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.NET Developer
As a Sr. .Net Developer, you’ll work with Information Technology and business partners to perform analysis, technical documentation, coding, installation, and ongoing support. You’ll collaborate with our business and technical teams to define business problems in detail and establish functional, data and technical activities, including conceptual system design, technical design and documenting detailed specifications. In addition, you’ll diagnose issues and ensure technical solutions meet performance and quality requirements in production

.NET Developer Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree Computer Science, or equivalent 9 years of experience in Information Technology.
Experience creating automated unit test.
Experience with Web-Service (REST) frameworks.
Strong understanding of object-oriented design principles and patterns.
5 years OO software dev.
4+ years working on enterprise level multi-tiered business apps.
4+ years writing code in C#.
Solid understanding of SQL.
Experience working with .NET ORMs.
Cloud experience (Azure or AWS).
Solid understanding of HTTP (headers, protocol, verbs, etc.).
JavaScript experience.
Solid understanding of SPA (React, Angular 2+).
Modern CSS & HTML proficiency.
4+ years of UI & User Experience Design.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including meeting facilitation and presentation experience.
Ability to understand challenges or concerns, share ideas, and develop effective responses.
Ability to provide engineering task work effort estimates.
Proven ability to analyze performance issues using java/.net profiling tools.
Proven ability to work in a Test-Driven Development manner.
Proven experience working in conjunction with Project Managers, Account Mangers, Business.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.
 

.NET Technical Lead
The Digital Technical Lead will provide software development leadership, technical guidance, and hands-on coding experience into the web and mobile application development project streams.

Work with enterprise architects and oversee development teams to provide scalable, secure, and innovative solutions that align with business roadmaps and exceeds customer expectations.

Drive development team implementations in technologies that include .Net core, C#, Angular JS, Node JS, DevOps CI/CD, unit testing, JSON/Restful APIs, XML, SQL, Biztalk.

.NET Technical Lead Responsibilities 
Lead by example the software development team and maintain synergy with different teams 
Provide technical direction for the digital portfolio while staying aligned with enterprise architecture team
Ensure digital applications are security/NIST compliant, sufficiently unit tested, and PCI compliant
Manage the development of the feature backlog as prioritized by product owners.
Act as scrum master when necessary for the digital development teams.
Take operational responsibility for the code that is delivered by the digital development team
Resolve process inefficiencies in the code development process and help
Conduct code reviews to enforce design decisions, coding standards, and UI standards.
Collaborate with product development teams, build engineers and SQA on CI/CD development pipeline and testing automation.
Participate in toolset selection, vendor management and enterprise integration.
Other job duties as assigned.

.NET Technical Lead Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, is preferred or the equivalent combination of education, training and experience that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.
Minimum of three years relevant experience in leading web and mobile software development implementations with proven results and 7 years development experience is required.
Scrum Master certified is preferred.
Hands-on coding experience with modern technologies; passionate in leading software development solutions is required. 
Environment where pets are present.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Account Manager 
VanderHouwen is seeking a dynamic and self-motivated staffing professional to join our team and contribute to our ambitious growth plans for 2020 and beyond.  Sales and Business Development professionals as well as Recruiters wishing to take a new step in their staffing careers are encouraged to inquire about this opportunity to join one of the top staffing companies in the Pacific Northwest.  VanderHouwen believes in the long-term investment of our dedicated personnel to drive business and continue our success.  

Responsibilities
Apply your relationship-building expertise to expand our client network and grow revenue by partnering with new and existing business relationships who would benefit from VanderHouwen's technical recruiting services.
Engage clients using a variety of methods including cold calling, social media, email marketing, sales presentations, proactive candidate marketing, and face to face meetings.
Partner with Recruiting team to ensure alignment on priority roles to fill, job description clarity and ideal candidate profiles.
Meet or exceed sales activity metrics and revenue quotas on monthly and  annual cycle.
Always represent VanderHouwen as a trusted partner in a positive and ethical manner, and continuously strive to provide excellent customer service.

Qualifications
Strong client development and/or recruiting experience preferred
Experience creating strategic staffing and hiring solutions for a variety of industries and company sizes from either a sales or recruiting role.  
Strong understanding of various technical positions, and ability to clearly articulate profiles of ideal candidates to Recruiters and job candidates.
Experience leveraging a CRM system to document and organize activities
Strong analytical and organizational skills. 
Comfortable with balancing multiple priorities in a fast-paced, competitive environment. 
Must be a goal-oriented and a team player who develops and maintains positive working relationships with employees and customers.
A Bachelor's Degree preferred but a proven record of industry success is most important. 

What We Offer
Excellent base/commission/bonus plan based on individual goals
Opportunity to build a client base under a trusted, local brand
State-of-the-art computer systems and software tools
Fun, family-oriented work environment
Competitive benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, long term care, matching 401(k), paid time off, and eight paid holidays. 

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC-certified professional staffing firm. Founded in Portland, OR in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. At VanderHouwen, we're all about relationships. We are a family-owned and operated business, and that notion of being a family extends to the entire VanderHouwen team. Our core values of being ethical, highly personal and always responsive extend to how we treat our employees. We offer generous benefits, exciting professional growth opportunities, have a strong respect for work/life balance, and are committed to helping you build an exciting and rewarding career. After all, careers are what we know best. 

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Accountant
Our international high-tech manufacturing client is looking for a motivated Accountant to join a fun and tightly knit team in the Portland area. This company is proud to be a global industry leader with a long history in our market.

Responsibilities of the Accountant
Handle month-end closing, journal entries, accounts analysis and reconciliations, and bank transactions entry.
Perform cash flow projections.
Process credit card payments.
Maintain vendor and customer master lists.
Capitalization, depreciation, and retirement. and asset management.
Prepare monthly reports and government reporting. 
Budget and forecasting, variance analysis, ad hoc reporting and analysis.
Other special projects and duties as assigned.

Accountant Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance.
2-3 years of accounting experience preferred.
Knowledge of GAAP.
MS Office Suite experience, with proficiency in Excel and Word.
ERP systems knowledge; SAP preferred.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Can work independently and as part of a team.
Highly motivated and self-directed.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Accountant
Our world renowned client has been in the retail clothing business for over 150 years. They are looking for an Accountant to support month end closing for their office in Eugene, Oregon. This role is a great opportunity to gain professional development in a stable company in the heart of Oregon Duck country. 

Responsibilities of the Accountant
Monthly account reconciliations.
Month end schedules.
Journal entries.
Manage cash and credit transactions.
Ad hoc reporting and analysis as requested.
Other special projects and duties as assigned.

Accountant Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance required; CPA a plus.
1-3 years of accounting experience; public accounting background preferred.
MS Office Suite experience, with intermediate skills in Excel and Word.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Accountant
Our long-standing client is seeking an Accountant to join their team. This is a great opportunity to gain experience at a large organization with headquarters in Portland, Oregon.

Accountant Responsibilities 
Process payments for multiple locations. 
Track outstanding charges and research errors.
Support internal teams with the invoicing process.
Update accounting changes in the system.
Identify and develop efficiencies to improve processes. 
Other duties and projects as assigned. 

Accountant Qualifications 
Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Business, or related field.
1+ years of accounting experience.
Proficiency with MS Office Suite with strong Excel skills. 
Exceptional communication skills
Excellent attention to detail and organization.
Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and problem-solve.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Accounting Analyst
Our client with headquarters in the heart of Portland is seeking an Accounting Analyst to join their growing team. The ideal candidate is collaborative, curious, and has a passion for process improvements. This is a very stable company with a long history in Portland and offers an amazing opportunity for professional growth and promotions. 

Accounting Analyst Responsibilities
Analyze processes and systems and controls; recommend and implement process improvements.
Perform financial analysis of company results, forecasts, and trends.
Assist in developing performance measurement models, techniques, systems, and tools. 
Prepare accounting transactions and records. 
Communicate critical performance factors and financial information to other internal stakeholders. 
Support department projects. 

Accounting Analyst Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting. 
CPA/CMA/MBA preferred.
4 years of financial/accounting experience. 
Proficient with Microsoft Office. 
High attention to detail and critical thinking skills. 

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Accounting Manager
Our eastside client is seeking an Accounting Manager to join their team. This role provides the opportunity for a driven individual to step up to the next level growing their management experience and showcasing their solid accounting skills. This company was listed as a fastest growing company in recent years with beautiful office spaces in the center of Portland. 

Accounting Manager Responsibilities 
Supervise and mentor team members.
Oversee month-end closing; cost accounting & analysis.
Ensure tax compliance and cash applications.
Maintain internal controls and required documentation in support of internal control audits.
Provide support with annual audits and tax requests.
Maintain accurate files and thorough documentation aligned to company policy and accounting practices.
Support additional projects as needed.

Accounting Manager Qualifications 
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or related field; CPA a plus.
4 years of accounting or audit experience; knowledge of accounting principles, general ledger, and financial chart of accounts.
2 years of supervisory experience preferred. 
ERP systems experience; NetSuite experience a plus. 
Proficient in MS Office. 
Excellent communication skills.
Strong organization skills and attention to detail.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Accounting Manager
Our Pacific Northwest client is seeking an Accounting Manager to join their team. Founded more than 80 years ago and rapidly growing in recent years, this company offers generous benefits, paid time off, and paid volunteer time.

Accounting Manager Responsibilities 
Manage AP functions, including verifying entries posted and manual checks.
Oversee payroll processing.
Review GL account reconciliations and trial balances.
Review payroll tax returns and 1099 filings.
Prepare support documents for CPA audits.
Hire, coach, develop direct reports, and terminate employees. 
Develop and implement process improvements and collaborate with other departments to communicate and improve interdepartmental processes.

Accounting Manager Qualifications 
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or similar field required.
Active CPA is a plus.
5+ years accounting experience; 3 years of supervisory experience highly preferred. 
Public accounting experience preferred. 
Current knowledge of financial accounting, auditing, and reporting requirements.
Advanced Excel skills; experience with Workday a plus. 
Strong communication skills. 

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Accounting Assistant
Our Pacific Northwest client is looking for an Accounting Assistant to join their team. This company has been growing tremendously in the past 5 years and offers a very fun and close-knit environment. 

Accounting Assistant Responsibilities
Post direct bill commission payments to appropriate accounts and match to payments received; ensure commission statements for filed. 
Document incoming checks and prepare bank deposit slips. 
Reconcile commission payments and bank statements.
Complete commission postings and vendor payments.
Pay invoices and file statements.
Sorting daily mail and distribute.
Work on special projects as assigned.

Accounting Assistant Qualifications 
1+ years of accounting experience. 
Working knowledge of payables and general ledger.
Proficient with Microsoft Office. 
Proficient with 10-key. 
Able to work with high accuracy in a fast-paced environment. 
Able to work independently as well as a team.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Accounting Specialist 
A local company who has gained national recognition for innovative culture has an immediate need for an Accounting Specialist. This is a great opportunity for someone looking to grow their career. 

Accounting Specialist Responsibilities 
Post to the GL and journal entries and/or balance accounts.
Process invoices, vouchers, and other accounting records.
Support month-end close.
Review documents for accuracy and research discrepancies. 
Run reports and analyzes data. 
Maintain knowledge of compliance regulations and policies. 
Other duties and projects as assigned. 

Accounting Specialist Qualifications
Associates degree in accounting, business, or related field. 
2+ years of accounting experience. 
Knowledge of accounting principles, bookkeeping, policies, practices, and systems.
Proficient in MS Office with intermediate Excel skills. 
Solid communication skills. 
Strong problem solving and analytical skills. 

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Accounts Payable Specialist  
Our westside client is growing at a rapid pace and is seeking an Accounts Payable Specialist to support multi-entity and multistate operations within their AP Department. 

Accounts Payable Specialist Responsibilities 
Large volume full process AP invoicing.
GL coding.
Respond to vendor and employee AP inquiries.
Complex account reconciliations.
Manage payments.
Review entries for duplicate and incorrect payment information.

Accounts Payable Specialist Qualifications 
1+ years’ experience processing high volume AP.
Experience working with a multi-entity organization.
Knowledge with ERP systems; Sage a plus.
Intermediate Excel skills.
Strong research and analysis skills.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

AP Specialist 
Our growing westside client is seeking an Accounts Payable Specialist to join their team. The ideal candidate has a strong attention to detail and the ability to handle a high volume of work while maintaining accuracy.

AP Specialist Responsibilities
Daily data entry of invoices.
Match invoices with purchase orders.
Assign invoices to appropriate personnel for approval.
Receive, research, and resolve inquiries concerning account status.
Ownership of vendor relationships with regards to invoicing and maintaining vendor files.
Process, file, and scan paperwork.

AP Specialist Qualifications
1+ years full process Accounts Payable experience.
Proficient with MS Office (including intermediate Excel skills).
Strong written and oral communication skills.
Able to multi-task and work in a fast-paced environment.
10-key by touch.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Accounts Receivable Specialist
Our client has an immediate need for an Accounts Receivable Specialist. This company has been growing at a rapid pace providing a superior tailored customer experience.

Accounts Receivable Specialist Responsibilities
Assist with collecting open account balances, issue collection notices, and escalate if needed.
Complete check and cash deposits and process refunds while reconciling bank accounts.
Address and resolve deposit issues.
Process completed jobs and post all final payments.
Record and audit documentation of transactions for discrepancies.
Pull and maintain reports to provide status updates of payments and approved jobs.
Support month-end and close activities.

Accounts Receivable Specialist Qualifications
Degree in Accounting or combination of education and experience.
1+ years of Accounts Receivable experience.
ERP systems or QuickBooks experience preferred.
Knowledge with GAAP.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite. 
Highly organized with exceptional attention to detail. 
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment while maintaining accuracy. 

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Actuarial Analyst
Our client is seeking to add an Actuarial Analyst to their team. This role can be located in Springfield, Oregon or Boise, Idaho. This organization provides outstanding benefits and is growing tremendously. 

Actuarial Analyst Responsibilities
Establish formulas and guidelines for rating of existing and prospective contracts.
Analyze trends needed to determine revenue requirements for financial forecasting.
Review requirements and identify information needed to assess risk, cost, and utilization, and financial impact.
Produce reports for various internal teams.
Offer technical expertise regarding rating and benefit evaluation making recommendations regarding methods to reduce costs.
Support rate filing process and other compliance activities.
Respond to inquiries and present information to a variety of individuals. 
Other duties as assigned. 

Actuarial Analyst Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, quantitative economics, or related field required.
Actuarial experience and healthcare background preferred. 
Passed one or more actuarial exams required. 
Ability to identify problems, develop and implement solutions.
Excellent computer and communication skills.
Able to analyze and interpret documents and information.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Admin Coordinator
Our healthcare client has an immediate opening for an Admin Coordinator to join their team. This role is highly cross-functional working with multiple departments and external contacts.

Admin Coordinator Responsibilities 
Review daily patient lists, comments, appointments, and insurance information.
Determine coverage, benefits, and preferred vendors/providers for specific individual needs.
Document all services arranged, referrals and continuous updates.
Follow up with referrals and insurance companies.
Create and maintain forms; Fax, photocopy, and mail documents.
Process payments/deposits for patient needs. 
Participate in new employee orientations.
Extract data and create reports for appointment information.

Admin Coordinator Qualifications
4 years of general office or secretarial experience or Associates or Bachelor’s degree with 2 years of office experience.
Experience in a hospital/healthcare setting preferred.
Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite; experience with EPIC, Oracle preferred.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
Ability to analyze data, manage multiple priorities, and problem solve.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Administrative Assistant
Our client is hiring an Administrative Assistant for their team in Beaverton, Oregon. They are looking for an Administrative Assistant who is comfortable working in a fast-pace environment with a proven ability to self-start. You should be excellent at working with others, follow-through on requests to completion, be detail-oriented, and organized with strong communication skills. Our Senior Administrative Assistant be supporting 3 Senior Directors of Commercial Analytics.

Administrative Assistant Responsibilities
You will perform a variety of administrative task including but not limited to preparing correspondence, preparing expense reports, managing schedules and coordinating meetings, aiding in group moves, and organizing large meetings and events in a tight-time frame. You’ll be working with a wide range of people with different personalities and management styles. You’ll utilize your skills in Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook among other programs.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Administrative Assistant
Our client his hiring an Administrative Assistant for their team in Beaverton, Oregon.

Administrative Assistant Responsibilities
General Support: Performs normal office functions such as setting up and maintaining files; interviewing callers and making proper referrals; arranging meetings and conferences; and receiving, referring, or answering mail. 
Reviews drafts and finished documents for appropriate grammatical usage; answers questions relating to office operations and established policies and procedures. 
Gathers, compiles and reports on information relevant to supervisor's assignment. 
Prepares expense reports and purchase orders and maintains office supplies; updates organizational charts; coordinates department or equipment moves. 
Reception: Responds tactfully and promptly to inquiries and problems within scope of established authority. 
Handles confidential information. 
May serve as the central contact for general department information. 
Logistics: Coordinates a full range of meeting, event, and travel arrangements; manages calendars.
Works with internal/external contacts for venue requirements and selection, room set-up, catering, and materials delivery. 
Utilizes internal on-line reservation system to ensure that company travel policy is followed in order to provide cost-effective and convenient travel arrangements. 
Works with travel agents, airlines, and others regarding planning and customer service issues. 
Presentations: Utilizes computer skills to create high quality graphic and text presentations often under tight timeframes. 
Interprets needs, determines and produces effective presentation layout, and organizes final documents. 
Prepares special reports requiring the selection of relevant information from a variety of sources. 
Maintains and updates on going reports or databases.

Administrative Assistant Qualifications
Pay: $22.60 hourly.
3 years of progressively responsible experience in an administrative support capacity.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Administrative Services Assistant
Our client is hiring an Administrative Services Assistant for their team in Portland, Oregon. This position will provide administrative and confidential assistance to staff that support the office of the Chief Operations Officer. Specifically, this position will act as a liaison between the managers, staff, Management Associates and front office staff to confirm that the day-to-day operations of work run smoothly.  This position will also provide back up to other Front Office Managements Associates when staffing shortages occur or when assistance is needed for special projects.  

Administrative Services Assistant Responsibilities
Provide a wide variety of confidential administrative/clerical tasks for the managers and staff for the assigned organization, managers and support staff.
Greet and screen visitors; address questions and business involving established policy, take messages, set appointments and/or refer visitors to other personnel as appropriate.
Create draft, edit, and proof documents, correspondence, research, and presentations using Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Adobe Acrobat.
Build, maintain and post Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations to SharePoint sites. 
Proof, review, and when applicable, draft, correspondence and documents prepared for manager signature and validate conformance of the established administrative policies and regulations, confirm proper coordination and timely compliance with assigned action.  
Provide recommendations and instructions to staff to maintain conformance with general policies and correspondence procedures.
Attend meetings, record meeting minutes as requested, transcribe and disseminate as needed.
Maintain a tracking system of action items to verify timely compliance with scheduled responses or actions.  Coordinate and monitor work unit responses to time-critical documents; alert manager / personnel of any concerns or response delays.
Answer and screen telephone calls; respond to most questions and complete most business involving established policy or routine matters; forward questions and matters to appropriate personnel as needed, following up to verify a timely response.
Respond to questions and complete business according to established policy and/or forward matters requiring action to appropriate staff, following up to verify a timely response.
Process and screen incoming and outgoing correspondence to include proof reading, to consist of the following: 
Review incoming correspondence and forward matters requiring action to appropriate staff.  Verify proper coordination and timely completion of assignments.
Sort and distribute incoming mail to appropriate recipient(s); as requested, review incoming correspondence.
Process outgoing mail and prepare materials for mailing, including providing self-addressed stamped envelopes, when appropriate.
Establish and maintain internal and external communication channels to coordinate smooth flow of information and positive working relationships.  

Perform faxing, scanning, photocopying, and work with the print shop to request printing services.
Update and maintain desk reference manual.
Serve as back-up to Tier I, II and Tier IV level Administrative Assistants as needed.
Come up to speed quickly on manager and organizational priorities in order to track meetings, work, and delegated projects or tasks to maintain accountability, confirming established targets are met.  Validate on-time documentation submission to Human Capital Management (HCM) and verify all processes are tracked to completion within established timelines. Review and update project trackers (performance, training, etc.) for the manager, alerting appropriate parties of any noted issues / concerns.
Serve as liaison between organizations, work units, and management support staff.  Keep up to date on issues, priorities, and sensitivities affecting work of the organization through consistent communication with the manager, frequent interaction with other managers, and outside contacts. 
Coordinate with and provide administrative guidance to lower-level contract support personnel; may delegate assignments to lower level contract administrative personnel at the request of the manager.

Administrative Team:    
Organize and coordinate Organizational Administrative Team Meetings.
Attend mandatory Administrative Team Meetings.
Participate as a team member and in team meetings both professionally and collaboratively.
Work as a team member to:
Standardize, streamline and improve overall Administrative processes throughout the organization.
Help resolve organizational administrative issues and work on solutions as a group.
Complete team work assignments

Proactively coordinate managers’ daily Outlook calendars and schedules with full responsibility for scheduling and prioritizing Tier III and IV managers’ appointments, meetings, conferences and calendar:
Coordinate appointments, including commitments of time.  Advise manager of appointments and other commitments that might have a bearing on future decisions.  
Organize, plan, prioritize, coordinate, schedule and verify appointments, meetings (in-person, phone conferences, web-based), conferences, and training for managers and other staff (securing rooms, phone bridges, projection, and other meeting supplies).  This may include drafting agenda and other meeting materials and developing background information for review, consideration and finalization by appropriate manager / personnel.
Accept meeting invitations, assist with outside visitor requests and schedule interviews.
Schedule and arrange meetings, conferences and training, including associated logistics and any necessary equipment (securing rooms, phone bridges, projection equipment, etc.).
Assist, compile, organize and verify appropriate files, notes and other materials are in order and ready for use at meetings, appointments, etc.
Draft agendas, coordinate speaking points, make arrangements for guest(s) / guest speakers and research and draft background information / materials as requested.
Arrange for representation by others if manager’s time and priorities make necessary.
As requested, attend and take meeting minutes / notes, transcribe / draft and distribute as appropriate.
Inform manager and staff of appointments and other commitments that might have a bearing on future decisions. 

Assist manager in a variety of personnel and other actions for employees, including:
Prepare and enter requests for personnel actions into HRMIS.
Prepare worker award requests in HRMIS for manager review/approval, track awards for employees, and prepare recognition certificates for the organization.
Prepare retirement documentation.
May be designated as a power-user and/or back-up for the e-Performance management system. Coordinate and assist manager with development of annual performance appraisal plans for internal personnel by assisting in implementing, completing, and facilitating documentation management.  
Schedule and track to completion all performance appraisals, progress reviews, mid-point reviews and discussions, while performing associated follow-up to obtain requisite signatures and approvals.  
Validate documentation submission to Human Capital Management (HCM) is accurately completed within established timelines.
Coordinate and track reporting requirements and activities related to internal staff including creation/submission of travel documents and telework agreements and required training.
Register manager and staff for internal/external training classes and conferences.
Assist manager with employee engagement activities and planning.
Verify completion of all required training for employees and managers by communicating what training is due, how to obtain training, submitting external training requests, and tracking training completion status.
Maintain Employee Tracking Log, on-board reports, training, medical surveillance, emergency contact, and reimbursement tracking information.
Update and maintain Gallup survey records; follow up with organizations to update the Gallup information.
Assist manager by recommending and implementing approved staff recognition opportunities.
Track, maintain, update, and distribute annual renewal of Motor Vehicle Driver Authorizations, Travel Authorizations, and Telework Agreements for employees.
Track and maintain Overtime/Comp Time authorizations for internal personnel.
Complete appropriate new employee on-boarding activities and retirement documentation.

Prepare employee assignment extension documents; implement, oversee and complete related documentation, and submit for proper review and approval, while performing associated follow-up to obtain required signatures and approval.
Designated as a proxy for the performance management system.  
Coordinate and assist managers with development of annual managers’ and employees’ performance appraisal plans by assisting in implementing, completing, and tracking documentation management.  
Schedule and track to completion all managers’ and employees’ progress reviews, performing associated follow-up to obtain required signatures and approvals.  
Apply strong familiarity with manager’s performance contract to prioritize and track meetings, work, and delegated projects or tasks to maintain accountability and to assist in ensuring established targets are met.  
Validate on-time documentation submission to Human Capital Management (HCM) and verify all processes are tracked to completion within established timelines.  

Arrange travel (domestic, invitational and foreign), such as airline arrangements, hotel accommodations, and rental car and shuttle reservations, for manager, Lead and staff as needed, which may include: 
Assist in preparing and submitting passport documentation as necessary.
Assist management and staff in setting up profiles in the travel system.
Prepare / draft necessary foreign and domestic forms associated with travel.
Prepare and process travel authorizations and vouchers for group managers and staff.
Validate that travel is complete and process travel documentation in a timely manner and in accordance with internal travel procedures and policies. 
Track, monitor and notify manager and subject personnel of needed approvals, signatures or other actions to enable timely reimbursement processing and reporting.

Coordinate with managers and staff to coordinate Time & Attendance per established procedures, which may include:  
May serve as timekeeping power user (able to input time for others as requested).
Maintain and reconcile employee leave calendar submissions with payroll.
Check leave slips to verify accuracy using organizational leave calendars and other documentation.  Verify that time has been approved.
Review time sheets for contract personnel to verify that reporting is accurate.
Verify time and attendance procedures, policies and practices, including any special time recording requirements (admin leave, holidays, etc.) are communicated to management and staff in a timely manner.

Assist with scheduling interview; preparing interview packets for assigned manager(s).
Provide overall administrative support to staff members by acting as the liaison with HCM, IT, Security, Safety, Motor Pool, Facilities / Space Management and administrative services groups to process, coordinate, request and track:
Office moves and workstation adjustments.
Onboarding activities for new contract and/or full time personnel.
Computer, software upgrades IT equipment and other resource requests.
Computer, copier, and printer maintenance. 
Requests for needed office supplies and distribute to appropriate staff per established company procedures. 
Coordination of badge return.
Coordination of cell phone requirements and inventory for staff, including ordering, receiving, service setup, delivery, collection.
Serve as organization’s central point of contact for accident reporting, including collection, correction, and distribution of required documentation, and communication with employees, managers, safety office, HCM, and other resources regarding policy, regulations, etc.
Maintain office supply stock. 
Act as a point of contact for troubleshooting, configuration, inventory, and maintenance of office systems and processes.

Maintain the organizational SharePoint site including updating changes and adding new content.
Establish, maintain, and administer SharePoint organization, team and other meeting/project sites including setting up document repositories, calendars, workspaces, and tracking lists.  Assists with content and permissions.
Maintain a tracking system of suspense items to verify timely compliance with scheduled responses or actions utilizing SharePoint. Coordinate and direct work unit responses for time-critical documents.
Maintain all records management within SharePoint, including physical and electronic official files, retention and conformance. 

Manage all records in accordance with internal policy and procedure and compliance requirements: 
File and disperse documents/letters to appropriate personnel. 
Validate that official records are accurately maintained for auditing purposes.  
With oversight and approval of the manager / other personnel, provide an annual review and inventory of official files and maintain the organizational file outline.

Review and process Transmittals for Administrator/CEO Approval (TACs) for assigned organizations and ascertain conformance to administrative policies, procedures and regulations.  Verify proper coordination and timely compliance with assigned action.  Advise and provide guidance to confirm conformance with general policies and correspondence procedures.
May coordinate or assist with organizational events such as: presentations, retirements, projects, and employee recognition celebrations.

Organizational Specific Responsibilities:
Support and conduct the following activities:
Written and verbal manager/VP communication. 
Project team communications and coordination. 
Team meeting and VP meeting management.
Maintain regular and consistent communication regarding projects / assignment status and concerns, with appropriate parties, including the manager, VP, Front Office Staff, stakeholders, project team, etc.

Administrative Services Assistant Qualifications
Education & Corresponding Experience:
High school diploma or equivalent is required.
Associates Degree in Secretarial Science, Administrative Management or related field is preferred.
6 years of demonstrated administrative/clerical experience is required.

Required Technical Skills & Experience:
4 or more years of relevant work experience in administrative support functions with Microsoft Office Suite programs such as Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook (Microsoft Office 2010 proficiency required). 
Intermediate to advanced skills/experience with SharePoint sufficient to:
Support, manage, edit and maintain site.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Administrative Support Specialist
Our client is hiring an Administrative Support Specialist for their team in Beaverton, Oregon. In this role you have broad responsibilities providing manager administrative support, supporting the members services team, and providing general project support. The primary function will be projects and manager support and will make up approximately 80% of the work load. During this time, your outstanding written and verbal communication skills will ensure that information is presented in a clear, positive, collaborative way, assuring that teammates and other employees are given reliable and current information. Strong presentation creation and delivery skills are needed, as well as ability to work cross functionally with high level stakeholders. In your work supporting the member services team, your ability to consistently administer defined procedures and document exceptions while providing excellent customer service is critical. As a member of our high-performing team it will be your responsibility to be curious and aware, offering suggestions and taking on projects that will help us strengthen our customer relationships and maintain the safety and integrity of our brand and facilities. 

Administrative Support Specialist Responsibilities
Create and deliver presentations to key stakeholders and internal staff.
Monitor and manage email/calendar accounts.
Complete assigned project work.
Welcome, greet, and register Members and guests in a friendly, expedient and courteous manner. 
Effectively and successfully handle competing priorities.
Provide service in a professional manner.
Understand and be able to use key sport software: membership management, smartsheets, etc. 
Answer and direct phone calls.
Organize and schedule appointments.
Plan meetings and take detailed minutes.
Write and distribute email, correspondence memos, letters, faxes and forms.
Assist in the preparation of regularly scheduled reports.
Update and maintain office policies and procedures.
Book travel arrangements.
Submit and reconcile expense reports.
Provide general support to visitors.
Liaise with executive and senior administrative assistants to handle requests and queries from senior managers.

Administrative Support Specialist Qualifications
College degree in a related field.
Two to three years’ work experience in an administrative position is required.
The ability to stand on feet for long-periods of time.  Ability to lift 50lbs or more.
Availability to work shifts varying between 4:30 a.m. – 9:30 p.m. weekdays and weekends required.
Requires the ability to frequently move between building/desk locations to meet schedule needs.
Approachability with positive interpersonal skills. 
Outstanding verbal and written communication; excellent personal and phone presence.
Proven working knowledge of PC, MS Office, Powerpoint, Outlook software and keyboarding skills.
Able to communicate using active listening to determine course of action in challenging situations.
Relevant experience in a complex, high-volume environment is preferred.
Fitness, health and sport experience/expertise preferred.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Administrative Support Specialist
Our client is hiring an Administrative Support Specialist for their team in Beaverton, Oregon. In this role you have broad responsibilities providing manager administrative support, supporting the members services team, and providing general project support. The primary function will be projects and manager support and will make up approximately 80% of the work load. During this time, your outstanding written and verbal communication skills will ensure that information is presented in a clear, positive, collaborative way, assuring that teammates and other employees are given reliable and current information. Strong presentation creation and delivery skills are needed, as well as ability to work cross functionally with high level stakeholders. In your work supporting the member services team, your ability to consistently administer defined procedures and document exceptions while providing excellent customer service is critical. As a member of our high-performing team it will be your responsibility to be curious and aware, offering suggestions and taking on projects that will help us strengthen our customer relationships and maintain the safety and integrity of our brand and facilities. 

