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Team is looking for a Project Manager

Job Description

An Information Technology (IT) Project Manager is responsible for performing a variety of advanced, professional-level work in planning, coordinating, and managing one or more large-scale, highly complex/high risk projects.

Duties include:

• developing, implementing, and training staff on project management standards, strategic planning, and related activities;
• managing projects using the IT Department’s Project Management Standards;
• incorporating other approaches as necessary given organizational culture, situational nuances, project ecosystem, and other factors; ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and completeness of all project processes and documentation, management reports, and project status reporting according to IT Project Management Standards;
• organizing, planning, and directing all project activities throughout the project’s lifecycle and implementation (example: research/analysis, requirements gathering, risk assessments, technical alternatives, development, and implementation planning);
• acting as primary contact for each project;
• developing project proposals which include business justification, return-on-investment, risk assessment, and goals/objectives;
• facilitating meetings with customers, staff, and contractors in support of project activities;
• facilitating resolution of project issues;
• scheduling and tracking resource needs and activities (including City staff, contractors, and outside agencies) to meet project objectives, and ensure overall quality of work; ensuring all work is done in alignment with City and IT long-term strategies;
• monitoring, evaluating, and providing performance appraisal feedback on City staff’s quality of work;
• managing formal solicitations and other procurement processes which includes defining the technical and business requirements, and writing, evaluating, and managing the selection of solutions;
• managing project budgets to ensure projects remain on-time and on-budget; and performing related duties as required.
  

Minimum Educ/Exp: Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in CS/Electrical Eng/Related and five years of progressive, post baccalaureate work experience. Employer will also accept a Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in CS/ Electrical Eng /Related and three years of related experience.

Hours: Full-time: Forty hours per week 

Work site: 11811 N. Tatum Blvd., Suite P-129, Phoenix, AZ 85028. May work at various unanticipated locations throughout the US.

Salary: $115,000.00 per year  

Applications/resumes should be emailed to HR@thebluespire.com and/or mailed to Blue Spire, Inc. 11811 N. Tatum Blvd., Suite P-129, Phoenix, AZ 85028. 

Team is looking for a Software Engineer 

Responsibilities:

Design, code, test, implement and deploy application features. Design and implement new user-facing features using web development technologies and frameworks. Optimize and refine existing web applications to maximize reusability and scale to support multiple government processes & modules. Develop user interface. Develop and debug UI components and work closely with UX designers, project managers, and back-end engineers to implement versatile front-end solutions to implement business needs. Analyze user problems and requirements, review systems, and solutions. Discuss and review functional aspects of the Business process with Client (Product Owner) and Business Analyst. Determine the functional and technical scope of the project. Prepare a flow chart and diagram covering the proposed solution addressing the client’s problem. Follow Quality Management Plan for software development. Prepare unit test cases. Prepare test data, plan and conduct feature testing ensures that system improvements are successfully implemented. Correct the code as per the failed test case and re-run the test case until it passes. Perform peer code review. Go through software code and provide review comments for code/logic improvement. Perform API analysis, review and integration. Understand third party API to be integrated with the system. Interact with the respective team regularly to gain technical knowledge needed for seamless integration. Configure dependencies under build files and run the build script to generate the deployable file. Participate in AGILE Sprint ceremonies as a part of the Software Development Life Cycle. Participate in sprint back lock grooming to understand user stories to be worked on and determine their technical complexity.

Minimum Educ/Exp: Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in CS/Electrical Eng/Related and five years of progressive, post baccalaureate work experience. Employer will also accept a Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in CS/ Electrical Eng /Related and three years of related experience.

Hours: Full-time: Forty hours per week 

Work site: 11811 N. Tatum Blvd., Suite P-129, Phoenix, AZ 85028. May work at various unanticipated locations throughout the US.

Salary: $123,906.00 per year  

Applications/resumes should be emailed to partha@thebluespire.com and/or mailed to Blue Spire, Inc. 11811 N. Tatum Blvd., Suite P-129, Phoenix, AZ 85028. 

Team is looking for a Software Quality Engineer 

Responsibilities:

Analysis of user problems and requirements, review systems and solutions. Work with Business Analyst to understand the client application functional requirement modules of high complexity. Work in the understanding of client requirements with multiple teams and discuss required resources needed, reusability and dependencies. Determine functional and technical scope for the project. Prepare flow charts and diagram covering proposed solution addressing client’s problem. Create and design a technical design of JAVA based web application for program development. Design Use Case diagrams, Sequence diagrams, Class diagrams and ERD diagrams for the application. Develop the planning, design and execution of system testing on simple/complex implementations. Software Testing Life Cycle Methodology. Develop test plans, test case, test scripts and test reports on multiple projects of varying size. Review user requirements documents to ensure that requirements are testable. Identify procedure and scenarios for the quality control of products and services. Perform automation testing. Identification of test cases for automation from existing test case documentation. Develop, automation test strategy and approach, maintain automation framework design and implementation according to project structure. Establish, monitor defect supervision process and conduct regression tests. SQL Backend Testing to validate the application and systems. Meet design specifications and requirements using SQL database tools. Work with assigned database team to analyze database schema for storing the data. Develop and write components that queries the database. Involved in extensive Data validations using SQL queries and back-end testing.

