Seeking a Salesforce Developer II to utilize advanced analysis and software programming skills to develop, implement and maintain business solutions, interfaces and utility programs. The Developer II analyzes user needs and creates software solutions in Salesforce for enabling new capabilities, improving efficiencies and delivering competitive advantage. The Developer II provides superior customer support in incident resolution and is involved in all aspects of the development lifecycle including design, coding, testing and deployment in support of enhancement requests.

Job Responsibilities:

• Provide technical support and participates in on-call rotation to resolve critical application issues according to stated SLA’s.
• Perform moderate to complex programming assignments requiring an advanced understanding of established programming standards, methods and best practices in Salesforce.
• Acquire and interpret business requirements, creates functional specifications and determines the most efficient/appropriate technologies.
• Perform analysis of business models, logical specifications and/or customer requirements to design and build business solutions utilizing multiple technologies.
• Contribute to and review technical designs of software solutions.
• Automate business processes using Salesforce automation tools, such as Process Builder, Workflows, Formulas, Flow, Assignment Rules and email Alerts.
• Participate in daily scrum meetings, analyze assign user stories, identify/resolve gaps in functional user stories/business requirements Contribute to and follow development best practices such as version control, unit testing, continuous integration, performance and security testing, and appropriate documentation.
• Ensure quality and maintains performance of deployed solutions.
• Works with stakeholders following the Agile Scrum software development process.

• Assist with other projects as needed to contribute to efficiency and effectiveness of the organization.

  Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science OR equivalent work experience.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming and scalable software design.
• Strong understanding of relational databases and SQL.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling, such as GitLab and/or Jenkins, Copado or Flosum.
• Java/Web (one or both of the following areas of specialization):
• 2+ years as a Salesforce Developer.
• 2+ years Salesforce platform experience.
• Experience Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud and/or Experience Cloud.
• Experience integrating Salesforce with other systems, tools, and APIs. Preferably within an Agile Environment.

Advantage Tech is looking for a Sr Software Engineer for our Remote client.  
Summary: To deliver desired, sustainable business outcomes and assure the integrity and continuity of our systems. This position is responsible for the development, maintenance, and support of Client's Marketing software systems. The ideal employee will provide leadership for the development of Marketing applications. This includes teaching domain expertise, providing technical guidance and mentoring, supporting the customers, resolving problems, and training as required.
What Your Day Will Look Like:
• Participate in any and potentially all roles of the systems development life cycle. Roles may vary by project and assignment
• This may include, but not limited to:
o Develop, plan and/or maintain software applications and/or systems; debug, design, code, test, write specifications, roll-out software, and production support
o Technical services; software, hardware and network architecture design and maintenance; security operations
• Store engineering, coding based on design provided and roll-out implementation
• Accurate work planning and execution; accurate project and time tracking
• Responsible for the development of less experienced developers; mentor and teach
• Responsible for defining code specifications and how systems will be constructed
• Conduct code reviews

Skills and Experience We Want to See:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
• Typically requires eight to fifteen years of experience based on consistently demonstrated capabilities
• Technical skills will include providing leadership for the development of Marketing applications
• Expert proficiency with the software, architecture and methodology • Technical skills should include a minimum of 5+ years of experience with one or more of the following: Java, Spring, C/C++, JSP, JavaScript, Tomcat, HTML, SQL, Windows, Linux/UNIX
• Scripting, CSS, Eclipse/IntelliJ, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Git/SVN, Swagger, Kafka, ActiveMQ, and Elastic Search experience is a plus
• Advanced problem solving, domain technical and analytical skills • Advanced expertise in at least one technical area. Subject matter expertise in more than one functional area
• Teaching, coaching and mentoring experience
• Advanced system estimation, planning and execution skills
• Often provides technical supervision to others

Seeking an experienced DevOps/Cloud Engineering contractor to supplement the Digital DevOps Engineering team. You will be part of a fast paced, customer driven team implementing a highly visible digital transformation program. The engineer will partner with Digital team members across the enterprise to implement and support a modern CI/CD system to automate the building, testing and deployment of cloud-based digital solutions. The DevOps/Cloud Engineering contractor will play a key role in advancing digital application development and process automation.

Responsibilities

• Support and extend existing automated Continuous Improvement (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) pipelines for cloud-based digital applications.
• Guide the organization towards self-service DevOps model with aspiration for fully automated, zero downtime deployments.
• Contribute and enhance to the implementation of a cloud-based development environment.
• Engage with development and quality assurance teams to adopt and continuously improve best practices for software delivery.
• Participate in the development, evaluation and recommendation of tools, processes, and best practices to improve quality, consistency, and velocity of solution delivery.
• Implement and support automation and scripting with yaml based pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Configure and maintain software development tools spanning source control, continuous integration/delivery, testing, code review, etc.
• Perform DevOps duties as needed to administer and maintain the configuration, health, and enhancement of the digital solution platform in the AWS environment.
• Identify and make recommendations for improvement in areas of IaC and AWS best practices.
• Provide consultation and training on CI/CD tooling and processes to development organization.

  Required Skills

• AWS Architecture and experience deploying AWS services
• Strong Terraform IaC (infrastructure as code) coding experience implementing AWS cloud services
• Python scripting (Lambda handlers)
• Experience with creation of yaml CI pipelines
• Git
• Background in creating secure cloud architectures for customer facing applications that are enterprise grade and highly scalable.
• Understanding of micro-services architecture, design patterns, and standard methodologies with an eye towards scale, automation, resiliency, high availability, and disaster recovery.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipeline automation and integrating tools such as SonarQube, SAST/DAST, load and performance tools
• Experience with container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, AWS ECS, Fargate (or comparable).
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field.
• Five or more years’ experience with DevSecOps or DevOps engineering.

Bonus Skills
Exposure/experience with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Gitlab SCM, and/or Jira or Confluence

Advantage Tech is searching for a Quality Analyst to join their client for a 3-6 month contract opportunity.

The Quality Assurance (QA) Consultant is responsible for developing test plans, creating test cases, executing test cases, and tracking and reporting defects for Web/Desktop Applications and Data/ETL/Reporting processes.

Essential Functions:

• Collaborate with technical and business subject matter experts to understand types of test plans and test cases needed based on requirements and technical designs.
• Review requirements, user stories, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
• Create and execute detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases based on based on the business requirements.
• Prepare test data and oversee readiness of test environments.
• Identify, document, report and track QA defects.
• Keep and track QA metrics – examples include: test execution metrics and defect metrics.

Requirements:

• Bachelors or Associates degree in a technical discipline.
• 3-5 years of QA testing experience with complex or very detailed software and business requirements.
• Knowledge of current software QA methodologies and tools.
• Experience writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases.
• Experience working with small to mid-size development teams and business analysts to improve software quality.
• Experience testing Desktop and Web Applications as well as data and reports.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum a plus.
• Experience in Jira and Confluence a plus.
• Experience in Government Healthcare a plus.
• Solid written and verbal communication skills.

Advantage Tech is looking for a Application Support Analyst/Business Analyst for our Overland Park, KS Client. You will be part of the Business Process Management Team.
 

Responsibilities: Ensure Department fulfills business objectives efficiently and effectively by providing support to the internal end users.

• Analyze business processes with users to determine software functionality and determine enhancements needed.
• Create or modify processes by designing, testing and implementing software changes to meet business need.
• Evaluate documented resolutions and analyze trends for ways to prevent repeated future problems.
• Field incoming problem tickets, emails and phone calls from internal end users to resolve application and software issues.
• Troubleshoot issues to ensure user errors, data errors, requirement errors and software errors are clearly identified, recorded and tracked by reproducing application behaviors and/or identifying root causes.
• Monitor application error logs to proactively identify and resolve issues that impact the application and/or end users.
• Facilitate understanding of the application issues and ensure that end users are kept apprised of issue status.
• Communicate application problems and issues to key stakeholders, including management, development teams, administrators and end users.
• Test fixes and perform post-resolution follow-ups to ensure problems have been adequately resolved.
• Evaluate documented resolutions and analyze trends for ways to prevent repeated future problems.
• Coordinate with department heads to assess departmental application training needs and objectives.
• Participate in the design, development, and delivery of software applications training programs and individual classes.
• Create and provide job aids and training guides to facilitate effective use of the application.
• Oversee the firm’s Disaster Recovery Policies and Procedures.
• Conduct yearly tabletop test of Disaster Recovery Plan.
• Create and provide job aids and training guides to facilitate effective use of the application.
• Perform other duties as assigned

Credentials/Experience:

• Proven experience with troubleshooting principles, methodologies, and issue resolution techniques.
• Basic Knowledge of Agile Development.
• Broad knowledge of programming languages and techniques, including SQL Server. Able to design, develop and interpret technical documentation for training and end user procedures.

Essential Functions:

• Maintain regular and reliable attendance and punctuality
• Work cooperatively and interact professionally with others
• Develop and maintain constructive and cooperative working relationships with others
• The ability to translate business terminology to IT terminology and vice versa.
• Perform quality work within deadlines with or without direct supervision
• Work in an office environment, seated for long periods of time, in front of a computer, while typing documents, responding to emails, managing calendars and answering phones
• Independently make decisions
• Listen and understand questions posed by others

• Highly self-motivated and directed
• Ability to absorb new ideas and concepts quickly
• Good analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
• Write and speak clearly and concisely
• Maintain confidentiality

Advantage Tech is looking for an AS400 Programmer to work for their client based out of Kansas City, MO

Job Responsibilities:

• Achieves operational objectives by contributing information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews.
• Lead large, complex IT programs and projects to achieve key business objectives
• Participate in the development of business strategy
• Solve unique and complex problems with broad impact on the business
• Translate highly complex concepts in ways that can be understood by a variety of audiences
• Align technology solutions with business strategies, working primarily with senior management
• Develops, tests, and implements systems and programs within allocated budgets.
• Establishes good working relationships with user departments learning and understanding their business.
• Develops system/program specifications while providing maintainability and efficiency in the use of computer resources. Adheres to published systems and programming standards and guidelines.
• Investigates and analyzes existing situations, and proposes estimates for various phases of the project. Participate in informal feasibility studies as required for major projects.
• Develops clear program specifications.
• Investigates application maintenance problems and makes corrections as required to prevent reoccurrence.
• Provides systems support as required both during and after normal working hours.
• Continues to enhance technical skills through formal education, self-study, or the application of new technologies to business solutions.
• Communicates effectively with and updates senior IS personnel.
• Manage projects related to mainframe/AS400 needs and requests.

Skills & Knowledge: (when applicable)

• 12-15 years’ experience
• Position requires knowledge of mainframe and/or PC software development languages (e.g.,
RPGILE, JAVA, VB), AS/400, Windows 10 and Microsoft 365, client/server technology, and
database and software design methodologies, CL/CLP, External Printer file, INFOR
accounting systems, Turnover, Query 400 and DB2 database, IBMI Client Access Solutions
and INavigator
• Position applies technical aspects of application systems and programming and performs
complex analytical tasks.
• Position requires strong analytical, design, development and implementation skills along with
strong project management skill sets.

Competencies:

• Flexibility: Performing a wide range of tasks, responding to changes in direction and priorities, and accepting new challenges, responsibilities, and assignments.
• Conceptual Thinking: Understanding how elements, problems, and situations are related to each other and to the larger environment.
• Analytical Skills: Recognizing patterns in data, information, or events, drawing logical conclusions, and making recommendations for actions.
• Planning & Organization: Utilizing logical, systematic and orderly procedures to meet objectives.
• Attention to Detail: Monitoring adherence to standards and actively checking for accuracy of data received or generated before passing it on.
• Problem Solving/Decision Making: Taking a well-ordered approach to solving problems and acting despite obstacles or resistance.
• Continuous Learning: Taking initiative in learning and implementing new concepts, technologies and/or methods.
• Technical/Functional Expertise: Demonstrating broad, in-depth, and up-to-date knowledge of pertinent technical, business and professional fields.
• Dependability/Reliability: Following through on commitment, producing timely work to required – or higher – standards, and pitching n to get the job done.
• Confidentiality: Handle highly confidential information and maintain the highest degree of professionalism.

Advantage Tech is looking for an experienced Lead Engineer to influence our transformation/digitizing of the in-store experience for our customers and employees in the store. You will have the opportunity to lead multiple team members to re-engineer store applications and processes using a modern technology stack. The ideal candidate will have deep development experience in C/C++ (Qt) and React and Java. As a Lead Systems Engineer, you will be responsible for overseeing the transition and management of services/applications to production environment with deep focus on Design, Development, production operations, capacity planning and performance management. You will be challenged to solve complex technical problems with unique solutions, identify improvements and work on implementing your recommendations.

Responsibilities:

• Our Client’s employees have a contagious work ethic; including a high sense of urgency to deliver projects on time and resolve issues quickly, creatively and efficiently. We also expect a high sense of responsibility and the ability to influence others. As an expert in your field, we expect you to: o Lead the development team to create new and continuously improve products, including planning, designing, coding, testing, staging and deployment o Ensure that sites and systems continuously and consistently run smoothly, optimally, efficiently, and reliably  You will be surrounded consistently by top tier talent (both onsite as well as remote); to effectively work with your team you will be expected to hold a high level of organization, detail orientation, and the ability to articulate issues clearly. Implement effective 360-degree monitoring to ensure quick alerting of any problems in the echo system. Advocate for top-notch design standards and lead process improvements in collaboration with architects and Application Engineers

o Collaborate and consult with the DevOps/Release Engineering team to help automate the end to-end Operations of the applications/systems

o Delegate work to other less experienced engineers and provide coaching / mentorship o Accurate work planning and execution; accurate project and time tracking

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

• Minimum 15 years of hands-on experience designing and delivering software Applications

• Experience in leading software development teams

• Strong background in C++/Java/React/JavaScript on Linux/Unix Operating systems

• Experience in designing/developing/Supporting high volume customer facing applications

• Ability to quickly troubleshoot critical production issues spanning applications/infrastructure and tune high volume applications

• Experience/Knowledge of Retail Industry and in-store systems like POS is preferred

• Experience is designing and writing applications that interact with peripherals like Credit/Debit pads, Printers and Scanners is a plus

Summary:

Come and be a part of Transforming / Digitizing the in-store experience for our customers and the in the store by leading multiple teams to re-engineer store applications and processes using a modern technology stack. Ensure the integrity, availability, and security for all in-store systems. Work closely with the business leaders, understand short and long-term business goals, and collaborate on plans to achieve those goals by delivering leading-edge systems using best in class SDLC and a highly motivated team. Deliver on the organizational goals aligning with the Retail strategy.

Responsibilities:

• Leads teams in the development, implementation, and support of the systems for best in class instore experience

• Develops technical talent and leadership capabilities in team members and ensures a highly motivated team through coaching and mentoring.

• Implements Systems to maximize usability, accessibility, and customer experience. Leverages internal and external APIs, databases and other data sources.

• Oversees the scheduling, control and progress of store system design, development and installation activities.

• Develops trusted and open relationships with key Store Operations business partners at Director and VP level.

• Works closely with and manages vendor partner relationships.

• Coordinates between internal and external resources, ensuring effective communication between all groups and individuals involved in projects.

• Leads all projects under the rules and guidelines of the Project Management Office (PMO). Ensures all PMO documentation is produced to high standards.

• Oversees project financials and ensures adherence to AutoZone’s fiscal policies

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field requires; Master’s degree preferred

• Minimum of 10-15 years total experience in IT development

• Experience in retail industry is preferred

• Prior development experience implementing systems using C++/Java/ Web technologies in Unix environment

• Minimum of 2-3 years of experience in a managerial position in a technology group with a proven track record for business capability delivery and talent development

• Good business and financial management skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, and analytical skills, including the ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts and designs to a broad range of people

• Strong experience in using Agile (Scrum/Kanban/SAFe) project development methodologies

• Willingness to learn and adapt to changing business and technology landscapes

Advantage Tech is actively seeking an experienced IT Architect to join our team. ?IT Architects collaborate with customers, business analysts, designers, and software developers to analyze, plan,?design, and deliver innovative solutions to complex, high-value business problems.

Responsibilities:

• Define enterprise guidelines and enforce enterprise development standards and practices

• Map project business requirements to systems/technical requirements to ensure they are in line with enterprise architectural plans and industry best practices

• Define and develop the emerging solution architectures and ensure that the team is successful within the technical framework

• Lead, direct, and produce technical designs/architectures at a project, product, and program level?with proficiency in the areas of disaster recovery, data integrity, service continuity, component redundancy, security, etc.

• Participate in and lead high and low-level technology discussions with management, vendors, and customers

• Provide technical leadership to build consensus among stakeholders around proposed designs

• Within the agreed-upon application architecture, produce technology solutions to assist the business in meeting their objectives

• Ensure solutions and new features are designed and implemented according to established design and architectural standards and practices (and, where necessary, facilitate acceptable tradeoffs)

• Review and analyze detailed business requirements; assist in prioritization and scoping of user stories to align customer expectations with current or future capabilities

• Develop, test, and implement technology solutions and report on delivery commitments to ensure solutions are implemented as expected and to agreed-upon timeframes

• Lead software developers in application design and patterns, providing examples if necessary.

• Research new technologies and best practices for approaching and implementing emerging technologies and techniques

• As needed, work as part of the development team, providing technical guidance and direction with examples, POCs, and prototypes

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field required; Master’s degree preferred

• Minimum of 3 to 5 years of experience in architecture/design with background in software development required

• Minimum of 8+ years of experience in information technologies required

• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in Java, Linux, and Oracle required

• Experience with React.js preferred

• Experience with C/C++ and Qt preferred

• Experience with or an understanding of retail in-store POS systems

• Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, and analytical skills, including the ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts and designs to a broad range of people

Additional Skills/Qualifications Required:

• Must be a systems?thinker; ability to move fluidly between high-level abstract thinking and detail oriented implementation;?must be open-minded to new ideas, approaches, and technologies

• Must be a data and fact-driven decision maker, with an ability to make quick decisions under uncertainty when necessary; ability to quickly learn new technologies and tools

• Must be a self-starter who is naturally inquisitive, requiring only small pieces to the puzzle, across many technologies – new and legacy

• Strong background in application development, largely utilizing service-based and standalone Linux/Unix development stack in a geographically distributed enterprise environment; the level of experience expected would be consistent with someone with at least 6 years of large system development experience

• Experience designing large-scale solutions which were deployed to cloud providers (e.g., Microsoft Azure, GCP) and integrated capabilities specific to those platforms

• Experience designing, implementing, and deploying large-scale, highly available service-based?software systems (e.g., REST, micro-services), especially extensible platforms which support ecosystems of third party application/plugin developers

• Experience working within a variety of project management methodologies such as?Agile project approaches (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Waterfall)

• Extensive experience with all aspects of Java and the Spring framework

• Extensive experience with Linux and shell scripting

Right now, we are looking for an outstanding, brilliant, and driven jr -mid-level Application Engineer to join our growing team. While our Application Engineers are involved in multiple things throughout the Technology organization, primarily they are responsible for working with the Technology and the Business teams to design, build, and implement amazing web and process applications. These Team Members are also charged with assisting the Client Success department in resolving issues relating to production processes. The Application Engineer is responsible for troubleshooting and resolving technical issues as well.

What you'll be doing:

• Designs/develops/tests/implements improvements or new features into the Waystar website and core processing applications 

• Responsible for developing/augmenting applications based on the functional and technical specifications 

• Responsible for adhering to Waystar coding standards and the approved technologies 

• Unit tests all changes on development, and then works with the appropriate Business and/or Technology Owner(s) to ensure that the developed solution meets the business requirements 

• Communicates the development progress daily to the senior-level team members 

• Attends to any work items assigned through the internal case system in a timely fashion 

• Takes ownership of work items assigned, communicates estimates and daily progress as part of the SDLC process, and actively works to resolve issues blocking progress 

• Assists in the QA process 

• Participates, as required, in Production Code Turn days, providing instructions for deploying the code changes successfully, and for Smoke Testing code post-release 

• Develops and maintains open and fluid communication with Management 

• Develops and maintains a positive relationship with other team members 

• Handles assignments that require moderate technical and/or business domain research, with minimal oversight 

• Assists in the creation and/or approving of technical specifications 

• Assists in identifying areas in the application that need to be refactored 

• Works with the various departments and team members to design and/or implement various new enhancements to the existing web application.; this includes, but is not limited to, SQL table design, SQL stored procedure design, and process design in the designated programming language 

• Tracks any changes required by such development using internal tools, and communicates to the QA Team any abnormalities required to push the changes from development through the various stages to production 

• Identifies and informs the Manager, Application Engineering of areas of the application that can be improved by refactoring, optimization, or other improved technology solutions 

• Notifies the Manager, Application Engineering of any problems that negatively impact applications, and works to implement a solution 

• Communicates and works with the Manager, Application Engineering to reassign any items that cannot be addressed in a timely fashion 

• Provides estimates for project tasks using an internal project tool, and updates the estimates if they increase or decrease 

• Additional duties as assigned 

What we're looking for:

• 6+ years of .NET and SQL Server experience

• Unit Testing experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work in a very fast-paced environment & welcome change
• Highly self-motivated
• Ability to work both in team and solo environments

Right now, we are looking for an outstanding, brilliant, and driven jr -mid-level Application Engineer to join our growing team. While our Application Engineers are involved in multiple things throughout the Technology organization, primarily they are responsible for working with the Technology and the Business teams to design, build, and implement amazing web and process applications. These Team Members are also charged with assisting the Client Success department in resolving issues relating to production processes. The Application Engineer is responsible for troubleshooting and resolving technical issues as well.

What you'll be doing:

• Designs/develops/tests/implements improvements or new features into the Waystar website and core processing applications 

• Responsible for developing/augmenting applications based on the functional and technical specifications 

• Responsible for adhering to Waystar coding standards and the approved technologies 

• Unit tests all changes on development, and then works with the appropriate Business and/or Technology Owner(s) to ensure that the developed solution meets the business requirements 

• Communicates the development progress daily to the senior-level team members 

• Attends to any work items assigned through the internal case system in a timely fashion 

• Takes ownership of work items assigned, communicates estimates and daily progress as part of the SDLC process, and actively works to resolve issues blocking progress 

• Assists in the QA process 

• Participates, as required, in Production Code Turn days, providing instructions for deploying the code changes successfully, and for Smoke Testing code post-release 

• Develops and maintains open and fluid communication with Management 

• Develops and maintains a positive relationship with other team members 

• Handles assignments that require moderate technical and/or business domain research, with minimal oversight 

• Assists in the creation and/or approving of technical specifications 

• Assists in identifying areas in the application that need to be refactored 

• Works with the various departments and team members to design and/or implement various new enhancements to the existing web application.; this includes, but is not limited to, SQL table design, SQL stored procedure design, and process design in the designated programming language 

• Tracks any changes required by such development using internal tools, and communicates to the QA Team any abnormalities required to push the changes from development through the various stages to production 

• Identifies and informs the Manager, Application Engineering of areas of the application that can be improved by refactoring, optimization, or other improved technology solutions 

• Notifies the Manager, Application Engineering of any problems that negatively impact applications, and works to implement a solution 

• Communicates and works with the Manager, Application Engineering to reassign any items that cannot be addressed in a timely fashion 

• Provides estimates for project tasks using an internal project tool, and updates the estimates if they increase or decrease 

• Additional duties as assigned 

What we're looking for:

• 2+ years of .NET and SQL Server experience 

• Unit Testing experience 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 

• Ability to work in a very fast-paced environment & welcome change 

• Highly self-motivated 

• Ability to work both in team and solo environments  

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent work experience

The Software Developer Engineer in Test (SDET) is responsible for designing, managing and executing tests of the company's software products to ensure that standards and specifications are met. The SDET will use automated and manual tests for functional, regression, & usability testing. Also, the SDET advocates for testability and is valued as a trusted advisor on the health of our products.

What you'll be doing:

• Embedded Software Quality Assurance in a fast-moving scrum team

• Working in a vibrant technical environment, directly with Developers and Product Owners

• Evaluating new functionality for mission critical products

• Building utilities & tools that enable QA

• Advising your team and manager about the functional state of your products

• Operating, learning, teaching and building test automation using a modern framework

What we're looking for:

• 2+ years’ experience in Software Quality Assurance or Application Engineering

• Deep understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle & Quality Assurance Methodology

• Familiarity with Test & Defect Management systems

• 2+ years’ experience using ad-hoc SQL queries to design & verify QA test outcomes

• 1+ years’ experience using Test Automation tools (experience creating & maintaining test automation is preferred)

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent work experience 

Advantage Tech is looking for an API Developer for our Lee's Summit, MO Client. 

Job Description Summary

This team is in the “middle” of re-thinking Application Integration, moving from an “Extract First” Integration to “API Led Integration” using our Enterprise Integrations Platform, with APIs as the foundation.  This requires a Developer that embraces different integrations patterns, from ETL File Based data movement to Messaging, APIs, and a Service Oriented Architecture to design and develop new solutions simplifying the overall architecture, enabling re-use, and reducing time to deliver business solutions.

