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Location: Vienna, VA

Job Title: Org. Change Management Consultant

Duration: 6 Months +

US Citizens or GC only

· Design, develop and deliver organizational change management (OCM) strategies/solutions for complex, large scale change initiatives
· Create graphics and PowerPoint master slides and presentations that convey models, concepts, and operational plans with a visual and professional/polished look
· Serve as facilitator and active, visible Enterprise Change consultant, coach, and collaborator with project leads and initiative sponsors, Senior Executives, management, and business unit stakeholders
· Develop and lead actionable and targeted change plans – such as communications, training, sponsor roadmap, coaching, resistance management, rewards/recognition, or other plans and tactics
· Manage and direct OCM components of projects, integrating them across project methods (e.g. waterfall, agile) and phases (e.g. planning, analysis, design, implementation, and sustainment phases)
· Builds tools and processes that project teams can use to manage communications related to their project in a consistent, effective way
· Develop and lead processes to assess organizational alignment and stakeholder needs/impact of strategic programs and initiatives
· Evaluate and measures the effectiveness of internal communications, engagement, and training plans
· Guide and coordinate the completion of communication deliverables according to the change plan
· Create and manage measurement systems using targets and key performance indicators to track adoption, utilization, and proficiency of individual and organization-wide changes.
· Identify resistance and performance gaps to develop, recommend and implement corrective actions
· Work closely with project managers, team leaders, business SMEs and support partners to plan, manage, and communicate a change management program and roadmap for the length of each implementation
· Collaboration closely with other organizational change managers to coordinate plans and address dependencies across enterprise initiatives, projects, or workstreams
· Apply knowledge of project management methodologies, including Agile
· Facilitate meetings/groups of team members in the implementation of strategic activities and initiatives
· Compile, research, and analyze trends in support of projects and initiatives; provide results and recommendations based on analysis

Other
· Proactive self-starter; effective in both team settings and as an individual contributor
· Flexible and adaptable, able to pivot to meet the evolving change needs of an initiative
· Perform other related duties as assigned

Qualifications Required:
· Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Computer Science or related field, or the equivalent combination of education, training, or experience
· Effective use of PCs and related software package, particularly PowerPoint/graphics as well as Word and Excel
· Significant experience applying organizational change management methodologies, processes, and tools across enterprise-wide transformations, project, and projects including   organizational impact assessments, stakeholder identification and alignment, communications planning and execution, and training needs assessment
· Experience in managing projects from creation through execution and evaluation
· Effective research, analytical and problem-solving skills
· Effective in exercising initiative, producing desired results, and achieving objectives
· Effective skill in translating information and developing insights
Experience in working with all levels of staff, management, stakeholders, vendors
· Experience working in large IT program implementations and implementing change in a project management environment
· Experience in leading, guiding, and mentoring others
· Effective in presenting findings and conclusions clearly and concisely to stakeholders and management
· Effective verbal and written communication skills

Preferred:
· Master’s Degree
· Prosci, ACMP, or other change management certifications
· Experience delivering change in agile operating environments
· Previous experience with large scale, technology-related change
· PMI or other project management certifications
· Demonstrated thought leadership experience through applicable associations, authored

Job Duties:

• Provides administrative support in a variety of functions to an individual, team, department, or other group in an organization.
• Collects, reviews and analyzes data, and prepares reports, charts, budgets and other presentation materials.
• Create and update Excel spreadsheets
• Run errands such as Fed Ex of paperwork, delivery of checks
• Organize events
• Run personal errands for Executive management.
• Manage calendars for Executives
• Update and maintain QuickBooks
• Support various office staff members in their tasks
• Other duties as assigned

Required Skills and Experience:

• Efficient multi-tasker
• Exceptional organizational and time-management skills
• Be able to handle multiple, competing tasks exercising good judgment on prioritization
• Proficient in computer technology especially Microsoft Office applications
• Proficiency in Quickbooks
• 1-2 years of experience in a similar role
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Follows instructions clearly and accurately within a timely fashion
• Proactive and enthusiastic about delivering positive results
• Courteous and professional demeanor with a lot of patience

