by Ronald Barron | Nov 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: Lincoln Financial Group
The Role at a Glance
This position plays an integral role in building strategic technology solutions for the Annuity/Retirement Plan Services Valuation & Modeling team. S/he will design and develop new data & analytics solutions using cutting-edge tools to improve data warehousing, financial reporting, reserve analytics, and various automation efforts. This position provides a broad range of experiences and responsibilities, allowing for growth.
What you’ll be doing:
- Technology partner
- Partner with stakeholders to understand data & analytics needs
- Upskill team members with emerging technology tools
- Solutions architect
- Design data solutions to enhance reporting and analytic capabilities
- Centralize and standardize data from various sources
- Demonstrate new capabilities of the solution with proof-of-concept builds
- Create the foundation for predictive analytics opportunities
- Automation
- Develop automated solutions to streamline processes
- Help transition manual deliverables to automated reports
- Increase transparency, efficiency, and governance of processes
- Documentation
- Maintain robust process and production documentation
- Document changes and follow change management procedures
What we’re looking for:
Must-haves:
- Undergraduate degree in Actuarial Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, Data Science or Data Analytics or other quantitative major
- 3-5+ Years’ experience that aligns with the specific responsibilities for this position.
Nice-to-haves:
- Demonstrates strong interpersonal skills with a collaborative style
- Curiosity and demonstrated capability to quickly learn new concepts
- Self-starter, Innovative, Problem Solver
- Experience with:
- Modern Data & Analytics Technology such as Dataiku, Tableau, AWS, Spark
- Coding with SQL, Hive, Python/R, SAS, VBA, etc.
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: Canonical
Ubuntu Server is the world’s most popular Linux – on cloud and bare metal. In this role, you will manage a team delivering Ubuntu Server to the world.
Ubuntu strives to offer the latest, best, free software components, in an easy to use and highly reliable form. We build on the technical excellence of Debian and bring additional focus and shape to the solutions we provide to industry. The successful applicant will be passionate about the future of Ubuntu, mindful of the dynamics of the open source ecosystem, and aware of the needs of large, innovative customers.
This is an exciting opportunity for a leader passionate about strong teams, open source software and Ubuntu. Build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company.
What you’ll do
- Build and lead a globally distributed team of engineers
- Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development
- Support timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs
- Effectively set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
- Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices
- Develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
- Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
- Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organisation
- Participate in strong engineering process through code and architectural review
- Engage with teams at Canonical, the open source community and commercial partners
- Oversee the quality of the Ubuntu Server image family
- Plan and deliver Ubuntu Server features
- Work from home with global travel for 2 to 6 weeks per year for internal and external events
Who you are
- You love developing and growing people and have a strong track record of doing it
- You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development
- You have some experience in leading, managing, coaching and mentoring software developers
- You are focused on success and the delivery of timely, high quality software
- You have solid experience working in an agile development environment
- You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
- You have strong written and verbal technical communication skills
- An understanding of a modern GNU/Linux distribution, Debian or Ubuntu preferred
- Practical experience with at least 1 of Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or Amazon Web Services
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: Stream Companies
Fullthrottle Technologies is a leading Marketing Technology SAAS company focused on delivering cutting-edge applications to our clients including advertising agencies, media companies and brands. Many of our company team members work remotely and our dynamic team is spread across 5 Timezones and 6 Countries.
Our Company is truly location invisible!
We work together via Microsoft Teams and we have daily online team project meetings. Our communications and development platforms are Cloud Based so they can be accessed across the world. Our teams communicate actively online, our team members work co-operatively, yet autonomously, and take ownership of their work projects.
We are seeking a self-directed, motivated, talented SQL Developer to develop PLPG/SQL queries and procedures.
The ideal candidate will have good communication skills, be solution focused and with the ability to deliver in a fast-paced Continuous Development Agile Environment.
You will be responsible for designing databases and ensuring their stability, reliability and performance.
Remote Minimum Requirements.
- You will need a rock-solid high-speed internet connection, fluent written/spoken English and you need to be located within +/- 6 hours of US Eastern Standard Time.
Want to know more? See below!
Responsibilities:
- Implement and maintain database code in the form of stored procedures, scripts, queries, views, triggers, etc.
- Implement effective and maintainable database coding practices that form an architectural foundation.
- Work with product managers to ensure database code meets requirements.
- Work with data analysts to ensure database code is accurately documented.
- Participate as a member in Agile teams, and work with other team members to review user stories, estimate effort to build functionality supporting user stories, and participate in sprint reviews.
- Analyze existing SQL query and PLPG/SQL code for performance improvements.
- Develop functions, SQL statements in PLPG/SQL and stored procedures to maintain business logic.
- Design relational logical data models and their physical schema design.
- Make design enhancements to the database schema, dictionary and normalize data into a consistent schema to accept new data types.
- Refactor existing database models to scale.
- Investigates, troubleshoots and corrects data and user related system errors and ensures data integrity.
- Working knowledge of Data Warehouse (e.g. Athena, Amazon Redshift or similar Data Warehouse technologies) is a plus.
- 2 to 4 years of experience as a SQL Developer or similar role.
- 2+ years of experience of working in a distributed remote technology team a plus.
