Advantage Tech is looking for a Salesforce Developer for our Overland Park Client.  

Primary responsibilities:

Define and implement development standards for the platform including code, configuration management, integration, security compliance and user experience.

– Identifies, compares and recommends technical options provided by the platform.
– Participate in all phases of software development life cycle including functional analysis, development of technical requirements, prototyping, coding, testing, deployment and support
– Develop high-quality and scalable application logic with Apex and SOQL
– Develop highly interactive UI using Aura, LWC, Lightning Design System, Visual force, JavaScript and JQuery technologies.
– Apply best practices and design patterns of best-of-breed applications developed on the Salesforce.com platform
– Reviews code of others to ensure it adheres to best practices & coding policies
– Create and execute unit, integration and user acceptance test plans, including use cases and test data. Ensure solutions meet quality standards
– Be a part of DevOps team for the platform ensuring all development and deployments are planned and executed successfully.
– Development and configuration management (planning, quality control, issue management and code management).
– Defect Management throughout test, deployment and post go live support.
– Partner with Solution Architects to create High level conceptual design 
– Strong knowledge of Salesforce.com, Field Service Lighting experience a plus
– Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder, Developer 1/2, Field Service, and Service Cloud Consultant certifications are desired

Advantage Tech is looking for a Hogan Developer for our Kansas City, MO.  This is a 100% remote.  They will be focused on the upgrade for Deposit Processing including DBA, PDA, CIH.  The other focus will be Customer Processing Side and AIF.

Verifying that the source code is working correctly and testing and correcting for upgrade.  

Experience with Trace Master and Change Man are tools that the client uses. 

They would like to consider hiring this person if everything works out. 

Advantage Tech is looking for a Project Manager for our Kansas City, MO client.  
Reporting to the Chief Client Experience Officer, the Business Project Manager will play a critical role in strengthening and maintaining the operational infrastructure and day-to-day functioning of our organization. In this role you will support the work closely with Leadership to manage projects that will directly improve our client experience. This person will be the driving force in process improvement and operational execution across our clients’ priorities.
Duties and Responsibilities
? Manage project activities, information, and resources
? Develop and manage detailed project schedules; Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget *
? Serve as primary lead and contact for project communication and coordination *
? Coordinate project governance from planning to project sign-off/acceptance
? Collaborate across or with multiple departments to coordinate and manage project and client relationships *
? Coordinate resource staffing and allocation for various roles that are needed to deliver the project on time and budget *
? Provide direction and guidance to the project teams regarding methodology and deliverables assuring they are consistent with the project plan *
? Coordinate resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects
? Assist in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility *
? Ensure resource availability and allocation
? Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule and project costs using appropriate verification techniques *
? Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques ? Report and escalate to management as needed
? Perform risk management to minimize project risks *
Desired Skills and Experience
? Bachelor’s degree in business related discipline
? Minimum of 3 years project management experience in a SaaS company
? Exceptional communication skills with proactive approach
? Highly analytical with ability to analyze problems, trends and recurring problems
? Ability to adapt project management practices to meet rapidly changing business climates and needs
? Self-started, and has comfort with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment
? Experience with Salesforce or similar CRM system
? Advanced Microsoft Excel skills

Advantage Tech has a startup client who is looking for an iOS Engineer to help with enhancements and upgrades.  This is a remote position and is a direct hire opportunity.

The Position

– Build an iOS app, heavy in video and animation.  

– Work closely with one of the company co-founders to implement models on device.

– Create proofs-of-concept, demos and final product.

Requirements:

– Citable projects demonstrating iOS proficiency

– BS/MS in CompSci or related discipline

– 2+ yrs experience in iOS development (Swift)

– Experience building complex interfaces

– Experience writing unit tests and testable code

– Strong understanding of design patterns and good engineering practices.

– Experience learning & using 3rd party APIs

– Independent, analytical and problem-solving skills.

– Experience with multithreading programming

 -Experience with Parallel Programming, Memory Management, and Algorithms and Data Structures

Advantage Tech is searching for a Data Implementation Specialist to join their client's team based out of Belton, Mo.
 

The Data Integration Specialist facilitates, organizes and manages data transfer functionality to and from various databases.  This position creates and maintains data import/export routines and maintains the availability, health and functionality of these databases.  This position has primary responsible for data movement and integration between major systems such as multiple Business Systems/ERPs and data warehouses and providing access via a web based interface.  This position will organize data from disparate systems for reporting and application consumption.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, implement and maintain procedures/processes to assist in the collection of operational, financial, and other information.
• Design, implement and maintain databases used in the collection of information.
• Work closely with internal customers to guide and provide accurate data models.
• Document information flow for moving information from one system to another.
• Implement data warehouses as needed.
• Develop policies and procedures for the collection and utilization of data.
• Own responsibility for the governance (standards and documentation) of solutions developed.
• Stay current on innovations and trends in database standards and practices.
• Support the development and implementation of best practice data policies and guides for the organization.
• Other duties as assigned.

REQUIRED SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

• Experience working with various database query tools, SQL, PL/SQL, T-SQL, etc.
• Good knowledge of creating and managing databases, including database health.
• Excellent know of Microsoft and Oracle SQL database architecture.
• Experience with Data analysis tools such as Prophix, Tableau or similar.
• 5+ years of experience in technology roles.
• Ability to collect, document, and organize large amounts of data.
• Experience with Business System data architectures.
• Excellent knowledge of technical management, information analysis and of computer hardware/software systems.
• Proven teamworking, organization and time management skills.
• Strong communication skills – both written and verbal.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Management, Economics, MIS, Statistics, Computer Science, or similar field

Our client is seeking a talented and motivated individual to become an integral part of their IT team. This role provides technical support to 400+ employees across varied functional roles and levels. Their skilled IT team supports desktop hardware, operating systems, sales software and tools, office productivity software, security devices/software, printers, and mobile. The IT team is streamlined allowing for opportunities to cross into multiple facets of IT, requiring a person that can span a wide breadth of IT knowledge.
 

Key Responsibilities

• Answer, evaluate and prioritize service requests. Ensure timely resolution of user issues by assigning an appropriate priority and resolution goal.
• Evaluate and prioritize service requests received via help desk; response will vary between telephone, in-person and use of remote access
• Responsible for onboarding all employees, including ensuring all software, licenses, and hardware is purchased and ready in advance of start date.
• Reviewing build issues and directing users on how to properly access data and creating markers to save views.
• Create technical documentation and training materials. Provide training sessions for business, which may include remote and/or classroom settings.
• Analyze and correct issues using documented procedures and available tools as well as personal knowledge, skills and recommended solutions
• Determine cause of hardware malfunctions such as hard drive, printer, cables or telephone by isolating performance issues. Escalate issues to the infrastructure team.
• Troubleshoot, identify and resolve both PC and Apple iOS software application problems
• Resolve printing and network connectivity issues
• Contact software and hardware vendors (via voice or online systems) to research issues and determine and implement recommended solutions
• Perform PC imaging for standardized deployments of business applications
• Perform daily checks to verify system availability
• Test and deploy new software, procedures, installation, conversion and upgrade activities
• Brainstorm with team members to resolve more complex issues and escalate difficult issues to IT Director
• Protects organization’s value and integrity by keeping ALL company and personnel information strictly confidential.

Requirements

• Experience in end-user support, help desk ticketing software, hardware/software upgrades and troubleshooting
• Experience supporting and troubleshooting the following technology:

o Microsoft Office 365
o Windows 10 (proficient)
o Copiers and printers
o Computer imaging, Desktop VPN’s, network shares, namespaces and mapped drives

• Experience troubleshooting remote issues and supporting offsite users
• Ability to effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical individuals
• Ability to read and interpret documents, for example, operating/maintenance instructions and procedure manuals
• Available for limited travel to other local locations
• Detail-oriented, multi-tasking, analytical skills, patience, and flexibility
• Must be willing to field calls and resolve issues outside normal work hours should they occur.
• Experience delivering formal/informal technical user training

Advantage Tech is looking for a Salesforce Developer for our Client in Kansas City or Memphis.  This is primarily a remote position but eventually could be 1 day in the office each week. 
 

Job Description

The Senior Salesforce Developer develops code and provides technical support in adherence to company standards, policies and procedures.  They apply unique aptitude for a specific applicable technical skill as needed.  Specific responsibilities include:

• Develops code consistent with specifications and performs unit testing of such code
• Utilizes professional discretion to make technical decisions that guide project, department, or program as needed
• Independently utilizes professional discretion to achieve project goals with minimal oversight
• Provides technical support to internal and external customers
• Participates in formal unit and or integration testing for deliverables as assigned by management or required by project
• Communicates clearly in writing and verbally the specific logic involved in assigned tasks
• Proactively researches, learns, and applies new technology and methods to solve assigned tasks
• Performs peer code reviews and collaborates with team to improve overall design and code

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field  
• Salesforce Certified Platform Developer designation
• 5 years of professional development experience
• 5 years of experience with the Salesforce product suite including Salesforce1, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, App Cloud, Communities and AppExchange solution
• Ability to code from scratch within Apex, Visualforce (VF), and experience with the Lightning platform
• Experience designing and developing custom Salesforce platform and custom Salesforce applications
• Professional experience architecting a software application using Salesforce and other web technologies.