Developer Job Description:

• Analyzes, designs, develops, and deliver services in one or more programming languages, with a focus on application integration using Service Oriented Architecture pattern.
• Supports applications with an understanding of system integration, test planning, scripting, and troubleshooting.
• Assesses the health and performance of web services, providing support activities for both production and test environments.
• Establishes, participates, and maintains relationships with business units, customers and subject matter experts in order to remain apprised of direction, project status, architectural and technology trends, risks, and functional/integration issues.
• Defines specifications and develop services, modifies existing services, engineer and prepare test data, and document functional specifications.
• Analyzes program and application performance using various programming languages, tools and techniques.
• Reviews project proposals, evaluates alternatives, provides estimates and makes recommendations.
• Designs and defines specifications for integration solutions, including services and change/updates to ETL jobs.
• Identifies potential process improvement areas and suggests options and recommends approaches.
• Take ownership of the delivery of features and capabilities throughout the development process
• Respond to internal requests as well as external customer requests pertaining to integration requirements.
• Troubleshoot issues with internal integration platforms using a combination of tools and domain knowledge

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in a computing environment with multiple programming languages.
• Experience and exposure to the API Management Life cycle including design, development, security, governance, monitoring, alerting, and versioning
• Experience in API layer including security, custom analytics, throttling, caching, logging, monetization, request and response modifications etc.
• Experience using Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, or other processes.
• Technical toolbox should include:
  • SQL Server
  • XML
  • FTP, ETL
  • JSON
  • C#
  • .NET
  • Azure Web Services
• Experience designing and developing REST API Services, including the migration of existing web services from SOAP to REST or vice-versa.
• Experience with Security frameworks (e.g., JWT, OATH2)
• Understanding of data warehousing and translation technology
• Proficient in SQL and Stored Procedures such as Oracle, MySQL
• Messaging technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ and/or Azure Messaging Services.
• Experience or exposure to Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) practices, Test Driven Development (TDD), and Behavior Driven Development (BDD).
• Azure DevOps suite of development tools.
• Experience in creating REST API documentation using Swagger and YAML or similar tools desirable e.g. OpenAPI.
• Power user of MS Excel, MS Word, MS Visio and MS PowerPoint
• Exceptional research skills and resourcefulness
• Proven ability to lead diverse groups of resources to solution agreement by leveraging influencing skills to drive consensus
• Effective communication skills; listening, written and verbal; ability to communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Advantage Tech is looking for a Senior Software Engineer for our Utah client.  This position can be 100% remote. 
 

The Alternative Investments team provides support to the development of the software used by our Fund Accountants, external Alternative Investment client teams, and Investors to manage the investment portfolio.  This robust software allows them competitive advantages within the Alternative Investments industry which continues to evolve and provides exciting opportunities for individuals to learn new skills, administer new tools, and grow their career.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be providing development support and enhancements for Alternative Investments web applications including various other applications.  You will work closely with the Lead Software Engineer to help design and build enterprise-level solutions. You will look for ways to assist in improving development efficiency and implementing those best practices. 

The Alternative Investment team is a close-knit group of individuals coming from diverse backgrounds with different experiences.  We share a commitment of providing solid, robust and dynamic solutions and we believe in fully supporting each other to achieve this goal.  Trust and open communication are the cornerstones of the team, and we have plenty of fun while doing it!  Self-education, peer consultation, mentor guidance, and formal training/seminars are some of the methods that we share information and knowledge.

How you’ll spend your time:

• Assist the Lead Software Engineer in the design and implementation of cloud-based architecture including influencing the system architecture and platform design for multiple products/verticals.
• Delivering high-availability services and/or creating responsive, performant, and maintainable websites using API’s including building scalable solutions in a cloud-based infrastructure using common design patterns and principles.
• Becoming a domain expert on the Alternative Investments business and systems.
• Assisting in driving the team’s technical strategy and direction including implementation of key coding principles.
• Providing mentorship to members of the team and helping foster a learning environment.

We’re excited to talk with you if:

• You have at least 7 years of experience in a technical role supporting and/or designing cloud-based technologies as a senior-level software engineer OR a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or similar discipline including at least 5 years of similar industry experience.
• You have at least 2 years of experience in cloud technologies such as AWS or Azure including experience implementing cloud-based solutions using Serverless, Containers Observability, and Security.
• You have in-depth experience building API’s including experience in core front-end technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• You have experience writing SQL queries with relational databases such as Microsoft SQL Server.
• You have working knowledge of CI/CD or DevOps.

Advantage Tech is looking for a Product Manager for our Kansas City, MO Client. 
Description

Reporting to the Sr. Director of Product and Experience, the Product Manager will be responsible for providing deep product and market expertise needed to implement strategic product decisions. This position will analyze the total addressable market and competitive conditions and lay out a product vision that is differentiated and delivers value based on customer demands and market drivers. Product Managers also ensure that feedback and requests are appropriately integrated into their product planning and development features. 

Requirements

• Must have received all required doses of Covid-19 Vaccine*
• Drive the effort to set strategy, roadmap and feature definition by defining the why, when and what of the product line*
• Own the creative process of generating, developing, and curating new ideas*
• Translate product strategy into high level requirements and prototypes*
• Drive the effort to determine which ideas should be promoted into features to push the product strategy forward — namely those that will achieve key objectives for the product line and business including financial and positioning objectives*
• Clearly define what the teams will deliver and the timeline for implementation*
• Contribute to and approve the product-related requirements using Agile methodology 
• Analyze potential partner relationships for the product 
• Contribute to setting prices on products in the product line to meet revenue and profitability goals and track return on investment to ensure success 
• Clearly articulate the business value to the cross-functional team so they understand the intent behind the new product or feature release 
• Evaluate sales campaigns to ensure that they are consistent with product line strategy and that the message is effectively conveyed 
• Communicate the release progress and the company-wide go-to-market plan to all stakeholders 

Desired Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in Business or related field 
• 2+ years of prior software development experience as a Product Manager in an agile setting is a plus 
• Have a constant focus on solving user problems in the best way possible 
• Conceptual product thinker that can connect strategy with execution 
• Proficient using Atlassian JIRA as an agile software development tool 
• Understand the steps to launch a software release or application 
• Ability to influence cross-functional team without formal authority 
• Excellent time management, resource organization and priority establishment skills with the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment 
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with diplomacy and tact while managing a large group of stakeholders, including when responding to resistance 
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team 

What We Provide

• One of the best cultures and working environments in Kansas City
• Unmatched comprehensive benefit program
• Real career and personal growth opportunities in a fun and competitive environment where your voice matters

Advantage Tech is looking for a Product Owner for our Kansas City, MO Client.  
Description

Reporting to the Senior Manager of Product, the Product Owner works to fulfill the strategic product direction established by the Product Management team. This role is responsible for defining the detailed User Stories for each product and feature. The Product Owner must have a firm understanding of the business domain and product needs taking into account multiple types of users utilizing each solution. This position works closely with stakeholders on the specifications to ensure their Agile team has all the information needed to deliver a complete product to market effectively.

Requirements

•  Translate product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes*
• Work with the Product team to define the scope included in a release
• Research and clarify details as the team develops the application*
• Be aware of customer commitments and communicate timelines internally to assist with managing those commitments
• Work with the Agile team to prioritize the backlog*
• Prioritize support work as needed
• Manage dependencies in and across sprints and releases*
• Perform demos to all stakeholders on a regular basis*
• Keep stakeholders apprised of progress and incorporate their feedback
• Act as a product champion within the company
• Perform regular usage analysis to track adoption and opportunities for improvement
• Create and maintain essential support and training collateral*
• Assist with system status communication and escalation as needed including customer communication

Desired Skills and Experience

• Strong team player who can work with and support many different software teams
• Solid understanding of software development life cycle
• In-depth understanding of Agile methodologies, technical understanding of products, and up to date on industry standards and best practices
• Have a constant focus on solving user problems in the best way possible
• Strong knowledge of current industry trends and User Interface common practices
• Ability to influence cross-functional team without formal authority
• Able to build strong interpersonal relationships with business analysts, UI/UX team, leadership, senior management, and internal and external stakeholders
• Proficient using Atlassian JIRA as an Agile software development tool
• Excellent time management, resource organization and priority establishment skills with the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment
• Keen attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with diplomacy and tact, including when responding to resistance
• Project management skills a plus
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field
• 2+ years of proven software development experience as an Agile Product Owner or similar role
• Experience working with UI teams is strongly preferred
• Project management skills a plus 
• Must have received all required doses of the Covid-19 Vaccine*

What We Provide

• One of the best cultures and working environments
• Unmatched comprehensive benefit program 
• Real career and personal growth opportunities in a fun environment where your voice matters

Advantage Tech is searching for a Desktop Support (Mid-Level) candidate to join their client's team in Kansas City, KS.
 

The Desktop Support Analyst should be able to perform research, problem solving, trouble-shooting, and resolution of issues in the Windows Desktop areas. ?They will be required to assist teams to resolve network and desktop related issues.  They will perform assigned tasks with limited assistance from other experienced staff. ?The job will require working with different technical products.  Ideal candidates will be mid-level experienced. 

Position Responsibilities: 

• Monitoring of the PC environment and create improvements to the environment as needed
• Installing patches, upgrades and other related software to PC’supon direction. 
• Consistently work all ServiceNow tickets, be it Incident, Request, or Problems.
• Strong skills in MicroSoft OS and Office 365 systems
• Some experience with Apple products.
• Troubleshooting Desktop PC and printer issues using logical problem solvingtechniques 
• Self motivatedwith the ability to learn new technologies and execute new skills 
• Excellent Customer Service skills, including working with Executives.

Position Requirements: 

• 4 yeardegree or Technical degree or work experience. ?A combination of both is preferred 
• Exposure to working with PC’s, printers and peripherals. ?2- 4 years' experience preferred
• Experience with reimaging PC’s
• Knowledge and experience with a variety of hardware, such as Laptops, Desktops, and WYSE 
• Knowledge of Citrix processes
• Proven strong communication skills, both verbal and written
• Good analysis, problem-solving and solution skills
• Creation of small project plans and a structure to execute the plan until completion
• Strong team player with the ability to be proactive
• Most work will be done on Site at the client’s Kansas City warehouse.  Some remote work.
• Work schedule will be M-F 8am-5pm, CST with some off hours work as needed.

Advantage Tech is searching for a Project Manager (Infrastructure) to join their client in Kansas City, KS.
 

Position Summary:

Looking for a self-motivated Project Manager with experience leading information technology infrastructure related development projects.  This would include Data Center moves, Network projects, Server installations/upgrades, Collaboration and Voice projects, and other related software tools implementations. The successful candidate will work directly with business partners, vendors and technical teams to ensure projects are delivered within the applicable scope, budget, and schedule. They should work well within a team and use appropriate verification techniques to monitor progress. 
 
Primary Responsibilities:

• Have working knowledge of Network, Servers, Hardware, End User/Collaboration, Voice, Security, Service Management and Software components used in Infrastructure & Operations 
• Drive project scope definition, including hardware, software and vendor interaction on projects. 
• Meet with stakeholders, project resources, vendors to clarify requirements of each project 
• Develop comprehensive project plans to be shared with stakeholders and team members to ensure full implementation of solutions and adoption to ensure value achievement 
• Assist in estimating, planning and organizing resources assigned to each project 

• Track project performance, analyze the successful completion of short- and long-term goals 
• Meet budgetary objectives and adjust project constraints based on financial analysis 
• Anticipate, identify and escalate risks, issues and resolution/mitigation plans 
• Develop communication plans and ensure execution of communication plans 
• Identify barriers to project timelines and provide options to mitigate risk to project. 

• Lead change through influence, personal advocacy, vision and drive.  Outline resource needs and tasks to drive implementation, human change management and achieve full project benefit/value. 
• Maintain and improve project management processes and procedures 

Required Qualifications and Skills:

• 5+ years of experience in the management of IT infrastructure and service management related projects 

• Experience leading projects using waterfall and agile methodologies 
• Passion for quality improvement, service enhancement, cost reduction, and productivity increase of a business activity or process 
• Advanced time management and analytical skills 
• Excellent client-facing communication skills 
• Hands-on experience using project management software like Microsoft Project or PlanView 

 
Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Familiarity with SmartSheet software's collaboration and time management tools 
• Familiarity with Jira, and/or agile tracking and reporting tools 
• PMP Certification 

Advantage Tech is searching for a remote team member to join their client's team as a Business Analyst.

Position Summary

The Business Analyst will play a key role in transforming the Information Technology department through exciting projects and initiatives. This includes working closely with leadership and internal customers as we reshape our application portfolio. Working with IT and its business partners, you will use business process understanding, appreciation for simplicity and quality, critical thinking, and determination to craft solutions that meet business and technology objectives.

You will be part of a team that is responsible for designing, building and maintaining a wide variety of software to support the department, organization and our customers.

Responsibilities:

• Lead identification and evaluation of quality improvements, service enhancements, cost reductions, and productivity increases of a business activity or process.
• Help shape the vision of longer-term business requirements and business initiatives.
• Communicate business priorities to the technology organization in order to drive effective business solutions.
• Conduct research to determine if solutions to business requirements currently exist within or outside the business unit, and if not, whether new solutions are feasible.
• Facilitate requirements and design sessions with user community.
• Drive the development of process and functional documentation.
• Analyze the impact of proposed solution across the business.
• Develop use cases/stories to explain/demonstrate business requirements/specifications to IT team and contribute business partner’s perspective during design reviews.
• Provide input to the development of formal business cases when enterprise-wide business solutions are proposed.
• Lead test plan and test script development, as well as test execution activities.
• Train the business community when necessary.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Experience working as a business analyst in full SDLC for software projects.
• Experience facilitating meetings.
• Experience providing excellent oral and written communication to a diverse audience.
• Self-motivated, proactive and highly organized.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks concurrently.

Great-to-haves but not required:

• Strong data and business process modeling skills.
• Experience in the supply chain or grocery industry.
• 3-5 years of experience in a similar role.
• Experience using SQL.

Advantage Tech is searching for a Business Systems Developer (SalesForce) to join their client's team, based out of Blue Springs, MO.

Provides user application support for one or more specified business systems application. Performs maintenance and system administrative tasks for those systems. Monitors error logs, manages security, maintains and updates data tables as well as other daily administrative tasks. Works collaboratively with technical staff, outside consultants, product vendors, and internal business experts to enhance and maintain the infrastructure architecture & business functionality of assigned systems. Maintains development and production environments, supports development activities and provides implementation support ensuring that results meet established needs, goals and timelines. Configures application, sets up rules, establishes workflow, and customizes the user interfaces. Provides user and configuration back-up support for the client's local and global environments and technical, administrative, programming/development and user support in assigned application areas.

Responsibilities

• Applies broad technical knowledge and skills to develop, implement and improve specified business processes and software solutions in support of the client's goals and initiatives.
• Participates as programmer in the design/analysis/implementation of program fixes, upgrades of new or existing applications, new functionality, and project work.
• Administers systems by configuring application components, security and configuration files.
• Responsible for migration of software solutions between development, test and production environments.
• Troubleshoots and repairs system or processes by monitoring user request as well as system performance and event logs.
• Works closely with business leaders, process owners, and subject matter experts to define, document, and improve business requirements, business processes, data, and integration requirements.
• Works within the defined guidelines and project scope to lead the creation of deliverables, spanning from process to system design elements with an emphasis on functional and technical design.
• Provides front-line support (Client expert in assigned area) to user community for problems with software applications associated with the assigned Business Systems environment.
• Works with SME to develop training materials and assists with training end users.
• Understands underlying data and business processes to develop and support a variety of reporting requirements and formats for all levels of the organization.
• Supports security administration for the assigned business application(s) environment as required.
• Seeks out, investigates and recommends improvement opportunities that will support business goals.
• Maintains excellent rapport with clients while attempting to resolve their support requests.
• Responds to on-call emergencies and scheduled after hour efforts as needed.
• Effectively communicates to manager and senior staff the current status of activities, successes and issues.
• Pursues formal and informal program of continuing education to gain knowledge of new developments and sharpen skills in core applications and technologies.
• Maintains the confidentiality of all information processed.

Essential Skills

Subject Matter Expertise. Analytical. Confidentiality. Initiative. Independent Judgement. Computer Applications. Troubleshooting. Technical. Project Management. Collaboration. Problem Solving. Process Oriented. Critical Thinking. Effective Verbal and Written Communication. Detail Oriented. Self-Motivated. Organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering or related technical field or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5+ years or more of experience in programming in specified language and systems analysis.
• Must have good business sense and awareness of business life cycles and processes from start to finish.
• Effective interpersonal skills with peers, management and customers. Able to work effectively with cross functional groups and to facilitate or participate in the problem solving process.
• Working knowledge of assigned application software.
• Must be able to carry out projects with minimum direction.
• Must be able to interpret and explain complex technology and business issues to the technical, general user, management, and executive levels.

Preferred

• Working experience in a global and/or manufacturing company.

Advantage Tech is looking for 2 Project Manager's for our Utah client.  

Our client is looking to hire a Business Project Manager who is experience in migrating applications into salesforce (Specially Salesforce experience cloud.)  Due to a successful Merger our client is looking to migrate serval Merchant Payment Portal platform to a common Salesforce platform.

Job Description
 

Summary of This Role
Management and responsibility for product and service launch projects, external and internal, and development projects.

Monitors the go to market delivery of the assigned product/s or portfolio. Supports and progresses product commercialization planning and delivery initiatives. Communicates and reports the product delivery success criteria, scope, governance, schedule, and budget to the relevant stakeholders (Finance, Sales, Account management etc.). Develops comprehensive set of reporting tools and protocols to provide senior leadership line of sight to potential risks and opportunities. Where needed, leads effective teamwork, communication, collaboration and commitment across multiple stakeholders.. Effectively communicates across all stakeholders to ensure program goals, key decisions, and status is clear to all. Runs product delivery planning and closing; from intake to deployment and management.

What Part Will You Play?
Project Management

1. Manage programs that require the collaboration of cross-functional teams across all products and locations ie. be effective in communication, lead cross-functional teams (Product Management, Product Development, Merchant Sales, Channel Partner Sales, Marketing, Customer Care), drive changes and results, collaborate, escalate, execute, plan, document, and demonstrate thought leadership to execute projects for product and service launches and internal infrastructure and operational projects.
2. Drive launch calendars and conduct periodic touch points with the cross-functional team to ensure launches are tracking to plan.
3. Define specific launch objectives, deliverables, timelines, and help remove obstacles to success.
4. Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
5. Ability to influence without direct authority.
6. Choose proper tools for project planning and implementation.
7. Escalate project and process roadblocks.
8. Monitor and report on progress toward key goals and objectives.
9. Deliver consistent, repeatable launch best practices, processes, and deliverables. Retrospectively evaluate results and determine lessons learned to continuously improve them.

Development Project Execution & Control    

1. Be effective in communication, lead team, drive changes and results, collaborate, escalate, execute, plan, document, and demonstrate thought leadership.
2. Guide the development team and Product Manager on Agile scrum practices and values.
3. Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
4. Guide the development team on how to get the most of out of self-organization and strive to develop teams into high performing teams.
5. Remove impediments or guide the Development Team to remove impediments through communication and transparency of impediments.
6. Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution within the team.
7. Support and educate the Product Manager, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
8. Lead by example.
9. Generate and maintain detailed timelines in a timely manner and track progress. Ensure required milestones are achieved.
10. Deliver with flawless execution.
11. Effectively communicate and escalate.
12. Demonstrate accountability for the team's execution.
13. Communicate effectively with the Product Manager.
14. Submit detailed weekly reports that convey essential information about the health, status, risks, and impacts of projects.
15. Development & Launch Project Planning & Reporting
16. Submit detailed weekly reports that convey essential information about the health, status, risks, and impacts of projects.
17. Develop appropriate management reporting to illustrate key information on project progress.
18. Highlight areas of risk and concerns, judge impacts, and offer solutions and alternatives.

What Are We Looking For in This Role?
Minimum Qualifications

1. Demonstrated experience managing complex projects (particularly technology projects) from initiation through completion on committed schedules, 3+ years’ experience preferred
2. Experience working in a Scrummaster role, preferred
3. Familiarity with a variety of SDLC concepts (agile, waterfall, iterative), practices, and procedures and applying the proper tool to the scope and type of project
4. Knowledgeable with agile methodology and successful agile techniques such as User Stories, continuous integration, agile estimation, etc.
5. Ability to understand backlog tracking, burn down metrics, velocity, and task definition
6. Strong leadership, decision making, relationship management, conflict resolution, and problem solving skills
7. Demonstrated success establishing, managing and maintaining effective working relationships with all levels of employees
8. Critical thinking, strong analytical skills and problem solving ability
9. Ability to handle a variety of tasks effectively and efficiently
10. Ability to predict areas of risk and concern
11. Ability to prioritize multiple projects and requests
12. Excellent written and verbal communication skills
13. Excellent organizational skills with attention to details
14. Familiarity with payment processing industry processes, technologies and players
15. Comfortable giving presentations to groups inside and outside of the company
16. Proficiency with Microsoft Office (or equivalent) products including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook.
17. Proficiency with Salesforce CRM preferred.
18. PMP and/or Scrum Master certification preferred.

Advantage Tech is looking for a Security Administrator for our Lee's Summit, MO client.  This is a remote role and candidates need to be vaccinated against Covid -19 unless a medical or religious exemption is approved. 

SKILLS

Serves as user access administrator on the CSIS department.
Responsible for day- to-day management of user access including the user add/change/delete processes, managing user passwords, managing security parameters, defining and maintaining role based access, and assisting with periodic access reviews.

• • Performs security administration on various systems and applications (e.g., SQL, Web, Active Directory, Citrix, Mobile Devices, physical access, etc.).
  • Grants access in accordance with company policy, established standards and procedures.
  • Perform analysis of requests for potential risk prior to access.
  • Troubleshoots security system access issues.
  • Answers questions regarding information security practices or security access.
  • Participates in internal and

External audit support activities.

Performs activities to

Resolve open audit issues.

• • Interface with CSIS management and staff to identify access control risk issues.
  • Follows processes and

Procedures to ensure compliance.

• • Reports suspicious activities or non- compliance access rights to management.
  • Prepares ad-hoc reports in

Support of various initiatives.

• • Maintain individual records for departmental metric reporting.
  • Communicates project progress status and issues to manager.
  • Recommends procedural changes to enhance the functionality of the CSIS team.
  • Identifies opportunities to automate or streamline current processes.
  • Communicates with global peers across Information Security, Risk and Compliance and Information Technology focusing on service delivery improvements and increasing productivity.
  • Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• • Requires a Bachelor’s degree (120 credit hours) in computer science or a related discipline.
  • Requires three years’ experience in Information Technology, Security, or related area.
  • Additional years of qualifying work experience maybe considered in lieu of formal education.
  • Requires flexible work shifts including on-call, overtime and weekends.
  • Requires customer service skills focused and detail oriented.
  • Requires effective verbal and written communication skills to interface with management, and employees to answer questions in regards to information security practices and security access.
  • Requires a general understanding of access management, principle of least, privilege, segregation of duties and role based access.

Advantage Tech is looking for a Salesforce CRM Support Engineer to join a great, growing company based in Chicago, IL. The Salesforce CRM Support Engineer will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the technology components involved in delivering high quality sales enablement capabilities to all levels of the Distribution (Sales) and Marketing organization. This position will report to the Manager of CRM Technologies.

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-end oversight and technical support of our Distribution ecosystem including Salesforce, Seismic, and other third-party applications.
• Partner with teammates in Distribution and Marketing on strategic technology initiatives
• Collaborate with other Information Technology associates to build a modern data infrastructure and pipeline
• Create complex reports and dashboards that provide actionable intelligence for the Distribution and Marketing teams
• Provide daily break-fix support of Salesforce and related technologies
• Help with data cleansing, uploading, and related quality assurance activities
• Continuously improve the quality and efficiency of our sales enablement capabilities by researching and implementing enhancements in collaboration with teammates

Key Behavioral Expectations

• Unleashes Innovation
• Agility and Adaptability
• Drives for Results

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in MIS, computer science, or other technical degree preferred
• Minimum of 3 years of progressive experience in a sales technology role

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required

• In-depth knowledge of Salesforce fundamental architecture, object model, data and security model, along with solid experience in Salesforce reporting and dashboards
• Hands-on experience with the Salesforce Lightning platform
• Advanced Salesforce configuration skills, including custom objects, workflows, Flows, Process builder, and Lightning App Builder. (Admin / App builder certification preferred)
• Aura / LWC, and Apex Class/Trigger development experience (App Builder / Platform Developer 1/2 certification preferred)
• Basic to intermediate JavaScript
• Prior web engineering experience with .NET, C#, Git, HTML, XML a plus
• A strong understanding of the sales CRM and technology landscape – best practices, implementation and integration; ability to leverage experience to deliver analytics and insights in support of growth
• Proficiency with
  • data visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI or similar
  • SQL experience with data sourcing and prepping preferred
  • Excel, PowerPoint, and/or other common project and business communication software
• Strong ability to translate business needs and use cases into technical specs and functional requirements, along with creating technical and training documentation is highly desired
• Aptitude to explain complex technical issues to non-technical people.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills including the ability to articulate and thoughtfully present to senior leaders of the firm.
• Proven ability to collaborate with business and technology teams while influencing decision-making, prioritization and timelines
• Experience in the financial services industry, both asset management and wealth management are highly desired; a detailed understanding of the sales business process from lead generation, opportunity pipeline management, sales forecasting, territory loading and client servicing models
• Detail oriented, resilient and ability to persevere to solve technical and data obstacles
• Strong time management and organizational skills to manage multiple competing priorities

Advantage Tech is looking for a Marketing Event Coordinator to join a great, growing company based in Chicago, IL. The Marketing Event Coordinator works with the Distribution Team to handle all components of internal and external events and conferences. The candidate must have strong interpersonal skills, willingness to contribute to the team in a capacity outside of specific job function if needed, collaborative mentality and willingness to travel (25 – 30%).

