Careers

Business Knowledge Services, Inc (BKS) is a leading provider of IT candidates for staff augmentation countrywide. Our clients range from Fortune 50 to Fortune 500 companies, and we offer them a variety of staffing options including contract placements, temp to hire, and permanent.

We are currently looking for outgoing, motivated, innovative thinkers to join our successful team. This position will be in our home office located in Holliston, Massachusetts and we are seeking local candidates only.

Qualifications for this position include:

• Exceptional communication skills.
• Ability to multi-task in a fast paced environment.
• Excellent work ethic and time management skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Knowledge of basic computer skills.
• Previous recruiting experience preferred, healthcare IT recruiting experience a big plus.

Education:

• BA/BS

Benefits:

• In addition to a competitive salary and commission plan, our benefits include HPHC insurance effective day of hire, supplemental benefits through Aflac, 401k, and paid vacations.

The perfect match for this position is a results driven person who will develop and cultivate new candidates for specific positions. We promote from within and always encourage growth into other interests.

Please send cover letter and resume to cphenegar@bksinc.com.

We are looking for individuals that have:

• Financial and Manufacturing (either or, both not required)
• 3-5 years experience with Oracle Financial or Manufacturing
• Extensive reports and forms experience
• Experience in problem identification, resolution and tracking
• Functional/Applied experience with the following technologies: Oracle, PL/SQL, OBIEE, Workflow
• Excellent organization skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Bonus Skills:

• Proficient with trouble shooting
• Shell Scripting
• Leadership qualities

If you or someone you know has a proven track record with such characteristics, and is looking to join a consulting organization that offers tremendous growth and opportunity with a variety of clients, please submit your inquiries and/or resumes and cover letters to jobs@bksinc.com.

Our client, a major Boston HealthCare Institution, is seeking a Senior Data Warehouse Informatica ETL Developer to assist in the build-out of data warehouse and business intelligence applications using Informatica, Oracle, and BI tools such as Business Objects and MicroStrategy.

The incumbent will join at an exciting time when data analysis needs are becoming paramount to the successful migration from a fee for service model in health care to a quality model, under the recent health care reform initiatives. Responsibilities for this position include analyzing business requirements, both documented and undocumented, and designing, developing, and unit testing integration solutions to meet hospital data needs for clinical operations, finance, and administrative data analysis. The incumbent will write source to target mapping specifications which clearly specify the purpose and transformation logic of each mapping, following existing standards and conventions. The Informatica developer will use available tools in the Informatica framework such as PowerCenter, Metadata Manager, PowerExchange, Data Quality, and other tools to develop data integration mappings from source systems into the data warehouse, as well as within the data warehouse environment. The developer will need to troubleshoot any issues or bugs discovered either during the course of a project or ongoing business support. This person will take on project management responsibilities to manage the development and implementation of new features and functions for projects that are small to medium in size. This person will need to work independently as well as lead project teams and interdisciplinary work teams as needed.

Please send cover letter and resume to eaudette@bksinc.com.

• The ideal candidate will be comfortable creating reports utilizing Excel and Oracle
• Coordinating all the logistics to events
• Must possess great PowerPoint and Excel skills and grasp different programs quickly

Intangibles:

• High energy
• Excellent speaking, writing and interpersonal skills
• Capable of working individually with minimal supervision

Provides support to functional area program/projects and activities. Coordinates and monitors functional area activities, compiles and prepares information, and interfaces and communicates frequently with employees, management and external contacts

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Utilizes various software applications to compile and prepare both standard or ad-hoc reports.
• May coordinate software updates, downloads and system backups.
• Works closely with employees and/or management of other departments to compile and analyze information and/or prepare reports.
• May conduct specialized research and present findings.
• May assist in the preparation and management of budgets, invoices and other financial activities related to assigned program or project.
• May prepare monthly/quarterly documents and/or reports for management/business review.
• Schedules and/or attends meetings and coordinates logistics as required.
• Prepares program/project documentation such as presentations, reports, etc.

If you or someone you know has a proven track record with such characteristics, and is looking to join a consulting organization that offers tremendous growth and opportunity with a variety of clients, please submit your inquiries and/or resumes and cover letters to jobs@bksinc.com.

Our client, a world-class educational institution is looking for an enthusiastic Web Developer to become an integral part of a dynamic team of web and database consultants and developers who create and support software solutions for a wide variety of customers across the institution's community.