1. Getting the scoop from Cole PRice the hiring manager.   If you have a candidate please have them apply to 
    

   Job Description

   Plans and coordinates all aspects of internal information system-specific projects from initiation to delivery. Is responsible for the management and the day-to-day operational and tactical aspects of multiple enterprise wide projects. Projects often involve network, server, or software implementation and upgrades. Coordinates work performed by internal and external IT staff and internal customers/partners.

   Develops detailed project plans and manages all implementation processes including resource allocation, progress tracking, monitoring change control process, testing, documentation, training, and on-time delivery within budget constraints.

   • Communicate clearly to stakeholders and customers both in writing and verbally specific test results, customer feedback, and any appropriate actions suggested
   • Provide technical support to internal and external customer
   • Mentor the continual development of others within the given project or department
   • Lead and advise others regarding quality control for specific projects or applications as assigned by management
   • Develop internal and external customer relationships that result in quality project deliveries
   • Lead and/or participate in training efforts for assigned projects
   • Proactively seek learning opportunities and stay current on new skills to bring benefit to the local program office and to projects.

   Qualifications

   • Bachelor’s degree in Project Management or related field or 4 years of additional experience in lieu of degree
   • 5 years of IT project management experience
   • 2 years within an agile framework

Advantage Tech is looking for a Project Manager for our Kansas City Client.  Tis is a remote position for now and could eventually be one to two days in the office per week.  

This position will report to Joe Sullivan.  I am waiting for him to give me the details.  

When you find a candidate please have them apply to 

Advantage Tech is looking for a Information Security Analyst for our Kansas City Client.  This position is mostly remote.  Eventually you may need to go into the office 1 day a week.  
 

Job Description

The Information Systems department provides tools and automation to store, organize and manipulate data while making that data easily retrievable.  Various hardware and software tools, along with support, combine to enable these functions in a cost effective method that helps to increase efficiency and accuracy.

The Information Security Analyst ensures the company’s data and systems are sufficiently secure by understanding information security risks while developing and enforcing policies and procedures to mitigate them.

• Provides the IS security function, including reviewing, planning and implementation, and management of security controls for the organization
• Creates and maintains the enterprise’s Business Continuity Plan and Disaster Recovery Plan
• Establishes a security stance through policy, architecture and training processes
• Oversees the operations of the enterprise’s security solutions
• Interfaces with peers in the development and network departments as well as with the leaders of the business units to both share the corporate security vision with those individuals and to solicit their involvement in achieving higher levels of enterprise security through information sharing and co-operation
• Leads the selection of appropriate security solutions, and oversees any vulnerability audits and assessments
• Manages security exemption processes, particularly where it involves shared risks to the company’s systems and data

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelor’s degree or 4 years of additional relevant experience in lieu of degree
• 5 years of experience in information security 

Preferred:

• Bachelor’s degree in the field of business administration, computer science, finance, or information systems
• 7+ years of experience in information security
• Information Security Certifications such as: CISSP, Security +, CISA, Cloud/Network Administration

Job Description

The Softeare Architect plans, coordinates, architects, and supervises activities related to the development and integration of software programs, applications, and third-party solutions as required to meet the business requirements of the organization. The Architect also develops and maintains an application architecture blueprint for the organization.

• Define all aspects of development from appropriate technology and workflow to coding standards.
• Collaborate with other professionals to determine functional and non-functional requirements for new software or applications.
• Provide technical guidance and coaching to developers and engineers.
• Develop high-level product specifications with attention to system integration and feasibility.
• Communicate successfully all concepts and guidelines to the development team.
• Oversee progress of development team to ensure consistency with initial design.
• Communicates clearly in both writing and verbally specific logic involved in assigned tasks.
• Ensure software meets all requirements of quality, security, modifiability, extensibility etc.

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelor’s degree or 4 years of additional relevant experience in lieu of degree.
• 4 years of professional software architecture or enterprise software development experience.
•  Experience developing enterprise and solution-level architectural designs.
• Experience overseeing the linking of cross-functional applications between disparate business units and systems.
• Experience with business and technical requirements analysis, business process modeling/mapping, methodology development, and data mapping.
• Technically fluent in programming languages, .Net, AngularJS, 3js, Python, Unity, PHP, or HTML 5. 
• Strong background in risk management methodologies as they relate to integration/software engineering.
• Strong understanding of end-user needs and requirements.
• 3 years of direct experience in an agile environment

Preferred:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 8+ years of professional software architecture or enterprise software development experience.
• SCRUM or other certifications commiserate with job requirements

Advantage Tech is looking for a Software Engineer II for our client in Kansas City or Memphis.  This is primary a remote position but will eventually go in 1 or maybe 2 days a week. 
 

Job Description

The Customer Solutions group creates and supports all customer facing technology.  The department applies best practices and innovative technology to stakeholder and business issues to find solutions that maximize investment value.

The Programmer Analyst II develops code and provides technical support in adherence of company standards, policies and procedures.  The Analyst II applies a unique aptitude for applicable technical skills.

• Develops code consistent with specifications and performs unit testing of such code
• Provides technical support to internal and external customers
• Participates in formal unit and integration testing for Customer Solutions deliverables as assigned by management
• Utilizes professional discretion to make technical decisions that guide project, department, or program as needed
• Communicates clearly both in writing and verbally the specific logic involved in assigned tasks
• Proactively researches, learns, and applies new technology and methods to solve assigned tasks
• Perform peer code reviews and collaborate with team to improve overall design and code

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Associates degree or 2 additional years of relevant experience
• Professional Development Experience writing new code in applications using .Net, AngularJS, 3js, Python, Unity, PHP, or HTML 5

Preferred:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• 5 years of professional development experience
• Experience writing software deliverables professionally, from conception to delivery

Advantage Tech is looking for a Software Engineer for our Client in Kansas City or Memphis.  This is mostly a remote position for now and eventually going into the office maybe one to two days a week at some point. 
 

Job Description

The Software Solutions group creates and supports customer facing technology. The department applies best practices and innovative technology to stakeholder and business issues to find solutions that maximize investment value.

The Programmer Analyst III develops code and provides technical support in adherence to company standards, policies and procedures. The Analyst III applies unique aptitude for a specific applicable technical skill as needed.

• Develops code consistent with specifications and performs unit testing of such code
• Utilizes professional discretion to make technical decisions that guide project, department, or program as needed
• Independently utilizes professional discretion to achieve project goals with minimal oversight
• Provides technical support to internal and external customers
• Participates in formal unit and or integration testing for deliverables as assigned by management or required by project
• Communicates clearly in writing and verbally the specific logic involved in assigned task
• Proactively researches, learns, and applies new technology and methods to solve assigned tasks
• Performs peer code reviews and collaborates with team to improve overall design and code

Qualifications

Minimum: 

• Associates degree or 2 years of additional relevant experience in lieu of degree
• Professional Development experience writing new code in applications using .Net, AngularJS, 3js, Python, Unity, PHP, or HTML 5.
• Considered an Expert in at least one listed language
• Professional experience architecting a Software Application using applicable technologies

Preferred: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Professional certifications commiserate with Job Requirements
• 10 years of professional development experience
• Experience writing software deliverables professionally, from conception to delivery

Skills & Competencies: 

• Customer focus
• Action oriented
• Listening
• Career ambition
• Learning on the fly
• Time management
• Problem solving
• Technical learning
• Functional and technical skills
• Written communications

Advantage Tech is looking for an Applications Developer for our remote client. 

The Applications Developer assist in designing, developing, and implementing and supports development solutions to meet business needs. Works closely with the Team Lead and Senior Developer to develop solutions. Works closely with Information Services technical staff and the business staff to assist in the development of system solutions and plan training requirements for implementation.

Job Description

•Consults with users and technical staff, determines needs, and designs development solutions. Assist in suggesting alternative approaches to fulfill user needs. Utilizes development methodology in assuring all enhancements are properly tested. Analyzes and monitors the resources required.

•Analyzes and implements technology development solutions to meet business needs. May use tools such as the following: MS Visual Studio/ SQL/ SSIS / MS Office/ JavaScript/ HTML/ XML.

•Analyzes business processes, workflow, database requirements, and existing business application functionality to develop project programming estimates and development specifications.

•Responds to requests for data or for data analysis including reporting, normalization, field mapping, and duplicate record detection which may require using query languages such as SQL.

•Develops and maintains documentation of programs, user guides, policies and procedures. Assists with employee training on newly developed applications.

•Documents production application providing required information for other staff members which may include Computer Operations and Network Services staffs.

•Communicates project progress and status to Manager and the Development team members.

•Evaluates existing applications and systems. Recommends improvements or modifications utilizing current technologies and techniques.

•Follows team standards and processes during the development life-cycle. I.e. Code reviews, deployments, testing and code standards.

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·       Requirements

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Requires four to six years of experience in technology development which may include using .NET, SQL Server and MS office products.
• Additional years of qualifying work experience may be considered in lieu of formal education.
• Requires effective written and verbal communication skills. Ability to document analysis and design of procedures.
• Prefer two or more years of Web API, WCF or RESTful design using C#.
• Prefer experience is SSIS package development and design.
• Prefer experience in the SDLC process and documentation.

Advantage Tech is looking for a Java Developer for a long standing client of ours. Flexibility for remote work. 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.

