Salesforce.com Consultant, Waltham, MA

Position:                                                             Salesforce.com Consultant

Type:                                                                    Fulltime

Location:                                                            Waltham, MA

Rate:                                                                    Best in Market

Relocation:                                                         Yes

Job Description :

The Applications Solutions Architect would be responsible for designing solutions for sales and marketing with special emphasis on salesforce.com cloud platform and integrating SFDC with other systems, including SAP. The technical lead will also be responsible for managing and participating in projects p`rimarily based on the Salesforce.com platform.

Responsibilities:

·         Seek out ways to utilize Salesforce.com to improve processes and productivity, and make recommendations to support adoption.

·         Define, communicate, and manage a change management (release) process to develop and implement new applications/code and updates to existing applications/code.

·         Act as gatekeeper for deployment, app-exchange installations and new functionalities.

·         Participate on projects in a variety of roles

o    As a project leader, define project scope, schedule and deliverables and manage effort to delivery, coordinating vendor and internal resources to execute projects.

o    As a technical lead, contribute to solution design, effort estimation and oversee technical solution delivery.

·         Perform design / code reviews and advocate best practices.

·         Maintain system metrics to track trends in usage and data integrity.

·         Identify SFDC usage problems and craft technical / communication plans to remedy.

·         Monitor and ensure security considerations are in line with corporate policies and objectives.

·         Maintain user roles, security, profiles and user license requirements.

·         Ability to integrate and harvest social media for sales and marketing.

·         Ability to lead a group to consensus, solves problems, and accomplish tasks.

·         Train, guide and assist developers with regular operational support and project work.

·         Prioritize and allocate work to develop team across cross-functional teams.

·         Maintains awareness and evaluates and recommends actions related to new and emerging technologies in CRM world.

·         Contribute on support model and support related tasks where necessary.

Job Requirements :

• Project management experience with either waterfall or agile methodology on cloud platform.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in salesforce.com technologies and app-exchange products.
• Minimum 6 years of experience in database design, development and management.
• Experience with force.com IDE, Data loader and migration tools.
• Experience with integration technologies using web services and other available tools.
• Experience managing vendors and cloud partners relations.
• Knowledge of project management/change management on cloud platform.
• Knowledge of force.com IDE/eclipse and various integration methodologies.
• Proficient in SOQL, SOSL and cloud integrated database backups and restorations.
• Knowledge of other CRM systems such as MS-Dynamics, SAP, and/or Siebel
• Understands Internet, Intranet, Extranet and client/server architectures.

 Desired skills:

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in computer science.
• Certification in project management.
• Certifications in salesforce.com administration and/or Developer.

We have a very good relationship with the Hiring Manager and for the right candidate we can arrange an interview within a few days.

I look forward to connecting with you.

Sincerely,

Arvind K
IT Recruiter

  

SAP BW/BI Business Functional Analyst, Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania

Position 2:           SAP BW/BI Business Functional Analyst

Location:             Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania

Duration:             Perm / Direct Hire

Pay      :               Best Market Price

Job Description:

Description of duties and responsibilities:

The successful candidate will be self-motivated with high energy and drive to excel. The ability to independently and intelligently reason and provide solutions is a must. The candidate should have a proven track record working collaboratively with customers and colleagues. Major responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

•         Partners with MSA Business leaders and executives to identify needs and opportunities for agile BW solutions with improved data analytics and delivery. 

•         Performs investigational analysis with the business to determine project feasibility, define value propositions, and establishes ROI for BW projects.

•         Drive SAP-BW projects, implementations, upgrades, and ongoing support.

•         Work closely with MSA Leadership Team, IT Departments and key business users of BW gathering business requirements.

•         Translates business requirements into functional specifications.

•         Work with architects to translate requirements into technical specifications.

•         Help prepare and maintain documentation, including procedures, system specifications, technical documentation, computer training materials and user manuals.

•         Help estimate resource requirements and create plans, timelines, milestones, user approvals, and charts/reports in BW projects.

•         Work closely with source system global team members to identify data in source systems and map data to the SAP Business Warehouse environment.

•         Pinpoint data quality gaps and develop a plan to close these gaps.

•         Maintain high degree of knowledge/understanding of SAP-BW technologies, business processes, and release levels.

•         Conducts end-user training, when needed.

Special knowledge, skills and abilities required:

Quickly establish credibility and foster collaborative relationships within business leaders.

