Jobs at Razorsight - Reston, VA
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Current Openings:
- Sr. ETL (SSIS) Developer
- Sr. Java Developer – Associate Architect
- Senior Java UI and Data Visualization Expert
- Account Executive - Sales Representative
- Senior Telco Cost Auditor
- Advanced Analytics Team
- Chief Scientist
Job Description:
Razorsight has an immediate need for a Senior ETL Developer with deep experience on the Microsoft BI stack. Candidates must have hands on expertise designing high volume repeatable ETL processes for large enterprise software and SaaS solutions developing very complex data transformations.
Candidate will be responsible for the design, development and support of ETL (Extraction, Transformation and Loading) components, which will be used to move large amounts of data from source data and software application data stores into the optimized operational databases.
Additional responsibilities include tuning the ETL processes, creation of the technical and system specification documents necessary to support ETL processes. And participate in development and execution of unit and system test plans.
Requirements:
- At least 5 years full life cycle software development experience
- At least 5 years of experience in SQL Server T-SQL database development (data modeling, stored procedures, functions and query optimization).
- At least 3 years of experience in SSIS and ETL development.
- Excellent troubleshooting skills
- Ability to translate complex business requirements into technical solutions
- Bachelor degree in a technical/data driven degree
- Desire and ability to clearly communicate with colleagues at all levels
- Ability to create complex, high performance stored procedures in SQL Server 2005/2008
- Ability to create complex, high-performance views in SQL Server 2005/2008
Other Requirements:
- Expert level proficiency in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or 2008, including T-SQL.
- Significant development experience in SSIS is preferred.
- Experience in database-related performance tuning.
- Working knowledge in data modeling.
- Experience in Oracle 10g or 11i data extraction.
- Business Analyst experience preferred but not required.
- Able to successfully complete tasks with limited supervision.
Sr. Java Developer – Associate Architect
Job Description:
Our ideal candidate must have solid experience developing large-scale high-traffic web-based applications. We*re looking for a self-motivated, innovative problem solver who makes the things happen. Experience is important but equally valuable is the ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic environment to create solutions that meet the company standards. The senior java web developer is expected to always keep site scalability and usability as core tenants. This critical position will be responsible for architecting and implementing key new features, improving the scalability of the product and implementing a mobile version of the application.
Senior Java Web Developer Position Requirements:
- 7+ years combined experience as a developer, system analyst, architect or technical manager
- 5+ years of recent Java web development experience
- 2+ years of experience leading or managing teams of developers
- Strong Java programming and debugging skills
- Strong experience developing web applications and user interfaces with Java technologies, especially JDBC, JSP, Servlets, Struts 2, Tomcat and Apache
- Experience developing with web presentation technologies, especially AJAX, JSON, JavaScript, CSS and understanding of multi-browser compatibility
- History of developing large-scale high performance SaaS based applications, preferably used by the general public
- Experience mentoring junior developers
- Experience as project lead managing all aspects of a project including specification, design, coding, roll-out and support
- Strong written and verbal skills
Senior Java Web Developer Preferred Skills:
- Development experience with Oracle/SQL Server, Java based reporting tools, JDBC and XML
- Experience with the Agile development methodology
- Apache, Tomcat, Eclipse, JMeter, and Subversion experience is a plus
- Passionate about web technologies and UI innovations
- Managed small to medium size groups of technical people
- Worked with Product Management to define requirements, write technical specifications and meet release requirements on a timely basis
- Experience with mobile software development a plus
- Integration and development with social media apps (Facebook, Twitter) a plus
- Bachelor of Science or better in Computer Science, MIS or other computer related degrees
Senior Java UI and Data Visualization Expert
Job Description:
We are looking for folks who are passionate about technology and consistently seeking out innovative ways to solve problems. Razorsight is the perfect environment to work on cutting-edge ideas like Geo Spatial data visualization and analytics. If you're interested in working in an environment which rewards initiative and encourages innovation, we'd love to hear from you.