General Accountabilities:

The Technical Project Manager IV plans, and manages delivery of solutions and business objectives. These efforts include coordinating the initiatives of multiple matrixed teams and external clients in order to deliver according to plan and Service Level Agreement. This position reports to the Business Management Center of Excellence.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule, and project costs
• Communicate expectations in accordance with the project plan, in order to align the stakeholders and project team members.
• Measure project performance to identify and quantify variances and perform required corrective actions
• Execute tasks as defined in the project plan.
• Create a project organization structure by defining roles and responsibilities
• Identify and mitigate project risk impacts on the project.
• Record detailed customer requirements, constraints, and assumptions with stakeholders in order to establish the project deliverables, using various requirement-gathering techniques (e.g., planning sessions, brainstorming, focus groups)
• Improve team performance by leading, mentoring, training, motivating, and building team cohesiveness,
• Communicates and provide support to stakeholders to establish strong rapport.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or a related field.
• Seven plus years of Project Management Experience – CAPM, PMP or similar designation preferred
• Fifteen plus total technology experience
• Demonstrated ability to manage a project using a variety of methodologies (Waterfall, Scrum, Kanban, etc).
• Demonstrated understanding of project lifecycle in complex technical environments.
• Knowledge of project management tools and software such as Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, SharePoint, Jira, etc.
• Participation in the full software development life cycle.
• Experience with third-party system support with preference given to insurance / financial services platforms.
• Knowledge of IT systems, governance and compliance.
• Proven problem solving, decision making, analytical and organizational skills are required.
• Ability to tailor communications and influence critical decisions with a variety of stakeholders.
• Ability to work within broadly defined parameters.
• Strong results orientation, organization and management skills.
• Ability to lead and focus the efforts of others to established goal.
• Ability to effectively drive results with cross-functional teams in a matrixed organization.
• Experience with conversions and implementations.
• Ability to develop relationships, with a strong focus on communication and change management.
• Knowledge of annuities and life products
• PMI- ACP, CSM or equivalent preferred
• Ability to travel a minimum of 10% of the time.

SKILLS REQUIRED:

Technical:

• Advanced understanding of developing solutions in C# .NET Framework and/or .NET5, JavaScript, and JS frameworks
• Intermediate development experience with SQL, including basic understanding of relational database concepts and design
• Experience with Puppet and Nagios or comparable
• The ability to visualize and translate business needs into technological solutions
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Servers and Internet Information System
• Ability to build strong working relationships with customers and peers
• Desire and ability to mentor, share skills, knowledge, and expertise
• Capable of delivering on multiple complex tasks with little supervision within a defined Agile SDLC
• Motivated and organized self-starter with strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities
• Inquisitive, agile, and strong team player with excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills with ability to convey information, strategy, and goals clearly and effectively to multiple technical and non-technical groups
• Ability to remain adaptable and resilient to all situations with an optimistic outlook and cast a positive shadow that is aligned with our culture and Core Values
• Intermediate level proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook

Deliverable / Statement of Work:           

Commerce Bank is looking for a lead .NET Software Development Engineer to work on a new product in our IT healthcare division. This position will be responsible for architecting, modifying, and creating web applications and workflow solutions that integrate with other software packages and Banking Applications. This role will provide technical direction, maintenance, and support. This role will be responsible for analysis, design, programming, testing, and implementing complex applications. Assigned tasks must be accomplished accurately and timely to effectively meet the goals of the job. This role will work directly with multiple IT areas, a highly skilled development team and business partners.

Advantage Tech is looking for a React Developer to join a fantastic company that has a large benefit and yearly bonus structure.  

Summary: 

We are looking for a talented web developer to join our team in writing React apps on our React Development Team. You'll have the opportunity to work on one of our agile scrum teams to build and maintain web applications. Our portfolio spans retail, commercial, and international e-commerce areas, plus there are additional opportunities for internal employee applications. Candidates must have recent experience building JavaScript SPA web projects with React and Node.js.

What You Will Do:

• Implement features that meet business requirements while maintaining a healthy, sustainable, and reliable codebase
• Work with peer developers and leads using collaboration tools for requirements refinement, pair programming, code reviews, design reviews, and other developer activities
• Contribute to overall group objectives like finding opportunities for cross-product code reuse, improving developer experience using automation, and improving operational stability
• Own your own professional development by seeking out challenging work assignments
• Support a collaborative, self-empowered, and distributed work culture

What We Look For:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, Information Technology or related field required
• In-Depth experience in React, JavaScript and TypeScript is must
• Proficient with modern React using hooks, context and state management
• Typically requires 8 to 15 years of experience as a full-time developer
• Familiarity developing software using Agile processes and the Scrum framework
• Experience using SCM tools like Git, GitLab, and GitHub
• Advanced knowledge of unit testing and end-to-end testing best practices and continuous integration/Deployment processes (CI/CD)
• Must be a team player with great interpersonal and communication skills; time-management skills are critical
• A strong advocate of clean code

Advantage Tech is looking for a Senior Data Governance Analyst for our remote client.  This role has a direct impact on maturing the organization forward; toward a data driven culture. As a liaison to other disciplines and programs across the organization, this role will collect and align policies, standards, and procedures to further enable data governance capabilities. Leveraging technology, this role will be responsible for overseeing the organization's Business, Data, and Technical Assets through the management of an Enterprise Business Glossary and Data Catalog. This position offers an opportunity for thought leadership in bringing forward innovative and automated solutions to managing the life cycle and lineage of data assets while improving data quality across the organization. This candidate’s primary focus will be leading the analysis, development, and build of an Enterprise Data Catalog while also building related data lineage to directly support privacy, security, legal, and audit initiatives.

SKILLS

– Lead and drive enterprise level data lineage initiative in support of privacy, legal, and regulatory requirements.

– Lead and execute on data governance activities and initiatives in alignment with the organization’s Data Governance Program.

– Advocate and articulate the value of data governance while providing education and training to the enterprise community, including data stewards and data consumers.

– Help drive adoption of data ownership, data stewardship, and data governance processes across the organization.

– Facilitate and coordinate collaboration with data stewards to help define enterprise business terms and assist with bringing resolution to data quality concerns and issues.

– Work directly with business partners to establish enterprise business data domains, ownership, and stewardship.

– Collaborate with data stewards, data owners, and data consumers to establish best practices, processes, and procedures in support of  Enterprise Business Glossary and Data Catalog.

– Mentor and coach junior analysts on data governance disciplines and best practices.

– Assist with establishing and supporting KPIs, metrics, and measurements to monitor data quality and data governance maturity.

– Help drive organizational adoption of the data governance tool suite (erwin) by providing user documentation, training, and demos to ensure proper usage and adherence to processes and procedures.

– Identify, create, and/or support data policy to ensure the organizations data and usage is compliant with regulation, compliance, and security standards.

– Assist in the creation and implementation of the Erwin data governance suite user guides and procedures.

– Manage the administration of the erwin tool suite and partner with product vendor to guide and ensure proper usage of the products functionality and maximize company’s usage of the capabilities within the product.

– Partner with both the business and technical SMEs to help establish relationships between business assets, such as business terms, and data or technical assets, such as policy and reports, and assist with the documentation of data movement and data lineage of enterprise data assets.

– Establish procedures to document and curate data assets, including classifying mastered and reference data, identifying the authoritative source (golden record), and what and where sensitive data resides.

– Facilitate and document data ownership roles, including elements, definitions, transformations, calculations, etc. to the appropriate functional Data Steward(s), ensuring all key participants are granted appropriate input rights. May help lower levels associates by reviewing or advising on their work.

– Bachelor’s Degree in Healthcare, Management Information Systems, Computer Science or a related field.

– 7+ years’ experience with Data Management/Data Governance.

– 2-4 years’ experience of data analysis, data modeling, data mapping and profiling utilizing tools such as SQL.

– Advanced knowledge and experience in data governance framework and principles, including the development and management of data policy, process workflows, procedural documentation, including defining and leading organizational change to align with these practices.

– Advanced knowledge of Data Architecture, Data Modeling, Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence concepts.

– Preferred understanding and familiarity with healthcare insurance data.

– Experience and hands on knowledge of master and reference data management.

– Hands on experience developing and implementing in data governance platforms such as erwin, Collibra, Informatica, etc.

– A strong understanding and experience in identifying and classifying data assets.

– Experience and knowledge of privacy and regulatory laws related to data privacy and protection.

Advantage Tech is looking for a React Engineer to join our remote client.  They have a great benefit package and yearly bonus.  They are also named one of the top companies to work for. 

Summary:

Our Client is looking for a talented React developer to join our team. You'll have the opportunity to work on initiatives to build systems  of the future to support connected retail across all channels. Ideal candidate must have good background in developing web applications using ReactJS with some prior programming experience using another language like C++ or Java. Should have the mindset to learn new skills and business processes. The candidate should also possess good problem solving, communication and leadership (Team Lead) skills.

Responsibilities:

Participate in any and all roles of the systems development life cycle. The role will be exposed to a variety of projects and responsibilities.

