Careers at Equinox IT Solutions

The ideal candidate will efficiently and quickly write .NET in a timely and scalable way. This candidate will be able to communicate with clients very well and lead the delivery team to complete all the work. They should also be experienced in contributing to the whole development and support lifecycle.
Responsibilities:
• Communicate with clients to understand their business.
• Communicate with and lead offshore development team to complete the development work.
• Participate in requirements gathering and data analysis; translate complex business requirements into technical requirements and application architecture and design; and partner with Systems Engineers for infrastructure related solutions.
• Participate in hands-on software development, including design and code reviews.
• Partner with the Business Analysts and QA testing teams for test case validation and defect remediation, including providing production implementation support.
• Provide technical leadership and partner with teammates on increasing efficiency of development processes and procedures, including release and build processes, code reviews, and peer programming.
• Research, evaluate, and recommend tools and frameworks which will improve software development efficiency and product quality.
Qualifications:
• 6+ years of experience using .NET development environment, understand server basic commands.
• 3+ years of experience in leading development teams.
• 5 years of experience with SQL (Structured Query Language) programming.
• 5 years of experience with Object-Oriented Analysis & Design.
• 5 years of experience with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• 3 years of experience developing requirements specifications and design documents.
• Hands on Web Development technologies using Angular Js, React Js, HTML5/CSS3, Python and responsive web designs, mobile application development technologies.
• Strong database modeling and understanding of transactions.
• REST API design best practices and implementations.
• Quickly able to obtain a deep technical understanding of new domains and good communication with team members & customers.
• Effective use of the Git source control system including branching, merging code and creating pull requests.
• Stay abreast of current topics and trends within the larger software development community.
• Bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics or in a related field.
• Strong leadership skills both organizational and technical
• Good architecture background
• Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are preferred.

Description
The Mobile Software Developer is an instrumental member of our IT Technical Operations Team, supporting efforts of internal and external customers in order to minimize production issues. You will be joining one of our Agile Scrum teams responsible for developing mobile applications, webpages, backend, and server databases as well as identifying opportunities to trial and deploy new capabilities and tools to keep current with technology. Ideal candidates will possess a drive for thinking creatively to resolve complex problems and enjoy contributing to solutions.

Essential Duties and Responsibilitie
Provide input to user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical tasks prior to beginning sprint
Provide feedback regarding system performance and usability issues concerning user story development
Attend Backlog Refinement and Sprint Planning Ceremonies to review and clarify user stories
Pull prioritized user stories from the backlog into the sprint to match the team’s capacity
Collaborate with other developers to ensure consistent design across IT solutions

Develop:
Write clean, concise code using SentriLock naming conventions and architectural standards
Complete system design, development, interface points between various systems, debugging, and code review
Collaborate with other engineers and developers regarding programming needs and solution performance
Interpret a variety of business requirements furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form
Solve difficult problems and deal with a variety of variables without a defined “right-answer”
Effectively deal with ambiguity and changing priorities
Stay plugged into emerging technologies/industry trends and suggest application of them into operations and activities
Embrace change and assist others in accepting and moving forward with new systems and processes

Test and Support
Work with IT QA to test developed solutions
Collaborate with IT QA and support personnel to troubleshoot reported bugs
Lead small scale projects to their completion using appropriate methodologies
Use Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint) as necessary for collaboration

Other duties as assigned
Participate in projects assigned by manager
Maintain and follow ISO standards
Seek out and complete appropriate training, development and research
Knowledge of department processes
Support the mission and goals of the company


Educational Requirements / Preferences
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Related Degree or equivalent experience - Required

Experience Requirements / Preferences
2+ Software development in enterprise systems - Required
2+ iOS or Android development - Required

Business Analysis Investigates operational requirements, problems, and opportunities, seeking effective business solutions through improvements in automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes. Assists in the analysis of stakeholder objectives, and the underlying issues arising from investigations into business requirements and problems, and identifies options for consideration. Works iteratively with stakeholders, to identify potential benefits and available options for consideration, and in defining acceptance tests.