Minimum Educ/Exp:  Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in CS/EE/Eng/Related and two years of related work experience. 

Hours: Full-time: Forty hours per week 

Work site: 11811 N. Tatum Blvd., Suite P-129, Phoenix, AZ 85028. May work at various unanticipated locations throughout the US.

Salary:  $88,000.00 per year 

Applications/resumes should be emailed to partha@thebluespire.com and/or mailed to Blue Spire, Inc. 11811 N. Tatum Blvd., Suite P-129, Phoenix, AZ 85028. 

Team is looking for a strong Apache 'Kafka' Developer

Responsibilities:

Provide expertise in Kafka brokers, zookeepers, Kafka connect, schema registry, KSQL, Rest proxy and Kafka Control center.
Ensure optimum performance, high availability and stability of solutions
Create topics, setup redundancy cluster, deploy monitoring tools, alerts and has good knowledge of best practices.
Create stubs for producers, consumers and consumer groups for helping onboard applications from different languages/platforms
Provide administration and operations of the Kafka platform like provisioning, access lists Kerberos and SSL configurations.
Use automation tools like provisioning using Docker, Jenkins and uDeploy.
Ability to perform data related benchmarking, performance analysis and tuning
Strong skills in In-memory applications, Database Design, Data Integration.
Experience in cloud environment
Experience in Spring Modules, Spring Boot
Experience with Front end technologies JSP, AngularJs, JQuery, HTML / CSS

Required Skills
Experience with stream processing using Kafka and Kafka Connect.
Strong experience in SQL (Oracle) and writing complex queries with joins and aggregates
Strong experience in building JSP/Servlet based GUIs with JQuery or other Javascript libraries for dashboard views over reporting databases.
Experience in Core Java and J2EE technologies like, JMS, JSP, Servlets, Struts/Spring, XML, XSD, XSLT, and XPATH
Java, Spring, Spring boot, Apache, Confluent, Kafka, Spark, SQL, Core Java

Team is looking for a strong Lead Software Architect (React/Java/AWS) 

Requirements

• Must be eligible to work in the US without sponsorship
• 10+ years of software engineering experience  
• 3+ years of Architecture experience
• 2+ years of SaaS experience
• Strong background building highly scalable enterprise applications
• Experience rebuilding monolithic applications into modern microservice environment
• Strong UI experience with ReactJS (AngularJS works too)
• Strong Java/ Spring Boot experience
• Strong background building cloud base applications (AWS)
• Strong background working in devops environments (CI/CD etc)
• Experience with containers and or ideally Kubernetes
• Experience working with vendors and doing POC’s

Advantage with these additional skills:

• Experience with relational databases Postresgres or Oracle
• Any experience with highly regulated environments (PCI/Hippa)
• Experience working on Oncology based software

Team is looking for a strong Lead Java Developer

Responsibilities:

Design, code, test, debug, and document web applications.

Ability to take ownership of functionalities as appropriate

Integrate and write REST services for backend and UI integration

Hands-on experience with React

Requirements & Qualifications:

Relevant experience developing robust, highly-available, high performance distributed systems.

Senior level 5+ years strong Java/Spring Boot, AWS

Relevant experience developing robust, highly-available, high performance distributed systems.

MUST Have: Excellent practical object-oriented software design skills.

MUST Have: Strong expertise *with Core Java, Desing patterns and advanced data structures/algorithms at minimum

Must have: AWS experience 2-3 years

MUST Have: Experience developing complex data-driven server-side software in Java.

MUST Have: Strong experience in developing with Spring MVC framework, Spring Core, and Spring Boot. Good knowledge of Spring Security is required.

MUST Have: Know-How and Hands-on with AWS services and deployments

MUST Have: Significant experience developing effective APIs, RESTful services, Microservices design, and development.

MUST Have: Proficient in SQL and complex relational database design.

MUST Have: Practical experience, as well as a deep understanding of service-side and middle-tier technologies, is a must: middle-tier frameworks, caching strategies/solutions, messaging/queuing.

Desire and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, growing, dynamic environment. Excellent communication and leadership skills are expected

Preferred to Have: Familiarity with Web 2.0 technologies: JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, and React desired.