This may include, but not limited to:

• Design, code, review, test, deploy, document and support of applications
• Act as a team lead and provide guidance and coaching to other junior members on the team
• Own your own professional development by seeking out challenging work assignments
• Support a collaborative, self-empowered and agile team culture
• Collaborate with teams across the IT and Business Partners
• Contribute to the overall team and department goals and objectives
• Seek ways to improve the SDLC process through automation and reuse
• Ensure applications are designed for high performance, resilience and reliability
• Troubleshoot complex problems in production environments

Skills and Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related Engineering field or MIS preferred
• Minimum 4 years of overall experience developing applications in a full stack environment
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in developing web applications using React, Redux, Jest, and Flow
• Experience using one of the other programming languages like C++, Java or Python
• Experience using Relational Databases (ex. Oracle/Informix/SQL Server etc.) and writing SQL queries
• Experience with SCM tools like Git, SVN, Jira, Jenkins and Ansible
• Familiarity in developing software using Agile processes and the Scrum framework
• Ability to work on a distributed team using chat and collaboration software for primary communications
• Ability and willingness to learn new technologies to be a full stack engineer

Advantage Tech is looking for a React Software Engineer that has worked in a Java environment.  Our client has a great benefit package and yearly bonus.  They are one of the top company's to work in the US.

Summary:

Our Client is looking for a talented React developer to join our team. You'll have the opportunity to work on initiatives to build a new shareable component library that will be used by all web applications across the enterprise. Ideal candidate must have good background in developing web applications using ReactJS with some other programming experience using another language like C++ or Java as optional. Should have the mindset to learn new skills and business processes. The candidate should also possess good problem solving, communication and leadership (Team Lead) skills.

What You Will Do:

Participate in any and all roles of the systems development life cycle. The role will be exposed to a variety of projects and responsibilities. This may include, but not limited to:

• Design, code, review, test, deploy, document and support of applications
• Act as a team lead and provide guidance and coaching to other junior members on the team
• Own your own professional development by seeking out challenging work assignments
• Support a collaborative, self-empowered and agile team culture
• Collaborate with teams across the IT and Business Partners
• Contribute to the overall team and department goals and objectives
• Seek ways to improve the SDLC process through automation and reuse
• Ensure applications are designed for high performance, resilience, and reliability
• Troubleshoot complex problems in production environments

What We Look For:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or MIS required
• Minimum 8 years’ experience in developing web applications using React, Redux, Jest, and Flow
• Experience with SCM tools like Git, Jira, and Jenkins
• Familiarity in developing software using Agile processes and the Scrum framework
• Ability to work on a distributed team using chat and collaboration software for primary communications

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Advantage Tech is looking for a ReactJS developer for our remote client.  They have a large benefit package and yearly bonus.
 

Summary: 

Our Client is looking for a talented React developer to join our team. You'll have the opportunity to work on initiatives to build a new shareable component library that will be used by all web applications across the AutoZone enterprise. Ideal candidate must have good background in developing web applications using ReactJS with some other programming experience using another language like Java as optional. Should have the mindset to learn new skills and business processes. The candidate should also possess good problem solving and communication skills.

What You Will Do:

• Implement features that meet business requirements while maintaining a healthy, sustainable, and reliable codebase
• Work with peer developers and leads using collaboration tools for requirements refinement, pair programming, code reviews, design reviews, and other developer activities
• Contribute to overall group objectives like finding opportunities for cross-product code reuse, improving developer experience using automation, and improving operational stability
• Own your own professional development by seeking out challenging work assignments
• Support a collaborative, self-empowered, and distributed work culture

What We Look For:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, Information Technology or related field required
• Experience developing web applications using React, Redux, Jest, and TypeScript
• Typically requires 2 to 5 years of experience as a full-time developer
• Familiarity developing software using Agile processes and the Scrum framework
• Experience using SCM tools like Git, GitLab, and GitHub
• Ability to perform tasks independently with some technical supervision
• Ability to work on a distributed team using chat and collaboration software for primary communications

Advantage Tech is looking for a Salesforce Developer to work on site in the Kansas City metro area. 

Primary responsibilities:

Define and implement development standards for the platform including code, configuration management, integration, security compliance and user experience.

– Identifies, compares and recommends technical options provided by the platform.
– Participate in all phases of software development life cycle including functional analysis, development of technical requirements, prototyping, coding, testing, deployment and support
– Develop high-quality and scalable application logic with Apex and SOQL
– Develop highly interactive UI using Aura, LWC, Lightning Design System, Visual force, JavaScript and JQuery technologies.
– Apply best practices and design patterns of best-of-breed applications developed on the Salesforce.com platform
– Reviews code of others to ensure it adheres to best practices & coding policies
– Create and execute unit, integration and user acceptance test plans, including use cases and test data. Ensure solutions meet quality standards
– Be a part of DevOps team for the platform ensuring all development and deployments are planned and executed successfully.
– Development and configuration management (planning, quality control, issue management and code management).
– Defect Management throughout test, deployment and post go live support.
– Partner with Solution Architects to create High level conceptual design 
– Strong knowledge of Salesforce.com, Field Service Lighting experience a plus
– Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder, Developer 1/2, Field Service, and Service Cloud Consultant certifications are desired

Advantage Tech is looking for a PL?SQL Developer for our Overland Park Client.  This position is on site.  

Job Duties:
·       Application development–highly adept at performing all steps in SDLC–from requirements stage working with the business user through code writing, testing, and implementation. Collaboration with other developers in agile development projects using JIRA
·       Application tier 3 production support–highly adept at identifying root cause of complex problems, proposing multiple options to permanently resolve the problem, and implementing code-based solutions when appropriate.
 
Required skills:
·       Excellent English written and verbal communication skills
·       Advanced Oracle PL/SQL training/certification
·       At least 6 years of hands-on experience writing advanced Oracle PL/SQL on large Oracle databases.  Highly competent working with large data transfers and experience with parallels.  Proven experience writing and maintaining complex Oracle SQL, PL/SQL functions, and Oracle packages.
·       Linux, UNIX skills and experience with scripting and managing scheduled jobs
·       At least 3 years Java knowledge and hands-on experience writing and maintaining java code. Experience in Springboot, Junit,  Kafka, Apigee, Splunk,  CI/CD using Bitbucket or GitLab. Deployments using pivotal cloud foundry and/or Kubernetes is good to have.
·       Process and detailed oriented
·       Plus:  Sprint Network Deployment knowledge and experience
·       Plus:  Microsoft .NET experience and hands-on experience writing and maintaining .NET code
·       Plus:  Microsoft SQL server experience and hands-on experience writing and maintaining T-SQL code
·       Plus:  Knowledge and capabilities with other software technologies. 

Technical Leads play a key role in the design, development/configuration, unit testing, installation, and ongoing maintenance of software platforms. Technical Leads work with stakeholders to develop solutions and/or products that fulfil the needs of internal stakeholders and clients. Those solutions and/or products make us more efficient and provide better service to end customers. Technical Leads interact directly with project managers, business stakeholders, and may periodically interact directly with clients. Technical Leads will facilitate, lead, and enable junior team members by acting as a mentor for soft skills and/or technical subject matter expert. 

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Work as part of a global, cross-functional team to develop innovative software for stakeholders.
• Contribute to projects by creating well-designed, customized, testable, efficient code for platforms.
• Assist our teams in providing ongoing support, troubleshooting, improvements, or custom enhancements to existing platforms.
• Flexibility to support the challenging development and delivery needs
• Collaborate with our global teams, internal stakeholders and customers.
• Act as a mentor and technology expert for team members and conduct technical reviews.
• Architect, Design, develop and validate various requirements for platforms
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment, recognize and react to changing business needs and effectively prioritize tasks
• Must be self-motivated and able to work both independently and in conjunction with team members and business units. Enthusiasm and flexibility to work on a variety of projects

Experience Required:   

• Should have 7 – 10 years IT experience with not less than 5 years of strong expertise in Business Process Modelling capability
• Ability to comprehend business problems and provide BPM solutions for Automated Straight Through Processing (STP)
• Design end-to-end BPM Models with enterprise scale applications integrating different systems with SOA/Microservice Architecture
• Industry exposure to BFSI domain especially Insurance
• Excellent work ethic. Ability to work and travel independently.
• Effective communication, interpersonal, and critical thinking skills. Effective troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to influence, lead, and work as part of a cross-functional, global team.

Qualifications & Technical Skills

• Undergraduate degree in technology or equivalent relevant work experience.
• 10+ years of software development experience
• Experience acting as a project / technical lead
• Camunda Modeler & Cockpit deployment with Rest services
• Object Oriented Design & Programming using Java 8/J2EE
• JavaScript
• SPRING, SPRINGBoot
• Java Messaging System (JMS)
• SOA/Microservice Architecture
• JSON serialization and deserialization
• Experience on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) with XML,JSON data exchange formats , SOAP/Restful service architecture
• GitHub, Maven
• AWS CI/CD

Preferred/Optional Skills:

• Continuous Integration and Devops knowledge on AWS infrastructure
• Experience working in the insurance industry

Advantage Tech is looking for a Sr Software Engineer for our Remote client.  They have a large benefit package and generous bonus.  Their culture has been recognized as one of the top companies to work for. 

Summary:

We are  seeking an experienced senior software engineer to join the IT Marketing team. Our team is responsible for building a unified and consistent customer experience across all channels for capturing customer profiles and interactions; providing predictive advice, enhanced notifications, and personalized recommendations tailored to unique customer experience using AI/ML-based recommendations and by integrating with third-party tools such as Customer Relationship Management, Email Service Provider and Marketing analytics platforms.

