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JAVA Developer - Full Time

The Java/Web Developer will participate in software development efforts for the critical product application following current J2EE standards and develop software components using primarily technologies such as Java, web services.

Requirements

• Proficient in OO Design and Programming
• Experienced J2EE programmer
• Experience with BEA WebLogic Application Server is a plus
• Experience in design and development of standard Java/J2EE Web applications
• Experience with Struts and Tiles frameworks
• Experience in developing presentation layers using JSPs, HTML, JavaScript etc.
• Knowledge and experience in applying industry standard Design Patterns for web application development
• Experience in developing industry standard persistence mechanisms like: EJBs, JDBC, Hibernate, etc.
• Experience in using unit testing frameworks like JUnit, Cactus etc. would be a plus.
• Good understanding of the various stages of an application lifecycle.
• Excellent communication, listening, analytical and problem solving skills
• Working knowledge of Oracle databases
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Spring knowledge and experience is a plus
• Agile methodology experience is a plus.
  

• Ideal candidate will have 3 - 4 years software development experience with web-based solutions
• 2 + years J2EE experience
  
• 3 - 4 years of overall software development experience
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, MIS

J2EE - Full Time

• Candidates need to have at least 4+ recent years in WEB based Java / J2EE development.
• Strong Java skills are required.
  
• Strong communication skills are required.
  
• This person will need to work well with our existing team. Page Flow / Apache Beehive, CSS, Struts, JSP, Web Services, BEA WebLogic 9.2, WebLogic Portal 9.2, EJB, Ant, OO/J2EE design patterns

To submit your resume for this position, please Click Here and attach a Word Version of your resume.

Sr. Embedded Systems Engineer

Our client is the largest European cardiovascular medical device company with a global R&D, manufacturing and marketing organization. Nearly 1 million patients are treated with their devices every year in more than 80 countries. Their vision is to be recognized as the world leader in hemodynamics and as a true innovator in cardiac rhythm management.

Job Description

The Sr. Embedded Systems Engineer will be responsible for the specification, design, development, testing, and documentation of real time embedded hardware and software for a cardiac device remote monitoring system. This position involves working on a class II/III medical device under FDA regulations and entails rigorous process discipline and documentation to assure functionality, safety, reliability and quality of the product. The position will provide both individual contributions and overall technical leadership of remote monitoring device development utilizing external engineering development resources, which will require technical, interpersonal, and leadership competencies.

Position Responsibilities

• Overall technical leadership of remote monitoring device development utilizing internal and external engineering resources.
• Participation in requirements creation/management and analyses.
• Embedded analog and digital hardware design, prototyping, development, testing and integration including RF telemetry and GPRS cellular communications.
• Embedded software design, prototyping, development, testing and integration on an embedded Linux operating system.
• Debugging and troubleshooting embedded system using a variety of tools such as scopes, emulators, logic analyzers etc.
• Unit & integration test creation, execution and report generation
• Satisfy UL and IEC 60601 electrical safety and EMC, resulting in CE Mark certification.
• Supporting version control, issue tracking tools and other formal development processes per regulated medical industry standards.
  

• BS in Electrical Engineering / Computer Science or equivalent.
• 8 years experience designing and developing real-time embedded systems.
• Embedded C /C++ programming skills.
• Embedded analog and digital hardware development skills including RF telemetry and GSM/GPRS cellular communications.
• Experience working in formal development processes preferably the medical device industry.
• A working understanding of FDA QSR, ISO 13485 or ISO 9001 principles.
• A working understanding of UL or IEC 60601 electrical safety and EMC. standards.
• Experience transitioning products from R&D to product manufacturing.
• Supporting formal verification test teams.
• Strong documentation skills.
  

• MS in Electrical Engineering / Computer Science or equivalent.
• 12+ Years of Experience designing and developing real-time embedded systems.
• Experience working with external engineering development teams and resources
• Significant experience working in the medical industry under FDA QSR, ISO 13485 or ISO 9001 principles.
• Significant experience in requirements management, architectural design development and risk/hazard analysis.
• Significant experience with UL, IEC 60601 electrical safety and EMC certification.
• Significant experience with RF telemetry and GSM/GPRS cellular communications.
• Significant experience with embedded application development on Linux OS.
• Significant experience in complete life cycle of product development in a team environment.

Enterprise Program Manager - PMO

Job Summary

Accountable for managing and delivering multiple, simultaneous, enterprise projects. Successful EPM will be expected to effectively manage resources, schedule and quality of deliverable through the full project life cycle. Works in concert with other departments and entities to define and meet the overall project goals in terms of scope, quality, budget, and schedule, following company standards. Champion the project management discipline and participates in driving project management rigor throughout the organization.