Overview
Razorsight is looking for experienced UI and Data Visualization Developers. The most competitive candidates will display a strong understanding of the latest UI frameworks and technologies to display and visualize complex location sensitive data. You will add your skills and years of experience to existing team of talented developers. This individual should maintain a high awareness of industry issues and trends, particularly in regard to accessibility, usability and emerging technologies with a view to incorporating these in future projects and staying ahead of the market.
Requirements:
- Hands on knowledge and expertise in Java based UI frameworks (extJS, RichFaces etc.,)
- Hands on working experience with Google Maps, and other charting, mapping technologies
- Commitment to teamwork, processes, and planning in order to ensure the success of the development objectives
- An uncanny ability to communicate with other team members, project management and clients
Technical Skills:
- This is "Greenfield" development and the right candidate can, and will, have the opportunity for architecture, technology, and tool selection and input. The skills expected to provide most benefit include:
- 5+ years java development, including 3 years web development (Apache Tomcat experience preferred)
- * Strong front end web development experience including HTML, CSS and Javascript (AJAX, DOM, JSON) including specific experience with one of the following libraries: ExtJS, jQuery
- Familiarity with Cross browser compatibility issues for Javascript, CSS, and HTML
- Experience delivering enterprise software focused sites
- Experience optimizing sites for mobile browsers strongly preferred
- Eclipse, Spring, Hibernate, Groovy and Grails expected to be helpful
- Agile methodologies
Working at Razorsight
- A competitive annual salary based on experience and market demands.
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance.
- 401K retirement savings plan
- 4 weeks of vacations and holidays.
- Bonus Plan.
- Business casual atmosphere.
- Monthly employee social gatherings
Account Executive - Sales Representative
Razorsight - Reston, Virginia (Washington D.C. Metro Area)
Job Description:
Senior Telco Cost Auditor and Analyst
Razorsight, one of the Washington DC region's most exciting technology companies - backed by marquee Venture Investors, supported by Industry Leading Customers, and offering Cloud Solutions or SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) long before it became the rage - is seeking an Aggressive, "Hunter" Sales Representative, who has demonstrated his/her abiliity with 3 strong years well above quota, but who is looking to advance to the next level - to move from making $125K to $200 or $250K. Within a couple years at Razorsight it's common to make $400K+.
The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of substantial success in selling technology or software deals. Consistent track record of exceeding quota and exceptional earnings are a must. Experience selling Analytics and BI solutions across multiple departments including Marketing, Sales, Engineering, Procurement and Finance is a huge plus, but not a requirement. If not Analytics and BI, then ERP or BSS/OSS software experience would be benefiical. A strong rolodex and history of success deals with companies similar to the following is extremely beneficial (but not a requirement):
- Wireless Carriers AT&T, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, Sprint, Leap, etc.
- Wireline Carriers AT&T, Verizon, Embarq, CenturyTel, Qwest, Windstream, Frontier, etc.
- Cable/MSO Comcast, Time Warner, Cox, Charter, Cablevision, etc.
- CLEC Time Warner Telecom, XO, Paetec, Earthlink, Broadview Networks, Covad, Granite, etc.
- MVNO Vonage, Skype, etc.
- Data Level 3, Global Crossing, Equinix etc.
The key attributes of Razorsight are:
- Innovative, enterprise software - unique SaaS application and capabilities for OnDemand Analytics, Data Capture, Cleansing for Revenue and Cost
- we’ve been delivering Cloud Computing Solutions for 9 years!
- Marquee customers - AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Time Warner, Telus, Windstream, CenturyLink and world class Partners – IBM, Accenture, and others.