Key Responsibilities

• Lead development of strategy, marketing and execution of conferences and events (virtual and in-person)
• Define the conference and event budget and scope
• Work closely with each regional investment consultant on their territory budget and events/sponsorships
• Organize virtual events using On24 and Zoom platforms
• Coordinate with event venues on all logistics, contract negotiations and continued relationship management
• Work with internal conference attendees to manage all materials that need to be delivered to and from conferences (including booth, brochures, swag)
• Develop and distribute invites, manage and track all confirmations and declines, and clearly communicate conference details to attendees
• Manage conference follow up activities including: feedback from attendees, thank you emails and importing data into Salesforce
• Coordinate with other teams within Marketing to build program agendas, invites, event details and confirm speakers
• Onsite meeting management • Setup, technology, F&B, branding, etc.
• Event types include: single and multi-day conferences, roadshows, offsites, internal company events (holiday events, seasonal outings)

Key Behavioral Expectations

• Drives for results
• Creates Culture of Collaboration
• Communication & Engagement
• Unleashes Innovation

Minimum Qualifications

• BA/BS or equivalent
• 7-10 years’ experience preferred
• Job requires event management experience

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required

• Ability and desire to lead, must work collaboratively with external vendors and internal colleagues
• Demonstrates a strong work ethic and commitment to team and department
• Ability to think creatively and has the initiative to present new ideas
• Must thrive working in a fast-paced, innovative environment while remaining flexible, proactive, resourceful and efficient
• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
• Organized and ability to multi-task
• Experience with virtual platforms such as On24 preferred
• Experience with conference activities and tracking via Salesforce preferred
• Asset management event experience preferred

Advantage Tech is looking for a Email Marketing Specialist to join a great, growing company based in Chicago, IL.

Summary

Sitting within the Digital Marketing team, this individual will be responsible for managing the end-to-end production of email marketing campaigns and marketing automation across the enterprise, analyzing client and prospect behavior to implement marketing strategies, and taking lead in cross-functional projects to ensure our email program scales effectively with brand growth.?

Key Responsibilities

• Own daily production, scheduling, delivery and reporting of promotional and transactional email and marketing automation campaigns.
• Serve as business owner of Salesforce Pardot and Salesforce Engage solutions.
• Validate email functionality and appearance across browsers and platforms.
• Utilize client and prospect behavior and data to target email lists.
• Partner closely with Digital Marketing Team colleagues to incorporate email goals and deliverables across all aspects of the digital strategy.
• Collaborate to develop and implement customized customer journeys and email templates in Pardot to improve communication and conversion of leads.
• Drive cross-functional marketing initiatives with Marketing, Sales Enablement, and IT teams to increase client engagement from awareness to sales
• Follow established tones, including brand standards, and execute within platform.
• Analyze results of promotional campaigns to propose tests and ideas for improvement. Influence marketing strategy and develop new email ideas.
• Maintain relationships and work with partners to traffic assets needed to support campaigns.

Key Behavioral Expectations

• Drives for results
• Creates Culture of Collaboration
• Communication & Engagement
• Unleashes Innovation

Minimum Qualifications

• BA/BS or equivalent
• 3-5 years’ experience preferred
• Job requires digital email platform and HTML/CSS experience

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required

• Experience with building scalable, broad reach email campaigns, while assisting onboarding programs to maximize engagement.
• Experience with marketing automation software like Salesforce Pardot (preferred), Salesforce Marketing Cloud (ExactTarget), Eloqua, and Marketo required
• Experience setting multi-channel campaigns.
• Experience building landing pages, dynamic content-based e-mails, and forms with basic working knowledge of Salesforce- and Google Analytics- reporting.
• Strong quantitative, strategic, and data visualization skills highly recommended, and expert knowledge of HTML/CSS and email design is required.
• Understand the nature of email design, delivery, CAN SPAM, and analytics.
• Ability to effectively communicate complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Advantage Tech is looking for a Marketing Operations Specialist to join a great, growing company based in Chicago, IL.

This position supports distribution efforts by managing recurring performance reporting responsibilities, as well as ongoing project management of ad hoc requests and deliverables related to competitive positioning of the firm’s products, contributing to both new sales as well as the retention of existing client assets.

• Updating and proofing of monthly/quarterly product reporting (quarterly reports, fact sheets, presentations, holdings, etc.)
• Manage deliverables for new content and new products
• Content management and maintenance on content technology platform (Seismic)
• Ad-hoc and custom client reports
• Marketing project management to help drive marketing goals
• Continually looks for ways to improve Marketing processes and procedures. Identifies best practices, celebrates successes, and recommends options for improvement/enhancement.
• Analyze data for accuracy and troubleshooting using pivot tables and other functions
• Accountable for the accuracy, timeliness, and effectiveness of marketing deliverables

Key Behavioral Expectations

Drives for Results

• Executes deliverables in line with the organizational vision and strategy
• Strives to achieve the goals set forth by your manager

Creates Culture of Collaboration

• Proactively seeks and/or embraces opportunities to work across departments and teams to achieve shared objectives
• Places company and team contributions before personal objectives

Agility & Adaptability

• Welcomes new solutions and takes on stretch assignments for own development
• Acknowledges small mistakes and actively course corrects

Courageous & Resilient

• Tackles challenges with optimism and remains confident
• Rebounds from setbacks and reflects in order to grow from experiences

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of marketing experience in financial services industry
• Extensive PowerPoint experience
• Experience using Excel for data analysis and recurring reporting
• Experience with Seismic, Red Oak or SharePoint a plus

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required

• Functional investment, distribution and market environment knowledge preferred
• Technically capable, excellent communicator, and a desire to improve processes
• Ability to pivot as firm continues to grow and evolve
• Must be a self-starter, but also a team player
• Strong time management and organizational skills, with the ability to lead and prioritize multiple projects under tight deadlines
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with others
• Creative, strategic thinker and problem solver with strong analytical skills
• Demonstrated record of successfully transforming business partners’ objectives into effective deliverables

Client is seeking a Sales Operations Coordinator to join our growing team. This role is a key part of the Sales Organization, responsible for driving consistency and discipline through the Sales organization. The Sales Operations Coordinator will partner with the sales leadership team to optimize and define processes that drive Sales performance and support the achievement of client's ambitious company goals. This role is ideal for someone who is detail oriented, a great communicator and problem solver, and enjoys working in a high-performing team environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide one-stop-shop support to Sales and Sales Management by assisting them through the sales process, including internal processes, CRM and Salesforce inquiries
• Manage CRM, including setup of new hires, existing user updates, account assignment, etc.
• Assist in onboarding of new sales team members
• Assist in finding solutions to improve workflow, tracking of business processes, and help the sales department run at optimal levels
• Receive, validate and respond to sales team requests
• Works with the sales team to ensure data accuracy, integrity, and troubleshooting in CRM
• Collateral management and ordering for sales team

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required
• At least 2 years’ experience managing time sensitive, detail oriented, weekly or monthly deliverables
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to tailor your voice to different audiences as needed
• Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint and Word
• High attention to detail with focus on accuracy and ability to provide fast turnaround when needed

Advantage Tech is searching for a Director of IT Operations to join their client's team based out of Overland Park, KS.

This is a leadership role in a growing organization, where you will have the opportunity to lead the implementation of new technologies and processes in a rapidly growing organization. 

Basic Function and Scope of Responsibility

The Director of IT Operations will lead, direct and execute all technology and IT operations related initiatives to support the Company’s ongoing operations and continued growth. This role requires not just technical aptitude, but a willingness to lead in a variety of areas, including communication and collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, as well as the various departments employed by the Company. This role will serve as a key leader in the organization and will be in consistent communication with the Company’s C-Suite executives regarding overall corporate strategy, ensuring that the Company’s technology and software investments continue to scale and support overall growth. 

This is both a leadership and hands-on role. The Director of IT Operations will be responsible for ensuring maximum uptime, implementation and effectiveness of critical infrastructure (network, 3rd party applications, VoIP, CRM, etc.) as well as ensuring that all end-user support requests are handled in a timely and effective manner.

Key Softwares Utilized: HubSpot (CRM), Zapier (Integrations), Calendly, RingCentral

Essential Job Duties:

• Collaborate with Company Leadership to ensure technology investments continue to add value to overall corporate strategy and support continued growth 

• Serve as the technology expert in the Company, leading end-user support, IT budgeting/forecasting, developing IT policies, procedures and documentation, maintaining vendor relationships and contract negotiation, as well as compliance related initiatives (HIPAA, etc).

• Perform routine maintenance on Company systems and monitor and troubleshoot endpoints, network, CRM, 3rd party applications and other systems as needed.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 (five) years of experience in an IT support related role

• Minimum of 2 (two) years of experience in an IT management role

• Intermediate knowledge of Windows/Windows Server/Mac operating systems, Microsoft Office Suite, including end-user support of these systems/applications

• Intermediate knowledge of TCP/IP networking (DNS, DHCP, VPN, VLANs, firewalls/switches, etc.) and VoIP telephony

• Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft 365 and/or Google Workspace administration

• CRM administration experience (Salesforce, HubSpot, or industry-specific CRM)

• Strong analytical ability and self-leadership skills

• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, rapidly growing organization

Advantage Tech is looking for an Application Developer for our Overland Park, KS Client.  This is a hybrid position and requires fully vaccinated to start. 

Job Summary:
Creates, develops and modifies general computer applications, interfaces or specialized utility programs, is well versed in research, design, development, and testing of code. Analyzes user needs and develops appropriate software solutions to meet those needs. Application Developers are well versed in designing and customizing software for specific customer use with the aim of creating an improved user experience and higher value for the organization. Analyzes and designs databases within an application area, works individually or coordinates database development as part of a team.

Duties and Responsibilities:

APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT 60%
• Works with team members as well as business departments and Project Management Office to develop and write application systems and programs.
• Participates in project management, architecture and design processes.
• Works within change control guidelines for production implementations.
• Tests and revises each solution, including user acceptance testing, to ensure proper performance and efficiencies are met.
• Build deployment pipeline (Azure DevOps and Octopus) for services and projects that you develop
• Documents solutions in accordance with development standards and procedures as outlined by the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Obtains and maintains a working knowledge of development systems used by the Web and Development groups, and systemic relationships with outside support organizations.
• Represents development team in interdivisional groups and projects.

APPLICATIONS CHANGE CONTROL AND QUALITY ASSURANCE 20%
• Responds to questions relative to application functionality.
• Troubleshoots and resolves production application errors ensuring strict adherence to IT change processes.
• Prepares revision documentation as outlined in the Software Development Life Cycle.

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION AND SUPPORT 10%
• Assists with end-user support of foundational systems.
• Provides backup administrative assistance where needed.

DATABASE/REPORT DEVELOPMENT AND SUPPORT 10%
• Designs and proposes database objects based on organization’s data policy.
• Designs, implements and supports reporting systems.
• Prepares technical documentation for database/report design and deployment outlined in the Software Development Life Cycle

Education:
Any combination of education and experience providing the required skill and knowledge is qualifying.
Typical qualifications would be equivalent to:
• Bachelor’s degree (preferably in Computer Science) or equivalent work experience

Required Experience and Special Skills:
• Minimum of 5-7 years of experience programming in a team environment
• Programming; troubleshooting; problem-solving
• Strong interpersonal skills in a team-based development environment • Ability to provide end-user training on both 3rd party and in-house developed applications
• Strong understanding of the .NET architecture
• .NET (C#/ ASP.NET), jQuery, REST, JSON, JavaScript, .NET Framework 4.8 or .NET Core
• Experience with ORM’s, like Entity Framework or Dapper
• Experience utilizing Azure DevOps (source control) desired
• Development experience with Microsoft SQL Server desired
• Solid understanding of software development life cycle methods and client/server architecture in an enterprise environment

Preferred Experience and Special Skills:
• Experience in healthcare in a team environment
• Azure methodologies like Kubernetes, Azure Functions, GRPC services, etc.
• Experience utilizing and building Octopus or other automated deployment system
• CRM (Salesforce) development and support experience
• Sitecore development and support experience
• Knowledge of HTML, CSS, SQL, T-SQL, MVC

nice to have
• Experience creating effective database design and implementation nice to have 

Advantage Tech is looking for VOIP Engineer for our Lee's Summit, MO Client.  This is a remote position

The Engineer’s role is to ensure the stable operations of the technology operational architectures. This includes monitoring, configuring, installing, administering, planning, developing, maintaining, and supporting the availability of the technology operations (may include systems, network, and telecommunications). This role is responsible for monitoring the internal service request ticket system and resolving or escalating request from the service desk as appropriate.

Engineer is a Self-starter, able to work with minimal direction from management. Understands need for lateral thinking and displays willingness to adapt to new ways of doing business.

These individuals will need to be able to support the existing Avaya infrastructure as well as the new SBCE/SIP environments.

• Provide enterprise applications, systems, network, and/or telecommunications support for daily operations; monitors and reviews systems for availability, error conditions, adequate space allocation, backup integrity, and performance to ensure system stability.

• Provides on-call infrastructure support during non-business hours.

• Participates in meetings to explain technical solutions and the feasibility of company operations to meet department needs for software and hardware. Works with Engineer peers and Leadership in finding cost-effective solutions to new and existing software and hardware needs.
• Monitors company Infrastructure with associated software or hardware, provides performance statistics, and reports as directed by Leadership. Recommends and implements appropriate actions to determine and resolve operational architecture issues, which may include systems, network, and telecommunications.
• Maintains knowledge of associated company management software, architectures, telecommunication products and services. Provides monitoring and reporting of technology operations as directed.
• Self-starting, able to work with minimal direction from management. Understands need for lateral thinking; Displays willingness to adapt to new ways of doing business.
• Improves existing team processes. Creates effective documentation used by others. Attention to detail. Digs in and makes progress on work. Stays focused and isn't distracted by irrelevant things.

Essential Functions of the Job:

• Strong knowledge of VOIP, SIP, Avaya SBC, Avaya Session, Communication and System Manager
• Audio Codes SBC and ESBC Systems
• UC (Microsoft) + PBX/IP-PBX experience
• Strong understanding of Country Carrier SIP networks
• Strong background in IP Protocols
• Extensive knowledge of fixed line telecommunication systems
• Basic knowledge of LAN/WAN communication systems
• Audio Codes TDM/IP gateway configuration and support
• Maintain Continuity of Operations (COOP) readiness
• Adheres to Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
• Supports L3/4 incidents and vendor escalations
• Installation engineering and support
• System backups and maintenance setups
• Work with Telecom Service Providers globally

• Requires a Bachelor's degree (120 credit hours) in Computer Science, Information Systems Management, Telecommunications, or qualified technology certifications in network, systems, or other related certifications.
• Requires three years of experience in a systems and/or networking environment including telecommunications and VOIP telephony supporting (or working in) call center environments, including voice services and gateways, installing and configuring desktops, servers, wireless networking, and an understanding of the security, integrity, and safety of company operational efficiencies plus other related products.
• Additional years of qualifying work experience may be considered in lieu of formal education.
• Requires effective verbal and written communication skills to consult with management, business partners, users and vendors.
• Requires effective organizational skills and the ability to manage frequent interruptions and multiple priorities.
• Requires the ability to relate well with coworkers and vendor representatives in order to enlist cooperation and provide guidance.

Advantage Tech is looking for an Application Administrator for our Kansas City, MO Client.

Position Summary

The Application Administrator ensures that deployments of new applications or upgrades are planned and carried out correctly. The position is responsible for working closely with other teams and our clients during the technical phases of any given implementation project. This role's primary responsibility is to acts as a bridge between the software development staff, business support, and the IT infrastructure team to complete installation and carry out ongoing upgrades and maintenance of commercial and in-house developed software. A key success factor of this position includes coordinating the collection of both pre and post installation data and information essential to installing and configuring Company’s software products. This position will be expected to execute on technical projects which may consist of data conversions and consolidations, installation program modifications and the creation of third party integration tools, but not limited only to this. 
 
Principal Functions of the Job

• Execute the installation and configuration of production software products in the production environment. Serve as a knowledge expert in the installation of software products to ensure successful implementation and adoption.
• Work with other IT teams to resolve issues related to application configuration, issues and debugging
• Perform tasks in projects related to production software operations such as installation applications, setup kits, data management efforts and related components.
• Continuously improve the automation of software installations. Be an agent of change for improving technical implementations and reducing mean time to install and the cost to deploy. This means addressing bottlenecks in the installation processes and recommending changes to deployment methodologies while keeping the implementation schedule on track.
• Timely and accurate reporting to client and management on the status of technical implementations
• Adhering to the company’s Change Management Policy to ensure that all production changes are communicated, scheduled and documented per policy.
• Develop and support internal toolsets and services to integrate, deploy, and operate applications. Consult with and advise development, product, and operations teams on software release best practices and recommend solutions.
• Provides on-going support of the Company’s production platform to ensure availability and functionality.
• Collaborate on infrastructure development and infrastructure testing efforts to meet rapidly growing systems. Coordination proactively with the infrastructure team regarding things such as hardware provisioning and bandwidth requirements is important.
• Improve automated application configuration, deployments, monitoring, management and incident response.
• Work with other teams to resolve issues related to application configuration, deployment, or debugging.
• Understand and adhere to policies regarding access to sensitive data to include PII and ePHI.
• Participate in the training and/or mentoring programs as assigned or required.

Requirements
 

• Bachelor's degree in technology, or related field is preferred, or 5+ years of technical implementation experience in lieu of degree
• 3+ years' experience with significant analysis and direct work experience in technical implementation of software with complex, mission-critical software deployments
• Experience in configuring and maintaining Microsoft stack components including IIS, .NET, SQL, Biztalk, TFS/VSTS
• Deep understanding of the Windows operating system and Active Directory administration skills and adherence to security best practices.
• Experience with install technologies required. Experience with install Shield and MSI based installation techniques including silent push and update methodologies preferred
• Expertise in scripting, for example PowerShell preferred.
• Application configuration and testing experience.
• Experience with configuration management and release automation tools.
• Experience managing and deploying windows applications and infrastructure.
• Must have good time management skills.
• Excellent troubleshooting, listening and problem-solving skills.
• Able to work in a deadline oriented environment.
• Customer focused.
• Works well in a team environment.

Advantage Tech is proud to be recognized as Kansas City Business Journal’s #1 locally owned IT staffing firm. We are passionate about delivering world-class service and value to our clients.  Advantage Tech’s customized recruiting model enables us to place consultants locally and nationally. Our clients want the best candidate at the most reasonable rate within a set timeframe; that’s precisely what we provide them.  We go even further.   Our consultant retention program gives our clients the added comfort our people will perform well and finish the project.

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Advantage Tech is looking for an Accounts Payable Coordinator to support a great company based in Kansas City, MO.  The successful candidate will have 5 years or more of accounts payable experience in a professional services industry, be able to work in a fast paced, high volume environment, and be able to adjust as needed to the firm’s continually growing needs.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Input and auditing of vendor invoices into Chrome River.
• Process firm invoices regarding rent, facilities, and deliveries.
• Process foreign vendor payments including exports, check processing and reconciliation through the 3rd party financial vendor.
• Process VISA statements of firm card holders in a timely manner.
• Process AP uploads from supporting financial systems and software.
• Process Staff Expense Reimbursement requests.
• Process AP data (vouchers, checks, etc.) as assigned and needed.
• Research and follow-up on vendor statements.
• Respond to internal and external inquiries in an effective, efficient, and professional manner.
• Other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Four-year degree preferred, two-year degree accepted with related work experience of 5 years or more of accounts payable experience.
• Competent in applications such as Elite, Chrome River, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Excel, and Online Banking.
• Thorough understanding of the 1099 process.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.

Advantage Tech is looking for a Sr IT Infrastructure Engineer for our Lenexa, KS Client. 

Individuals within the IT Infrastructure Engineer role are responsible for the operations of secure and highly available computing platforms, servers, and networks. They, install, maintain, upgrade, and continuously improve Company’s operating environment. They maintain the ongoing reliability, performance, and support of the infrastructure. This includes monitoring the operating environments; responding to incidents and problems; and planning for growth.  Individuals in this job family are also responsible for the overall operation and maintenance of the data centers, both on premise and in the cloud. 

IT Infrastructure Engineers deploy the release of new technologies as well as design, install, configure, maintain and perform testing of PC/server operating systems, networks, and related utilities and hardware. Other responsibilities include troubleshooting problems as reported by users, supporting Web access and electronic messaging services and maintaining a secure systems environment. They also provide infrastructure solutions based on application needs and anticipated growth, install new servers, and maintain the infrastructure.

Essential Functions:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Coordinates and works on multiple cross-functional base work initiatives and projects
• Diagnoses and resolves complex security, hardware, software and connectivity problems.
• Supports multiple systems or applications of high to medium complexity (complexity defined by size, technology used, and system feeds and interfaces) with multiple concurrent users, ensuring control, integrity, and accessibility.
• Participates in short and long-term project efforts with stakeholders and IT groups.
• Senior level role in a team to implement, maintain, administer, support, and monitor both on premise and cloud-based datacenter solutions, including identity, compute, storage, network, and security.
• Senior level role in a team to implement, maintain, administer, support, and monitor virtualization solutions.
• Creates and maintains accurate datacenter diagrams and documentation used for design, planning, training, and troubleshooting. 
• Works in a team to maintain security standards, identify security issues, consult on and implement new security solutions.
• Works in a team to maintain and support networks for business applications and SCADA environments.  Creates and maintains accurate network diagrams for documentation, design, and planning.  Technologies include:  Local Area Network (LAN), Wide Area Network (WAN), and Storage Area Networks (SAN).
• Designs and performs audits, health monitoring, and other recovery processes in accordance with the company’s disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.
• Works in a team to manage and support networking equipment, software, appliances operating systems, and associated products from various 3rd party vendors.
• Works in a team environment to monitor, support, and maintain integration of voice, data, security and telecommunication systems.
• Works in a team for capacity planning and performance monitoring and tuning in the LAN/WAN/SAN environment.
• Manages, secures, and supports Windows server operating systems and associated products from various third-party vendors including backup, patch management, systems management, and other software and appliances.
• Monitors and tests system performance; prepares and delivers system performance statistics and reports.
• Provides technical guidance in relation to Virtualization, Servers, Networks, IP Telephony, Systems Management, and other technologies in support of business requirements.
• Creates technology designs and solutions in response to business needs that enable the company to maximize our IT investments and ensure the most cost-effective approach is followed.
• Administers Internet and Intranet usage and computer peripherals status, security, and performance.
• Works in a team with the planning and administration of server and network redundancy, backup, and disaster recovery, and helps establish and meet Divisional up-time goals.
• Ensures compliance with Company’s standards and procedures for network usage and security.
• Oversees issues related to voice and security communication.
• Develops scripted solutions and automation.
• Participates in cyber security planning and incident response.

Other Duties:

• Provides technical and backup support for other IT staff members.
• Participates in on-call duties 24/7, and planned or un-planned weekend/evening work.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Core Competencies:

These key core competencies are expected to be demonstrated by each employee:

• Communicates Effectively – Demonstrates ability to listen and express oneself effectively and shares information as appropriate for the position needed to perform the job effectively.
• Conscientiousness – Expresses the motivation to perform one's job in a careful, thorough way that adheres to the standards of honesty and integrity.
• Customer Focus – Demonstrates a concern for satisfying both internal and external customers and builds collaborative relationships with customers and stakeholders.
• Interpersonal Savvy – Demonstrates the ability to effectively coordinate with others to achieve goals and solve problems by maintaining flexibility and open mindedness.
• Problem Solving/Drive for Results – Demonstrates the ability to find solutions to complex problems and consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances.

Position Competencies:

In addition to organizational competencies, these key competencies are expected to be demonstrated by each employee in this position:

• Teamwork – Develops constructive and cooperative working relationships with others and encourages team unity through sharing, working together and putting team success first.
• Security & Safety Focus – Adheres to all workplace safety and security policies, standards, and practices.
• Creating a Positive Work Environment – Treat people with respect, encourages teamwork, and expresses confidence in people's ability to master their roles.
• Creative & Innovative Thinking – Develops fresh ideas that provide solutions to all types of workplace challenges.
• Development & Continual Learning – Displays an ongoing commitment to learning and self-improvement.
• Job Knowledge – Understands the purpose of the position and demonstrates knowledge by staying current with changes impacting their job.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Computer Engineering Technology, Network Communications Management or equivalent professional experience.
• 8 years’ experience in virtualization technologies.
• 5 years’ experience in the design, implementation, and technical operation of VMware solutions including a multi-node server cluster managed by vCenter.
• 3 years’ experience in the technical operation of vSAN and SAN.
• Some experience with Microsoft Azure Active Directory and other Azure datacenter services, Microsoft Windows Server and related services, and LAN/WAN protocols and Cisco switch, router and firewall configuration and administration.
• Knowledge of PC applications management systems and communications to include VPN applications.
• Good customer service skills.
• Well organized, creative, and detail oriented.
• Assertive, flexible, and demonstrate initiative and sound judgment.
• Able to interface well with IT departmental and user department personnel.
• Good communication skills, both verbal and written, and be a good listener.  Must be able to effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Excellent decision-making skills.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality for all user materials.
• Must possess a valid driver’s license and continuously meet driving standards.
• Must pass post offer medical exam, including background verification and drug screen (may not apply to current employees).

