by Ronald Barron | Jan 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: Cox Automotive
This position is remote/work from home. You need to reside (in, near, within): Austin, TX; or the Southwest region; or Central Time Zone
Who We Are + What We Do:
At Cox Automotive, we offer the chance to take an important role in the digital revolution of the automotive industry. Our employees are part of an energetic team that builds world-class solutions to benefit the auto buying public, dealers, and manufacturers. At Cox Automotive, you’ll be immersed in an environment that values your teamwork and creative problem-solving techniques.
The Data Analyst is responsible for ingesting, cleaning, mining, and transforming data. They also build and validate metrics, monitor data quality, analyze various forms of data (e.g. raw data, base data, 3rd party data, metrics), provide reports, and interpret results. The Data Analyst will work with stakeholders to provide insights into the data for new product offerings and trends in the market related to the automotive incentives domain.
Information Analysis
- Performs data analysis and validation.
- Translates data into meaningful insights.
- Develops reports and data visualizations to present insights in the most effective way to enable decision-making.
- Monitors and analyzes key metrics and executes recurring analyses and reporting.
- Mines and interprets data, monitors, and analyzes key metrics interprets performance, and provides insight into the data and metrics generated.
- Handles data preparation and data analysis portions of various projects.
- Writes, maintains, and/or updates queries to develop analyses in response to queries from internal customers.
Information Management
- Coordinates data feeds and updates and sources additional data required for analysis.
- Determines the value of new internal and external data sources, merges disparate data sets, ingests data, cleans, and munges data, derives metrics, and transforms the data into usable information.
- Assists development teams in creating and maintaining data reporting models.
- Assists in the development and implementation of data monitoring and measurement systems.
- Develops monitoring mechanisms for quality and data management purposes.
- Builds and validates new derived metrics, models, and associated business rules.
The Data Analyst is responsible for ingesting, cleaning, mining, and transforming data. They also build and validate metrics, monitor data quality, analyze various forms of data (e.g. raw data, base data, 3rd party data, metrics), provide reports, and interpret results. The Data Analyst will work with stakeholders to provide insights into the data for new product offerings and trends in the market related to the automotive incentives domain.
Information Analysis
- Performs data analysis and validation.
- Translates data into meaningful insights.
- Develops reports and data visualizations to present insights in the most effective way to enable decision-making.
- Monitors and analyzes key metrics, and executes recurring analyses and reporting.
- Mines and interprets data, monitors and analyzes key metrics interprets performance, and provides insight into the data and metrics generated.
- Handles data preparation and data analysis portions of various projects.
- Writes, maintains, and/or updates queries to develop analyses in response to queries from internal customers.
Information Management
- Coordinates data feeds and updates and sources additional data required for analysis.
- Determines the value of new internal and external data sources, merges disparate data sets, ingests data, cleans and munges data, derives metrics, and transforms the data into usable information.
- Assists development teams in creating and maintaining data reporting models.
- Assists in the development and implementation of data monitoring and measurement systems.
- Develops monitoring mechanisms for quality and data management purposes.
- Builds and validates new derived metrics, models, and associated business rules.
Key Responsibilities
- Designs and develops ETL processes to feed data stores from disparate data sources.
- Monitors ETL applications for performance and improvement opportunities.
- Develops and documents the systems, processes, and logic required to expose the existing data sets in the warehouse to end-users for reporting and analysis purposes.
- Delivers quality data integration projects.
- Designs and develops BI/Analytics views for stakeholders.
Qualifications:
- Working experience conducting quantitative and qualitative analysis
- Working experience working with SQL
- Working experience working with reporting tools
- Working experience working with large scale disparate datasets
- Working experience presenting data to leadership for decision making
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent combination of industry-related professional experience and education
- Knowledge of machine learning libraries (algorithms)
- 2 – 4 years of working experience
Who We Are
About Cox Automotive
There’s nothing ordinary about Cox Automotive. We are people of every background driven by our passion for mobility, innovation, client success, and community outreach. We make buying, selling, and owning (or simply using) cars easier for everyone. Touching more than 40,000 clients across five continents, we bring together the best brands and the best teams to propel the automotive industry forward. Some of those team members work for our iconic consumer brands like Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book, while others are creating the future of automotive at industry-facing brands like Dealer.com, Manheim, and vAuto.
