but has the technical knowledge to work with IT teams and other departments to ensure processes and procedures run properly. This role would consult with IT and business groups as the subject matter expert with regards to strengths and weaknesses of the implemented security layers. The ideal candidate has a solutions-oriented mindset and would enjoy working with others.
This is a direct hire role OR contract-to-hire for the right candidate.
This position can work remotely from anywhere in the U.S.!
What You Will Do:
- Develop and manage technical security standards; design and architect reference models’; and define processes, all of which are aligned to our security framework and standards
- Assess emerging security technologies against security architecture to determine where they fill gaps, overlap with existing solutions, or extend capabilities
- Develop solutions with an audit capability in mind to drive accountability and potential remediation of deviations to standards
- Assess new vendors, apps, integrations, or solutions for security risk; recommend remediation; reassess per appropriate timeframe
- Review, work, and close or escalate security tickets as assigned via ticketing system; automate processes and simplify workstreams wherever possible
- Provide guidance and recommendations related to security vulnerabilities and any current threats as it relates to the organization
- Implement, manage, and/or optimize security toolset, logging, alerting, and reporting capabilities
Skills Needed
- Strong understanding of cloud-based services such as O365, Azure, or Salesforce
- Be familiar with different SaaS technologies like Salesforce or PaaS technologies like AWS
- Have at least a basic understanding of different Information Security standards
- Experience collaborating with technical and non-technical teams with a roll up your sleeves teamwork mentality
- Mentor cybersecurity and IT staff on the tenets of cybersecurity; work to change culture to a risk-based one
- Serve as primary liaison with Enterprise Architecture, Data Architecture, and various Infrastructure teams
Educational & Work Requirements:
- Degree in Computer Science, Informatics, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Information Security, or related field (degree not required)
- 2+ year of experience in Security
- Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in IT infrastructure (networking, cloud, endpoint security, etc)
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by Ronald Barron | Mar 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: US Foods
The Senior Data Scientist, is responsible for consistently providing high quality and insightful data driven solutions that address key business questions. This role supports Supply Chain operations and other members of the Insights and Analytics team as required to design and create datasets, reports, forecasts, and analytical tools by leveraging existing data sources. Will evaluate requests, determine data requirements, and identify innovative methods to provide effective data solutions that fulfill the needs of assigned business function. In addition, this role will also leverage their familiarity with cloud-based (AWS) technologies and capabilities to recommend optimal solutions.
This position is remote/virtual which means the work can be completed from anywhere in the United States EXCEPT Hawaii or United States Territories.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Analytics and Solution Development
- Lead collaboration and understanding of business problems with business partners.
- Develop solutions and tools to create sustainable programs and solutions for business partners.
- Serve as Subject Matter Expert on all assigned business function’s related data sources.
- Derives and codes new variables for use in data analysis and reports development.
- Integrates and standardizes data sets from multiple internal and external data sources.
- Prepares complex data sets for use in advanced analytics (in design and testing of statistical models and complex measurement).
- Creates Prescriptive and Predictive Analytical Solutions that align with business objectives.
Tools and Reports Development
- Executes complex data mining; oversees set up of data tables from multiple data sources
- Provide thought leadership in areas of tools and reports development. Create ad hoc and regular reports to meet business needs.
- Lead development of tools and reports for end users, including developing requirements, reviewing user stories, evaluating IT development progress, managing User Acceptance Testing, and training end users
- Serve as a ‘Power User’ of custom and 3rd party applications, advanced querying and complex data aggregations and analyses not supported by a single application
- Collaborate with IT, consultants, and end users
- Serve as Subject Matter Expert (SME) of applicable tools, databases and systems
- Proactively validates results and identifies anomalies within the data. Conducts root cause analysis to understand cause of anomalies; identifies and implements solutions to overcome obstacles to data inaccuracy.
- Applies a strong understanding of data tables (including validity of values) and methodology, coupled with an expert understanding of the assigned business function’s business need in order to provide quick, accurate, and relevant data solutions to functional requests.
- Utilizes standard methodology in capturing data, documenting processes, labeling data, and formatting results to suit the needs of the business.
- Develops short-cut dashboards and other innovative reporting tools in a user friendly format, capable of presenting summarized data with drill down capabilities on an on-going basis.
- Interprets algorithms into code for automated use
Strategy, Process and Tools
- Identify and develop analytics to support and measure strategies for business partners.