- We sell to Finance, Engineering, Marketing, Procurement and Sales - we don't get lost in the noise of a 100 projects
- One of the most promising software companies in U.S. - substantiated by $25 Million investment by Sierra Ventures and MMV
- 9 Consecutive Years of Growth; Deloitte Fast 500 for fastest growing companies nationally
- Sales Culture - CEO is a salesman; Board Member/Investor is a salesman; excellent sales support environment
- Compensation - $200K at plan - opportunity to earn far more – no cap on earnings
Responsibilities:
- Develop new business within targeted Communications Providers in North America
- Effectively influence and motivate buyers and decision makers within targeted Communications Providers
- Drive product demos, meetings, presentations and business case development at a senior executive level
- Understand evolving business challenges from the clients’ perspective and effectively articulate Razorsight’s value proposition
- Work in conjunction with a Senior Sales Engineer (SSE) - prospect and build new business within an assigned list of target clients professional networking and cold-call techniques
- Lead senior executives and end users through a consultative sales approach
- Achieve monthly, quarterly and annual sales targets
- Hit the ground running with expected sales results within first 60 days
Razorsight - Any US City (Washington D.C. Metro Area)
Job Description:
Senior Telco Cost Auditor and Analyst
The Senior Telco Cost Auditor and Business Analyst works directly with Razorsight clients to assess business objectives, goals and strategy as it relates to leveraging owned and leased network, media and content assets in order to optimally deliver next generation communications, media and entertainment services and solutions to businesses and consumers – domestically and globally. The Analyst then assesses the full complement of client staff, client tools and systems balanced against Razorsight Product/Applications and Services to develop and deliver the optimal management of the aforementioned assets – from a strategic, operational, engineering and financial perspective.
Once engaged on a client project, the Analyst designs and performs detailed analyses of client telecommunications assets to identify strategic, technical, engineering and financial optimization opportunities. The position requires the Analyst to possess an in-depth knowledge of telecommunications industry trends, challenges, strategies, network design, costs and technologies in the following areas: Next Generation Network Services (media, video services, content, gaming), Data Services (MPLS, IP, OCx), Wireless Services (GSM, CDMA, Fixed), and Voice Services (Switched and Facility Access, Local Services, IXC Private Line, Usage, Voice Over IP). Analysts leverage knowledge of network topology, network engineering, tariff/contract/interconnection agreement analysis and interpretation, and industry standards to identify optimization opportunities. Analysts must be able to analyze data from cost management databases and utilize this data to perform audits, deliver reports, analytics, trending and analysis for financial, engineering and marketing executives. The position requires significant attention to detail, strong analytical skills, creativity, financial and engineering aptitude and excellent communications ability.
Responsibilities:
- Perform auditing, reporting, and analysis based on the client engagement requirements
- Conduct and manage the internal and external client business processes including identification and creation of disputes, exceptions, resolution, tracking, and report generation to clients as determined by the contract
- Leverage Razorsight software tools and applications to identify financial, engineering and strategic improvement opportunities
- Manage and deploy integration/linkage to client systems including Inventory, Contract/Rate Database, BSS/OSS, ERP, Data Warehouse, Network Usage Feeds, and Supplier Invoices
- Conduct tariff and contract analysis, reviewing regulatory and rate application changes to identify exception and optimization opportunities
- Act as a subject matter expert and liaison between the client and suppliers
- Provide analysis, subject matter expertise to internal and external customers to increase knowledge, efficiency, and added value to clients
- Create audits and reporting in several systems including, Razorsight Network Cost Analytics, Business Objects, PL SQL, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint.
Knowledge Requirements:
- Indepth knowledge of telecommunications network engineering
- NGN elements and content
- Access services-facility and switched
- Wireless and Wireline services
- Data services
- Strong database SQL or query skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
Minimum Qualifications:
- 4 years experience in business, engineering or financial analytical functions
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Finance, Business, Economics, or related field or equivalent work experience
- Proficient in SQL, MS Access, MS Excel, and Business Objects or similar programming or analytical tools
- Position requires minimal travel to client sites for data gathering and delivery of client engagement reports, analyses and results
Job Description:
Razorsight is an industry leading, innovative provider of advanced analytics solutions for Communications Providers. Global leaders including AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Telus, Windstream, CenturyLink, Polish Telecom, IBM, Tata, Comcast and Time Warner among others have selected Razorsight’s Cloud based platform.
