by Ronald Barron | Nov 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Principal Software Engineer, Data Engineering
Location: Remote USA
Full time
job requisition id
R0055861
Job Description:
Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services. Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results. We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions. Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow.
Summary of This Role
As a Principal Software Engineer in Data Engineering, you will lead the design, implementation, and optimization of our data infrastructure, including data warehousing, ETL processes, and data pipelines. Drawing from established best practices in dimensional modeling, you will help architect scalable, high-performance solutions that ensure data accuracy, reliability, and accessibility for AI/ML, analytics, and business intelligence (BI) initiatives.
What Are We Looking For in This Role?
Minimum Qualifications
- 4-year degree in Computer Science or Engineering concentration, combination of relevant training and/or experience in lieu of degree acceptable
- 8+ years of experience in software development.
- Data Architecture & Modeling: Design and implement robust data models, leveraging dimensional modeling principles to structure data for performance, usability, and scalability in reporting and analytics.
- ETL & Data Pipelines: Lead the development of efficient ETL processes, data pipelines, and workflows to transform, integrate, and load data from multiple sources into the data warehouse.
- Data Warehousing: Architect and optimize data warehousing solutions that support high query performance and can scale with increasing data volume and complexity.
- Data Governance & Quality: Develop and enforce data quality standards, including validation, transformation, and cleansing rules to ensure data accuracy and consistency across the organization.
- Performance Tuning: Perform detailed performance tuning of ETL processes and query optimization to improve data processing speeds and reduce latency in data access.
- Mentorship & Leadership: Mentor other engineers, guiding them on best practices for data engineering, data warehousing, and dimensional modeling.
Preferred Qualifications
- Extensive Knowledge of Dimensional Modeling: Expertise in designing star schemas, snowflake schemas, and other dimensional models per Kimball methodology.
- Advanced Data Engineering Skills: Proven experience with ETL frameworks, data pipeline design, and data warehousing technologies such as Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, or similar platforms.
- SQL Proficiency: Deep understanding of SQL, query optimization, and performance tuning.
- Programming Knowledge: Strong proficiency in languages such as Python, Java, or Scala for data processing and pipeline development.
- Analytical Thinking: Exceptional problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex data requirements into efficient data models and processes.
- Experience with Big Data: Familiarity with big data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Spark) is a plus.
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Sr. Data Analyst – Hybrid
Location: Plano United States
Job Description:
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Category: Business Analysis (functional and technical)
Main location: United States, Virginia, Reston
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United States, South Carolina, Columbia
United States, Tennessee, Knoxville
Position ID: J1124-1386
Employment Type: Full Time
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Position Description:
CGI has an immediate need for a Sr. Data Analyst to join our team. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced team environment supporting one of the largest leaders in industry. We take an innovative approach to supporting our client, working side-by-side in an agile environment using emerging technologies.
This position can be located remotely anywhere in the U.S.
We partner with 15 of the top 20 banks globally, and our top 10 banking clients have worked with us for an average of 26 years!
We have over 92,000+ CGI Members in 40 countries and over 5k+ loyal Clients who are leveraging our end-to-end services across the globe.
Your future duties and responsibilities:
Analyze, document and articulate business requirements for complex mathematical, business, and financial modeling logic for software coding. Design and execute test cases for modeling and analytical software applications to ensure they meet business needs and model requirements.
Develop detailed specifications of application and document in a form that it can be used for coding application. This includes architecture diagrams, process flows, and other information or processes needed to describe required system changes for development, QA, and other internal customers.
Collaborate with managers or practitioners in the business unit to determine systems requirements and functionalities needed in new or revised application.
Extract data requirements through various methods including individual and group discussions, independent data analysis and by extracting from a suite of mathematical functions and code.
Confer with business units and technical staff to understand data usage, lineage and attributes. Perform or review coding done to render specifications into application functionalities, screens, or outputs.
Develop test plan and/or test application in development status or debug application in production mode.
Document or review documentation of steps in specification development, coding, testing and user acceptance for future reference and for internal control purposes.
