Senior Back-End Developer

Senior Back-End Developer

Employer: Toptal

Toptal is an elite talent network made up of the world’s top 3% of developers, connecting the best and brightest freelancers with top organizations. Unlike a 9-to-5 job, you’ll choose your own schedule and work from anywhere. Jobs come to you, so you won’t bid for projects against other developers in a race to the bottom. Plus, Toptal takes care of all the overhead, empowering you to focus on successful engagements while getting paid on time, at the rate you decide, every time. Our sophisticated screening process makes sure you are provided with top clients without additional overhead, as well as assistance in maximizing the potential of your full-time freelance career. Joining the Toptal network also gives you access to technical training programs, mentors, and coaching programs, so you can connect with a global community of experts like you to share peer-to-peer knowledge and expand your network globally. 

As a freelance developer, you can become a part of an ever-expanding community of experts in over 120 countries, working remotely on projects that meet your career ambitions. 

That’s why the world’s top 3% of developers choose Toptal. Developers in our elite network share:

  • English language proficiency
  • 3+ years of professional experience in Back-End Development
  • Solid experience in Ruby on Rails or/and Node.js is a strong advantage
  • Project management skills
  • A keen attention to detail
  • Experience with system architecture or leading a software team is a strong advantage
  • Full-time availability is a strong advantage

Curious to know how much you could make? Check out our Back-End developer rate calculator: https://topt.al/KVcMX5

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Principal Data Scientist – Advanced Analytics

Principal Data Scientist – Advanced Analytics

Employer: Citizens Bank

Job Description:

Citizens Bank is currently recruiting for a Principal Data Scientist role. If you are an individual passionate to advance in the field of data science (Core AI) or to make an impact on the organization by applying advanced analytics tools and technology (Applied AI), this is the right opportunity for you to join our growing Advanced Analytics team.

Primary responsibilities include:

  • Implementation of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tools/technologies with document management systems while coordinating with business lines for use; orchestrating an end to end pipeline using OCR and appropriate data repositories to maximize scanning, profiling and searchability of documents.
  • Working individually or in small groups to drive transformation using machine learning across the bank in marketing, operations, credit, and fraud.
  • Rolling up your sleeves and owning a predictive model building process from end-to-end – managing stakeholders, presenting the results and helping the team grow in an agile organization.

Qualifications

Required Skills/Experience:

  • Eight years of experience in an analytical, data science role or data engineering (ETL) capacity
  • Experience with Seal, Textract or another OCR Technology
  • Understanding of implementing Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Understanding (NLU) processes, Natural Language Generation (NLG) algorithms
  • Proven ability to program and build predictive models using R or Python; including packages such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, Pandas, NumPy
  • Ability to use SQL for analytical analysis, generate stored procedures
  • Experience running statistical or machine learning procedures, such as descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, dimension reduction, feature transformation, supervised or unsupervised learning
  • Solid understanding of machine learning algorithms such as Random Forest, Gradient Boosting and Neural Networks
  • Demonstrated quick learner, highly analytical with excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
  • Strong communication and storytelling skills
  • Experience or familiarity with contract analytics and related legal or regulatory requirements (e.g. FDIC370 or LIBOR) is a plus

Education, Certifications and/or Other Professional Credentials:

  • Bachelor’s Degree required
  • Master’s or PhD in a quantitative field such as statistics, mathematics, econometrics, data science or computer science from a top-tier institution with a strong academic track

Hours & Work Schedule

  • Hours per Week: 40
  • Work Schedule: Monday through Friday

This position is not available in Colorado

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Senior Brand Designer

Senior Brand Designer

Employer: Aquent

Job Description:

Our client is seeking a Senior Brand Designer who will work closely with their interdisciplinary team of researchers, service designers and customer experience experts to identify actionable design principles, visualize and prototype transformative experiences, and co-create the path ahead for all things patient financial experience.

You will bring visual and brand design excellence to our human-centered design process and support the evolution of a patient-centric service mentality within our organization.

This is an opportunity to be part of a team that is creating positive impact for our patients and the healthcare community by creating experiences that change people’s lives for the better.

This role may also be available as a fully remote role or flexible work location arrangement.

In this position you will have the following responsibilities:

  • Concept and execute effective and inspiring ways to communicate patient experience initiatives and vision.
  • Actively participate and provide influence in experience research and service design strategy development .
  • Bring skills in design strategy, storytelling and iterative prototyping to solve user problems and develop new ideas
  • Ensure that established user needs and service strategy principles have direct impact in the design of brand and communication initiatives .
  • Co-create and maintain graphic standards and communication system tools for PME team.
  • Enhance brand awareness, information design and visual interfaces for existing patient experience touch points.
  • Ensure the integrity of, and application of, systemic and consistent visual graphic design standards.

Common deliverables will include brand identity systems, print and/or digital collateral, data visualizations, packaging, environmental design, UI design, journey maps and user ecosystems, user stories and future scenarios, interactive design presentations, internal communication templates, PME design and communication tools.

