I have a full-time position available with a client in the San
Francisco Bay Area for whom I've been recruiting and placing both
full-time IT pros and consultants over the past 6 years. The manager is
looking for qualified professionals who live within a reasonable
commuting distance. That said, I think he would consider relocation
assistance for someone especially qualified. Visa sponsorships are not
currently available.

Details below include Minimum Experience Required, Required Skills,
Benefits, and My Remarks about the position.

The job title is Application Systems Engineer

Minimum Experience Required
 4 year degree plus 7 to 10 years experience
 5+ years experience with Hyperion Essbase
 7+ years hands-on experience with production databases
 5+ years experience working with planning and financial reporting
applications

Required Skills
 Proficient in Hyperion Essbase (v6.5.7 and higher), including
advanced calc scripting, dynamic outline building, rules, report
writer, Esscmd, and Maxl
 Highly skilled in Hyperion Essbase design, development, performance
tuning and optimization
 Full project life-cycle experience, from a conceptual level through
to a successful implementation
 Experience in a highly dynamic environment with high service level
expectations
 Self-starter with ability to work on projects with minimum
supervision
 Able to work independently and as part of a team and adapt to role
assigned
 Strong work ethic and organizational skills
 Ability to multi-task and prioritize conflicting demands
 Strong analytical and data verification skills to insure ongoing
data integrity
 Excellent written, oral, interpersonal and user relationship
building skills
 Able to effectively diagnose production issues and manage
day-to-day user relationships
 Positive attitude toward completing required menial database
maintenance tasks
 Proficient in Excel and Word with basic working knowledge of
PowerPoint and Access
 Advanced knowledge of financial database concepts and data analysis

Benefits
A competitive salary and annual bonus range of 5 – 15% based on
achievement of various objectives. Medical, dental, vision, 401(k),
stock purchase plan, paid time off, health care and day care spending
accounts, short and long-term disability insurance, basic group life
insurance, group universal life insurance, educational matching gifts,
tuition reimbursement, adoption reimbursement, commuter benefit
program, and more (details on request).

Job Description
Acts in a high-level technical role as a designer for major computer
applications utilizing a thorough understanding of available technology
tools, and existing designs.
Woks on extremely complex problems where analysis of situations or data
requires evaluation of tangible and intangible variance factors.
Designs application systems, writes code, and developts tests. Leads
multiple modeling simulation and analysis.

Acts as expert technical resource to programming staff in the program
development, testing, and implementation process.
Provides customer support and resolves issues. Documents existing and
newly developed processes. Enhances and automates existing processes.
May act as project or team lead.

My Remarks about the position
mix of designing and coding, interacting with business users, working
with them to understand what they need, generating the requirements,
and then building, optimizing, rolling out and supporting the
applications. Some of the applications will probably be major with a
long gestation period while others will be very simplistic with a
turnaround of a few days.

I can also tell you the person hired will be expected to exercise a
certain level of independent thought, and must be able to work with
minimum supervision as well as integrate into a team setting. Regards
the salary range, they are flexible so as not to pass up someone who is
a really good fit.

Feel free to occasionally check in and browse the job openings we have
posted which were updated earlier today. If you offer a referral for
any open position that we place anywhere at anytime, I'll pay you a
$1,000 fee when I receive payment from the client.

Thank you for your time.

Daniel Barber
Niche Technologists, Inc.
(610) 847-2143