Enterprise Architect Needed in Louisville, CO
Posted by: "Jeannie Donovan" JDonovan@marketforce.com
Market Force Information is the leading customer experience information
and insights partner for multi-location businesses. We are a privately
held company located in Louisville, Colorado just outside Boulder with
operations in New York and Georgia. Since it was founded in 2005,
Market Force has profitably grown to over 300 employees having acquired
four key brands and raised over $50 million of capital. We have built a
client base that consists of well-known Fortune 1000 blue chip customers
across a variety of industries including oil & gas, financial services,
restaurant, and retail. Based on the successful growth of Market
Force, our co-founder and CEO, Karl Maier, was named Ernst & Young
Entrepreneur of the Year for the Rocky Mountain region in 2008.
Market Force Information is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect
for our Louisville headquarters. The Enterprise Architect will
architect, design and develop information systems and applications in
support of the Company's key business initiatives. This is a key role
that requires solid technical skills, business acumen, attention to
detail, and leadership ability. Demonstrated experience developing
business intelligence and reporting solutions are must-haves. Strong
project management skills are essential with the ability to interface at
the executive level within the company and with our clients. Service
oriented architecture design and development experience is also a plus.
This position reports to the Vice President, Technology.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
* Work closely with Marketing/Product Management in the design,
development, and delivery of software products that address client
requirements and meet internal quality standards, budgets, and
time-lines.
* Design and develop customer facing universes and reporting
solutions, including the underlying data warehouse data structures.
These solutions will be designed with an emphasis on performance,
scalability, high-reliability and maintainability.
* Design, build, and maintain internal and customer facing
applications including but not limited to customer and user facing web
portals/interfaces, server software supporting multi-threaded messaging
technologies in a service oriented architecture.
* Work closely with other Software Engineers, Network
Architects, Consulting Contractors, Database Administrators and
Technical Writers to successfully create and maintain other applications
with an emphasis on performance, scalability, high-reliability and
maintainability.
* Successfully interact with QA team to correct product defects
and assist QA engineers in the testing
* Contribute to decisions that ensure that product offerings
remain competitive and continue to be viewed as world class.
* Promote and reinforce a customer-driven philosophy within IT
department.
* Analyze the performance of software applications and identify
alternatives for optimizing the usage of computer resources.
* Apply generally accepted programming standards and techniques
to assure efficient program logic and data manipulation.
* Maintain high-volume, multi-threaded messaging, redundant and
scalable application design, and SOA methodologies.
The statements contained herein describe the scope of the responsibility
and essential functions of this position, but should not be considered
to be an all-inclusive listing of work requirements.
Required Qualifications:
* BS in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
* 5+ years experience in full life-cycle software development.
* Demonstrated experience with universe design and development
and report design and creation.
* Expert in both functional and physical data modeling for
transactional and data warehousing/reporting solutions.
* Strong understanding and development experience with RDBMS
technology and interfacing with Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005/2008
including Transact-SQL.
* Experience developing and deploying client/server applications
* Experience with version control and release management is
required
* Passion for delivering high quality products.
* Driven to achieve a high level of client and customer
satisfaction.
* Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
with both technical and non-technical audiences.
Desired Qualifications:
* Demonstrated experience in object-oriented programming and
design, as well as skills in: .NET Framework Class Libraries, C#
language, ASP.NET, ASP, and T-SQL/Stored Procedures.
* 3+ years IIS experience.
* 3+ years HTML 4.0+, CSS and Javascript experience.
* Experience with highly available production environments
preferred. Strong understanding and development experience with common
delivery protocols including HTTP, SSL, SMTP, UDP, TCP/IP.
* Strong understanding and development experience with web
technologies including IIS, .NET C#, J2EE(JSP, Servlets, JMS), XML,
SOAP,.
We are an equal opportunity employer.