The $2 Trillion Global Telecommunications Industry is in the midst of an unprecedented transformation. Mobile, Social and Cloud applications and technologies are fundamentally redefining the industry.
Razorsight is an exciting, fast growing company led by successful entrepreneurs and backed by world-class venture investors (Sierra Ventures and Georgian Partners). The senior team and board are leveraging our success with a Who’s Who of communications providers by inventing and delivering advanced mobile and social analytics solutions for Mobile Operators around the world.
We have several opportunities for you to join our Genius Team of the world’s best analytics experts. We have positions for recent graduates of Top Tier technical universities such as Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Cornell, Stanford, Cal, University of Virginia, Duke, Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech and others.
And we also have opportunities for experienced professionals with demonstrated success in delivering applied analytics solutions to complex business problems and big data sets.
Key Positions in our Washington, DC (Reston, VA) headquarters are:
- Chief Scientist
- Director of Applied Analytics Applications & Services
- Analytics and Statistical Quant 1
- Analytics and Mathematician Quant 2
- Advanced Statistician
- VP or Director of Analytics Solutions Delivery
- Software Engineers
The Advanced Analytics team will work closely with the CEO, CTO, Sales Executives, Product Team, Customers and Investors to design and build cutting edge analytics solutions for global, mobile communications providers. Razorsight deploys advanced tools and infrastructure in our cloud based platform to include IBM Netezza, Hadoop, Oracle, Microstrategy, etc. upon which to build and deliver our innovative,proprietary analytics applications.
As part of the Advanced Analytics Team at Razorsight, you will conceive, design, invent, build and deliver the most cutting-edge new applications in the world. You will be part of an elite, high profile team with maximum exposure to top communications industry executives, senior management and our board. Our CEO has built several successful entrepreneurial companies, and Razorsight is very hot right now – right place, right time, right solutions in the midst of a global revolution in communications.
Job Description:
Razorsight is looking for a senior executive to be the visionary in driving Advanced Analytics products. The business unit leader will lead the design, development, sales and delivery of Advanced Analytics Solutions and Products. The executive will recruit and manage a team of on-shore (U.S.) and offshore resources in support of these solutions.
The Chief Scientist, Advanced Analytics is a senior leader with portfolio level responsibility for the product strategy, product management and market success of Razorsight’s Advanced Analytic solutions. This person is a key contributor to achieving the company’s near term and long-term objectives. The Chief Scientist works closely with other members of the executive team including the CEO to deliver product solutions that will be highly successful in the marketplace.
The Chief Scientist, Advanced Analytics leads the product management team and retains responsibility for the product lifecycle of Razorsight’s Advanced Analytics products. This role requires strategic thinking, solid business acumen, and a passion for driving cross-functional execution to ensure overall product performance against key metrics.