PERSONAL PROFILE:
We are looking for long-term hires here who fits well into our distributed Continuous Development Agile Scrum team and so the ideal candidates will be:
- Self Directed and Self Motivated with a proven ability to get things done (ESSENTIAL)
- A good communicator who can summarise key deliverables and hit daily deadlines (ESSENTIAL)
- Experience with and thrived in a fast paced Agile / Scrum development environment (++)
- Experienced with and Comfortable with working in Distributed Development Environment with remote colleagues (+)
- A proven Team player
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: Sparkbox
Description
We’re always keeping our eyes out for great people—always looking, carefully hiring. The right person loves collaboration with coworkers and clients and believes it leads to the best work. The right builder also wants to work in a learning-hungry web environment and help lead the web industry by sharing. Sparkbox has been intentionally working to build a team where we acknowledge our own imperfections, make all feel welcome, and humbly help each other grow.
If you’re right for this position, you have solid knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (and applicable browser support) while being mindful of the diverse ecosystem of devices and connections. You care about and are eager to learn the details of deployment, commit history, refactoring, design patterns, and other development practices. You understand the value of design systems throughout the product design and development lifecycle and are willing to dig deep on this topic. You have a standards-centric view of the web, know its limitations and possibilities, and care about performance and progressive enhancement.
You will be expected to help craft solutions to client needs, recognizing the constraints of each unique situation. You’ll work with our team of designers and developers to turn those solutions into high-quality, well-tested websites and applications that are accessible to as many people as possible.
We’re looking for applicants with at least some level of professional web development experience. If you haven’t quite gained the professional experience needed to be a great fit for this particular Frontend Developer position, we recommend that you apply instead for our Full-Stack Developer Apprenticeship.
Requirements
We’re actively looking for individuals that will bring a diverse perspective to the Sparkbox office. Passion and humility are vital, as you’ll work directly with our designers, project managers, and other developers at Sparkbox. You’ll also interact with clients and should feel comfortable presenting work. You’ll need to be hungry to learn new things, advance your skills, and push to find new processes.
A few things you could spend your days with:
- JavaScript, Typescript, and frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue, Ember, and Express
- CSS, Sass, and CSS-in-JS built responsively for many browsers
- Clean, semantic HTML
- Git, Github, CircleCI, Netlify, and Heroku
- Dynamic Pattern Libraries, Design Systems, Storybook
- Accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA or higher) and Progressive Enhancement
- WordPress, Drupal, ExpressionEngine, and more
- Work closely with designers to translate designs to code
- Test-Driven Development
- Continuous Integration and Delivery
- Potential to lead project teams in partnership with client developers
- Not required but a bonus if you have PHP or Ruby experience
- Share your learnings on the Sparkbox blog—Check out The Foundry
Inclusive Mindset
Sparkbox has been intentionally working to build a team where we acknowledge our own imperfections, make all feel welcome, and humbly help each other grow. If you can bring a fresh perspective to a team of humble people who love what they do, we’d love to talk with you.
Benefits
In return for your outstanding work, Sparkbox offers the following:
- Remote work
- Flexible Schedule
- Healthcare Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Group Life Insurance
- Mental Health Benefit (Employer Paid)
- Accident, Critical Illness & Hospital Insurance
- Health Savings Account (Employer Match)
- Flex Savings Account
- Simple IRA (Employer Match)
- Paid Vacation
- Vacation-Buy Option
- Annual Vacation Bonus
- Annual Wellness Budget
- Annual Education Budget and Match
- Competitive Salary
- Commission Opportunities
- Paid Holidays
- Short/Long-Term Disability
- Provided Equipment
- Some of the Best Coworkers You’ll Ever Meet
People and families come first around here, which is part of why we offer 13 paid holidays (including a week or more shutdown at the end of the year) in addition to vacation.
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
Employer: US Foods
Join Our Community of Food People!
Are you ready for your next career adventure? (Afterall, your next job should be fun, shouldn’t it)?
Are you ready to join a team of high performers working together to create cutting edge web and mobile apps using the latest technologies? (Afterall, you do want to work with a team that will challenge you to learn new things, be the best you can be, and deliver cool solutions, right)?
Would you love to be able to work from anywhere in the continental U.S.?
At US Foods, we care about YOU, want to enable your SUCCESS, and make winning (together) FUN!
So, now that we’ve got your attention, let’s talk about the opportunity…
We’re looking for an Application Developer to join our team! In this role, you will be responsible for all the cool stuff like development and implementation of web and mobile applications. You will have the opportunity to work across business functions to deliver high performing applications that are scalable as well as easy to maintain. You will also be responsible for applying your growing technical knowledge, skills, and judgment to solve problems relating to outages, application performance issues, and specific user requests (basically, you get to save the day and be someone’s hero)!
The work is completed 100% remote anywhere in the United States except Hawaii or United States Territories.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Assist and participate in project ideation – from concept to delivery
- Gather information from existing systems, analyze program and time requirements
- Prepare detailed specifications from which programs are developed and coded
- Develop moderately complex programs
- Ensure programs meet standards and technical specifications
- Develop test plans to verify logic of new or modified programs
- Create documentation of work assignments such as program code and technical documentation
- Assist support and/or project personnel in resolving program issues
QUALIFICATIONS:
Education/Training
- B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or related area required
BASIC REQUIREMENTS:
- Experience with requirements gathering, design, implementation, integration, and testing
- Coursework or demonstrated skill in object-oriented programming
- Experience in web application development OR hands-on website development experience
- Experience integrating front-end templates with back-end functionality
- Demonstrate strong written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrate excellent organizational and multi-tasking skills
PREFERRED SKILLS:
- Microservice architecture
- JDBC, JMS, Web Services, J2EE, Applet, Servlet, JSP, JSON.
- HTML5, CSS3, Angular, JavaScript/jQuery
- WebLogic, Tomcat
- Docker, Kubernetes
- Kafka
- Swagger
- AWS (API Gateway, WebSocket, Lambda, EC2, S3)
- New Relic
- Git
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