Technical Consultant Job in Charleston, South Carolina Us

Our Client is looking for a Technical Consultant with a mix of advanced technology and client facing capabilities. The role requires both broad and deep technology knowledge as well as the ability to develop solutions utilizing the firm’s enterprise application suite. The Technical Consultant must have a demonstrated ability to build custom applications from scratch and/or using an application framework to provide best practice solutions for real world business needs.

The ideal Technical Consultant candidate has most likely worked at a global IT consultancy focusing on enterprise solutions leveraging Microsoft .NET and SQL Server technologies and has excellent communication/client facing skills. Experience and Skills:

As a Technical Consultant you will:

Bring your insight and expertise in .NET and SQL Server and overall solution architecture to our advanced Microsoft shop to deliver software and services to our enterprise nonprofit clients.

Brainstorm and formulate cutting-edge product breakthroughs, define and document high-level design and requirements, and lead development efforts


Required Experience:

Excellent technical and business-facing communication skills, both oral and written

Experience leading $1M+ systems integration projects

Familiar with Use Case Analysis, UML diagramming, Object Oriented Design Analysis, .NET 2.0-3.5, VB.NET or C#, SSIS and SQL Server 2008

Experience in full life cycle software development using an iterative development approach

Familiar with the concepts, value, and approaches of Business Intelligence, EAI, Workflow

Deep understanding of SOA principles and implementation methodologies

Experience with automated testing for both functionality and performance

Familiar with usability design principles

Familiar with web services, WSDL, Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), XML, XSD, AJAX, JavaScript

Experience with designing of applications for deployment in a WAN environment utilizing web services

Experience defining, documenting, and recommending appropriate enterprise-class system architectures

Experience estimating and sizing development efforts

MCSD Preferred

Developer:

-candidate hired have been 50% local, and 50 % out of town

-developers work off a tiered structure

-looking for mid-senior level developers (3 years and up)

-.Net, C#, SQL 2008 skills

-client facing

-400 developers on staff at BB

-very progressive development

-single project focused

-12-18 month project cycles

-will have a mentor at the beginning

-60-95K

-30-40% travel

-familiar with scope, budget, and consultant engagements

-billable hours driven

-OK with a consultants background on the resume rather than a person who has only worked at one place

- Company info:

-50 hour weeks very common, which would be good for a contractor

-2/3 week turnaround on all positions accept the Solutions Architect

-Team structure goes from a Solutions Architect that is managing several projects, to a BA who is the on-site liaison, to a team of 1-5 Developers.

-they are trying to become an Agile shop, but currently lend to the SDLC

-want 1-2 references submitted with the resume

-very cohesive teams

-need to be laid back, not take themselves too seriously

-good clients at BB (most do very noble work)

-3 weeks vacation to start

-casual environment