Administrative Support Specialist Responsibilities
Create and deliver presentations to key stakeholders and internal staff.
Monitor and manage email/calendar accounts.
Complete assigned project work.
Welcome, greet, and register Members and guests in a friendly, expedient and courteous manner. 
Effectively and successfully handle competing priorities.
Provide service in a professional manner.
Understand and be able to use key sport software: membership management, smartsheets, etc. 
Answer and direct phone calls.
Organize and schedule appointments.
Plan meetings and take detailed minutes.
Write and distribute email, correspondence memos, letters, faxes and forms.
Assist in the preparation of regularly scheduled reports.
Update and maintain office policies and procedures.
Book travel arrangements.
Submit and reconcile expense reports.
Provide general support to visitors.
Liaise with executive and senior administrative assistants to handle requests and queries from senior managers.

Administrative Support Specialist Qualifications
College degree in a related field.
Two to three years’ work experience in an administrative position is required.
The ability to stand on feet for long-periods of time.  Ability to lift 50lbs or more.
Availability to work shifts varying between 4:30 a.m. – 9:30 p.m. weekdays and weekends required.
Requires the ability to frequently move between building/desk locations to meet schedule needs.
Approachability with positive interpersonal skills. 
Outstanding verbal and written communication; excellent personal and phone presence.
Proven working knowledge of PC, MS Office, Powerpoint, Outlook software and keyboarding skills.
Able to communicate using active listening to determine course of action in challenging situations.
Relevant experience in a complex, high-volume environment is preferred.
Fitness, health and sport experience/expertise preferred.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Administrative Technician
Our client is hiring an Administrative Technician for their team in Kent, Washington. This contract position will use established guidelines to provide office support and perform recurring office procedures. The manager may provide instructions on new assignments and/or check completed work for accuracy.  

Administrative Technician Responsibilities
Performs data entry using multiple computer applications, including Microsoft Office, Asset Suite, PeopleSoft, travel software, Microsoft SharePoint, etc. 
May enter vehicle mileage, training, travel, utility bills, process accounts payable etc.  
Verifies group/organization timekeeping is accurate and follows established guidelines, policies, and negotiated bargaining agreements (such as Columbia Power Trade Council (CPTC) for hourly workers). 
Where required, inputs time and labor information into appropriate system.
As required, following established policy and process, prepares travel authorization and arrangements for management and staff travel using on line systems.  
Prepares travel vouchers following established process using on line system, entering data from staff daily work reports and other communication.  
Perform data entry for P-card transactions material requests and invoices.

Answers telephone calls and responds to routine telephone requests, providing standard answers; refers calls and visitors to appropriate management and staff. 
As required, controls mail to assure timely staff response, and sends form letters.  
Sorts and distributes incoming mail; prepares outgoing mail, including bulk mailing packages. 
Serves as point-of-contact person for district or other office personnel regarding general district or administrative information.
As requested, maintains calendars, makes appointments, and schedules for meeting rooms.  
Establishes and maintains filing system(s), files, emails and records in accordance with compliance requirements. 
File and disperse documents/letters to appropriate personnel. 
Maintain all official records in accordance with company standards and procedures. 
Validate official records are accurately maintained for auditing purposes. 
Establishes and maintains office files and provides clerical support, preparing forms for district functions, maintaining catalogs and posting (filing) changes to manuals.
Process and submit requests to manager for approval for needed office supplies; distribute supplies to appropriate staff per established company procedures. 
Coordinates and assists manager with development of annual managers’ and employees’ performance appraisal plans; implements, oversees and completes related documentation.  
Schedules and tracks to completion all managers’ and employees’ quarterly progress reviews, while performing associated follow-up to obtaining requisite signatures and approvals. 
Ensures on-time documentation submission to Human Resources (HR) and verifies all processes are tracked to completion within established timelines.
Attend and participate in district Admin/Clerk meetings and annual admin meeting; take meeting notes as requested. 

Administrative Technician Qualifications
Education & Corresponding Experience:
High School Diploma or GED is required.
3+ years of related administrative/customer service experience or equivalent combination.

Required Technical Skills & Experience:
Advanced keyboarding/typing skills and experience.
Experience and skill in using Microsoft Office Suite of products, and skill in operating common office equipment.
2+ years of relevant work experience in administrative support functions.

Preferred Skills & Experience:
Working knowledge of SharePoint is desired.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) Project RMP
Our client is seeking a security auditor to assess their AMI Solution against NISTIR 7628 Revision 1, Guidelines for Smart Grid Security at a high impact level.

This service will be performed remotely and on-site at offices located in Portland, OR and Salt Lake City, UT.

The Senior Security Consultant will report to the Principal Security Architect and work with the project team to audit AMI vendor against NISTIR 7682 controls, provide a punch list of gaps and recommendations, review evidence of punch list completion and provide timely and accurate status reporting to project stakeholders.

Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) Project RMP Responsibilities 
Audit AMI Vendor compliance with all controls in NISTIR 7628 Revision 1 at a high impact level.  In addition to remote data collection, we estimate 3-5 days of onsite activity with vendor for audit activities.
Provide detailed list of gaps and recommendations based on results of audit.
Evaluate evidence of gap and recommendation remediation.
Report to Senior Management regarding audit and remediation results.  We estimate 3 on-site visits for reporting purposes.
Provide additional security consulting to the AMI project as needed to ensure project success and compliance with security objectives. 
 Provide timely and accurate status reporting to project stakeholders.

This assignment consists of three phases:
Phase 1 – Initial Audit.
Remote and on-site data collection followed by evaluation, report, and punch list of gaps and recommendations.

Phase 2 – Remediation
Ad-hoc evaluation of remediation evidence during interim period on a mutually agreeable schedule

Phase 3 – Final Review and Executive Reporting.   
Final audit statement and presentation to executive management. 

Gap assessment and final audit report will be shared with the AMI Vendor for purposes of security remediation. 

Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) Project RMP Qualifications 
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Management or related field; or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
A minimum of seven years related experience resulting in demonstrated skills in technology architecture design and consultation.
Relevant security experience with AMI deployments.
Expertise within information security and security engineering, with hands-on experience of a diverse range of security technologies.
Demonstrated experience teaming with business and IT stakeholders at all levels to deliver and sustain high caliber consulting on projects and operations.
Ability to produce high quality system and security architecture requirements, design documentation and communicate those concepts to technical staff and IT leadership.
Excellent problem solving, analytical, communication, organization, task and time management skills.
Expertise with the following concepts, frameworks and technologies:
Defense in depth security models and security management practices.
ISO 27001 Security Framework.
NISTIR 7628 Revision 1, Guidelines for Smart Grid Security.
The Center for Internet Security Controls for Effective Cyber Defense.
Enterprise authentication and authorization (Active directory, LDAP, etc.).
IPv6.
Public Key Infrastructure.
Firewall, IDS/IPS, Encryption and Authentication techniques, Relational Databases.
Network and web-related protocols.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Air Force Account Manager
Our client is looking for an Air Force Account Manager to join their team. The Air Force Account Manager drives revenue growth and account penetration for a Continental United States (CONUS) based Air Force and Air Force Programs.

Air Force Account Manager Responsibilities 
Increase revenue and gross margin for a portfolio of company products into the Air Force or other accounts as assigned within the territory. Owns sales process from prospecting to closure.
Establish a trusted partner relationship with customer at all influence and decision making levels.
Drive the sales of selected manufactured products/services, integrated solutions, and selected manufacturers’ products/services, through advanced solutions selling techniques.
Develop strategic account plans and drive the strategies through tactical implementations and effective communications with the Inside Sales group and support engineering and customer service personnel and organizations.
Manage accounts and transactions across multiple customer locations and operating organizations within the territory.
Work closely with the Federal Program team to ensure effective nationwide account management, where appropriate.
Demonstrate business acumen through business case preparation, ROI analyses, cost/benefit analyses and other performance metrics.
Provide account leadership on development of responses to RFP's, RFI's and unsolicited proposals.
Stay abreast of developing and leading edge solutions, products and services. Provide responsive, timely and thorough resolution of customer escalations.
Demonstrate understanding of key business drivers for customers (understand their business).
Implement strategic and consultative selling methodologies to drive revenues.
Conduct regularly scheduled territory /account reviews with Sales Management.
Provide timely and accurate account status reports, forecasts, and business plans to sales leadership and operational teams as required.
Travel regularly within your territory establishing a schedule of sales calls to existing and new customers.
Involvement in account specific Trade Shows and other functions deemed to be in the best interest of development business within your account plan.
Other duties as assigned.

Air Force Account Manager Qualifications 
5+ years’ successful sales and account management experience selling into Federal/DoD accounts, preferably the United States Air Force. Direct Air Force experience in communications (i.e. served in US Air Force) can substitute for selling experience.
Proven track record of quota achievement and / or successfully meeting mission requirements is required.
Working knowledge of Federal contracting processes.
Experience with either working with / or selling VOIP, network and security products.
Working knowledge of voice, network, data, security products and solutions.
Excellent verbal, written, presentation and interpersonal skills.
Strong organizational and negotiation skills.
Ability to work well with the team.
Sound decision making and problem solving capabilities.
Ability to present professional image of self and company.
Ability to handle customer inquiries and escalations professionally.
Thorough knowledge of computer and related business applications including MS Office.
Valid driver's license, current auto insurance and reliable vehicle as required by transportation needs of the market.
Ability to travel 50% of the time.
Must be able self-motivate and able to organize workloads and manage all deadlines.
Must be able to obtain a US DoD SECRET Clearance.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Android Developer
Our client is looking for an Android Software Engineer to join their Mobile Engineering team in Beaverton, Oregon.

The Mobile Engineering team is responsible for delivering customer solutions on Android and iOS platforms that are maintainable, scalable, and of the highest quality. They use the Agile development process, and value employees who foster collaboration between team members.

Looking for a highly motivated self-starter with excellent communication skills, and the ability to successfully interact with fellow team members and project managers on a daily basis. This person will participate in the architecture, design, development, and support of a suite of native Android products.

Android Developer Responsibilities
Designing, developing, and maintaining native Android applications.
Contributing to the development of REST APIs and/or BFFs consumed by mobile clients.
Participating in task estimation and code reviews.
Helping the team develop software that is reliable, scalable, and testable.
Write unit, integration, and functional tests, and work with others in doing the same.
Review functional requirements and analyze their impact on software design.
Document software designs and project tasks.
Work with team members to improve development processes and practices.
 
Android Developer Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
Software Engineer experience: 5 years experience.
Minimum 2 years working in the native Android platform.

Required Skills
Android platform: Fluent with Android Studio, ADB, Gradle, etc.
Kotlin: Fluent reading and writing.
Java: Ability to read and convert Java to Kotlin.
Android UX / Material Design: According to best practices and standards.
Unit Testing: JUnit, Mockito, Espresso.
Design Principles and Patterns.
REST APIs: Development of REST APIs for mobile clients.
Scrum/Agile SDLC.

Preferred Skills
GraphQL: Building Backend-for-Frontends.
Node.js.
Typescript: Legend.
Firebase Tools: GCM, Crashlytics, Remote config, etc.
Code analysis tools.
Linters (e.g. KLint, Checkstyle), Static code analysis (e.g.SonarCloud).
Mobile CI solutions: Bitrise.io or similar.
Test automation: Espresso, Appium, etc.
Cloud Native Development: Build and deploy in AWS, Azure, or Google.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Android Engineer
Our client is hiring an Android engineer for their team in Beaverton, Oregon.

Android Engineer Responsibilities
Develops action plans and processes, in coordination with management team, for integrating activities and optimizing department resources to meet major goals and objectives. 
Facilitates or performs application support, problem solving, and issue resolution with internal and external resources. 
Contributes and reviews recommendations for technical solutions. 
Manages and/or contributes to the technical components of the RFP process. 
Resolves issues and determines options for issue resolution and risk mitigation. 
Defines and communicates requirements for technical environments and determines the technical scope for projects. 
Provides technical estimates for project budget input to Senior/Project Manager. 
Leads and owns engagements with software vendors to ensure that code and configuration requirements and deliverables are met. 
Enforces architecture, governance, security, and global process standards to system changes and deployments. 
Coordinates compliance issue identification and remediation. 
Collaborates with other teams on integration needs/design. 
Contributes to database design and creates critical-path, high-risk, advanced technical designs. 
Approves proof of concept efforts and reviews results. 
Enforce company and department architectural direction and ensure consistent technical approach within department. 
Decide on engineering tools based on recommendations. 
Allocate resources based on performance monitoring and tuning results. 
Manage and enforce performance thresholds and standards. 
Review and approve performance test results, recommendations, and tuning results. 
Oversee and is responsible for the creation of test plans, test execution, and validation of test results. 

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

AP Clerk
Our Vancouver client is looking for a temporary AP Clerk. This is an excellent opportunity to join a rapidly growing company and gain professional experience.

Responsibilities of the AP Clerk
Filing for Accounts Payable.
Maintain invoice records.
Respond to requests for information.
Various ad hoc projects.
Other duties as assigned.

AP Clerk Qualifications
6+ months of related experience. 
Proficiency with MS Office.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Can work independently and as part of a team.
Can maintain confidentiality.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

AP Specialist
Our client is looking for an AP Specialist to join their team in Eugene. This is a great opportunity to grow at a company operating for more than 80 years. The ideal candidate thrives in a high volume fast-paced environment.

AP Specialist Responsibilities 
Sort and route invoices, expense reports, and check requests for multiple locations. 
Review and process reimbursements and credit card transactions; process refunds. 
Follow up with managers regarding approvals for invoices. 
Respond to vendor invoices and resolve issues; maintain vendor files. 
Support month-end close activities (journal entries related to AP and account reconciliations). 
Assist with Form 1099 annual reporting. 
Other accounting duties as needed.

AP Specialist Qualifications 
Associates degree in Accounting or related field preferred. 
3 years accounts payable experience.
Proficient with Microsoft Office. 
Excellent communication skills. 
High level of accuracy and organization skills. 
Ability to problem solve and resolve issues. 

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Accounts Payable Specialist
Our Vancouver client is looking to add a high energy and dynamic Accounts Payable Specialist to join their team. This is an excellent opportunity to join a rapidly growing company and gain professional experience.

Responsibilities of the Accounts Payable Specialist
Review daily invoices for accuracy and coding.
Vendor invoice and payment reconciliations.
Record cash disbursements.
Respond to vendor inquiries and help with resolution.
Various ad hoc projects.
Filing for Accounts Payable.
Other duties as assigned.

Accounts Payable Specialist Qualifications
Associates degree in Accounting a plus.
1+ years of accounts payable or similar experience.
MS Office Suite experience, with intermediate skills in Excel and Word.
ERP systems knowledge; Peachtree, ACCPAC, and ADP preferred.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Can work independently and as part of a team.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Application Developer
Our client is looking for an Application Developer for Clustering Software Development for Identity Management (IdM).

The successful applicant will be helping to develop the Identity Management infrastructure and coding Java applications to advance cybersecurity methods and applications. The infrastructure is in an proprietary DB, and the position requires writing and optimizing SQL queries to retrieve data from multiple DB tables. The position also requires writing algorithms using statistical clustering techniques to identify anomalies in the data, and therefore requires understanding in vector and matrix processing.

Application Developer Qualifications
The position requires an expert Java programmer, specifically:
4+ years of experience in building Java based Applications.
Core skills and qualifications with focus on Java code development include:
Solid understanding of Java OOP concepts with practical hands-on experience.
Fluency in:
Java Collection framework,
Interfaces,
JDBC,
JDeveloper IDE.
Ability to implement specified design features from end to end as finalized inter-functional project deliverables.
Confident in GUI development and data visualization. Knowledge of Swing GUI Toolkit
BS in Computer Science or related field. MS preferred.

Additional important skills include:
Advanced knowledge of SQL is a plus.
Git repository and good version control practices.
Diligent in IT security and information protection.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Applications Support Specialist
Our client is looking for an Applications Support Specialist to join their team.

Applications Support Specialist Responsibilities 
Provide technical assistance, user support, and customer service on company-supported computer applications and platforms.
Respond to incoming queries and issues related to Engineering applications. Track and route problems and requests, and document resolutions.
Troubleshoot problems and advise on the appropriate action. Run diagnostic programs, isolate problem, and determine and implement solution.
Liaison with enterprise Information Systems teams. Assist with application installations and onboarding of new users.
Prepare activity reports. Document internal procedures.

Provide Engineering application licensing tracking and acquisition support.
Support application licensing requirements including reassignment of licenses to end users and monitoring license utilization.
Consult with customers, analyze customer’s business requirements, review potential solutions and proposes future options.
Create, manage and maintain documentation in support of application license and portfolio management.  

Establish and maintain standards; identify and address improvement opportunities to reduce waste and inefficiency.
Participate in continuous improvement for Engineering’s processes and tools.
Support metrics that help drive decisions related to Engineering processes and applications.

Applications Support Specialist Qualifications 
Line of business application help desk support experience. Prefer experience in the engineering and manufacturing industries.
Technical Support Experience. Preference given to tier 2+.
Working knowledge of fundamental operations of relevant software, hardware and other equipment.
Licensing server and configuration awareness for floating license usage.
Strong customer service orientation and skills.
Knowledge and experience of customer service practices.
Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
Proven teamwork and interpersonal abilities.
Excellent communication skills.

Preferred:
Basic MSSQL.
Understanding of basic network topology and troubleshooting.
Knowledge of and understanding of the OSI model and various layers of an IT infrastructure.
SolidWorks or other CAD authoring tools experience.
PDM experience with Enovia, SmarTeam, Teamcenter or Aras Innovator.
PLM/PDM systems configuration and support expertise. Specific skills include but are not limited to workflow management, Bill of Materials (BOM) management, and change control.
Familiarity with NIST guidelines or concepts.
Technical associate’s or bachelor’s degree (e.g. Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics).
2-5 years in a manufacturing environment.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Architectural Designer
Are you a talented Architectural Designer looking to grow and expand in your career? This is an exciting opportunity to join a nationwide firm working with one of the best employers in Oregon! Come join a winning team, that wants to invest in your career. This is a 6 month, contract to hire opportunity located in Hillsboro, OR. 

Our clients Tool Install General and Architectural Designers are responsible for producing AutoCAD drawings from design data provided by their tool suppliers. They are much more than drafters picking up red marks – you will work closely with Engineers and other Designers as an integral member of a multiple-discipline design team that produces unique tool install designs in a high-paced environment. As part of this team, you will develop design concepts and coordinate designs to resolve both real and modeled conflicts. You will be responsible for managing your own workload, making and keeping your own commitments, and taking full ownership of your product. Daily job duties include: 

Create general and architectural drawings to meet design and client needs.
Conduct field investigations of construction site and clean room environments to verify existing conditions and incorporate findings into design packages.
Manage and incorporate electronic redlines from the Engineer using established company workflows.
Coordinate with other design disciplines (Electrical, Structural, Mechanical) for design package needs.
Ensure quality control by complying with team Design and CAD standards.
Attend design review meetings, note all design comments, and pick up the resulting redlines.
Assist colleagues with CAD support.
Provide quality reviews of models and documents prepared by others to assure design and project standards are met.
Coordinate with document control personnel for review and transmission of design packages.

Requirements
Associates/bachelor’s degree in architectural or Civil Engineering – Preferred.
High School Diploma or GED – Required.
Architectural EIT or PE – Not Required, but a plus.
Able to prepare complete, concise and organized CAD models, written reports, and drawings in .dwf and .dwg format as needed.
Able to work effectively in a fast-paced environment on multiple projects with quick turn-around times.
Comfortable working independently as well as in an interactive design environment.
Detailed: You are thorough in the review of your own work and work of others.
Persistent: if you need something, then you continue to push until you get it.
Inquisitive: you always ask “why?” and understand the reasoning behind design choices.
Thoughtful: you consider all your options, you don’t just take the easiest path forward.
Microsoft Excel, Word, and Outlook – Proficient.
Autodesk AutoCAD 2D (2015) – Experienced.

 
 

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”
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Assistant Controller
Our west coast industry leading client is seeking an Assistant Controller to join their headquarters in Portland, Oregon. This is a great opportunity for a driven individual to lead a collaborative team in a fast-paced environment.

Assistant Controller Responsibilities 
Oversee and review monthly account reconciliations. 
Monitor the status and completion of deliverables (reports, quarter & year-end packages). 
Manage the periodic closing activities completing within deadlines. 
Drive projects and provide project status updates to key stakeholders.
Coach, develop, and mentor team members. 
Maintain policies, procedures, and documentation; continually improve financial reporting and reconciliation processes.
Provide audit support. Ensure compliance over reporting processes. 

Assistant Controller Qualifications 
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting; CPA highly preferred.
7 years of related experience, 2+ years private industry accounting.
Big 4 accounting experience preferred. 
Strong knowledge of US GAAP accounting principles.
Proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
Excellent communication skills with attention to detail.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Associate Product Manager
Our client is looking for a Product Manager to join their Product Management team in Beaverton, Oregon.

As Product Manager, you will lead and set the vision for a cross-functional team that is charged with product line innovation. This extends from increasing the profitability of existing products to developing new products inside your vertical. Working with marketing, competitive intelligence and customers, you will build products. The ideal candidate must possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy; a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality.

You must be able to communicate with all areas of the company. You will work with an engineering counterpart to define product release requirements. You will work with marketing communications to define the go-to-market strategy, helping them understand the product positioning, key benefits, and target customer. You will also serve as the internal and external evangelist for your product offering, working closely with sales and key customers.

Associate Product Manager Responsibilities
Brings new products to market by setting the product vision by developing market based requirements and product marketing programs; preparing return-on-investment analyses; establishing time schedules with engineering and product launch teams.
They should have an unyielding passion when it comes to shaping the future of design and engineering.
They should act as the critical connection between customer needs and business strategy, solution design, software development and go-to-market execution.
They should be able to create and maintain product information documents, technical guides, and other support materials for assigned products, as needed.
Introduces and markets new products by developing time-integrated plans with sales, advertising, and production.
Determine product pricing by utilizing market research data; reviewing production and sales costs; anticipating volume; costing special and customized orders.
Managing the entire product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities.
Driving a solution set across development teams (primarily Development/Engineering, and Marketing Communications) through market requirements, product contract, and positioning.
Developing and implementing a company-wide go-to-market plan, working with all departments to execute.
Analyzing potential partner relationships for the product.

Associate Product Manager Qualifications
2-3 years of experience working within a software as a service business (SaaS), or experience in multi-sided network dynamics.
1-2 years of experience as a product owner working as a Business Analyst, Program Manager, Product Owner or equivalent work experience is required.
Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Marketing (MBA preferred).
Experience in managing agile/scrum development processes and lean methodology.
Experience in story mapping and feature prioritization techniques.
Ability to demonstrate creative problem solving, thoughtful product scoping, and flexibility in a fast-moving environment.
Demonstrated ability to work effectively with engineering, design and product marketing to set realistic goals and stay on track.
Understanding of user experience design principles and customer-centric solutions development.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Associate Product Manager
Our client is hiring an Associate Product Manager for their team in Hillsboro, Oregon. As an Associate Product Manager, you will be a key member of our Enterprise Finance Solutions team, working with the business and its stakeholders to provide cloud-based Source to Pay solutions through SaaS tools. You'll work on defining features, acceptance criteria supporting the Enterprise Finance Solutions Delivery Portfolio of Solutions. You will collaborate with Product Manager, Product Owner and Business partners to deliver technical solutions. You'll be a key contributor in all aspects of development and support, and involvement in all phases of the software development lifecycle. You'll work in a team environment but will also need facilitation skills and the ability to lead project team meetings as needed. It is important in this role to be able to create new ideas, generate consensus, and work cooperatively. 

Associate Product Manager Qualifications
Thorough understanding of Source to Pay business processes and SaaS based solutions (Source, contract, manage, purchase, invoice and pay).
Experience conducting research to identify customer needs and market gaps.
Experience working with Agile methodology, including creating features, working in a Kanban environment, participating in Agile ceremonies.
Experience with Version One or similar tool.
Consultancy approach to your work: having the ability to take complex real-world problems, understand and communicate them and translate them into feasible solutions.
Ability to successfully elicit from appropriate business partners all forms of requirements (e.g. functional, performance, usability, compliance, regulatory, technical).
Experience working with business partners from different geographies outside of North America (Europe, China, Asia Pacific) to incorporate their short and long-term source to pay requirements, statutory regulations, and controls into viable solutions.
Commitment to collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
Experience working with various integration partners and 3rd party consultants to integrate business requirements into implemented technical solution.
Knowledge of SDLC framework to implement tool for initial go live, operational changes, break fixes, and maintenance releases.
Bachelor's degree and Post Graduate/MBA with knowledge of Finance and other relevant area or equivalent experience.
5 years' experience in an Associate Product Manager, Product Owner or similar role.
Experience and knowledge implementing global solutions in a multi-tenant cloud environment using project lifecycle processes, including design, testing, implementation and post go live support.
Success in designing and leading requirements discovery sessions; including use of interviews, document analysis, workshops, surveys, business process modeling and workflow analysis with local and non-local team members.
Anticipates customer needs; assesses requirements and identifies new solutions.
Exceptional written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills with management, technical peers, and business stakeholders.
Candidate must demonstrate excellent communication of complex topics to a diverse audience and positive customer service skills.
Demonstrated ability to build positive business relationships and influence collaboratively across IT and the Global Business Partners.
Ability to engineer or re-engineer processes with a mindset of creating efficiencies and eliminating technical debt.
Provide training on new systems.
Ability to collaborate and consult with a cross functional support team with multiple, competing priorities.
Strong information seeking skills and a drive to deliver results.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.
 

AWS Backend Engineer
Our client is seeking a Software Engineer to join their team in Portland, OR. The Software Engineer creates high-quality craftsmanship-level software for clients and internal users and are expected to be proficient in the software languages used or required. This includes meeting all requirements/ specifications, testing/QA requirements, methodologies and other internal software/product requirements. This position must be adaptable to changing technology environments and work collaboratively with all participants in a software development project.

The Software Engineer may be called upon to fulfill functions related to software development that are not specifically software programming, such as requirements gathering, producing documentation, quality assurance testing, mentoring other developers, and leading projects. As required, this position provides guidance to the junior Software Engineer positions.

Responsibilities
Write awesome code.
Create prototypes to help clarify software requirements.
Create realistic design specification documents from software requirements.
Plan and perform development tasks from design specifications.
Provide accurate time estimates for development tasks.
Construct and verify (unit test) software components to meet design specifications.
Collaborate with quality assurance engineers to resolve software defects.
Collaborate with project architects and assist team members to prove the validity of new software technologies.
Engage and improve software development methodology.
Promote agile processes among development and the business, including facilitation of scrums.
Perform other duties as assigned to ensure the success of the team and the entire organization.
Strong Preference given to those with backgrounds in Math/Science.

Qualifications
Minimum Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field; or an equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
Minimum of 2 - 4 years progressive experience in a software development.
Excellent object-oriented design & programming skills, including the application of design patterns and avoidance of anti-patterns.
Strong AWS skills (Lambda, Terraform, SNS, SQS, etc).
Experience working in a collaborative team of application developers and source code repositories.
Demonstrated ability to follow through with all tasks, promises and commitments.
Ability to communicate and work effectively within priorities.
Ability to work under tight timelines in a fast-paced environment.
Good understanding of software design concepts.
Understanding of software development methodologies.
Ability to solve complex problems.
Must be able to perform the physical and intellectual requirements of the role, with or without accommodation.

Proven experience having designed one or more major components of an application, preferably of a software product.
Proven experience working across multiple tiers of an application, including a database, network, operating system, and containers.
Experience working in an AGILE environment.
Experience working in a SCRUM environment.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Azure DevOps Engineer
Our client will be hiring a Azure DevOps Engineer to join their Portland development team.

You get to build the next generation of infrastructure for an industry leading web application for flight quoting and scheduling.

Microsoft Stack: Azure, IIS, SQL Server, PowerShell.

Azure DevOps EngineerQualifications
5 years of experience with infrastructure-as-code and cloud platforms, such as Microsoft Azure or AWS.
Deep familiarity with security, virtualization, containerization, monitoring and optimization of Windows-based solutions in cloud environments, including the use of Active Directory, SQL Server, and IIS.
Fluent with our current infrastructure toolset: Jenkins, PowerShell, Chef, and Groovy.
Can break large provisioning and configuration tasks into smaller, more easily testable components and modules.
Experience with source control and bug tracking software (we use Git and Jira).
Can work effectively with and maintain the deployment pipeline for a distributed, agile team that is responsible for the continuous delivery of web-based applications in .Net and Java.

Preferred:
New Relic experience is a plus.
Pester experience is a plus.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.
 

Azure DevOps Engineer
The primary purpose and function of the Azure DevOps Engineer is to support new development of code by creating or merging many parallel development efforts and provide production support to applications. This position will work closely with other Build & Release Engineers to research, customize, and automate the effective delivery of multiple versions of software to a targeted user base. This position is responsible for documentation, implementation, operational delivery, coordination of software builds, and automation of setup processes using Microsoft-centric technologies.

This role will chart the journey of the team to the cloud and bring skills to bear on a build and release pipeline that is fully cloud based.

Azure DevOps Engineer Responsibilities 
Collaborate with architects, developers, project managers, and test engineers to assist in the definition and maintenance of set-ups, builds, automation, and best practices to ensure a repeatable and traceable process for software releases.
Implement and deliver complex software products according to specifications for multiple releases and versioning.
Maintain build environment, scripting and automating the build process, maintenance of software revision history; ensure the delivery of software release notes from the developers and validate delivery requirements against checklist.
Identify and correct any problems and report any issues to the appropriate team.
Lead the design and implementation of Infrastructure as code automation of environments and configuration in the cloud.
Document the build system and process.
Always be value focused for our customers and contribute in any manner possible in a team moving to agile.
Propose improvements to the Technical Lead or Development Manager and implement approved improvements.
Identify and correct any problems and report any issues to the appropriate team.
Other job duties as assigned.

Azure DevOps Engineer Qualifications 
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science preferred, or the equivalent combination of education, training and experience that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.
Minimum of four years of programming build and release.
Experience working with Azure DevOps, TFS (Team Foundation Server), Azure Fabric, YAML, Hyper-V Server Management, PowerShell Scripting.
Experience working with multiple tasks and large complex projects simultaneously within a fast-paced and entrepreneurial-type work environment is required.
Effective communicator and presenter with the ability to lead and influence colleagues, cross-functional teams and leaders is preferred.
Experience with cloud deployment is required.
Environment where pets are present.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Bi-Lingual Customer Service Specialist
Our client is hiring a Bi-Lingual Customer Service Specialist for their team in Beaverton, Oregon.

Bi-Lingual Customer Service Specialist Responsibilities
Answer in-coming telephone, emails, and chats from Consumers. 
Proactively sell product based on knowing the specific needs of the customer, offering suitable alternatives when product is not available. 
Drive the relationship with the customer through constant communication maintaining a proactive approach. 
Maintain KPIs for coverage and service. 
Communicate professionally, with Consumers, Operations Management, Sales Management and Sales Representatives through effective verbal and written communication. 
Drive the relationship with internal stakeholders: Sales, Credit, Business Units, and Distribution Centers as needed. 
Enter orders for fulfillment requests and follow the order process to conclusion. 
Track and maintain orders: analyze and interpret system generated reports. 
Resolve credit issues and allocation holds working through Credit and the Planning team. 
Ensure accurate and timely delivery of products to accounts. 
Handle all aspects of returns and claims interfacing with the customer and all internal stakeholders.

