Job Opportunities

Location: Kansas City, MO

Design, implement and support internally developed systems. This position is responsible for developing new software components, including client applications, server components, and database structures to meet project requirements. Repairing and modifying production systems to maintain their operational functionality. Providing unit testing on developed product to ensure quality and consistency with the desired requirements. Working with end users to determine needs and enhancements/changes to the software systems. Providing technical leadership. Delivering work products that meet the minimum assigned requirements in a timely and efficient manner. Monitoring programs and responding to errors and providing after/before business hour support.

This position will be improving the best practices (will look into best practices & review recording efforts), coding standards, design structures for the current application. The work will mostly be enhancements to current app, but there will also be new design to keep current project compliant with changing tax laws. Tax background is nice to have, but not required. Looking for a technical C# person, not a tax person. Current team is stronger on the tax professional side vs. development side. Looking for a solid developer to join and help lead this team. Manager is likely to convert candidate for this position. There will be an opportunity in 2-3 years to work with other C# or Full Stack teams. Within 2 years, will be part of a larger team and will be looking for candidates with aptitude & attitude.

– Bachelor’s degree with emphasis in systems development or related area or the equivalent through a combination of education and work experience.
– Five to six years IT experience to include short-term and long-range planning, budgeting, systems analysis and design.
– Experience in data and process modeling of business requirements.
– Knowledge and experience of relational database technology.
– Knowledge of all phases of the systems development life cycle.
– Exposure to client/server and/or web development.
– Demonstrated decision making, analytical and problem solving skills.
– Demonstrated effective time management, planning and organization skills with the ability to successfully handle multiple tasks, projects and priorities in a fast paced matrix-managed environment.
– Experience using software applications such as Visio, Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, Word, and Excel.
– Effective oral, written and interpersonal communication skills. Strong presentation and facilitation skills necessary to communicate and persuade a wide range of audiences.
– 3-5 years of .NET C# front-end development experience.
– 2-3 years of HTML/CSS development experience.
– Knowledge of JavaScript is a plus.
– Experience with different tools such as TFS, VSTS, Jenkins.

Location: Kansas City, MO

The Monitoring Lead is a technical position within the IT Enterprise Operations organization which will play a crucial role in maturing and revolutionizing the company’s monitoring capabilities. The position will be the tactical supervisor over activities of the offshore monitoring team. It will provide an additional tier of technical escalation and ensure all monitoring requests are met within service level agreements. The position will be responsible for representing monitoring capabilities to our business and IT partners and being able to gather and process requirements to translate into actionable monitoring strategies. The position will then be key to managing the tactical plan for implementing our next generation cloud and dev ops focused monitoring strategy.

Primary responsibilities
– Analyze monitoring requests and ensure requirements are gathered to created orchestrated alert for transactional, performance and synthetic alerts.
– Oversee the daily tactical workload of the monitoring team. Prioritize and ensure service level agreements are met.
– Subject matter expert on both current and future enterprise monitoring capabilities who provides technical guidance to our IT and business partners.
– Liaison to changes in event and alerting with the Network Operations Center (NOC) and load and performance teams.
– Build and modify new and existing orchestrated monitoring alerts and events.
– Work with leadership to develop a longer term, highly actionable enterprise monitoring program.

Requirements
– Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent through a combination of education and work experience.
– 7 years’ minimum of overall experience in administration of enterprise level IT monitoring
– 5 years’ experience with administration of Microsoft’s SCCM platform
– 3 years’ experience building and working within the ServiceNow event module.
– 3 years’ scripting experience with PowerShell or similar orchestration tools
– 2 years’ proven experience in implementing Microsoft Azure monitoring tools such as Azure Monito and Application Insights.
– 2 years’ experience with Power BI
– 2 years’ experience with monitoring SNMP via LogicMonitor or similar tool
– Project experience in transitioning enterprise monitoring from an on-premise infrastructure to a cloud-centric dev ops environment.
– Understanding of ITIL processes

Location: Overland Park, KS

The responsibilities associated with this position include configuring storage systems, maintaining the currency of storage systems, reviewing and providing feedback on storage designs, provisioning storage, performing storage zoning changes, collecting diagnostic data for storage problems, working with storage vendor’s support teams, troubleshooting and implementing changes to bypass problems, representing storage operations in project meetings and performing primary and secondary on-call duties.