Job Description Summary

 In the Senior Engineer capacity, the person will be deeply engaged in the end-to-end application architecture, design, development, testing and operationalization of the developed products/applications. The position will also entail deep collaboration with various stakeholders outside of the core team, including but not limited to other technical specialists, project owners, project managers and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, debug, document and operationalize various applications leveraging industry best practices
• Work closely and collaborate with various cross-functional IT specialists in implementing solutions
• Work closely with team members and business stakeholders to gather and validate requirements, drive out technical issues and model solutions that meet the functional and technical requirements
• Provides work estimates for software development and configuration.
• Participate in Scrum Daily Stand-up, Sprint and iterative development activities, while preparing to take on any role within the agile team as needed.
• Participate in design activities and develop innovative solutions in meeting customer needs
• Follow established coding standards, perform code reviews, and improve standards to assure compliance

Education/Technical Expertise

• 8+ years of progressive experience in the IT industry
• 5+ years of progressive experience in Microsoft Technologies
• Command of the core .NET application stack and other closely related .NET technologies
• Strong exposure to relational database (SQL Server) design and SQL
• 3+ years of progressive experience as a developer in an Agile environment Very good command of software design patterns, Scrum framework, and various other methodologies
• Demonstrated experience with scripting languages Java and VBScripts.
• 3+ years experience managing and tracking work using management tools like Jira and VersionOne to follow and promoting Agile practices like Scrum.
• Strong experience with one or more of the following platforms, SharePoint and ServiceNow
• Knowledge of various build automation and Continuous Integration tools

• Strong working knowledge of various data transformation/representation technologies such as XML, XSLT, JSON
• Working knowledge of various common protocols such as HTTP, SSL, SOAP/Web services
• Strong working knowledge of JQuery, AJAX and related client side technologies

JOB DESCRIPTION

SUMMARY OF DUITES

The role of DevOps Engineer, Associate is to assist in following the DevOps tools and processes, as well as working closely with development, quality assurance (QA), and support teams to complete Operations/deployment/ CICD tasks within deadlines. This role is a member of the DevOps and reports directly to DevOps Manager or Operations, Manager. 

The organization supports a high-volume healthcare data system that is accessed through multiple web portals. This high-volume system operates out of multiple data centres and must reliably be available to its clients 7x24x365

JOB DECSRPTION 

Functions as an individual contributor and works under direct supervision of a team member/team lead.

Learns and follows the team members with associated DevOps procedures and uses DevOps tools for large software-development information-system projects to assist the DevOps team members.

Assists in maintaining and operating the existing Build and Release Management System to support various logical environments (e.g., development, test, production, operation)

Assists/partners with the team members in scripting, setting up, maintaining CICD pipeline and automating the deployments

Basic understanding of Application serves and able to perform deployments with minimum assistance.

Assists/partners with the team members in enabling infrastructure as code, pipeline as code & configuration as code

Assists/partners with the team in continuous process improvements and automation 

Assists in maintaining all release documentation, records and Standard Operating Procedures.

Assists/partners with the team members in creating and recommending baselines

Collaborates closely with development, QA, and support teams to complete operations/ deployments/ automation tasks within deadlines

MINIMUM JOB REQUIREMENTS 

Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Visio, with a working knowledge of the rest of the Microsoft Office suite of applications. 

Knowledge of JIRA & Confluence

Knowledge of application servers (WebSphere/WebLogic).

Knowledge of DevOps tools, Linux, AWS, Maven/Gradle, Jenkins, JFrog Artifactory, SONAR or similar code scanning tools, Fortify or similar security scan tools, Bash scripting, MS Office tools, J2EE, and RDBMS concepts                            

Bachelor’s Degree with 0 – 4 years of relevant work experience

Master’s Degree with 0-2 years of relevant work experience

Preferred Majors: Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or a closely related field 

PREFERRED JOB REQUIREMENTS 

AWS certification, basic scripting, Linux Essentials

1 year of experience in CICD tools and/or AWS Cloud Environment

Domain knowledge of Medicare, Medicaid, or healthcare verticals

Knowledge of Waterfall and Agile methodologies.