Bi-Lingual Customer Service Specialist Qualifications
Pay: $16.90 hourly.
Read, Write, Speack Spanish fluently
M-F 8am to 5pm
Strong verbal and written communication skills & multi-tasking required. 
Computer skills: MS Word, Windows, Excel, Power Point.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Big Data Engineer
Our client is looking for a Big Data Engineer to join their team.

Big Data Engineer Responsibilities
Develops action plans and processes, in coordination with management team, for integrating activities and optimizing department resources to meet major goals and objectives. 
Facilitates or performs application support, problem solving, and issue resolution with internal and external resources. 
Contributes and reviews recommendations for technical solutions. 
Manages and/or contributes to the technical components of the RFP process. 
Resolves issues and determines options for issue resolution and risk mitigation. 
Defines and communicates requirements for technical environments and determines the technical scope for projects. 
Provides technical estimates for project budget input to Senior/Project Manager. 
Leads and owns engagements with software vendors to ensure that code and configuration requirements and deliverables are met. 
Enforces architecture, governance, security, and global process standards to system changes and deployments. 
Coordinates compliance issue identification and remediation. 
Collaborates with other teams on integration needs/design. 
Contributes to database design and creates critical-path, high-risk, advanced technical designs. 
Approves proof of concept efforts and reviews results. 
Enforce company and department architectural direction and ensure consistent technical approach within department. 
Decide on engineering tools based on recommendations. 
Allocate resources based on performance monitoring and tuning results. 
Manage and enforce performance thresholds and standards. 
Review and approve performance test results, recommendations, and tuning results. 
Oversee and is responsible for the creation of test plans, test execution, and validation of test results.
Support Product Team, work with BSAs and Product owner to deliver products to Business.
Refine stories and deliver timely.
Analyze requirement documents and STM.
Develop integrated and aggregated objects for consumption.
Work with Production Support to analyze and fix Production issues.
Comprehensive documentation and knowledge transfer to Production Support.

Big Data Engineer Qualifications
Preferred candidates possess some of the following in their skillset.
Spark/Hive 
Python 
Airflow 
AWS
S3
EMR
Snowflake

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Budget and Forecasting Analyst
Our client, a Northwest Healthcare company is seeking to add a Budget and Forecasting Analyst to their team.

Budget and Forecasting Analyst Responsibilities
Prepare financial reports and statements. 
Manage budget and allocation requests.
Establish annual budgets, and support budget tracking.
Communicate with business leaders regarding annual budgets, long term plans, and forecast updates.
Prepare for annual audit (Form 990 and CT-12), deliverables, and ad-hoc requests.
Design, develop, and maintain reporting tools.
Assist with streamlining and process efficiencies.

Budget and Forecasting Analyst Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting and 1-3 years related experience.
Social service and health-related experience preferred.
Proficient with MS Office (including intermediate Excel) and Sage 100 & Sage Fixed Assets.
Knowledge of GAAP and financial/accounting principles.
Solid written and oral communication skills.
Able to identify process and strategy improvement opportunities and provide recommendations.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Business Analyst
Our client is hiring an experienced Business Analyst for their team in Portland, Oregon. This contract Business Analyst position will provide analytical support for our client's Contract Administration organization, facilitating, coordinating, developing, revising and drafting internal processes and providing budget analytical support and assistance. This position will support and assist the department managers and budget analyst through multiple budget processes, including start of year budget setting; monthly accrual processes; and, providing support for budget management throughout the year. This position will support leadership in transparency around budget, and help develop efficiencies to streamline budget management processes. In addition to supporting effective processes, this position will support the department by serving as a general point of contact and subject matter resource for budget questions and verifying that staff is able to access the information, they need to manage budget effectively. 

This position will work with senior staff to verify the process runs smoothly and effectively. The work product is developed by a large cross-functional team with extensive stakeholder input. Because of this, managing logistics, interim deadlines, quality control and encouraging top-notch communication is critical for successful development. This position will work with other agency staff filling multiple roles in the document’s completion, verifying that the final product is robust and effectively communicates our energy efficiency program offerings to utilities and internal staff that implement and verify compliance of these programs. In addition to process management, this position will also support and assist the department through ad-hoc budget exercises. As the primary super-user and department’s subject matter resource for the internal budget tracking system, this position will research, coordinate, validate and enter corrections where expenses are charged incorrectly; and, assist with contract management systems entering, updating and validating data accuracy.

Organization & Culture
Team members must have a professional demeanor reflected in excellent written and oral communication skills, listening skills, patience, analytical reasoning, and problem solving abilities. This role requires a detail-oriented, structured, critical thinker, with the ability to coordinate multiple demands simultaneously and someone who maintains a high degree of confidentiality.

Business Analyst Responsibilities
Support business stakeholders and the facilitation process for gathering and analyzing information using standard tools and approaches to:
Clarify business operations, functions, problems. 
Document/map the current and future state. 
Identify solution alternatives, evaluate the alternatives, and define procedures. 
Provide process and organizational experience for facilitating, planning, and executing approved business operations and change initiatives consistent with strategic business objectives. 
Provide process facilitation for business processes as assigned.

Facilitate and assist with routine budget activities across PE and in coordination with the Finance org, organizational Budget Analysts and manager(s), including:
Drafting departmental start of year (SOY) budgets with management and analysts’ input and for management finalization; and, facilitating in-year budget adjustments as requested.
Accrual processing per established procedure and system-generated data.
Quarterly financial and end of year forecasts for PE, which may include working with the org’s management and budget analysts, compiling management forecasts to produce a holistic report for Finance.
Ongoing variance analysis and recommend corrections.
Work order setup and utilization per procedures.
Utility Energy Efficiency Incentive setup and maintenance, which may include entering/recording, updating and validating system data.
Interfacing with the Finance Department, which may include: collaborating and coordinating on monthly processes and reporting; researching and responding to internal and external inquiries; performing requested adjustments; and, improving cross-org procedures, processes and practices.
Conduct cost research and analysis.

Provide project management coordination and support for multiple internal projects; the current project focus developing the Implementation Manual:
Draft and recommend and/or provide input into project plans to advance each stage of the Implementation Manual project. 
As with the Implementation Manual project, liaise, collaborate and meet with various groups (subject-matter-experts, end users, stakeholders, sponsors, etc.) within energy efficiency to facilitate the development of project plans, goals, milestones, requirements, and potential obstacles to/for success (as in the production of the Implementation Manual. 
Perform Quality Control on the Implementation Manual to drive consistency in language and clarity of intent.  
Maintain the project management infrastructure in SharePoint.
Document processes and support and assist teams in adhering to deadlines and schedules.
Assist manager in resolving stakeholder conflicts, escalating issues for management decision, as needed.
Conduct analysis or draft, review, revise, and recommend processes as assigned.
Provide consistent communication with all concerned project participants (e.g. manager, project sponsor, stakeholders, and the project team) regarding project status, progress, and potential obstacles / issues.

Provide business analytics and system support for EE Tracker system as assigned by the PEK manager, including:
Serve as primary point-of-contact and technical resource for administration of a system/database for the budget management system (EE Tracker), including troubleshooting issues and identifying potential causes. This work may include working with Users and acquiring external technical assistance; researching past issues; assisting with system patches, upgrades, and enhancements; etc.
Monitor system performance.
Promote and facilitate organizational utilization, providing User assistance as requested. 
Alert program lead and workplace manager (or designee) and/or other appropriate subject matter experts to any issues or concerns with the system and providing recommendations to address; implementing approved recommendations or corrective actions.
Provide training to staff and other system administrators (IT) on the operations of the budget system. 
Collaborate with appropriate manager / team lead / personnel to define and draft process and procedure documentation for the budget system, which may include new and existing processes and/or procedures. 
Create and draft change management plans and user guides to implement new processes for review, finalization and approval by the manager/team lead.

Assist management in developing departmental budget management process improvements, which may include alternate reporting, data structures, workflows, and collection/input methods.
Support transaction processing, research, analysis, and corrections for PE’s program, an Energy Efficiency program that serves multiple facilities.
Provide basic financial analysis and recommendations on related Energy Efficiency business issues to Tier 3 and Tier 4 managers as well as Corporate and Finance offices as requested.
Draft and maintain internal project analysis policies, processes and procedures. 
Maintain report development and data quality control for Energy Efficiency. Provide the feasibility review of any proposed reports designed to capture financial data.
Develop curriculum and materials used for training staff on org functions such as entering accruals, performing advanced budget functions and / or training for any new or revised procedures.    
Identify gaps and process improvements opportunities on various financial activities and subjects; provide recommendations; and, implement management-approved improvement efforts / initiatives.
Provide technical expertise for A-123 activities within PE. This work may include research, investigation and responding to audit requests and inquiries; pulling information and producing reports as needed for audits.
Participate on development teams for Energy Efficiency, IT and Finance initiatives providing technical expertise, guidance, user acceptance testing, and training. 
Maintain repository of departmental budget and financial records. Maintain filing system(s), files, emails and records in accordance with compliance requirements. File and disperse documents/letters only to appropriate personnel. Maintain all official records in accordance with the Information Governance & Lifecycle Management (IGLM) standards and procedures. 
Validate official records are accurately maintained for auditing purposes.
Work collaboratively across the organization to solve problems, utilize conflict resolution techniques and support continual process improvement.

Business Analyst Qualifications
Education & Corresponding Experience:
A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Management, Organizational Development or a related discipline is preferred.
With an applicable Bachelor’s degree, 5 years of experience is required.
With an applicable Associate’s degree, 7 years of experience is required.
Without an applicable degree, 9 years of experience is required.
Experience should be consistent with the specific requirements of business analysis and progressively more technical in nature.

Required Technical Skills & Experience:
3 years of Project Management experience.
Advanced skills/experience with Excel (pivot tables, vlookups etc.).
Working knowledge of automated data systems.
1 year of experience with Visio.

Preferred Skills & Experience:
Experience with enterprise financial software and reporting tools, such as PeopleSoft.
Proficient with Microsoft Project, SharePoint, and project portfolio tools.
Experience with business process documentation and management.  

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Business Analyst
Our client is seeking a Business Analyst to join their team in Seattle, WA. As a Business Analyst Contractor working within the CustOps team, you will focus on auditing and analyzing the support experience. You will be supporting the Quality program through providing insight on break points in our support experience, identifying process improvements, and advocating for the customer within internal teams.

Responsibilities 
Review urgent and critical incidents for quality.
Queue reviews with engineers to ensure quality and efficiency of support.
Report high visibility cases, escalations, customer trends to management.
Act as information resource to the management team.
Calibrate with managers on audit methodology.
Analyze and identify process improvement opportunity.
Collect and manage Quality data points for analysis.
Pull reporting /automate reporting in the system as needed.
Visualize break points for report out to leadership.

Qualifications
Ability to understand complex systems and workflows.
Ability to research complicated problems and engineer solutions through online research as needed.
Ability to write SQL queries.
Strong Excel experience.
Ability to join multiple types of data sets to identify trends.
Ability to visualize data to drive recommendations effectively.
Understanding of how CRM systems work and function.
Understanding of Cloud Infrastructure products and how it functions.
Solid verbal, interpersonal and written communication skills with the ability to make presentations.
Excellent organizational, time-management and multi-tasking skills.
Looking to continuously grow and learn and does not look for the path of least resistance.
Ability to think and act in an innovative and creative way.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”
 

Business Analyst
Our client is seeking a Business Analyst to join their team in Portland, OR. 

Responsibilities
Using a variety of elicitation techniques, work with key stakeholders to understand and document current ("as-is") and future state ("to-be") end-to-end processes and identify requirements. 
Perform gap analysis between current and future state processes in order to document requirements necessary to move to future state. 
Identify improvement opportunities to optimize future state design.
Evolve requirements from highest level needs and features to detailed requirements, collaborating with technical resources to ensure the technical solution meets the needs of the business. 
Manage all aspects of requirements engineering, including elicitation, analysis, specification, verification, and management throughout the project lifecycle. 
Lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT), including developing the test strategy, create test scenarios and scripts, organize and coordinate testers and testing activities, and report out results. 
Communicate, facilitate and collaborate in a wide variety of settings and projects that are complex, up to and including enterprise-wide assignments. 
Define procedures or identify innovative solutions for how to complete analytical tasks. 
Influence decision making and actively engage with project leaders, sponsors, and key stakeholders to ensure optimum business value delivery. 
Act as a mentor and role model for other team members. 
Assist Learning and Development with producing job aids, training material and instruction manuals for end-users. 
Assist senior team members with project management duties.

Qualifications
Experience in re-engineering processes to improve effectiveness and efficiency.
Excellent communication, time/project management, creative problem solving, organizational, and analytical skills.
Experience in process improvement and project management preferred.
Experience in insurance operations preferred, Employee Benefits Division experience a plus.
Proficiency in Visio and requirements management software preferred.
Typically require demonstrated expertise in Business Analysis that has been gained via a combination of formal education, certification processes, and/or practical experience per the following:

A minimum of 5 years of progressive experience in providing business analysis in employee benefits, financial services, technology delivery, or other related fields.
Desired: Bachelor’s degree in Business or a related field. 
Achievement of or progress toward: Fellow, Life Management Institute (FLMI), Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or Certification of Competency in Business Analysis (CCBA) preferred; Project Management Professional (PMP), certification in Process or Performance Management, or certification in Quality Assurance/Testing desirable.
Sought out for communication, facilitation, and collaboration skills in a variety of settings and projects. Has and applies a thorough understanding of analytical skills and navigates successfully through or improves company procedures and policies.
Works on wide range of assignments that are complex, up to and including enterprise-wide assignments. 
Often defines procedures or identifies innovative solutions for how to complete analytical tasks. 
Is a primary driver of collaboration on project teams. 
Influences decision-making and actively engages with project leaders, sponsors and key stakeholders to ensure optimum business value delivery. Regularly acts as a mentor and role model for other analysts.
Receive little instruction on daily work. May require general instructions on new assignments. May develop new procedures and/or mentor others.
Contacts are typically company wide. 
Communicates with and influences management as appropriate for project needs. 
Networks with internal peers.

Preferred 
Master’s degree in business or a related field. Completed certification(s).
Membership in local business analysis association.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws. 

Business Analyst
Our client is seeking a Business Analyst to join their collaborative Business Analysis Team. In this role you’ll be a part of a cross-functional team, working with Technical Product Managers, Engineers, and other stakeholders to design innovative solutions for product enhancements and new product features.

The Business Analyst acts as a liaison between teams inside the organization including product managers, software developers, educational researchers, content producers, and customer support representatives by translating customer and business needs into requirements.

The Business Analyst works closely with Product Managers and other stakeholders to understand their vision for the product, to elaborate the requirements for that vision, and to deliver outputs that inform the solutions created by the technical teams.

The ideal candidate for our organization is a creative problem solver, that can facilitate large brain-storming meetings one minute and write detailed requirements the next. This individual needs to have exceptional time management skills, and be able to operate in a fast paced, highly complex environment. As in all positions, relationships are key, so being able to build and maintain relationships with stakeholders and gain their confidence in the decision-making process highly important.

Business Analyst Qualifications
2-4 years of experience in a business analyst role.
Ability to quickly grasp processes and apply business analyst skills and knowledge in a fast-paced environment, with minimal supervision.
Understanding of the practice of business analysis and industry standards.
Bachelor’s degree in the field of business analysis, accounting, business administration, management information systems or computer science is preferred; or an equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.

Must haves:
Data Analysis – has identified data from different sources, analyzed and modeled out how it is sent, received, transformed and stored.
Domain modeling – has identified entities, attributes and relationships and modeled these.
Analysis deliverables – has experience creating a variety of analysis deliverables (functional and non-functional requirements, user stories, workflow diagrams, epics, etc.).
Cloud computing – has a basic understanding of cloud capabilities and is familiar with APIs and API development practices and common data integration methods.

Traits for success:
Analytical Thinking: Critical thinking and problem-solving.
Communication Skills: Written, oral and meeting facilitation.
Leadership: Strategic thinking, planning and organizing, and motivating others.
Innovative: Creative, identifying opportunities for improvement.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Business Analyst
Our client is hiring a Business Analyst for their team in Beaverton, Oregon.

Business Analyst Responsibilities
The nature of the work is focused on the effective and efficient distribution of products and services to customers. 
Gather, store and scrub data needed for Supply Chain analysis Prepare first and second level analysis on Supply Chain metrics.
Actively participate in the identification of root causes for performance gaps. 
Participate in small to medium size projects which are supporting the overall Supply Chain strategy.
Ability to handle most assignments independently, including more complex issues.

Business Analyst Qualifications
Skills: Experience in process management and creation of reports. 
Solid knowledge of MS systems.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Business Analyst
Our client is seeking a Business Analyst to join their team. The ideal candidate is a self-starting flexible individual who thrives in a fast-paced dynamic environment. This role works cross-functionally with many stakeholders testing and analyzing data for implementing processes within their receivables. 

Business Analyst Responsibilities 
Participate in user acceptance testing.
Perform customer data corrections.
Documenting processes and procedures.
Research statutory invoicing requirements.
Maintain and enforce accounts receivable policies and procedures; assist with accounts receivable audits.
Assist with AR issues and resolve accordingly.
Support projects and other duties as needed.

Business Analyst Qualifications 
2-3 years of account receivable and project administration experience.
Strong MS Office skills; knowledge with financial management software.
Exceptional problem-solving analytical skills. 
Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills.
Ability to multi-task and prioritize. 

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Business Analyst
Our client is hiring a Business Analyst for their team in Vancouver, Washington. The full-time contract Business Analyst position will work within our client's Transmission Engineering & Technical Services organization on the Internal Operations team. This position will provide support for projects under the Transmission Engineering and Technical Services Programs by providing recommendations to business stakeholders and facilitating the gathering and analysis of information using standard tools and approaches to: help clarify business operations, functions, perform gap analysis, document/map the current and future states, identify solution alternatives, evaluate the alternatives, and define processes. This position will also assist the Internal Operations Manager in overall Transmission Engineering and Technical Services Business Process Management strategy, analysis, and development.

Organization & Culture
Engineering & Technical Services is responsible for implementing the Transmission Capital Program, providing technical support for the Transmission Maintenance Program and providing real property services to the agency. This organization provides services supporting the capital program that include: project management, engineering, design, specifications, contract construction management, construction inspection and commissioning services. Projects include transmission lines, substations, control and protection systems, telecommunication facilities and nonelectric facilities. Services supporting transmission maintenance include developing maintenance standards, field and laboratory testing services, specialized technical training, equipment failure analysis, high level equipment and systems expertise, spare parts sourcing, and development of advanced maintenance techniques. Technical experts promote the development and integration of advanced technologies to improve system reliability and reduce costs.

Business Analyst Responsibilities
Facilitate large teams in problem solving and identifying improvement opportunities using industry methodologies (i.e. Kanban, GE Workout or like tools/models).
Perform organizational maturity analysis, assess gaps, and draft maturity roadmaps based on management goals and objectives. 
Provide analysis and support in the development / draft and recommendation of tools for organizational alignment, strategic content, alignment of capabilities and work, and a roadmap for success.  
Conduct background research and interview end-users, stakeholders and other interested internal parties (customers) to gather and understand customer / end-user requirements, which may include software solutions and/or business process, procedure or workflow development; present solution recommendations for management, executive, stakeholder consideration and approval.
Collaborate with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), other analysts, specialists and teams to perform root cause analysis and lessons learned, as part of identifying opportunities to apply business or process improvement strategies.
Support the structure for, facilitate the planning of, and provide assistance with the development / draft, recommendation and implementation of management approved initiatives, studies, analyses, and projects supporting business and process analysis and continuous improvement efforts. 
Plan, facilitate and conduct working sessions to analyze and document/map current state processes and value streams, and future state processes and value streams. 
Facilitate decision making to verify that key requirements of the future state are vetted and agreed to across the Transmission Engineering and Technical Services /Transmission Value Chain.
Evaluate and assess business process change impacts and recommend appropriate change mitigation activities. 
Perform all analytical tasks related to a project, including requirements definition, validation, management and supporting documentation (i.e. process flows, user stories, use cases) and related testing; assist management with implementation activities that contribute to system, process, and/or business improvements.
Provide background information, technical input, options and recommendations that facilitate decision-making and that will enable key requirements of improvement projects, project milestones and/or implemented solutions to be met.
As requested, perform appropriate testing of recommended and/or management-approved solutions, which may include creating / drafting and recommending new analytical tools or components, new or revised workflows, processes, standards, business-case criteria, and/or mitigation measures.
Facilitate the definition and documentation of business and functional requirements. Conduct user/stakeholder interviews and facilitate joint requirements sessions. 
Draft requirements documentation, review with user representatives, recommend priorities and obtain user signoff. 
Maintain the requirements documentation created and map it to specific delivery releases and schedules.
Prepare use cases, process models and activity diagrams to support a project, coordinate efforts with business process activities when needed. 
Verify with user representatives that use cases and process models accurately portray specific business processes.
Collaborate with staff and user representatives to verify that all user requirements are accommodated. 
Participate in user/stakeholder review of program/project artifacts and obtain signoff.
Trace acceptance criteria to business and functional requirements and support the development of test plans.
Provide input to program/project managers on schedules and program/project plans with particular emphasis on analysis-related activities.
Collect and document detailed descriptions and specifications of user needs, business rules, functionality and steps required to develop or modify business solutions.
Promote and maintain effective client and stakeholder relationships. Work with clients and stakeholders to understand and facilitate requirement changes including changes in scope.
Translate business requirements into definitions and solutions. Identify problems, research alternatives, prepare presentations, recommend and assist management with implementing solutions.
Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze potential tradeoffs between usability and performance needs; work with appropriate manager / personnel to reconcile and determine acceptable “tradeoffs”.
Design/draft templates and tools to support the project management methodology, including creating, recommending and utilizing tools (such as MS Project, Access, SharePoint, etc.) to assist Project Managers (PMs) in tracking and reporting project progress / status, project milestones and deliverables, as well as metrics reporting.
Draft and recommend key project deliverable documents including: requirements, process diagrams, workflow maps, project plans, and change management plans.
Develop /draft approximate documentation to validate repeatability of processes, to facilitate training of new analytical tools and to support business continuity and knowledge transfer.
Work with appropriate manager / personnel to facilitate resolution of conflicting priorities and requirements, as well as conflicting team positions in order to build consensus among stakeholders and project team members.

Business Analyst Qualifications
Education & Corresponding Experience:
A degree in Business Administration, Business Management, Accounting, Computer Science (or a closely related field) is preferred.
With an applicable Bachelor’s degree, 8 years of experience is required.
With an applicable Associates degree, 10 years of experience is required.
Without an applicable degree, 12 years of experience is required.
Experience should include direct work experience as a change manager, business analyst, strategic business partner or equivalent. Business analysis experience should be progressively more technical in nature. 

Required Technical Skills & Experience:
5+ years’ experience applying methodology to process improvement and optimization efforts across multiple business units within a defined enterprise.
Experience with large-scale organizational change efforts.
Technical interview skills sufficient to facilitate group process design/requirements gathering sessions in a business environment.
Intermediate proficiency in Visio (flowcharts), MS Project, Access, and SharePoint. 

Preferred Skills & Experience:
Demonstrated experience with project and change management approaches, tools and phases of the project lifecycle. 
Experience with the Prosci methodology for Change Management.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Business Analyst
Our client is seeking a Business Analyst to join their team! This role will collaboratively analyze business challenges and processes, map requirements, and prioritize effort in support of departmental strategic and operational initiatives.

Responsibilities
Understand core departmental business functions and work with business stakeholders to evaluate, select, configure, and deploy information technology solutions.  
Engineer, optimize, and document efficient processes.  
Create documents and specifications which build alignment among stakeholders and implementation teams.  
Contribute to the development of project plans using industry-standard tools and approaches.  
Design, encode, test, and maintain format, content, and data in assigned systems.
Analyze existing and proposed system options.
Work with business clients to help select vendors and packages.
Prioritize tasks, objectives, and resource allocations in support of stakeholder outcomes.  
Use industry standard approaches and techniques to achieve and maintain alignment with stakeholders.
Learn and understand existing business processes.  
Determine opportunities for operational improvement and support of strategic goals.  
Champion change according to company directives.  
Support quality improvement initiatives.
Interpret existing and new policy, benefit, and contract provisions for use with systems.
Maintain document format and content in assigned systems.  
Prepare flowcharts and diagrams to illustrate sequence of steps and to describe logical operations involved.
Act as liaison with vendors in coordinating output of printed material as needed.
Work with software developers to create high-quality documents to be delivered to external customers.
Diagnose and resolve system and data problems.  
Work closely with other IT staff to accept electronic data and generate digital documents that can be printed or displayed in a web environment.
Document business requirements and configuration approaches for assigned systems.
Use queries and reporting tools to gather and understand information.  Assist users in creation of reports and documents.
Develop QA tests and manages QA / testing efforts for projects.
Train users in technical aspects of systems and processes.
Participate in special projects and committees and perform other duties as assigned.
Meet department and company performance and attendance expectations.
Follow the privacy policy and HIPAA laws and regulations concerning confidentiality and security of protected health information.
Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications
Two to five years business analysis and project management experience in a complex environment, preferably involving health care or finance.  
Knowledge of member enrollment, benefits, contracts, coding, claims, health services and other healthcare concepts.  
Experience with relevant tools such as MS Excel, PowerPoint, Project, and Visio.  
Strong experience using data analysis and visualizations to guide decision making.  
Experience working collaboratively with other systems analysts, programmers, business clients, and managers. 
MBA, BS, BA, or equivalent well-rounded education and experience. 
CBAP, Lean, or Six Sigma certifications preferred.
High level of skill in analysis, visualization, and presentation of complex problems and processes.  
Excellent writing, proofreading, document construction skills.  
Strong attention to detail. 
Ability to identify techniques and develop standardized work in support of efficiency improvements.   
Ability to work across business and system groups at all levels.  
Ability to produce flowcharts and understand relationships between process and data.  
Strong knowledge of application development technologies, tools and methodologies.  
Agile or scrum awareness strongly preferred.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws. 

Business Intelligence Specialist
Our client’s Data and Analytics department makes sense of our data world through meaningful and actionable insights, identifying trends, delivering reports, informing product and infrastructure advancements, and promoting a culture of data-driven decision making. 

Their Business Intelligence branch of their Data and Analytics department leads data stewardship and business intelligence to enable the creation of dashboards, analyses, and insights. This is achieved through the cultivation and creation of high-quality datasets, dashboards, and automation systems and processes through intentional and evolving strategic partnerships with the rest of the organization.  

Their Business Intelligence team is adding a Business Intelligence Specialist to help deliver and support data and analytics solutions. Their technical teams are tightly integrated and collaborate closely with stakeholders across several different lines of business on data strategy and objectives. Team members are expected to gather information to ensure business requirements are being fulfilled throughout the entire data & analytics lifecycle. 

Business Intelligence Specialist Responsibilities
Partnering with business areas to assess reporting, analysis and data visualization needs. 
Developing knowledge of local business processes and recommending technology-driven process improvements. 
Assisting in the documentation of requirements and specifications. 
Partnering with technical subject matter experts to determine and document the optimal design. 
Developing, testing and deploying smaller reporting and end user computing solutions. 
Collaborating with business unit and associates on the execution of larger projects identified within the business unit. 
Facilitating change and innovation to legacy systems and processes. 
Design and implement visualizations based on KPI calculations, perspectives, hierarchy structures, scorecards that identify patterns, trends and exceptions. 
Uses data to tell meaningful stories to clients and stakeholders. 

Business Intelligence Specialist Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, Math, Computer Science/Information Technology or MIS, or equivalent work experience. 
2 – 4 years experience building content and dashboards in business intelligence and data visualization tools (e.g., Microsoft PowerBI, Tableau, Qlik). 
Strong desire to innovate and advance internal technologies and processes. 
Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications (particularly Word and Excel). 
We are a Power BI shop and give strong preference to individuals who have used that platform for data querying and SSAS Tabular models (i.e. creation of calculated columns, measures, and relationships.). 
Understanding of Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) formula and query language for Microsoft PowerPivot & Power BI Desktop. 
Working knowledge of SQL and VBA. 
Strong interpersonal skills and customer focus. 
Strong oral and written communication skills.
Strong organizational and time management skills with the ability to manage multiple. priorities/deadlines. 
Highly motivated to make impactful improvements for our business partners.

Business Intelligence Specialist Preferred:
3 - 5 experience in a corporate environment, preferably in an analytical role within the financial sector. 
Knowledge of various SDLC and process methodologies (e.g. Agile, Scrum, etc.). 
Specialty in Supply Chain Management and Logistics strongly preferred. 

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Business Operations Analyst
Our client is hiring a Business Operations Analyst for their team in Hillsboro, Oregon. As a Business Operations Analyst, your role on the cybersecurity team will include leveraging your data analysis and reporting skills to support the larger Corporate Information Security group. You will be responsible for scoping and developing reporting, identifying opportunities to create new process, providing data evidence to support business decisions and making recommendations to the Business Operations team to drive a continuous evolution of the function. You will be responsible for building a strong partnership with the cybersecurity team, Corporate Information Security (CIS), and other domains.

You must be a self-starter, flexible thinker, and outstanding communicator who is comfortable learning quickly and connecting the dots across a wide array of topics. You will need those skills as you work across multiple functions within our matrixed organization. Success will depend on your ability to quickly form both professional and personal relationships with colleagues and drive to rigorous, actionable, user-friendly deliverables.

Business Operations Analyst Responsibilities
Identifying reporting priorities and developing a roadmap of deliverables for report creation and improvement.
Creating data repositories for the Office of Cybersecurity team and ensuring best practices are followed in data management.
Establishing a regular cadence of updates to key stakeholders and driving timing of content creation in support of required updates.
Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Business Operations Analyst Qualifications
Report development and deployment experience.
Experience in gathering detailed business requirements.
Familiarity with finance concepts (budget management, opex vs. capex spending, etc.)
Solid knowledge and understanding of information technology systems and process.
Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, and ability to communicate complex concepts to senior and business audiences.
Demonstrated analytical, problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
The ability to learn and apply new concepts quickly.
Experience, interest, and adaptability to working in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
Ability to balance and prioritize work effectively.
Resolves problems independently and/or through a support team.
Must be trustworthy in keeping sensitive data confidential.

Preferred:
Knowledge of information security principles and practice.
Experience in Tableau, Smartsheets, and database development.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Business System Analyst
Our client is looking for a Business System Analyst to join their team in Beaverton, OR. The BSA is a crucial and essential peer to the Prepress Designers and in particular, the Sr. Developer(s) and/or the Prepress Architect(s). This person is very comfortable with the concepts of development, programming, and can help the designers to shape their code and processes to meet the needs of the client, the needs of our operation, and ensure that the team is on track to push that custom development down to the Production Operations teams. 

