Professional Product

Job description

·  Job Description:

Summary

Acts as a technical consultant on small to medium-sized product design, implementation, enhancement and integration projects.

Essential Job Functions

·  Provides knowledge of technical products or families of technologies on small to medium-sized projects typically involving single product or single computer environments, where design is non-complex, to ensure client business needs are met.
·  Analyzes customer business requirements and product objectives to develop and ensure that product application designs meet customer specifications.
·  Estimates time frames and quality and quantity of resources required to implement projects; develops plans incorporating project variables to ensure that projects are completed in timely and cost effective manners.
·  Conducts and provides periodic status checks with customers and teams to assess projects against plans; performs re-forecasts of project variables as necessary to maintain final product quality.
·  Identifies and recommends products, technologies and vendors that meet the budgetary constraints of the project/program. Identifies potential uses for product and technologies, investigates and resolves matters of significance and designs strategies to ensure that product meets business needs.
·  Works closely with and provides subject matter expertise to functional architects to ensure that product design and deployment meet client and company guidelines. Recommends specific product configurations to assist with product design and integration.
·  Acts as a liaison between clients and company; provides insight and advice to customers concerning applicability of specific products/technologies. Selects, coordinates and implements technical product components, ensuring that solutions address business concerns.

Basic Qualifications

·  Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
·  Bachelor's degree in software engineering, information systems, computer science, or related field preferred
·  Three or more years of experience in software development, technical support, or consulting
·  Experience working with technical products, vendors, and families of technologies
·  Experience working with the product development life cycle and business processes as they impact overall product plans
·  Experience working with client business and technological requirements and company software and hardware products and services
·  Experience working with technology architecture, mainframes, scheduling software, and other related technologies
·  Experience working with programming design, programming concepts, coding languages, development tools, processes, approaches and/or techniques

Other Qualifications

·  Communication skills to communicate with customers, support personnel and management
·  Organizational skills to balance and prioritize work
·  Analytical and problem solving skills
·  Ability to work independently and as part of a team
·  Ability to work with relational databases
·  Willingness to travel

Work Environment

·  Office environment