About Cox
We are the Cox family of businesses. We’ve been making our mark since 1898 by building and evolving world-class businesses, staying true to our values, and encouraging top talent to always look for growth and impact while building a career with us. Our primary divisions – Cox Communications and Cox Automotive – are driving a new wave of innovation, powering smart cities with powerhouse broadband communications and pioneering greener, more progressive transportation alternatives for individuals and fleet operators. We’re also expanding into new spaces like cleantech and healthcare to rev up our momentum toward building a better future for the next generation. We’re looking for the talent today who will be our leaders tomorrow. Sound intriguing? Learn more about where we are today, where we hope you’ll be going with us, and the common purpose that unites us at coxenterprises.com.
Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO). For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page.
Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer – All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual’s age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship.
Statement to ALL Third-Party Agencies and Similar Organizations: Cox accepts resumes only from agencies with which we formally engage their services. Please do not forward resumes to our applicant tracking system, Cox employees, Cox hiring manager, or send to any Cox facility. Cox is not responsible for any fees or charges associated with unsolicited resumes.
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: Array.com
Array is revolutionizing how businesses leverage and enhance consumer data. Our platform enables innovative companies and developers to seamlessly integrate credit and identity data into their apps, websites or workflows. As a remote-first company, we’re focused on providing opportunities for autonomous individuals to have high levels of impact at the forefront of the fintech space. Continuous improvement, experimentation, and a clear mission stretch us individually and together in service of delivering the best products for our clients and users.
We build RESTful API’s using microservices built primarily in Go with some Node.js sprinkled throughout. We are looking for great engineers who know how to build scalable services to help consumers with their financial health and wellness via credit monitoring and identity protection. Interested? We’d love to hear from you! And we are always esp. happy to see any pointers you may have to your work on Git (GitHub, GitLab, etc.) or a personal Web site.
Responsibilities
- Build RESTful web services in Go to be consumed by single page application(s).
- Use best practices to help us optimize for developer productivity, reliability, and scalability.
- Implement business logic using both code and MSSQL stored procedures.
- Provide comprehensive unit and functional testing for all routes, endpoints, and features.
- Mentor and coach existing development team on Go standards, tooling, and best practices.
- Design & build caching mechanisms such as using Redis to provide the fastest experience possible to our customers / web visitors.
- Participate in daily standup calls with the development team and project managers.
- All services built will run in a containerized Linux environment in Docker and Kubernetes.
Job requirements
- 5+ years of software development experience building SaaS products.
- Experience building web and mobile backend services. (Ideally using Go but we will train you on Go if needed.)
- Usage of Redis or similar technology for caching, message and job queues, etc.
- Strong Javascript skills both client side and server side (NodeJS) to foster strong communication between varied project development teams.
- Experience as a team lead and mentoring junior developers.
- Experience with MS SQL database using stored procedures.
- Experience writing automated tests for both functions and service endpoints.
Bonus
- Experience with grpc via protobuf to accelerate communication between micro-services.
- Frontend experience consuming RESTful web services using any framework (React, Angular, etc).
- Understanding of credit bureaus, credit reports, and credit related products.
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: CGI
Position Description:
CGI is seeking an Agile Tester tjoin our team!
You will be joining and contributing ta dynamic and determined team that will be assisting a local Northern California public sector client tsuccessfully transform how they provide services ttheir respective clients.
This digital transformation initiative will involve close collaboration with the client tarchitect, design, and develop a secure, user-centric, and mission-critical solution that will involve multiple teams that are organized tmeet the client’s needs through a fast-paced agile development approach. This initiative will have a lasting positive impact on enhancing the citizen experience.
You will have the opportunity tcollaborate with colleagues in different groups thelp in the development of this solution. This critical client initiative must integrate several complex components using modern and disparate technologies.
Your future duties and responsibilities:
- You will assist in testing of an expansive solution trealize our client’s transformative vision!
- You will work on testing nearly all aspects of the solution and work closely with many internal and external groups within an agile development environment.
- Collaborate with different teams in an agile development, consisting of CGI peers and client participants.
- Requires ability tunderstand business requirements, develop, document, execute test scenarios, and input defects found.