Business System Analyst Responsibilities 
Responsible for consulting with internal stakeholders as it pertains to development and deployments. As well as provide information, knowledge and expertise regarding Prepress processes.
Engage with specific project initiatives for long periods of time while ensuring that department managers are informed and engaged with overall status.
Take a global and comprehensive view of the risks and challenges with any request or initiative and document and mobilize remediation plans.
Manages document development and creation from end to end, covering functional and technical requirements.
Analyze workload and communicate concerns, complexities, and bottlenecks to team members and stakeholders to ensure possible risks to the relevant timelines are understood as early as possible.
Carefully maintain and manage version control and procedural procedures for the purposes of ensuring quality.
Habitually document and detail steps taken to develop work and can readily share detailed information with team members in a formalized fashion regarding functional or technical decisions.
Responsible for understanding the capabilities of Print/Mail solution, and regularly seeks opportunities to advise or steer our clients in the direction that’s most supportable for them and us.

Business System Analyst Qualifications
Read, interpret, modify, and write simple code in JavaScript.
Introductory experience to the Python language, meaning 6 months of on the job or academic exposure. Able to read/interpret logs and scripts using Python syntax.
Technical or development related experience in Linux/Putty. No less than 1 year, may require certificates to verify completion.
High level of comfort on the Windows platform and Microsoft Office.
Strong data analysis and research skills.

Additional coding or technical software experience a plus. This can include:
VSTS,
Jira/Confluence,
SQL,
Access,
Competencies.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Business Systems Analyst
Our client is looking for a Business Systems Analyst to support the administration of the Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) environment, and to provide occasional backup support to the administration of the Microsoft Power Business Intelligence (Power BI) environment.

SSRS and Power BI are among the agency’s primary reporting tools and require administration for the enterprise. SSRS and Power BI reports are produced across the agency, but primarily within the Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse (BI/DW) program. BI/DW is an enterprise program that delivers a variety of ODOT data for performing strategic and tactical data analytics.

The agency has a need to perform analysis to maintain relevant documentation of standards, processes, procedures, tools, techniques, and training for internal (agency) customers using SSRS and Power BI. In addition, these reporting environments are maturing and there is a need to maintain the environments by monitoring the standards and rules that have been established. This key person may need to be aware of standards and architecture for that product on a limited basis.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Business Systems Analyst
Our client is looking for a Business Systems Analyst to analyze and spread financial data related to new and renewal loan requests, including lines of credit, commercial real estate, working capital, equipment financing, loans for business start-ups, and business acquisitions, which typically would require a government guarantee.
 
Business Systems Analyst Responsibilities 
Presents facts and offers opinions/recommendations to Business Development Officers (BDOs) concerning applicant's credit worthiness.
Prepares summary and/or credit approval report documenting credit analyses and recommendation for credit decision to approving authority.
Assists BDOs in gathering details for new loan requests and in processing servicing actions for existing relationships, maintaining contact with clients and resolving issues.
Reviews annual financials on existing loans and analyzes the risk associated with the borrower's financial condition, recommending risk-rating changes when appropriate.
Reviews and monitors commercial and/or real estate loan documents for accuracy, completeness and adherence to approval conditions.
Follows up with customers to obtain all necessary information and clarification on financial analysis materials and resources.
May work with attorneys, the SBA, USDA, and financial or other legal resources to obtain correct and accurate documents to fully protect the financial institution's interests in the credit relationship.
May participate in customer and prospect calls with the BDO.
Demonstrates compliance with all regulations for assigned job function and applies to designated job responsibilities -- knowledge may be gained through coursework and on-the-job training. Keeps up to date on regulation changes.
Follows all policies and procedures, compliance regulations, and completes all required annual or job-specific training.
Maintain a working knowledge of written policies and procedures regarding Bank Secrecy Act, Regulation CC, Regulation E, Bank Security and other regulations as applicable to this job description.
May be asked to coach, mentor, or train others and teach coursework as subject matter expert.
Actively learns, demonstrates, and fosters the corporate culture in all actions and words.
Takes personal initiative and is a positive example for others to emulate.
May perform other duties as assigned.

Business Systems Analyst Qualifications
Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent.
5-8 years of relevant credit analysis or commercial underwriting experience and SBA lending knowledge.
Strong analytical and problem solving skills with prior consumer, and commercial lending experience, wide-ranging and in-depth knowledge of industry practices.
Strong credit and credit quality skills including accounting, financial statement spreading, and cash flow analysis experience.
Strong knowledge of credit policies, procedures, practices and documentation.
Strong knowledge of SBA SOP's.
Demonstrated sales skills and business development.
Excellent written and verbal communication.
Ability to work effectively with individuals and groups across the company to manage internal and external customer relationships.
Proficiency with personal computers and related software packages such as Word and Excel, and other business machines.
Must have completed accounting and credit training courses.
Occasional travel.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Business Systems Analyst
Our client is looking for a Business Systems Analyst to join their team in Beaverton, OR. Their Data Services is the team within ECA which manages and shepherds data through the entire life cycle of a class action or similar matter, such as a mass tort claim. Each case, while unique, undergoes a similar lifecycle and series of operations, including initial gathering/scrubbing/loading of client data, notifying potential class members, receiving claim information, computing and disbursing settlement amounts, and so on. Each of these steps will be reflected by and/or have material effect on the underlying case data. The Business System Analyst (BSA) is responsible for understanding the requirements for a particular case, or step of a case, and determining how those functional requirements translate into technical specifications. The BSA translates functional requirements into a technical statement of work from which developers can code solutions. The BSA works directly with Client Services, Technical Project Managers, Data Analysts, QC Analysts, other BSAs, department Team Leads, and others to understand all aspects of the case and to determine and document the data-oriented solution.

Business Systems Analyst Responsibilities
Understand the entire lifecycle of a class action or similar matter, determine what data is required based on functional requirements, and define how that data and business rules will translate to internal applications.
Develop and publish technical specifications, technical requirements, and other documentation, as required.
Design data mappings and transformations which will be used to drive ETL procedures.
Work with QC Analysts to design testing strategies and plans to ensure all outcomes are as expected.
Using tools such as Excel, Access, SQL Server, and others, directly query, assess, and analyze data to ensure requirements are being met.
Serve as liaison between Client Services (business) and Data Analysts (technical) teams to keep production work flowing smoothly.
Work with Technical Project Managers to ensure all required steps and actions are captured in project plans, and that project timelines seem reasonable.
Lead, conduct, or consult in user acceptance test exercises to ensure results are acceptable and meet requirements.
Follow prescribed software development standards, processes, procedures, methodologies, etc., according to departmental policies and conventions.
Interact and correspond professionally with team members, project management, clients, and other stakeholders.
Account for and accurately log time against project work.

Business Systems Analyst Qualifications
Four-year college degree or equivalent industry experience.
Experience as Business Analyst, Data Analyst, Process Specialist, or other role where business functional requirements are captured and decomposed.
Proficient with MS Office tools, particularly Excel.
Experience with relational databases and ability to comprehend moderately complex SQL logic desired.
Basic understanding of data modeling and data organization desired.
Basic understanding of and experience with extract, transform, load (ETL) concepts, tools, and practices desired.
Ability to work in an environment with immediate deadlines and shifting priorities.
Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing; able to adjust for intended audience. Fluent in English.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Business Systems Analyst 
You are curious.
You want to understand the WHY… the purpose.  You might be a fan of Simon Sinek.
You love the process of qualifying information and creating clear expectations.  
Our legal services client will be hiring a mid-level Business Systems Analyst for a 2 year Contract in Beaverton.
Critical skills include: solution-focused mindset, thick skin, ability to hear what people are trying to say even when they can’t explain themselves. 
This position will be responsible for the testing, analysis, documentation of all Print & Mail work running through Prepress. 
This individual will play a key role in supporting developers with translation from internal and external client needs to technical solutions and operational requirements.

Pay rate: $35.00/hr. W2

Business Systems Analyst Responsibilities
Create, deploy, maintain and support print Implementations and projects.
Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to create innovative business solutions.
Provide print Creation and processing support for internal business clients.
Ensure that projects are consistently on-scope and on-time.
Draft effective documentation of procedures for training and reference purposes.
Implement standard processes for formatting and converting non-electronic information and data into print and customer output data. 
Monitor task transitions and procedural flow within the group from creation to delivery. 

***Curious about this job? Tell us why you love being an Analyst!***

Business Systems Analyst Qualifications
2 years of experience gathering, testing, and documenting requirements.
You geek out when creating reports and manipulating data within Microsoft Excel and Access.
Experience writing SQL queries.
Preferred
Experience with Sefas OpenPrint software suite preferred.
Entry level user in VBScript.
Strong data analysis and research skills.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Business Systems Analyst
Data Services is the team within ECAR which manages and shepherds data through the entire lifecycle of a class action or similar matter, such as a mass tort claim. Each case, while unique, undergoes a similar lifecycle and series of operations, including initial gathering/scrubbing/loading of client data, notifying potential class members, receiving claim information, computing and disbursing settlement amounts, and so on. Each of these steps will be reflected by and/or have material effect on the underlying case data. The Business System Analyst (BSA) is responsible for understanding the requirements for a particular case, or step of a case, and determining how those functional requirements translate into technical specifications. The BSA translates functional requirements into a technical statement of work from which developers can code solutions. The BSA works directly with Client Services, Technical Project Managers, Data Analysts, QC Analysts, other BSAs, department Team Leads, and others to understand all aspects of the case and to determine and document the data-oriented solution.

Business Systems Analyst Responsibilities
Understand the entire lifecycle of a class action or similar matter, determine what data is required based on functional requirements, and define how that data and business rules will translate to internal applications.
Develop and publish technical specifications, technical requirements, and other documentation, as required.
Design data mappings and transformations which will be used to drive ETL procedures.
Work with QC Analysts to design testing strategies and plans to ensure all outcomes are as expected.
Using tools such as Excel, Access, SQL Server, and others, directly query, assess, and analyze data to ensure requirements are being met.
Serve as liaison between Client Services (business) and Data Analysts (technical) teams to keep production work flowing smoothly.
Work with Technical Project Managers to ensure all required steps and actions are captured in project plans, and that project timelines seem reasonable.
Lead, conduct, or consult in user acceptance test exercises to ensure results are acceptable and meet requirements.
Follow prescribed software development standards, processes, procedures, methodologies, etc., according to departmental policies and conventions.
Interact and correspond professionally with team members, project management, clients, and other stakeholders.
Account for and accurately log time against project work.

Business Systems Analyst Qualifications
Four-year college degree or equivalent industry experience.
Experience as Business Analyst, Data Analyst, Process Specialist, or other role where business functional requirements are captured and decomposed.
Proficient with MS Office tools, particularly Excel.
Experience with relational databases and ability to comprehend moderately complex SQL logic desired.
Basic understanding of data modeling and data organization desired.
Basic understanding of and experience with extract, transform, load (ETL) concepts, tools, and practices desired.
Ability to work in an environment with immediate deadlines and shifting priorities.
Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing; able to adjust for intended audience. Fluent in English.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.
 

Business Systems Analyst
Our client is seeking a Business System Analyst to join their team in Portland, OR. This role will perform difficult and responsible work process analyses; develops customer requirements specifications, systems interfaces and test plans; works with bureau staff, staff from other bureaus and software vendors to translate business needs into computer software designs; trains customers on new applications and processes; and performs related duties as assigned.  The Business Systems Analysts performs a variety of journey-level assignments while working with bureau internal/external customers and software vendors to translate business and operational requirements into designs and specifications for workable information technology solutions. Incumbents conduct business and work process analyses, analyze data requirements and reporting needs and develop recommended systems solutions to meet bureau requirements. Incumbents participate in conducting systems tests to ensure conformance with systems specifications and work with others to resolve problems identified.

Business Systems Analyst Responsibilities
Interviews customers and analyzes business rules and process requirements.
Identifies and analyzes complex, ambiguous and/or conflicting work process, information management and reporting issues.
Develops and refines business process and entity relationships; meets with customers to discuss systems and process alternatives capable of meeting their business needs.
Recommends work process and/or operating changes to complement technology solutions.
Translates business needs into computer software designs. 
Analyzes system data, processes and system interactions; identifies alternatives for establishing systems and data interfaces and converting legacy systems to new technologies. 
Develops specifications for assigned elements of system enhancements and maintenance projects.
Participates in evaluating vendor product packages and their fit with customer requirements. Researches and recommends hardware, network and/or software characteristics and requirements. Writes system requirement and/or specification documents.
Meets with customers on assigned projects or project components to: develop and refine systems requirements, evaluate the cost benefit of business process/technology alternatives, gain agreement on project deliverables, metrics and service levels, determine and resolve problems, seek customer cooperation, involvement and action to achieve objectives and report on project progress; serves as an advocate for customer needs.
Defines application data requirements; identifies data sources; diagrams data flow and data relationships; in consultation with bureau customers and bureau leadership data management and database administration staff, leads, facilitates and/or participates in the logical design of applications databases. 
Develops database specifications; defines file/table structures. 
Analyzes systems interface requirements, coordinates the integration and migration of data between databases. 
Uses query tools to develop and generate reports. 
May perform basic database maintenance, administration and recovery on applications databases.
Designs the parameters for test environments and testing scenarios. 
Participates in conducting systems tests and conversion and installation processes; identifies types and causes of test problems and work with customers and IT staff to recommend and implement solutions; ensures performance of all quality assurance reviews are completed successfully; ensures newly installed applications are functioning correctly; proposes disaster recovery plans.
Trains bureau customers on how to use new applications; coordinates customer support for assigned applications; develops customer manuals for applications.
Coordinates and integrates assigned work with other team members; evaluates work products and hardware/software interfaces developed by outside contractors for conformance with bureau requirements.
Diagnoses problems found with software and recommends solutions.

Business Systems Analyst Qualifications
Experience working across organizations to help convene a conversation about common software requirements, set up/lead demonstrations with various software vendors on their products in relation to the speculated requirements, and craft a partnership agreement (MOU of sorts) on who has what level of ownership around the software and thus what level of up-front and ongoing financial liability for procurement/maintenance.
Experience developing RFP-level business requirements for the software.
Experience supporting Procurement in an internal leadership capacity in a software RFP, inclusive of contracting.
The software will be a software program to support facility asset management and potentially capital equipment asset management (which are often both provided by the same kind of software, although the facility part is the urgent part). This means:
A system of record for assets.
An ability to monitor/track asset condition over time.
An ability to designate asset criticality.
Work order management, including preventive maintenance and corrective work orders.
Preventive maintenance means we need to be able to design routes to maintain assets and assign technicians to those routes based on skills/qualifications.
Corrective maintenance means customers need to be able to (easily) create a work ticket and we need to be able to assign a tech to that work ticket.
For both PMs and CMs, we need to be able to track worker time and other expenses to an asset.
Capital planning, drawing off asset condition data and other information.
Includes both capital project management and long-range portfolio planning.
Property management and portfolio planning.
Includes space planning, lease management, etc.
Other task that need to be done for a facilities asset base.

General Knowledge of:
Principles and methods of systems analysis, including business process and entity relationship analysis tools and methods.
Applicable program area and related regulations, policies, and procedures.
Systems design principles, methodologies and tools, including those applicable to client server environments.
Basic database theory, design rules and development practices, including data modeling, data flow and entity relationship analysis.
General functions, capabilities, characteristics and limitations of standard computer platforms and devices as they apply in performing business and systems analyses.
Principles and practices of sound business communications.
Standard PC software packages, including word processing, spreadsheet, database and flowcharting.
Basic project management methods, tools and techniques.

Ability to:
Perform business process analyses and reach sound, logical conclusions regarding customer needs and business requirements.
Understand and apply the analysis of functional requirements to the development of systems proposals, specifications and recommendations for efficient, cost effective systems and technology solutions.
Work collaboratively with team members, bureau leadership, and other information systems staff and customer groups to ensure project accountability.
Learn new software products and develop customization designs.
Balance responsibilities for multiple projects to ensure timely results in accordance with bureau quality standards.
Diagnose and resolve complex systems analysis problems; evaluate alternatives and make sound independent decisions within established guidelines.
Communicate clearly and effectively to diverse audiences of technical and non-technical personnel orally and in writing.
Plan and conduct effective customer training programs.
Prepare clear, concise and accurate documentation, reports of work performed, project management reports and other written materials.
Translate between customers and information systems professionals to ensure all parties understand, in their own terms, system needs, requirements and technology parameters and constraints.
Keep technical skills current to meet continuing business and systems analysis assignments.
Establish and maintain effective customer focused working relationships with managers, customers, bureau leadership, and other information technology staff, vendors, consultants, employees and others encountered in the course of work.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws. 

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Business Systems Analyst
Our client is hiring a Business Systems Analyst for their team in Beaverton, Oregon.

Business Systems Analyst Responsibilities
Generates reports and regular datasets or report information for end- users using system tools and database or data warehouse queries and scripts. 
Integrates data from multiple sources to produce requested or required data elements. 
Programs and maintains report forms and formats, information dashboards, data generators, canned reports and other end- user information portals or resources. 
May create specifications for reports based on business requests.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Business Technology Specialist
Our client is seeking a Business Technology Specialist to join their team in Portland, OR. The Business Technology Specialist supports critical business strategies by managing the configuration, implementation, and maintenance of multiple enterprise business systems.  The selected candidate should be experienced with enterprise systems architecture, including knowledge about standard concepts, best practices, process and methods of configuration and customization.  The Business Technology Specialist participates in cross-departmental projects to support the implementation and upgrade of business and web applications and will perform business process and technical analysis as required within the scope of their duties.

Responsibilities
Review, analyze and modify business systems to support the organization's business needs, align with current enterprise architecture, integrate with existing systems and continually improve the organization’s use of business applications.
Oversee complex application features and technical designs; analyze, configure, implement and deploy the components required for complex application features.
Deploy and implement upgrades and new business technology capabilities while minimizing business user impact.
Maintain and support assigned business application systems, providing cross-training within the team
Provide on-call support and off-hours support if required, acting as an escalation point and subject matter expert for business systems; communicate potential business impact to end users.
Manage end user expectations and maintain on-going relationships with end users; act as a collaborative and contributing team member to find the best-fit solution to end user needs.
Keep skills and education current on business applications, including knowledge of on-going technology improvements to those applications; serve as expert in all aspects of design and application development.
Participate in cross-team business analysis, influence the selection of potential solutions.
Research and recommend third-party integration vendors; work closely and collaboratively with integrators, liaison between integrators and project staff, and facilitate cross-project collaboration.
Manage vendor relationships by building a professional rapport and by maintaining ongoing contact and communication.
Track and regularly report on progress of projects, and self-manage all levels of assigned projects
Identify, document and disseminate best practices and improved organizational processes for business applications; provide end user training as necessary.
Must be able to perform the physical and intellectual requirements of the role, with or without accommodation.

Qualifications
Specific experience provisioning, supporting and administering business systems such as the following:
Two years of complex enterprise back-end systems (Salesforce, NetSuite, Jive, Oracle)
Two years of workflow tools (SharePoint, Visio, Nintex, Jira)
Minimum two or more years of experience in complex information system and software analysis, design, implementation, and maintenance across multiple software platforms
Minimum bachelor’s degree in related field; equivalent combinations of education and experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
Experience in business process reengineering.

Knowledge and experience in the use and administration of current business applications.
Knowledge of software development methodologies and techniques; must be familiar with SDLC frameworks and agile methodologies.
Demonstrated passion for technology; possesses and displays an internal drive to stay apprised of “leading edge” technologies for potential adoption by the organization.
Excellent research and analytical skills and ability to translate user’s stated business need into meaningful business solutions.
Demonstrated understanding of how this role affects the end-user, partner with other team members/departments involved in serving the customer.
Proven ability to create and organize action plans that are implemented on time, within budget, and meet organizational goals.
Proven ability to improvise or infer solutions with imperfect information or data.
Ability to effectively apply communication skills to build and maintain relationships and to influence the actions or behaviors of others; must be able to exercise discretion, speak tactfully and engage in good politics.
Demonstrated experience at developing ideas or identifying opportunities that result in continuous improvement.
Able to handle confidential information with a high level of discretion.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws. 

Caboodle SSIS ETL Developer
Our client is seeking a Senior Project Manager to join their team in Portland, OR. The ideal candidate will possess advanced-level ETL experience with Epic Caboodle’s ETL framework as well as experience using Microsoft’s data warehouse tools, including SSIS and SSAS.  Hands-on experience with Epic Caboodle Data Warehouse is required with Epic Clarity preferred. Finally, the candidate shall be able to effectively read as well as author SQL at an advanced level.

This position is responsible for developing data warehouse structures in support of the implementation of internal Partners Caboodle Data Warehouse.  Data will be sourced from Epic’s Clarity Operational Data store as well as various external databases and third-party data files. This work ensures that the information assets of the internal enterprise are leveraged to enhance financial, clinical, and operational decision-making, therefore ensuring competitive business advantages. This position is responsible for partnering with BI business analysts, SQL Server Database Administrators, and end-user layer Business Intelligence developers in implementing information technology solutions delivered to SQL Server for leveraging in SAP Business Objects, Epic Hyperspace, and Tableau.  These solutions allow users to appropriately generate timely, accurate and comprehensive information for managing our business. 
This position is responsible for the support of Caboodle Data Warehouse and SSIS for the team of developers and will be responsible for developing best practices with respect to coding, error handling, and parameter management.  This position is also responsible for detailed technical analysis to assure the availability and accuracy of data processed by the ETL or contained in the supported data warehouse and systems.

Responsibilities
Datawarehouse, ETL and Systems Development:  
Contributes to the growth of the Caboodle Data Warehouse by designing, developing and implementing Caboodle ETL processes, SQL Server Data Structures, ANSI SQL code and SQL Server Structures.  
Work with BI architects, developers, analysts and users to design, create and publish ETL processes and ETL metadata using CDW and SSIS ETL processes as required.  
Provide complete and consistent documentation of data warehouse content and ensure that users can determine what data is available in the warehouse, how this data is defined, how key metrics are defined, and analysis is performed.  
Use the knowledge gained by working with the ETL team and through prior experience to analyze healthcare data in order to meet reporting requirements.  
Deliver additional ETL tools and/or data warehouse systems/products to improve the use of business data in the decision-making process. 
Facilitate customer requests for new or changed solutions.  
Develops options with recommendation, creates functional specifications including performance requirements, creates test plans to confirm delivered functionality.   

System Administration & Application Management: Administers the Microsoft development toolset including SQL Server Integration Services by performing maintenance and upgrades and supporting the development team in the use of these tools. 
Leads the development and dissemination of SSIS development best practices including but not limited to error and status logging and development parameter management.  
Configures and manages the integration between TFS and SSIS in the support of code migration activities between server instances.  
Develops scripts and code to assist in the automation of administrative processes.
Systems Engineering:  Works closely with other internal IT staff to meet expectations for design reviews and coding standards.  
Provides issue resolution during Quality Assurance / User testing.  
Assists with the move to production/implementation process. 
Troubleshoot and analyze ETL process failures, data anomalies and other ETL or data warehouse issues identified by automated monitoring, other developers and end users.  
Work through established processes to resolve any system or data problems and communicate updates and status to affected groups.  
Recommend changes to ETL processes and/or the data warehouse model to improve existing structures and code to increase reliability and efficiency.  
Provides technical expertise to support end users developing ad-hoc queries and departmental reports.  Support could include consulting on techniques/best practices, troubleshooting of their solutions, as well as promotion of user developed solutions to Quality Assurance and Production.  
Respond to and track issues using HP Service Manager issue management tools. 
Data Modeling:  Work with data warehouse developers, line-of-business analysts and users to develop data structures that support and enhance information access, analysis and reporting.
Staff Development Attend classes, seminars and other training forums as appropriate and as directed by supervisor.

Qualifications 
Epic Caboodle Data model Proficiency or Certification.
Epic CDW Developer Proficiency or Certification.
Master’s degree in business or computer science or related field and four years work related experience in the information technology field
OR Bachelor’s degree in business or computer science or related field and six years work related experience in the information technology field
OR Associate’s degree in business or computer science or related field and seven years work related experience in the information technology field;
OR Eight years work related experience in the information technology field;
OR Equivalent combination of education and experience where one year of experience will be substituted for an Associate’s degree and two years of experience.

Minimum five years of paid work experience as an Application Engineer or Developer using SQL Server SSIS.
Experience with developing ETL for Epic Caboodle Data Warehouse
Two or more years experience with Epic Clarity.
Minimum five years of experience with T-SQL or ANSI SQL coding and tuning.
Minimum three years working in relational databases.
One year experience with authoring MS SQL Server OLAP cubes through SSAS 2012 or newer.
Experience creating technical documentation of ETL and data models.
Experience with utilizing star schema data stores as the basis for ETL targets.
Caboodle Developer Certification.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws. 

Chief Information Security Officer
Our client is hiring a Chief Information Security Officer for their team in Redmond, Washington. As the Chief Information Security Officer, you would be part of the team architecture and protecting a remarkable enterprise solution for a new class of mobile satcom terminals. While leveraging the best of both cellular and satellite to provide the most complete coverage, data security is critical. Markets include Land Mobile, Government, Maritime, Land Fixed and Connected Car, with Terminals, Critical Services during disaster response and Co-Developed Solutions to account for from a CISO perspective.

As the CISO, you will be responsible for the information security of customers. Success means maintaining and expanding our reputation as a completely secure solution that everyone trusts with their most sensitive data. You will have critical operational responsibilities, from proactive customer engagement in security reviews to reactive customer engagement during an incident, and everything in between. Team in the core Security, Product Security and Engineering functions will partner with this role to deliver exceptional security for customers. You will work closely with and develop the customer-facing go-to-market strategies for security solutions and customer success. We are a team that thrives on challenging problems in a very fast-paced product development cycle.

Chief Information Security Officer Responsibilities
Develop and grow leadership talent through mentoring, coaching, succession planning, and retention strategies.
Build relationships and partner with both internal and external stakeholders.
Set and drive strategy with leadership.
Provide technical guidance to the Security Engineering team.

Chief Information Security Officer Qualifications
Experience in Cellular and satellite communications.
Software and hardware product experience – in a B2B and/or B2C platform.
Enterprise knowledge and application of security measures to protect the company’s information systems, data, products, and customer information resources.
Acute understanding of the security market, emerging trends and methods to thwart security breaches within the company’s products/services and Enterprise systems.
Passion for technology and technical depth to uncover root causes of complex technical problems and provide guidance on solving them.
Ability to build relationships and lead through influence, both with internal and external stakeholders.
Ability to inspire and motivate a Security Engineering team to work together as a cohesive and highly productive unit.
Ability to provide detailed technical guidance to the team, enabling them to execute more effectively and deliver products on time and within budget.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to act as a thought leader in strategy discussions.
Experience building and leading engineering teams.
Product experience, especially relating to security ennoblement within software and hardware products.
Experience in security, security measures, security application within network and communications platforms.
10 years of professional experience in software engineering with a Telecom/satellite/communications/broadband company.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

CIS Program Manager
Our client is looking for a CIS Program Manager to join their team in Hillsboro, Oregon. They require a strong Program Manager with experience working in an agile environment who will lead self-organizing teams and programs to ensure cross functional communication and execution. This role will provide support to CIS teams with a focus on managing the relationships and deliverables associated with cross functional CIS work. The ideal candidate has strong experience with process refinement and organization design.

CIS Program Manager Responsibilities
Focus on defining tools and processes to support overall organizational excellence.
Schedule/Plan management: assist in facilitation of work breakdown sessions.
Create initial project schedule and maintain with minimal oversight.
Facilitate program level process and execution, identifies and manages dependencies and risks, as well as escalates blockers.
Coordinates and facilitates iterative program level planning.
Accountable for program execution and delivery of work.
Monitors and reports program health (i.e. progress of feature completion) with the purpose of providing transparency on program delivery of value.
Supports manager in executing project/program communication plan (internal and external) and provides status reporting and health/metrics to organization.
Defines risk management plan, analyzes for criticality, probability, and impact and develops plan to address potential risk.

CIS Program Manager Qualifications
Minimum 2-year work experience with previous experience supporting teams.
Bachelor’s Degree.
Technology/security experience preferred.
Strong verbal and written communication, as well as information-seeking skills.
Strong analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use data and metrics to drive recommendations.
Proficient in Microsoft Powerpoint, Word, Excel; Mac skills also highly preferred.

Required Skills:
Experience with formal project management methodology (Waterfall, Agile).
Excel in team-oriented role that relies on ability to collaborate with others.
Strong oral and written communication with ability to influence others (stakeholder management skills).
Experience resolving issues with higher levels of management.
Able to lead cross functional work and prioritize changing demands.
Demonstrated analytical, problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
Experience, interest, and adaptability to work in fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
Must be trustworthy in keeping sensitive data confidential.

Preferred Skills:
Knowledge of information security best practices and principles.
Project Management certification (PMP).

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

CIS Program Manager
Our client is hiring a CIS Program Manager for their team in Hillsboro, Oregon. CIS needs a strong Program Manager with experience working in an agile environment who will lead self-organizing teams and programs to ensure cross functional communication and execution.  This role will provide support to CIS teams with a focus on managing the relationships and deliverables associated with cross functional CIS work.  The ideal candidate has strong experience with process refinement and organization design.

CIS Program Manager Responsibilities
Focus on defining tools and processes to support overall organizational excellence.
Schedule/Plan management: assist in facilitation of work breakdown sessions.
Create initial project schedule and maintain with minimal oversight.
Facilitate program level process and execution, identifies and manages dependencies and risks, as well as escalates blockers.
Coordinates and facilitates iterative program level planning.
Accountable for program execution and delivery of work.
Monitors and reports program health (i.e. progress of feature completion) with the purpose of providing transparency on program delivery of value.
Supports manager in executing project/program communication plan (internal and external) and provides status reporting and health/metrics to organization.
Defines risk management plan, analyzes for criticality, probability, and impact and develops plan to address potential risk.

CIS Program Manager Key skills
Experience with formal project management methodology (Waterfall, Agile).
Excel in team-oriented role that relies on ability to collaborate with others.
Strong oral and written communication with ability to influence others (stakeholder management skills).
Experience resolving issues with higher levels of management.
Able to lead cross functional work and prioritize changing demands.
Demonstrated analytical, problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
Experience, interest, and adaptability to work in fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
Must be trustworthy in keeping sensitive data confidential.

CIS Program Manager Qualifications
Minimum 2-year work experience with previous experience supporting teams.
Bachelor’s Degree.
Technology/security experience preferred.
Strong verbal and written communication, as well as information-seeking skills.
Strong analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use data and metrics to drive recommendations.
Proficient in Microsoft Powerpoint, Word, Excel; Mac skills also highly preferred.

Preferred:
Knowledge of information security best practices and principles.
Project Management certification (PMP).

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

CIS Program Manager
Our client is hiring a CIS Program Manager for their team in Hillsboro, Oregon. This need is for a strong Program Manager with experience working in an agile environment who will lead self-organizing teams and programs to ensure cross functional communication and execution.  This role will provide support to CIS teams with a focus on managing the relationships and deliverables associated with cross functional CIS work.  The ideal candidate has strong experience with process refinement and organization design.