This role drives the overall product direction and management within the Advanced Analytics Group including:
- Reporting directly to the CEO, the executive will work closely with the Sales and Finance to drive marketing, pricing and customer acquisition strategies
- Design a suite of Advanced Analytics Solutions, delivery and support methodologies as well as the Go to Market Strategy for Global Communications, Media and Entertainment companies
- Deliver Advanced Analytics to a blue chip list of existing customers including Verizon, Accenture, Comcast,ATT, IBM, Time Warner and Telus
- The executive will have full P&L responsibility
- Leading the product vision and strategy development process, including Product Roadmap development and annual review process
- Performing market research, market validation and whitespace analysis to identify new opportunities for existing and new products
- Fostering close relationships with all key market constituents (customers, non-customers, analyst and competitors) to validate Razorsight’s product strategy and roadmap
- Understanding the thorough business case for proposed products and initiatives, includingcost/benefit estimates, market trends, competitive analysis, risk analysis,industry best practices and product development timelines
- Planning, prioritizing and managing the product features and requirements from conceptual stages through product life cycles to optimize revenue and meet operational, financial and corporate objectives
- Collaborating with the CEO and Engineering teams to ensure consistent execution of product plans that result in product delivery on time, on budget
- Collaborating with the Sales and Marketing teams to ensure go-to-market strategies, plans and activities are aligned with the company’s business drivers
Leadership Skills:
The ideal candidate possesses excellent leadership skills and is able to affect change management by:
- Effectively communicating across the organization, clearly articulating a business vision, key objectives, timelines and personal contributions
- Using past experiences in to bring new ideas to the company, and help them “see around corners”
- Embodying a collaborative and consensus-driven approach to decision-making
- Being respectful of past accomplishments yet forward thinking
- Offering empathy to those and coaching/mentoring them to be successful in this changing environment
- Support marketing efforts as a subject matter expert, including white papers, speaking engagements, and other thought leadership assets
Outstanding Strategist:
In an environment where the future success of the organization rests on the ability to anticipate where the market is headed, what the competition is doing, and what customers need to be successful, the Chief Scientist will recognize superior opportunities within the market and quickly mobilize to take advantage of those opportunities. He/She has the ability to create, articulate and execute against a strategic plan. This individual will be able to clearly define when and how they have been able to craft unique business models and what the positive impacts of those were.
Product Management Acumen:
The candidate will have demonstrated their ability to refine and deliver a long-term product strategy as well as the ability to elaborate and deliver on a product roadmap, as well as adapt product specifications to successfully address the targeted market requirements. The finalist for this role will show a strong business sense and ability to grasp customer’s needs and expectations. Given the broad-based product managementresponsibilities this individual will assume, strong project management skills and the ability to manage multiple parallel initiatives will be critical. The right candidate for this role will be able to articulate their track record in product innovation and market definition.
Professional Experience:
The Chief Scientist, Advanced Analytics will be a seasoned executive with tremendous drive, intelligence and capability. He/She will be highly motivated and have the ability and desire to have real impact across the organization. The successful candidate will be a multi-dimensional thinker who operates not only on the basis of important past experiences, but in light of new approaches and developments that occur in the market. He/she will have demonstrated an ability to build effective teams and consistently drive profitable results in high growth/entrepreneurial environments, including a proven track record of building organizations
Skills and Experience:
The candidate should have 10+ years of senior management experience in software/services, offering solutions in the Service Provider marketplace. The ideal candidate will have President/COO experience at a small company or VP level or above at a larger firm.
In addition to the requirements listed above, the ideal candidate will possess the following:
- Knows the business and the mission-critical technical and functional skills needed to do the job; understands various types of business propositions and understands how businesses operate in general; learns new methods and technologies easily
- Is able to come up with the next great breakthrough thing to do; is creative, a visionary, and can manage innovation; is an effective strategist full of ideas and possibilities; sees multiple futures; has broad interests and knowledge; can both create and bring exciting ideas to market; comfortable speculating about alternative futureswithout all of the data
- Is well organized, resourceful, and effective and efficient at marshaling multiple resources to get things done; lays out tasks in sufficient detail to mark the trail; is able to getthings done with less and in less time; can work on multiple tasks at once without losing track; foresees and plans around obstacles
- Manages people well; gets the most and best out of the people he/she has; sets and communicates guiding goals; measures accomplishments, holds people accountable, and gives useful feedback; delegates and develops; keeps people informed; provides coaching for today and for the future
- Attacks everything with drive and energy with an eye on the bottom-line; not afraid to initiate action before all the facts are known; drives to finish everything he/she starts
- Writes and presents effectively; adjust to fit the audience and the message; strongly gets a message across. Warm, friendly, and interpersonally agile; easy to approach and talk to; relates well to all kinds of people; makes a pleasant first impression and builds solid relationships
Education and Certifications:
An undergraduate degree in business, electrical engineering, or computer science is required. An MBA is highly preferred.