Responsibilities will include developing, implementing, and maintaining web-based applications. This person will, among other tasks, provide estimates of level-of-effort to complete development tasks; develop new and enhance and support existing applications; work with the appropriate resources to resolve issues; consult with analysts and users to identify technical requirements and objectives; provide documentation for program development, logic, coding, corrections, and installation; and evaluate and install patches to resolve software related problems.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in a related area.
• Minimum of five years of experience working in information technology.
• Experience in object-oriented PHP, mySQL, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and AJAX MVC application framework development.
• Experience with XML/XSLT and RSS.
• Knowledge of commonly-used concepts, best practices, and procedures for web application development, including secure application development.
• Comfort working in a collaborative environment with project managers, analysts, and other developers.
• Flexibility and willingness to move between projects and tasks as needed.
• Familiarity with relational databases and n-tier web application architectures; demonstrated experience with structured testing procedures, application testing for performance and impact, application security, and application documentation; knowledge of leading open source products.
• Experience working in a Linux server environment.
• Experience in any of the following desirable: Drupal, WordPress, Python, Perl, UNIX/Linux systems administration, and UI design.

If you or someone you know has a proven track record with such characteristics, and is looking to join a consulting organization that offers tremendous growth and opportunity with a variety of clients, please submit your inquiries and/or resumes and cover letters to jobs@bksinc.com.

Our client, the leading cloud platform and applications company for enabling connected products, is looking for a passionate, creative, motivated software engineer to join our team in creating the future generations of their market-leading applications and Platform. Using cutting-edge Java EE and Web 2.0 technologies, you will be an integral part of an Agile team that is producing one of the Internet’s most innovative solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Be a member of a Scrum feature delivery team and learn from top notch developers and architects.
• Enhance the development & build environments to maximize productivity and team happiness factor.
• Deliver high quality production code and associated unit / integration tests.
• Focus on the company’s mission critical initiative to propagate our wireless partner ecosystem. This initiative includes delivering:
• Proprietary Platform pluggable CODECs & Transports for fixed purpose wireless edge devices
• Provisioning tools for our partners’ wireless edge devices.
• Proprietary Wireless Protocol (AWP) Embedded toolkit integration for programmable wireless edge devices.
• AWP Embedded toolkit support for additional languages, e.g. C++, Python & Java
• Pluggable wireless carrier integrations.

Technical/Professional Knowledge/Skills:

• Ability to rapidly learn new technologies and product features.
• Strong technical aptitude and object oriented design skills.
• Solid understanding of the core Java libraries.
• Knowledge and development experience with Java and JEE.
• C++ & Python programming experience.
• Familiarity with standard Java and C++ development, build and automation test tools.
• Familiarity with Windows and Linux environments.
• Understanding of web based application architectures.
• Oracle database knowledge is a plus.
• Experience with Test Driven Development is a plus.
• Experience ranging from recent college graduate to 3 years of software product development experience.

Motivational Fit:

• Motivated to be a polyglot programmer that adeptly delivers solutions for an enterprise platform and wireless edge devices.
• High energy impact player with contagious passion for delivering innovative software solutions.
• Strong desire to be part of a fast paced software start-up.
• Results oriented, focused on delivering value to the customer.
• Courageous, able to fail fast, deliver bad news, recover and move forward.
• Able to respond positively to change.
• Able to work as part of a self-organizing team in which you determine your tasks on a daily basis in coordination with co-workers, rather than waiting for work to be assigned to you.
• Team oriented
• Highly motivated
• Creative problem solver.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Able to stand up for what you believe.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related area
• Master’s degree in Computer Science or related area is a plus

If you or someone you know has a proven track record with such characteristics, and is looking to join a consulting organization that offers tremendous growth and opportunity with a variety of clients, please submit your inquiries and/or resumes and cover letters to jobs@bksinc.com.

The Oracle Functional Analyst Senior will work with other internal support and delivery teams as well as our internal clients to provide the highest standard of support for both custom and out of the box Oracle ERP application solutions.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Provide day to day support and troubleshooting of user and financial application problems for a specific area of expertise (role based security and user provisioning).
• Perform Tier 2 & 3 functional support for oracle financial application issues - logging, tracking and escalating issues in accordance with procedures.
• Perform Oracle configuration, setup, data load activities.
• Liaise with internal constituents (such as finance, IT and internal audit) in performing support and troubleshooting activities.
• Interface with external software vendors for product issue troubleshooting and resolution; initiating Oracle Service Requests (SR*s) as necessary, as well as SRs with other 3rd Party Vendors.
• Adhere to defined support policies, procedures and service levels.
• Assist in upgrade, enhancement configuration and testing activities as directed.
• Provide application/process subject matter expertise as directed.
• Develop, maintain and update operating procedures.
• Ad hoc query and reporting to support issues resolution(PL/SQL).

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or Information Systems or equivalent work experience with 5- 8 years experience.
• 3+ years experience with Oracle eBusiness Suite Financial Applications (including knowledge of underlying table structure) implementation and/or support including application administration, configuration and problem resolution.
• Experience with Oracle EBS 11 or higher (Release 12 a plus).
• Knowledge of functional business processes surrounding the applications with prior experience in support or implementation.
• Knowledge of basic PL/SQL.
• Solid written and verbal communications skills.
• Foreign languages - Spanish (a plus)
• Sound time management and prioritization skills; ability to assess workload of daily support tasks, customer requests, and other demands and seek management direction or prioritization when needed.
• Strong Customer Focus, Relationship Management skills, Learning Agility, Execution Skills, and Professional/Technical expertise in specific areas of responsibility as noted above.