CIS Program Manager Responsibilities
Focus on defining tools and processes to support overall organizational excellence.
Schedule/Plan management: assist in facilitation of work breakdown sessions.
Create initial project schedule and maintain with minimal oversight.
Facilitate program level process and execution, identifies and manages dependencies and risks, as well as escalates blockers.
Coordinates and facilitates iterative program level planning.
Accountable for program execution and delivery of work.
Monitors and reports program health (i.e. progress of feature completion) with the purpose of providing transparency on program delivery of value.
Supports manager in executing project/program communication plan (internal and external) and provides status reporting and health/metrics to organization.
Defines risk management plan, analyzes for criticality, probability, and impact and develops plan to address potential risk.

Required Skills
Experience with formal project management methodology (Waterfall, Agile).
Excel in team-oriented role that relies on ability to collaborate with others.
Strong oral and written communication with ability to influence others (stakeholder management skills).
Experience resolving issues with higher levels of management.
Able to lead cross functional work and prioritize changing demands.
Demonstrated analytical, problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
Experience, interest, and adaptability to work in fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
Must be trustworthy in keeping sensitive data confidential.

CIS Program Manager Qualifications
Minimum 2-year work experience with previous experience supporting teams.
Bachelor’s Degree.
Technology/security experience preferred.
Strong verbal and written communication, as well as information-seeking skills.
Strong analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use data and metrics to drive recommendations.
Proficient in Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Excel; Mac skills also highly preferred.

Preferred:
Knowledge of information security best practices and principles.
Project Management certification (PMP).

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Clojure Development Engineer
Our client is seeking a Clojure Development Engineer to join their team in Portland, OR. They are looking for engineers who can bring in fresh ideas from different areas, like distributed computing, scalability and storage, security, data analytics & visualization, UI design, and mobile. They need engineers to be versatile, demonstrate leadership qualities, and be eager to tackle new problems across the full-stack as we venture to make healthcare more accessible to all.

As a Software Development Engineer, you will be involved in requirements gathering, design and development of new features for the platform, handle scalability, and performance challenges. You will participate in a high-paced agile environment with deep focus on best software practices, cutting edge technologies, innovation, and code quality.

Clojure Development Engineer Qualifications
1+ year experience on Clojure or any functional programming (Scala, Elixir etc.).
2+ years of experience on strong development life cycle.

Preferred:
Clojure programming skills.
Strong experience with these technologies is preferred: Python, Java or Clojure, Scala, Docker, AWS (DynamoDB, S3, RedShift), database design, Git, Jenkins, Cucumber.
Competency in data structures, algorithms, and software design.
Experience in working with microservices and standard APIs.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Cloud Engineer
Our client is seeking an experienced Cloud engineer to join their team in Beaverton, Oregon. The team will enable the operational growth of our product and launch capabilities.

Cloud Engineer Qualifications
Computer Science Degree and 4+ years of experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
4+ years of professional Java development experience following Agile practices (Scrum preferred).
Demonstrated collaboration and iterative problem-solving with teammates to deliver valuable solutions.
2+ years of public cloud experience (AWS preferred).
Professional experience managing deployments, including automated testing.

Preferred:
Professional experience with Serverless technologies (AWS Lambda preferred).
Experience with Docker and containerization.
Working knowledge of DevOps practices – own your own infrastructure, build, deployment and production support.
Experience with Spring.
Experience with Reactive Java frameworks (RxNetty, WebFlux, etc).

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Collections Specialist
Our client is seeking a Collections Specialist to join their team. This company is seeking motivated self-starters who strive in fast-paced environments to build upon their success and growth. 

Collections Specialist Responsibilities
Contact customers regarding their account statuses. 
Assist with setting up payment arrangements. 
Determine financial qualification eligibilities based on individual situations. 
Research information and update incorrect contact information.
Maintain documentation regarding all collection efforts and activities. 
Discuss payment terms, taxes, and insurance with customers. 
Other duties as assigned. 

Collections Specialist Qualifications
High school diploma or equivalent required.
1+ years’ high-volume financial services experience; customer service focused roles highly preferred.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Bilingual in Spanish a plus.
Proficient in Microsoft Office.
Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
Ability to multi-task and adapt to changes. 

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Collections Specialist
Our Tualatin area client is looking for a Collections Specialist to support AR and collections functions for their growing team in a collaborative work environment. The ideal candidate is customer service focused, flexible, and thrives in a busy environment.

Collections Specialist Responsibilities 
High volume collections.
Respond to customer inquiries.
Monitor and document credit and collections activity on accounts.
Follow up to resolve all discrepancies on all past due items.
Coordinate with third party collection agency for clients placed for collection.
Other special projects and duties as assigned.

Collections Specialist Qualifications 
3+ years of collections experience.
Associate degree or certification in Accounting a plus.
MS Office Suite experience, with proficiency in Excel.
ERP systems knowledge a plus. 
Excellent communication skills.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Color Designer
Our client is hiring a Color Designer for their team in Beaverton, Oregon. As a Footwear Color Designer, you will drive color excellence for the product experience through the connection of design, development, and manufacturing. Working directly with design management, you’ll gain dynamic leadership experience, enhance design skills, and increase expertise of our design philosophy, products, and processes. You’ll be on the cutting edge of both the art and science of color through research as a Color Designer. In this role, you will drive an emotional connection to color for the consumer through the use of narrative and storytelling. The Color Designer brings to life trend-relevant, seasonal category color direction by being a color specialist at the product and collection level.

Color Designer Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Textiles, Materials, Graphics, or other relevant design field.
1 – 3 years relevant experience.
Connection to sport and sport style trends.
Ability to collaborate with other designers/Design Directors to create palettes and color flow based on category color strategy.
Demonstrates strong organizational skills.
Maintains color updates and seasonal looks as well as archives of line art.
Provides color design support for design team as needed outside of assigned product load.
Ability to conduct in-depth research on consumer trends and insights in order to drive innovative design solutions.
Creates and delivers powerful presentations of seasonal design proposals that effectively communicate the concept behind the line for internal and external audiences.
Ability to plan and execute the product color details and review all samples, troubleshoot for achievability issues and clearly communicate changes in order to ensure timely completion of each project.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Highly proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop) and Keynote on a Mac Platform.
Passion for design.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Contact Center Representative 
Our client is seeking a Contact Center Representative to join their team. The main function of this role is to respond to Contact Center inquiries by personalizing and relaying accurate information.

Contact Center Representative Responsibilities
Perform research and resolve a variety of customer transactions. 
Facilitate call escalation and provide guidance on client service issues. 
Deliver personalized service and respond to a variety of product questions. 
Provide communication of product information, policies, and procedures.
Monitor the status of work, prepare customized correspondence and make outbound calls as requested. 
Solicit and analyze customer feedback and recommend changes to identify areas for customer service improvements.
Support division projects as assigned.

Contact Center Representative Qualifications
2+ years’ experience in a call center/customer support role.  
Bilingual in Spanish highly preferred.
Experience with computer applications, such as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.
Verbal and written communication skills, attention to detail, and interpersonal skills.
Ability to accurately document and record customer/client information.
Ability to work independently and manage one’s time.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Contract Specialist
A large international company with North American headquarters in Portland has an immediate need for a Contract Specialist to support their underwriting team. This is an opportunity to gain experience in a large financial organization that loves to promote from within. 

Contract Specialist Responsibilities 
Evaluate requests, documentation, and enter related data into the system.
Create accurate and legally defensible contracts, amendments and contract-related documents.
Audit documents for completeness and accuracy.
Ensure risk management by complying with company and legal requirements and individual state-specific requirements.
Collaborate and communicate with internal stakeholders regarding policy issues and discrepancies.
Complete system testing for process and system improvements.
Provide ongoing support to projects and other tasks as assigned

Contract Specialist Qualifications
0-2 Years' Experience
High school diploma and/or equivalent experience.
Ability to produce documents and work with multiple shifting priorities. 
Previous experience with computer applications, such as Microsoft Word, and any other related software a plus.
Attention to detail and accuracy in a high production environment.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Controller
Our family owned client is seeking a Controller to join their team. This is a great opportunity to join a tight knit team with potential for further growth. 

Controller Responsibilities 
Perform month-end/year-end close and prepare financial statements.
Handle progress billings.
Review general ledgers, post journal entries.
Provide support to accounting functions such as payroll.
Develop and implement process improvements.
Assist with various projects as needed.

Controller Qualifications 
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting preferred. 
3 years of accounting experience. 
Construction background highly preferred; familiarity with WIP.
Proficiency in MS Office including advanced Excel skills. 
ERP systems experience preferred.
Strong communication skills. 
Highly organized with excellent attention to detail.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Controller
Our client is seeking a hands-on Controller to join their team. This company offers 100% paid medical and vision coverage, generous PTO, and a fully stocked kitchen for employees to enjoy various snacks and beverages. 

Controller Responsibilities 
Manage and coach accounting team members. 
Handle month/year-end close, financial statements preparation, and variance analysis.
Oversee AR, AP, payroll, audits, and tax filings. 
Ensure compliance with financial and contract reporting.
Perform budgeting, forecasting, financial, and cash flow analysis and provide insight to management. 
Develop and implement accounting policies and procedures. 
Additional duties and projects as needed. 

Controller Qualifications 
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business, or related field. 
5+ years of accounting experience with previous experience managing teams.
CPA/CMA and background in SaaS preferred. 
Strong knowledge of GAAP, revenue recognition, and multi-state payroll.
Working knowledge of ERP systems, ADP, or QuickBooks Online highly preferred.
Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills. 

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Corporate Communications Manager
Our client is looking for a Corporate Communications Manager to join their Marketing team in Beaverton, Oregon. 

The Corporate Communications Manager will manage their external and internal communications. The right candidate will have an executive presence, know how to create and manage a holistic communications strategy and promote a positive public image for the company. This person will also need to work closely with executive leadership and develop the trust and rapport to develop professional communications and control the dissemination of information on the company’s behalf.

Phenomenal communication and writing skills are a must in addition to understanding an organization’s culture and the brand’s voice in the market. Experience in corporate communications, PR, and developing industry leadership presentations are important requirements to be successful. Your enthusiasm and positive attitude will help you gain the trust of colleagues and external parties alike.
 
Corporate Communications Manager Responsibilities
Develop effective corporate communication strategies and plans.
Manage internal communications and ensure that the company vision/mission, strategy, values, and key accomplishments are effectively communicated and understood throughout the organization.
Manage the PR program at the national and local level. Draft content (e.g. press releases) for mass media or company website.
Organize initiatives and plan events or press conferences.
Liaise with media and handle requests for interviews, statements etc.
Foster relationships with senior executives, partners, advocates and key influencers.
Proven ability to quickly internalize high level business strategy and connect the dots across the company to write targeted communications that are relevant, meaningful, and educational for various segments.
Collaborate with executive leaders, managers and marketing team members to identify internal communication needs.  Develop and execute plans.
Managing our presence and reputation locally. Proactively seek mitigation solutions in cases of bad publicity and effects on company/brand reputation.
Assist in development and communication of strategies and messages from senior leadership including keynotes, key customer and industry meetings.
Manage the Gold Deck process and set of information that can be tailored to multiple audiences but presents a compelling and consistent voice to the market.
 
Corporate Communications Manager Qualifications
8 years + of professional communications experience in all areas of Corporate communications including Marcom, PR, and internal.
Proven experience as a communications manager for executive leadership team.
Experience in copywriting, editing, and presentations.
Experience and knowledge managing Press relations, publications and the media.
Motivated self-starter with outstanding organizational and planning abilities.
Solid understanding of project management principles.
Experience in social media and content production is a plus.
Working knowledge of MS Office and Google Suite; photo and video-editing software is an asset.
Polished verbal written and oral communications and presentation skills.
Can manage timely issues and high risk communication activities as they arise.
Experience managing confidential and sensitive communications.
Events management and ability to facilitate large meetings and act as master of ceremonies.
Proficient command of English language.
BSc/BA in public relations, communications or relevant field.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Creative Director
Our client is seeking a Creative Director to join their Marketing team in Beaverton, Oregon.

The Creative Director is responsible for developing and executing messaging platforms for company and product brands, and all creative strategies for product and/or service initiatives. Creative strategies must support the achievement of the business' strategic objectives and revenue goals.

The Creative Director is a leader who inspires the creative team to deliver content that engages and feeds the funnel in a well-established, first-class marketing organization. The ability to think outside and inside the box from different angles of vision is required to appeal to a variety of target audiences within multi-sided network business.

The Creative Director works closely with the Vice-President of Marketing, and the Marketing Director.

Creative Director Responsibilities
Develops and shapes the go-to-market "story" for the business that supports effective product, sales, brand execution and information leadership initiatives.
Manages the creative execution of the brand experience, and conveys value proposition across all marketing channels
Together with key stakeholders, develops marketing strategies and measurable department goals that support the achievement of business objectives.
Manages multiple priorities and produces quality creative, that responds to dynamic market conditions, and a rapidly changing competitive environment.
Directs the creative execution of web content, marketing materials, media, press activities, social media and other lead generation tactics, consistent with brand guidelines.
Leads strategic brainstorming sessions, creative brief and campaign development, and directs creative execution.
Defines the content, identifies keynote speakers and collaborates with stakeholders to produce the annual User Conference, our signature customer event.
With the Product Development department, ensures brand implementation is consistent with brand experience.
Manages media relationships for the most effective distribution of messaging and positioning,
Directs outside agencies, freelancers and other contractors who assist with marketing activities.
Understands the cost-effectiveness (ROI} and overall value of creative programs and activities, and strives for constant improvement.
Other duties as assigned.

Creative Director Managerial Responsibilities
Manages a team of copywriters and designers, and inspires innovative thinking that results in business goal achievement.
Carries out supervisory responsibilities according to the organization's policies and applicable laws.
Manages contract relationships including: defining and monitoring the delivery of work scope within budget limits.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Creative Services Writer
Our client is hiring a Creative Services Writer for their team in Portland, Oregon. As a Creative Services Writer you will provide support in copywriting, message development, proofreading and editing for sales, marketing, events, sponsorships and brand collateral. Work in conjunction with marketing strategists, brand team and other key stakeholders, managing some projects while working with Creative Director, Lead Writer and/or Senior Writer’s direction on others. Additionally, the Creative Services Writer is a strategic thinker who can simplify complex content and give it a conversational voice.

Creative Services Writer Responsibilities
Provides copywriting/editing for print, digital, web and other marketing channels.
Opportunity to collaborate on major campaigns from concept through production.
Supports the monitoring and enforcement of branding guidelines.
Follows established processes, including adherence to legal, regulatory and corporate editorial standards.
Ability to learn our companies’ products, services, strategies and operations, then apply that knowledge in developing communications and marketing deliverables.
Edits/proofs and versions collateral coming out of Creative Services and other areas as needed, reviewing for content accuracy, brand integrity and appropriateness of style and usage.
Applies knowledge of customer and business issues in developing and delivering projects.
Opportunity to work with department heads, marketing managers and other internal stakeholders to accurately identify the best solution for clients and translate ideas into compelling creative concepts.
Collaborates with business partners to create enticing and innovative messages, consistent with business goals.
Interprets and follows established branding guidelines, participating in all stages of collateral development.
Maintains an in-depth knowledge of our family of health plans and associated products, services, strategies and operations, then applies that knowledge in developing communications deliverables.

Creative Services Writer Qualifications
Advertising writing and proofreading skills.
Ability to turn complex subject matter into easy-to-understand language.
Strong attention to detail and thorough knowledge of AP style, grammar and usage rules.
Proactive and enthusiastic communicator with a positive outlook.
Ability to develop working relationships with internal and external business partners.
Team player with excellent relationship and communication skills.
Willingness to learn and take creative direction from senior team members.
Knowledge of marketing concepts and strategies.
Ability to work independently, handle multiple projects simultaneously and meet aggressive deadlines for creative-driven work.
Flexibility in dealing with changing schedules and multiple points of view.
Exceptional persuasive and advertising writing skills
Superior ability to write compelling content that effectively targets the intended audience
Excellent relationship and matrix management skills and the ability to motivate and inspire clients, co-workers and peers
Strong knowledge base in marketing concepts and strategies
Normally to be proficient in the competencies listed above:
Four-year degree in Communications, English, Journalism and/or related field, 5+ years of professional copywriting experience (specifically for B2B, B2C and corporate marketing programs), as a creative marketing writer, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. 
Health insurance knowledge and agency experience a plus.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Credit and Collections Supervisor
Our client is seeking their next Credit and Collections Supervisor within their team. This company offers generous benefits, an on-site gym, and has been growing for more than 20 years. 

Credit and Collections Supervisor
Oversee the daily operation of the department; ensure calls are handled efficiently and effectively.
Train new hires and provide feedback to team members. 
Identify and coach on disciplinary and performance problems; respond/resolve employee relations issues.
Coordinate with other managers to discuss staffing needs, scheduling, training methods, and developing reward/recognition programs.
Establish and implement procedures and processes that align with the department’s strategy. 
Additional duties as needed.

Credit and Collections Supervisor
3+ years supervisory experience; financial services experience preferred. 
2+ years of experience in collections within a call center environment.
Proficient in Microsoft Office including Excel and Access.
Excellent communication skills including negation and follow-up skills.
Highly organized with the ability to prioritize work on multiple tasks.
Strong analytical, critical thinking, problem-solving skills with attention to detail.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Cryptography and Secure Computation Researcher 
Our client is seeking a Cryptography and Secure Computations Researcher to join their team in Portland, Oregon. They tackle the hardest problems in computer science. They are a team of researchers and engineers who enjoy the challenge of problems that have never been solved before. Their mission is to assure trust in critical systems, including cryptosystems, that protect the privacy and integrity of information in the real world. They are currently seeking researchers to develop cryptographic techniques to assure this kind of information security for the last mile: during computation. The techniques they draw on include multi-party computation, homomorphic encryption, functional encryption, private information retrieval, program obfuscation, and zero-knowledge proofs.

Our clients engineers participate in one or more projects concurrently, and specific roles vary greatly according to skills, interests, and company needs. Your role might include cryptographic research, prototype development, diving deep to understand what our clients’ requirements really mean, formally verifying key aspects of our prototypes, or project leadership. 
Research that leads to publication is highly encouraged, providing lots of opportunity for advancing the state of the art.

Cryptography and Secure Computation Researcher Qualifications
Minimum of a MS in computer science or mathematics. 
PhD in CS or mathematics desired but optional.
Required Technical Expertise.
Significant fundamental or applied research focus in cryptography, and in particular, secure computation.
Demonstrated capability to take theoretical constructions and turn them into working implementations, and then optimize them toward practical use.
A pragmatic understanding of building practical, performant systems that incorporate such advanced cryptosystems into a smoothly integrated whole that meets the needs of our clients.
Must work well with customers, including building rapport, identifying needs, and communicating with strong written, verbal, and presentation skills. 
Must be highly motivated and able to self-manage to deadlines and quality goals expected by those customers.
They are seeking people who can invent, learn, think, and inspire.
creativity and thrive on collaboration are rewarded.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Cyber Security Analyst
Our client is looking for a skilled Cyber Security Analyst for their team in Hillsboro, Oregon.

Cyber Security Analyst Responsibilities
Designs, tests, and implements state-of-the-art secure operating systems, networks, and database products. 
Conducts risk assessment and provides recommendations for application design. 
Involved in a wide range of security issues including architectures, firewalls, electronic data traffic, and network access. 
May use encryption technology, penetration and vulnerability analysis of various security technologies, and information technology security research. 
May prepare security reports to regulatory agencies. 

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Cyber Security Metrics Analyst
Our client is hiring a Cyber Security Metrics Analyst for their team in Hillsboro, Oregon. As a Cyber Security Metrics Analyst, your role on the Governance team will include leveraging your knowledge of automation, data analysis and visualization to support our Information Security Program. You will play a critical role in ensuring that security controls are effectively measured, monitored, and communicated to senior leaders.

Cyber Security Metrics Analyst Responsibilities
Provide analysis and insights into data supporting the effectiveness of technical and process-based cyber security controls.
Establish automated data pipelines that feed data visualization tools, such as Tableau.
Liaise with GRC and other CIS and Technology stakeholders to ensure alignment between all groups.
Develop cloud-based web application which serves as primary method of content dissemination.
Must take ambiguous high-level language and translate it into real world operations.
Influence teams to implement a security metrics framework by demonstrating its value and tactfully provide guidance on existing operations to ensure smooth adoption of the framework.
Ability to socialize and influence others to buy into a process-oriented approach to their work.
Ability to gain a deep level of technical and process knowledge across multiple security domains in a short amount of time.
Ability to think both strategically and tactically to enable a better future state while continuing to execute against current milestones.
Stay current on information security technologies, trends, standards and best practices.
Ability to obtain a deep level of technical and process knowledge across multiple security domains in a short amount of time.

Cyber Security Metrics Analyst Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field and minimum of 3 years relevant experience
Experience programming with Python, JavaScript, PHP, Java, C, Swift, HTML/CSS
Experience with the setup and maintenance of AWS EC2 instances running Puppet and Elastic Load Balancing
Experience with databases such as MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL and MongoDB
Experience as a full-stack developer in an enterprise environment
Experience establishing automated data pipelines and/or measuring security control effectiveness and an enterprise environment.
Experience working as a BSA/Lead on multiple projects and business functions is a plus.
Comfortable working with ambiguity is a must.
Exceptional communication skills, including the ability to gather relevant data and information, actively listen, dialogue freely, verbalize ideas effectively, negotiate tense situations successfully, and manage and resolve conflict.
Proven presentation and facilitation skills.
Demonstrated expertise of building a consensus across business partners and technology leaders, and influencing successful outcomes.
Must excel working in team-oriented roles that rely on ability to collaborate with others.
Experience working successfully in a highly matrixed work environment.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Data Analyst
Our client is hiring for a Data Analyst for their team in Beaverton, OR. As a Data Analyst you will generate reports and regular datasets or report information for end-users using system tools and database or data warehouse queries and scripts. You will integrate data from multiple sources to produce requested or required data elements. Program and maintain report forms and formats, information dashboards, data generators, canned reports and other end-user information portals or resources. You may also create specifications for reports based on business requests. 

Data Analyst Qualifications
Data Analysis
Data Warehouse 
Databases
Datasets

Additional Experience:
Generators
Marketing Analysis

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Data Analytics Specialist
Our client is hiring a Data Analytics Specialist for their team in Beaverton, Oregon.

Data Analytics Specialist Responsibilities
Responsible for the management of a business group or multiple functions with Data Analytics.
Create external view tracking solution to accurately show when product will delivery to a final destination to reduce inquiries on product tracking.
Analyzes complex business problems using data from internal and external sources related to order tracking
Provides actionable insight to decision-makers to influence strategy and performance for delivery visibility.
Creates data visualizations and generates reports and analysis mapping to project needs.
May provide consultation and lead cross-functional teams to address business issues.

Skills
Tableau
SQL, Teradata, Snowflake.
Data Visualization.
Business requirements gathering.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Data Engineer
Our client is looking for a Data Engineer to join their team. You will be part of an organization that is revolutionizing technology platforms and architecting a data and analytics landscape that is simplified, modern, flexible. 

As a Data Engineer within the North America Marketplace Analytics team, you will be a key member of a growing and passionate group focused on collaborating across business and technology resources to drive forward key programs and projects building enterprise data & analytics capabilities across the company.

Data Engineer Responsibilities
Good understanding and application of modern data processing technology stacks. For example, Snowflake, SQL, Spark, Hadoop ecosystem technologies, and others.
Design and build product features in collaboration with business and IT.
Design reusable components, frameworks, libraries like User Defined Functions.
Build continuous integration and test-driven development environment.
Performance/scalability tuning, algorithms and computational complexity.
Develop architecture and design patterns to process and store high volume data sets.
Participate in an Agile / Scrum methodology to deliver high - quality software releases every 2 weeks through Sprints.
Troubleshoot production support issues post - deployment and come up with solutions as required.

Data Engineer Qualifications 
A Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology or related field.
2+ years’ experience in a professional organization collaborating across multiple functions.
Familiarity with Agile project delivery methods.
Experience with AWS components and services (E.G. EMR, S3, and Lambda).
Experience with Jenkins, Bitbucket/GitHub and scheduling tools like Airflow.
Strong programming, Python, shell scripting and SQL.
Good understanding of file formats including JSON, Parquet, Avro, and others.
Experience with data warehouses/RDBMS like Oracle, Teradata, Snowflake.
Experience with data warehousing, dimensional modeling and ETL development.
Demonstrable ability to quickly learn new tools and technologies.
Machine learning frameworks & statistical analysis with Python, R or similar.
Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal).
Passion for data with demonstrated ability to use data to tell a story and influence decision making.
Detail oriented with strong information seeking skills.

Competencies:
Effective communicator.
Broad business process and systems understanding.
Analytical and focused.
Strategic thinking and tactical execution.
Continuous learner.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Data Engineer
Our client is hiring a Data Engineer for their team in Hillsboro, Oregon.

Data Engineer Responsibilities
Develop and support data solutions in support of Supply Chain Planning reporting and analytics requirements.
Engage with product owner, technology lead, report developers, product analysts, and business partners to understand capability requirements and develop data solutions based on product backlog priorities.

Data Engineer Qualifications
5+ years of experience with data engineering with emphasis on data analytics and reporting.
Experience developing with scripting languages such as Shell and Python.
Strong experience developing with PySpark, preferably leveraging AWS EMR managed service.
Expert experience with SQL and Relational database engineering (Oracle, SQL Server, Teradata)— expert-level SQL abilities.
Experience with agile delivery methodologies– Scrum, SAFe, Extreme Programming.
Experience working with source-code management tools such as GitHub and Jenkins.
Ability to partner with business and technology team members, to understand business requirements and translate those into value-add technology solutions.

Preferred:
Experience developing solutions in Snowflake.
Experience with workload automation tools such as Airflow, Autosys.
Knowledge of building solutions with data visualization and reporting tools (Tableau, Cognos).
Knowledge of Supply Chain Operations / Manufacturing business processes and objectives.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Data Engineer
Our client is looking for a Data Engineer to support the Enterprise by performing data management, programming, analytic and consultative activities including database, documentation and data trending assessment. Design, develop, and update data integration, profiling, and cleansing routines. Ensure all relevant metadata is captured and/or updated. Provide related modeling, mapping, and process assistance. 

Data Engineer Responsibilities 
Design, develop, test, and update data integration (ETL, replication, and change data capture), data profiling, and data profiling processes. Update and maintain metadata repositories and dictionaries.
Responsible for creating, validating, and/or updating source-to-target maps. Help perform source analysis and supports departmental process improvement initiatives.
Lead efforts with logical and physical model design, source-to-target mapping, use cases, and other development processes and artifacts.
Identify data subject areas, entities, attributes, relationships, information types, and domains. With project team, design and communicate logical and/or physical models and designs.
Responsible for supporting identification of physical implementation requirements, including normalization techniques and referential integrity or dimensional techniques.
Actively defines, maintains, and enforces data architecture design patterns, standards, and best practices.
Perform code reviews, data model reviews, and testing.
Work with IT partners to perform periodic system and database operational tests, audits, and tuning.
Responsible for promoting understanding of data quality concepts and methods. Identify, document, and recommend solutions for poor quality data. 
Demonstrates compliance with all regulations for assigned job function and applies to designated job responsibilities – knowledge may be gained through coursework and on-the-job training. Keeps up to date on regulation changes.
Follows all policies and procedures, compliance regulations, and completes all required annual or job-specific training.
Maintains a working knowledge of written policies and procedures regarding Bank Secrecy Act, Regulation CC, Regulation E, Bank Security and other regulations as applicable to this job description.
Acts as a coach and mentor, providing leadership and training to others and is a subject matter expert in the Enterprise Data Warehouse domain.
Actively learns, demonstrates, and fosters the corporate culture in all actions and words.
Takes personal initiative and is a positive example for others to emulate.
May perform other duties as assigned.
May perform as a Team Lead with up to 4 individuals.

Data Engineer Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in MIS, computer science, or related field.
7-9 years of related experience.
Intermediate knowledge of database concepts, methodologies, and architectural approaches.
Extensive knowledge of database systems and administration, including security, development and testing support, modeling and logical design, database design, and qualify control.
Demonstrate strong quantitative, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with ability to adapt to new methods, techniques, and procedures.
Expert knowledge of logical and physical data modeling and data modeling tools. Experienced in complex SQL statements, Microsoft Access, SQL databases, VB and C# programming language, Excel, Data Warehousing, ETL/ELT and report development.
Proficient in Microsoft Office products (Word, PowerPoint, and Project). Knowledge of Business Intelligence reporting tools, such as Web focus, Tableau, or Microsoft Power BI preferred.
Expert knowledge of ETL/ELT, replication, change data capture and other data integration techniques and technologies (Microsoft SQL Server Suite of tools (SQL Server Management Studio, SSIS, SSRS, SQL Server Business Intelligence Studio, etc.)).
Ability to lead and work effectively in a team environment.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills required.
Some travel may be required.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Data Engineer
Our client is hiring a Data Engineer for their team in Beaverton, Oregon.

Data Engineer
Develops action plans and processes, in coordination with management team, for integrating activities and optimizing department resources to meet major goals and objectives. 
Facilitates or performs application support, problem solving, and issue resolution with internal and external resources. 
Contributes and reviews recommendations for technical solutions. 
Manages and/or contributes to the technical components of the RFP process. 
Resolves issues and determines options for issue resolution and risk mitigation. 
Defines and communicates requirements for technical environments and determines the technical scope for projects. 
Provides technical estimates for project budget input to Senior/Project Manager. 
Leads and owns engagements with software vendors to ensure that code and configuration requirements and deliverables are met. 
Enforces architecture, governance, security, and global process standards to system changes and deployments. 
Coordinates compliance issue identification and remediation. 
Collaborates with other teams on integration needs/design. 
Contributes to database design and creates critical-path, high-risk, advanced technical designs. 
Approves proof of concept efforts and reviews results. 
Enforce company and department architectural direction and ensure consistent technical approach within department. 
Decide on engineering tools based on recommendations. 
Allocate resources based on performance monitoring and tuning results. 
Manage and enforce performance thresholds and standards. 
Review and approve performance test results, recommendations, and tuning results. 
Oversee and is responsible for the creation of test plans, test execution, and validation of test results.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Data Engineering Manager
The Data Engineering Manager leads and mentors a diverse group of data professionals who administer and maintain Development and Production data sets and drive our long-term strategy for data storage and operation. This position works with both Product Development and Product Operations to provide strategic and tactical guidance for the Database Administrator team (DBAs) and Operations Engineering. These teams support data structures in all development, test and production environments, ensuring availability, reliability, security, scalability, backup, recovery and performance of various data types. Some members of the Data Engineering team provide 24x7 on-call support for Production platforms, and the team is composed of a mixture of on-site and remote staff.

Data Engineering Manager Responsibilities
Recruits, interviews, hires, and trains new staff.
Oversees daily workflow of Data Engineering teams.
Creates and maintains development plans for Data Engineering teams, ensuring alignment to roadmap activity and strategic initiatives.
Provides constructive and timely performance evaluations, handling discipline and termination of employees as needed in accordance with company policy.
Identifies, develops, establishes and maintains all data-related standards, processes and procedures, ensuring they are aligned to Operations, Development, Security and Architecture guidelines.
Works with Reliability Team, to assess current and projected database performance and recommends changes/enhancements.
Ensures integrity of database system by developing, documenting, and enforcing security procedures and access controls in cooperation with Information Security and Architecture teams.
Ensures project and department milestones and goals are met on time and within budget.
Acts as a point of escalation and resolution for data-related issues.
Maintains knowledge of trends, developments, and best practices in database, security and related technology.
Performs other duties as assigned to ensure the success of the team and the entire organization.