Business knowledge and understanding of business processes.

Interface with internal customers and communicate complex ideas clearly and concisely.

Work with business and functional analysts to interpret business reporting requirements and design accurate and stable functional solutions.

Experience designing, developing and configuring in SAP Business Warehouse 7.x

Knowledge of data warehousing principles including Layered Scalable Architecture (LSA)

Experience in data extraction from SAP and non-SAP systems

Sound analytical, problem solving, planning and organizational skills.

Sound verbal and written communication skills, including presentations and business writing.

Prioritize and manage multiple requests or requirements to meet corporate business objectives.  Ability to adjust to changing priorities.

1% - 10% Global travel as required for education, conferences, on-site projects and implementations

Education and experience required:

This position is available at two different career levels based upon experience:

Level one: 3 years IT and 2 years relevant BW experience

Level two: 5 years IT and 5 years relevant BW experience

Preferred:

Bachelor’s Degree in Information Science, Computer Science, or related discipline.

Master of Business Administration

Experience in SQL or knowledge of relational databases

Experience in Microsoft SQL Server and/or Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)

Experience in SAP Business Explorer (BEx) or SAP BusinessObjects

If you are interested, please reply with an updated copy of your resume in .doc format along with a good time to call you back. If you are unavailable for work, then feel free to share my contact information with any of your friends/colleagues who might be interested. If you do not wish to be contacted for future jobs, please let me know and I will promptly modify our database accordingly.

Sincerely,

Arvind K
IT Recruiter

  

SAP ABAP Developer, Huntsville, Alabama

Position:               SAP ABAP Developer

Location:              Huntsville, Alabama

Duration:             Perm / Direct Hire

Pay      :                Best Market Price

Position Profile / Job Description

Job Statement

The SAP ABAP Developer II supports the SAP-ISU applications such as Billing, Invoicing, Printing, Device Management, FICA and other Applications. Duties include providing technical expertise for design,  development, testing, implementation and production support. This individual works with functional analysts and translates business requirements into technical coding and configuration solutions.

Essential Duties
Develop and adapt technical solutions/options into detailed technical design documents, ensuring all functional requirements are met in the technical design.

·         Supports SAP modules by implementing, solving break/fix issues, and by providing design and development of RICEFW objects (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Extensions, Forms and Workflows)

·         Manages the construction of code based on a technical design, following all development standards.

·         Works with project teams and technical resources by continually demonstrating solid understanding of the functionality and test data that will be required to Build test scenarios.

·         Ensures all code is well documented and can be navigated by others in the next phase (testing)

·         Estimates, plans, and tracks SAP RICEFW (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancement, Forms and Workflows) work effort.

·         Requirements Analysis: Assists in conducting workshops with business clients to obtain project requirements to ensure timely development of quality, accurate functional and technical specifications.

·         Design: Analyzes and interprets functional specifications or business requirements to support the development of technical specifications.

·         Construction: Develops SAP solutions that adhere to Huntsville Utilities development standards anticipating, identifying, troubleshooting, and resolving development issues.

·         Implementation: Provides clear documentation and production support of implemented functionality.

·         Production Support - Investigates debugs and resolves production problems reported with supported applications

Job Requirements

Education/Training/Certifications: B.S. in Computer Information Systems or related field is required.

Experience/Skills

3 years or more of progressively relevant work experience as an application developer, or systems analyst. Hands on experience preferred in Java, Java Script, HTML, PHP, Visual Basic, Autoit, PC applications, ADS, ABAP, SAP Portal MSS/ESS, SAP Workflow, WebDynpro, BADI, User Exits, Enhancement Points, XML file development, NetWeaver, SAP BW/BI, SAP ECC6, SAP IS-U/CCS, SAP UCES,SAP BCM, SAP PI/XI, HPQC, uPerform, On Base, Cobol and VSAM.

Equipment

Telephone, and computer hardware and software.

Physical Demands/Environmental Conditions

Normal sedentary office environment with repetitive work at computer keyboard.

Other

On-call availability; work in a team environment; and facilitate a cooperative and collaborative work environment within MIS and other departments. The ability to effectively communicate, both orally and in writing, and to translate technical terminology to terms understandable to non-technical employees.