You'll be challenged to think hard about user experience, database transactions, performance, stability, metrics, and what it takes to move fast and iterate in a world full of sensitive user profile data. It's an exciting and fun environment with the opportunity to have an effect at Fortune 500 company scale.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, plan and/or maintain software applications and or enterprise 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.
• Provides leadership for the development of Marketing applications
• Responsible for others’ accurate work planning and execution, accurate project 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

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
• Typically, eight to fifteen years of experience based on consistently demonstrated capabilities
• Technical skills should include a minimum of 8+ years of experience with one or more of the following: Java, Spring framework, and Spring Boot; Swagger and Open API specification
• Experienced in building core business layer of an application, designing for change and scalability, and building domain-centric modern service APIs
• Fluent with developing applications using Eclipse or IntelliJ on Linux/Windows
• Experience using SCM tools like Gitlab, GitHub, Subversion (SVN)
• Experience with CI/CD concepts and build pipelines such as using Jenkins and Maven
• Additional experience with any of these technologies is a plus, but not required:
  • Any messaging broker such as Kafka, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ
  • Designing and building cloud native applications like PCF or GCP
  • Any search engine experience (especially Elasticsearch)
  • Knowledge of software development frameworks used for Marketing application development or working with MarTech vendor integrations
• Ability to be self-driven, fast learner and adapt to new technologies
• Must be a team player with great interpersonal and communication skills; time-management skills are critical
• Advanced problem solving, domain technical and analytical skills
• Committed to the code quality and coaching engineers to improve quality of existing codebases

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

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 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 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 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 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 hiring for a new 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 2 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 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

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 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.

Job Description

The Quality Assurance (QA) department develops and establishes quality assurance standards and measures for the information technology services within the company. As a department it is challenged to apply best practices and innovative technology to stakeholder and business issues to find solutions that maximize investment value.

The IT QA Analyst assures and validates that software tools and applications developed by the company functions as specified and meets or exceeds requirements and expectations of end-use customers. These customers include both internal and external users. The Analyst also utilizes regression techniques in research and studies to assist with ongoing projects.

• Writes test plans and scripts for tracking defects and fixes in product development, software application development, information systems, and operations systems
• Participates in formal Unit and/or Integration as assigned by management or required by project
• Provides technical support to internal and external customers
• Communicates clearly in both written and verbal communications specific test results and any appropriate actions suggested
• Leads and advises others in testing for specific project or application as assigned by management
• Proactively researches, learns, and applies new testing technology and/or methods to solve assigned tasks

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 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 a remote Data Scientist for their client based out of Kansas City, MO office.

As a data scientist you will collaborate with the client’s development and client management teams to design, develop, deploy and improve collaborative filter models. We ingest large amounts of data from several sources for every client. Our data engineers are responsible for pipelining that data into a format ingestible by our models, however, the data scientist plays an active role in creating those specifications.

The backend is largely written in Python, so experience in that and other dynamic programming languages is essential. Our data is housed in Google Cloud Platform and we use Google Cloud managed services such as VertexAi, BigQueryML, GKE, Cloud Functions, Cloud Endpoints to deliver our service to our clients – experience in GCP or similar cloud environments (such as AWS) is required. We are also a small team; you will need to be comfortable taking your idea from theory into deployment.

Education:

Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative field such as statistics, mathematics, computer science, physics, engineering, etc.

Experience:

• 5+  years Information Security management
• 5+ years general office management in EU
• 7+ years Information Security analysis
• 2+ years company executive leadership/ownership

Knowledge:

English Language – Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.

Software Development – Knowledge of software development principles and architecture. Familiarity with programming for data analysis; ideally Python and SQL.

Cloud Technologies – Knowledge of Google Cloud Platform or AWS and of relational databases such as MySQL, PostgresQL, SQLServer, Redshift, Aurora, and/or BigQuery.

Clerical – Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.

Skills:

Complex Problem Solving Skills

• Complex Problem Solving- Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.

Systems Skills

• Judgment and Decision Making- Considering users experience and flow of the users story pertaining to users interface.
• Systems Analysis- Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
• Systems Evaluation- Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.

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)

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 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 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.

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 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 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 

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 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.

Register new patients, schedule appointments, transfer calls to appropriate personnel, and coordinate communication between business units. Requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment and take appropriate action.

Available to work Monday – Friday, 8 hour shift between 7am – 6pm

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 

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 

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 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 

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 

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 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

* 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 

Advantage Tech has a great client with an Enterprise Support role. This position is a 6 month contract-for-hire.  

ABILITIES, KNOWLEDGE, AND SKILLS

• Experience with SQL scripting/programming languages (PHP, perl, awk, sed, XML, SQL, Powershell)
• Experience supporting server hardware
• Windows server deployment
• Ability to work in a team environment, as well as autonomously
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Strong troubleshooting skills
• Experience with Exchange migrations is a plus
• Experience with RHEV/oVirt virtualization is a plus
• Experience with SANs and networking equipment (firewall, switches, routers) is a plus
• Experience with AS400/iSeries is a plus

DUTIES

• Assist the IT department in completing various Enterprise System projects.
• Maintain, support, and develop time-sensitive Daily Process scripts and reporting.
• Assist in troubleshooting and providing solutions in support of the company mission.
• Other tasks, as needed, to support IT goals and customer needs.

Priority Projects to be completed by contractor:

• Database development (SQL) report development 
• File feeds and scripting development. Pharmacy virtual server development

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Advantage Tech is looking for a Senior Software Engineer for our Kansas City, MO Client.  The Senior Software Developer will be responsible for the design, development, maintenance, testing and evaluation of new or existing software applications. They will be responsible for the entire application lifecycle from research and design to implementation, training and support. Senior Software Developers are often given more complex tasks and aid with research and design on difficult or time sensitive projects or issues. They are also tasked with mentoring other Software Developers.

The Senior Software Developer will work closely with their leadership in understanding requirement and project timelines. They will also work with Software Developers to help ensure best practices and sound technical decisions are made, and that software designs adhere to architecture specifications and department standards.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop web applications, web services, and backend processes for both internal and external customers
• Design and maintain database structures and stored procedures
• Review code written by other developers
• Troubleshoot and fix issues with various existing software applications and processes
• Create and review software architectures to ensure applications are efficient, scalable, and secure
• Help establish and maintain software standards
• Participate in and help refine Agile process

DESIRED EXPERIENCE AND ABILITIES:

• Experience designing and developing applications using the .NET Framework and .NET Core
• Experience with Agile software development processes and procedures
• Experience mentoring Software Developers
• Experience with Azure DevOps tools and resources for application lifecycle management and source control
• Strong understanding of SOLID design principles
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming and familiarity with various design and architectural patterns
• Knowledge of software development and security standards
• Knowledge of relational databases, preferably SQL Server
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical individuals
• Advanced troubleshooting and problem solving skills to resolve defects

EDUCATION:

Four year college degree or equivalent work experience with a high school education

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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Great Overland Park client is looking for Procure Analyst on 3 month contract for hire. This position is available for remote work. If the job description below looks like a great fit, we would love to discuss this position with you!

I. JOB SUMMARY –
Purchases materials, parts, supplies and equipment following established purchasing policies and procedures, and optimizing price, delivery and terms.

II. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES –
1. Reviews and approves purchase requisitions.
2. Identifies potential suppliers and issues requests for quotations.
3. Analyzes and selects suppliers, issues purchase orders, follows up and expedites as necessary.
4. Investigates and qualifies suppliers.
5. Monitors market trends and conditions.

III. REQUIREMENTS –
1. Bachelor’s Degree in Business or related field.
2. Problem solving skills with ability to identify root causes.
Strong written communication skills.

A career with our client is an opportunity for you to join a rapidly expanding company committed to making a difference for seniors and their families. Our client is an online platform connecting families searching for senior care services with a team of experienced advisors providing insight-driven and personalized solutions.  Their mission, as the leader in senior care advisory, is to be a trusted destination for families and their community customers. We are a quickly growing organization with over 500 advisors connecting more than 300,000 families every year to one of their community customers.

Living by their values and working to achieve excellence on behalf of their customers is integral to success at our client.  Employees who thrive at our client live their values every day and are an important part of their hiring practices:

• Focus on Excellence
• Act with Integrity & Assume Positive Intent
• Drive Outcomes Every Day with Passion and A Sense of Mission
• Make the Lives of our Families and Customers Better, Easier and More Successful

• Realize the Full Potential in Each Team Member.  Work as a Single Supportive Team

THE POSITION:

Connection Center (Customer Service) Representatives receive initial inbound calls from families who are looking for senior care options in a call center environment. They are responsible for the initial assessment, and qualification, of families who are looking for senior care options. The Connection Center Representative will assess pre-screened internet leads and will assign, and transfer, these families to a team of Senior Living Advisors (SLAs).

WHO YOU ARE:

CCRs are the first point of contact their customer families have with our Client.  CCRs are knowledgeable about senior living options and they assess a customer’s needs through a brief consultation while displaying exceptional customer service. The primary focus of a Connection Center Representative is to qualify families, assign them to an appropriate SLA, and to transfer the family to the assigned SLA.       

There are several KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) used to measure the success of the CCR position. Quality of work (QA Score), Call Handling Benchmarks, Referral Rates, and Warm Transfer Rates are some of the KPIs measured to ensure monthly targets are achieved.   

