Hyperion Application Integration Developer (Golden, CO)
Posted by: "gumbilian" Jordan@visualintegrator.com gumbilian
Date: Tue May 13, 2008 12:23 pm ((PDT))
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Duties:
Consultant shall apply Hyperion application and integration design,
development, installation, configuration, maintenance and problem
solving expertise to evaluate CLIENT's Hyperion project planning and
funds tracking systems. Once familiar with these systems, the
consultant will partner with CLIENT staff and infrastructure
consultant to troubleshoot post implementation issues, provide
knowledge transfer for integration scripts and application
configuration and develop recommendations to facilitate system
stability, maintenance and flexibility. Subcontractor is expected to
provide knowledge transfer through documentation, discussion and
demonstration. He/She will also collaborate with CLIENT staff to
confirm the system is fully functional.
Project Background
CLIENT recently upgraded from Hyperion Pillar to Hyperion System 9
for its project planning and funds tracking processes. The system
was designed by outside consultants whose engagement has ended.
CLIENT is in need of further assistance in post-implementation for
troubleshooting, maintaining, supporting and understanding how the
system should be utilized and operated.
Requirements
Seeking a senior Hyperion application/integration developer with
strong technical and problem solving skills to provide post
implementation support for CLIENT's project planning and funds
tracking systems. This individual would work closely with staff to
enhance the existing applications and provide maintenance strategies
to ensure system stability and flexibility. Specific experience and
abilities include:
• Remedy application issues associated with the introduction of
the "workforce" plan type during previous infrastructure
troubleshooting. Verify all project planning web forms and
calculations are accessible and functional.
• Make minor functionality changes as requested during the
engagement in collaboration with CLIENT staff.
• Provide knowledge transfer (via discussion, demonstration and
documentation) to CLIENT staff to build foundational knowledge and
troubleshooting skills related to application configuration and
functionality.
• Provide knowledge transfer (via discussion, demonstration and
documentation) to CLIENT staff to reinforce knowledge and
troubleshooting skills related to the calculation scripts essential
to the implementation of new burden schedules.
• Determine the nature of the data and/or logic errors
generated by the Hyperion Application Language integration and export
programs used for the transference of data from Oracle to Hyperion
and from Hyperion to CLIENT's data warehouse. Resolve the issues
identified in collaboration with CLIENT staff and confirm the systems
receiving the data are able to accept and process it as appropriate.
• Develop documentation for scheduling, running and
troubleshooting integration programs including how to respond to
common scenarios such as when the program is run more than once
accidentally, needs to process multiple files or is run out of
sequence, etc. Review with CLIENT support staff.
• Provide integration script knowledge transfer (via
discussion, demonstration and documentation) to CLIENT staff to build
foundational knowledge and troubleshooting skills.
• A Bachelor's degree in information systems, business
administration or equivalent relevant experience/education in a
related field.
• Four or more years of relevant experience working with
Hyperion applications and integration scripts using Essbase, Hyperion
Application Language (HAL) and Data Integration Manager (DIM).
Demonstrated experience with Hyperion tools including Web Analysis,
Administration Services, SmartView and
Financial Reporting Studio.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Deliverables
o Application assessment and project scope documentation
o Project Plan including resource allocation and time estimates
o Change Management/Project Impact Reports as needed
o Knowledge Transfer documentation
o Test and acceptance criteria and user acceptance documentation
o Weekly Status Reports
o Meeting Minutes
o Additional recommendations/lessons learned (as appropriate)
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13. Hyperion Infrastructure Administrator Consultant (Golden, CO)
Posted by: "gumbilian" Jordan@visualintegrator.com gumbilian
Date: Tue May 13, 2008 12:23 pm ((PDT))
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Duties
Consultant shall apply Hyperion infrastructure design, maintenance
and problem solving expertise to evaluate CLIENT's Hyperion system
architecture. Once familiar with this system, the consultant will
partner with CLIENT staff to troubleshoot post implementation issues,
create a development environment that is identical to the production
environment, install additional Hyperion tools and provide
recommendations regarding processes to facilitate system stability,
maintenance and flexibility. Subcontractor is expected to provide
knowledge transfer through documentation, discussion and
demonstration. He/She will also collaborate with CLIENT staff to
confirm the system is fully functional.
Project Background
CLIENT recently upgraded from Hyperion Pillar to Hyperion System 9
for its project planning and funds tracking processes. The system
was designed by outside consultants whose engagement has ended.
CLIENT is in need of further assistance in post-implementation for
troubleshooting, maintaining, supporting and understanding how the
system should be utilized and operated.
Requirements
Seeking a senior Hyperion infrastructure administrator with strong
technical and problem solving skills to provide post implementation
support for CLIENT's project planning and funds tracking systems.
This individual would work closely with staff to enhance the existing
system architecture and provide maintenance strategies to ensure
system stability and flexibility. Specific experience and abilities
include:
• Installation of a Hyperion Web Analysis tool in development
and production environments and confirm, through testing, it is fully
functional.
• Resolution of issues with Hyperion Administration Services
working in a secured environment using Secure Sockets Layer
technology. Ensure the encrypted authentication, traffic and data
transmission functionality is working correctly.
• Resolution of issues with Hyperion SmartView working a
secured environment using Secure Sockets Layer technology. Ensure
the encrypted authentication, traffic and data transmission
functionality is working correctly.
• Creation of a permanent development environment that is
identical to production for on-going testing of issue solutions and
new functionality. Provide knowledge transfer (via discussion and
documentation) to CLIENT staff to maintain the instance and refresh
the data as needed.
• Confirmation that CLIENT has documentation and knowledge
necessary to back up and recover the planning and funding
applications, the database structure and data and any supporting
services. Describe, document and demonstrate the process for
migrating application and configuration changes from the development
environment to the production environment.
• Identification of any "hard-coding" and specific references
to the development and production environments, their servers and
directories and education of CLIENT staff as to why they are a
necessity and how to maintain them or change them to increase the
flexibility of the system.
• Development, documentation and demonstration of a process for
deploying Financial Reporting Studio to end user desktops.
Transference knowledge to CLIENT staff.
• A Bachelor's degree in information systems, business
administration or equivalent relevant experience/education in a
related field.
• Four or more years of relevant experience working with
Hyperion applications infrastructure using Essbase.
Demonstrated experience installing and configuring Hyperion tools
including Web Analysis, Administration Services, SmartView and
Financial Reporting Studio.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Deliverables
o System assessment and project scope documentation
o Project Plan including resource allocation and time estimates
o Change Management/Project Impact Reports as needed
o Knowledge Transfer documentation
o Weekly Status Reports
o Meeting Minutes
o Additional recommendations/lessons learned (as appropriate)