If you are interested, please reply with an updated copy of your resume in .doc format along with a good time to call you back. If you are unavailable for work, then feel free to share my contact information with any of your friends/colleagues who might be interested. If you do not wish to be contacted for future jobs, please let me know and I will promptly modify our database accordingly.

Sincerely,

Arvind K
IT Recruiter

  

Senior SAP BI/BW Architect, Huntsville, Alabama

Position:              Senior SAP BI/BW Architect

Location:             Huntsville, Alabama

Duration:             Perm / Direct Hire

Pay      :               Best Market Price

Job Description:              

The SR BI/BW Architect provides functional, technical and architectural leadership and plays an important role in evaluating and improving the design of our existing and planned SAP Business Warehouse (BW)/Business Objects (BOBJ) / Business Intelligence (BI) systems. Leads full-lifecycle Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Warehousing projects.

Experience Required:

1. 5+ years of experience architecting, developing and implementing SAP BW business reporting systems/solutions.

2. Strong understanding of dimensional modeling, data warehousing concepts and methodologies.

3. Ability to gather business requirements and translate them to technical requirements/solution design.

4. Strong understanding and experience with at least one front-end reporting and analytical tool (Business Objects InfoView/Webi desired).

5. Advanced knowledge of configuring BW data objects.

6. Advanced knowledge of BW Extractors from the SAP system..

7. Working knowledge of SAP structures, object dependencies and tables.

8. Strong expertise in BEX query development.

9. Knowledge of BOBJ tools such as Universes/InfoView/Webi, and Crystal Reports.

10. Strong understanding of SAP end-to-end data flows and interactions between one SAP module and others.

Duties:

1. Develop and maintain the overall technical architecture and standards for SAP Business Information Warehouse and Business Objects BI platform.

2. Assess and manage BI performance optimization efforts.

3. Contribute toward evolving company’s analytical self-service/ad hoc reporting capabilities using existing or future toolsets.

4. Prepare appropriate documentation and ensure that new functionality is properly transitioned to reporting users.

5. Develop prototypes in various BI tools for capability assessment and demonstrations.

6. Accurately estimate work efforts and time estimates.

7. Participate and contribute to development and management work plans.

8. Work with business partners and internal staff on resolving platform production defects and performance issues.

9. Accountable for the BI Solution Architecture, stability and sustainability.

10. Responsible for requirements gathering, solution design best practices, and leveraging all available tools.

11. Propose optimal ways to address business demands (trouble tickets, new requirements, etc.) for BI with a goal of delivering maximum overall value for BI investments.

12. Promote BI within the Business User Community to better leverage existing BI solutions and position BI for appropriate future needs.

13. Participate and develop BI landscape strategy including optimal setup to support multiple/parallel

project deliverables.

14. Develop ongoing methods to deliver BI governance metrics (i.e. usage, memory, space, queries, etc.).

15. Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications: 

Education/Training/Certifications: B.S. in Computer Information Systems or related field is required.

The following skill set would be a plus:

1. Knowledge of SAP ISU for Utilities Solution.

2. Experience in BW system upgrades.

3. BW integration with SAP Portals/Netweaver

4. Custom ABAP development skills

5. Web Services development experience with BW

6. Experience with other Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing ETL and OLAP technologies

7. Experience in SAP BO 4.0.

8. Experience leading at least one full-lifecycle Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing project.

Equipment: Telephone, and computer hardware and software (including MSOffice).

Physical Demand/Environmental Conditions: Normal sedentary office environment with repetitive work at computer keyboard.

Other: Requires on-call availability, the ability to work independently as well as in a team environment and to facilitate a cooperative and collaborative work environment within MIS and other departments. The ability to effectively communicate (verbal and written) and to translate technical terminology in terms understandable to non-technical employees is necessary.

This job description is only intended to reflect the general nature and duties of the position and may not include all functions. Since jobs tend to change over time, duties may be added or deleted as necessary without a formal update of the job description.

Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE)

This job description is only intended to reflect the general nature and duties of the position and may not include all essential functions. Since jobs tend to change over time, duties may be added or deleted as necessary without a formal update of the job description.

If you are interested, please reply with an updated copy of your resume in .doc format along with a good time to call you back. If you are unavailable for work, then feel free to share my contact information with any of your friends/colleagues who might be interested. If you do not wish to be contacted for future jobs, please let me know and I will promptly modify our database accordingly.

Sincerely,

Arvind K
IT Recruiter