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assess and qualify families contacting/calling our Client in search of senior care needs.
• Contact families through their outreach program, outbound calls, to re-engage with prospective customers.
• Follow an eligibility process to qualify families in need of assistance.
• Educate families over the phone when answering questions, explaining options, and providing information.
• Transfer, or direct, families to the appropriate resource to handle their needs.
• Structured, pre-scheduled training attendance is mandatory.
• Communicate daily via phone to prospective families and customers.
• Consistently meet or exceed monthly KPIs.
• Other duties as assigned

REQUIRED SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

• 1-2 years of customer service / call center related experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to establish rapport through phone calls.
• Conduct oneself in a professional manner and use proper etiquette and language at all times.
• Highly efficient; able to independently manage their time in a fast pace environment including working in multiple computer programs at one time.
• Strong computer skills required, including Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook, Google suites, and an ability to capture notes in real time that accurately reflect what was shared during a call.
• Proven ability to develop, establish, nurture, maintain, and foster positive, harmonious quality working relationships within a team.
• Outcome oriented and focused on meeting or exceeding key performance indicators.

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Bachelor's degree is a plus.

Advantage Tech is on the search for an organized and confident Lead UX Designer to join our clients amazing team! 

RESPONSIBILITES AND DUTIES:

1. An awesome portfolio showing your best work – we are looking for someone who can deliver the best! 
2. Ability to deliver ideas to the team, present and defend recommendations, and collect input
3. Design user experience flow, wireframes, and prototypes to help illustrate design concepts across all platforms 
4. Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of employees and management
5. Passion for driving intuitive consumer-friendly web applications and products
6. Ability to work quickly and efficiently with high attention to detail
7. Ample practical experience with current web technologies
8. Demonstrated fluency in the design of responsive web experiences
9. Proficiency in Sketch, Figma, InVision or other design tools
10. 5+ Years of Design experience working on high-level strategic initiatives

Advantage Tech is seeking a Credit and Risk Manager to join their Overland Park based client.  This position will manage a team and assist in the oversight of the credit review process of prospective applicants (clients, merchants & customers) for creditworthiness and overall risk.

The duties will require leadership skills, development of new or improved strategies to improve efficiencies in the Underwriting process, critical use of various commercial data sources, analysis of financial statements and other information, and obtaining security documents as appropriate. Also, he/she will assist in overseeing and maintaining an organized proper retention of supporting documents for research and findings related to Credit & Risk group, job duties and applications. The role also is responsible for assisting in developing and implementing sound policy and procedures of the credit review process including providing input to strategic decisions that directly affect the functional area of responsibility.

Responsibilities: 

• Manage a staff of Underwriters.
• Assist in managing, directing and leading the Credit & Risk Team and coordinate Special Projects relating to functional area of expertise as assigned.
• Direct and develop new strategies to enhance Credit & Risk policies and procedures
• Provide subject matter expertise and support to the Director, Risk Management and Senior Leadership
• Assist in effectively managing, coaching, mentoring, collaborating and training Credit Analyst’s and assist in the development and personal growth in their career paths.
• Assist in creating a team environment where team members are able to grow personally and professionally and empower team members and provide them ownership in the process and direction of the ream and build confidence in their own abilities.
• Perform, lead and identify trends and developments in underwriting process, industry & market conditions and presents findings to Director, Risk Management and Senior Leadership.
• May conduct special financial and business-related reviews/studies and collaborate with indirect team members in other departments in improving operations and general practices in other areas of the business.
• Analyze applications for completeness, adequacy of information, and financial strength and overall creditworthiness and approve credit lines to match creditworthiness of accounts.
• Direct, lead and assist in conducting annual reviews of accounts to ensure continued creditworthiness for existing account credit lines.
• Direct, advise, coordinate, provide recommendations and guidance in approval of appropriate levels of credit lines assigned for Credit Analysts and accounts.
• Correspond (verbal and written) with applicants, client representatives and account holders on reasons for declines, additional information and items concerning requests.
• Review applications and accounts for indications of fraud. Verifications are conducted via research, phone calls to applicant/account holder and references/contacts of applicant and account holder(s)
• Obtain appropriate security and/or other documentation to secure accounts (e.g. Cash Deposits, UCC and other liens, bank letters of credit, guarantees, etc.).
• Record new credit line approvals in all systems and files as required.
• Review accounts listed on 80% report to determine whether an increase in credit line is warranted.
• Prepare and investigate Service Level Agreements (SLA) reports.
• Correspond with applicants/account holders on questions received via phone, fax, email and other communication methods.
• Assist in the preparation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) and other guidance documentation of current procedures.
• Conduct special projects (e.g. assess creditworthiness of specific industries, quality of accounts approved, automated processes and products, etc.).
• Review, assess impact, and take corrective action on informational alerts received from various reporting agencies.
• Embrace the company’s purpose, mission, vision and values of the company and lead the team in embracing them.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills/Qualifications:

• 7+ years of business-to-business underwriting, business credit or analyst experience required.
• Must possess demonstrated leadership abilities.
• College degree required with emphasis in Business Administration or Ac
• counting
• Advanced experience in financial statement analysis is required
• Experience in a retail or sales environment is a plus
• Proven ability to be an independent worker
• Strong analytical skills in order to interpret credit documentation and guidelines
• Excellent verbal and written communication skillsHighly effective interpersonal skills and conflict resolution/problem solving skills are a must to interact with internal staff and customers
• Advanced organizational and multi-tasking skills along with strong attention to details
• Highly intuitive nature in order to detect potential concerns while assessing credit worthiness.
• Intermediate to Advance knowledge of Microsoft Office Products (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint).

Job Summary:

 seeking a software developer. With oversight from other senior staff and/or management the software developer contributes to the analysis, design and implementation of enterprise, strategic and complex solutions including development of enterprise content delivery, workflow automation, business process management and reporting capabilities through all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle including post implementation support and maintenance. Scope of responsibility encompasses software design, development, testing, delivery, and support.  Senior level candidate will demonstrate mastery in these capabilities and be capable of directing other technical resources through the development lifecycle from concept to solution delivery including architecture and design.

Qualifications:

– Typically requires  3  to 6 years  of relevant experience. 
– Bachelor’s degree specializing in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), or a closely related field, from an accredited college or university, or equivalent combination of directly related education and/or experience. 
– Intermediate proficiency with Web Application Frameworks (e.g. JSF, Spring MVC, Grails, etc…). 
– Intermediate proficiency with modern ORM technology (e.g. Hibernate, JPA, etc…). 
– Intermediate proficiency with modern DBMS technology (e.g. SQL Server, etc…).
– Intermediate proficiency with Java Applications (e.g. Spring, etc…). 
– Intermediate proficiency with front end development technologies such as Angular, React, or Vue.
– Intermediate proficiency with modern DevOps tooling (e.g. Subversion, Git, Maven, etc…). 
 

Advantage Tech is seeking a Paid Media Manager to join their Kansas City based client. 

As the Paid Media Manager, you will join a team of experts in digital strategy, design, creative ideation and development. You will be fully responsible for the strategy development and execution of acquisition campaigns for our clients across all acquisition channels. Additionally, you’ll manage digital marketing deliverables including initial planning, implementation, monitoring, optimization, analysis and reporting of complex acquisition marketing goals across a range of high-profile clients.

What You'll Contribute:

• Develop media plans for campaigns against client goals (branding / engagement, sales/ conversions, audience growth, etc)
• Develop short and long term digital advertising strategy for clients with the goal of driving new customer acquisition (sales growth), brand engagement, and customer retention through prospecting and remarketing campaigns utilizing search, programmatic, paid social, video, and mobile advertising tactics
• Manage the entire marketing deliverable cycle including initial planning, creative briefing, implementation, monitoring, optimization, analysis and reporting
• Manage paid search, paid social, display and other paid media channels
• Work with Account Management team to generate weekly, monthly and quarterly performance reports and dashboards, and recognize and troubleshoot data anomalies
• Own relationship with digital advertising/marketing technology vendors
• Provide analysis of results and optimization ideas to Account teams in order to surpass client goals
• Ensure that all client documentation is spot on, following internal documentation and approval processes
• Help facilitate client meetings and provide online marketing expertise as needed
• Maintain an understanding of industry trends and provide relevant insights to teams as to how they might affect client accounts

Our Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in managing paid media campaigns with a minimum budget of at least $10K+/month
• College degree in Communications or related field required
• Experience with optimization of paid media campaigns to hit CPA, ROAS and Engagement goals
• Advanced knowledge of paid search platforms including Google AdWords, Bing Ads, Yahoo Gemini, AdWords Editor and Bing Ads Editor
• Advanced knowledge of Social Advertising, including, but not limited to:
  • Facebook Advertising and Facebook Business Manager
  • Twitter Advertising
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • YouTube
• Advanced knowledge of Google Analytics required, experience with additional analytics/measurement/tag management platforms preferred
• Strong overall Digital Marketing knowledge, with a hunger to learn more
• Extremely data and detail oriented
• Extremely analytical, detail-oriented and organized
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Excel
• Ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment, under tight deadlines
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills required for this role
• Demonstrated mastery of online marketing tactics including the execution of keyword builds, bids and bid optimization strategies, implementation of new tactics, and related activities.
• Demonstrated track record of success in the industry
• Strong history of managing large digital marketing campaigns
• Experience creating reports and recommendations based on account performance
• Agency experience preferred
• Team player with an entrepreneurial spirit

Advantage Tech is seeking a Sr Cyber Security Specialist for a client of ours. 

• Description:

  This position will require subject matter expertise in Controls Networks, Network Engineering, Process Networks, Factory Acceptance Testing and NERC Reliability Standards. Duties will include but not be limited to providing support to the client's Governance, Risk, Cybersecurity & Compliance in the area of cyber security, Control/SCADA system security, NERC CIP compliance, preparation of documentation in support of audits, conducting cyber security and vulnerability assessments, and contributing to the development of NERC CIP compliant programs at client sites across North America.