May provide support to applications in production by tracking production problems and troubleshooting them to sustain application in production.
Participate in project meetings to plan rewrite of addition to application in production or being revised for release into production.
May mentor or provide technical guidance to less experienced staff.
Lead cross functions to ensure application enhancements quality meets expected business results. May lead test strategy and facilitate customer and end user testing through test & learn development iterations and closing the loop on customer feedback. Manage end to end business process impacts for cross functional/complex solutions
Promote productive relationships between stakeholders and technology partners, providing clarity & ensuring processes are streamlined.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
8+ years of related experience
Secondary mortgage, finance or economics knowledge or experience. Multifamily data and business experience highly desired.
Technical skills: Oracle, stored procedures & advanced querying.
Advanced Oracle / SQL skills, Ability to design Python scripts for data analysis. Ability to perform existing code analysis in Java and Python.
Familiarity with Linux/Unix.
Strong Data analyst needed to proceed data analysis, consolidate date sets, extract data, have data modeling skills.
Ability to document highly complex data processing
Experience working with software developers in a medium to large organization following SDLC or Agile processes
Must have experience supporting customer application development lifecycles (e.g., analysis, design, testing)
Experience providing input to specialists in development projects to assist in developing specifications and functionalities in IT systems.
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Ability to communicate abstract concepts and analysis results using creative visualizations. Comfortable presenting and relaying information to anyone including upper management.
Excellent interpersonal skills and team player mentality
Excellent analytic and problem-solving skills
Ability to develop proficiency in new skills rapidly
Education:
Master or Other Advanced Degree in Accounting, Business, Computer Science or Finance
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Executive Producer – Echtra Studios
Location: Chicago United States
Job Description:
Zynga is a global leader in interactive entertainment with a mission to connect the world through games and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO). With massive global reach in more than 175 countries and regions, the combined diverse portfolio of popular game franchises has been downloaded more than 6 billion times on mobile, including Star Wars: Hunters, CSR Racing, Dragon City, Empires & Puzzles, FarmVille, Golf Rival, Hair Challenge, Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells, High Heels!, Merge Dragons!, Merge Magic!, Monster Legends, Toon Blast, Top Eleven, Toy Blast, Two Dots, Words With Friends, and Zynga Poker.Founded in 2007, Zynga is headquartered in California with locations in North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information, visit www.zynga.com or follow Zynga on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, or the Zynga blog
Position Overview
Echtra Games is looking for an Executive Producer to join our growing team for a new AAA PC and Console ARPG project. We are looking for a production leader who is experienced at managing a large team of direct and indirect reports, and will have a good understanding of a wide range of leadership, management, communication, and production practices. They also need to be able to help drive and motivate the team and help to cultivate a positive team culture. Ultimately, this candidate will be a problem solver and not afraid to roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty. This will include everything from in-the-trenches problem solving that arises in the development processes to high level team planning and career coaching.
Echtra Games is a medium sized and growing game studio in San Francisco with a team of veteran game developers and visionary newcomers who work both on-site and remotely. At Echtra, we value diversity and support work-life balance. We also have great benefits, an open vacation policy, and flexible schedules!
Key Roles and Responsibilities
- Own execution of the game development process to ensure it’s on time, on budget and at a high quality that realizes the vision for the project.
- Work with your reports and discipline team leads to maintain and update an organizational structure, processes, and project plan that allow the team to produce high quality work on time and on budget.
- Advocate for goals and team principles to help maintain and develop a healthy and supportive work environment.
- Identify and help guide the team around potential hazards that come up through the normal game development process
- Help define and set best practices and make sure they are communicated out across the team.
- Build and strengthen the communication across a distributed team in multiple time zones.
- Advocate for the player experience by collaborating with design, engineering, and QA to maintain a focus on delivering polished gameplay.
- Effectively communicate the core of your game to other parts of the Zynga organization, and help ensure that your game leverages the resources of the larger organization.
- Facilitate regular progress reviews and presentations with cross-functional teams and external partners, highlighting key milestones and risk mitigation strategies to reinforce confidence in the development schedule.