Preferred Qualifications
– Experience with EMC SAN and NAS storage systems
– Experience with IBM SAN storage systems
– Experience with CISCO MDS and NEXUS SAN environments
– Experience with CISCO UCS environments
– Experience with automation using scripting and programming
– Experience with InsightIQ, Virtual Instruments and ViPR
– Experience with configuring storage for AIX, Solaris, Linux and Windows servers

Successful applicants must be legally authorized to work in the U.S.

Location: Overland Park, KS

Position Summary:
– Manages the functionality and efficiency of a group of computers running on one or more operating systems
– Maintains the integrity and security of servers and systems
– Serves as a front line interface to users with technical issues
– Interacts with third-party technology vendors and internal database staff
– Conducts systems analysis and development to keep systems current with changing technologies
– May install new software, perform troubleshooting, and grant permissions to applications and training users

Basic Qualifications:
– Bachelor’s degree and two years related work experience or six years related work experience post high school
– Operating systems/platforms: Unix , AIX/Solaris/HPUX, Linux , RedHat/CentOS
– Experience with databases, networks (LAN, WAN), patch management
– Candidate need to have knowledge of system security (e.g. intrusion detection systems) and data backup/recovery
– Ability to create scripts in Python, Perl, or other language(s)

Desired Experience:
– Two years technical assistance experience
– Two years’ experience installing software
– Two years system administration experience

Location: Overland Park, KS

Developer III performs complex analysis, design, development and unit testing of software applications from user requirements and design documents.The candidate also resolves defects encountered during various testing cycles. Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent. Post graduate degree desired. 4-6 years experience in software development.

Required Skills:
Front-end:
– HTML/CSS
– JavaScript and JQuery
– Angular

Back-end:
– Java
– Hibernate ORM
– MVC Framework Spring/Struts
– Relational Database (Oracle)

Linux:
– Basic Shell Scripting
– Viewing and Editing files

Preferred Skills:
– Deploying an Application in a Container (Jboss)
– MVC Framework Spring/Struts
– Basis Design Pattern
– Micro Services
– API Development (SOAP/XML, REST/JSON)
– SVN/GIT
– Ability to work in a fast paced Agile Team.
– Ability to create and understand UML documents including Use Cases, Sequence and State Diagrams.
– Performance tuning Java Memory Usage/SQL Queries/Operating System.
– Basic knowledge of standard cryptography dealing with credit card and customer data.

Location: Overland Park, KS

Mid-level IT help desk position responsible for providing the first point of contact for IT related break-fix issues. Acts as an advocate for the internal end-users ensuring proper focus is maintained and attention brought to customers’ needs. Demonstrates competencies to perform identification, evaluation, prioritization, and resolution of issues relating to hardware, software, networking and other computer related technologies for end users across our multiple operating companies both across the US and international. Minimum 2-3 years prior IT Tier 1 Help Desk experience (via phone and email) REQUIRED.

The Help Desk operates 24 hours a day 7 days a week. The shift we are fulfilling will be a 9 hour shift with an hour of unpaid lunch time. This shift will be sometime between 6am CT – 6pm CT Monday – Friday. This is anticipated to be a long term position with potential to convert to a permanent position on the team.

Location: Wellesley Hills, MA

This position will be a member of the accounting team, performing the accounting, analysis, and deliverables associated with financial reporting. Responsibilities will include assisting in the month-end close process, completing account reconciliations, peer reviewing of account reconciliations, providing detail in support of audit requests and NAIC reporting requirements. This role will work closely with other teams and departments. This is an individual contributor role.