Shows initiative, enthusiasm, creativity and resourcefulness in handling assignments

Demonstrates flexibility in working under demands and needs of the project

Possesses the ability to concentrate for extended periods of time and accomplish the given task with minimum oversight

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Strong attention to detail

Strong written and verbal communication skill

Overview

We are looking for someone who is excited about finding top talent and passionate about ensuring that customers are delighted with Allwyn’s Information Technology services. If you are a person that is interested in challenging yourself by working on talent acquisition and business development, we would like to hear from you!

Responsibilities

Sourcing and recruiting technology professionals for commercial and federal clients

Serve as the lead point of contact for all customer relationship management matters

Build and maintain strong trusted advisor relationships with customers

Responsible for fulfilling open customer requirements

Liaise with the recruiting team and coordinate fulfillment pipeline

Schedule and meet with prospective job applicants

Demonstrable the ability to communicate, present and influence key stakeholders at all levels of an organization, including executive and C-level

Work with on and off shore teams, coordinate with recruiters and recruiting agencies

Lead the delivery of effective proposals in a timely manner

Attend business development events

Grow existing customer accounts and start new customer accounts

Requirements

Associates or Bachelor’s degree

At least 3 years of relevant work experience

Prior experience in recruiting for technology professionals

Highly organized with attention to detail

Proven ability to juggle multiple accounts and requirements at a time, while maintaining sharp attention to detail

Ability to work well in a fast-paced environment

Solid experience with MS Office (particularly MS Outlook, MS Excel, PowerPoint and Word)

Ability to travel locally within the DC, MD, VA area (occasional travel to other locations within the US)

Service oriented

Excellent listening, negotiation and presentation abilities

Strong verbal and written communication skills

**Prior experience in customer relationship management in IT Services required

Applicants are requested to respond with a resume and should be able to provide 3 professional references that can speak to their past track record and be willing to undergo a background check.

Opportunity for a dedicated and proactive individual with strong written communication skills to join an expanding Business Development and Proposal shop for a rapidly growing IT Services firm specializing in Data Science, Data Analytics, Application Development and Modernization, and Digital Transformation. The Proposal Writer should have a flair for translating technical solutions into a compelling story which highlights our value proposition while keeping the customer's challenges and needs at the heart of our proposals. The ideal candidate would have some prior experience with Technical or Proposal writing, and a technical/IT background or understanding is highly desired.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading development of compliant, compelling technical proposal content that clearly and concisely executes on the strategic response plan with an emphasis on customer insight through research
• Will perform duties in close collaboration with the Capture Lead, Proposal Manager, Account Team, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), Solution Architects (SAs), and other authors
• Facilitates meetings with SMEs/SAs to capture solution information for development of compliant proposal sections and take ownership of crafting the Technical Approach
• Conducts interviews with SMEs/SAs to translate technical solution ideas into easily understood terms in the written response
• Manages content development to meet color review expectations and executes quality control functions for compliance with RFx and proposal design standards
• Will work actively with the Proposal Manager to plan for and build several repositories of re-usable content and other artifacts which will maximize the efficiency of proposal content development and increase the internal knowledge base

Required Skills and Experience:

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering with excellent English language skills
• 3-5 years’ experience in proposal or technical writing for US government proposals
• Shipley or equivalent training or certification highly desired
• Strong working knowledge of word processing software
• Excellent organizational skills, as well as attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Good strategic planning abilities
• References must be provided

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Job Description Summary:

Responsible for planning and leading business continuity and disaster recovery plans for AAMC by developing an understanding of our current processes and procedures and map them to the cloud as well as ensure disaster recovery is considered during the planning and build of cloud architecture

Job Description:

Lead all aspects of actual recovery plan implementation and efforts, including initial emergency response, recovery procedures and business resumption processes. Evaluate current business continuity and disaster recovery processes and procedures and make improvements and transition and build new processes for AWS aligned with industry standards. Build relationships cross functionally with applications and cloud migrations teams. Collaborate with architecture teams to ensure disaster recovery processes are built into the new environment.