Accountabilities

1. Responsible for leading and managing all aspects of critical, strategic enterprise projects and/or programs to deliver results, on time, on budget.
2. Establish common understanding of project time lines, milestones, and delivery expectations.
3. Drive and/or execute project planning, resource planning & management, financial management, risk identification and mitigation planning and control, change control, and project reporting.
4. Manage the day-to-day details of the project, working closely with business functional areas, external customers/clients and vendors to ensure superior customer and client experience.
5. Track progress and monitor all creative, business and technical development activities to ascertain and control progress.
6. Provide leadership to diagnose and overcome barriers to team/project progress. Resolve internal and external team conflict to ensure adherence to project schedule and budget.
7. Delegate and manage tasks of the other functional core team members.
8. Exercise independent judgment in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
9. Serve as a mentor and source of expertise to other project managers and project staff. Provide formal and informal coaching to teams and project stakeholders.
10. Responsible for establishing and championing Project Management discipline and standards across the Enterprise through the Enterprise Project Management methodology.
11. Lead PMO development and continuous improvement efforts as needed.
    

1. Advanced project management expertise and experience with formal project management methodologies; demonstrated depth across all foci of the Project Manager Competency Development Framework.
2. Advanced knowledge of one or more project specialty areas (Business Process Re-engineering, Systems Implementation, Application Development, Technical Infrastructure.)
3. Demonstrated experience of in successfully delivering full life cycle multi-million dollar projects/programs.
4. Proven ability to counsel and influence at the Executive, C- level.
5. Knowledge of IT network systems/infrastructure management and practices, software development life cycle.
6. Significant experience in leading and motivating large, diverse project teams to achieve stated results.
7. Desire to educate and advance the PM practice across the enterprise.
8. Strong organizational change management skills, flexibility and collaborative spirit.
9. Team player, comfortable with fast paced, changing environment and ambiguity.
10. PMI certification and CQI credentials highly desired.
11. Experience implementing PPM tools a plus.

Embedded Developer

Our client is looking for an Embedded Developer that has experience with the following: 

• Has solid experience with DSPs (Blackfin-Tiger Shark, TI, etc.)
• Understands hard real-time scheduling using an RTOs with prioritized FIFO
• Scheduling (preemptive multitasking)
• RTOS - QNX helpful but not required.
• Fluency with UML
• Visual Studio 2005
• Some experience with C/C++ and C# utilizing ASP.Net and ADO.Net.
• B.S. in Computer Science, Mathematics or an engineering field

Senior Test Engineer

We are looking for an engineer with 2 – 5 years of experience. This person will work in a team environment and be responsible for all aspects of test application creation, including but not limited to:

• requirements generation
• hardware and software design
• procurement
• validation
• qualification
• installation
• documentation
  

• Project Management – own and contribute to project plans in support test system development for new products, and supporting both manufacturing test systems and design verification test system needs
• Specify, develop and validate test system hardware and software
• Be able to communicate with and manage supplier relationships for outsourcing of work as necessary
• Collaboration – Ability to actively engage with “internal customers” such as manufacturing, Product Development, Supplier Development, Design Assurance and others.
• Execution - Deliver test systems per set project plans.
  

Technical Requirements

• Strong LabVIEW experience
• Experience in production test
• Experience in low signal level electrical test (uV's, nA's)
• Experience in medical device testing
  

• 4 year electrical engineering degree or equivalent.
  
• Advanced education in a related field or medical device experience is a plus.

.Net Developers

Mandatory Experience

• .Net
• Database Design and Architecture
• Analytical skills
  

• Design, architect and build new database (Oracle) to house information on consumer spending budget and plan.
• Create .Net front end and corresponding business logic per specifications to provide a solution for the business users to enter their plans, change their distributions and run complex calculations to be distributed within the oracle database.
• Create functionality to receive SAP R3 interface for transactional data and store appropriately in oracle database.
• Build reports per specifications.
• Write and perform unit and module testing.
  

Technical Analyst

Responsibilities

Our Technical Analyst position requires a person skilled in database and system design for business applications in a Web based environment. If you can understand the business requirements and translate those to written functional specifications for our Java and PL/SQL development team, you have a good start. If you can lead your development team together to meet the ever changing challenges of our fast paced development environment, then you are getting closer to what we are looking for in the Technical Analyst position.

Qualifications

This position requires someone with a strong understanding of the technologies involved in launching our programs in an Oracle database and a Java J2ee web environment. Your solid problem solving skills will fit in nicely with our multi-tier client server structure running Sun Unix. Your testing skills will certainly be needed in writing test plans for your applications and helping the team execute that plan. You will need to have solid communications skills in dealing with technical as well as non-technical people every day.

Your knowledge of SQL and BEA Web Logic would be a great benefit in learning the current systems that you will support. Your ability to work in a team environment will be of utmost importance in dealing with the day to day challenges of our service industry. Finally, your desire for continuous improvement will result in the high quality systems that our customers expect.

To submit your resume for this position, please Click Here and attach a Word Version of your resume.