If you or someone you know has a proven track record with such characteristics, and is looking to join a consulting organization that offers tremendous growth and opportunity with a variety of clients, please submit your inquiries and/or resumes and cover letters to jobs@bksinc.com.

The Manager is responsible for alligning Enterprise Application development with the business strategy developed by internal customers and distributors. This position will manage the functional IT resources in the analysis, design, deployment, project management and support of the Enterprise Applications for Supply Chain Management.

Detailed Responsibilities/Duties:

• Manage client relationship with internal customers and external distributors
• Align systems development roadmap with business strategy
• Manage service delivery for systems development
• Directly manage a team of functional resources charged with analysis, logical design, QA, and support of enterprise appliations
• Supervise direct reports and consultants, assign daily activities, ensure quality and timely delivery, and promote positive team sprits
• Mentor and coach direct reports, conduct performance appraisal, assist in career goals and training plan, and follow HR's guidelines
• The ability to interview various non-technical managers to understand complex, dynamic business rules/process and then create detailed, specific and comprehensive documentation
• Engage business users spanning multiple business units and ensure cohensive articulation of business goals and processes to ensure effective technology solutions
• Manage projects or varying size and complexity
• Strong functional understanding of the systems supported and the development framework for customizations

Required Skills:

• Expert knowledge of Oracle E-Business Suite functionality supporting Supply Chain Management and Operations
• Expert knowledge of Oracle Application configurations and processes for the following modules INV, BOM, WIP, PO, RECV, ASCP, CST and WMS

If you or someone you know has a proven track record with such characteristics, and is looking to join a consulting organization that offers tremendous growth and opportunity with a variety of clients, please submit your inquiries and/or resumes and cover letters to jobs@bksinc.com.

Our client, a world-class educational institution, is looking for a User Experience Designer.

Responsibilities:

• The User Experience Designer will work in a large educational-technology setting to plan, design, code and test the user workflows, behaviors and interfaces of web-based applications. This role will work to understand the needs of an application's users and translate that knowledge into the creation of workflows and experiences that promote learning, with special emphasis on usability. As a member of the User Experience & Interaction team, this candidate works closely with product management, programmers and other designers to translate product requirements into highly usable web applications using cutting edge technology. The UX Designer must be comfortable addressing a complex and diverse set of interaction problems, and researching and/or developing new solutions to design/technology challenges.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 5 years of web development experience with web based applications or highly interactive web sites is required, plus at least 3 years of experience designing significantly complex UI designs for web applications. Additionally, the ideal candidate will possess:
• In-depth knowledge of User Experience Design principles, Human Factors, Human and User-Centered Design Processes, Interaction Design guidelines, Usability Testing Methodologies, web-industry standards and trends, platform standards, software development process, and prototyping/design
• In-depth experience with skinning, UI customization, and workflow design.
• Experience with jQuery.
• Knowledge of ARIA, usability, accessibility (508-compliance) and cross-browser compatibility.
• In-depth knowledge of and ability to code clean, valid, lightweight JavaScript.
• Familiarity with best design practices and patterns for Web 2.0 workflows. Expert-level CSS2 skills.
• Blackboard 9.1 UX experience preferred, and a big plus.

Skills:

• Develop conceptual models, storyboards, scenarios, flowcharts, prototypes, detailed UI design requirements and interface designs.
• Build and write design deliverables to effectively communicate functional behavior to stakeholders.
• Create, run and analyze usability tests to measure effectiveness of UI solutions; incorporate results into overall UX design through assessment and prioritization of business, technical and user constraints.
• Establish level of effort estimates and manage priorities based on data analysis, business objectives, technology constraints and return expectations.
• Evaluate effectiveness of new and existing projects and features through performance metrics, customer feedback, competitive landscape, and industry standard best practices to evolve and continuously improve user experience.
• Perform necessary research for each project including ethnography, competitive analysis, and participatory exercises.
• Advise client/team/stakeholders on user experience and human factors best practices.
• Present prototypes to client/team/stakeholders and iterates as appropriately.
• Proficiently use design tools such as OmniGrafffle, Photoshop, Illustrator, and BBEdit.
• Proficiently code in HTML, XHTML and CSS; advocate web standards, cross-browser compatibility and semantic mark-up; hold basic understanding of JavaScript/AJAX.
• Actively identify product issues, propose solutions, participate in quality improvement activities.
• Maintain strategic outlook and great attention to detail.
• Collaborate within a dynamic multidisciplinary team.
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Education:

• BA/BS or advanced degree preferred in Human Factors, Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Psychology, or a related field; or demonstrated comparable experience designing interactive products and solutions.

If you or someone you know has a proven track record with such characteristics, and is looking to join a consulting organization that offers tremendous growth and opportunity with a variety of clients, please submit your inquiries and/or resumes and cover letters to jobs@bksinc.com.