• Requirements:
  • Have a fundamental knowledge of Distributed Control System vendor control systems security offerings such as Emerson OSC, GE Security ST, and Industrial Defender.
  • Have working knowledge of DCS network architecture for control systems such as GE MARK VI, Emerson Ovation, Bailey Harmony INFI90, and or Siemens T3000.
  • Have strong knowledge on SCADA networks and protocols such as MODBUS, DNP3, and any proprietary SCADA protocols.
  • Identify new technologies and alternative systems to enhance security, reliability or customer experience.
  • Performed detailed and technical analysis of ICS and help integrate cyber security solutions.
  • Act as a technical advisor to clients and internal customers.
  • Identify operational issues and implement design alterations to address these issues.
  • Conduct vulnerability assessments of critical electric infrastructure, for both compliance and security purposes
  • Perform detailed, post event analysis of unusual events, and direct needed procedure or process changes in response.
  • Provide project management of technical staff in the implementation, installation, configuration, and technical support of network architecture.
  • Interact with clients in a friendly, professional manner as a subject matter expert. 
  • Maintain a superior knowledge of the cyber security capabilities of operating systems, networking devices, control systems, and vendor offerings.
  • Maintain a broad knowledge of current and emerging state-of-the-art computer/network systems technologies, architectures, and products.
  • Maintain a working knowledge of applicable cyber security standards involving electric power systems, including those relating to process networks.
  • Work methodically and analytically in a quantitative problem-solving environment.
  • Understand technical issues and the implications to the business, and be able to communicate them with other operation departments within the business.
  • Experience and/or familiarity with system security configurations for Windows and Linux systems
  • Experience and/or familiarity with security configurations for switches, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, intrusion protection systems, and other network-attached devices
  • Experience and familiarity with vulnerability assessment methodologies and information gathering tools such as Nessus, Wireshark, Nmap, and equivalents

Are you a strong Java developer looking to join a very collaborative software development team? Advantage Tech has partnered with a great client here in Omaha that is looking to add to their team! 

This group has very low turnover, and know the importance of a team, collaboration, and cross training skills! This is a great opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer to join a great company and amazing team. 

Qualifications: 

6+ years of Java development experience 

Admin experience preferred 

Experience with Microsoft Windows, Angular, and Linux 

THE POSITION:

Senior Living Advisors (SLAs) are inside sales representatives responsible for educating families on senior care options and working with them to find the right senior living communities that match their needs. The SLAs takes inbound pre-screen leads and help guide the seniors and their families from initial consultation, to touring of facilities, and ultimately moving into a senior living community.  This requires not only working with the families but also acting as the liaison between families in need and the senior housing communities or care providers.

WHO YOU ARE:

A great SLA has empathy for the families we serve, loves sales, is strongly internally motivated, and has the ability to learn the details of a unique industry like senior living quickly.  A SLAs primary focus is referring and moving families into appropriate customer communities and guiding them through the lifecycle of the search process by understanding a family’s unique needs and demonstrating an intimate knowledge of customer communities.

The success of an SLA is measured by reaching daily call benchmarks, scheduling tours at customer communities, and converting leads into customer move-ins resulting in achievement of their monthly sales quota. 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Build relationships and educate families over the phone on referral process.  Ensure families understand the value of the Client throughout their senior living search.
• Understand family needs and refer appropriate customer communities.
• Manage the sales process.  Guide families through their search process all the way to move-in including follow up with families and customer communities.
• Understand customer community offerings, resident requirements, and sales process.
• Manage lead pipeline on a daily basis and accurately record in the Company’s CRM to ensure up-to-date family information and status, as well as maintain accurate forecasts.
• Structured, pre-scheduled training attendance is mandatory.
• Communicate daily via phone and email to families and customers.
• Consistently meet or exceed monthly sales quota.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Skills and Competencies

• History of exceeding sales quota
• 3+ years’ experience with documented history of success positioning and selling solutions to businesses or consumers in a quota or metrics driven environment.
• Demonstrated ability to assess family situations and quickly develop solutions based upon family needs.
• Documented history of ability to develop and maintain good working relationships in a multi-stakeholder relationship.
• Ability to deliver results while working in a highly-independent environment.
• Willingness to quickly come up to speed on the senior living industry.
• Ability to multi-task; simultaneously talk on the phone and take notes on the computer.
• Strong computer and typing skills necessary, including Word and Excel.

Education Requirements      

Bachelor's degree preferred.

The Associate Inside Sales Representative is a new role at the cutting edge of client’s efforts to transform the way our client serves families searching for senior living. Associate Inside Sales Representatives are responsible for educating families on senior care options and referring them to customer communities that match their needs, working alongside Senior Living Advisors. They also follow up with the family throughout the search process and offer additional support and guidance to help in the decision process. Reps. are also responsible for coordinating with customers to ensure timely follow-up to referred families. Reps. act as the liaison between families in need and the senior housing communities or care providers. Their focus is following up and moving families into appropriate customer communities by understanding a family’s unique needs and demonstrating an intimate knowledge of customer communities, throughout the sales process.

Client is paid by participating communities and providers, and the service is provided by the Rep. at no charge to families. The success of an Inside Sales Rep. is measured by reaching daily call benchmarks, scheduling tours at customer communities, and converting leads into customer move-ins resulting in achievement of regional and organizational sales quota targets. Success is also measured by adherence to and full adoption of client’s values in all areas of the job.

Who you are:

We are seeking a high performing individual who is customer obsessed, an excellent communicator, loves solving challenging issues, and a quick learner. You must also be a caring and compassionate person with a desire to help people through stressful times during their search for eldercare. Reps. are able to develop excellent relationships quickly and establish rapport and trust with others. Ideally you have prior knowledge about senior living options and industry, inside sales experience, customer service skills, and are very comfortable communicating with customers. If this sounds like you, we want to hear from you!

Responsibilities

What you will do:

• Incorporate client’s Values into each family, customer and co-worker interactions
• Build relationships and educate families over the phone on follow-up process. Ensure families understand the value of Client throughout their senior living search
• Understand family needs and refer appropriate customer communities through second round referrals
• Manage the sales process. Guide families through their search process with strong post-referral follow up with families and customer communities
• Understand customer community offerings, resident requirements, and sales process
• Manage dedicated follow-up lists on a daily basis and accurately record in the Company’s CRM to ensure up-to-date family information and status, as well as maintain accurate daily tallies
• Structured, pre-scheduled training attendance is mandatory
• Communicate daily via phone and email to families and customers
• Consistently meet or exceed your contribution toward organizational sales goals
• Other duties as assigned
• Conduct oneself in a professional manner and use proper etiquette and language at all times
• This is a full-time position, regular evenings, early mornings and weekends may be required

Qualifications

Required Skills and Competencies:

• Experience with documented history of success positioning and selling solutions to businesses or consumers in a quota or metrics driven environment.
• Demonstrated ability to assess family situations and quickly develop solutions based upon family needs.
• Documented history of ability to develop and maintain good working relationships in a multi-stakeholder relationship.
• Ability to deliver results while working in a highly-independent environment.
• Past history of senior care industry preferred, or you must be willing to learn about senior care.
• Ability to multi-task; simultaneously talk on the phone and take notes on the computer.
• Strong computer and typing skills necessary, including Word and Excel.
• Entrepreneurial spirit – ability to self-start, multi-task, and work across teams in a fast-paced environment to support growth
• Positive attitude – ability to work effectively across functions, geographies, and organization levels to develop solutions

Education Requirements    

• Bachelor's degree preferred.

Advantage Tech is seeking Reimbursement Specialist to join a great organization in Overland Park, KS. 

Responsibilities: 

• Abides by and demonstrates the company Mission – Vision – Values through both behavior and job performance on a day-to-day basis.
• Reviews daily lockbox receipts and matches check copies to batch tickets from bank to ensure all items have been received. 
• Prepares check copies and backup for scanning by inserting separator pages and counting total number of pages to be scanned.
• Keys payments at detail level into Accounts Receivable system by identifying correct patient and dates of service.  Any unidentified payments are applied to the branch or FSU unapplied accounts for additional research.
• Analyzes each explanation of benefits to determine entry required to record denials, credit balances, partial payments, balance bills and paid in full to assist collectors in resolving outstanding balances.
• Researches any cash application problem and takes appropriate corrective action before posting.
• Balances cash daily in accordance with established policies and procedures.
• Daily enters adjustments, correspondence, refunds, cash movements, demand denials and denials into Accounts Receivable system from imaging workbaskets.  Returns to originator any items needing further clarification before entering into the system.
• Interacts with supervisor and co-workers in assuring data is accurate and submitted in accordance with processing deadlines.
• Strong and accurate data entry skills

Qualifications:  

• Strong administrative skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to take direction well

Advantage Tech is seeking a Controller/Senior Accountant for their Lenexa based client.  This role is responsible for building strong client relationships, anticipating clients’ needs, and adjusting to different business environments.

This person will be responsible for analyzing and evaluating financial data for
producing relevant and reliable information and proactively managing client
systems and procedures for improved accuracy and efficiency.