Data Engineering Manager Qualifications
Minimum bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT Systems Management or related field; equivalent combinations of education and experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
Previous Technology Management experience is required.
Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment is desired.
Experience with the following is highly desirable: AWS Management (particularly DynamoDB and RDS), Puppet, New Relic, Python, Atlassian Tool Suite (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket).
Demonstrated analytical abilities, diagnostic skills and technical aptitude.

Skills and Abilities:
Working knowledge of MongoDB, PostgreSQL or other comparable RDBMS and NoSQL database technologies.
Working experience with AWS database technologies, especially DynamoDB and RDS.
Strong experience with transition management and staff development.
Ability to communicate ideas and designs to all stakeholders, including non-technical audiences.
Thorough understanding of file structures and design, information retrieval techniques, file access methods, and database controls and standard.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.
Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Must be able to perform the physical and intellectual requirements of the role with or without accommodation.

Competencies:
Develop talent: develop people to meet both their career goals and the organization's goal.
Manage conflict: handle conflict situations effectively, with a minimum of noise.
Communicate effectively: develop and deliver multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
Collaborate: build partnerships and work collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
Customer focus: build strong customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions.
Plan and align: plan and prioritize work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.
Drive results: consistently achieve results, even under tough circumstances.
Instill trust: gain the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
Direct work: provide direction, delegation, and remove obstacles to get work done.
Build effective teams: build strong-identity teams that apply diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Data Engineering Tech Lead
Our client is seeking a Data Engineering Tech Lead for their team in Beaverton, Oregon. They are embracing Big Data technologies to enable data-driven decisions. As a tech lead, you will work with a variety of talented teammates and be a driving force for building solutions for our client's technology team. You will be working on development projects related to marketplace performance, supply chain, and merchandising.

Data Engineering Tech Lead Responsibilities
Help lead a team of data engineers, architects, and platform engineers to build innovative and sustainable data products that demonstrate business value.
Lead the design and build-out of reusable components, frameworks and libraries at scale to support analytics products.
Lead the design and implementation of product features in collaboration with business and technology stakeholders.
Anticipate, identify and solve issues concerning data management to improve data quality.
Help clean, prepare and optimize data at scale for ingestion and consumption.
Drive the implementation of new data management projects and refactoring of the current data architecture.
Help implement complex automated workflows and routines using workflow scheduling tools.
Lead the build-out of continuous integration, test-driven development and production deployment frameworks.
Drive collaborative reviews of design, code, test plans and dataset implementation performed by other data engineers in support of maintaining data engineering standards.
Analyze and profile data for the purpose of designing scalable solutions.
Troubleshoot complex data issues and perform root cause analysis to proactively resolve product and operational issues.
Mentor and develop data engineers in career development and adopting best practices.

Data Engineering Tech Lead Qualifications
Advanced experience building cloud scalable, real time and high-performance data lake solutions leveraging AWS, EMR, EC2, S3, Spark, Hive & Lambda.
Experience with relational SQL, preferably Snowflake.
Experience with Python or another scripting language.
Experience with source control tools such as GitHub and related dev process.
Experience with Airflow or another scheduling tool.
Understanding of micro service architecture.
Strong understanding of developing complex data solutions.
Experience working on end-to-end solution design.
Experience preparing data to be analyzed and visualized (preferably with Tableau).
Experience with Supply Chain a plus.
Experience with Attunity, DMS, Sqoop a plus.
Able to lead others in solving complex problems by taking a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions.
Willing to learn new skills and technologies.
Has a passion for data solutions.
Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms.
Strong understanding of solution and technical design.
Has a strong problem solving and analytical mindset.
Able to influence and communicate effectively, both verbally and written, with team members and business stakeholders.
Able to quickly pick up new programming languages, technologies, and frameworks.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Data Management Specialist
Our client is hiring a Data Management Specialist for their team in Beaverton, Oregon. As a Data Management Specialist, you're a core part of a large Global Product & Merchandising Operations function where you will work hand in hand with CDPM functional & operations partners to drive product data excellence.  You’ll maintain our most important product data that is a key enabler of how we plan, make and manage product.  This data enables all of our key initiatives including New Product Innovations, Digital Product Excellence, Advanced Analytics, Connected Product, our retail footprint & overall operational excellence.

Data Management Specialist Responsibilities
Create, maintain & support core CDPM product data through key systems, such as PCX and PCM.
Steward the data for accuracy, timeliness and completeness to support critical events throughout our code process.
Interpret functional intent & apply data governance rules to ensure data accuracy.
Be the key product data contact for category teams by participating in team meetings and proactively communicating all relevant product data.
Generate & execute reports and will be able to correlate data across key systems in order to support category needs.
Analyze data to bring forward insights to improve business processes.
Participate in x-functional teams to create & improve data process, governance, performance management & change management capabilities.
Partner with operations & automation teams to automate data management tasks.
Troubleshoot product data issues arisen by all key CDPM partners and stakeholders.
Track, maintain, test & report upon defects & new features within key systems.
Be an amazing teammate.

Data Management Specialist Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Science or a related field, or two additional years of experience in lieu of a degree.
Minimum 2 years relevant work experience in a data management or reporting role.
Demonstrated experience with full data management responsibilities in an information management system or complex database.
Intermediate level proficiency in Excel including vlookups, pivots and formulas.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to work in a deadline driven environment.
Strong problem solving and decision-making skills.
Strong attention to detail and process orientation & ability to turn ambiguity into results.
Prior product (footwear, apparel and equipment) experience is beneficial.
Experience with industry leading planning, product management, creation & data management (Yunique, Just Enough, Informatica, stibo, etc) is a plus.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Data Software Engineer
Our client is hiring a Data Software Engineer for their team in Beaverton, Oregon. In this role, you will work closely with data scientists and machine learning engineers to build and maintain infrastructure that transforms and analyzes data at scale. By applying your knowledge of data models, scalable pipelines, execution frameworks, and cloud infrastructure, you will write code, build tests, organize data, and collaborate with others to enable large scale data processing. Insights derived from the tools you build will directly impact the direction of product development.

Data Software Engineer Responsibilities
Contribute to the data processing infrastructure used to evaluate the performance of machine learning algorithms at scale.
Maintain data models for optimal storage and retrieval of time series sensor data, event labels, system logs, and aggregate metrics.
Build and automate scalable data science workflows.
Automate data quality monitoring, ETL operations, and testing.

Data Software Engineer Qualifications
2+ years of relevant industry experience.
Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
Experience building and maintaining data processing pipelines for machine learning.
Demonstrated experience and an interest in learning more about data science infrastructure tools.
Working knowledge of SQL, Python, relational databases, and cloud infrastructure.
Excellent documentation and communication skills.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Data Visualization Developer
Our client is hiring a Data Visualization Developer for their team in Beaverton, Oregon.

Data Visualization Developer Responsibilities
The Data Visualization Developer is an exciting new role aimed at speeding up data science innovation. 
This person will partner with data scientists to help them translate their results into a data visualization or UI that business stakeholders and analysts will then use. 
Example projects might include Tableau dashboards for a newly developed metric, interactive visualization of merchandise clusters in D3, or a Javascript-based UI for interacting with a new predictive model. 
The aim of most projects will be to gain user adoption, begin influencing key business decisions, and then ‘graduate’ the code to an engineering team to be further built out. 
The successful applicant will have super strong design sensibilities and be excited about the field of data science.

Data Visualization Developer Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field; Advanced Degree preferred.
Experience with data visualization technologies, including Tableau and D3. 
Broad knowledge of data visualization approaches.
Portfolio of work that demonstrates detailed attention to organization of information, typography, and color.
Experience creating UI mocks and doing rapid full-stack prototyping of those mocks. Experience coding UIs in JavaScript. Ideally you know AngularJS.
Follower of the data visualization community (e.g. Eyeo conference). Willingness to become a participant in that community if not already.
Strong interest in learning more about data science and machine learning.
Willingness to pitch in on any design or UX activity that might pop up.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Data Visualization Specialist
Our client is hiring a Data Visualization Specialist for their team in Beaverton, Oregon.

Data Visualization Specialist Responsibilities
Responsible for the management of a business group or multiple functions with Data Analytics.
Create external view tracking solution to accurately show when product will delivery to a final destination to reduce inquiries on product tracking.
Analyzes complex business problems using data from internal and external sources related to order tracking
Provides actionable insight to decision-makers to influence strategy and performance for delivery visibility.
Creates data visualizations and generates reports and analysis mapping to project needs.
May provide consultation and lead cross-functional teams to address business issues.

Skills
Tableau
SQL, Teradata, Snowflake.
Data Visualization
Business requirements gathering

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Data Warehouse Engineer
Our client is looking for an experienced Data Warehouse Engineer who can lead an initiative to develop and scale our data infrastructure to support business intelligence across the organization for internal operations as well as enabling strategic decision support for clients who demand accurate and timely monitoring of class action and mass tort administration. You are a perfect fit for the role if you have a track record leading migration and conversion of legacy information systems into modern data warehouses and data marts delivering the highest data integrity and data quality for data-driven decision making, translating data into valuable action-oriented insights while mentoring a team of analysts to democratize data within the organization.     

Data Warehouse Engineer Responsibilities 
Work with data architects to modify and extend dimensional data models. (20%)
Deploy DDL to build physical database tables & views. (30%)
Work with ETL developers to design batch & real-time streaming feeds with high data integrity. (30%)
Work with report developers to build re-usable business objects and report templates. (20%)

Additional Responsibilities
Exposure to ETL batch/streaming platforms (Microsoft SSIS, Kafka).
Exposure to Identity & Access Management (IAM), LDAP, security, data privacy.
Exposure to application & systems integration (SOA, ESB).
Exposure to cloud infrastructure and services, SaaS/IaaS/PaaS.

Data Warehouse Engineer Qualifications
Four-year college degree or equivalent industry experience.   
4+ years experience in relational database concepts, SDLC, Agile/SCRUM.
2+ years experience in source-to-target data mapping, enterprise ETL design, data quality governance and exception handling (Informatica, Pitney Bowes).
Kimball dimensional modeling (ERwin).
Business intelligence platforms (Microsoft SSRS/SSAS, Tableau, Looker, MicroStrategy).

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.
 

Database Administrator
Our client is seeking a Database Administrator to join their team in Portland, Oregon. The SQL Server DBA will be responsible for the implementation, configuration, maintenance, and performance of all SQL Server systems to ensure the availability and consistent performance of internal applications. 

Responsibilities
Manage SQL Server databases through multiple product lifecycle environments from development to mission-critical production systems. Configure and maintain database servers and processes including monitoring system health and performance, to ensure high levels of performance, availability, and security.
Test and configure database backups to meet the business s Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO).
Independently analyze, solve, and correct issues in real time, providing problem resolution end-to-end. Determine the most effective way to increase performance including hardware purchases, server configuration changes, or index/query changes. Assist developers with complex query tuning and schema refinement.
Provide application developers with feedback on resource-intensive queries on the server and suggesting ways to improve performance on each. Design indexes for existing applications, proactively monitor query performance, and determine when to add or remove indexes.
Troubleshooting SQL Server service outages as they occur, including providing Oncall support during after-hours and weekends. After-hours work may also include, but not limited to scheduled maintenance, supporting application deployment, and hardware/software upgrades.
Plan and schedule the installation and configuration of new SQL Servers. Analyze the requirements for new projects and determine whether to use clustering, log shipping, mirroring, Windows Azure, or other technologies to solve a business problem.
Implement SQL Server monitoring utilities; refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and document changes. Configure access levels for each segment of the database.
Share expertise with team members providing technical mentorship and cross-training as needed. 

Qualifications
Bachelor s degree in computer science or a related field from an accredited college or university AND 3+ years in support of a MS SQL Server Administration operating system, database management system or a related field OR two years of experience at the lower level Database Administrator 2 or position equivalent.
Hands-on experience working with Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2012, 2016 & higher (stored procedures, triggers, functions, views, constraints & indexes).
Experience with Performance Tuning and Optimization (PTO) using native monitoring and troubleshooting tools.
Ability to execute backup, restore, and database recovery.
Knowledge of High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) options for SQL Server.
Experience working with Windows server including Active Directory.
Understanding of different database models and styles (OLTP, OLAP).
Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to give effective verbal presentations to stakeholders, and respond to questions from a diverse audience.
Must be able to act both independently and as a team member. Flexible, get-it-done personality.
Ability to multi-task and context-switch effectively between different activities and teams. Preferred.

Expertise in/hands-on experience with failover clustering, SAN replication, and other high availability technologies.
Hands-on experience with SQL Server patching and upgrades.
Experience with developing scripts for SQL Server Backup, Integrity Check, and Index and Statistics Maintenance.
SQL Server merge, peer to peer, or transactional replication.
Analysis Services, Integration Services, or Reporting Services.
Experience in Enterprise Design for high volume, transactional environments.
Experience in virtualized environments.
SQL 2012 2016 MCTS, MCITP, and/or MCDBA certifications are a plus. 

Bachelor s degree in computer science or a related field from an accredited college or university.
Support of a MS SQL Server Administration operating system, database management system (3 years).
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 AND/OR 2016 & higher (3 years). 
Experience with Performance Tuning and Optimization (PTO) (3 years). Active Directory (3 years). Knowledge of High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) options for SQL Server (1 year).
Understanding of different database models and styles (OLTP, OLAP) (3 years).
Test and configure database backups to meet the business s Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) (3 years).

Preferred Skills
MCDBA certifications are a plus SQL Server Database Administrator -- SQL Server 2012, SQL S Bachelor s Degree, Active Directory, High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), Integrity Check, Performance Tuning and Optimization (PTO).

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Delivery Manager
Our client is hiring a Delivery Manager for their team in Beaverton, Oregon. As a Delivery Manager, you will be an integral part of the team that enables us to bring its world-class products and experiences to market. You will work across a number of capabilities to understand portfolio roadmaps, programs, and key value drops. You will partner closely with teams including program, product, engineering, release engineering, and quality teams to not only execute releases, but continually improve process, achieve efficiencies, and deliver a quality product timely.

Delivery Manager Responsibilities
Driving effective release framework and governance with a continuous delivery mindset across multiple teams and geographies.
Manage all change activity from planning through testing, to deployment.
Develop risk management and contingency planning for releases of any size.
Work with Support and Operation teams to ensure operational readiness.
Communicate effectively at multiple levels within the organization through written and verbal communication, both formal and informal.
Drive to a global release cadence that defines the cycles, structures, and required oversight to deliver products and experiences to production.
Define and publish key metrics that demonstrate the effectiveness of releases as well as areas of improvement for the Release management framework.
Partner closely and continually with product, program, quality, engineering, support, and release teams to align on scope, release cadence, delivery and support requirements.
Partner with the business and IT stakeholders to drive release scheduling decisions.
Provide status reports to key internal/external stakeholders. 
Manage go/no-go, checkpoint, and retrospective meetings with release stakeholders.
Participate in Capability Stand Ups and PI Planning sessions to determine and plan for upcoming release scope.
Identify and drive retrospective items to completion.

Delivery Manager Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Technology, Business, Engineering, or a related field; 2+ additional years of professional experience in lieu of a degree.
A deep understanding and practical application of standard release process(s), agile methodologies and technical capabilities (including agile - lean, continuous delivery).
Expertise working with teams who use development and deployment automation tools in the software development and deployment lifecycle.
Demonstrated skills in delivering technology to production across multiple teams in an agile framework.
Demonstrated ability to influence across an organization.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with experience communicating to a wide range of stakeholders including senior management, executive leadership, and technical teams.
Proven track record of implementing effective processes and continuous improvement.
Continuous Integration/Delivery experience is preferred.
Experience operating in a continually transforming, fast-paced, complex, high visibility environment with multiple competing priorities.
Strong analytical experience including defining Key Performance Indicators, Operational Level agreements and experiencing dealing with vendor Service Level Agreements.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Demand Manager
Our client is seeking an Demand manager to join their team in Canby, OR. This position is responsible to lead the demand generation activities for multiple brands and business units, including the divisions Screaming Circuits and San Diego PCB Design.

This position will develop, lead and execute integrated lead generation and demand generation campaigns by employing the right mix of inbound, outbound, event, and paid media strategies. With the goal of building and optimizing a lead-to-opportunity funnel to support revenue growth.

Responsibilities
Responsible for demand and lead generation in the form of qualified sales leads and qualified, source-identified web site traffic for the company’s electronics manufacturing, on-demand manufacturing, design and layout divisions.
Work with the existing sales and marketing teams to develop a lead funnel process, including goals, schedules, tracking and metrics.
Manage advertising programs and activities, including PPC and other lead and web traffic generating paid ad programs.
Manage ongoing lead generation programs and campaigns.
Propose, develop and implement new programs to generate qualified leads and traffic.
Select events to participate in based on their potential for qualified lead generation and ROI, and participate in said events.
Work with the existing marketing team to create materials (both online and offline), messaging and processes to move leads through the funnel, ultimately leading to a customer purchasing decision.
Track lead source, lead closure and lead effectiveness metrics.
Develop CRM processes to manage and track leads through the sales funnel using Salesforce and proprietary tools.
The work performed in this job can only be done on site and attendance is an essential function of the job.
 
Qualifications
Minimum 4 years of experience in sales and/or marketing
Minimum 2 years of experience in a lead generation role
College degree highly preferred, but not required
Ability to clearly communicate with the team and others in the company.
Ability to handle the math to make it keep doing so.

Experience in e-commerce preferred
Experience with SalesForce preferred
Experience in manufacturing preferred
Legal, permanent right to work in the United States
Will be required to complete a Non-Disclosure agreement upon acceptance of position

While performing the duties of this position, employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms. Employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
Employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds. Vision requirements include: close & distant vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws. 

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Designer II
Our client is hiring a creative Designer II for their team in Beaverton, Oregon. As a Designer II for Digital Brand Design, you will play a fundamental role in the digital creative strategy and development process. Your creative will elevate the consumer brand experience across our digital channels, including email, apps, social media and various websites.

Designer II Qualifications
Skills:
Excels at the craft of design and has an in-depth knowledge of design systems.
Actively identifies and grows individual design strengths.
Well-versed in the current design software and tools and is a specialist in one or two of them.
Understands User Experience design and consumer journeys.

Communication:
Communicates in a clear, constructive and professional manner with members of the team.
Excels at storytelling when talking about the work.
Presents design work and concepts to Senior Designers and the team.

Teamwork:
Understands the studio process and is accountable to the Manager and Producer.
Takes creative feedback from Senior Designers and Design Directors and revises the work to reflect their input.
Designs under the direction and guidance of Senior Designers and design leadership.
Collaborates with Designers across teams.
Works with multiple people on more than two projects at a time.
Accountable to individual timelines for individual projects.

Leadership:
Responsible for the completion of a phase or multiple concepts within a project.
Influences team workflow and collaboration methods.
Grows collaborative relationships with cross-functional partners.
Builds productive relationships with colleagues and participates in forums and cross-functional syncs.
Knows how and when to self-start within the team and on projects.

Strategic Thinking:
Collaborates on strategies for design with Senior Designers and Creative Directors.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Designer II
Our client is hiring a Designer II for their team in Beaverton, Oregon.

Designer II Responsibilities
Under the direction/supervision of a Senior Designer or Director, collaborates in the development of innovative ideas for 2d and 3d design projects including graphics and/or environments. 
Utilizes advanced design skills to create original design solutions Communicates and presents design concepts to team/leader/Director Creates presentation materials that effectively communicate design concepts Works with design leader and category team to ensure feasibility of designs, budget, merchandising needs and overall program needs.

Designer II Qualifications
Bachelors degree in Graphic, Architectural or Industrial Design and 5 plus years of progressively technically sophisticated design experience. 
Proven ability to apply and perform design skills, including drawing/sketching, typography, ideation, color theory, use of texture, spacing, and scale, visual presentation development and layout that is supported by a portfolio of non-computer-based creative art and design. 
Knowledge of and sensitivity to trends influencing design in general, and the athletic industry specifically. 
Demonstrated high level of expertise using design software. 
Strong oral and written communications skills in local market language, including meeting facilitation and presentations. 
Ability to clearly articulate goals and objectives. 
Ability to work cooperatively with staff, share ideas and develop effective responses. 
Proven ability to work in a rapidly changing, high-growth environment. 
Ability to manage multiple and competing work priorities, demands, and changes.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

DevOps Engineer
In search of a DevOps Engineer with a history of engaging with diverse teams, gathering requirements, defining solutions and turning those solutions into workable deployments.

Experience with deployment tools and online configuration management databases will be expected without regard to specific technology stacks. The deployment environment is also diverse, and a successful engineer will be able to pivot between many different technologies and information stacks to ensure organizational success. This position will be located in Portland, Oregon.

DevOps Engineer Responsibilities
Build/Deploy/Review Monitoring systems.
Build/Deploy/Monitor application server stacks in a cloud centric environment.
Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks and identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement solutions.
Build budget and consumption resource tagging models.
Provide technical direction to IT support staff.
Participate in audit activities.
Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution.
Provide 2nd and 3rd level support for systems issues.
Write automation for deployment of diverse systems.
Write tools for reduction of work for manual tasks.
Consult with diverse teams.
Participate in rotating on-call.

DevOps Engineer Qualifications
Experience with Ansible/Chef/Puppet (Ansible preferred).
Python/BASH/PowerShell.
Linux admin.
Apache/NGINX or Tomcat.
AWS or Azure.
Cloud based tools use (SAAS).

Preferred:
ServiceNow.
VMWare or equivalent.
Exceptional network troubleshooting skills.
Experience in the most current technologies and products used in the Cloud Services field.
Experience operating in a collaborative global DevOps environment.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.
 

DevOps Engineer
Our client is currently seeking a DevOps Engineer to join their team in Beaverton, OR. This position will work collaboratively with IT infrastructure and software engineering to deploy and operate custom built applications and commercially available systems and applications. This position helps automate and streamline IT operations and processes, build and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring and operations. Additionally, the DevOps Engineers troubleshoot and resolve issues in all environments, including development, quality assurance, UAT and production - both on-premises and in the cloud.

DevOps Engineer Responsibilities
Create and maintain infrastructure as code in Azure using Terraform and Ansible.
Create Azure DevOps/Jenkins pipelines to automate code deploy/release and infrastructure creation/destruction.
Assist development team in refactoring legacy application to modern cloud native architecture.
Assist in troubleshooting and resolving production issues with Node.js microservices using ELK stack.
Collaborate across technical and business teams to speed delivery of their applications and foster open communication and learning.
 
DevOps Engineer Qualifications and Skills
4+ years relevant work experience.
Experience supporting cloud scalable high-performance data solutions preferably on Azure.
Strong background in Linux/Unix Administration and operations.
Experience with automation/configuration management using either Ansible, Chef or equivalent.
Experience with modern build strategies. Continuous delivery experience preferred.
Knowledge of Kubernetes administration.
Expert knowledge of Jenkins.
Experience with VMware virtual networking.
Experience with SQL and NoSQL.
Strong working understanding of code (JavaScript, YAML, PowerShell).
Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service.
Ability to effectively work in a team environment and independently as needed.
Ability to be on call after hours as needed.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

DevOps Engineer

Our client is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join their team in Portland, OR. They are in search of like-minded individuals who want to build and operate cutting-edge technologies to deliver a SaaS assessment platform that supports upwards of 100,000 concurrent users. If you embrace a dynamic environment, the spirit of innovation and the importance of education, then we would love to see what you can do!

As a member of the Product Operations team within PE, you will design, build and manage a world class infrastructure to support products and mission. The team consists of forward-thinking individuals who want to disrupt the traditional mold through progressive design and implementation practices.
 
Below is the fine print of the job. But what you really need to have is:
Passion for education
Willingness to fail, learn and grow
Innovative spirit
Interest in automation
Desire to understand how your responsibilities fit into the big picture
 
Responsibilities
Maintain and automate multiple Redhat/CentOS Linux environments via Puppet and Foreman.
Participate in continuous integration efforts and Agile software development processes to support regular software releases for the SaaS platform.
Participate in the evaluation, selection and deployment of new technologies and tools.
Work with colleagues to optimize overall system performance. This includes working with applications, network, storage, database and server technology.
Provide support to internal and external clients, including participation in the 24x7 on-call rotation.
Perform system audits, document findings, and publish recommendations.

Qualifications
Minimum bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field; or an equivalent combination of experience and education will be considered in lieu of a degree.
Minimum 1-2 years related experience, with at least 1 year experience in Linux Systems Administration
Experience supporting a SaaS platform as a Linux professional.
Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
Experience with CI/CD processes and methods.
Experience in automating large scale Linux environments utilizing one or more of the following: PERL, HTML, Python, PHP and Shell scripting.
Experience with the following is a plus: Puppet, Chef, Hiera, GIT, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Foreman, Jenkins, JIRA/Atlassian suite.
AWS experience is highly preferred.
Demonstrated experience configuring multi-tier JAVA and web-based applications.
Exposure to and understanding of VMware virtualization.
Experience in 24x7 high availability production/sustaining processes, including remote administration.

Expert level analytical abilities, diagnostic skills and technical aptitude.
Demonstrated ability to work with a wide variety of individuals, in a highly collaborative, complex and changing environment.
Ability to work independently, demonstrating a high degree of initiative, as well as to be a contributing team member.
Ability to assess the effectiveness of processes and procedures and lead improvement efforts include documenting and implementing.
Ability to be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, as needed to support on-call rotation.
Excellent listening skills and a commitment to communicate clearly, completely, and in a timely manner
Ability to work unsupervised and seek out work with minimal direction.
Must be able to perform the physical and intellectual requirements of the role, with or without accommodation.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws. 

DevOps Engineer
Our client is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join their team in Portland, OR. 

DevOps Engineer Responsibilities
Participate in cross functional feature teams to bring operational perspective during the development cycle in the form of non-functional requirements; develop and evangelize best practices for commonly needed design patterns.
Driving deployment automation towards repeatable, consistent, and safe outcomes.
Driving down systemic risk through failure mode analysis, instrumentation, and mitigation.
Driving testing of reliability and scalability.
Provide operational support for highly critical real time APIs to meet SLO and SLA objectives.
Troubleshoot issues with our systems at all levels of the stack by performing deep problem analysis to identify root cause and appropriate resolution.
Work to reduce manual toil through automation and development of standardized practices for managing systems and services.
Take part in a 24x7 on-call rotation (current on-call rotation is once every 9 weeks).
Perform routine care and feeding tasks of the production environment including deployments, data corrections, and upgrades.
Tools we use:  Java, Groovy, Ruby, Python, Perl, Git, Go Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Postgres, Redis, ActiveMQ, MySQL Puppet, Rundeck, Docker, Kubernetes, CentOS, Sensu, Collectd, Graphite, JMX JIRA, Confluence, BitBucket.

DevOps Engineer Qualifications
At least 3 years of development operations and/or application development experience, including demonstrated experience in a SaaS environment.
Proven experience performing root cause analysis and advanced troubleshooting.
Experience with systems management tools such as Puppet, Chef, or Ansible and concepts of configuration management in a large-scale environment.
Strong experience supporting customer-facing applications on a Linux platform.
Practical knowledge of at least one scripting language (Bash, Ruby, Python, Perl).

We’d Love to See
Experience operating SQL and NoSQL data stores in a high throughput, high availability, low latency environment.
Experience with capacity planning practices or methodologies.
Familiarity with Java debugging tools.
Familiarity with operating software based on Spring Cloud and/or associated components.
Experience operating Apache Cassandra, Elastic Search, Lucene, Solr or Katta in a production environment.t
Experience operating containers (Docker, rkt) in a production setting.
Experience using Kubernetes, Marathon, Docker Swarm or another container orchestration platform.
Experience troubleshooting and/or building systems in the JVM.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

DevOps Engineer
Our client is hiring a DevOps Engineer for their team in Hillsboro, Oregon.

DevOps Engineer Responsibilities
Designs and develops IT architecture (integrated process, applications, data and technology) solutions to business problems in alignment with the enterprise architecture direction and standards. 
Analyzes needs and requirements of existing and proposed products/services, applications, and service offerings, and develops technical, structural, and organizational specifications. 
Assesses the compatibility and integration of products/services proposed as standards in order to ensure an integrated architecture across interdependent technologies.
May create standards and/or do modeling to monitor and enhance capacity and performance.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

DevOps Engineer

Our client is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join their team in Portland, OR. They are in search of like-minded individuals who want to build and operate cutting-edge technologies to deliver a SaaS assessment platform that supports upwards of 100,000 concurrent users. If you embrace a dynamic environment, the spirit of innovation and the importance of education, then we would love to see what you can do!

As a member of the Product Operations team within PE, you will design, build and manage a world class infrastructure to support products and mission. The team consists of forward-thinking individuals who want to disrupt the traditional mold through progressive design and implementation practices.
 
Below is the fine print of the job. But what you really need to have is:
Passion for education
Willingness to fail, learn and grow
Innovative spirit
Interest in automation
Desire to understand how your responsibilities fit into the big picture
 
Responsibilities
Maintain and automate multiple Redhat/CentOS Linux environments via Puppet and Foreman.
Participate in continuous integration efforts and Agile software development processes to support regular software releases for the SaaS platform.
Participate in the evaluation, selection and deployment of new technologies and tools.
Work with colleagues to optimize overall system performance. This includes working with applications, network, storage, database and server technology.
Provide support to internal and external clients, including participation in the 24x7 on-call rotation.
Perform system audits, document findings, and publish recommendations.

Qualifications
Minimum bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field; or an equivalent combination of experience and education will be considered in lieu of a degree.
Minimum 1-2 years related experience, with at least 1 year experience in Linux Systems Administration
Experience supporting a SaaS platform as a Linux professional.
Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
Experience with CI/CD processes and methods.
Experience in automating large scale Linux environments utilizing one or more of the following: PERL, HTML, Python, PHP and Shell scripting.
Experience with the following is a plus: Puppet, Chef, Hiera, GIT, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Foreman, Jenkins, JIRA/Atlassian suite.
AWS experience is highly preferred.
Demonstrated experience configuring multi-tier JAVA and web-based applications.
Exposure to and understanding of VMware virtualization.
Experience in 24x7 high availability production/sustaining processes, including remote administration.

Expert level analytical abilities, diagnostic skills and technical aptitude.
Demonstrated ability to work with a wide variety of individuals, in a highly collaborative, complex and changing environment.
Ability to work independently, demonstrating a high degree of initiative, as well as to be a contributing team member.
Ability to assess the effectiveness of processes and procedures and lead improvement efforts include documenting and implementing.
Ability to be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, as needed to support on-call rotation.
Excellent listening skills and a commitment to communicate clearly, completely, and in a timely manner
Ability to work unsupervised and seek out work with minimal direction.
Must be able to perform the physical and intellectual requirements of the role, with or without accommodation.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.
 

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws. 

DevOps Manager
The DevOps Manager is a member of the Product Engineering group (PE), a high-functioning team of creative, collaborative, motivated and professional individuals driven by the singular mission of partnering to help all kids learn.