- Influence and evangelize analytical methodologies to support business partners’ needs.
- Identify opportunities to standardize processes through analytics and tools
- Support integration of strategies, analytics, processes, and tools.
- Develop and refine core best practices to enhance the influence of Insights & Analytics across the organization.
- Serve as SME on processes and tools.
Travel
Available for occasional travel as business requires (less than 5% of time)
Supervision
Direct supervision of up to 3 Data Scientists or Associate Data Scientists
Relationships
- Reports directly to Sr. Manager of Data Science – Supply Chain
- Works closely with:
- Assigned business function (e.g. Supply Chain organization in Rosemont, IL and Field; Supply Chain Business Analysis Team)
- Data Science Team
- Insights and Analytics Team
- Mentors Analysts at the direction of Direct Supervisor
- Interacts with:
- Senior management (SVPs, VPs, Directors)
- IT (Business Analysts)
Qualifications
Education / Training
- REQUIRED: Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or comparable technology related field.
Related Experience
- 5+ years demonstrated successful experience in data science, data analysis, data solutions, or related business data analysis roles.
- Preferred: Experience in food distribution, retail, CPG, or companies with warehousing and transportation needs.
- Preferred: AWS Certifications.
Knowledge / Skills / Abilities
- Software Skills
- Python (numpy, pandas, sklearn, matplotlib/seaborn).
- SQL.
- Linux/Shell command line.
- Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Containerization.
- Data Science Skills
- Hypothesis Testing.
- Experiment Design.
- Statistical Inference.
- Linear Statistical Models.
- Constrained Optimization.
- Business Strategy and Analytics
- Excellent business acumen.
- Excellent data manipulation and analysis skills.
- Ability to think logically and analytically.
- Detail oriented.
- Able to take complex, ambiguous problems, break them down into smaller parts and problem solve to come up with a whole, integrated, and strategic solution.
- Creative problem solver.
- Exposure to statistical methodologies; well-versed in basic statistical approaches.
- Self-direction and Team Work
- High degree of motivation.
- Ability to work independently and within a team.
- Ability to build consensus and lead work streams.
- Highly organized with the ability to multitask and prioritize workloads.
- Communication
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong presentation skills.
- Ability to communicate complex concepts clearly.
- Ability to influence change within complex organizations
- Ability to relate to others.
- Advanced knowledge of information visualization best practices and strategies.
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by Ronald Barron | Mar 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: Cimpress
Who We Are:
Cimpress Technology develops cutting-edge, best-in-world software that our mass customization businesses use to create personalized products for over 17 million global customers. Our Mass Customization Platform is comprised of modular, multi-tenant services. Our businesses can choose the solutions that work for them, or assemble any custom combination they need. This makes it easier and faster to do things like introduce new products, reach customers and track orders. And this kind of innovation keeps customers coming back. Just last year, Cimpress generated $2.88B in revenue through customized print products, signage, apparel, packaging and more.
We encourage our engineers to think like an owner – to continue to act small as we grow. Every team defines their own roadmaps, and uses the programming languages and technologies that suit them best. This helps us have a big impact at the enterprise level while still feeling small and nimble.
As a software engineer on Content Technology, you will work as part of a small team at the center of what makes Cimpress unique: our graphic design content. Engineers within Content Technology design and develop products that enable graphic designers at Cimpress to create beautiful and flexible designs as well as manage the complexity of a design catalog containing millions of design assets. These designs are the starting point for our customers to create a wide range of personalized products for themselves and their businesses. We strive to lead the market in tools that make high-quality design accessible to non-professionals.
What You Will Do:
- Contribute to the design and development of software for Content Technology.
- Write code in our modern stack: C# + .NET Core on the back-end and React.js + Typescript on the front-end.
- Work with Product Managers and engineers on the technical design of new features.
- Review code, build and run automated tests, deliver documentation, and do anything else you deem vital to deliver high quality, maintainable, robust code.
- Work in an environment where agile and iterative software development practices are embraced.
Your Qualifications:
At Cimpress, we value the experiences that individual team members add to our culture. Please don’t hesitate to apply even if you don’t meet the exact qualifications, we look forward to learning more about you!
- Excellent oral and written communication skills. Fluency in English.
- Strong collaborative mindset with teammates and stakeholders.