Responsibilities include:
-Attending daily scrum calls to gain working knowledge of the system being built.
-Partnering with the development/management teams to develop use cases and test plans
-Executing test plans and reporting results
-Testing in multiple environments, including smoke testing and regression testing
-Support during after hours deployments to execute smoke tests in Production

Qualifications:
Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
A flexible attitude with respect to work assignments and new learning
Ability to manage multiple and varied tasks with enthusiasm and prioritize workload with attention to detail.
Shows Initiative and self-confidence, is adaptable and is able to cope with changing and evolving priorities.
Must have the ability to work methodically in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment

Knowledge and Experience:
Understanding of Agile methodologies (preferably Scrum), UML, Object Orientated, Data Modeling, Process Modeling and/or other development methodologies
Awareness of structured approach to test planning and test execution.
In depth understanding of Data Warehousing concepts, Methodologies and best practices

Education:
Degree in Life Sciences, Engineering, or Computer Science field, or equivalent.

Job Description:
Equinox IT Solutions has an immediate opportunity for a Program Manager to manage complex, high-profile projects and strategic initiatives to deliver high-quality technology solutions for our customer.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Compiles project data and reports on status of key projects to management.
Manages strategic initiatives and coordinates with appropriate technical expertise across the enterprise to ensure all objectives and schedules are achieved.
Build credibility, establish rapport and maintain communication with stakeholders at multiple levels, including those external to the customer organization, internal customer technical teams, and customer management.
Provide advanced support for the diagnosis and resolution of complex problems to ensure minimal disruption of mission-critical systems and applications.
Present project progress, issues and mitigation to all stakeholders.
Proactively identify potential issues and propose mitigation plans or alternative solutions.
Define strategies and road maps for expansion of capabilities, technologies and governance.
Drive the implementation of .best practices through the organization, ensuring objectives are achieved.
We can only accept US citizens and or Green Card Holders. The security clearance for this program requires the selected candidate to have resided in the US.

Education:
Bachelors' Degree in either Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Engineering, Business (or related field of study)

Qualifications:
Minimum 12+ years of experience as a Program Manager delivering large Infrastructure programs
Ability to create visual representations (e.g. presentations) of complex IT initiatives
Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills
Ability to work in a fast paced environment with changing priorities
Knowledge of both theoretical and practical aspects of program and project management
Knowledge of project management techniques and tools including MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, MSWord, and VersionOne
Proven experience in strategic planning
Project Management Professional certification required
Familiarity of Agile and DevOps methods
Agile Certification a plus
ITIL Foundations certification a plus
Must be able to obtainand retain a Public Trust Clearance

Job Description:
We are looking for a junior application developer to join a true agile Web Development team. This developer will work directly on applications hosted on our externally facing secure portal, which provides self-service capabilities to employees, employers and brokers. In this role, you will be able to build your technical and strategic skills as you work alongside lead developers, other agile team members, and internal stakeholders.

Responsibilities:
Develops web-based applications using latest JavaScript and Java technologies for our retirement planning business.
Provides effort estimates.
Uses tools with expertise such as Git and Gitlab, XL Deploy, Artifactory, SonarQube, and VersionOne.
Participates in design and architecture reviews, gap analysis and assessment.
Ensures the consistency and maintainability of software solutions by creating, maintaining, and enforcing standards and procedures.

Additional Responsibilities:
Partners with Performance Management to identify and triage negative impacts to the overall performance of the production environment.
Reviews code with lead developers.
Learns new technologies and adapt quickly to changes.
Challenges the norms by doing things in a different way and brings new perspectives to day to day activities.
Be a problem solver and says “yes, if” instead of “no, because.”

Education:
4 Year/Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience (4 years of experience in lieu of Bachelors)_Minimum Required in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology or Computer Engineering
Experience
1-2+ years’ experience developing UI using Angular 2+ or React.js.
Experienced in mobile responsive web application development with HTML5/CSS3 and SAAS.
1-2+ years’ experience developing web services using JAVA, J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot, and Java 8 including Streams and Lambda.
Experienced in writing automated Unit Tests using Mockito, Junit, and Jasmine.
Experienced in using static security scan (e.g. Fortify), dependency-check (e.g. Sonar X-Ray).
Demonstrated critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
Additional Experience
Knowledge in microservice design and Service-Oriented Architecture.
Familiar with asset model design, template development, and application integration in Oracle WebCenter Sites 12c or other Content Management Systems (CMS).
Experienced in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform.
Experienced writing Docker files and deploying to Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Knowledge in utilizing performance management and application profiling tools, such as AppDynamics to monitor and troubleshoot performance issues.
Familiar with Continuous Integration/Delivery and DevOps.