Required qualifications tbe successful in this role:
- Ability twork closely with client for requirements analysis, development of features, stories, and test scripts
- Experience in the creation of test plans, test scenarios/cases
- Experience in writing and SQLs and setting up data
- Experience in defect management and triage processes
- Experience in the creation and update of online user procedures
- Excellent oral and written communication skills:
- Ability tpresent tdifferent levels of client stakeholders
- Experience in effective business writing tproduce high-quality, client-facing documents
- Experience contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle
Hands on experience successfully leveraging the following processes and tools:
- Application of Agile, PMI and/or ITIL management principles
- JIRA or other Agile management tool
- Manual Testing for large and complex systems.
- Automated Testing tools (Unified Functional Testing)
- Mobile Testing tools (Amazon Device Farm)
- Application Lifecycle Management ALM
- Experience with Web Services / API testing
- Test-driven development (TDD), acceptance test-driven development (ATDD), and behavioral-driven development (BDD)
- Feature Driven Testing
- Detail oriented with a commitment tproducing high quality work
- Self-motivated with excellent planning experience that can work well independently and within a team environment
Skill Set/Years of Experience:
- Testing of IT Applications – 5+ Years
- Creating and executing Test Scenarios for IT Applications – 5+ Years
- Full Software Development Life Cycle – 5+ Years
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS/NON-ESSENTIAL SKILLS REQUIRED
- Hands-on experience in the following areas:
- Excellent oral and written communication skills:
- Ability tpresent tdifferent levels of client stakeholders
- Experience in effective business writing tproduce high-quality, client-facing documents
- Solid skills in MS Office, specifically Word and Excel
Skill Set/Years of Experience:
- Knowledge of JIRA – Any
- Using JIRA for requirement and design creation and repository a plus.
- Experience working in an Agile / DevOps environment – 2+ Years
- Any is a plus
- SQL Query Creation – 2+ Years
- Creating SQL queries for data creation and management
- Defect tracking software and processes – 2+ Years
- HP ALM or any product is a plus
Education: Bachelor’s Degree
Est. Salary Range (ColoradOnly): $59K-$110K*
*Disclaimer: In accordance with Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, effective January 1, 2021, a good faith hourly or base salary range must be posted for all positions where the work may be performed in the state of Colorado. Therefore, this good faith salary range will only apply where this described position will be performed in the state, and should not be considered the compensation range in other locations or for other positions.
At CGI we call our professionals “members†treinforce that all whjoin our team are, as owners, empowered tparticipate in the challenges and rewards that come from building a world-class company. CGI’s benefits include:
- Competitive base salaries
- Eligibility tparticipate in an attractive Share Purchase Plan (SPP) in which the company matches dollar-for-dollar contributions made by eligible employees, up ta maximum, for their job category
- 401(k) Plan and Profit Participation for eligible members
- Generous holidays, vacation, and sick leave plans
- Comprehensive insurance plans that include, among other benefits, medical, dental, vision, life, disability, out-of-county emergency coverage in all countries of employment;
- Back-up child care, Pet insurance, a Member Assistance Program, a 529 college savings program, a personal financial management tool, lifestyle management programs and more
Skills:
- Agile Testing
- Automated Testing
- Behaviour Driven Development
- Jira
- Manual Testing
- SQL
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: Oak Ridge Associated Universities – ORAU
PURPOSE:
To serve as an Oracle applications database administrator, focusing on the configuration management, security and routine maintenance for the Oracle systems. With general supervision, provide detailed analysis and troubleshooting support for all Oracle technical support analysts in the Corporate Business Applications (CBA) team. Participate in change management (upgrades, new technologies, changes required by the manufacturer, etc.).
Responsibilities
- Assists with systems configuration, management, and support of Oracle based systems; Sunflower Property, Oracle Business Intelligence (OBI), and other enterprise applications. This includes regular maintenance, patches, and performance tuning as well as planning and implementing changes to the environments.
- Assist in the systems configuration, management, and support of other Oracle environments such as Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle RMAN. This includes regular maintenance, patches, and performance tuning as well as assistance in planning and implementing changes to the environments.
- Assist in diagnosing and resolution of application-related problems (i.e.: Framework errors, Workflow errors, application anomalies).