Responsibilities:
– Prepare the monthly accounting processes in support of the IFRS and NAIC financial accounting close, including the preparation of journal entries as well as analysis and reporting of results.
– Work collaboratively with other departments within the Company to ensure accuracy of the supporting data used to record transactions to the ledger.
– Perform monthly account reconciliations and work with the various departments to clear open reconciling items.
– Assist in the completion of NAIC financial reporting deliverables.
– Contribute to the compilation of audit requests.
– Research data requests and provide supporting details on account balances.
– Recommend systems and business process changes/improvements to support the processing of accurate financial data.
– Participate in ad-hoc requests.
– Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related major.
– 3-6 years of experience in accounting, financial reporting and analysis preferably in the financial services or insurance industries.
– Commitment to meeting deadlines and ability to manage conflicting demands.
– Detail oriented with excellent analytical and organizational skills.
– Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
– Flexibility to work individually, as well as a team member.
– Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, specifically with a strong knowledge of Excel experience with Hyperion Smartview.
– Proficiency with Oracle General Ledger and experience with BOXI / Business Object queries.
– High level of integrity and confidentiality.
– Knowledge of insurance products and NAIC accounting requirements or similar insurance or financial institution knowledge is a strong plus.
– Professional designation encouraged

Location: Omaha, NE

The Application Delivery Services organization is seeking a full stack Java software developer. This position, 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 development, testing, delivery, and support. This role requires 5% travel.

Key Activities
– Utilizes skills to implement complex systems and software components according to technical designs and specifications, in compliance with industry and System standards, which meet customer needs and expectations with respect to key project/product performance measures; quality, schedule and cost.
– Creates estimates and work breakdown structures on assigned development tasks.
– Will analyze business requirements and create technical designs and specifications, develop and document solutions and ensure implementations meet design specifications and adhere to standards.
– Will utilize advanced skills to consult with customers in a support role or when assisting more senior level staff in the formulation of technology strategies in collaboration with business partners.
– Demonstrates high performance in the areas of customer service, collaboration, team work, and reliability.
– Communicates status and progress on assignments and raises issues and risks in a timely fashion and effectively contributes to mitigating activities.

Qualifications
– Well established knowledge of Java and web application development, SQL databases, mapping of data sources, data movement and COTS integration. Experience with Business Objects a plus.
– Typically requires two to four years of relevant and progressive information technology experience directly related to the design, development and software solutions.
– Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an information technology field (e.g., Computer/Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering) or an equivalent combination of related education and/or work experience.
– Familiarity with Industry software development methodologies, standards and architecture frameworks.
– Demonstrated ability to adapt and learn new technologies.
– Fundamental to moderate project management skills.
– Strong planning and organization skills.
– Strong initiative, innovative thinking skills, and the ability to analyze details and adopt a big-picture view.
– Demonstrated problem solving skills, including the ability to think logically and analytically.
– Strong to advanced oral and written communication skills with the ability to articulate and explain comprehensive technical information clearly and concisely to target audience.
– Strong to excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to effectively build relationships; promote, and work well in a collaborative team environment and influence others.
– Demonstrated leadership skills and abilities.

Location: Littleton, CO or Broomfield, CO

The Big Data (Hadoop) Architect/Developer will be responsible for Cloudera Hadoop development, high-speed querying, managing and deploying Flume, Kafka, HIVE and Spark, and oversee handover to operational teams and propose best practices / standards. Expertise with Designing, building, installing, configuring and developing Hadoop echo system. Familiarity with Pentaho and Nifi a bonus skillset.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
Work with development teams within the data and analytics team to design, develop, and execute solutions to derive business insights and solve clients’ operational and strategic problems.
Support the development of data and analytics solutions and product that improve existing processes and decision making.
Build internal capabilities to better serve clients and demonstrate thought leadership in latest innovations in big data, and advanced analytics.
Contribute to business and market development.