Preferred Education, Skills:

• SCADA / Industrial Control System environment knowledge
• VMware certification(s)
• Working knowledge of VMware NSX-T, HCX
• Proficient in one or more of the following scripting languages: Bash, Perl, Python, PowerShell
• 2+ years of experience with design, implementation and support of cloud services on Microsoft Azure, including some of the advanced services and features
• Microsoft Systems Certification
• Web Application Firewall (WAF) experience
• Next Generation Firewall experience

Advantage Tech is proud to be recognized as Kansas City Business Journal’s #1 locally owned IT staffing firm. We are passionate about delivering world-class service and value to our consultants and clients. 

Please visit www.advantagetech.net to learn more about our culture, benefits and career opportunities.

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Advantage Tech is looking for a Sr BA for our Kansas City, MO client.
 

Job Description

The Information Technology Agile Program Management Office ensures continuous delivery of technology solutions and capability enhancements supporting both internal and external solution consumers.

The SR IT Business Analyst elicits, analyzes, specifies, and validates the business needs of product owners and end users, compiling user requirements with an understanding of the technology solutions needed. The IT Business Analyst will also apply proven communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills to help the business make good technology decisions and look for new solutions to optimize business processes. The Business Analyst will play a pivotal role in ensuring IT’s understanding of business requirements, as articulated through new process design, epics, features, and user stories for solution changes. Will work on multiple highly complex projects in an Agile environment. 

• Conduct interviews to gather user requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods for multiple complex projects
• Lead and mentor other business analysts within multiple project scopes  
• Identify and establish scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a product basis, in collaboration with product owner/s to define product impact, outcome criteria, and metrics
• Lead stakeholders and project team to prioritize collected requirements through product backlog grooming and planning activities
• Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team
• Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements– verbally or through written documentation – to product, owners, project teams, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood
• Participate in the QA of solutions to ensure features and functions have been enabled and optimized for product owner acceptance 

Qualifications

Minimum:    

• Bachelor’s degree or 4 years of additional experience in lieu of degree.
• 5 years of experience writing functional requirements specification for software projects.
• Experience working on multiple highly complex projects.
• Experience working in a Agile environment

Preferred:    

• Bachelor’s degree in the field of business administration, computer science, finance, or information systems.
• 7 years of experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology development.
• 4 years of experience utilizing process improvement methods.
• Ability to create systematic and consistent requirements specifications in both technical and user-friendly language.
• Demonstrated analytical skills with the ability to apply them to systems issues and products as required.
• Advanced understanding of product management and market placement.
• Agile certification such as SCRUM or SAFE.

Advantage Tech is looking for a Program Analyst for our Kansas City, MO Client.  This is primarily a remote position with occasionally coming into the office for now.  

Description:

The role of the Programmer Analyst is to design, develop, test, implement, and support business solutions that meet the requirements of the enterprise.  This may involve various platforms, tools, and database formats.

Education:         

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer information systems or a related field.  Equivalent work experience of eight years may be substituted for formal education requirement.

Responsibilities:             

• Design, develop, implement, test, document, and support application software, custom programs, websites, and databases for all locations.
• Assist end-users with data extraction, analysis, and report creation. Optimize/automate data extraction techniques, query designs, and report designs.
• Maintain internet and intranet websites.  Work with all departments to keep content updated and functionality current.
• Assist users with updating and adding content to  intranet ensuring uniform look and feel across the departments. 
• Provide necessary documents, project work plans, and reports for all project work; actively participate in company-wide projects as a representative of the IT Department.
• Provide support, training, and issue resolution to end-users as needed for software- and hardware-related questions.
• Participate in the development of standards such as design assumptions and functional requirements documents, storage of code, reuse of modules, and solution documentation.
• Assist with day-to-day server and database maintenance and monitoring.

Lean Enterprise:

• Establish and utilize frameworks and systems, including tools such as visual management, problem solving, standard work and kaizen.
• Adheres to and promotes the HR Pledge
• Ability to cooperate and commit in a team environment to achieve goals and deliverables
• Resolve difficult or complicated challenges using the problem-solving process
• Actively embrace our core principles using courage, humility and kaizen

Position Requirements:  

• Strong customer service skills.  Ability to listen is required. 
• Experience working with all types of personalities and position levels
• Minimum of five years work-related experience with variety of programming tools, specifically:  Visual Basic (VBA, VB Script, .NET), Web programming (HTML, XML, Javascript, ASP/.NET), C# or Java
• Experience with Microsoft Windows Sharepoint Services and/or Sharepoint Portal Server a plus.  Skills should include site design and administration, security and access control, backup and recovery, and customization
• SQL Server administration, database optimization, and analysis skills.  Experience with SQL Reporting Services, Analysis Services, and Integration Services
• Knowledge of operating systems (Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2016, etc.); familiarity with Linux helpful
• Knowledge of basic networking hardware and protocols preferred
• Experience with Macromedia Contribute and Flash, Linux/Unix, VMWare, Epicor Manage 2000 ERP software, IBM Unibasic/Unidata or Formscape a plus
• Ability to work independently and on several projects simultaneously with proven project management and implementation experience
• Ability to work in a team environment and interact effectively with team members from non-technical disciplines

Advantage Tech is hiring for a new Sr. UX/UI Designer to join their client's IT team! 

As a Senior UX/UI Designer, you would be responsible for the design and development of web pages, client's web infrastructure, and back-end database development.  You would work on testing and improving our site usability, constructing SQL queries, and ensuring optimal performance on a variety of browsers as well as developing other web-based technical solutions that meet business requirements.

As a senior role, you would also be responsible for guiding the entirety of the design process through its completion, collaborating with developers to ensure accurate implementation and would be charged with leading the department's testing program to ensure end user's needs are being met. This position will report to the Application Development Manager in the IT Department. 

What You’ll Do:

The essential duties for this role include, but are not limited to:

• Ability to handle projects from conceptualization through delivery. Develop and apply creative designs, ensuring that content meets brand standards and targets the intended audience.
• Works with research and product partners to define testing needs, develop testing strategies, determine the most effective usability evaluation methods (formal and informal usability testing, low-fidelity prototype testing, expert review, heuristic review, walk-through) to best validate an idea or concept.
• Collaborate with designers, product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to interpret business needs and end-user requirements to develop innovative solutions that improve the lives of end-users and meet business needs.
• Create all typical outputs for a UX designer, including wireframes, storyboards, journey maps, prototypes, production-ready interface designs and assets, and whiteboard sketches.
• Design digital products across multiple channels and platforms, for both general and targeted public consumption.
• Analyze user data, evaluations, and feedback, as well as performance metrics, competitive analysis, and industry trends to recommend ways to improve the user experience and transform them into well-designed features and interfaces.
• Practice Lean UX by iterating quickly and delivering the exact amount of information that product and engineering need to deliver a great experience.
• Apply usability engineering methods to establish user requirements, test design solutions, and evaluate product implementation.
• Lead the work with other designers, product and development partners, as well as project managers to ensure implementation of the specific designs.
• Use and contribute to our design system to ensure continuity across all of our work.
• Participate in Scrum processes, foster continual communication with developers and provide speedy feedback in regards to your design choices.

What You’ll Bring to the Role:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent relevant work experience
• Minimum of 4 years of similar or related work experience to the UX Designer/Developer position
• Experience in UX tools such as Adobe, Figma, Photoshop, Sketch, Requirements mapping, and agile workflow 
• Ability to work independently and with coworkers and share knowledge as part of a team
• Well-developed interpersonal skills, ability to get along well in diverse cultures with diverse personalities whether local or virtual
• Ability to establish credibility and be decisive as well as responsive —and able to recognize and support the organization’s preferences and priorities
• Strong attention to detail

Advantage Tech is looking for an Infrastructure Sr Project Manager for our Kansas City, MO client.  This is a hybrid position going into work 3 days a week starting 2022.  

The IT Infrastructure group is comprised of multiple technical support teams focusing on various IT infrastructure services in support of the entire IT environment for the organization.? These technical support services include Windows and Automation, Converged Technologies, Unix/Linux, Middleware, SOA, Mainframe Infrastructure, Network and Voice Services, Desktop, Audio Visual and Telephone, Information Security, Cloud Technologies, and Data Center Infrastructure. ?These technical teams work together to implement and support these critical infrastructure services to provide IT infrastructure necessary in support the organizations diverse?set of internal business applications and customer facing technologies, ensuring ongoing availability for day-to-day operations. 

As a Senior Project Manager within the IT Infrastructure group, you will lead multiple strategic enterprise projects interacting with cross-functional teams comprised of technical staff and business stakeholders to deliver the required products for each project, phase or stage of a project based on that particular project’s work plan.  You will help in building and deploying cloud-based products, working within the Cloud Acceleration Team (CAT), measure specific project velocities and reporting through the program, and helping the Agile teams break down their tasks into tactical and measurable milestones.  You will be also part of the senior-level planning sessions to help plan and lay out future work for the development teams.  If you have a strong business acumen and sound project management experience, the ability to communicate effectively with development teams and business leaders, a desire to be part of new product builds (specifically on AWS) in new areas of the enterprise, and have proven success in leading enterprise-level technical projects across the finish line, we want to talk with you! 

The IT Infrastructure group is comprised of IT leaders, project managers, systems engineers, technicians, and administrators coming from diverse background and experiences.  We share a strong commitment to ensure our enterprise-level systems are performing at peak capacity and we believe in fully supporting each other to achieve this goal.? Trust and open communication are the cornerstones of how we roll, and we have plenty of fun while doing it!? Self-education, peer consultation, mentor guidance, and formal training/seminars are some of the methods that we share information and knowledge. 

How you’ll spend your time:  

• Managing multiple projects within the determined constraints (i.e. scope, quality, time, cost, etc.) to successfully deliver the specified requirements while meeting the expectations of the sponsors, management team and stakeholders. 

• Leading cross-functional project teams to ensure deliverables are adhered to time, budget and project milestones within the agreed tolerances including managing any tradeoffs between scope, schedule, quality and cost. 

• Providing problem resolution as complex issues or challenges that may arise during the life span of the project. 

• Serving as the liaison with project sponsors, customers, vendors or business partners including facilitating communication using various methods and managing expectations with stakeholders. 

• Ensuring project methodology, standards, process and procedure are followed throughout the project. 

We’re excited to talk with you if:  

• You have a Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Business Administration or related discipline AND at least 8 years of IT project management experience.  At least 1 year of management experience preferred. 

• You have experience managing multiple technical projects focused on cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS) and automation. 

• You have a PMP certification.  Although this is not required, it is highly preferred. 

• You have experience with Agile/Scrum and Waterfall project methodologies. 

• You have proficiency utilizing a Project Portfolio Management (PPM) tool (i.e. Sciforma, MS Project, Primavera, etc.). 

Advantage Tech is looking for a Project Manager for our Kansas City, MO client.  

The Enterprise Systems and Architecture group is comprised of multiple teams focusing on critical functions supporting the company.  These functions include for Deposits, Loans, Investments, Payments, Commercial Internet Banking, Fraud, Cards and Private Wealth.  These teams work to implement and support solutions in a diverse set of technologies and applications including TSYS, Hogan, LaserPro, Factorsoft, IBM Safer Payments, UOB, Swift, FX360, Fraud Oasis applications, just to name a few.  Their hard work allows our organization with data and tools to be readily available for day-to-day operations.

As a Project Manager, you will lead multiple strategic enterprise projects interacting with cross-functional teams comprised of technical staff and business stakeholders to deliver the required products for each project, phase or stage of a project based on that particular project’s work plan.  You will serve as the liaison with project sponsors, customers, vendors or partners and will facilitate continuous communication with all involved as well as manage expectations with the stakeholders.  You will also be expected to manage resolution of complex issues and challenging situations.  If you have a strong business acumen and had success in leading enterprise-level technical projects across the finish line, we want to talk with you!

The Enterprise Systems and Architecture group is comprised of IT leaders, project managers, software engineers, and analysts coming from diverse background and experiences.We share a strong commitment to ensure our enterprise-level systems are performing at peak capacity and we believe in fully supporting each other to achieve this goal.  Trust and open communication are the cornerstones of how we roll, and we have plenty of fun while doing it!  Self-education, peer consultation, mentor guidance, and formal training/seminars are some of the methods that we share information and knowledge.

How you’ll spend your time:

• Managing multiple projects within the determined constraints (i.e. scope, quality, time, cost, etc.) to successfully deliver the specified requirements while meeting the expectations of the sponsors, management team and stakeholders.
• Leading cross-functional project teams to ensure deliverables are adhered to time, budget and project milestones within the agreed tolerances including managing any tradeoffs between scope, schedule, quality and cost.
• Providing problem resolution as complex issues or challenges that may arise during the life span of the project.
• Serving as the liaison with project sponsors, customers, vendors or business partners including facilitating communication using various methods and managing expectations with stakeholders.
• Ensuring project methodology, standards, process and procedure are followed throughout the project.

We’re excited to talk with you if:

• You have at least 3 years of IT project management experience.  5+ years of experience highly preferred.
• You have a PMP certification.  Although this is not required, it is highly preferred.
• You have experience with Agile/Scrum and Waterfall project methodologies.
• You have proficiency utilizing a Project Portfolio Management (PPM) tool (i.e. Sciforma, MS Project, Primavera, etc.).
• You have knowledge and experience in financial services process/workflow including card transactions, core banking deposits and customer processing, loan processing, payments, and fraud management.
• You have knowledge of various systems/applications (i.e TSYS, Hogan, UOB, Safer Payments).  This is not required, but highly beneficial.

This contact specialist will be part of a pilot program where they will be sending text messages to families that have requested information from our client. These text messages are sent prior to the Advisor making contact with the families. This role will be fully remote and needs someone who is comfortable with utilizing a computer and adaptable to new software tools.

Advantage Tech is looking for few Java Developers for a client of ours in Lawrence, KS. This position will be a six month contract to hire. 

Job Duties:

• Analyze, design, develop, maintain and test web applications.
• Evaluate requirements, work closely with clients to develop a solid software design, and then develop the technical specifications documenting the required change/enhancement.
• From the documentation, develop code and unit test all code prior to turning over to QA.
• Work on problems of diverse scope where analysis of situations or data requires evaluation of intangible variance factors.
• Use working knowledge of related disciplines to provide solutions to a range of problems, and ensure solutions and/or changes are implemented.
• Participate in design and code reviews of teammate changes.
• Provide feedback on their approach in a timely fashion.
• Makes recommendations on technical problems and methods.
• Provide technical leadership/mentoring to junior developers as they work to complete their assignments.

Qualifications

1. Experience with Java or other object-oriented programming language.
2. Experience developing and maintaining secure, high-performance/high volume web applications.
3. Front end experience with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
4. Experience with Front end frameworks such as React, Vue or Angular.
5. Experience working with relational database systems such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle.

Additional Preferred Qualifications

1. Experience with Java open source frameworks such as Struts, Spring, JSF, or ICE Faces.
2. Experience writing and maintaining RESTful services.
3. Experience with serverless computing
4. Experience writing database SQL, Functions, Procedures and DDL.

Advantage Tech is searching for a Help Desk Support technician to join their client's team in Liberty, Mo.

Summary:

Responsible for providing technical assistance and support related to desktop and web based software. Installs software, responds to queries, isolates problem, and determines and implements solution.

Job Responsibilities:

• Provide helpdesk support and resolve problems to the end user’s satisfaction
• Monitor and respond quickly and effectively to requests received through the IT helpdesk
• Monitor Service Desk for tickets assigned to the queue and process first-in first-out based on priority
• Modify configurations, utilities, software default settings, etc. for the local workstation/server
• Utilize and maintain the helpdesk tracking software
• Document/follow internal procedures
• Assist with onboarding of new users
• Install, test and configure new workstation software
• Report issues to the Service Desk for escalation
• Perform timely workstation and server software upgrades as required
• Train new software users

Our Topeka client has a long term need for an Application Developer. They are open to junior to senior level candidates.

Primary responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Identify and document detailed requirements and specifications
• Design solutions that effectively implement requirements
• Develop, debug, and document program code that conforms to organizational standards
• Modify and document changes to existing applications
• Design and execute unit and integration tests for new or modified program code
• Configure application environments for the purposes of development, testing, or production use
• Provide support to users by responding to support requests by ticket, email, in person, and over the telephone
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues
• Provide updates to Applications Development and Support Manager and Project Managers on work in progress, estimated time of completion of tasks, and issues that may impact completion of tasks
• Research new technologies and development practices to make recommendations to management

• Familiarity with object oriented programming principles and practices
• Familiarity with the software development lifecycle
• Knowledge of Project Management tools (MS Project, Visio, MS Office, etc.) The Microsoft
• .NET Framework, up to version 4.7
• .NET Core, .NET 5
• Developing applications in C#
• ASP.NET MVC
• Automated unit testing and integration testing
• Microsoft SQL Server databases, including queries, views, and stored procedures
• REST API development

Our Topeka client has a long term project for an Integration Developer with at least 3+ years of experience.

Primary responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Identify and document detailed requirements and specifications
• Design solutions that effectively implement requirements
• Develop, debug, and document program code that conforms to organizational standards
• Modify and document changes to existing applications
• Design and execute unit and integration tests for new or modified program code
• Configure application environments for the purposes of development, testing, or production use
• Provide support to users by responding to support requests by ticket, email, in person, and over the telephone
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues
• Provide updates to Applications Development and Support Manager and Project Managers on work in progress, estimated time of completion of tasks, and issues that may impact completion of tasks
• Research new technologies and development practices to make recommendations to management

• Familiarity with object oriented programming principles and practices
• Familiarity with the software development lifecycle
• Knowledge of Project Management tools (MS Project, Visio, MS Office, etc.) The Microsoft
• .NET Framework, up to version 4.7
• .NET Core, .NET 5
• Developing applications in C#
• ASP.NET MVC
• Automated unit testing and integration testing
• Microsoft SQL Server databases, including queries, views, and stored procedures
• REST API development

Advantage Tech is looking for a Payments Production Support Specialist for our Kansas City, MO Client.  This can be a remote position for candidates outside of the KC metro. 

The Payments Production Support Team provides management, support and maintenance of the “Payments” ecosystem which includes wire transfers and the online banking system used by our commercial customers.  The team ensures the applications including their systems and processes are performing at peak capacity to avoid business disruption.

As a Payments Application Support Specialist, you will be a point of contact to resolve potential incidents relating to the Payments ecosystem.  You will coordinate the resolution with application teams, vendors, and various business units.  In addition, you will be monitoring the system to ensure its performance.  As you grow in technical expertise in one or more areas of specialization as well as leadership capabilities, your position and role within the team would advance and reflect this growth accordingly.

The Payments Production Support Team is a close-knit group of individuals that share a commitment to ensure our Payments ecosystem is performing at peak capacity.  We believe in fully supporting each other to achieve this goal.  Trust and open communication are the cornerstones of our team.

How you’ll spend your time:

• Provide technical support and maintenance of our Payments ecosystem.
• Monitor ticketing system and emails to determine specific action on incidents or requests.
• Troubleshoot, triage and resolve any incidents on production applications.
• Work closely with application teams, vendors and various business units to identify a solution to remediate the issue.
• Provide project delivery for our systems.

We’re excited to talk with you if:

• At least 3 years of experience in an application support role.
• Knowledge in implementation/support of packaged applications with components running under a variety of possible technologies such as:  Mainframe, Microsoft technologies, Java, web services, Oracle & SQL databases, Linux & Unix operating systems and MQ series.
• Technically proficient with IBM mainframe technologies and programming experience such as COBOL, VSAM data sets, JCL, Changeman, TSO/ISPF, Zeke, InSynch, Tracemaster, Dumpmaster and/or RDS.

Advantage Tech is looking for a Cloud and Automation Architect for our Kansas City, MO client.  This is a hybrid position for local candidates starting next year and can be 100% remote for candidates outside of the area. 

The Cloud Acceleration Team (CAT) was recently formed to enabled stream-aligned product teams to deliver product features to the business at a higher speed with reduced coordination.  The team empowers a cloud-native platform comprising a foundation of self-service APIs, tools, services, knowledge, support, organization structure, and operating model arranged as a compelling product.  This will provide operational support for the platform initially to enable accelerated feature delivery. 

As a Cloud & Automation Architect, you will be defining the public cloud-centric core infrastructure services and common design patterns for computing, storage, networking, and security domains.  You will also be developing and maintaining automation frameworks for platform provisioning.  You will serve as a thought leader and consensus builder with a technology-savvy mindset.  As a pragmatic, results-driven architect, you will be expected to articulate complex IT concepts to all audiences from technical contributors, internally and externally. 

The CAT team is a close-knit group of individuals coming from diverse backgrounds.? We share a strong commitment of providing solid, robust and dynamic cloud and automation environments and we believe in fully supporting each other to achieve this goal.? Trust and open communication are the cornerstones of how we roll, and we have plenty of fun while doing it!? Self-education, peer consultation, mentor guidance, and formal training/seminars are some of the methods that we share information and knowledge. 

How you’ll spend your time:  

• Building services to effective provision, install/configure public cloud infrastructure including networking, compute and storage patterns among various areas. 

• Partnering with application teams to design and to implement infrastructure-as-code stacks meeting needs of the applications. 

• Adopting Cloud native technologies to build and run scalable applications in public and hybrid clouds.  Features, for example, include containers, service meshes, microservices, immutable infrastructure, and declarative application programming interfaces (API’s). 

• Actively developing and supporting self-service catalogs for infrastructure provisioning and making them available to application teams. 

• Advise on all aspects of cloud infrastructure offerings and solution design. 

• Ensuring infrastructure provisioning automation satisfies IT general controls and solutions are deployed in a safe, secure, resilient, and compliant manner to adhere to regulatory requirements. 

• Providing hands-on technical coaching to accelerate cloud infrastructure learnings across the organization. 

• Providing thought leadership on creating solutions built with SAAS, PaaS, and IaaS components. 

• Providing accurate and current information on all AWS services and serve as a consultant to the CAT technical team to solve business use cases including estimates of costs for these cloud offerings. 

• Developing Disaster Recovery offerings for cloud-based solutions. 

We’re excited to talk with you if:  

• You have a Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field or equivalent combination of education and work experience. 

• You have at least 5 years of experience in DevOps or automation. 

• You have at least 5 years of experience with Infrastructure and Platform engineering for high availability and scalable architectures in the cloud. 

• You have at least 2 years of experience with architecture and deployment of Cloud Services. 

• You have at least 2 years of experience with Metrics, Events, Logging, and Tracing solutions (i.e. Splunk, Log Analytics, New Relic). 

• You are a certified AWS Solutions Architect Professional or AWS DevOps Engineer Professional.  Although this is not required, it is highly preferred. 

Our Lawrence client is seeking a talented and motivated individual to become an integral part of our IT team.  As the Jr. Developer, you will be working closely with our Sr. Developer to learn our application stack and drill in at a technical level to maintain and assist in building out code requirements.

In this role, you will not be siloed, in fact this position requires a person who is comfortable and wants to learn multiple disciplines.  Opportunities to learn a wide spectrum of technology should be desired. Some of those technologies include:

• Exposure to multiple languages:  RPG ILE, Java, C#, SQL
• Program, Database, and UI Design
• Middleware Integration
• IBM Power 8 system
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Windows Servers
• BI Solution
• Visual Studio and DevOps

Key Responsibilities

• Create/Update Program Documentation
• Learn development standards by instruction from our Sr. Developer
• Assist or own development efforts and participate in code review
• Understand our business solutions and each integration point to appropriately diagnose and expediently support our business users.
• Work alongside our Support Specialist to create training plans and documentation to guide the training sessions succinctly and within the allocated time window.
• Assist with system upgrades by engaging with vendors and services, creating and executing against a detailed project plan and conducting several iterations of testing before promoting changes to minimize impacts to end users.
• Participate in internal discussions to prioritize software enhancements and software projects.
• Adhere to current documentation methodologies and contributes to existing knowledgebase.
• Share thoughts openly with team in a constructive and conducive manner.
• Protect the organization’s value and integrity by keeping ALL company and personnel information strictly confidential.
• Field calls and resolve issues outside normal work hours should they occur.  No weekends.

Advantage Tech is looking for a QA for our Kansas City, MO client.  This person can live in Memphis, TN or Kansas City Metro areas.  Currently the client is remote and will maybe be a hybrid down the road. 

Duties and Responsibilities:

This is an exciting time to join our Client.  You will be entering at an exciting time.  They are at the ground level of a large initiative that will span for the next 3 to 4 years.  Our Client has a worldwide presence and great benefits.

Skills:

MINIMUM:

• 2 years Web API testing experience in a .net environment
• 5 years QA experience
• 2 years experience using SmartBear Ready API or Postman
• Ability to be self motivated
• Ability to communicate effectively with the API development team

Advantage Tech is searching for a Sr. Software Engineer/Project Manager to join their client's team in Liberty, Mo.

Summary:

Looking for an experienced software engineer interested in growing with a logistics focused tech company in the small business world, while having the experience to manage projects from an infancy stage to completion. We specialize in scoping, developing, and supporting cloud-based software designed for the supply chain industry.

Job Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with a small team to develop new software and/or support existing software
• Use Team Foundation Server to track changes made to code between users and work items
• Communicate via email or phone with coworkers and clients on projects
• Document processes and code changes for version releases
• Translate product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes
• Work with the Product team to define the scope included in a release
• Research and clarify details as the team develops the application
• Be aware of customer commitments and communicate timelines internally to assist with managing those commitments
• Work with the Agile team to prioritize the backlog
• Prioritize support work as needed
• Manage dependencies in and across sprints and releases
• Solid understanding of software development life cycle
• In-depth understanding of Agile methodologies, technical understanding of products, and up to date on industry standards and best practices
• Have a constant focus on solving user problems in the best way possible
• Strong knowledge of current industry trends and User Interface common practices
• Ability to influence cross-functional team without formal authority

Experience required:

• Visual Studio 2013+
• C#/VB .NET
• HTML/Javascript/CSS
• SQL
• 4+ years job experience
• Self-starter

Experience requested:

• MVC
• Web API
• Angular
• Crystal Reports
• Team Foundation Server

Advantage Tech is searching for an IT Customer Support Center Manager to join their clients team in the Kansas City Metro area.