- Assist in exploring new technologies related to application usage in conjunction with CBA Support Analysts.
- Assist in development and maintenance of shell scripts for process automation.
- Following established processes, leads Quarterly Critical Patch Update review process for evaluating impact/probability of security fixes and implementing from test to production for any of the enterprise systems (EBS, OBIEE, Sunflower, RMAN).
- Participates and contributes in development and implementation plans business continuity and disaster recovery functions for Oracle products. This includes providing reliable, recoverable and scalable databases/computing environments to store and integrate all Oracle Applications company data.
- Serves as a team member of the Corporate Business Applications team for all Oracle environments. Work closely with relevant systems administrators responsible for the hardware platforms.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field and 2 to 4 years of job related experience.
- An equivalent combination of education and experience performing duties as described may be substituted for the minimum requirements.
Knowledge, skills and abilities needed to perform the duties and responsibilities of the position include:
- Oracle Applications (eBusiness Suite) Administration (or similar environment).
- Ability to apply application and database patches.
- Troubleshoot application performance or errors.
- Work with Oracle Technical Support (My Oracle Support) or similar online support structure.
- Must have extensive experience in installing, cloning, patching and upgrading Oracle Database based applications.
- Must have thorough knowledge of Oracle Applications technologies.
- Understanding of toolsets used in administration and configuration of Oracle systems.
- Must have experience in Linux/Unix environments.
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: HubSpot
Design at HubSpot is both grounded in experience design fundamentals and a deep belief that small autonomous teams are the best way to get excellent work in customer’s hands.
- We value solving for the customer above all else
- We give each designer the responsibility and ownership to chart the course for their designs throughout the product and across teams. We don’t do sign-offs and burdensome documentation
- We respect user research and content and work cooperatively with them while designing
- We carefully lead and maintain a high-functioning, usability-centered design system and design language with our front-end teammates
- We’re embedded on small teams with engineers and product managers in sane sustainable ratios
- Learn more about our Design Philosophy: Design System Article
Design is imagining a better future. It’s important for designers to think boldly and escape the confines of what’s been done before. By spending time defining the problem and understanding our users, we’re able to conceptualize solutions that get at the heart of the challenges our users face and the progress they are trying to make. Leveraging expertise in human factors, behavioral psychology, and visual design, we’re able to create an experience that is highly usable, effective, efficient, and delightful.
We’re looking for skilled product designers to join our team in creating experiences our customers love.
In this role you’ll get to:
- Design for the CRM Records page, one of the top viewed pages within the HubSpot product.
- Build consumer grade experiences that take complex CRM data and present it to our end users in a usable, simple interface.
- Move quickly,as an experienced designer, building strong and compelling journey scenarios, information architecture, interaction and visual designs
- Work autonomously, while being facilitated by our living UI Library and results in a faster, more efficient process with fewer handoffs
- Lead brainstorming sessions to user flows through wireframes and high fidelity screens highlighting your design process
- Build lasting relationships across the organization, partnering with your cross-product design team, engineering, product management, and the broader business
- Our embedded team structure makes collaboration quick and easy
- Influence leadership and help them to understand the impact and vision of design
- Collaborate closely and uniquely with an engaged Engineering team to get stuff done efficiently and effectively
- Help us expand our UX strategy and vision
- Guide Product Designers and Associate Product Designers as an engaged mentor
We are looking for candidates who have:
- Passion for creating an unmatched user experience in the software product world
- Experience designing workflows and experiences to help end users view, and manipulate complex underlying data in an intuitive, and efficient manner.
- Inherent curiosity about how humans think, behave, and interact with technology
- High degree of experience with a vector and prototyping tool of choice (Sketch, Adobe and InVision are ours)
- At least three to five years of UX Design experience
- Successful experience working collaboratively with Engineering, Product Management, and UX Research
- A strong desire to always be learning and tackling new challenges in a fast-paced environment
- Nice to have, but not required: undergraduate degree in Design, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or a related field
We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply we’d love to hear from you.
Important COVID-19 Guidance (For candidates applying to roles in the United States):
Per HubSpot’s policy all employees who wish to work @office or @flex or to visit an office in-person must be fully-vaccinated. At this time, @remote employees are not required to be vaccinated.
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