Specific Skills & Abilities:
• Defining job flows
• Managing and Reviewing Hadoop Log Files
• Manage Hadoop jobs using scheduler
• Cluster Coordination services through Zookeeper
• Support MapReduce programs running on the Hadoop cluster
• Ability to write MapReduce jobs
• Experience in writing Spark scripts
• Hands on experience in HiveQL
• Familiarity with data loading tools like Flume, Sqoop
• Knowledge of workflow/schedulers like Oozie
• Knowledge of ETL tools like Pentaho

Qualifications & Skills:
Bachelor’s degree or related technical field preferred
Expertise with HBase, NOSQL, HDFS, JAVA map reduce for SOLR indexing, data transformation, back-end programming, java, JS, Node.js and OOAD
7 + years’ of experience in IT with minimum 2 years’ of experience in Hadoop.

Location: Leawood, KS

The Manager of Business Intelligence and Analytics for Corporate is a technical position that provides leadership and direction to Business Intelligence team members. In addition, the position will assist the team in developing reporting and analytic applications focused on Film, Accounting and HR initiatives. The position requires detailed understanding of all aspects of Business Intelligence (BI) systems (data warehouse design, dimensional modeling, OLAP design, reporting, dashboards, analytics, and predictive modeling, etc.) as related to an enterprise reporting solution. He or she will be responsible for ensuring that architectural integrity and best practices are maintained at the project, program, and enterprise level.

– Execution of Enterprise Business Intelligence Strategies
– Formulation and execution enterprise business intelligence and aligning overall direction with business and IT Enterprise Architecture strategies
– Organizational Leadership, Planning and Management
– Organization strategy development and implementation (including policies, processes, people, budget, and technologies)
– Enterprise Business Intelligence team management and team planning
– Enterprise Business Intelligence team development
– Facilitating business and technical teams when necessary towards solution. This includes the education of each side on the strategic goals of the other
– Promoting and applying architecture best practices and standards at a project, program and department level
– Lead all other Business Intelligence Analysts and Data Analysts to ensure best practices and governance is followed. This also includes the use of the toolset provided by the enterprise
– Promoting the use of industry and internal data standards and internal enterprise data services

Minimum Job Requirements:
– Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or networking related technologies or equivalent experience (necessary to develop self-direction, writing ability, critical thinking, and foundations of programming and software delivery fundamentals)
– Possess or has made progress towards receiving a TDWI Certification or equivalent experience
– Cumulative 5+ years of experience in technology leadership and management positions
– 4+ year’s management of technical/support personnel.
– 2+ years project management.
– 5+ years enterprise reporting tools
– Experience managing software solution projects that have a budget of at least $1,000,000 and business systems portfolios consisting of multiple applications/technologies and teams (direct or matrix)

Technical Skills:
– Experience with building and deploying Business Intelligence and analytics applications focusing on corporate department reporting including Accounting, HR, Finance, and Procurement.
– Proficient in report development, including ad-hoc, dashboards, and scorecards.
– Functional knowledge of a Financial and HR enterprise ERP system such as Oracle E-Business Suite or SAP.
– Working technical knowledge of Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE) technology platform.
– Working knowledge of Oracle Business Intelligence Applications (OBIA); including functional knowledge of Finance and HR modules of Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS).
– Working knowledge of Visualization and discovery tools such as Tableau.
– Proficient in efficient and effective visualization design and development.
– Working technical knowledge of descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analysis
– Working technical knowledge of data modeling patterns and techniques.
– Translates business questions and requirements into reports, views, and BI query objects.
– Proficient in Database technology including SQL Server and Netezza.
– Data Access – Proficient in SQL for data access and analysis.
– Data Access – Proficient in Python or R for data access and analysis.
– Meta Data – Understanding of the value of meta data in technical and business presentation contexts.