The DevOps Manager is a high-level leadership position with expectations for both technical leadership, and a force to grow and sustain our client’s positive, high energy technology company culture.  This position provides technical leadership to our DevOps team and across teams within the company.  The individual is very deep in a particular technology stack and is recognized outside the company as an industry expert.  The DevOps Manager works on the forefront of his/her area of expertise, ensuring that our client intelligently adopts new technology. 

The DevOps Manager leads a team of hands-on engineers who support the creation and availability of high-quality craftsmanship-level software for clients and internal users. The DevOps Manager may be called upon to fulfill functions related to systems engineering and development that are not specifically engineering-related, such as requirements gathering, producing documentation, mentoring staff and leading projects. This position provides technical direction and professional/career development for all DevOps Engineers. 

DevOps Manager Responsibilities
Leads DevOps staff on the design, implementation, and maintenance of enterprise systems.
Oversees DevOps staff and manages the prioritization of team's deliverables. Takes full responsibility to ensure every employee has a clear understanding of how success will be measured at all times.
Works with Product Operations and Development leadership to craft and maintain standards and guidelines for configuration management, Linux system security and build pipeline functionality.
Sets standards and guidelines for tools, processes, technologies, methodologies, etc. used by the DevOps team to develop and deliver solutions?
Conduct capacity planning for build automation systems and development environments, analyzing growth patterns and predicting future trends and needs based on data and statistics.
Lead the evaluation, selection and deployment of new technologies and tools.
Work with project managers, department heads and team members to determine project approaches, parameters and priorities.
Work with colleagues to optimize overall system performance. This includes working with applications, network, storage, database and server technology.
Maintains current awareness of latest trends in technology stack specialty.
Understands appropriate use of those technologies in the organization.
Leads the adoption of those technologies as appropriate.
Represents the organization in professional societies and groups by presenting innovations and uses of technology.
Provide accurate time estimates for DevOps team tasks.
Participate in creating standards and ensuring team members adhere to standards, such as security standards, coding frameworks, languages, etc.
Manage staff assignments and responsibilities to ensure work is addressed in a timely fashion.
Lead Incident response processes for DevOps team.
Work with Operations leadership as well as Procurement and Budget personnel to nsure that all budgetary items are planned and implemented appropriately.
Perform other duties as assigned to ensure the success of the team and the entire organization.             

DevOps Manager Qualifications
Minimum bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field; or an equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
Minimum 3 years related management experience, with at least 2 years’ experience in Technology Operations Management supporting a software development environment.
Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
Experience with AWS systems management.
Experience with budget and capacity management.
Experience with the following is a plus: Puppet, Hiera, GIT, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Foreman, Jenkins, Terraform, DynamoDB, AWS account provisioning, JIRA/Atlassian suite.
Experience in 24x7 high availability production and incident response processes.

Skills and Abilities:
Develop talent: develop people to meet both their career goals and the organization's goal.
Manage conflict: handle conflict situations effectively, with a minimum of noise.
Communicate effectively: develop and deliver multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
Collaborate: build partnerships and work collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
Customer focus: build strong customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions.
Plan and align: plan and prioritize work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.
Drive results: consistently achieve results, even under tough circumstances.
Instill trust: gain the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
Direct work: provide direction, delegation, and remove obstacles to get work done.
Build effective teams: build strong-identity teams that apply diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.
Ability to solve complex problems and issues.
Ability to think strategically and then to develop and execute plans to implement the strategies.
Ability to communicate technical information to a broad, potentially non-technical audience.
Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
Expert level analytical abilities, diagnostic skills and technical aptitude.
Demonstrated expertise in team management of 8 or more technical professionals.
Demonstrated ability to work with a wide variety of individuals, in a highly collaborative, complex and changing environment.
Ability to assess the effectiveness of processes and procedures and lead improvement efforts include documenting and implementing.
Must be able to perform the physical and intellectual requirements of the role, with or without accommodation.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Digital Asset Coordinator
Our client is looking for a Digital Asset Coordinator for their team in Beaverton, Oregon. Duties of the Digital Asset Coordinator included support of the content and production teams by providing timely and relevant content management solutions and tools to enable a seamless flow of content from concept to archive. Follow defined best practices to organize assets that are created, expired or in process Incorporate standard workflows, forms and files to maintain timely asset creation and availability.

Digital Asset Coordinator Qualifications
2 years relevant, content management, systems management exp, understanding of marketing assets/content.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Digital Brand Manager
Our client is hiring a Digital Brand Manager for their team in Beaverton, Oregon. As a Digital Brand Manager, you will be responsible for bringing our client's brand storytelling to life across the digital ecosystem.  As a member of the digital brand category team, you will partner and work closely with our client's brand and business, merchandising and membership teams. Aligning on seasonal priorities and driving brand stories across digital channels and performance marketing/paid media. You will also collaborate and work closely with the full digital brand team and have a strong understanding of all digital channels including apps, email, site experience, social and paid media. You will own digital campaigns and launches for the brand as well as collaborating with other categories to ensure that a company POV is represented in appropriate campaigns. You will be responsible for developing holistic digital consumer journeys, briefing the full digital brand team, driving successful campaign launches and sustaining/recapping performance across all digital activations. As a manager on this team you’ll also be responsible for helping drive and define future strategies and tactics that create the future for the Digital Brand team.

Digital Brand Manager Responsibilities
Create and manage all seasonal and weekly plans for the digital brand.
Lead, partner and collaborate on the seasonal priority briefing process.
Work closely with channel leads during priority briefing process to inform, collaborate, plan, share and execute seasonal priorities.
Partner with digital creative design to program and produce digital assets supporting brand stories.
Be a thought partner, leader, executer and resource for brand and business leads.
Partner with merchandising and site merchandising to develop demand creating journeys around priority products for the brand's digital business.
Manage timelines and deliverables during game plan and briefing process.
Communicate clearly and effectively as you manage and sustain marketing programs and provide informative recaps.
Partner membership to plan and orchestrate journeys for brand members across digital channels and territories.
Manage day to day process flow and project management during briefing process.
Create and maintain project planning and presentation tools to share project updates.
Drive and report results that support brand and bottom line business goals.
Mentoring and coaching digital brand category peers and specialists.
Development of future best practices for digital consumer journeys.

Digital Brand Manager Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing or a related discipline.
5+ years' brand experience (digital marketing or related experience in marketing strategy, consumer marketing, marketing planning and marketing implementation).
2 years additional experience in lieu of a degree.
High Affinity for sneaker culture.
Demonstrated experience in strategic planning and expertise across Brand and Category management and grassroots event activations.
Ability to travel up to 25% of the time.

Preferred:
Previous experience in the footwear or apparel industry.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Digital Brand Specialist
Our client is hiring a Digital Brand Specialist for their team in Beaverton, Oregon. As a Category Digital Brand Specialist, you will sit at the intersection of the brand and business. You will help develop and execute seasonal plans that are driven by our product assortment, the sport calendar, and key consumer moments in the marketplace. These seasonal plans must not only deliver business results, but also elevate our brand across all of our digital channels.

You will report directly into a Digital Brand Director. Together, you will be responsible for the development, implementation and management of seasonal plans, which orchestrate the efforts of our digital channels - .com, apps, email, site experience, social and performance marketing. This will require the development of holistic digital consumer journeys, briefing the full digital brand team, driving successful campaign launches, development of creative content, and sustaining performance across all digital activations. 

Digital Brand Specialist Responsibilities
Seasonal Plan Development:
Work alongside Digital Brand Manager to develop seasonal and weekly planning executions within NA Digital Brand.
Partner and collaborate with the Digital Brand Manager on the seasonal briefing process. Manage timelines and deliverables from brief through the execution and sustain phases of the campaign.
Partner closely with functional and geo partners, following the briefing process, to inform, collaborate, plan and execute category seasonal storytelling across digital channels and media. 
Collaborate with the Membership and App teams to drive the digital execution of membership in North America.
Communicate clearly and effectively as you execute marketing programs, while also providing informative recaps.
Meet with channel and merch teams to confirm product info, launch dates, sell-through expectations and units.

Creative & Content:
Partner with digital creative design for content creation planning and programming that supports key category stories.
Compile asset requests across multiple teams.
Photo shoot prep, managing workback and facilitation on asset feedback.
Manage product samples, tracking and shipping.
Prep creative review files and run of shows.

Reporting:
Compile metrics for Brand or Other partiers upon request.
Build out recap presentations and debriefs.

Project Management:
Manage day-to-day process flow and project management during the entire life of the campaign.
Create and maintain project planning and presentation tools to share project updates with Digital Brand Manager and other partners.

Thought Leadership:
Identify opportunities to expand what digital innovation looks like for the Digital Brand in North America.
Be a thought partner, leader, executer and resource for category brand and business leads.

Digital Brand Specialist Qualifications
BA/BS degree.
3-5 years of work experience in digital/online marketing or a related field.
Strong understanding of digital marketing strategy and tactics across key channels including digital apps, email, .com experiences, paid media and social.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presentations.
Strong analytical skills and comfort with leveraging art and science to inform plans and decision making.
Strong understanding of digital analytics best practices and proven capability to use data to drive business decisions.
Previous experience managing a marketing channel for a multichannel retailer, combining both online and offline success criteria, is preferred.

Desired:
Strong attention to detail.
Organized and able to juggle multiple tasks.
Highly adaptive and comfortable with changing parameters.
Proactive, self-starter who doesn’t wait for an assignment.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Digital Creation Lead
Our client is hiring a Digital Creation Lead for their team in Beaverton, Oregon. You will be joining a group that fuels product innovation and craft by leveraging the power of modern technologies, skillsets, tools and talent. The studio community is the foundation and support of the product image creation process at within our client's company. 
As the Digital Creation Lead (DCL), you will be the main connection point between what the categories / businesses need and what the studio creates. DCLs continuously project, coordinate and attend category meetings to proactively seek info needed to execute graphics and images required for product creation utilizing a project management tool tracker.  DCLs additionally call and conduct meetings to ensure gates and dates are met and content of meetings are complete and sent to the image studio. DCLs deliver tools for review (internal and external) to ensure teams have what is needed to create, sell and manufacture their seasonal product. Our studio operates seasonally starting directly after Design Review continually maintaining imagery through go-to-market readiness. DCLs provide metrics on status and negotiate deadlines that are “off calendar” while managing up any “out of scope” requests. DCLs partner with their peer DCLs, Senior Image Artists and direct managers to ensure “one voice” of service to all categories / businesses.

Digital Creation Lead Responsibilities
Produce information to help manage / maintain the accuracy and availability of product images according to image standards.
Attend / participate and / or conduct meetings.
Individual workload and calendar management in project management tool. 
Communicate key dates to stakeholders, working across several seasons simultaneously.
Assign, track and manage daily tasks. 
Troubleshoot clarifying questions, quality check, follow up on deadlines and prioritize tasks.
Documentation and training.
Design software knowledge.

Digital Creation Lead Qualifications
4-year Degree (e.g. Bachelor’s).
Apparel Product Creation image process expert.
Project Management skills – support a mentality of service that creates seamless internal integration (liaison) between Product Creation Teams.
Generously and actively collaborate with Product Creation Teams.
Quality control of imagery / projects.
Knowledge of Apparel construction (nice to have).

Top Competencies
Business - Deliver Results.
People - Communicate Effectively.
People - Champion and Embrace Change.
People - Lead and Influence Others.
Self- Continuously Grow and Develop.

Required Technical Skills:
Apple MAC OS.
Microsoft package – working knowledge of.
Microsoft Outlook.
Microsoft Excel.
Project management / workflow tool experience (Wrike, Airtable, Slack, etc.).

Required Soft Skills:
Highly Organized.
Exceptional Communication Skills.
Detail Orientation.
Multi-Tasking.
Self-Starter - proactive.
Preferred Skills:
Adobe CC – Illustrator / InDesign.
Agency model experience.
Project Coordinator experience.
Wrike specific project management tool knowledge.
Cloud Based File Management.
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Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.
VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.
 

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Digital Product Designer
Our client is hiring a Digital Product Designer for their team in Beaverton, Oregon. As the Digital Product Designer, you'll generate new ways of thinking about how modern technologies and services can be used to craft innovative experiences and products. You’ll work with NXT partners including Footwear and Apparel Innovation teams to create game-changing experiences that elevate innovation concepts, as well as new disruptive capabilities that accelerate product creation. You’ll collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to explore new business opportunities, gather insights, and design intuitive, user-centered experiences that drive product design and development. You’ll collaborate with technology partners, vendors and creative partners to deliver innovative solutions in an ambiguous and constantly evolving environment.

You’ll produce both digital and physical design outputs, including user flows, personas, user journeys, wireframes, design comps, and motion studies—anything you need to help you articulate your ideas. You’ll balance hands-on execution of design deliverables with strategic and critical thinking to drive projects and collaborate with teams. Preference will be given to candidates who demonstrate a combination of strategic, conceptual and design skills.

Digital Product Designer Responsibilities
Execute and own design deliverables, including conceptual models, personas, scenarios, user journeys/flows, wireframes, and visual designs.
Contribute to the experience strategy for various projects and collaborate with product owners to define requirements.
Uncover and understand business opportunities through user research and insights-gathering; synthesize insights to ground product strategies.
Evangelize user-centered thinking with partners and stakeholders to guide towards thoughtful process and technology change.
Educate and inspire team members by communicating an experience-based vision for the project while involving people at optimal levels for project success.
Lead meetings with key stakeholders; ensure that they meet the stated objectives and stay on agenda.
Ensure all deliverables are of the highest quality, including the management of visual QA and hand-offs to development teams.
Work in an independent fashion, solve problems, make decisions, and communicate effectively in difficult situations.
Be passionate about delivering a premium solution but find ways of producing it that do not jeopardize schedule and budget.
Facilitate meetings and make persuasive presentations.

Digital Product Designer Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Design, Art or related field.
Several examples of successfully launched projects that demonstrate strategic, conceptual and creative thinking.
At least 3+ years experience in digital product design, with a focus on experience or visual design.
A solid understanding and demonstration of user-centered design principles.
Demonstrated ability to lead the design of large and complex systems of interactions.
A solid understanding of what types of experiences are made possible by current digital technologies.
Ability to develop innovative design approaches to complex design problems.
Ability to collaborate as part of a multi-disciplinary team, as well as communicate and influence across organizations.
An innovator mindset with a propensity and passion for out-of-the-box thinking and ideation.
Must be organized, able to act independently, and able to switch rapidly between different projects in a fast-paced environment.
Can work with grace under pressure and operate effectively and proactively in an ambiguous environment.
Proficiency with Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Keynote, PowerPoint.
Experience conducting internal/external user research a plus.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Prefer deep expertise in one of the following areas: digital prototyping, product knowledge, creative & innovative problem-solving, design thinking, user research, motion graphics design, or environmental design.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Editorial Associate
Our client is seeking a Senior Scientific Editor to work with their scientists and engineers on the preparation and writing of scientific manuscripts, primarily in the area of computational chemistry, structural biology, software, and hardware for biomolecular simulations. Responsibilities will include coordinating (and contributing to) the writing and editing of manuscripts, corresponding with journals, and working with the group’s senior members to communicate both particular research results and the lab’s long-term scientific mission.

Editorial Associate Qualifications
Proven editing and proofreading skills
Experience writing and editing scientific manuscripts is a plus.
Management of multiple ongoing editorial projects.
Scientific background preferred, but not required.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Electrical Designer
Our client has an immediate opening for an Electrical Designer to join their dynamic, fast-paced team in Hillsboro, OR.

Electrical Designer Responsibilities
Electrical Design for the tool installation for a large semiconductor client.
Create electrical drawings to meet design and client needs.
Perform all appropriate calculations (e.g. distribution panel loading, short circuit, voltage drop, conduit & conductor size and cable tray fill) required for the electrical design packages.
Conduct field investigations of construction site and clean room environments to verify existing conditions and incorporate findings into design packages.
Manage and incorporate electronic redlines from the Electrical Engineer using established company workflows.
Coordinate with other design disciplines (Mechanical, Structural, Architectural) for design package needs.
Ensure quality control by complying with team Design and CAD standards.
Attend design review meetings, note all design comments, and pick up the resulting redlines.
Assist colleagues with CAD support.
Provide quality reviews of models and documents prepared by others to assure design and project standards are met.
Coordinate with document control personnel for review and transmission of design packages.

Electrical Designer Qualifications
High School Grad School Grad (Required for this position) 
Degree in Electrical a plus 
Electrical EIT/PE a plus

Must be available to work a minimum of 40 hours weekly on site 
Living in, or be willing to self?re?locate to the Portland OR area on a permanent 
basis 
Have good verbal and writing communication skills 
Be able to work within and contribute to a Team environment 
provide support as a Design Team Member 
Be able to clearly provide verbal support for Electrical design and individual 
skill set(s) 
Be willing to assist and support other discipline designs when needed 

Software Experience and Proficiency of Use Required in the following: 
Autodesk AutoCAD 2D Proficient (Requirement) 
Autodesk 3D, Revit and/or Inventor (Requirement) 
Excel?Word?Outlook?365 Proficient 
EasyPower Proficient (Preferred) 

Electrical Design Experience Required in the following: 
Proficiency in understanding NFPA 70 and 79 
Proficiency in understanding NEC Class 1,2 and 3 wiring definitions 
Proficiency Required in performing Calculations for the following: 
Distribution Panel Loading 
Short Circuit 
Voltage Drop 
Conduit & Conductor Size 
Cable Tray Fill 
Knowledge in the design of Power Circuits and I&C Systems 
Knowledge in Electrical Schematic layouts and Electrical design definitions 
Worked within a Team environment 

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.
 

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***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Electrical Designer
Our client is looking for a Electrical Designer to join their team. 

Design / Hardware Engineer Responsibilities
Working closely with the Engineering Manager, this candidate will handle all aspects of a one to two person Design and Electrical Engineering department.  At present the job calls for a single individual but it’s likely that at least a temporary Production Draftsman may be added in the future.
Responsible for all production drafting on standard products.
As part of the production team the candidate will work closely with Project Management and Sales to define projects and to provide drawings to production in a timely manner.
Cabinet and Console design work on custom jobs.
Work with and receive input from Assembly and Fabrication to implement and test those designs.
When Engineers return from the field, correct “Mark Up” drawings and make sure they are distributed to customers and archived.
Responsible for design document archive system.
Liaison with Electrical Engineer from parent company.
Occasional start up supervision or service related travel.
Software modifications as assigned by supervisor.

Electrical Designer ???????Qualifications
Experience with cabinet and console design including knowledge of NEC Standards. Hands on expertise would be helpful.
Proficient in Auto Cad.  Proficiency in Draft Site would be helpful.
Excellent communication and organization skills.
Fabrication and soldering experience would be helpful but not necessary.
Willing to travel occasionally for startup assistance and service.
Knowledge of PLC control design would be a plus.
Familiarity with Delta RMC motion control implementation would be beneficial.
Ability to work independently but remain part of the team.
Minimum AA, BS preferred Electrical Engineering, Design or other closely related Technical Field. Course work in Computer Science helpful.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.
 

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Electrical Engineer
We are seeking a talented Electrical Engineer to join our clients engineering team and help build a positive service experience for our internal and external customers. The Electrical Engineering team designs and builds embedded systems that form the core of our clients most important products. Hardware design and testing is about 1/3 of the activity, with firmware development and testing the remainder. It is a quick moving environment with lots of projects and lots of creativity. This position will be located in the Portland, Oregon facility. 

Electrical Engineer Responsibilities
Design and troubleshoot all aspects of Analog and Digital circuits for an embedded system. 
Use CAD software for schematic capture and PCB layout. 
Integrate products using USB/serial or wireless methods to computer systems for control and monitoring. 
Design products to comply with EMC regulations as well as coordinate and conduct EMC testing.
Develop product specifications and test plans for electrical and electromechanical assemblies. 
Conduct research, test concepts, and create technology briefs. 
Interact with Industrial Design and Mechanical Engineers to develop complex electromechanical assemblies. 
Identify process improvements to eliminate defects and waste. 
First article review and approval of components for manufacturing approval. 
Ongoing design improvement, component consolidation and cost reductions of existing product lines. 

Electrical Engineer Qualifications
Required Education and Experience:  
BS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering or related field.  
Firmware experience using C. 
Experience using basic communication interfaces such as UART, I2C, SPI, CAN, USB and similar. 
Hardware experience with schematic and PCB layout design.
Experience troubleshooting/testing both hardware and firmware using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, programmable supplies, and programmable loads.

Preferred Experience: 
Schematic and PCB layout design using Altium Designer.
Firmware development with PIC, AVR, Freescale or similar platform using C.
Create schematic, layout and firmware from PCB specification document.
Developing PCB specifications.
Developing test specifications for PCBs.
Hand soldering PCBs and PCB rework.
Developing automated tests for PCBs.
Designs using DC motors and solenoids. 

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

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VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

End User Services Analyst
Our client is hiring an End User Services Analyst for their team in Beaverton, Oregon.

End User Services Analyst Responsibilities
Delivers first line support for all user problems, troubleshoot issues with or on computer hardware, software or peripherals in an effective, efficient and timely manner. 
Acts as a single point of contact between service providers and users, on a day-to-day basis. 
Serves as the focal point for reporting incidents and processing service requests.
Responsible for Logging, tracking, and expediting of problems & incidents as they occur. 
Responsible for keeping stakeholders current as to resolution status and maintain a high level of overall customer satisfaction. 
Handle all incoming service requests, either per mail, on paper or in person and enter them into the problem management system.

End User Services Analyst Qualifications
Customer Service Call Center experience.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

End User Services Analyst
Our client is hiring an End User Services Analyst for their team in Beaverton, Oregon.

End User Services Analyst Responsibilities
Delivers first line support for all user problems, troubleshoot issues with or on computer hardware, software or peripherals in an effective, efficient and timely manner. 
Acts as a single point of contact between service providers and users, on a day-to-day basis. 
Serves as the focal point for reporting incidents and processing service requests.
Responsible for Logging, tracking, and expediting of problems & incidents as they occur. 
Responsible for keeping stakeholders current as to resolution status and maintain a high level of overall customer satisfaction. 
Handle all incoming service requests, either per mail, on paper or in person and enter them into the problem management system.

End User Services Analyst Qualifications
Customer Service Call Center experience.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Endpoint Security Engineer
Our client is looking for an Endpoint Security Engineer to join their team in Hillsboro, Oregon.

Endpoint Security Engineer Responsibilities
Designs, tests, and implements state-of-the-art secure operating systems, networks, and database products. 
Conducts risk assessment and provides recommendations for application design. 
Involved in a wide range of security issues including architectures, firewalls, electronic data traffic, and network access May use encryption technology, penetration and vulnerability analysis of various security technologies, and information technology security research. 
May prepare security reports to regulatory agencies. 
The nature of the work is focused on the companys computer and telephony technology tools used to create, store, exchange, and use all forms of information. 
Designs, tests, and implements state-of-the-art secure operating systems, networks, and database products. 
Conducts risk assessment and provides recommendations for application design. 
Involved in a wide range of security issues including architectures, firewalls, electronic data traffic, and network access.
May use encryption technology, penetration and vulnerability analysis of various security technologies, and information technology security research. 
May prepare security reports to regulatory agencies. 

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Engagement Management Analyst
As a Corporate Information Security (CIS) IT Security Engagement Management Analyst, you'll be responsible for the successful development of tools and processes of engagement with all lines of business.

Engagement Management Analyst Responsibilities 
Collaborate effectively with leaders, managers, employees, and partners to provide deliberate and thoughtful engagement throughout the company.
Perform day to day support and maintenance, work with the functional team to develop training materials, and coordinate support and development efforts within the team.
Keep people (both business and project) focused and energized by the project effort.
Help with the development & execution of a centralized CIS website. 
Formalize and document new intake procedures and process flows.
Effective, positive verbal and written communication skills.
Strong analytical and innovative skills for strategic planning, sound decision-making, and problem solving and ability to work well under tight business driven deadlines.
Experienced supporting process improvement initiatives.
Develop and execute training modules & content for the Keep It Tight program.
Ability to effectively communicate with stakeholders & SME’s to ensure content is up to date.
Collaborate for any and all training related LMS needs including but not limited to: reporting, staging, & course completion tracking.
Experience building and testing new E-learning courses primarily within Adobe Captivate.
Experience working with global communications, events, branding, and creative marketing to bring new ideas to the program.
Experienced creating and developing high-quality PowerPoint presentations.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Engineering Technician
Our client is hiring an Engineering Technician for their team in Redmond, Washington.

Engineering Technician Responsibilities
Conduct design reviews and develop test solutions to mitigate test escapes.
Hands-on skills in complex system design, integration, testing, and troubleshooting.
Assists in the coordination and resolutions of technical issues.
Demonstrated ability to work in cross-functional, multicultural team environment and to understand and apply technical concepts.
Experience writing test cases, or proposing test setups, to verify and or validate subsystem and product requirements.
Ability to interpret new technologies from specifications and architecturally plan a test strategy or test procedure content.
Good communication skills with local and remote employees.
Experience working in databases to create test plans.
Ability to review test plans and procedures from other engineers and provide guidance to update to increase coverage or optimize.
Ability to write automation using Python and having familiarity with SCPI protocol.
Ability to report test data in meaningful formats including tables and graphs. 
Familiarity with numpy, matplotlib, or organizing data in excel.
Demonstrated ability to perform hands on system test execution.
Knowledge in TCP/IP routing preferred.
Linux/unix experience preferred
Must be able to lift 50lbs.

Engineering Technician Qualifications
BS Electrical Engineering preferred, related discipline or equivalent experience.
Programming experience a preference.
RF Knowledge a plus.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Engineering Technician
The only way to deliver a single, global, mobile network is with satellite communications – and Our client is making it a reality. End-to-end broadband communications are delivered with connectivity services using the world’s first and only electronically steered, flat-panel satellite terminal that goes places traditional satellite dishes cannot.  Join their team in developing exciting new technology which will change communication all over the world.  Come work alongside brilliant colleagues who share a commitment to each other’s success and know how to have fun!

Engineering Technician Responsibilities
Daily test execution following detailed test procedures.
Collect data from large number of test units, organize the findings and identify product
Defects.
Preparing and documenting test results.
Troubleshooting test equipment, test setups and automated tests.
Setting up the test articles for testing in Environmental chamber, EMI / EMC or Connectivity validation.
Develop and construct mechanical/electromechanical load test fixtures for running specific control tests.
Work in a team environment and manage testing deliverables to meet project deadlines for respective control.

Engineering Technician Qualifications
BS in Mechanical Engineering preferred.
Ability to understand and execute test scenarios.
Thoughtfully deal with competing demands and planning priorities.
Ability to work with diverse engineering teams to provide them detailed test reports.
Documentation and communication skills with technical subjects.
Familiarity with test software and software test tools.
Experience working in lab environment, set up test equipment and working with
automated tools and tests.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

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***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Enterprise Platform Developer
Our client is looking for an Enterprise Platform Developer who excels in team environments and is excited about building cloud native platforms that can scale with the demand of our business. The position is for our foundational platform that enables product authentication and inventory accuracy using RFIDs and QR codes. It handles generating RFIDs and QR codes (other sensors/ids later), capturing all events and scans of the IDs/codes and making that data available for real time use-cases as well as data and analytics. Sensors Platform is implemented as a set of globally distributed active-active micro-services and asynchronous processing running in AWS as docker and serverless components, written in Golang and Node.js, using NOSQL databases and streaming solutions and a fully automated pipeline.

Enterprise Platform Developer Responsibilities
Evangelize and cultivate adoption of Enterprise Platforms, open source software and agile principles within the organization.
Ensure solutions are designed and developed using a scalable, highly resilient cloud native architecture.
Deliver well-documented and well-tested code and participate in peer code reviews.
Design and develop tools and frameworks to improve security, reliability, maintainability, availability and performance for the technology foundation of our platform.
Ensure product and technical features are delivered to spec and on-time.
Collaborate with and consult other development teams.
Explain designs and constraints to stakeholders and technical teams.
Assist in the support and operation of the platforms you help build.
Work with product management to support product / service scoping activities.
Work with leadership to define delivery schedules of key features through an agile framework.
Be a key contributor to overall architecture, framework and design of enterprise platforms.
 
Enterprise Platform Developer Qualifications
Masters’ or Bachelors' degree in Computer Science or a related field.
5+ years of experience in large-scale software development.
5+ years of experience architecting and building scalable data architecture.
Prefer 5 or more years of hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, GCP or similar cloud platform.
5+ years of development experience in languages like Golang, Python, Ruby, Java, Scala or Node.js.
Expertise with front-end development using JavaScript frameworks (React, Angular, etc.), HTML and CSS a plus.
Experience with both relational and No-SQL databases.
Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes or other container technologies.
Experience with participating in projects in a highly collaborative, multi-discipline development team environment.
Exposure to Agile and test-driven development.
Exposure to hierarchical and distributed code repository management tools like GIT.
Great communications skills.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Enterprise Project Manager
The Enterprise Project Manager manages large-scale projects or multiple, concurrent projects from inception through project close-out. The Project Manager leads teams of people to ensure that project objectives remain consistent with the overall business strategy and are achieved on schedule. The Project Manager ensures project(s) are delivered on schedule and within budget, while satisfying agreed-upon customer requirements and specifications within the scope of the project. The Project Manager effectively applies formal company-approved project management methodology to accomplish the goals of the project. Responsible for the appropriateness, quality, and timeliness of all aspects of the project, s/he manages the production of project estimates, develops project plan and schedule, establishes measures and milestones, and tracks ongoing progress, while proactively managing risks, issues, scope and human resources through the project life-cycle. S/he is a team player that effectively manages concurrent projects and delivers timely, accurate, and quality results.

Enterprise Project Manager Qualifications
Familiarity with Product development and management.
Strong experience with Project Accounting including Forecasting.
Familiarity with the Project Management Institute (PMI) Guide and the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK).
Demonstrated project portfolio of successful, progressive project management with at least 5 years’ experience. This includes a leadership role in the execution of large-scale, concurrent projects. (Greater than $1 million with team of 10).
Demonstrated experience in leading multi-disciplinary, high-performance work teams. Familiarity with automated project management software tools.
Demonstrated ability to identify problems, mediate issues, develop solutions and implement a course of action.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills (both oral and written) with a customer service orientation.
Ability to mitigate project milestones/deliverable delays and critical resource allocation issues from the work breakdown schedule. Skilled in the identification, assessment and contingency planning for risk factors.
Functional competencies include Budgeting, Change Management, Client Management, Methodology Approach and Business Life Cycle, Mission /Vision/Strategy, Project Planning and Organization, Risk Management.
Demonstrated success at meeting project budget, timelines, and requirement targets and managing variances.
Demonstrated presentation experience to all levels of management.
Demonstrated experience working with business sponsors and partners to identify and implement solutions.
Proven ability to motivate teams to achieve defined deliverables and be able to work effectively with clients.
Demonstrated success at mentoring and developing project management skills in project managers. Exceptionally strong leadership skills.
Bachelor’s degree in Business management or related field and 5 years of experience in project and/or program management or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Certificate in Project Management strongly preferred. Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is a strong plus.