- Oversee milestone planning and execution, ensuring all internal and external teams align with the schedule for production, alpha, beta, and go-to-market preparations.
- Develop and implement individualized growth plans for production team members.
Desired Skills and Experience
- 10+ yrs of experience leading and guiding multidisciplinary teams through all stages of development with at least 2 games shipped as Executive Producer, Development Director or Game Director.
- Understands how to lead multi-disciplinary teams and how to create and grow great games.
- Extensive knowledge of and fluency in the game development process. Understands the ins and outs of game development from concept through live operations.
- Able to motivate, support and guide others to attain successful outcomes and business objectives.
- Experience with and knowledge of RPG, ARPG, and Looter Shooter game systems, balance, and variety.
- Experience with various project management tools.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal).
- Strong analytical skills, along with a keen attention to detail.
- Small and large scale problem solver.
Pluses
- Experience in Jira and Confluence
- Experience working in Unreal Engine based projects
- Background in AAA games
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Manager, IT Business Services
Location: Columbus United States
time type
Full time
job requisition id
R0056422
Job Description:
Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services. Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results. We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions. Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow.
Summary:
The Manager is responsible for managing as part of the IT Service Management Organization, leading a team of IT Service Management (ITSM) experts utilizing the ITIL 3 and 4 framework and best practices. Advises on complex and critical issues within IT Service Management. A high energy leader who is passionate about leading a high performing team that builds modern ITSM experiences and processes that drive great user experiences and productivity. This leader must move fast and learn fast. This is a highly collaborative role, working across the IT Service Management organization, the larger IT organization, and the business to define and implement the ITSM strategies and solutions. This role requires a strong ITSM leadership background and ITIL framework knowledge.
Skills:
Self-driven individual with strong technical acumen, relationship building skills and understanding our business:
- Focus on ITIL / ITSM Strategy including but not limited to: Service Portfolio Mgmt, Business Relationship Mgmt, Organizational Change Mgmt specifically within ITIL/ITSM realm (establishing the strategy and maintaining the process), and establishing and maintaining the ITIL/ITSM Frameworks across the enterprise.
- Strong stakeholder and end user empathy and eagerness to drive clarity through ambiguity.
- Works closely with data and partners with internal teams as well as ITSM tools to continually drive feature and capability improvements.
- Deliver success through empowerment and accountability through modeling, coaching, and caring.
- Demonstrate a growth mindset and take pride in creating an environment where everyone does their best work and feels empowered to bring their authentic selves.
- Passionate about making others successful.
- Stakeholder focused, with the ability to cut through the noise and build what stakeholders need and not always what they want.
- Willing to take risks, fail fast (if needed) and try again
- Collaborate across multiple teams both within and outside our internal organization
- Background in cloud and IT Service Management software for enterprise.
- Collaborate with ITSM tools teams in building experiences that can connect to and integrate with a variety of other tools and technologies.
- Technical aptitude with excellent visual and verbal communication skills
- Knowledge and experience with IT Operations and software development lifecycle supporting methodologies & tools.
Key Responsibilities
- Practice our leadership principles.
- Define team objectives and outcomes
- Enable success across boundaries; Help the team adapt and learn.
- Attract and retain great people; Know each individual’s capabilities and aspirations; Invest in the growth of others.
- Create a positive, inclusive, and collaborative team culture where your team can do its best work
- Facilitate product discussions that will result in rich, intuitive employee experiences utilizing IT Service Management tool suite and surrounding apps
- Thrive in ambiguity and create clarity for the team
- Establish relationships, influence, and manage dependencies with ITSM partners and stakeholders and position the team as contributors to the ITSM strategy and overall Business Technology Services success.
- Ensure that the ITSM frameworks align with business priorities
- Address escalated issues as needed
- Drive continuous process improvement.
- Ensures written documentation is available for audit, exams and reviews.
- Identifies and resolves concerns from audit reviews and stakeholders.