Job Summary:

This Senior level IT Customer Service Center Manager is responsible for ensuring an outstanding level of customer services by providing direct IT support to employee’s activities and by supervising the Customer Service Center management staff. They will be responsible to own the communication to the business during business disruptions, provide continuous improvement initiatives and measure stability in the production environment.

Additionally, this role will work to find ways to engage with the business and other IT teams in a proactive planning and support way, as well as, working with the technical support staff to be flexible and adaptable in meeting the ongoing needs of the company. 

Position Responsibilities:

Advantage Tech is searching for a Cyber Security Analyst/Engineer to join their client's team in the Kansas City Metro area.

Position Summary 

The Cyber Security Analyst/Engineer is responsible for ensuring business systems, application and data assets are protected by actively monitoring, maintaining, and improving security constraints. The Cyber Security Analyst / Engineer should be well versed in business technology systems and will work closely with peers to ensure proper security constraints and procedures are in place for all current and future systems and applications.

The Cyber Security / Engineer champions a security mindset to all of the infrastructure environments and recognizes the value of security standards, policy and procedures in the IT environment. This position supports new security capabilities while assisting in security audits and assessments identifying vulnerabilities, remediation strategies, and effective safeguards.

The Cyber Security Analyst also supports incident response activities, analysis, risk remediation, attack mitigation, and post-incident reporting. 

Position Responsibilities: 

• Define patching processes and measure patching compliance for multiple platforms that ensure a secure environment (data center, end user and solution components). 

• Evaluates, coordinates vulnerabilities scanning and assesses the impact to the client’s environment. 

• Performs and coordinates risk remediation on any threats to the client’s environment. 
• Participating in internal and external audits as well as security assessments.  
• Collaboratively drives the development of an incident response plan and establishes roles and communication channels to facilitate rapid containment and controlled communications. 
• Establishes processes and metrics to measure the response and containment for security risk incidents 

• Technical support for security incidents and investigations 
• Champion of information security policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures 
• Monitors key security risk bulletins for threats to AWG and initiates action to obtain status and remediation plan for high-risk threats 
• Proactive hunting for risks, vulnerabilities, threats, and attacks. 
• A passion for leveraging the full value of existing security investments though regular review of vendor solution capability advancements and preparing recommendations/driving plans for adoption  
• Research, evaluation of security tools, hardware, and software acquisition 
• Provides technical expertise on security tools and how to implement solutions. 
• Drive the implementation of security tools and investments 
• Supports security awareness initiatives and enterprise-wide cyber security education 

Position Requirements: 

• Excellent writing skills to draft concise, comprehensive policies and procedures with experience leading Incident Response processes 

• A passion for identifying and helping teams close down security risks/gaps through patching, vulnerability/penetration scanning and remediation processes 
• Ability to communicate compliance through metrics and measures 
• Working knowledge of Windows, Linux, and Apple server/compute OS 
• Experience implementing single sign-on integrations with multi factor authentication  
• Working knowledge with various enterprise email and messaging platforms 

• Experience with various enterprise malware detection and removal tools 
• Ability to discuss confidential security incidents with all levels of management  
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and competing priorities 

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Position Qualifications: 

• 2+ years working with network infrastructure, including routers, switches, and firewalls. 
• 2+ years of cloud security management in Azure, AWS or GCP 
• Strong verbal and written communication and presentation skills 
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a technology related field 

Additional Qualifications / Bonus Experience:  

• Security incident response automation  
• Experience with Proofpoint email security administration and end user education, Cisco firewall administration and policy management best practices, or Duo multi factor authentication implementation 

• Proficiency with three or more of the following technologies: UTM firewalls, Web content filtering; Web application firewalls (WAF), Enterprise/Cloud networking 
• Working knowledge of virtualization platforms and application containerization 
• Experience supporting or implementation SSL, IPS, DLP and SIEM 

Advantage Tech is searching for a ServiceNow Developer to join their clients team in the Kansas City Metro area.

Position Summary:

Support the configuration and development of ServiceNow in a variety of areas including, but not limited to Service Portal, Change, Problem, Incident, Service Catalog, Knowledge, Release/SDLC, Configuration Management (CMDB), Project, Reporting, Resource Management, Test Management, and SLAs.

• Identify, create, and execute test cases for ServiceNow and other software platforms including the creation of ServiceNow Automated Test Framework functionality.
• Create estimations on effort required to produce ServiceNow functionality.
• Work with the team to execute customization of applications and API's.
• Participate and share knowledge, work in the context of a geographically dispersed, collaborative, team-based environment.
• Perform feature development within sprints to support company standards.
• Collaborate with team members to define, analyze, understand, and document business and technical requirements.
• Design and develop / configure workflows, forms, scripts, and underlying logic using Agile methodologies.
• Participate in and support ServiceNow version upgrades.
• Offer technical solutions to address requirements, evaluate alternate solutions, and perform analysis to determine technical courses of action.
• Lead (and organize) projects driving the design, creation, testing, and delivery of technical functionality.
• Create technical architecture, design, and user guide documentation.
• Work with end users, stakeholders, and management to define and create reports, dashboards, and data analysis products.
• Lead, author, and contribute to IT related, technical processes reviews, postmortems, and continual process improvement.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, and five (5) years of IT and software development experience.
• 5+ years of ServiceNow development/implementation/administrative experience including experience working with web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AngularJS, XML, SOAP).
• ITIL v3 or v4 certification.
• ServiceNow Certified Systems Administrator.
• 5+ years of experience working with ITSM/ITOM/ITBM solutions (any or all) in an enterprise environment.
• 3+ years of experience developing custom applications on the ServiceNow platform.
• 2 + years of experience developing and supporting the ServiceNow Service Portal
• Can produce level of estimates and basic deployment plans for ServiceNow functionality.
• Strong organization and time management skills.
• Excellent collaboration skills and can effectively works in a team environment.
• Understanding of IT service management and common service level agreement measurements.
• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Can identify, understand, document, and create functionality aligning with customer requirements.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• ServiceNow Certified Application Developer.
• Experience with Automation with PowerShell Scripting.
• Familiarity with Windows and Linux system administration.
• Excellent understanding of the Agile software testing process and lifecycle, from smoke test to integration to production deployment.
• Experience leading development and/or test teams.
• Able to identify and learn new technologies quickly.

Advantage Tech is searching for an AIX Specialist to join their clients team in the Kansas City Metro area.

We are looking for a person that is skilled in performing research, problem solving, trouble-shooting, and resolution of issues in the AIX server areas and Storage.

They will perform assigned tasks with limited assistance from other experienced staff. The job will require working with different technical products. Ideal candidates will have 8-10 years of experience working in an AIX/IBM environment.

Position Responsibilities:

Drive Continuous Improvement in the AIX environment (50%)

• Monitoring of server environments with open source tools and then the capabilities to provide improvements to the environment based on workload.
• Installing patches, upgrades and other related software in a AIX environment
• Improving the Disaster Recovery capabilities of the AIX environment between Data Centers
• Self motivated with the ability to learn new technologies and execute new skills
• Manage Live Partition Mobility (LPM) between multiple IBM PSeries servers.
• Manage Disk Storage allocation among servers.

Supporting a Production Environment and Assisting Teams on Requirements (50%)

• Troubleshooting technical server issues using logical problem solving techniques
• Assist with resolution of incident tickets.
• Assist project teams to understand compute and disk storage needs.

Preferred Skills:

• AIX, SAN, Storage, Backups, ILMT
• Storage-SAN: Brocade, (BNA), SAN/NAV, Infinidat, IBM V7k+, 5+ yrs, (Installations, Admin, Service, troubleshooting, migrations, upgrades)
• Backup Software: 5+ years experience, Actifio preferred, Backup and restoring experience, incremental, (Installations, Admin, Service, troubleshooting, migrations, upgrades)
• Ability to teach others on team, Virtualization experience, VIO, NIM, Performance Tuning, Monitoring, HMC enhanced+ Interface GUI, LPM, Scripting, Security.
• Team Lead: Ability to teach others, Ability to keep work on track for team and to delegate work, Help to balance work loads, Monitor Technology usage, trends and versions
• ILMT/BigFix: 3-5+ years experience of Administration and Monitoring of Software classifications, Cloud-pak, Fixlets and Tasks, PVU, VPC subcapacity is a plus

Position Requirements:

• 4 year degree and/or work experience. A combination of both is preferred
• Exposure to working with AIX Administration. 10 years experience is preferred.
• Experience with AIX installs and configuration
• Knowledge and experience with IBM pSeries hardware and firmware
• Knowledge of server administration processes
• Proven strong communication skills, both verbal and written
• Good analysis, problem-solving and solution skills
• Ability to develop and drive improvements
• Creation of small project plans and a structure to execute the plan until completion
• Strong team player with the ability to be proactive

Advantage Tech is seeking an Application Developer in our Kansas City, MO office.

The Application Developer will be responsible for automating and optimizing the client’s data extraction, transformation, loading, reporting and visualization processes. The Developer is also responsible for maintaining, configuring, and growing the capabilities of the client’s proprietary event tracking .js tag, which allows them to track website session data for our clients.

This individual must be resourceful, analytical and prepared to adapt strategies based on customer demand and dynamic priorities.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and continuously expand data pipelines by performing extraction, transformation, and loading activities
• Design, implement and continuously expand onsite event tracking capabilities
• Gather requirements and business process knowledge in order to transform data in a way that’s geared towards the needs of internal and external clients
• Assist in data visualization and reporting efforts as required by clients
• Maintain and improve already existing processes and database schema

• Ensure that the data architecture is scalable and maintainable
• Work with the business in designing and delivering correct, high quality data
• Investigate data to identify potential issues within ETL pipelines, notify end-users and propose adequate solutions
• Prepare documentation for further reference

Candidate Details:

• Quickly learn new tools by deconstructing how they work. Be able to create and expand capabilities of tools by re-configuring them to solve specific and novel use cases.
• Observe and understand repeatable and standardized manual processes in order to automate the processes themselves or the validation thereof.
• Employ strong interpersonal communication skills. Foster relationships with the client's team and maintain excellent relationships with partners.
• Work closely with clients and internal teams to ensure data is captured, transformed, enhanced and presented as efficiently as possible. Ensure key project goals are met and escalate any issues that could impact the project.

Technical Skills:

• Approximately 2-4 years of related industry experience
• SQL knowledge (query performance tuning, index maintenance, etc.) as well as an understanding of database structure
• Collaborative Filter Models
• Node.js (server side) and JavaScript (client side) fluency
• Knowledge of data modeling principles
• Organizational skills: time management and planning
• Working knowledge of AWS, GCP, and/or Google Cloud Platform and BiqQuery structure

• High attention to detail
• Passionate about complex data structures and problem solving
• Ability to pick up new data tools and concepts quickly

Advantage Tech is looking for a Collaboration Specialist for our Kansas City, MO client.  This is a hybrid role.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Duties & Responsibilities:

This position will lead in the execution and adoption of Company’s next generation collaboration technology program. The collaboration specialist will partner with different lines of business to understand our unique collaboration needs, offering consulting services to enhance existing in place toolsets and/or identify new tools if applicable, while pioneering the introduction and adoption of these tools as needed. This role will be responsible for a white gloved approached with our executive staff and admins, ensuring ease of use with our collaboration toolsets. In this role you will be involved in developing communication and detailed training plans / guides to support and champion adoption. Act as a subject matter expert and provide exceptional support of  collaboration tools including WebEx, Jabber, Microsoft O365 Teams, AppSpace, AV Endpoints and/or any future identifiable collaboration tools. Will work closely with management while developing programs and policies that advance an effective and secure use of collaboration tools across the footprint while monitoring & reporting on user adoption and efficiency gains. Identify, document, and communicate tool standards while governing tool integration policies to meet  internal security, compliance & legal standards to the user community. Appropriately report on the status of collaboration platforms with detailed analytics. Partner with lines of business owners to better leverage our tools, collect data and requirements to successfully implement new workflows, integrations, bots, connectors, and automation that will enhance the experience and efficiency of associates. Prioritize production issues to ensure resolution to meet operational SLAs.

Other duties include:

• Responsible for the implementation of next generation collaboration tools
• Create and continuously update user documentation and collaboration home pages
• Drive adoption techniques so that all associates can become more collaborative and contribute at their highest possible levels, through the use of our technology.
• Drive consultations with business partners to understand business practices and make recommendations for solutions that meet their needs.
• Be the Collaboration SME on the latest innovations and applications of collaboration-based solutions, identify practical and impactful applications for usage.
• Be the recognizable training resource to individuals and teams on collaboration technology as it relates to the business partner's needs
• Responsible for Feature Reviews, Application Versioning Control, configuration. Communicate out new features and functionality, through change controls and user communication training.
• Own the application governance policies for integrations into collaboration tools. Reviewing incoming requests, meeting corporate security & compliance requirements.
• Manage of day to day channel support and ticket requests for user and/or platform related issues.
• Be the point of contact for executive level support for collaboration tools.
• Identify automation opportunities to enhance company experience.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills:

MINIMUM:

• Fundamental understanding of collaboration tools and platforms and industry roadmaps
• Significant understanding of chat-based messaging systems and proven experience introducing new workflows improving user experiences.
• Advanced Knowledge with PC operating system
• Strong analytical thinking and program management skills
• Ability to cultivate and foster adoption of technology across all levels of associates
• Outstanding interpersonal, communication, and writing skills.
• Attention to detail and quality of output
• Ability to work independently, collaboratively and with minimal oversight, effectively managing all communication channels and notifications
• Ability to work outside of normal hours of operations in change control and on call scenarios.
• Ability to perform in a fast paced and complex environment

PREFERRED:

• Experience managing and implementing multiple UC&C collaboration tools (Microsoft / Cisco)

• Understanding of Cisco and Polycom Collaboration based endpoints
• Working knowledge of Cisco WebEx and/or Microsoft O365 Teams

Requirements:

MINIMUM:

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Microsoft Teams Adm. or CCNA collaboration certification
• 5 years’ experience supporting with full suite collaboration tools including: Voice, Video, Messaging, API development / integrations.

PREFERRED:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science
• ITIL Foundation Certification

Advantage Tech is looking for a Front End Web Developer for our Lee’s Summit Client.  This can be a 100% remote position.

Skills:

• Develop software interfaces comprised of components and features with a focus on usability
• Work as part of an Agile team, following established standards
• Provide industry insight on Front End Development best practices
• Update existing and create new components to meet strict ADA compliance rules
• Work closely with UX Designers on complying with ADA requirements
• Work with Sr. Front End Developers to quickly prototype layouts and functionality concerns with Stakeholders
• Architect and design client-side build systems/packages for future use cases
• Document and maintain development guidelines for GEHA's Design System
• Create necessary documents for application release cycles (Change Requests, Pull Requests)
• May use the following tools/languages to accomplish tasks:

o MS VisualStudio / VisualStudio Code

o Javascript / Typescript

o Knockout JS

o Sitecore JSS (React, Vue or Angular)

o NPM, YARN

o HTML

o CSS/SCSS/Sass (BEM)

o Sitecore WCMS

o MS Office tools

o Azure DevOps

o Prototyping tools like "Adobe XD and Figma"

Review Business Requirements Documentation, Technical Design Documentation and participate in peer review cycles with technical & non-technical counterparts.

Requirements:

• Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems or Systems Engineering is preferred.
• Requires four – six years of experience in Responsive Web Development, Bootstrap v4 as well as custom layouts and components
• Additional years of qualifying work experience may be considered in lieu of formal education
• Requires working knowledge of network operating systems.
• Works under minimal supervision with wide latitude for independent judgement.
• Requires experience managing third party resources.
• Requires understanding of end-user needs and requirements.
• Requires knowledge of relational database design.
• Requires effective communication and presentation skills.
• Must have ability to effectively maintain focus and productivity while working on multiple projects simultaneously with minimal supervision and guidance

Preferred:

• Prefer having completed one or more current certifications related to software development. Prefer Microsoft Certified Developer certification or equivalent.
• Prefer experience working with Sitecore JSS (React, Vue or Angular)

Advantage Tech is looking for Senior Software Engineers for our client that is been named one of the best companies to work for.  This can be a 100% remote position. 

Responsibilities:

Participate in any and potentially all roles of the systems development life cycle. Roles may vary by project and assignment. This may include, but not limited to:

• Develop, plan and/or maintain software applications and/or systems; debug, design, code, test, write specifications, roll-out software, and production support
• Technical services; software, hardware and network architecture design and maintenance; security operations
• Accurate work planning and execution; accurate project and time tracking
• Responsible for the development of less experienced co workers; mentor and teach
• Responsible for defining code specifications and how systems will be constructed
• Conduct code reviews

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field required
• Minimum of 8 – 10 years of hands-on experience designing, architecting and delivering software solutions in Java
• Solid knowledge of Solr
• GCP – Google Cloud enterprise experience
• Lucidworks for Web and mobile SAAS 
• Python scripting
• Technical skills may include experience with one or more of: UNIX, Linux, Java
• Experience with all aspects of Java, Spring framework, Spring Boot, etc.
• Advanced problem-solving, domain technical and analytical skills
• Advanced expertise in at least one technical area. Subject matter expertise in more than one functional area
• Teaching, coaching and mentoring
• Advanced system estimation, planning and execution skills
• Often provides technical supervision to others
• Scope typically across more than one functional area or system; this is an advanced level position

Our KCMO is looking to add an Experienced to Senior Scrum Master to their team! This is a highly challenging role focused on collaborating with various business stakeholders and technical team members to identify desired business outcomes through collaboration, agility, and adaptability. This key role will be responsible for upholding agile practices and behaviors as the Scrum Master on projects and programs in partnership with other Scrum Masters, the Development Team, the Product Owner, and Project Leadership.

Key Activities:

• Enacts Scrum principles and methodologies as the Scrum Master (SM) on projects and programs in partnership with other SMs, the Development Team, the Product Owner, and Project Leadership.
  • Ensures adherence to Agile/Scrum values, principles, and practices.
  • Identifies dependencies, manages conflicts, and drives success of individual sprints, as well as the overall project.
  • Ensures that the team is fully functional and productive by building and maintaining the product road map and release plan based on the priorities set by the Product Owner and input from the team.
  • Directs the work of project team members and guides team in prioritizing work based upon knowledge of customer requirements, project schedule, and various dependencies.
  • Addresses and escalates issues, impediments, and roadblocks and proposes solutions.
  • Communicates regularly with necessary stakeholders.
  • Facilitates and/or ensures Agile ceremonies are conducted and embraced in order to drive agile development; secures agile team working agreements.

• Works with the Product Owner to ensure that goals, scope, and product domain are understood and practiced.
  • Ensures the team understands the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items.
  • Finds techniques for effective Product Backlog management by leading the team through long-term roadmap exercises, forecasting long-term project deliverables.
  • Ensures the Product Owner knows how to arrange the Product Backlog to maximize value. Leads and coaches the organization in Agile/Scrum.
  • Plans Scrum implementations within the organization.
  • Assists employees and stakeholders with implementing Agile/Scrum and empirical product development.
  • Leads change that increases the productivity of the team and ensures delivery of valuable products.

Our Overland Park client is looking for a Project Manager to join their team and assist with HCM/Finance related projects. Responsible for planning, scheduling, and coordinating complex business and IT projects. Deliver these projects within quality, time and budget constraints and appropriately manage any associated risks. Duties include budgeting, identifying resources and coordinating the efforts of cross-functional team
members as well as third-party contractors or consultants to deliver projects according to plan.
 

Job Responsibilities

• Provide project management leadership for strategic initiatives as assigned, including the development of project plans and coordination of project team activities.
• Provide coordination between multiple technical and business teams including DBAs, Server Administrators, Architects, Infrastructure Analysts, Developers, Operations Analysts, Project Managers and business contacts.
• Utilize accepted project management techniques to develop and maintain project plans and
  manage project quality.
• Manage complex development projects using the Agile Scrum methodology.
• Prepare project planning documents including charter, schedule, and testing plans.
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion, including creation of reports and presentations to senior management.
• Manage project budgets and authorizations for expenditures.
• Complete projects on time and within budget guidelines to achieve company and project objectives.
• Translate technical details for people with varied levels of knowledge.
• Proactively manage changes in project scope, identifies potential risks, manages issues and devises mitigation and contingency plans.
• Define process success criteria with product owner.
• Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project team members.
• May manage relationships with external suppliers at a project or program level.
   

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer information systems or related area.
• Five (5) years’ experience leading complex Information Technology projects.
• Experience developing and delivering processes pertaining to managing information technology projects, compliance reporting, process auditing and reporting capabilities.
• Strong analytical skills and proven ability to transform learning and insight into actionable plans.
• Excellence at organization and coordination with ability to successfully manage multiple,
  concurrent projects and communications across multiple teams.
• Self-driven leader and proactive team player.
• Effective facilitation and coaching skills – ability to facilitate agreement across functional teams to deliver an overall business solution.

Excellent interpersonal skills to build positive working relationships across groups and all
management levels.

Our Overland Park client is looking for a Sr Salesforce Technical Architect to help their team on a current project. They are open to remote candidates. 

Roles and Responsibilities:
As a Salesforce Technical Architect, you will be responsible for owning and delivering complex cloud-based solutions using Salesforce technologies. The candidate will be responsible for owning the architecture and design of complex solution components (e.g., integration, security, custom development). The candidate must demonstrate strong leadership skills in all stages of the software development life cycle.
The candidate will own reviewing design elements and signing off on the overall technical design. The candidate will be responsible for ensuring that the system accurately meets the defined expectations of the business, ensuring that proper testing is implemented, and performance and security requirements are closely monitored by working with the project teams. The candidate must also be able to identify and confirm technical design risks and develop mitigating approaches. The candidate must also have experience providing level of effort estimates for technical portion of solutions.

Key Responsibilities Include:
• Experience in designing and developing software components
• End to end implementation experience with the SFDC platform
• Ability to lead design sessions and communicate design options
• Strong experience with configuration, customization, programming with APEX APIs, APEX Triggers, Web based technologies (Soap, Rest)
• Additional Salesforce.com experience includes Workflow Alerts and Actions, and Approval Workflow
• Knowledge of options and how to handle security requirements such as single sign on and data security
• Experience with Release Management, Source Control, and Deployment concepts and technologies such as Copado, SFDC Metadata API
• Ability to define the system landscape, to identify gaps between current and desired end-states and deliver a solution
• Experience in Sales, Service, Marketing and Experience clouds with a focus of cross-cloud solutions

Qualifications Required Skills and Experience
• At least 5 years’ experience in Architecture role – SFDC or other CRM architecture experience a plus
• At least 5 years’ experience with Integration technologies
• Working knowledge of security concepts such as single sign on and data security
• At least 5 years’ experience in Agile, Scrum and Waterfall methods
• Salesforce Developer and Architect Certifications a plus
• Strong Communication Skills
• Excellent Analytical skills and time management
• Bachelor’s Degree
• Willingness to travel

Small Business Account Manager

Located in our Overland Park office, Small Business Account Managers (SBAM) are responsible for the success of a portfolio of small business customer accounts.  The position is key to ensuring our customers’ success by developing and executing strategies to drive move ins and improve the conversion rate of referred leads.   The SBAM will be evaluated by the performance of their individual portfolio on a quarterly basis.

The SBAM tracks and analyzes results for their account portfolio and communicates those results out to their accounts – offering insights into and suggestions for increasing move ins and driving revenue.   The SBAM is responsible for developing strong and productive relationships at all levels of the organization from C-level executives to the field sales team.

The SBAM works closely with client's Regional Managers, as these managers are responsible for supportive and successful partner relationships in their regions at the local community level. The SBAM also works with the Regional Managers to resolve any invoices that are disputed by a partner. In addition, the SBAM will utilize the resources of the national team of Customer Success Managers and Customer Acquisitions Managers to help implement and promote region- and/or partner-specific strategies. 

Who you are:

The ideal candidate is both a sales person AND an account manager who is highly competitive, results oriented and dedicated to working with our customer organizations to grow revenue.  He/she is an excellent communicator – both verbal and written – and has tremendous analytical and follow up skills.

