Associate Consultant-1

**Job Description Summary**:

- The Charles River Consultant will be an integral player, bringing technical expertise and direction to implementation engagement teams, helping to ensure that our clients are implementing Charles River’s IMS suite properly.
- System implementations include all aspects of a consulting project, from installation of n-tier software to DR/HA design to documenting and performing technical training for the client.
- System integrations will involve XML messaging, Charles River web services (SOAP), ETL tools, and database techniques

**Responsibilities**:

- Manage multiple technical initiatives, potentially on multiple projects simultaneously.
- Develop with a result-driven approach while maintaining implementation schedules.
- Capable to advance to potentially be responsible for tracking project progress across junior consultants, allocating resources to projects, and mentoring new hires.
- Able to be self-motivated and self-driven.
- Work in a dynamic, fast-paced, Agile team environment.

This role will involve working closely with Clients and internal resources, providing expert level technical, administration and support for upgrading our client’s production environments. The Charles River Consultant will perform the following duties
- Assist in analysis of the current state including any customizations.
- Develop plans to retire current customizations in favor of native functionality.
- Manage multiple technical initiatives, potentially on multiple projects simultaneously.
- Develop with a result-driven approach while maintaining upgrade schedules.
- Able to be self-motivated and self-driven.
- Work in a dynamic, fast-paced, team environment
- Performance tuning
- Assist in project planning
- Testing technical solutions
- Issue resolution
- Assist with configuration of automated UAT regression tests
- Assisting in UAT
- Support during Go-Live event and during the post go-live period.
- Participation in the development and on-going refinement, enhancement and continuous process improvement for the services.
- Participation in the investigation, implementation, and operation of 3rd party tools to enhance/improve, automate, and streamline the delivery of the services.

The role will involve periodic out of hours support

**Skills, Experience & Qualifications Required**:

- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent field.
- 10-15 years of related experience
- Experience in methodology-based solution delivery and managing customers’ expectations.
- Problem solving skills and ability to recognize long term solutions across multiple projects.
- Must be detail-oriented and have the ability to multi-task.
- Self-starter, able to work both independently and as part of a team.
- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written); good interpersonal skills; ability to gather and understand requirements in the financial sector; solid client interaction skills.
- The ability to travel from time to time as the assignment requires (25%)
- Desired technical experience includes:

- XML and XSLT
- Understanding of ERDs
- Tomcat configuration and optimization
- SOAP/XML and messaging software like MQ Series, MSMQ, Sonic MQ and Open JMS
- In-depth knowledge of one of the following RDBMS: Oracle or MS SQL Server
- Java and C# programming and associated IDEs
- Windows and Unix (Linux)
- knowledge of ETL tools such as Kettle
- Familiar with at least one SCM (Perforce would be a plus)
- Perl
- Crystal Reports or SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)

**Strong preference**
- Financial services industry experience
- Previous consulting background
- System integration using ETL tools