- Passionate and enthusiastic about software engineering and learning in general.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Software Engineering field, or equivalent work experience in relevant technical domain
- Fluency of at least one object-oriented programming language
Nice to Have:
- College-level courses in the fundamentals of computer science: data structures and algorithms, computer languages, operating systems, etc.
- Experience writing back-end microservices and database programming.
- Experience writing front-end software in React, Typescript, and Node.js.
- Experience writing back-end software in C#.
- Experience writing software hosted in the cloud. AWS a plus.
Why You’ll Love Working Here:
Being at Cimpress means that you don’t see work as just a building, a desk or a manufacturing floor. You see it as a chance to take a step forward in your career journey – and your life. We strive to give you everything you need to learn, grow, and succeed. Through innovation, collaboration, and perpetual exposure to what’s next, we’re always pushing boundaries and broadening our horizons. We embrace the chance to operate outside of our comfort zone to discover what we’re capable of. Some might call that a challenge; we just call it another great day at work.
We’re Remote-First:
In 2020, Cimpress adopted a Remote-First operating model and culture. We heard from our team members that having the freedom, autonomy and trust in each other to work from home and, the ability to operate when they are most productive, empowers them to be their best. Cimpress also provides collaboration spaces for team members to work physically together when it’s safe to do so and when in-person collaboration will deliver the best results. Currently, we are enabled to hire remote team members in over 30 US States as well as several countries in Europe, including Spain, Germany, UK, Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Switzerland.
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by Ronald Barron | Mar 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: Stash Financial
Want to help everyday Americans build wealth? Financial inequality is increasing and too many people are getting left behind. At Stash, we believe in the power of simplifying investing, making it easy and affordable for everyday Americans to build wealth and achieve their financial goals.
We’re one of the fastest growing fintechs in the U.S. and have had another record-breaking year. In 2021 we almost doubled our headcount and valuation. Our personal finance app makes investing easy and affordable; this year 6 million customers set aside more than $3 billion with Stash.
Prioritizing People is one of our core values and has been key to a healthy work-life balance and a great sense of fulfillment and inclusion. We employ a true people first – hybrid model. Live and work where you feel the most productive, whether that is in our home, in an office, or a combination of both. Anywhere in the US or UK.
Let’s solve complex problems and tackle wealth inequality.
Stash is looking for a Director of Analytics experienced with marketing and acquisition teams to build reliable, scalable, and performant data systems and software.
This role will partner closely with Growth Marketing to drive data driven decision making using attribution modeling, incrementally testing, and LTV modeling to build the financial advisor of the future.
We look for strategic thinkers and creative problem solvers with a bias for execution. You can expect to contribute code as well as product/feature ideas from the get-go.
If you are looking for a culture that encourages ownership, taking calculated risks, being data-driven and that values evidence over ego, we would love to hear from you!
What you’ll do:
- Manage a team of 3 data scientists delivering data products that support growth at Stash
- Maintain and iterate on data products to ensure high-availability and reliability
- Partner with the growth teams at Stash to deliver data products that enhance decision making, measure impact, and optimize the customer experience
- Build and maintain scalable data systems and infrastructure that empower our marketing, product and business teams to make better decisions
- Develop ETL pipelines that enhance source data to create more actionable insights
- Work with large datasets to help us better understand our customers and anticipate their needs through distributed computation techniques
- Make rigorous statistical inferences from A/B testing on our product and customer segments
Who we’re looking for:
- 5+ years of experience; most recently working with data, preferably from a growth perspective
- SQL proficiency, with an understanding of storing and querying data from Redshift, PostgreSQL, or similar database infrastructures
- 4+ years of professional programming work in Python, or similar
- Experience with Pandas, R, or other statistical modeling frameworks
- Comfort with distributed computing, specifically Pyspark, AWS EMR, and Airflow
- Knowledge of Looker or similar front end analytics platforms
- dbt, Data Engineering and ETL experience is a big plus!
At Stash it is our mission to help everyday Americans invest and build wealth. That includes people of all races, genders, and abilities, so it is important to us to acknowledge and address the issues of inequality in financial services head on.
Invest in Yourself:
- Equity & Stash Accounts [Invest, Retire, Custodial, Bank]
- Flexible PTO
- Learning & Development Fund
- Work from Home Stipends
- Parental Leave [Primary & Secondary]
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