Responsibilities

What you will do:

• Manage a portfolio of customers with annual revenue between $7-10 million
• Implement proven sales programs and strategies designed to increase customer move ins and conversion rates
• Analyze monthly results and communicate directly with customer organizations those results

• Utilize video conferencing to conduct business review meetings and lead/tour reviews
• Assists with maintaining the database of all multi-property senior living companies and takes actions to ensure that their entire portfolio of communities is on the A Place for Mom Referral service. Follows acquisitions within the industry and ensures that any “transition properties” remain customers of our client 
• Assists with the organization and delivery of regular, customer-appropriate New Team Member orientation webinars, ensuring that these new Team Members understand the client and how to effectively convert our leads.  
• Promotes the adoption and consistent use of our customer tools:
  • Community Central (a free, 24/7 online reporting and lead tracking service).
  • Real Time Tour Feedback
  • Secret Shop Service
• Ensures retention of current customers.
• Helps to resolve invoice disputes in a fair and equitable manner, communicating those results to customers in a supportive and positive manner.
• Keeps in excellent communication with Senior National Account Manager, and prepares reports of weekly accomplishments and achievement of goals.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Competencies:

• 5+ years of experience in account management and/or senior living sales management
• Bachelor’s degree required
• A personal sense of urgency and capacity to overcome obstacles.
• A high level of enthusiasm for building a business.
• Ability to prioritize multiple responsibilities/projects.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• An excellent problem solver.
• Highly organized.
• Comfortable with data tracking, analysis and CRM tools.
• Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel and PowerPoint 

Under supervision from the Liability Manager and in accordance with Bank financial policies, regulations and strategies in place and amended from time to time, primarily responsible for the issuance and management of the Bank’s short-term liability portfolio, including short-term consolidated obligation bonds and discount notes. Independently and primarily responsible for maintaining adequate levels of liquidity to meet member needs and satisfy funding, liquidity, capital and funding gap requirements defined by statute, by regulation, by the FHFA and by internal policy. Assists with the development, implementation and execution of funding and liquidity risk strategies which includes the issuance of consolidated obligation bonds and discount notes and execution of derivatives, and corresponding reporting. Also responsible for monitoring and managing internal compliance responsibilities/policies and developing and implementing strategic improvements to Capital Markets processes, procedures and strategies. Duties also include execution of derivatives and other financial instruments, as applicable. Serves as back-up to the Long-Term Funding & Derivative Manager which includes the issuance of Consolidated Obligation Bonds and execution of derivatives. Also serves as a secondary back-up to the Short-Term Investment Manager.

Responsibilities:

• • • • Primarily responsible for managing the Bank’s liquidity and liquidity risk management. Maintaining optimal liquidity for our members is a core mission of the Bank and a primary regulatory focus area of the FHFA.  This position is responsible for maintaining optimal levels of liquidity to meet the liquidity requirements we are held to in statute, in regulation, by the FHFA and in policy and to ensure the Bank always has sufficient liquidity to meet the advance and mortgage purchase needs of our members and meet our financial obligations. This position has input on the strategies and funding instruments used to meet our liquidity requirements and meet member needs which can include issuance of consolidated obligation bonds and discount notes and execution of derivatives. These decisions have significant impacts on the levels and cost of liquidity which can significantly impact the overall liquidity and profitability profile of the Bank. This position is also responsible for analyzing the impact of liquidity requirements and developing and implementing strategies and plans to optimally satisfy the applicable requirements.
      • This position is also primarily responsible for the development, maintenance and testing of a bank-wide Contingency Funding Plan as required by policy and the FHFA. This also includes executing the plan and directing the actions of several departments in the Bank in the event of a liquidity challenge or crisis.
      • Primarily responsible for developing and executing strategies and for meeting FHFA funding gap requirements. This position has input on the strategies and funding instruments used to meet our funding gap requirements targets which can include issuance of consolidated obligation bonds and discount notes, execution of derivatives, investment selection and the selection of investment accounting designations. These decisions have significant impacts on regulatory compliance, compliance reviews, and the overall liquidity, funding and profitability profile of the Bank.
      • Primarily responsible for the issuance and management of the Bank’s short-term liability portfolio, including consolidated obligation bonds and discount notes. This position owns discretion in the specific financial instruments and terms of these instruments in this portfolio. Because of the size of this portfolio, skillful management and strategic planning of this portfolio have a significant impact on the profitability, risk management and liquidity of the entire Bank.
      • This position also manages the size of the balance sheet to optimize our core mission asset and capital ratios and to allow for full flexibility in the redemption of member capital stock both of which impact profitability and capital adequacy. Specific responsibilities include daily issuance and monitoring of Bank Discount Notes and corresponding reporting and analysis. Involves issuing short-term liabilities to achieve and balance profitability, capital, liquidity and core mission ratio targets.
      • Management and execution of internal compliance responsibilities, policies and processes. This includes the managing, if applicable, developing improvements and ensuring compliance to applicable RACAs, SOX documentation, EUAs, business continuity, record retention and other internal policies.
      • Management and execution of external compliance responsibilities, regulations and guidelines relating to funding, liquidity, capital, core mission asset and daily balance sheet management. This includes developing improvements, strategies and solutions to ensure compliance to statutes, regulations, guidelines and requirements from Congress, FHFA, CFTC, SEC, and external auditors.
      • Assists in developing, presenting, executing and monitoring  funding and liquidity risk management strategies and corresponding reporting. This includes presenting such strategies to senior management and management committees, including the Asset Liability Committee (ALCO).
      • Developing and implementing strategic, technological and procedural improvements to Capital Market’s funding, liquidity and compliance processes and strategies.
      • Maintains a broad and detailed knowledge of financial markets, financial instruments and market conditions in order to efficiently execute liability and derivative transactions and manage liquidity risk.
      • Maintain and manage short-term liability counterparty and underwriter relationships.
      • Assist Liability Manager and the Long-Term Funding & Derivative Manager in ensuring compliance with external regulations relating to long-term funding and derivatives including, but not limited to, regulations and requirements from the FHFA, CFTC and SEC.
      • Consistent with the requirements of the Minority and Women Inclusion Program, engage in appropriate outreach with diverse-owned vendors, broker dealers, counterparties.
      • Serves as a back-up to the Long-Term Funding & Derivative Manager with long-term liability and related derivative portfolio transactions and assists the Long-Term Funding & Derivative Manager in backing up the Liability Manager. This includes the issuance of consolidated obligation bonds and execution of derivatives.

Expectations:

1. Thorough understanding of finance and financial analysis concepts and strategies. Specifically, gain expertise in funding and liquidity markets.
2. Thorough understanding of internal procedures and both internal and external controls and compliance policies, rules and regulations that impact Capital Markets.
3. Have no violations to FHFA regulations and guidelines or Bank policies related to short-term liability or liquidity transactions.
4. Have no material weaknesses cited by the FHFA examiners in connection with the short-term funding or liquidity risk management.
5. Timely, efficient, precise and consistent execution of Capital Markets funding, liquidity risk and capital management strategies, related derivatives and corresponding reporting. Constant monitoring and meeting funding and liquidity needs accurately and in the most optimal manner possible.
6. Produce accurate and timely reports for Capital Markets management, the board of directors and Asset/liability Committee.
7. Timely compliance with internal and external controls and policies, rules and regulations that impact Capital Markets-Funding.
8. Timely, efficient, precise and consistent execution of Capital Markets long-term funding and related derivative strategies and corresponding reporting as a back-up to the Long-Term Funding & Derivative Manager.
9. Inquisitive approach to analysis-look for the "why" and not just stating "what" happened. Protect business records created or used in business processes to ensure availability, confidentiality, integrity; and the retention and destruction of such as specified by relevant policies.
10. Assist Bank on achieving equity return targets within financial strategies and acceptable risk profile.
11. Protect business records created or used in business processes to ensure availability, confidentiality, integrity and the retention and destruction of such as specified by relevant policies.
12. Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously, ability to solve problems, memory for details, ability to prioritize, and ability to maintain concentrated mental and visual attention for sustained periods.
13. Demonstrates a commitment to diversity and inclusion (D&I) by taking actions that are consistent with Bank’s D&I program. Provides reporting to the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion (OMWI), as needed, as well as partners with OMWI to implement effective policies and procedures that incorporate D&I into business activities.

Knowledge and Skills:

Experience:                      Three to five years of similar or related experience.

Education:                       Bachelor’s degree.

Interpersonal Skills:        Courtesy, tact, and diplomacy are essential elements of the job. Work involves much personal contact with others inside and/or outside the organization for purposes of giving or obtaining information, building relationships, or soliciting cooperation.

Other Skills:

1. Four-year college degree in finance, economics, or business.
2. Master’s degree or professional certification is preferred.
3. Three to five years of similar or related experience.
4. Thorough knowledge of financial markets, including money markets, hedging techniques, money market instruments, bond and derivative markets and products.
5. Knowledge of SFAS 133, Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities.
6. Advanced financial modeling experience (Excel, Visual Basic, Bloomberg, etc)
7. Considerable tact and good interpersonal skills.
8. Ability to analyze information and make decisions not defined by policy or procedures which affect the Bank's funding and liquidity.
9. Must be able to work and travel independently.
10. Strong written and oral communication and presentation skills.

Looking for an IT Auditor to perform individual information technology audit projects and Sarbanes-Oxley testing as part of the total internal audit plan. This responsibility includes developing internal audit scope, developing and performing internal audit procedures and preparing internal audit reports reflecting the results of the work performed. Audit procedures assigned are of moderate complexity and require the exercise of professional judgment. This position assists with process improvement initiatives, follows up on the status of outstanding issues, assists the external auditors, and works on special projects as assigned by internal audit management. This position assists with maintenance of departmental computer hardware and software and with financial and operational audits.

Responsibilities:

• Performs audit procedures to review and appraise general information technology and application controls.
• Analyzes and documents the audit area by reviewing existing documentation or developing documentation, such as detailed narratives and flow charts, applicable policies and procedures, business unit risk assessments, etc.
• Communicates internal audit results to management and the Audit Committee of the board of directors through meetings and internal audit reports.
• Perform assigned financial and performance audit procedures.
• Develop and maintain databases and software to support departmental activities including a comprehensive data processing audit program.

Expectations:

• Complete assigned audit procedures and Sarbanes-Oxley testing in a timely manner.
• Understand and document key internal controls, including the ability to discern strengths and weaknesses.
• Develop a working knowledge of the information technology environment and the ability to develop a clear understanding of the key functional processes and resources.
• Maintain professional and courteous relationships with auditees and others.
• Communicate effectively in writing (e-mails, memos and audit reports), and in verbal communications (meetings with auditees and others).
• Demonstrate awareness of the need for constant process improvement and be willing to identify, offer suggestions for improvement, and actively participate in their implementation.
• Protect business records created or used in business processes to ensure availability, confidentiality, integrity; and the retention and destruction of such as specified by relevant policies.

Advantage Tech is looking for a Quality Control Support candidate for our Overland Park, KS Client.  This position is in office.  Not remote.  

The QC Technician position will be a key contributor within the organization and has the opportunity to directly support our business vision.  We desires associates who want to be part of something bigger than themselves, who possess a positive attitude and who are tenacious about overcoming obstacles encountered.

We are looking for someone who is excited about improving technologies and avoiding future problems.  This entry level position requires good analytical skills, attention to detail, and a basic understanding of systems and software.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Work within the context of a Scrum team to recreate issues and to resolve software quality issues that arise in day-to-day operations.
• Conduct daily reviews of production artifacts to ensure quality and identify production issues.
• Maintain customer confidence and protect business operations by providing proactive resolution to errors.
• Manage issue triage process to track and resolve production issues.
• Provide help desk support for end users for a variety of systems.
• Participate in software deployment by testing and logging issues.
• Provide backup support to software system administrators.
• Maintain system procedure and support documentation as needed.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

• 1-3 years of experience in an IT department or related field. Bachelor's Degree is a plus.
• Excellent communication skills required.
• Strong time management, initiative and interpersonal skills.
• Experience with Microsoft Office365 Suite including Excel and Word.
• Experience in planning and performing functional testing is a plus.
• Experience within the insurance and brokerage industry is a plus. 
• Some off-shift support may be required.

OTHER SKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS:

• Provides customer service and adheres to the Company's philosophies. 
• Promotes teamwork and communication between departments and work groups.
• Ability to learn new systems and concepts quickly, building a strong repertoire of business and technical knowledge.
• Maintains awareness of new system procedures, processes, software capabilities and other technological advances with potential impact.

Advantage Tech is looking for a Software Developer for our Overland Park, KS client.  This position is in office full time for the first month then it is a hybrid model with 3 days in the office and 2 days remote.  
 

This position is a key contributor within the organization and has the opportunity to directly enable our business vision to build out a robust cloud-based services platform that makes it easy to integrate carriers, brokers, and third parties enable a seamless buying experience. 
We desire Associates who want to be part of something bigger than themselves, who possess a positive attitude and who are tenacious about overcoming obstacles encountered. We seek an associate whose mind and skills are strong, and someone with a commitment to continuous learning and experimentation to keep them that way.  This role also requires the ability to communicate and collaborate clearly with internal resources as well as third party contributors from outside the company. 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Collaborate with various functional teams and must be able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical associates
• Support the technical design process by participating in the analysis of technical application requirements, ensuring product/project requirements are satisfied
• Code and test of program modules, assisting in design when required
• Write clean, scalable code using .NET and Javascript programming languages 
• Document software for the purpose of maintainability, revising processes and procedures as needed
• Adhere to coding best-practices and software design principles, while maintaining corporate data integrity, reliability, and security
• Research, propose, and develop new features to increase product performance
• Learn user functions, business processes, and organizational roles as required
• Maintain awareness of new technologies and their role and/or potential within the corporate Information Technology infrastructure
• Establish and maintain relationships and interfaces with clients, consultants, and other third-party vendors

QUALIFICATIONS:
Required

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field, or relevant combination of experience and education
• 4+ years .NET (C#) programming experience – includes strong understanding of object-oriented programming principles
• Familiar with latest UI frameworks such as React or Angular, with the ability to perform maintenance tasks on Javascript UIs
• Familiar with various design and architectural patterns
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong desire to learn new technologies and strive to constantly improve personal skills
• Experience with Service Oriented Architecture, including building and integrating RESTful web services using Web API
• Exceptional ability to troubleshoot (debug) software and hardware issues 
• ADO.NET and/or Entity Relational Modeling including SQL Server database design and implementation experience, Transact SQL (T-SQL), Views, Object-Relational Mapping tools, and Stored Procedures
• Experience with the following tools and technologies:
  • Visual Studio .NET 2015+, .NET Framework 4.5+
  • Web Application Development 
    • ASP.NET/MVC
    • Javascript UI frameworks (preferably ReactJS or AngularJS)
• Experience with GIT, TFS, or other version control solutions
• Ability to create and modify unit tests relevant to solution being developed
• Recognize security needs for applications and apply security best practices

Highly Desirable

• Experience developing in a cloud-based environment (preferably Microsoft Azure)
• Knowledge of Scrum or other Agile methodologies
• Ability to analyze web application performance and recommend improvements

Advantage Tech is looking for a Systems Engineer to join their client's team in Lee's Summit, Mo.

Basic Function and Scope of Responsibility: 

Our Windows Infrastructure role provides support and maintenance of our Microsoft products (i.e. Windows, Office 365, Active Directory, including Azure, MS Endpoint Manager, widely used across the client's enterprise. They ensure these applications and services are performing at peak capacity to avoid any business disruption.

As a Systems Engineer, you will be supporting our Windows server environment used across the client's enterprise. As you grow in technical expertise in one or more areas of specialization your position and role within the team would advance and reflect this growth accordingly.

Our team is a close-knit group of systems engineers with a shared commitment to optimize our laboratory products. Through constant collaboration, we believe in fully supporting each other to achieve this goal. Self-education, peer consultation, mentor guidance, and formal training/seminars are some of the methods that we share information and knowledge.

Essential Job Duties:

• Routinely work with vendors, project managers, technical team members, and end users to maintain and improve performance of the Windows server and Active Directory environments.
• Provide support for implementation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of Windows Server 2016/2019, Active Directory, and Azure Active Directory (AD) services.

Qualifications

Essential Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in an IT infrastructure environment.
• Minimum 5 years of experience of Windows Server and Active Directory.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in Azure AD.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in Microsoft Endpoint (SCCM) Manager
• Minimum 2 years of Azure or AWS cloud experience.
• Intermediate knowledge of PowerShell, including ability to read and write PowerShell functions and modules
• Intermediate understanding of TCP/IP networking (DNS, DHCP, VPN, VLANs, firewalls, load balancing, SMTP, etc.)
• Customer interface skills including problem solving, conflict resolution, and team building
• Strong self-management skills, including organization, time management, and prioritization
• Strong analytical ability, including capacity planning, operations methodology, and error detection and resolution techniques
• Practical experience with system documentation tools and methods
• Analytical and process-oriented approach to issues and assigned tasks
• Committed to customer service and performance driven

Advantage Tech is searching for a Systems Administrator to join their client's team in Kansas City, Mo.

Job Description:

This IT Consulting firm in the Greater Kansas City area is looking for a Field Systems Administrator.

This position would involve servicing servers, workstations, backups, internet connections, and all IT products at numerous customers facilities, and quite often work with larger scale projects. These projects include server and workstation installs, network reconfigurations, and major software upgrades.

The breadth of a typical server install is often from the building of a server, the load of OS and software, and the implementation on-site. This implementation could be a migration from one environment to another or an addition into an existing environment. Many of the server operating systems they work with are primarily Windows based; Microsoft Certification not required.

The client base varies widely from a peer to peer network to clients with multiple servers and an on-site IT staff that utilize the client for large projects and to supplement every day IT issues. The exposure to a wide range of technologies and services that are used in a broad customer base keeps the company and its employees on the cutting edge.

This position will also contribute to client requests for hardware changes and reconfigurations. These include Cisco routers and firewalls, Sonicwall devices, FortiGate routers, etc. This can be from unpacking the devices and configuring them for the client environment including VPN's (Pt to Pt and client) to reconfiguring on-site devices to accommodate an ISP change, etc.

Specific job skills/experience preferred:

• Active Directory configuration and troubleshooting * Client/Server anti-virus solutions * Ability to construct and configure hardware components for server and workstation builds * Other server backup & disaster recovery appliance solutions * Installation / troubleshooting routers * VPN and firewall configurations * Troubleshoot and resolve server hardware issues * Troubleshoot client-side issues such as SMTP, virus and spyware/malware * Ability to install various 3rd party products in a server environment * Server migration and conversions * Phone skills for occasional support of remote issues * MS Exchange 2010/2007 and higher including Spam prevention * Installation/troubleshooting IIS 5.0 and higher * Symantec-specific software products

The ideal candidate would have a minimum of 5 years working experience in IT and be highly skilled with multiple client server environments.

Skills:
Knowledge: All Microsoft Server and Workstation Operating Systems, Microsoft Applications, Routers

Ability to travel up to 40 miles from home, lift minimum of 50 pounds and perform duties within a variety of work environments. Candidate must pass a security background check.

Advantage Tech is looking for a Manager of Claims Applications for our Lee's Summit, MO Client.  

The Manager, Claims Applications – Development & Engineering will have responsibility for the development team that supports the FACETS claims application and the entire claims ecosystem, including our claims processing software, claims editing software, and core workflow application. This role will work directly with key business partners to meet their needs with the suite of technologies as well as work closely with the system analysis and configuration team. The work group will have multiple functional projects being performed. Supervision required is unique and personalized for each person with separate projects/work being performed. Responsible for developing, modifying and implementing policies and procedures within area of responsibility.

SKILLS

• Work is planned in the mid-range time horizon and is focused on establishing policy and procedures for own work group or for other work groups as it relates to responsibility.
• Responsible for employee selection, performance and disciplinary decisions and may help may lower level management hiring decisions.
• Makes decisions on work processes and priorities for functional area. Project success/Work decisions measured on major project milestone.
• Establishes, and is accountable for, functional policies, processes and objectives for department.
• Work includes influencing other department management on issues where guidelines or general understanding of company positioning already exists (e.g., negotiating with vendors, standard contact with outside professionals or dealing with regulatory agencies on routine matters)
• May negotiate with vendors on contracts terms.
• Manage a group who has unique projects that are not similar in nature and supervision requires more personalization of guidance and goals for each team member.
• Responsibility for for custom development related to Core Claims systems, including extensions, adapters, etc. TriZetto/Cognizant FACETS
• Adheres to company's values and cultivates these values in team members.
• Works collaboratively with peers in IT to deliver a seamless experience and presence to the business partners supported.
• Regularly interacts with internal customers to understand the business needs and provide application recommendations based on business needs. Cultivates this approach with the team.
• Regularly reviews current customizations for improvement and enhancement opportunities.
• Remains up-to-date on current software supported as well as new software that may support internal business customer needs.
• Works closely with the system analysis and configuration team along with the Program Manager & Solution Architect to define business and technical roadmaps for the applications.

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree (120 credit hours) from an accredited college/university in discipline to be managed.
• Additional relevant experience may be considered in lieu of education.

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

• Requires three – five years of managerial experience along with experience in the discipline to be managed. 
• Requires familiarity with claims processing, editing and workflow software, specifically TriZetto/Cognizant FACETS
• Requires strong analytic and problem solving capabilities and the ability to identify solutions and recommendations that effectively address business and control needs along with how to train and guide others in this area. 
• Requires the ability to multi-task effectively, responding to changing business priorities and deadlines. 
• Requires the ability to work collaboratively with team members across multiple divisions and departments.
• Requires a proven record of meeting commitments and achieving goals through the encouragement, guidance and influencing of others.
• Requires a self-starter personality.
• Requires highly effective verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
• Requires flexibility and willingness to work with a wide range of personalities on a variety of projects while prioritizing effectively.
• Requires working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.
• Requires some local travel.
• Leads and directs in large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects by reviewing project requirements
• Translate requirements into technical solutions; directing and reviewing design artifacts (for example, proof of concepts, prototypes);
• Oversees software design
• Ensures execution of testing
• Communicates status and issues to team members and stakeholders
• Direct project team and cross functional teams
• Enhance design to prevent recurrences of defects
• Manage on-time delivery and hand-offs
• Interact with project manager to provide input on project plan and demonstrate leadership to the project team
• Works with business stakeholders on new requests including new systems, enhancements, and features and prioritize them for assignment by engineers
• Directs root cause analysis of critical business and production issues by reviewing and analyzing information (for example, issue, impact, critical, possible root cause);
• Direct actions as designated in the plan
• Interpreting the results to determine further action
• Strategic thinker and partner to technology leaders and business partners
• Good understanding of business processes and how they relate to customer experience technology
• Influence infrastructure planning and operations, design and deployment, as well as system life cycle management
• Works closely with and provides routine updates to leadership, up to and including the Vice President, Enterprise Business Applications.

Advantage Tech is searching for a Network Security Manager to join their client in Kansas City, KS.
 

Position Summary

This role will partner at all levels of the organization to develop, implement, and execute organization wide network and security policies that reduce risks and mitigate consequences of security breaches. As the Network – Security Manager, you will be asked to align people, process, and technology as a high impact leader for a team of Network/Security engineers and developers. This role will be focused on improving the quality of network and security solutions while improving security levels across the business landscape.  This role will be leading your IT team to the successful completion of new network/security solutions or enhancements to existing infrastructure. You will also manage the administrative activities that come with having direct reports, such as time off, skills development, performance management and staff augmentation. It is important you guide the team in understanding the business outcomes not just the tools and process used to achieve them. 

RESPONSIBILITIES                   

·         Drive the formation of a functional Network and Security strategy through specialist expertise and insights. Ensure that the strategy meets and protects the business needs. 

·         Develop the strategy for a significant area of responsibility such as a function, anticipating complex issues, challenges, and opportunities. Ensure the strategy is successfully implemented and meets medium-term business needs. 

·         Raise up recommendations to the leadership team and guide the implementation of policy, design and implementation of Network and Security projects and change initiatives. 

·         Deliver a budget for Network and Security activities. This would include identify 5-year capital needs and immediate budget needs.

·         Participate in the development of IT strategy.  Apply functional expertise to test the viability of the strategy and contributing creative ideas and insights to support the strategy formation process. 

·         Participate in an annual business plan. Ensuring alignment with strategy; quantify business outcomes.  Detail expense and headcount budgets; and develop business cases for key projects, ensuring cross-functional integration. 

·         Communicate how the Network and Security strategy/roadmap and its relationship to the organization's mission, vision, and values; clarify the actions needed to implement it within the area of responsibility; motivate people to commit to these and to doing extraordinary things to achieve the organization's business goals. 

·         Manage and report on the performance of the function / business area; set appropriate performance objectives for direct reports and hold them accountable for achieving these; take appropriate corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of annual business objectives. 

·         Identify the capabilities needed to meet the current and emerging business needs of a significant business area. Evaluate current capabilities, identify gaps, and prioritize development activities. Motivate others to develop their capabilities and fulfill their personal potential. Build capabilities elsewhere in the organization through mentoring and other informal methods. 

SKILLS 

·         Can accurately be able to plan, organize, prioritize, and oversee activities to efficiently meet business objectives. 

·         Has insight with developing, monitoring, interpreting, and understanding policies and procedures, while making sure they match organizational strategies and objectives. 

·         Is comfortable with on analyzing data trends in Security situations that will help guide decision making. 

·         Applies expertise to situations that develops and maintains the culture, values and design it needs to reach its objectives while managing structural change. 

·         Uses clear and effective verbal communications skills to express ideas, request actions and formulate plans or policies. 

·         Has the ability to analyze data from multiple sources to draw appropriate conclusions and make suitable recommendations. 

·         Can manage projects and/ or programs within desired cost, time, and quality parameters. 

·         Adapts existing tools and techniques to existing situation; Adapts to changing goals / objectives; Entrepreneurial spirit; Focuses on simplicity when addressing the customer. 

·         Can conduct research and analyze data to develop a comprehensive understanding of customer and market conditions that enables maximum return on investments. 

REQUIREMENTS

·         Bachelor Degree a must / Master's Degree is a plus

·         5 to 10 years of experience in Network related activities (Cisco related) and Security related policies and procedures.

·         3 to 5 years of experience of forming strategy and policy to set and deliver objectives within medium to long time frames 

Advantage Tech is searching for a Java Developer to join their clients team in the Kansas City Metro area.

Job Summary

We are seeking to hire a Java Developer that performs moderate to complex programming tasks with little or no assistance. Need a candidate that can support and enhance existing applications by performing research and programming tasks with little assistance. This position requires the capability of working cooperatively with all levels of staff.