- Oversee the creation and maintenance of documentation, including annual reviews or processes and procedures.
- Manages, monitors and evaluates the successful implementation of processes and procedures.
- ITSM expertise and combine it with your understanding of our stakeholders’/users’ needs to solve their complex business challenges by advancing the capabilities of the ITSM tool suites.
- Champion and advocate for our stakeholders in evolving their experience with the ITSM tools and ability to use the product to solve business challenges.
Experience
- 5+ years of IT Service Management practice ownership
- 5+ years of Product/Program Management experience and leading high performing teams
- 5+ years working with cross-functional teams
- 3+ years leading complex projects with multiple consecutive workstreams
- 3+ years of fin/tech (payments industries) experience
- 3+ years in a team leader or management position
Education
- Bachelor’s degree required; or more than five years of related experience in payments industries
- ITIL v3 certification or higher
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by Ronald Barron | Nov 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Senior Product Analyst, SEO
Location: Remote US Canada
Type: Full-Time
Workplace: remote
Category: Data & Analytics
Job Description:
At Scribd (pronounced “scribbed”), our mission is to spark human curiosity. Join our team as we create a world of stories and knowledge, democratize the exchange of ideas and information, and empower collective expertise through our three products: Everand, Scribd, and Slideshare.
We support a culture where our employees can be real and be bold; where we debate and commit as we embrace plot twists; and where every employee is empowered to take action as we prioritize the customer.
Our flexible work benefit – Scribd Flex – enables employees, in partnership with their manager, to choose the daily work-style that best suits their individual needs. As an organization, we prioritize collaboration and intentional in-person moments to build culture and connection. For this reason, occasional in-person attendance is required for all Scribd employees, regardless of their location.
About the Team
The mission of the business strategy & analytics team is to ensure the entire company understands business performance and trends, and to empower all business teams to make good decisions with data.
We are seeking a talented Senior Product Analyst to join our business strategy & analytics team, a role that will enable the growth of both our subscriptions and ads based businesses. This role focuses on refining our SEO strategies to boost traffic and subscriber acquisition and measuring the impacts of highly cross functional efforts to continue to deliver the most relevant titles and user generated content (UGC) to our growing global user base.
About You
You are a highly motivated and analytical individual who loves solving ambiguous business problems. You thrive in a fast-paced and collaborative environment, where you can leverage your strong communication skills to effectively interact with executives, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams. You are a strategic thinker who can balance big-picture objectives with attention to detail, and you possess a natural curiosity to explore complex problems and find innovative solutions.
You Will:
. Collaborate with the product team to develop and execute data-driven experiments and A/B tests, focusing on SEO initiatives.
. Conduct in-depth analysis of user behavior, conversion rates, and website performance to identify growth opportunities and inform product optimization strategies.
. Provide actionable insights and recommendations to key stakeholders based on statistical analysis and data interpretation.
. Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, and visualizations to track and communicate critical KPIs and performance metrics.
. Work closely with stakeholders to define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) and provide regular reports and dashboards to inform decision-making.
. Work closely with engineering teams to ensure accurate data collection and instrumentation, providing guidance on tracking implementation and data integrity.
. Collaborate with the data engineering team to refine and enhance data infrastructure and architecture to support advanced analytics and reporting capabilities.
. Partner with cross-functional teams, including engineering, product management, and product marketing, to drive the implementation of data-driven solutions and recommendations.
. Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in SEO practices, analytics tools, and statistical methodologies
You Have:
. 3+ years of experience in product analytics, preferably in the SEO domain.
. Expert knowledge of statistical concepts and methodologies, including experimental design, hypothesis testing, and regression analysis.
. Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, or Computer Science.
. Proficiency in data analysis and visualization tools such as SQL, Python, R, Looker, or similarSolid understanding of SEO principles, including keyword research, on-page optimization, technical SEO, and link building.
. Strong business acumen and the ability to connect analytical insights to business objectives.
. Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to distill complex data into meaningful insights for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
. Experience working in an agile development environment and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
. Strong attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality, accurate analysis within tight deadlines.
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