  • Collaborate seamlessly with clients, project managers, and others as appropriate.
  • Provides counsel and feedback to clients and other design staff as needed.
  • Coordinate production as needed, including print, digital and environmental materials .
  • Ability to balance projects and individual work to ensure timely, on-budget outcomes, or recommend appropriate modifications and updates to schedules .
  • Study exemplars from design and other industries to learn, leverage, and hone your craft in typography, illustration, branding, as well as new technologies to support design experiences.
  • Maintain and develop personal professional knowledge of design and its impact in the healthcare industry.

Required qualifications for this position include:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts, Graphic Design, or a closely related area.

Link to portfolio and resume along with application -OR- equivalent education/experience.

Preferred qualifications for this position include:

  • 5+ years experience in a commercial or institutional setting, using advanced skills in computer-based graphic design and commercial/creative production.
  • Knowledge of the health care industry.

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Technical Infrastructure Architect

Technical Infrastructure Architect

Employer: CGI

Position Description
CGI is seeking a Technical Architect to join our team!

You will be responsible for ensuring the technical architectures—platform, application, and data—are developed and applied consistently.

Responsible for ensuring technical standards and best practices are implemented consistently and is authorized to make decisions about the day-to-day execution of assigned tasks.

Provide leadership in general project management activities as well as oversight and guidance in other areas of the project including testing and implementation.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

  • Define, design, update, and document the necessary physical and logical technical architecture
  • Participate in the gathering of information in technical architecture discussions and sessions
  • Lead the planning, development, configuration, and execution of the configuration and development of the system infrastructure to meet the project scope and requirements
  • Primary focus on Solution configuration, such as reports, interface development, and other tailoring activities
  • Oversees Infrastructure staff and the installation of hardware and software
  • Manage day-to-day activities of the technical staff
  • Analyze requirements from a technical perspective and develop solutions to meet the identified requirements
  • Lead the team in addressing the technical requirements for the solution for software performance and reliability
  • Resolve and manage assigned issues and risks
  • Authorized to make team-level decisions

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

  • 5+ years proven experience as a Technical Architect or Project Manager
  • 10+ years of hands-on experience with software development and system administration
  • 10+ years of experience in virtualization / cloud technologies
  • 5+ years of organizational and leadership skills
  • Ability to work with 3rd party vendors, create purchase requisitions, manage hardware/software maintenance contracts.
  • Position requires the ability to be flexible, and operate in a dynamic, fast-paced, team-oriented environment.
  • Solid understanding of Client/Server Architecture. Understanding of virtualization, Windows / Unix server platforms, and storage (EMC) in a large-scale enterprise environment or large datacenter environment.
  • Strong .NET background
  • Ability to create/modify processes to increase the efficiency of complex operations.
  • Be detail-oriented with the ability to coordinate multiple tasks at the same time.
  • Good communication skills are required.

Est. Salary Range (Colorado Only): $84K-$170K*

*Disclaimer: In accordance with Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, effective January 1, 2021, 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” to reinforce that all who join our team are, as owners, empowered to participate in the challenges and rewards that come from building a world-class company. CGI’s benefits include:

  • Competitive base salaries
  • Eligibility to participate in an attractive Share Purchase Plan (SPP) in which the company matches dollar-for-dollar contributions made by eligible employees, up to a 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:

  • Leadership
  • Project Management
  • Technical Architecture
  • Virtualization Technologies

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Principal Data Scientist – Advanced Analytics

Principal Data Scientist – Advanced Analytics

Employer: Citizens Bank

Job Description:

Citizens Bank is currently recruiting for a Principal Data Scientist role. If you are an individual passionate to advance in the field of data science (Core AI) or to make an impact on the organization by applying advanced analytics tools and technology (Applied AI), this is the right opportunity for you to join our growing Advanced Analytics team.

Primary responsibilities include:

  • Implementation of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tools/technologies with document management systems while coordinating with business lines for use; orchestrating an end to end pipeline using OCR and appropriate data repositories to maximize scanning, profiling and searchability of documents.
  • Working individually or in small groups to drive transformation using machine learning across the bank in marketing, operations, credit, and fraud.
  • Rolling up your sleeves and owning a predictive model building process from end-to-end – managing stakeholders, presenting the results and helping the team grow in an agile organization.

Qualifications

Required Skills/Experience:

  • Eight years of experience in an analytical, data science role or data engineering (ETL) capacity
  • Experience with Seal, Textract or another OCR Technology
  • Understanding of implementing Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Understanding (NLU) processes, Natural Language Generation (NLG) algorithms
  • Proven ability to program and build predictive models using R or Python; including packages such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, Pandas, NumPy
  • Ability to use SQL for analytical analysis, generate stored procedures
  • Experience running statistical or machine learning procedures, such as descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, dimension reduction, feature transformation, supervised or unsupervised learning
  • Solid understanding of machine learning algorithms such as Random Forest, Gradient Boosting and Neural Networks
  • Demonstrated quick learner, highly analytical with excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
  • Strong communication and storytelling skills
  • Experience or familiarity with contract analytics and related legal or regulatory requirements (e.g. FDIC370 or LIBOR) is a plus

Education, Certifications and/or Other Professional Credentials:

  • Bachelor’s Degree required
  • Master’s or PhD in a quantitative field such as statistics, mathematics, econometrics, data science or computer science from a top-tier institution with a strong academic track

Hours & Work Schedule

  • Hours per Week: 40
  • Work Schedule: Monday through Friday

This position is not available in Colorado

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