Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Resort Technology Partners - Director of Development, Sr. Database Developer

RTP is looking for a Director of RTP|ONE Development to lead the evolution of RTP's flagship enterprise software product suite!

This position will provide broad functional and technical expertise in designing and developing software applications primarily for the RTP|ONE product suite. This position will also provide application architecture direction; user interface/user experience leadership; setting coding standards and reviewing solutions against standards and ensuring best practice object oriented design is utilized. This is a hands-on development manager position with coding responsibility. In addition, this position will manage the C# development team (8-10 Sr. C# developers) responsible for designing, building and supporting RTP|ONE applications and solutions. This position will report to the VP of Software Development.

This position is located in our Avon, CO office.

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
RTP is a market-leader providing software solutions to the resort and recreation market. Our enterprise application suite, RTP|ONE, is an n-tier application built using the .NET Framework in C#. It is a highly scalable solution leveraging SQL Server technology for data access and reporting (Microsoft Reporting Services) serving many of today's leading resort and recreation management companies.


KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
•Responsible for design, development and delivery of RTP|ONE product development initiatives working closely with product management and across the rest of the development organization (DB Development, QA, Tech Doc, BA/PM).
•Review business and product requirements and analyze feasibility, approach and estimate development effort.
•Work closely with the VP of Development and Business Analyst/PM to direct day to day activities of the development lifecycle.
•Provide user experience/user interface leadership and guidance across all development efforts. Own user experience standards and consistent implementation across the product line.
•Identify and drive improvements in the software development process that facilitate quality, customer experience, schedule, and cost improvements.
•Review and sign off on all functional and technical designs for the RTP|ONE product offering.
•Act as primary point of escalation to support team for hosted product issues and work with QA and VP of Development to plan major and minor releases.
•Act as scrum master for the development teams and work with product owners to manage sprint iterations, priorities and effective delivery of solutions.
•Prototype solutions and take on development projects as appropriate.
•Efficiently manage and develop your direct reports: Hold regular status review, staff, and 1 on 1 meetings. Conduct performance reviews, work prioritization, and supervision of staff.
•Stay up to date on latest technology trends.
•Interface as appropriate with customers, sales and marketing, delivery and support and all areas of development to represent RTP's software products, derive application requirements, gain input on designs, and drive the best solutions possible into RTP's software products.
•Travel may be required for this position.


DESIRED SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS
•Previous development experience in a software company leading a team of developers and delivering a software product to market is required.
•Deep functional and technical product knowledge in enterprise integrated point of sale applications.
•Demonstrated track record of delivering product development projects to specification, on time.
•Delivery of at least one commercially successful software products.
•Strong leadership presence, ability to motivate and drive staff to get results with a positive and proactive leadership style. Can-do attitude.
•Comfortable in dynamic small company, start-up like environment.
•Experienced in structured product development practices, able to develop and enforce discipline in process.
•3+ years managing a development team.
•8+ years of deep technical experience in Microsoft .NET technologies.
•5+ years UI design experience.
•3+ years working in an agile software development methodology with Scrum Master certification and training
•Experience producing technical design documentation.
•Must have college degree in computer science or equivalent.
•We have a strong team-based environment. Must be a team player, work well in a changing environment, adapt quickly to customer needs, and have the ability to think creatively and problem-solve.


RTP Offers Its Employees. . .
•Competitive compensation.
•401k, Health/Dental/Life insurance, etc.
•Casual work environment in a growing company.
•Role-specific training and continuing education.
•Opportunity to work with driven, winning, committed professionals and world-class customers.

RTP's Avon office is. . .
•minutes away from Vail and Beaver Creek mountains
•located on the Eagle River (fly-fishing, kayaking, rafting)
•next to the Eagle-Summit County bike path (a paved bike path from Edwards to Breckenridge)
•within 30 minutes of 7 golf courses
•steps from the on-premise workout room, heated pool, and hot tub

About RTP:
RTP (Resort Technology Partners) is a privately-held company that provides advanced software, internet, and ecommerce solutions to hospitality industry businesses, including ski resorts, tour & travel businesses, golf management companies, theme parks, attractions, etc. RTP is a very successful, rapidly growing business with approximately 100 employees and hundreds of customers in more than 4 countries. In addition to offering tremendous career opportunities, RTP is a great place to work!
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Resort Technology Partners is looking for a Sr. Database Developer to design and build SQL-based solutions within the context of our enterprise application. This position will report to the Database Architect Lead and help our growing company in developing data centric solutions for our products. We are looking for a candidate to provide SQL Server development expertise in data modeling, stored procedure development, reporting services development, replication development, SSIS development and analysis services/business intelligence development. This individual will have broad experience in developing database backend?s for OLTP enterprise applications, accounting and financial expertise and business intelligence experience.

RTP is a market-leading provider of software solutions to the resort and recreation market. Our enterprise application suite, RTP|ONE, is an n-tier application built using the .NET Framework. It is a highly scalable solution leveraging SQL Server technology for data access, reporting (Microsoft Reporting Services) and analytics (Microsoft Analysis Services).

This position is located in our Avon, CO office.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Data modeling, design and optimization for new and existing functionality
- Architecting and deploying replication solutions for offline/limited connectivity environments
- Following and evolving database coding standards
- Ensure adequate database performance through tuning and optimization within the context of the core transaction engine and enterprise data model
- Work to define, develop and deploy business intelligence products within RTP?s suite of enterprise class applications
- Travel may be required

DESIRED SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS
- Relevant experience in enterprise-class database development
- Experience in all aspects of database design, stored procedure development, SSIS development, reporting services development, and business intelligence development
- Expertise in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 tools and technologies
- 3+ years of back end application development using SQL, Stored Procedures, and XML
- 3+ years of deep technical experience in database environments specializing in SQL Server
- 2+ years experience in Microsoft Reporting Services and Analysis Services
- Experience producing technical design documentation
- Must have college degree or equivalent experience
- Working knowledge or development experience in a software company
- The following industry and product knowledge would be a plus:
Resort (in particular Ski or Golf), Parks & Attractions
Point of Sale
Inventory Management
Retail
Food & Beverage
- We have a strong team based office environment: must be a team player, work well in a changing environment, adapt quickly to customer needs, and have the ability to think creatively and problem-solve.


RTP Offers Its Employees:
...Competitive compensation.
...401k, Health/Dental/Life insurance, etc.
...Casual work environment in a growing company.
...Role-specific training and continuing education.
...Opportunity to work with driven, winning, committed professionals and world-class customers.

RTP's Avon office is...
- minutes away from Vail and Beaver Creek mountains
- located on the Eagle River (fly-fishing, kayaking, rafting)
- next to the Eagle-Summit County bike path (a paved bike path from Edwards to Breckenridge)
- within 30 minutes of 7 golf courses
- steps from the on-premise workout room, heated pool, and hot tub