Responsibilities

• Independently performs data design, software coding, testing, debugging, documentation, and installation to the production environment in accordance with industry best practices and specific internal standards, procedures, and methodologies.
• Needs to have experience in the full life cycle process including maintenance, development, troubleshooting, and problem resolution.
• Be able to work in a team approach working with database analyst, technical architects, senior consultants, operations folks, and other developers.
• Converts business requirements or problems into technical requirements with some assistance.
• Contribute to the technical design with other team members and product owners, both inside and outside the team.

Primary Experience

• 3+ years of Java Developer experience, both server-side and front-end development.
• J2EE, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, HTML, Eclipse, and Browser developer tool experience.
• SQL, relational database modeling and design.
• Oracle database experience is a plus.
• Source code Management with Git.
• Excellent communication and technical writing skills.
• Unix or Linux.
• Korn shell scripting is a plus.

Advantage Tech has an Overland Park client looking for a Sr. Network Technology Consultant.  The is a direct hire position.

Some of the tasks and duties of this position are:

• Design, implement, maintain, and upgrade networks, business technology, and security.
• Troubleshoot and optimize software, computers, networks, and communication circuits
• While keeping the client's interest in mind, seek new opportunities with our clients.
• Maintain and improve technology skills and certifications.
• The ability to identify root cause and work toward a resolution rather than a temporary fix to reported issues.
• Work with our Sales Group and prospects to ensure any sales proposal is sound and meets the prospect's needs for now and for the future.

Your skills/certification should include:

• Experience with Office 365, Azure AD, and Active Directory
• Expertise in setting up security including firewalls and VPNs
• Experience with virtualization of servers and desktops
• Current VMWare certifications are a strong plus
• Experience with NAS and SAN systems
• Knowledge of VoIP phone systems and phone circuits is a plus
• Bonus: Experience with Azure or AWS Services
• MSP experience is a plus
• Microsoft professional certification are a strong plus

Job Description

Looking for an energetic, detail-oriented professional legal administrative assistant with superior skills for fast-paced legal department.  The successful candidate will work directly with the attorneys, paralegals and legal assistants.  Knowledge in the areas of contracts and corporate transactions, preferred. Trademarks, real estate, loans, and bankruptcy helpful.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES

• Exceptional word processing skills; ability to draft and/or edit documents accurately and quickly.
• Assist and support the attorneys and paralegals, as directed.
• Ability to pay attention to the minute details of a project or task (ie: word processing, due diligence, calendaring, meeting coordination, travel plans, file openings, etc.).
• Perform clerical tasks such as filing, labeling, organizing documents, keeping apprised of incoming emails and effectively and proactively processing thereafter.
• Prepare binders and binder updates.
• Demonstrate professional verbal and written communication with all co-workers and external parties.
• Conduct all business in a confidential manner.
• Utilize Company's resources effectively.
• Ability to communicate effectively and deliver superior service to all internal departments, outside retail customers and third parties.
• Ability to successfully perform position requirements with excellent organizational, comprehensive time-management and planning and prioritization skills to be used effectively and efficiently.
• Ability to work collaboratively within a team; to develop and maintain relationships with others; to provide information and assistance willingly.
• Ability to gather relevant information, interpret and evaluate the data, and make informed decisions. Develop sound, practical solutions and make timely decisions; provide creative solutions to difficult issues.
• Ability to be relied on for daily attendance and professional responsibility.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS

• High School Diploma required; 2-year degree preferred.
• 5-7 years relevant legal assistance experience required.
• Minimum typing speed of 75+ wpm.
• Proficiency in Word, Excel, Access, Google Sheets and Google Docs.
• Knowledge of document management database.

We are seeking a full stack engineer/UI Dev who is ready to work with innovative technologies and architectures in a forward-thinking organization that is always pushing boundaries. Here, you will take complete, end-to-end ownership of projects across the entire stack. Our ideal candidate has experience building products across the stack and a firm understanding of web frameworks, APIs, databases, and multiple back-end languages. You will be joining a small team working at the forefront of modern technology, solving the challenges that impact both the front end and back-end architecture, and deliver amazing global user experiences.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Work as part of a global, cross-functional team to develop innovative software for stakeholders.
• Work across the full stack, building highly scalable distributed solutions that enable positive user experiences and measurable business growth
• Develop new features and infrastructure development in support of rapidly emerging business and project requirements
• Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful application design
• Work with agile development methodologies, adhering to best practices and pursuing continued learning opportunities
• Engage with stakeholders (i.e., Architect, Engineering Lead, Product Team, Partners, and clients) through workshops and discussions to collaborate on new or existing solutions
• Contribute to projects by creating well-designed, configurable, testable, efficient code for platforms.
• Validate requirements and designs for custom built software projects.
• Work across teams to define, drive, and facilitate the creation and adoption of platform architecture and standards.
• Engage with inspiring designers and front-end engineers, and collaborate with leading back-end engineers as we create reliable APIs
• Designing/developing web, software, mobile apps, prototypes, or proofs of concepts (POC’s)
• Roughly 70-85% hands-on coding
• Resolve defects/bugs during QA testing, pre-production, production, and post-release patches
• Collaborate across time zones via MS Teams, GitHub comments, documents, and frequent video conferences
• Assist our teams in providing ongoing support, troubleshooting, improvements, or custom enhancements to existing platforms

Qualifications:

• Looking for full stack engineers, knowing Java on the backend and React or Angular on the front end
• 3+ years of software development experience with at least 1+ years of experience in designing full stack development
• Experience acting as a project lead or, technical lead, or people manager.
• Experience building web applications
• Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs
• Experience building front-ends in HTML5, CSS and JavaScript (LESS or SASS are a plus)
• Experience with the MEAN Stack – MongoDB/MySQL, Express.js, AngularJS, and Node.js
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills
• Expert level experience with software engineering tools (Visual Studio, Eclipse, etc.) and methodologies (Kanban, Scrum, etc).
• Experience with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Graduate degree in technology, business, finance, and accounting.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or engineering

Advantage Tech is searching for a Data Analyst for their client based out of Kansas City, KS.
 

Position Summary 

The client is transforming business intelligence, analytics, and data automation capabilities. The goal is to level up data warehousing and data management capabilities, including curated and cleansed data sets, certified data models and sources. We are adapting to cloud-based data automation for data cleansing, extraction, loading, and transformations. Another goal is to expand storage and compute capacity for ingestion of structured and unstructured data. In addition, we are hardening security constraints, in the areas of role-based access, anonymized data sets and intrusion prevention constraints. 

As a Data Analyst on the Data Analytics Team, you will be integral on this journey. Your primary area of responsibility will be building a strong data ecosystem which supports a new company-wide business intelligence and analytics environment. You will assist in the design and development of standardized datasets derived from multiple systems of record. A key area of success for this role is developing or applying existing development and scripting skills in process automation to orchestrate data pipelines from business systems, data lakes and third-party data repositories.

You will be creating and loading dimensional models that will be used for analysis and reporting. As you work on projects and enhancements you will assist in refining data governance within business processes and the technical tool chain. A key to success in this role is to quickly learn the meaning of business data and understand the business domain. Your skills will be leveraged to accurately identify key data and build the system processes which will extract, transform, and load the data that is used in key business decisions.   

Position Responsibilities: 

• Collaborate with business teams to identify data models and data sets for analytical consumption. 

• Develop data products using continuous deployment and automated data integration practices 

• Apply standard methodologies to analyze, design, develop, and deploy data management solutions. 

• Participate in agile story authoring, sizing, and demo sessions for developed features 

• Participate in code reviews and provide feedback to the team 

• Build real-time and batch data integrations from disparate source systems into the data lake/data warehouse 

• Build and maintain scalable ETL processes using workflow automation tools 

• Designing dimensional models and be able to cleanse and transform raw data into structured format 

• Administer and maintain data pipelines used for loading data into the data warehouse 

• Provide production support for integration and transformation pipelines 

• Follow defined data governance framework and enterprise data models 

• Scale and tune data pipelines, data sets and SQL queries 

Position Requirements: 

• Must be able to read/write SQL in the following environments (SQL Server, Oracle, DB2) 

• Matured experience in cloud technologies, using a hybrid approach to Data Lake / Data Warehousing

• Must have completed at least one full cycle of building a data lake and/or a data warehouse 

• Experience working with one or more columnar storage systems (Snowflake, Redshift, Big query, etc) 

• Experience working in cloud data environments (AWS, Azure) 

• Knowledge and skills with Power BI will be important, not critical 

• Exposure to data streaming tools and technologies like Kafka, TensorFlow or similar 

• Ability to multi-task and change priorities 

• Strong business communications skills for requirements gathering and development 

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Nice To Have 

• Proficiency with Excel including building macros 

• Experience working with CRM systems like Salesforce 

• Experience with end-to-end supply chain or merchandising 

• Experience working in an IBM DB2, SQL Server or Oracle environment 

• Basic knowledge and understanding of statistics 

Qualifications: 

• 3+ years of experience as a data engineer and/or software engineer 

• 3+ years of experience building ETL processes 

• 2+ years of experience working with AWS or Azure workflow orchestration tools 

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent professional experience 

Advantage Tech is partnering with an incredible Omaha company that is growing their development team and looking to add an equally incredible Back End Developer to their group! This is a very fun company with a lot of focus on work life balance that includes a REMOTE HYBRID schedule, flexible hours, a casual environment, and a lot of fun team activities! 

This is an amazing opportunity for a talented developer to get to work on a creative team and get to have a say on a lot of technical decision making! 

Qualifications: 

• 3+ years of object oriented programming experience
• Experience with .NET framework, C# 
• Experience with Microsoft SQL Servers 
• Experience with cloud based software 

Advantage Tech is partnering with an incredible Bellevue company that is growing their team and looking to add a Project Manager to their group! This is a very fun company with a lot of focus on work life balance that includes a REMOTE HYBRID schedule, flexible hours, a casual environment, and a lot of fun team activities! 

This is an amazing opportunity for a Project Manager to get to work on a creative team in an awesome culture! 

Qualifications: 

• 2+ years of experience as a Project Manager 
• Knowledge of Agile Scaling Framework 
• Agile certification is a plus! 
• Persistent and resilient personality 

Advantage Tech is partnering with an incredible Omaha company that is growing their development team and looking to add an equally incredible UX Designer to their group! This is a very fun company with a lot of focus on work life balance that includes a REMOTE HYBRID schedule, flexible hours, a casual environment, and a lot of fun team activities! 

This is an amazing opportunity for a talented UX Designer to get to work on a creative team and get to have a say on a lot of decision making! 

Qualifications: 

• 3+ years of UX design experience
• UX Certification or equivalent schooling 
• E-Commerce experience preferred 
• Experience with several UX tools 
• Understanding of the importance of a user-centered design 

Advantage Tech is partnering with an incredible Omaha company that is growing their development team and looking to add an equally incredible Scrum Master to their group! This is a very fun company with a lot of focus on work life balance that includes a REMOTE HYBRID schedule, flexible hours, a casual environment, and a lot of fun team activities! 

This is an amazing opportunity for a team oriented Scrum Master to get to work on a really fun and creative team of developers! 

Qualifications: 

• 3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master 
• Expert level understanding of DevOps (Azure DevOps) software and processes 
• Experience working with development teams 
• -Certified Scrum Master (CSM)/Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) certifications are highly desired, but can be substituted with years of experience 

Advantage Tech is partnering with an incredible Omaha company that is growing their development team and looking to add an equally incredible Front End Developer to their group! This is a very fun company with a lot of focus on work life balance that includes a REMOTE HYBRID schedule, flexible hours, a casual environment, and a lot of fun team activities! 

This is an amazing opportunity for a talented developer to get to work on a creative team and get to have a say on a lot of technical decision making! 

Qualifications: 

• 3+ years of development experience 
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript and ES6
• Experience with front-end libraries and frameworks (jQuery, Angular, or React)
• Experience with front-end build processes and tools 

Advantage Tech is looking for a VMWare Engineer for our Kansas City, MO Client.  

The Hyper Converged Infrastructure team provide support and maintenance of our unified system combining elements of a traditional data center: storage network and systems, servers and virtualization.  This allows us to scale according to our business needs.  The team ensures this system is performing at peak capacity to avoid business disruption.

As a VMware Engineer, you will be part of a team involved in making sure the services within virtualization environment are functioning properly through successful performance and coordination of activities involving triage/troubleshooting, patching, and software implementations/upgrades just to name a few.  If you love making everything run smoothly and knowing your work makes the business succeed, then this is the opportunity for you.  As you grow in technical expertise in one ore more areas of specialization as well as leadership capabilities, your position and role within the team would advance and reflect this growth accordingly.

The Hyper Converged Infrastructure team is a close-knit group of engineers coming from diverse backgrounds.  We share a commitment of providing solid, robust and dynamic SOA environments and we believe in fully supporting each other to achieve this goal.  Trust and open communication are the cornerstones of how we roll, and we have plenty of fun while doing it!  Self-education, peer consultation, mentor guidance, and formal training/seminars are some of the methods that we share information and knowledge.

How you’ll spend your time:

• Work closely with all levels of IT to coordinate the service support and delivery of virtualization technologies with multiple teams from application development to infrastructure.
• Provide support for implementation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of VMware technologies and accompanying systems.
• Work with project and application development teams to implement new business initiatives as relating to cloud services.

We’re excited to talk with you if:

• You have at least 5 years of experience with VMware engineering and Windows administration.
• You have in-depth experience with core VMware products such as vSphere and vCenter.  Experience with Site Recovery Manager (SRM), PowerCLI and PowerShell would be highly beneficial.
• You have in-depth experience with corresponding hardware such as Cisco UCS and Dell VxRail.

Job Summary:

Reporting to the Manager, Inventory Management CSR I meet, satisfy, and exceed the needs of our member ship regarding all areas that pertain to orders, ads, and prebooks. To efficiently, consistently and constantly exceed customer's expectations. CSR's must be friendly and respectful, dealing promptly with any and all complaints, and always honoring commitments.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Makes sure all retail members needs are met or exceeded, making sure customers are completely satisfied with end result.
• Assist buyers in effective communication to retail members resolving any and all retail opportunities
• Adjusts store orders and SSO reports based on store and buyer requests as needed to ensure retail member needs are met.
• Create handbills as needed for emergency ad products, etc.
• Communicates proactively with buyers on any opportunities affecting member service level and resolving to customer satisfaction.
• Tracks, prints, and distributes all ads and promotional information for all ad groups
• Communicates weekly pricing upon receipt from client's brands, publishing immediately to retail membership.
• Accurately submits retail pre book orders daily, batching and verifying daily input of orders.
• Works with assigned divisions to insure timely system entry of retail and Food Show orders.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• High school diploma
• Minimum of 6 months previous customer service experience
• Microsoft office experience required, access experience preferred
• Must be able to multi-task easily and efficiently
• Must possess excellent prioritization skills
• Must be detail oriented and have good organizational skills
• Must be a good team player

Advantage Tech is looking for an Avaya Engineer for our Lee's Summit, MO Client.  They have amazing benefits and this is a remote opportunity. 
 

The Engineer’s role is to ensure the stable operations of the technology operational architectures. This includes monitoring, configuring, installing, administering, planning, developing, maintaining, and supporting the availability of the technology operations (may include systems, network, and telecommunications). This role is responsible for monitoring the internal service request ticket system and resolving or escalating request from the service desk as appropriate.

Engineer is a Self-starter, able to work with minimal direction from management. Understands need for lateral thinking and displays willingness to adapt to new ways of doing business.

SKILLS

• Provide enterprise applications, systems, network, and/or telecommunications support for daily operations; monitors and reviews systems for availability, error conditions, adequate space allocation, backup integrity, and performance to ensure system stability. Provides on-call infrastructure support during non-business hours.
• Participates in meetings to explain technical solutions and the feasibility of company operations to meet department needs for software and hardware. Works with Engineer peers and Leadership in finding cost-effective solutions to new and existing software and hardware needs.
• Monitors company Infrastructure with associated software or hardware, provides performance statistics, and reports as directed by Leadership. Recommends and implements appropriate actions to determine and resolve operational architecture issues, which may include systems, network, and telecommunications.
• Maintains knowledge of associated company management software, architectures, telecommunication products and services. Provides monitoring and reporting of technology operations as directed.
• Self-starting, able to work with minimal direction from management. Understands need for lateral thinking; Displays willingness to adapt to new ways of doing business.
• Improves existing team processes. Creates effective documentation used by others. Attention to detail. Digs in and makes progress on work. Stays focused and isn't distracted by irrelevant things.

Essential Functions of the Job:

• Audio Codes SBC and ESBC Systems
• UC (Microsoft) + PBX/IP-PBX experience
• Strong understanding of Country Carrier SIP networks
• Strong background in IP Protocols
• Extensive knowledge of fixed line telecommunication systems
• Basic knowledge of LAN/WAN communication systems
• Audio Codes TDM/IP gateway configuration and support
• Maintain Continuity of Operations (COOP) readiness
• Adheres to Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
• Supports L3/4 incidents and vendor escalations
• Installation engineering and support
• System backups and maintenance setups
• Work with Telecom Service Providers globally

• Requires a Bachelor's degree (120 credit hours) in Computer Science, Information Systems Management, Telecommunications, or qualified technology certifications in network, systems, or other related certifications.
• Requires three years of experience in a systems and/or networking environment including telecommunications and VOIP telephony supporting (or working in) call center environments, including voice services and gateways, installing and configuring desktops, servers, wireless networking, and an understanding of the security, integrity, and safety of company operational efficiencies plus other related products.
• Additional years of qualifying work experience may be considered in lieu of formal education.
• Requires effective verbal and written communication skills to consult with management, business partners, users and vendors.
• Requires effective organizational skills and the ability to manage frequent interruptions and multiple priorities.
• Requires the ability to relate well with coworkers and vendor representatives in order to enlist cooperation and provide guidance.

Advantage Tech is looking for a Sr Cloud Engineer for our Lee's Summit, MO Client.  This is a remote position.  

The Senior Could Engineer’s role is to be accountable for Technology, Infrastructure, & Operations projects that impact company security and operational efficiency. This includes maintaining applications, systems, network, and/or telecommunications infrastructure to provide operational integrity and meet best practice guidelines for operational availability. Assists all teams with development and communication of strategic planning, project planning and plans for ongoing development of technological solutions. Provides some third-tier support for Service Desk and Tier-2 support for System Administrators.

Senior Cloud Engineer is able to initiate projects and provide direction to management on technical matters. Identifies what needs to be done and acts before being asked to or required by the situation.

SKILLS

Experience:

• Must have the ability to empathize with customers and convey confidence. Able to explain highly technical issues to varied audiences. Able to prioritize and advocate customer’s needs to the proper channels. Take ownership and work towards a resolution.
• Proven experience building and designing web services in the cloud, along with implementing the set-up of geographically redundant services?
• Has extensive knowledge of APIs to design RESTful services, and integrate them with existing data providers, using JSON or XML as needed
• Orchestrating and automating cloud-based platforms throughout the company
• Experience helping organizations in their cloud journey including mentoring the other engineering teams on the implementation of new cloud-based initiatives, providing associated training as it is required

·         Implementing effective security strategies and partnering with security department on cloud network(s)?

Technical Skills:

• Deep understanding of cloud computing technologies with demonstrated hands-on experience in one or more of the following domains: Core IaaS: Compute, Storage, Networking, High Availability
• Data Platform and Bigdata Knowledge: SQL Server, Azure SQL DB, HDInsight/Hadoop, Machine Learning, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Data Factory / Data Bricks
• Azure PaaS Services: Redis Cache, Service Bus, Event Hub, Cloud Service, IoT suite, Mobile Apps, etc.
• Identity and Authentication: SSO/Federation, AD/Azure AD, ADFS, etc.
• Experience in one or more automation languages (PowerShell, Python, C#, )
• Preferred but not required: Cosmos DB, Azure Kubernetes Service, experience with VMWARE Tanzu or other container integrations platforms
• Experience in using one or more of the following toolsets (ARM templates, Bicep, Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
• 5+ years of demonstrated IT Cloud experience supporting and troubleshooting enterprise level, mission-critical applications resolving highly complex issues/situations and driving technical resolution across cross-functional organizations.
• Desired Degree in Computer Science/Technology, Engineering or Equivalent Working Experience. Certification in Microsoft and/or other Cloud Technologies.

Position.
IT PC & Equipment Administrator
Responsibilities.
Reports to and takes direction from Director, IT and Quality Assurance.
Companies: Jacobson Holdings, Inc., TAFS, Inc., TA Logistics, Inc., Olathe Noble Equipment “ONE”
Leasing, Inc. and TransAm Trucking, Inc.
General Responsibilities
-Sets up and configures computers for new and transferred employees including the installation of
appropriate software consistent with the requirements of the job.
-Configures, installs, and maintains hardware elements such as printers, monitors, laptops,
copiers, cell phones, desk phones, video conferencing equipment, etc.
-Responds in a timely manner to help desk tickets and provides software technical assistance and
support to end users.
-Monitors equipment inventory. Plans for and schedules equipment upgrades within company
requirements.
-Assists with physically moving user’s PCs, monitors and other devices when necessary.
-Develops instructional programs and conducts training for computer users when releasing new
software on an as needed basis.
-Refers major hardware or software problems or defective products to vendors or technicians for
service.
-Reads and understands technical manuals to confer with users and conducts computer
diagnostics to investigate and resolve problems.
-Ensures copiers are fully functional. Fixes basic issues and schedules service for other issues on
a timely basis.
-Coordinates and communicates equipment problems with outside repair vendors.
-Reads trade magazines and technical manuals and attends conferences and seminars to maintain
knowledge of hardware and software.
-Provides new application ideas to all areas of the company where new technology can be utilized
to gain better efficiency and improve company productivity.
-Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Advantage Tech is looking for multiple Cobol Developer’s for a 2 plus year project that will  be 100% remote.  We will provide you equipment while working and benefits.  This is a dynamic team we are building for our client.  You will be working on projects related to Federal SNAP program/processing.  The projects will be defined but there may be some M&O work. 

If you are someone that fits most of these requirements, please apply and we will reach out.

Skills Desired:

• Cobol Developer with 10 years or more experience.
• Excellent with TSO editor and JCL
• Familiar with TFS for their DevOps tracking
• Familiarity with Natural by Software AG (database)

Preferred Skillset:

• Working within a state agency, banking or insurance industry.

Must have great internet connection.  You will be required to pass a background and drug screen.  We are looking forward to talking to you more about this great project.

Advantage Tech is working with an awesome Nebraska based company that is looking to add a Vulnerability Analyst to their growing security team! This is an awesome opportunity for a senior level analyst with the ability to be organized, analytical, and communicative. 

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of security experience
• 3+ years working directly with vulnerability scanning tools 
• Experience working with DevOps teams 
• Experience with zero day threats 

Advantage Tech is searching for a Field Technician to join a client's team based around the Quad Cities.

POSITION Description:

To provide installation and maintenance support for the client’s network. This position is responsible for the installation/provisioning, maintenance, and monitoring of network equipment and services. This includes, but is not limited to Cisco SONET Nodes, ADTRAN 2800/2820 Multiplexers, Cisco and Alcatel Lucent Routers, Switches and NIDs, Performance Technologies STPs, MetaSwitch switching platform, and ADVA DWDM systems.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Receive, monitor, analyze, and resolve network problems in a timely manner with minimal oversight.
• Coordinate and perform new customer installations for wholesale, enterprise, and colocation customers. This could include structured wiring, NID installation and the addition of pluggable cards and jumpers at the Bluebird Network locations.
• Provide proper documentation of BBN’s network (Site Audits, and Inventory Databases).
• Provide installation, test and acceptance for nodes and collocations into BBN’s network.
• Support emergency restoration for aerial and/or buried fiber optic cable in BBN’s network.
• Provide emergency restoration support for BBN’s network equipment.
• Maintain BBN colocation facilities and report any observations of damage or violation.
• Provide 24×7 network coverage, to include trouble tickets and alarm monitoring at a Tier 1 level.
• Adhere to the rotational on-call schedule to monitor, support, and dispatch as required.
• Coordinate software upgrades to any and all network elements on an as-required schedule.

DIMENSIONS:

 This position is responsible for the operation, maintenance, monitoring, and site documentation for the Bluebird Network Optical/DWDM, IP/MPLS and SS7 network.

Essential:     

• 3 to 5 years in Telecommunications environment or equivalent Technical Training
• Private line and broadband installation and maintenance
• DWDM installation and maintenance
• IP/MPLS fundamentals
• Test equipment proficiency (OTDR, OSA, DS1/3, and Ethernet)
• Willing to work days, evenings, night shifts, overtime, call-ins, weekends, and/or holidays as required; hours to be worked are determined by job requirements
• Valid state driver’s license with clean driving record
• Self-motivated and the ability to make sound decisions with minimal supervision
• Strong PC skills
• Strong oral and written communications skills

Desired:                     

• College or Technical degree or equivalent
• Cisco or Alcatel Lucent IP Certifications
• VOIP Switching and maintenance
• Fiber optics splicing and maintenance
• SS7/STP support
• Multi-task and maintain composure in a demanding work environment
• Telecommunications equipment installation

Are you a Test Automation Engineer with a Data and ETL focused background looking to work for a non micro management company where you have autonomy to make decisions?  This is one of the best kept secrets in Omaha with very low turnover!  They are adding to their team and needing you to bring your talent to their cool team!  