If a bachelor’s degree is required, related work experience may be substituted in some positions.  One year of college course work at an accredited institution is equivalent to one year of related work experience.

Position: IT Project Manager (PMP Certification Required)
Contract Duration: Long-term
Work Location: On-Site in Baltimore, MD
Interview Location: On-Site in Baltimore, MD. Must be available to interview with limited notice.  Skype and/or phone interviews are not available.


Requirements:

• PMI certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) or industry equivalent. A certificate of completion for a training class is not sufficient.
• (5) years’ experience in managing IT related projects. Must demonstrate a leadership role in at least three successful projects that were delivered on time and on budget.
• (5) years’ experience leading efforts where an SDLC, either waterfall or Agile, was employed.
• (3) years’ experience using software development lifecycle tools for requirements management, software configuration management, and testing.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, contract management, project task coordination and organizational skills.

Education: Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or other related discipline. Master’s degree is preferred.

Job Description:

The client has a contracting position for a Software Development Engineering Tester (SDET) in the Office of Data, Security and Technology (ODST).   The Engineer will partner closely with our development teams and product. In the Engineer capacity, the person will be deeply engaged in the end-to-end application architecture, design, development, testing and operationalization of the developed products/applications. The position will also entail collaboration with stakeholders outside of the core team, including but not limited to other technical specialists, project owners, project managers and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop test automation framework using tools such as Selenium and UFT.
• Design and develop test cases, and compare expected vs. actual.
• Review and analyze system specifications
• Evaluate product code according to specifications
• Help troubleshoot issues.
• Participate in the categorization, prioritization, troubleshooting, resolution, verification, tracking, and reporting of all other functions for defect and issue handling
• Ensure delivered functionality meets or exceeds requirements and quality objectives.
• Actively participates in analyzing requirement and providing feedback to requirements analyst and product owner.
• Works collaboratively in a team-based agile environment utilizing industry standard Scrum methodologies
• Document work sufficiently, to enable traceability of business requirements throughout the program lifecycle

Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in computer science (preferred) or equivalent experience
• Minimum 10+ years of relevant experience
• Expertise with Test Automation framework design and development  using Selenium and/or Unified Functional Testing (UFT)
• Strong experience in design and development of test plans and test cases/scenarios based upon functional requirements.
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We are looking a Front End Developer to join a development team supporting an existing product with enhancement releases. The ideal candidate is an experienced team player that is passionate about technology and committed to lifelong learning, possessing the ability to apply their technical knowledge, skills and experience to solve complex/real-world problems. 

Responsibilities:
The developer will be using the following technologies to build new features

• React.js
• Javascript

Qualifications:

• 5-7 years of development experience
• Demonstrable versatility in multiple front-end  technologies
• Deep experience in building RESTful web services and backend web platforms
• Ability to solve complex problems with elegant and maintainable solutions using modern JavaScript and Java frameworks

Preferred:

• A strong foundation in computer science, algorithms, data structures, and design patterns

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similiar field.

QA Sr. Performance Tester
Job Information:
The Senior Performance Tester is responsible for providing technical expertise and guidance in application performance Testing & Engineering solutions. This role will contribute to the planning, execution, analysis, and tuning efforts to deliver high-performance end to end applications. They will be dedicated to working with our internal partners to support performance engineering and testing, developing performance test scripts, execute performance test script, performance monitoring and analyzing results.

This position requires strong deductive reasoning, attention to detail, persistence, patience, and creativity. The individual will work with our modules test counterparts at our partner organizations, internal development and performance engineering teams, Database Administrators, Business Analysts, and support teams to analyze, maintain and execute performance testing procedures.