Responsibilities Include: 

• Provide valuable information and analysis on Client’s day-to-day transactional activities in addition to cashflow and long-range planning
• Personalize updates for improved Client relationships
• Review financials and work with financial assistant for completion — follow up
  with overall evaluation of financials
• Provide client with analysis and feedback on the company’s financial
  performance
• Give suggestions for improvement, ideas for increasing profits
• Ensure procedures are implemented and followed for most efficient
  workflow — Look for systems or process changes to reduce time spent
• Act as a true advisor to clients. Become a part of their team.
• Schedule regular in-person meetings with Clients (at least twice
  annually) to analyze, evaluate and plan
• Develop and mentor team members for growth

Qualifications: 

• Technical Accounting Skills (GAAP, Analytical Review, Critical Thinking)
• Technical Software Skills (Excel, Office, Adobe, QuickBooks, General IT)
• Efficient and Effective Communication Skills (Writing, Email, Phone)
• Attention to Detail
• Coachable/Accepting of Feedback
• Relational
• Strong client facing communication and ability to collaborate with external partners. 
• Bachelors Degree in Accounting or related area of focus
• CPA Preferred 

Advantage Tech is seeking a Project Coordinator for a local KC organization. 

The Project Coordinator will coordinate and track projects, schedules, and report progress directly with the Chief Growth Officer. This individual has a passion for project management and is an expert communicator who drives results while simultaneously promotes collegial collaboration. The Project Coordinator will exemplify a high degree of organizational skills to help drive the institution’s prioritized projects. This position requires the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving environment.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Account Managers and Project Manager to develop concrete and detailed plans with the appropriate timeline to ensure continued progression, ownership, and prioritization of projects
• Articulates project objectives openly and frequently
• Aligns duties and responsibilities of specific team members
• Identify project goals through open collaboration with necessary stakeholders and team members
• Reviews project plans with leadership before initiating project launch • Manages project progression to ensure projects stay on track and in scope to meet the projected deadline
• Holds project stakeholders accountable for all deliverables
• Facilitates frequent and ongoing communication with project partners to ensure project progression and the achievement of critical milestones and deliverables

Requirements:

• BA is strongly preferred, but not required
• Project Management Certification preferred
• Two years of previous project management experience required
• Agency experience preferred
• Experience working with remote teams is preferred

Advantage Tech is searching for a CADD Assistant to join their client's team in Kansas City. Mo.

The CADD Assistant will work directly with the CADD manager to help with CADD software support and maintenance.

CADD Assistant – 3 years of experience with Autodesk products, Inventor, AutoCAD, and Vault

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Reports directly to CADD Manager in conjunction with the Engineering Manager
• Responsible for basic CAD software install and configuration with direction from the CADD Manager
• Responsible for supporting engineering CAD issues with the Autodesk products, Inventor, AutoCAD, and Vault.
• Responsible for maintaining the Autodesk Inventor Content Center and standard part libraries with direction from the CADD manager.
• Responsible for monthly CAD training meetings with CADD Manager direction.
• Maintains training documentation and trains new users with direction from the CADD Manager
• Creates drawing template files for engineering with direction from the CADD Manger
• Responsible for maintaining job folder structure in Vault as well as job archiving.
• Responsible for effective communication with CADD Manager and Engineering Manager to ensure proper CAD training and integration.
• Will assist with mechanical design and detailing when not involved with CAD tasks.

Qualifications:

• Associate Degree in Mechanical Design, or 3-5 years of experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 3 years of experience with Autodesk products, Inventor, AutoCAD, and Vault
• Have proficient skills with Microsoft Office programs
• Familiarity with Siemens Teamcenter, Tekla, Autodesk Navisworks and ReCap a plus

Soft Skills:

• Ability to work effectively in a team environment
• Ability to quickly identify solutions to simple CAD problems
• Ability to be flexible with new and challenging software and problems
• Positive attitude
• Ability to take direction and willingness to drive change and challenge / improve existing processes.

Are you a skilled Data Engineer looking for your next opportunity in a well established company here in Omaha? If so, Advantage Tech has the role for you! 

Seeking a Sr Data Engineer to assist our client in designing, building, implementing, and optimizing data pipelines that transfer data from their on prem platforms to AWS/Snowflake. 

Qualifications: 

• 8+ years of experience
• Experience in mentoring 
•  Knowledge of DataStage (or comparable ETL tool)
• Strong SQL programming skills in a DB2 environment
•  Knowledge of UNIX scripting, JAVA, COBOL or Python

Advantage Tech has an awesome client that has an exciting opening for a Data Protection Analyst. 

Overview:

As part of the Enterprise Cybersecurity Team, this role is responsible for assisting with operating the Data Protection program, ensuring effective data protection activities across various systems, applications and third parties that directly support the client's business. The Analyst assists with the implementation and ongoing support of this program enterprise-wide ensuring business strategies, plans and initiatives are executed/delivered in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures. The Data Protection Analyst works closely with Legal, HR, and other Cybersecurity associates and is part of a strategic and comprehensive Cybersecurity Team that is accountable for ensuring implementation in accordance with regulatory expectations, risk appetite, organizational risk practices and evolving business practices.

Responsibilities:

• Assist with operations of the enterprise wide Data Protection and Data Loss Prevention programs with a focus on safeguarding protected and sensitive data. Work closely with the Cybersecurity Incident Response and Architecture Teams to drive modifications to organization behavior policies and standards, procedures, metrics, processes, and related tools.
• Work with Cybersecurity Governance, risk management, and compliance Team on the data asset risk framework which prioritizes data loss prevention policy implementation to best reduce client's security risk posture and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and customer/consumer expectations.
• Work as part of a team tasked with data protection operations including data loss prevention, data access governance and data discovery. This program will provide monitoring and responding to potential data loss events, as well as tuning detection and prevention policies.
• Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with business partners, including IT teams, in order to propose and formulate solutions to meet the business needs and to drive efficiency and business value.
• Drive a Data Protection and "treating data as an asset" culture to safeguard organizational data throughout the organization. Helping to champion the education and training of stakeholders and end users about client's Security and Data policies. Collaborate with stakeholders and partner teams on the planning, implementation, and roll-out of associated programs and solutions.
• Assist with operations of all the Data Protection Program plan elements that provide actionable results for client's Managed File Transfers; Data Leakage and Loss Prevention; and Media Handling programs.
• Participate in cybersecurity risk assessments and risk mitigation strategies.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or 2+ years experience Data Protections with specific experience with a large-scale Data Protection and Data Loss Prevention
• CISSP Preferred

Advantage Tech is seeking a highly motivated, proactive, team-oriented, and customer-obsessed colleagues to join our client as an SAP Specialist. The SAP Specialist positions will be located in Kansas City, MO.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Analyze business requirements and work closely with users on development, configuration, and implementation of SAP applications, including customization, to fit business needs
• Collaborate and consult with international colleagues and external service providers to deliver highly dependable, secure, and integrated solutions to the business
• Work closely with business users and global IT on integration of non-SAP applications with ERP system
• Translate business requirements into functional and technical scope and specifications
• Identify opportunities and deliver system improvements and operational efficiencies to meet technical and business demands
• Serve as a key member on a global SAP team providing qualified support and consultancy services for MULTIVAC Group worldwide; and participate in global SAP roll-outs and other global projects

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Business, or related field or related work experience
• General technical and functional understanding and preferably 1-3 years of experience in SAP MM / PP modules
• Understanding of ERP Logistics configurations and general knowledge of internal Supply Chain process
• Understanding of technical programming (C++, Graphics Interactive Programming (GRIP), and customization in SAP
• Understanding of business process flows and experience modifying them
• Understanding of business systems architectures, standards, and procedures
• Openness to new technologies and business concepts (S/4HANA, C/4 Suite, Ariba, etc.)
• Ability to work independently and be self-directed
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Willingness to further develop and diversify skillset
• SAP customizing or programming skills (ABAP/ABAP OO/FIORI) preferred
• SAP EWM w/ASRS integrationg experience preferred.

Advantage Tech is looking for a Closing Assistant to join their partner organization based in Kansas City, MO. 

This position is responsible for residential mortgage loan closing document preparation and coordination with National Title Companies or escrow agents to closing the Bank's loan with the customer. This position is also responsible for the funding, balancing, and booking of the loan and delivery to the investor.

• Prepare initial input and validation of all loan fees on Closing Disclosure for Loan Closer review
• Work closely with title companies to ensure closings are smooth and easy.
• Initiate wires to the title companies for disbursement of the loans.
• Run UCD for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Loans
• Ensure title companies adhere to closing policies and procedures by reviewing documents after closing and providing funding authorization
• To assist other department and fellow team members with their workloads to ensure a smooth production flow for loan applications, closings and deliveries.
• Regular attendance required, working at the work site during regular business hours and/or assigned hours
• Other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications:

The requirements listed below are indicative of the skills, knowledge and ability required for success in this position:

• High school diploma or equivalent required; Bachelor's Degree in related field preferred
• 2+ years mortgage lending experience or equivalent coursework preferred
• Possess the ability to use mortgage loan systems and software necessary to perform the duties.
• Must possess the interpersonal skills to communicate with customers, vendors and fellow employees in a courteous and professional manner always
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Outlook, Word)
• Must work well in a fast-paced environment
• Must be able to multi-task
• Must show strong initiative
• Possess good organizational skills
• Possess a substantial knowledge of guidelines, procedures and regulatory requirements for all types of loans offered by the Bank
• Possess the ability to use mortgage loan systems and software necessary to perform the duties
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong customer service skills