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience
• Experience with SQL queries 
• Experience with data quality checks and data integrity checks
• Broad understanding of Data warehousing, and metadata knowledge 
• Experience with Test Automation frameworks 
• Experience with an agile environment 

Are you a Test Automation Engineer looking to work for a non micro management company where you have autonomy to make decisions?  This is one of the best kept secrets in Omaha with very low turnover!  They are adding to their team and needing you to bring your talent to their cool team!  

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience
• Experience with a programming language (Java / C#)
• Experience with Test Automation frameworks 
• Experience with an agile environment 

Advantage Tech is looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer for our Kansas City, MO Client.  They are currently in a hybrid model for work. 

The Senior Cloud Engineer, with support from the Director of Infrastructure, will be responsible for the overall management and support of the firm’s cloud infrastructure. This role will provide all levels of support for components of cloud computing for infrastructure from configuration to deprecation.  This individual will ensure ongoing compliance to security, compliance, governance and deployment.

This role will focus on designing and developing enterprise cloud capabilities and solutions for all cloud service types; IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.

This role will collaborate with the Infrastructure, Technology Risk Management and Application Development organizations during design and development phases, providing guidance, interpretation, and engineering expertise.

Essential Responsibilities

• Participate in all aspects of the software development life cycle for AWS / AZURE solutions, including planning, requirements, development, testing, and quality assurance
• Maintain consistent, quality documentation to meet ongoing operations and business continuity requirements. Documentation will include system topologies, operating instructions for new and changed infrastructure.
• Create and implement automation in the form of infrastructure as code for cloud platform solutions-Ensure all infrastructure components meet proper performance and capacity standards
• Troubleshoot incidents, identify root cause, fix and document problems, and Implement preventive measures. Ensure strong focus on security and governance.
• Partner with business units to evaluate and drive adoption of new capabilities for cloud adoption and related tools, services and systems.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) MS Azure expertise (e.g., EC2, account access, security groups).  Maintain and monitor cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, MS Azure, Office 365) VPC, VNET, Database Deployment, VM Deployment. Storage management for S3/ Glacier, Blob
• 7+ years of network or network management experience in a technical networking role, including – but not limited to – design, implementation, disaster recovery, network security architecture and engineering.  Proven ability to provide automation solutions using PowerShell, Python and JSON.  Must have strong prior scripting experience.
• Consistently provide high quality work in a deadline driven environment.  Accountable for accomplishing tasks both independently and collaboratively.
• Collaborative with peers and team.  Tenacious and Results Driven – Ability to prioritize and deal with conflicting demands.
• Conduct short-term and long-term network architecture planning to meet current and expanding business requirements in collaboration with the Director Infrastructure and business objectives for cloud consumption.

Located in our Overland Park office, Home Care Customer Acquisition Managers (HCAMs) are responsible for signing strategic, high value home care providers into the provider network.  The position is key to our success by ensuring we have the right home care providers in each market to handle all of our referral needs – increasing the number of referred leads that select providers in our network.  The HCAM must develop sales strategies and action plans for each provider target and will be evaluated on a goal of signed target home care providers each quarter. 

The HCAM must reach out to their target portfolio, get to the decision-maker, secure a meeting with the decision-maker and present a personalized sales presentation on the immediate value that our client can bring to the prospective customer.  This will require the HCAM to identify like partner providers in each market and put together specific data and metrics that would be relevant to the prospective target home care providers. 

The HCAM will track their prospecting efforts and maintain a tracker with all of their outreach activities, their communication history, the identified next steps and a date bound action plan for securing a contract from each home care provider.  The HCAM needs to work with other departments to drive success – most frequently the finance team, sales team, and our home care customer service team.

Who you are:

The ideal candidate is a true sales person who is highly competitive, results oriented and dedicated to working to effectively grow our community network with high value customer acquisitions.  He/she is an excellent communicator – both verbal and written – and has tremendous analytical and follow up skills.

Responsibilities

What you will do:

• Manage multiple geographical markets with a targeted list of high potential home care providers to sign in each market.
• Implement proven sales programs and strategies designed to demonstrate value to home care provider
• Develop targeted sales presentations – pulling data and success stories from current customers that are relevant to the acquisition target.
• Utilize video conferencing to conduct sales meetings and follow ups.
• Ensure the successful onboarding of our new home care providers by collecting all the information required to complete the signed agreement and to transition the new provider to our home care customer service team.
• Work with our finance department to resolve outstanding collections issues for those target home care providers who were part of the network historically and have outstanding payment issues.
• Maintain detailed notes and document all sales activities in the provided territory trackers so that the HCAM’s sales funnel is constantly kept updated.
• Keeps in excellent communication with the Manager of Home care Customer Acquisitions and prepares reports of weekly accomplishments and achievement of goals.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Competencies:

• 5+ years of experience in sales and/or senior living or home care sales management
• Bachelor’s degree required
• A personal sense of urgency and capacity to overcome obstacles.
• A high level of enthusiasm for building a business.
• Ability to prioritize multiple responsibilities/projects.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• An excellent problem solver.
• Highly organized.
• Comfortable with data tracking, analysis and CRM tools.
• Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel and PowerPoint as well as Google Document capability.

Advantage Tech is searching for a Sr. .NET Developer who will assist with requirements gathering, development task updating and project flow.
 

This position will join an already successful team to take the platform to another level. An experienced developer who has shown to be self-motivated to grow technically and has led others by example will fit perfectly with us. Our friendly, knowledgeable staff will partner with you to see you succeed. Whether it be our software that manages billions of dollars of state and federal budgets, processes that consume billions of claims, custom portals for provider/client use, or the FBI/DoJ work to fight fraud, waste, and abuse, work is never dull in seeing the direct impact we have across the nation. This gateway position will open several project opportunities across the firm; come join our expanding team and make a difference!
 

Essential Functions:

• Participate as a key member on the development team in client, business, or internal meetings
• Understand common OOP concepts and design patterns
• Take initiative on leveling up on skill gaps with our mandatory quarterly training hours
• Be able to give and receive feedback on requirements or code reviews
• Has a knack for debugging code across the stack
• Can understand the user experience and knows how to measure standard performance metrics
• Establishes strong relationships with business and IT members to deliver solid solutions
• Confident in their own skill set to lead peers in expanding others’ skills
• Consistently delivers high-quality services and products
• Understands the components of running a fiscally successful project

Requirements:

• Hybrid work model available
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required
• 3 years' of related work experience required, 5+ years’ strongly preferred
• Experience in .NET and/or .NET Core development
• Experience with ASP.NET and MCV or ASP.NET Core
• Proficiency with C#, JavaScript, and SQL languages
• Experience in leading development teams preferred
• Demonstrative proficiency building full-stack web-based applications
• Experience with web services and web APIs preferred
• Experience with CI/CD a plus
• Understands secure application coding preferred
• Must be able to work independently on projects and within a hybrid office/remote team environment
• Maintain effective relationships with business stakeholders and team members
• Experience in gathering business requirements
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Familiarity with agile environments preferred
• Self-motivated and assertive

Advantage Tech is working with an awesome client in Omaha who is doing some truly remarkable work, and looking to add an Automation QA Engineer to their team. This is a great opportunity to join a company doing amazing work in the healthcare industry! 

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree, or equivalent experience 
• 4+ years of QA Automation experience
• Knowledge of C#, JavaScript, Selenium, and an Automation Framework
• Experience implementing automation testing 

Advantage Tech is looking for a Team Lead – Service Operations and Support for our client in Lee's Summit, MO.  This is a remote position. 

• Ensures that service and support functions align with the ITIL framework and are built on lean principles with a focus on continual improvement (i.e., PLAN-DO-CHECK-ACT).
• Assist IT leadership establish current and future state process maturity targets leveraging the ITIL framework.
• Provides tier 1 and tier 2 technical support. Documents and manages tier 0, tier 1, tier 2 and tier 3 escalation policies and procedures.
• Provides cross-functional support of the organizations problem management, change management and release management processes.
• Supports the development of service and support policies and procedures, KPIs, KRIs and metrics to ensure success criteria is measurable and supports GEHA’s accountability and transparency values and principles. 
• Assists in developing the organization’s service catalog and establishing service-level agreements (SLAs) and operating-level agreements (OLAs) with relevant IT and business stakeholders.
• Assist in developing Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to establish problem resolution expectations and timeframes.
• Develop Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to establish specific measures that will be used to evaluate success.
• Develop policies and procedures that outline how problems are identified, documented, assigned and corrected.
• Analyze performance of Service Desk activities and documented resolutions, identify problem areas, and devise and deliver solutions to enhance quality of service and to prevent future problems.
• Develop a model of consistent velocity for the team and demonstrate the ability to deliver on estimates.
• Accountable for the technical delivery of the entire Project.
• Identifies and clears roadblocks for the team.
• Leads the process of analysis in order to fulfil the requirement of system, end-to-end.
• Develops the detailed design structure after understanding the requirements and the conceptual design and architectural standards.
• Implements the best practices for Service Operations and Support
• Works on identifying project risks and plans mitigation with the PM at project level.
• Ensures that the Team is working as per the listed procedures, standards, requirements, quality, and user expectations.
• Constantly monitor and enhance the productivity of the team while identifying and eliminating waste.
• Inspire team members.

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Be flexible and demonstrate adaptability to the changing and varied work settings.
• Should carefully analyze the details of all the work performed by the Team.
• Serve as the primary interface between the team and management on projects they are leading.
• With the Manager, Sets targets and expectations for the team.
• Take accountability for the activities from product definition through implementation.
• Abide by all the project and company guidelines and standards and ensures that even the team members are doing so.
• With the Manager, ensure fair tasks assignments where people are assigned with tasks aligned to their skills and team need.
• Constantly motivate and encourage team to give their best, especially during the time when they are pressured with aggressive targets.
• Make yourself completely aware with all the technologies thoroughly especially the ones associated with the technologies or application being developed/implemented is under construction.
• Find ways for non-technical people to understand technical concepts through great communication
• Mentor the staff on their team, provide feedback on their work frequently, and encourage and promote best technology practices

REQUIREMENTS

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in a Computer Information Services or a related field.
• Requires 6+ years’ experience in IT support and/or service management experience
• Additional years of qualifying work experience may be considered in lieu of formal education.
• Requires effective communication and presentation skills and the ability to lead multi-disciplinary development teams.

Advantage Tech has a client in Topeka KS that is looking for a Help Desk resource.

Description: 

• Performs desktop and peripheral support for staff.
• Diagnose and test PC configurations and functionality and service to agency personnel.
• Basic PC hardware and software troubleshooting.

Qualifications: 

• Technical support experience or schooling
• Some network knowledge is a plus 1-2 years preferred
• High School or equivalent

Environment:

• Extended sitting, moving and setting up workstations, may require being under desks 
• Work with other IT teams to troubleshoot, isolate, and correct that issues that disrupt

AdvantageTech is working with one of the "best kept secret" companies of Omaha to add to their growing team. This is a really fun and awesome software company that strongly believes in work life balance, and "work hard, play hard"! 

We are on the search for a Software Engineer with expertise in .NET Framework. 

Qualifications: 

• 3+ years of experience
• Strong knowledge of C#
• .NET Core experience 

AdvantageTech is working with one of the "best kept secret" companies of Omaha to add to their growing team. This is a really fun and awesome software company that strongly believes in work life balance, and "work hard, play hard"! 

We are on the search for a Sr Software Engineer with expertise in .NET Framework. 

Qualifications: 

• 5+ years of experience
• Expert level knowledge of C#
• Strong .NET Core experience 

We are looking for a talented on Manager of Technology who will focus on building tools to enable us to do business with our network of communities. These include B2B portal, custom integrations with third party CRM systems, and reporting. You will develop API layer to enable us to integrate with our network of communities, including integration with internal systems and web sites.

This position reports to the VP of Technology. You will use your technology skills to identify latest technologies, architectural and design patterns to be implemented. You will provide architectural direction to team of engineers building systems. This can be a fully remote position.

Who you are:

The ideal candidate is a hands-on and outcome-oriented technology leader with extensive experience designing, building, and supporting modern web services.

Responsibilities

What you will do:

• Partner with community sales teams to understand the requirements required to build a self-service portal.
• Partner with other tech leads and senior engineers across multiple teams and orgs to gather system requirements, gut check new feature proposals, and drive large system improvements.
• Provide the team the tools, confidence, and motivation to make decisions independently that lead to their personal and professional success.
• Responsible for group’s technical strategy and roadmap – creating success metrics in close collaboration with other Engineering and Product Managers.
• Experiment with new technologies, and conduct proof of concept which then is presented to tech peers.
• Mentor the professional development of each engineer by helping them build and execute personal development plans that map to our organization goals. Aggressively recruit and hire talented engineers.
• Candidates should expect to spend 50% of their time coding and 50% of their time leading a team of software engineers.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Competencies:

• Developing modern websites and services using React and Next.js
• Development experience in JavaScript / Typescript
• Strong experience in design and development of API including REST and GraphQL
• Experience in implementing a component library using StoryBook.js
• Strong understanding of AWS Services, Docker Containers, and CI/CD
• Experience with database technologies like: MySQL / PostgreSQL / MongoDB / Elasticsearch

Advantage Tech is working with a really cool company in the Omaha metro that is adding a Database Analyst to their team. This company is doing some really cool work, and staying up to date on technology trends! 

This is a great opportunity for someone with a "go getter" attitude who wants to join a very collaborative IT group! 

Qualifications: 

• 5+ years of experience in database design and implementation 
• Microsoft SQL Server experience
• Microsoft SSIS experience 
• T-SQL experience 

Advantage Tech is looking for an Enterprise Integration Architect for our Kansas City, MO Client. 

Our Enterprise Architecture team is comprised of Enterprise and Solution architects playing a critical role in providing enterprise-level project solutions and strategies.  We collaborate with the business and IT subject matter experts across application, data, security, and infrastructure teams turning vision into modern industry standard solutions and roadmaps. 

As an Enterprise Integration Architect, you will have the opportunity to provide strategic, modern solutions that evolve domains digitally.  If you enjoy providing technical solutions that meet business needs and then seeing the overall architecture come to fruition, this is the opportunity for you.   

Our Enterprise Architecture team thrives in an outside-the-box thinking to derive the best technical solutions to meet our business strategies.  We share ideas and fully support each other to achieve these goals.  Trust and open communication are the cornerstones of how we roll, and we have plenty of fun while doing it!  Self-education, peer consultation, mentoring and formal training/seminars are some of the methods that we share information and knowledge.  

How you’ll spend your time:  

• Collaborating with business and technical teams to understand and influence current and future state strategies.  

• Collaborating with the business and technical teams, creating solutions that fulfill the business requirements incorporating Company and industry strategies, patterns, standards and technologies.  Then reviewing solutions with stakeholders for alignment. 

• Leading teams in the integration strategy and design at the project, domain and enterprise levels. 

• Participating in the creation and maintenance of technology roadmaps and domain level portfolio diagrams. 

• Documenting patterns for reuse across the enterprise.   

• Mentoring IT and Business teams on new technologies and patterns. 

• Staying current with modern technology, patterns and trends. 

We’re excited to talk with you if:  

• You have at least 7 years of IT experience and at least 2 years of enterprise, solution, application or integration architect experience. 

• You have experience using Domain Driven Design to model Microservices. 

• You have experience implementing a Microservice Architecture. 

• You have in-depth API Modelling experience.  Canonical modelling preferred. 

• You have worked in designing architecture solutions utilizing API stacks, Event Driven Architecture and other forms of messaging patterns. 

• You have Oauth2 patterns and implementation experience. 

• You have the following preferred experience: security patterns, public cloud platforms and associated cloud services, event-driven architecture, DevOps patterns and tooling, container management platforms and configuration, data modeling, network fundamentals, financial systems integration and/or implementation. 

Advantage Tech is working with an amazing client in West Omaha who is growing their amazing team and looking to add an EDI Specialist!  

This role will work to implement and support EDI processes, and this person will be the Subject Matter Expert for the products. 

Qualifications

• Knowledge of EDI communication 
• Familiar with EDI X12 documents (810, 820, 823, 850, 855, 856, 864, 870)
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to lead and train both internal personnel and customers 

Advantage Tech is working with an amazing client in West Omaha who is growing their amazing team Customer Support team and looking to add a Customer Support Specialist!  This is an amazing opportunity for recent grads or entry level professionals with a customer-focused state of mind! 

This role will work with our clients customers to research, answer, and escalate customer cases and questions. The Customer Support Specialist will learn the clients ERP system in order to train the customers, as well as create documentation. 

Qualifications: 

• Great customer service skills
• Ability to problem solve and think analytically 
• Strong written and verbal communication 

Advantage Tech is on the search for an organized and confident Sr QA Analyst to join our clients amazing team! 

Requirements: 

• 7+ years of QA and testing experience 
• Experience with Runscope / BlazeMeter., SOAP UI, and TestProject  is a big plus 
• Experience in both manual and automation testing 
• Serve as a mentor for for less experienced QA team members 

The IT Support Technician II position includes but is not limited to the following primary job functions:

• Provides technical assistance to users via phone, email, remote connection, or in-person while following established IT policies and procedures
• Administers help desk solution; logs incidents, documents resolutions, communicates with users, and prepares reports
• Identifies and escalates issues requiring urgent attention
• Installs new and rebuilds existing user computers and configures hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with IT policies and procedures
• Diagnoses and resolves technical hardware and software issues within Client’s technical environments, researching and proposing solutions as needed
• Ensures system and solution information, changes, and updates are current
• Assists with technical infrastructure assessment, implementation, and maintenance, including but not limited to physical and virtual servers, network, telephony, and vendor solutions
• Identifies opportunities for consideration and implementation of new technologies to provide value to users
• Assists with information security posture and remediation of threats deemed relevant to business
• Provides technical assistance on core business solutions, including ERP and CRM functions to users

• Performs other duties as assigned

Qualified applicants will also possess the following experience, knowledge, skills and abilities:

• 1-2 years of direct technical support with end users
• Technical knowledge Windows OS, server and end-user hardware, and networking equipment
• Knowledge of technical issue tracking systems
• Excellent customer service and interpersonal skills
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent written communications skills
• Ability to remain calm in a fast-paced, changing environment
• Ability to organize, prioritize, plan, and execute work
• Ability to work alone and within a team environment

• Ability to lift 50 pounds unaided
• Ability to sit at a computer for long periods of time

• Periodic non-business-hours work may be required for major issues or applicable project implementations

Advantage Tech is working with an amazing copmany here in Omaha who is looking to add a Security Engineer to their growing team! Our client has one of the best cultures and team driven environments in the city. Work life balance truly matters, and the IT team is very collaborative and has a lot of fun! 

If you are a Security Engineer with just a couple years of experience and looking to join a great team while learning new skills, this is an amazing opportunity. 

Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience 
• Either currently possess or working towards the CISSP certification 
• Experience working with intrusion detection systems, firewalls, SIEMs, password protection and authentication methods 
• Experience with Vulnerability Management Process 

Advantage Tech is working with one of the oldest and best companies to work for in Omaha to add a contractor to their QA team! Our client is growing, and looking for a rock star Manual QA Tester to assist their team for a 6 month contract with possibility of extension. This is a 100% REMOTE opportunity! If you are looking for a great role to showcase your talent and work with an awesome team, this is the opportunity  for you. 

Qualifications: 
5+ years of experience in manual testing 
Experience in the Financial / Insurance industry 
Experience with Jira, Confluence, or other similar platforms 
Strong communication
Quick learner and able to be self driven 

Advantage Tech is searching for a Solution Architect to join their client's team in Lee's Summit, Mo.

Please note the client is moving to a new facility in February 2022 and this position will be relocated to Lenexa, KS. 

Job Description

Basic Function and Scope of Responsibility: 

The Solution Architect is primarily responsible for:

• Finding the best tech solution among all possible to solve the existing business problems.
• Describing the structure, characteristics, behavior, and other aspects of software to project stakeholders.
• Defining features, phases, and solution requirements.
• Providing specifications according to which the solution is defined, managed, and delivered.

Essential Job Duties:

• Provide analysis, architectural design and leadership on large complex projects
• Analyze the technology environment
• Analyze and document requirements
• Define the collaboration / integration framework
• Create a solution prototype
• Participate in technology selection
• Provide oversight of solution development
• Support project management
• Work within defined IT processes and procedures including the company’s internal software development life cycle methodology (SDLC)
• Provide guidance and knowledge transfer to peers for areas of expertise
• Serve as liaisons between technical and business departments in order to ensure that all requirements and targets are met
• Work with little to no supervision with extreme latitude for independent judgment
• Consult with senior peers on large complexity projects
• Proficient in all levels and phases of application development and support
• Participate in 24×7 On Call rotation supporting break/fix ticket resolution
• Other administrative tasks (i.e. filing, preparing documentation)
• Participate in developing department goals, objectives, and systems
• Actively participate in team and company meetings
• Other duties as assigned by management

Qualifications

Essential Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to research architectural patterns to decide on optimal solution in given scenarios
• Ability to document and present architecture concepts, often narrowing complex ideas to a single overview
• Analytical, motivated and ability to learn new technologies and applications
• Ability to multi-task
• Knowledge and management of System Development Lifecycle Methodologies
• 7+ years of successful application & system development and management; database experience utilizing the .NET Framework
• 3+ years of successful Solution Architect Experience
• Proven experience leading tasks or projects related to large size software implementations
• Goal oriented, with excellent time management and organizational skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with ability to interact effectively and work efficiently with people at all levels in an organization
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills
• Keenly attentive to detail
• Ability to keep sensitive information confidential

Preferred Experience:

• Providing architecture solutions in a Cloud environment
• Project experience using Agile Methodology
• Leading projects, developing and administrating Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS): STARLIMS, Copia
• Leading projects, developing and administrating Specimen Management Systems
• Leading projects, developing and administrating Lab Instrument Interfaces connecting instruments to LIMS
• SQL Server or Oracle Knowledge
• Knowledge of testing laboratory operations and processes
• High level of proficiency with PC based software programs; including project management tools, MS Project

Advantage Tech is searching for a Full Stack Developer to join their client's team in St. Louis, Mo.

The Full Stack Developer will use a range of different technologies and languages such as JavaScript, HTML, C# to develop applications. The developer will work on system development for both the back end and front-end and participate in the design and creation of scalable software.

Job Responsibilities:

• Work with internal teams and external clients to design and create software solutions
• Design client-side and server-side architecture 
• Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
• Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
• Write effective APIs
• Create and manage connections to 3rd party APIs
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
• Create security and data protection settings
• Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design
• Write technical documentation
• Work with the Information Technology team to improve software

Skills/Qualifications:

• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g., HTML/CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery, Bootstrap)
• Knowledge of multiple back-end languages (e.g., C#, Python) and JavaScript frameworks (e.g., Angular)
• Familiarity with databases (e.g., SQL, MySQL), web servers (e.g., Microsoft IIS) and UI/UX design
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Familiarity with common stacks

Academic & Industry Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, or relevant field (preferred)
• Minimum 2-5 years’ development experience in C#
• Experience developing web and software applications
• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role

Advantage Tech is searching for a Sr. Software Developer to join their client's team in Lee's Summit, Mo.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop firmware applications and scripts on different platforms
• Participate in full software development lifecycle from idea conception through release and maintenance
• Utilize various microprocessor/microcontroller development kits to determine design compatibility
• Collaborate with the team during design, development, and integration
• Assist with the maintenance of source repositories
• Troubleshoot support inquiries escalated from our technical support group
• Maintain and improve the performance of existing software
• Write high-quality, efficient, testable code
• Contribute to planning, design, implementation, testing, operations, and process improvement
• Build out applications and infrastructure for the Niagara-based suite of products
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the internal processes

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/Computer Science or related experience 
• 2+ years of embedded development experience
• 2+ years of Niagara 4 developer experience
• 2+ years of C programming experience
• 1+ years of system-level debugging experience using JTAG or other similar interfaces

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Linux development
• Experience with Java programming development
• Experience with shell scripting
• Experience with TCP/IP, RS232, and RS485 protocols
• Experience with board bring up for new products
• Experience in developing cloud-enabled services and applications; understanding of cloud infrastructure services (e.g., Microsoft Azure, AWS) is a plus

Our Overland Park client has an opening for a Frontend Software Developer who is skilled with C#, HTML, and .NET solutions to lead the rebuild of their website and design applications.  

Primary Responsibilities:

• Review and resolve application problems on a priority basis
• Develop applications based on their evaluation of business and technical requirements
• Effectively estimates own work assignments and delivers quality code that meets requirements and specifications on time, based on work estimates they establish
• Effectively manages tasks from multiple assignments
• Operates under moderate supervision
• Displays willingness to work effectively and learn from more experienced staff
• Write code while adhering to company standards and requirements
• Create and successfully implement quality test for applications
• Develop frontend graphics for proprietary UI

Qualifications:

• Must have experience in Microsoft Office products (Outlook, Word, Excel)
• Working knowledge of Windows 7/10
• Prefer experience in C#
• Prefer experience in .Net
• Prefer experience in HTML
• Prefer experience in WPF
• Prefer experience in JavaScript
• Prefer experience in SQL Server 2008

* 100% REMOTE opportunity for a highly skilled Oracle DBA with experience in Systems Architecture *

Advantage Tech is working with an amazing company here in Omaha that has had unprecedented growth this past year. Our client is now looking to add again with this Sr level Oracle DBA position. This is an amazing opportunity for a highly talented individual who also enjoys working with people, collaborating, and sharing knowledge. 

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Oracle database experience 
• Prior experience as a consultant (including experience in traveling) 
• Experience with Oracle E-Business Suite 
• Experience with a virtualization technology 
• Cloud experience