Key Job Functions
• Develops and communicates performance, load and stress testing goals, priorities, and status.
• Support defining Performance Testing Strategy
• Identifies metrics for monitoring increased performance and scalability
• Provides guidance for performance test initiatives that take a true end-to-end focus on ensuring client side, server tiers, database and data integration jobs are performing as expected
• Conducts performance prototyping, system capacity modeling and projections, performance driven design, application profiling and baselining to measure and improve system performance.
• Troubleshoots performance, load, and stress testing through analysis of system design/coding.
• Strategizes, plans and manages End to End performance solutions for the applications/ Infrastructure in scope
• Recommends best practices and ensure adherence to the best practices
• Provides training/mentoring/educating of team members
• Ensure the functional and nonfunctional requirements of the business units are met by undertaking a thorough and comprehensive review of set of tests on programming changes that are produced by development and testing staff.
• Act as the point of contact with our partner organizations for performance testing activities through the project lifecycle
• Review each entire application stack and design, prepare and execute performance test plans to identify performance and scalability issues
• Work with team to plan sprints and test planning for the modules
• Work with our module teams to design, develop, and execute scripts which validate, to a high degree of confidence, test cases defined within the project’s test plan.
• Support the automated load/performance testing by our partners across multiple messaging protocols (including HTTP), focusing on overall application performance - validating that application response and outputs accurately reflect business requirements.
• Report defects found in testing diligently, promptly, and accurately, using standard defect tracking tools.
• Communicate effectively across multiple teams/external vendors (Operations, Project Teams, Quality Service, etc.), as well as different personnel (Developers, Scrum Masters, Project Managers, etc.) when required.
• Perform data analysis when needed to analyze issues in Performance and/or Production environments.
• Conduct troubleshooting/performance test execution in support of remediation efforts as required.
• Analyze data and application changes and document their impact on the performance testing task (test cases, scripting, scenario execution, etc.).
• Ensure the test execution results fulfill the defined test objectives and schedule/recommend test re-execution if and as necessary.
• Ensure the appropriate testing and monitoring tools/technologies are configured accordingly with the test objectives/project team requirements.
• Work with our partners to establish test data in sufficient quantity to support the performance testing effort
• Active participant in the meeting(s) to verify firewall openings between performance testing software and that of the application.
• Maintain up-to-instance repository of artifacts related to performance test executions.
• Perform initial debugging procedures by reviewing configuration files, logs, or code pieces to determine breakdown source.
• Deliver timely and accurate communication of testing events, daily status, and test execution results

Qualifications:
Education
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related engineering discipline required.
Minimum Experience
• Minimum of 5 years of direct hands-on experience with load and performance testing with performance testing and tools (LoadRunner or JMeter).

Specialized Knowledge & Skills
• Experience creating, executing and managing automation scripts (QTP, WinRunner, RFT, Visual Studio, Selenium, Cucumber etc.).
• Experience with performance testing Appian workflows and integration to other tech stack
• Performance monitoring tool - Dynatrace
• Good knowledge of SQL, query execution plans, and optimization techniques
• Good understanding of core Java, server side Java technologies, and Spring frameworks
• Good knowledge of Linux environment
• Thorough understanding of throughput, latency, memory and CPU utilization
• Experience with cloud base technology, AWS and devops tools a plus.
• Extensive experience in functional, regression, system integration (SIT), user acceptance (UAT), GUI, security, and performance/stress testing; data-validation, browser and Operating System (OS) compatibility testing.
• Experience working on Agile teams, using Scrum methodologies.
• Strong experience in working with developers, system analysts and business partners to establish response time and TPS requirements and creating tests that accurately measure against them
• Must have: experience with performance diagnostics, performance architecture design, performance tuning, performance monitoring, capacity planning, and/or software development in a n-tier environment
• Experience designing discipline that resolves critical and complex application performance issues. Identifies and drives optimization changes in the application design to improve customer experience for mission/business critical IT applications
• Experience with database analysis and validation
• Must have strong experience with Vugen scripting.
• Must have strong SQL knowledge.
• Proven experience managing and leading QA/Dev activities on a project, to include experience reviewing test deliverables, defects, test results created by team members.