Enterprise Project Manager Responsibilities
Responsible for delivering projects to successful completion; accountable for the quality and timeliness of all defined projects, and for issues (goals, resource allocation, release planning, technology architecture, etc.) within the projects.
Mentor and develop project management skills in project managers.
Contribute to the development of, and ensure adherence to, company adopted project management methods.
Plan, direct, coordinate and report project management activities in accordance with Enterprise Program Management Office policies and standards.
Responsible for overseeing multiple projects ensuring timely deliverables within budgetary constraints.
Manages the overall project plan(s). Prepares and presents project plans and status reports to organizational leadership, project teams and client/customer groups.
Responsible for project outcomes through effective project planning, task definition, scope management, resource allocation and negotiation, risk mitigation, cost management, and stakeholder communication.
Assembles project team, assigns individual responsibilities, identifies appropriate project resources and provides guidance and direction to project team members.
Defines, collects and analyzes metrics to ensure projects are on target.
Proactively recommends courses of action to maintain cost effectiveness.
Stay current on new project management methodology.
Ensure timely resolution of problems within the scope of the assignment.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Executive Assistant
Our client has an immediate opening for an Executive Assistant. The ideal candidate is flexible, a self-starter, and thinks outside the box for solutions. This client is a leader in their industry and offers great benefits and fun company events.

Executive Assistant Responsibilities
Manage calendars and set up meetings (including international conference calls); coordinate events.
Organize and book complex international and domestic travel plans. Support in arranging travel documentation if needed.
Communicate with clients and internal staff on behalf of the CEO answering correspondences.
Prepare presentation and meeting documents, draft letters, memos and reports.
Track and organize project deadlines; communicate statuses with appropriate internal parties.
Prepare and track reports, budget expenditures, purchase orders, and expense reports in Excel and filing. 
Anticipate the needs of the CEO and team.

Executive Assistant Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree required.
3+ years’ experience as an Executive Assistant or Personal Assistant. 
High proficiency with Microsoft Office; Adobe a plus.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills. 
Highly organized and skilled in time management and strong attention to detail.
Fluent in Russian a plus.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Executive Assistant
Our client is seeking an Executive Assistant to provide ongoing administrative, planning and executive support of a highly complex and confidential nature for a system executive. The position assists in meeting specialized goals, and contributes to the achievement of the organization’s vision, mission and strategic objectives by providing special project and executive support to a position of significant leadership within internal systems.

Responsibilities
Independently, or in consultation with their supervisor, develop plans needed to carry out assigned projects and activities; establish methods and schedules to implement and maintain activities for the executive. 
Exercise extensive independent judgment to reflect and match executive’s leadership style.
Facilitate, and perform administrative functions in support of meetings of executive groups as assigned. Support activities include timely collection and preparation of draft agendas; prioritizing items in consultation with executives to finalize agenda; dissemination of meeting materials; coordination of meeting records, evaluations and follow-up reports.
Oversee the coordination of the Office of the executive(s) they support. 
Assure a logical flow for scheduling of activities, including preparation and planning time. 
Either work with other assistants or work independently to schedules meetings, travel and outside commitments. 
Assure that the executive has the materials needed for meeting obligations in advance of appointments through maintenance of confidential department files.
Coordinate writing, editing and communication tasks. 
This includes initiating and drafting correspondence; recording minutes of meetings and telephone conference calls; compiling information and preparing summary reports; overseeing and prioritizing incoming or outgoing mail and messages and preparing information for presentation or publication.
Exercise independent judgment and decision-making in handling incoming and outbound information and material.
Support the executive(s) through positive communications and relations with internal and external customers in an environment that is open and inviting. 
Maintain relationships with, and responds to contacts from, internal and external customers (such as executives, professional association staff, consultants, government agency personnel) and others related to the health care ministry with the purpose of exchanging information, scheduling meetings and communicating confidential and non-confidential matters involving the senior executive and the health system. 
This support includes significant interaction with senior leaders reporting to the executive(s) this position supports. 
Position provides appropriate referrals or informs the executive(s) when a situation warrants direct attention.
Collaborate with a wide variety of offices and individuals to assist in all organizational integration efforts to fulfill strategic objectives, best practices and outcomes for the integrated health system.
Coordinate major team events.
Support other executive teams as needed.

Qualifications
Four years of university or college training in English, liberal arts or related subjects; or graduation from a technical program in secretarial or office support services or the equivalent.
Three years of experience as an administrative assistant for an executive.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws. 
 

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***
 

Expert Cyber Threat Analytics Engineer
Our client is seeking an Expert Cyber Threat Analytics Engineer to join their dynamic team in Hillsboro, OR. Our client is always on the offense, and they are looking for a talented and energetic self-starter with a passion for analytics and security to join their growing Cyber Threat Analytics team. As an Expert Cyber Threat Analytics Engineer, you will shape the future of security analytics and cyber threat detection within our client’s Corporate Information Security. Their Technology organization blends engineering and process expertise into streamlined consumer- and customer-oriented solutions for our $30B+ business, enabling businesses and brands worldwide.

As an Expert Cyber Threat Analytics Engineer, you will lead data-driven security and perform analytics on a petabyte platform. You will perform root cause analysis and implement leading-edge approaches to identify malicious and suspicious behavior. You will identify real-time and persistent threats using data modeling techniques. You will also help manage a portfolio of technology partners and solutions to keep our client’s security posture responsive. This role is perfect for a team player with strong security analytics experience, curiosity, and communication skills. You must be a proven problem solver, adept at making good decisions under pressure, comfortable with cross-functional and distributed teams, and flexible with changing priorities.

The Expert Cyber Threat Analytics Engineer will elevate security analytics by distilling complex analytical concepts to business and technical audiences alike using clear, eye-catching visualizations. You will enable a culture of data-driven decision making by rising above the numbers and explaining insights to business users. You know how to minimize complexity and focus on results. While you rely on data to prove your point, you love to think outside the box and solve problems creatively. You thrive in an entrepreneurial environment.
 
Expert Cyber Threat Analytics Engineer Qualifications:
Requires a Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience.
Five years of information technology experience with preferred three years in an information security-related role.
Knowledge of information security standards, principles, and practice.
Computer programming and/or scripting languages (Python, Powershell, Java Script, Go, etc.).
Experience with massive log aggregation and analysis.
The ability to learn and apply new concepts quickly.
Strong written and oral communication skills.
Comfortable with interfacing with other internal or external organizations regarding security policy and standards violations, security controls failure and incident response situations.
Ability to assess and communicate risk within a business context.
Passion for Nike, for security, and a drive for continuous learning.
Ability to balance and prioritize work.
Proficiency with Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.
Understanding of network, desktop and server technologies.
Proven track record of success in fast-moving organizations with complex technology applications.
Additional skills and qualifications preferred, but not required.
Certified Big Data Administrator/Architect.
Database administration.
Experience leveraging automated server configuration tools (such as Puppet or Chef).
Certified Information Security Professional (CISSP).
Experience with network intrusion methods, network containment, segregation techniques and technologies such as Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and Intrusion Protection Systems (IPS).
SIEM experience preferred.
Forensics or cyber intelligence experience a plus.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Finance Business Partner
Our Pacific Northwest healthcare client is looking for a Finance Business Partner to oversee financial improvement processes for their team at headquarters in Renton, Washington. 

Responsibilities of the Finance Business Partner
Develop financial planning and analysis methods and processes.
Trend analysis.
Budgeting and forecasting reporting and analysis.
Develop business plans and proforma.
Interpret business trends and metrics.
Acts as FP&A advisor within workgroups.
Trains staff on FP&A related materials and processes.

Finance Business Partner Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Business or Marketing; Master's degree preferred.
5 years of financial and business analysis; healthcare background preferred.
Advanced knowledge of financial analysis and risk management.
Expert financial modeling experience.
Strong knowledge of GAAP and internal controls.
MS Office Suite experience, with skills in Excel and Word.
ERP systems knowledge.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to interact at all levels of the organization.
Organized multitasker with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Financial Analyst 
Our client is seeking a Financial Analyst to support their Business Operations team in New York. The ideal candidate will have a passion for making business processes more efficiently and thrives in a fast-paced environment.

Financial Analyst Responsibilities 
Revenue recognition and revenue data tracking.
Maintain data ingest tools to maximize effectiveness and formalize data ingest processes.
Act as a point of contact between the Accounting and Sales teams.
Work cross-functionally to improve and automate month-end processes.
Design and maintain datasets. 
Provide ad-hoc finance support.

Financial Analyst Qualifications 
1+ years’ experience with revenue operations, accounting, sales operations, or analytics.
Advanced Excel skills, knowledge of SQL, ETL automation, Salesforce or other CRMs.
Experience with large complex sets of data. 
High attention to detail and ability to handle multiple priorities at one time. 
Excellent communication skills; team player. 

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Financial Analyst
Our international tech client is looking for a Financial Analyst to join their team. This role will be a partner with customers to research and resolve compensation-related inquiries.

Financial Analyst Responsibilities 
Analyze and adjust transactions; review and process approved sales credit adjustments.
Submit commission payments within specified deadlines.
Assist Sales and Finance customers in the reconciliation of sales credit and commission.
Engage with customers to resolve commission and/or bonus payment related inquiries.
Provide guidance/training to key customers and stakeholders on commission relevant processes, deadlines, reports, reconciliation responsibilities, and eligibility.
Partner with internal teams to ensure accurate booking of complex orders.
Effectively communicate improvements for process or policy deficiencies.

Financial Analyst Qualifications 
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, or related field.
2 years of related experience.
ERP Systems experience; Intermediate Excel skills. 
Innovative problem solver with strong analytical skills.
Strong written and verbal communication skills with a customer service focus.
Ability to meet strict deadlines and work under pressure.
Able to learn quickly and adapt to change.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Financial Analyst
Our international high technology manufacturing client is looking for a highly motivated Financial Analyst to partner with their Portland management teams in support of financial planning, budgeting, modeling, and analysis, as well as best practices. This role will work with people from all levels of the organization to research and develop KPIs for the company. This is a fun team that values developing strong relationships among the group.

Responsibilities of the Financial Analyst
Expense, assets, and capital investments planning, reporting, and analysis.
Prepare actuals forecasting and analysis.
Manage general and administrative expenses.
Provide input for buying decisions.
Perform ROI and NPV analysis.
Financial modeling, reporting, and statement analysis.
Prepare annual budgets.
Revenue and cash flow forecasting.
Identify key financial and operational issues.
Continuous development and implementation of budgeting, operational, financial analysis, and forecasting process improvements and tools.
Ad hoc projects and duties as assigned.

Financial Analyst Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Finance required; MBA preferred.
3 years of financial analysis experience.
Knowledge of cost and project accounting.
Project management experience.
MS Office Suite experience, with skills in Excel and Word.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

Financial Planning Analyst 
Our Willamette Valley client is seeking a Financial Planning Analyst to join their team. This company offers generous benefit coverages, paid volunteer time, and an onsite fitness center.

Financial Planning Analyst Responsibilities 
Prepare financial statements and schedules for multi-entities. 
Assist with annual budget preparation and budget packets.
Analyze financial data and maintain financial reports. 
Support financial dashboard and report development. 
Identify process improvements for the department. 
Assist with audits as needed. 

Financial Planning Analyst Qualifications 
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, or Accounting.
Active CPA highly preferred. 
2+ years of related financial/accounting experience.
Intermediate to advanced Excel skills. 
Excellent communication and presentation skills. 
Ability to manage and analyze large amounts of data. 
Working knowledge of accounting and business practices. 

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Firmware Engineer
Our client is hiring a Firmware Engineer for their team in Beaverton, Oregon. You will be responsible for embedded firmware design of innovative consumer electronics products that help make athletes better.  This role will assist in the development of a robust firmware platform by designing efficient, testable, and scalable code that can execute across different hardware platforms to enable amazing athlete product experiences.  The successful candidate will have proven industry experience driving system architecture, from initial prototypes to production code, including driving the ability to manufacture at scale.

Firmware Engineer II Qualifications
Master's or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related technical field.
Minimum 2 years of work experience in embedded systems firmware development.
Experience developing firmware for different microprocessors and with different tool chains including small footprint embedded systems preferred.
Experience identifying hardware requirements based upon system firmware requirements a plus.
Works with Engineers, Designers, Innovators, and other experts to architect and realize intent and experience design of embedded systems and solutions.  
Uses concept sketches, pseudo-code, engineering design/ideas, and other communication methods to assure clear understanding of technological capabilities and limitations.
Understanding of embedded firmware architecture and system design.
Proven strong understanding of software design processes, methodologies and approaches.
Experience in data compression technologies targeted to a resource-constrained embedded environment.
Ability to support all phases of the product development cycle including architecture, design, development, debugging, documentation and validation.
Experience developing firmware for systems using low power 32-bit microcontrollers.
Experience writing or designing firmware for BLE, UART, SPI, I2C, USB and other communication protocols.
Experience writing or designing embedded low power management firmware.
Demonstrated expertise in design of multitasking, event driven real time firmware using C and understanding RTOS concepts.
Experience in low-power hardware design.
Ability to read schematics and work through hardware level system issues.
Excellent creativity, communication, presentation, troubleshooting, time-management and analytical skills are required.
Ability to travel up to 20% of the time.
Available for frequent late-afternoon/evening conference calls.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Firmware QA Engineer
Our client is hiring a Firmware QA Engineer for their team in Beaverton, Oregon. You will be responsible for the qualification of innovative consumer electronics products that help make athletes better. This role will assist in the test and validation of a robust firmware platform by designing efficient, testable, and scalable code to enable amazing athlete product experiences. The successful candidate will have proven industry experience driving quality into the software/firmware system architecture, from initial prototypes to production code. Join us and help define the future of sport.

Firmware QA Engineer Qualifications
Master's or bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related technical field; or relevant work experience.
Proven experience in a QA role, with an emphasis on testing embedded and mobile experiences.
Minimum 2 years of work experience in embedded systems.
Engage Product, Program, Engineering, and Design teams to design test strategies, guide unit and integration testing conducted by engineering teams, and compose test plans for automated, manual, and performance tests.
Experience in developing test plans, assessing risk, writing defects, and providing relevant data for test reporting.
Ability to create, document, and automate test plans for embedded systems in C, including unit, subsystem, and system testing.
Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle including test-driven development with experience working in an agile development environment.
Familiarity with continuous integration processes and test reporting capabilities.
Understanding of embedded firmware architecture and system design.
Knowledge of mobile software QA processes and methodologies for iOS and Android mobile targets.
Proven strong understanding of software design processes, methodologies and approaches.
Excellent creativity, communication, presentation, troubleshooting, time-management and analytical skills are required.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Footwear Training Content Creator
Our client is hiring a Footwear Training Content Creator for their team in Beaverton, Oregon. As a Footwear Training Content Creator, you will support the Footwear Tech Training team with creating and updating technical training content for Footwear Product Creation team members.

Footwear Training Content Creator Responsibilities
Supporting the Footwear Technical Training team by helping to create and update: presentation decks, QRGs (quick-reference guides), one-pagers, printed class handouts, interactive online content, and more.
Adjusting, updating, formatting, and applying branding to existing content.
Applying design-thinking skills to designing new content with Footwear Product Creation learners in mind.
Supporting the Footwear Tech Training team with design consultation and collaboration.

Footwear Training Content Creator Qualifications
Pay: $24-26 hourly.
Bachelor's Degree in design or related field with 2+ years of experience.
Ability to work independently and within tight deadlines.
Creativity and ability to communicate a fresh perspective.

Software Skills:
Required:
Adobe InDesign (intermediate to advanced).
Microsoft PowerPoint (Intermediate to advanced).
Adobe Illustrator (basic to intermediate).

Preferred:
Adobe Photoshop (basic to intermediate).
Adobe Captivate (intermediate).

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Forms Developer
Our client is seeking a Forms Developer to join their team in Beaverton, OR. This person is comfortable with InDesign, Photoshop, and general principles of typography. This person will be enthusiastic, patient, detail oriented, and open to working with systems and processes that are highly regimented to ensure quality is on-point. The selected candidate will need to be comfortable both working collaboratively with team members as well as working independently for extended periods of time.

*REMOTE work… 2-3 days per week*

Responsibilities of the Forms Developer
Regularly develop documents, logos, signatures and other assets for the purposes of print.
Discuss client needs and requirements with various internal stakeholders and provide information, knowledge and expertise regarding prepress and print development processes.
Carefully maintain and manage version control and procedural procedures for the purposes of ensuring quality.
Analyze workload and communicate concerns, complexities, and bottlenecks to team members and stakeholders to ensure possible risks to the relevant timelines are understood as early as possible.

**If interested, please include a brief explanation of your experience with the qualifications below.** 

Qualifications  of the Forms Developer
2 years of academic or practical work experience in InDesign and Photoshop.
General working knowledge of Adobe Acrobat and Creative Cloud.
High level of comfort on the Windows platform.
High level of comfort with Microsoft Office products, particularly Excel.

Additional Qualifications
Any technical or development related experience is a plus. This can include:
SQL,
Python,
JavaScript.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Forms Developer
Our client is seeking a Forms Developer to join their team in Beaverton, OR. This person is comfortable with InDesign, Photoshop, and general principles of typography. This person will be enthusiastic, patient, detail oriented, and open to working with systems and processes that are highly regimented to ensure quality is on-point. The selected candidate will need to be comfortable both working collaboratively with team members as well as working independently for extended periods of time.

Responsibilities of the Forms Developer
Regularly develop documents, logos, signatures and other assets for the purposes of print.
Discuss client needs and requirements with various internal stakeholders and provide information, knowledge and expertise regarding prepress and print development processes.
Carefully maintain and manage version control and procedural procedures for the purposes of ensuring quality.
Analyze workload and communicate concerns, complexities, and bottlenecks to team members and stakeholders to ensure possible risks to the relevant timelines are understood as early as possible.

**If interested, please include a brief explanation of your experience with the qualifications below.** 

Qualifications  of the Forms Developer
2 years of academic or practical work experience in InDesign and Photoshop.
General working knowledge of Adobe Acrobat and Creative Cloud.
High level of comfort on the Windows platform.
High level of comfort with Microsoft Office products, particularly Excel.

Additional Qualifications
Any technical or development related experience is a plus. This can include:
SQL,
Python,
JavaScript.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Forms Developer
Our client is seeking a Forms Developer to join their team in Beaverton, OR. This person is comfortable with InDesign, Photoshop, and general principles of typography. This person will be enthusiastic, patient, detail oriented, and open to working with systems and processes that are highly regimented to ensure quality is on-point. The selected candidate will need to be comfortable both working collaboratively with team members as well as working independently for extended periods of time.

Responsibilities of the Forms Developer
Regularly develop documents, logos, signatures and other assets for the purposes of print.
Discuss client needs and requirements with various internal stakeholders and provide information, knowledge and expertise regarding prepress and print development processes.
Carefully maintain and manage version control and procedural procedures for the purposes of ensuring quality.
Analyze workload and communicate concerns, complexities, and bottlenecks to team members and stakeholders to ensure possible risks to the relevant timelines are understood as early as possible.

**If interested, please include a brief explanation of your experience with the qualifications below.** 

Qualifications  of the Forms Developer
2 years of academic or practical work experience in InDesign and Photoshop.
General working knowledge of Adobe Acrobat and Creative Cloud.
High level of comfort on the Windows platform.
High level of comfort with Microsoft Office products, particularly Excel.

Additional Qualifications
Any technical or development related experience is a plus. This can include:
SQL,
Python,
JavaScript.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Senior Full-Stack .NET Software Engineer
 Our client is seeking a Senior Full-Stack .NET Software Engineer to join their team in Portland, OR. As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you will design and develop the next generation of employment screening services and products. Every day, our client's amazing team provides solutions to prospects and clients, gaining their trust while enhancing long-term partnerships. When you join their team, you'll be part of a high-performing team that truly values your contributions will allow you to grow within the business. If you are a self-starter who can meet the challenge, keep reading!
Our team works in an Agile/Scrum environment with both back and front-end stories. We encourage our Engineers to learn, to fail, and to ask great questions.  

This is an ideal position for you, if: 
You enjoy working in an agile team to develop software prototypes and solutions.
You stay current and up to date with existing and upcoming development technologies.
You take ownership and will strive to ensure that delivers the highest quality products possible.
You can refactor existing code to current patterns and practices.
You may be a natural leader, which is awesome, but you can also contribute as an individual contributor and as a team member and enjoy doing so.
You love diving into the unknown and enjoy building your expertise in unknown technical domains.
It’s all about community, you love to share and refine ideas that lead to key discussions within the department.
You enjoy participating in setting the strategic direction and advocate that vision both inside and outside the department.

Senior Full Stack .NET Software Engineer Qualifications
Competent self-motivated Engineer with 5+ years of software development experience.
Aptitude to rapidly ramp up on new technology and evaluate its value in a business domain.
Able to collaborate, communicate and work with team members and stakeholders.
Experience with the following technologies: C#, .NET Core, Angular, Typescript, NodeJS, REST, HTML, CSS, SQL.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”
 

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Full Stack Software Engineer
Our client is looking for a Backend or Full Stack Software Engineer with 3 or more years of experience in building distributed systems using RESTful HTTP using Java technologies. This position is for the team which handles the backend platform that drives multiple experiences within our mobile applications. The most important skills for this position are passion about solving complex problems using technology, deep understanding of Object-Oriented programming languages, ability to work as part of a team and ability to learn and adapt quickly. Our team works using an Agile methodology (Kanban) so any experience working under similar environments like Extreme Programming or SCRUM is a plus. Also, we do Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration, so any experience working with automated deployment pipelines and DevOps is a plus. All of our services are deployed in the AWS Cloud, so any Cloud experience (Google, Azure) is plus, but is not required.

Full Stack Software Engineer Qualifications
Previous experience with:
As a Programmer with the Java language and in-depth knowledge of the Java Platform, including Java 8 and higher.
Developing stateless REST services over HTTP.
Programming using Test Driven Development.
Programming Internet distributed applications.
Experience working with Open Source software APIs and development tools, including an IDE like IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse or NetBeans.
Experience working with Non-SQL databases: Cassandra, DynamoDB, Mongo, Redis, CouchDB.
Working with Agile methodologies: XP, SCRUM, Kanban.
Reading and writing technical documentation including UML diagrams.
Likes collaborative work and succeeding as a part of a team.

Preferred:
Working with one or more Relational databases: Oracle / SQL Server / DB2 / MySQL.
Experience with other standards like XML, HTML, JavaScript.
Experience with automated testing and build automation.
Experience with Cloud environments like Amazon Web Services.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Full Stack Engineer
Our client is hiring a Full Stack Engineer for their team in Beaverton, Oregon.

Full Stack Engineer Qualifications
5+ years of experience in developing robust, highly scalable, web based enterprise solutions, services, and frameworks.
3+ years of experience developing solutions with Microsoft .NET framework. Including: ASP.NET forms, ASP.NET MVC, .NET Core, etc.
2+ years’ experience in supporting, debugging, and refactoring existing applications (web focus).
Strong JavaScript experience.
1+ years’ Experience developing with React.JS.
Strong SQL/T-SQL abilities (define schema, write SP’s, debug, etc.).
Agile (Scrum) experience.
Strong communication.

Preferred:
Experience utilizing AWS technologies, including but not limited to Lambda, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda (Node.JS), DynamoDB, Aurora, SQS.
Knowledge of containers(docker), with preference for ability to deploy to them and configure them.
Python, and Node.js.
Administering windows servers including troubleshooting/configuring IIS, user administration, etc.
Experience with Linux administration including Apache administration, package installations.
Experience with Azure. Experience configuring servers, services via Portal.

DevOps experience:
Ability to build a CI pipeline including project build, test automation, deployment, etc.
Experience with IaC using Terraform/Cloud Formation
Experience with PowerShell, including building scripts for automation of server configuration

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Geo Product Analyst
Our client is hiring a Product Analyst for their team in Beaverton, Oregon.

Geo Product Analyst Responsibilities
Performs technical analytics related to advanced data analysis, data mining, and source to target mapping. 
Creates and maintains complex context process and system diagrams. 
Work with remote groups such as vendors, other company facilities, and or departments to gather and document tactical requirements from the business. 
Ensures standards, processes, and policies are followed within their department. 
Creates and applies global process standards to regional technology solutions. 
Works with systems personnel to implement design. 
Participates in development of project plan/timeline.
Provides input into project management.
Communicates project status to management.
Participates in change management at department and end user level.
May create reports and consult on best practice configuration of systems. 
May configure packaged solutions to unique and complex business requirements. 
Performs complex testing activities including construction of test plans/scripts including the expected results and the validation of test results. 
Communicate and document system changes to the business. 
Translate system functionality into business relevant language.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

Graphic Designer
Our client is hiring a creative Graphic Designer for their team in Beaverton, Oregon.

Graphic Designer Responsibilities
Graphic Design:
With supervision from Design management, uses design skills to create original graphic designs or refreshes existing products that appropriately reflect company design philosophy & standards. 
May also do an "apprenticeship" with senior designers, completing details of product process in lieu of a full project. These projects include, but are not limited to the development of print, packaging, 3-D retail displays, event signage, logo systems, imagery, video, and collateral materials. 
Effectively uses computerized systems in design process. 

Project Management
Works with functional teams from initial concept development to final production and distribution. 
Manages individual projects beginning with attending internal briefings, managing timelines, and scheduling work-back schedules, budget management, supplier coordination, reviewing specs, recommending production alternatives, and maintaining quality production standards. 

Cost Control
Manages both individual projects as well as groups of projects to stay within stated budgets. 
Estimates all aspects of project development. 
Offer production alternatives to provide the best product within the defined budget. 
Negotiates costs, reviews billing and provides budget reconciliation. 

Supplier Liaison
Arrange the purchasing of goods and services from domestic and international vendors. 
Evaluate vendors. 
Understand technical aspects, terminology, and equipment involved in film, print, and collateral production. 

Client Liaison
Act as a liaison among managers (Image Design, Marketing, product design, etc.) and outside agencies. 
Communicates project details, design requirements, scheduling needs, and graphic materials. 

Designer Support
Provides design support for higher level designers as needed.

Graphic Designer Qualifications
Pay: $24-25 Hourly W2.
Ability to apply and perform graphic design skills, including drawing/sketching, typography, ideation, color theory, use of texture, spacing, and scale, visual presentation development and layout that is supported by a portfolio of non-computer-based creative art and graphic design. 
Familiarity with current trends, color, and design. Must be computer literate using Macintosh computer design applications. 
Effective oral and written communications skills in local market language, including presentations. 
Proficient information-seeking skills and drive for results. 
Ability to share ideas and develop effective responses. 

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Healthcare Customer Service
Our client is hiring a Healthcare Customer Service Associate for their team in Portland, Oregon. The Seamless Care Concierge is responsible for providing front line personalized concierge services via omni-channel (i.e. chat, SMS, telephony, social, etc.) support to Seamless consumers. These roles are responsible for supporting consumers well beyond traditional customer service functions by providing "white glove" treatment including but not limited to case management. Care Concierges are the primary initial touchpoints for Seamless’ Human Services Delivery functions and act as the consumers ambassador and advocate until their issues are resolved or the requested service(s) has been provided.

Healthcare Customer Service Responsibilities
Provide concierge support in areas including, but not limited to, finding local resources, assisting with appointment scheduling, researching conditions, preparing for appointments, and figuring out financial assistance and options.
Fully leverage multi-channel and/or omni-channel tools and technologies to communicate with consumers and fulfill their needs.
Manage variable volumes of incoming work (e.g. through call queues, chats, emails, etc…) and prioritize follow-through to meet service level agreements and performance requirements.
Exhibit a professional and polished, yet compassionate and caring, demeanor in all consumer interactions.
Maintain a holistic, consumer-centric view of problems and interactions in order to function beyond simple transactions.
Take ownership of consumer interactions and drive them toward resolution, where completion is total consumer satisfaction.
Provide unbiased support navigating the complex health care system across the entire continuum of care.
Meet dependability, availability, timeliness, accuracy, quantity, quality, and other standards as established by management.
Maintain confidentiality and sensitivity in all aspects for internal and external customers.
Drive process improvements.

Healthcare Customer Service Qualifications
Demonstrated knowledge of health care terminology, continuum of care, contractual arrangements, and CPT, HCPCS, and ICD coding.
Knowledge of managed care, Medicare, Medicaid, and Accountable Care Organization (and other value-based reimbursement systems.
Strong oral, written, and interpersonal skills with the ability to translate complex concepts and ideas to speak in plain language and ensures their message is received and understood.
Ability to assimilate detailed information, think critically, and make decisions within individual role and responsibility.
Strong organization and time management skills with the ability to manage workload independently.
Demonstrated ability to take initiative, assume ownership, remove barriers, and be successful working independently.
Proven ability to quickly build and maintain positive, collaborative, and rewarding relationships with internal and external customers.
Ability to effectively manage conflict and ambiguity.
Provide recommendations for knowledgebase articles, process improvements, and training material updates.
Proficiency in identifying potential for product innovations and technical automation to ensure optimal customer interaction.
Technical ability to manage and maintain automated solutions within service desk system.
Demonstrated history of proactively anticipating customer, project, and product needs and developing solutions or pre-emptively raising concerns.
Understanding of basic health plan benefits across a range of plan types (For profit, non-profit, ASO, individual, etc.) sufficient to explain coverage to customers and ask proficient question of the health plans to determine benefit coverage.
Displays an enthusiastic, fully-committed, and self-directed approach to work.
Ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities, policies, and procedures.
Ability to work in a cross-functional team environment that may include immediate team members, other internal teams, and third-party partners.
Possesses a flexible mindset and ability to convey confidence and credibility in customer interactions.
Excellent business English and grammar skills.
Strong competence in Microsoft Office software.
Demonstrated technology-savvy.
Normally to be proficient in the competencies listed above:
The Care Concierge would have FIVE (5) years’ experience in consumer-facing roles in a health care, retail, hospitality, executive support, service industry, or related field. Experience in billing, claims and/or medical coding is preferred.

Work Environment
Work primarily performed in office environment.
May be required to work outside of normal hours.

Employee Expectations
Conducts business with high regard for corporate values and in compliance with its Code of Business Conduct.
Maintains high regard for member and Medicare beneficiary privacy and complies with Corporate Privacy and information security policies.
Contributes to the achievement of our Corporate Affirmative Action goals and objectives.
Responsible for quality and continuous improvement within the job scope. 
Contributes to and supports the company's quality initiatives.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

HR Advisor
Our client is hiring an HR Advisor for their team in Hillsboro, Oregon. As an HR Advisor, you will provide a premium customer service experience to company employees in the United States, Mexico, SOCO and Canada for all HR related inquiries. Our contact center operates from a variety of contact channels that include phone, email, text and live chat.

HR Advisor Responsibilities
As an HR Advisor, you’ll use effective written and verbal communication skills, applying sound judgment and critical thinking in serving our employees. In addition, you will utilize various systems and other support tools to ensure accurate responses to employee inquiries, while consulting and looking for opportunities to educate employees. This is a very fast paced, employee focused environment requiring you to multitask and deliver premium service with a sense of urgency. You enjoy responding to employees’ needs with the discipline to adhere to confidentiality, policy & compliance rules. This role is part of a fun, supportive and collaborative team that operates on set schedules with various shifts. You are motivated by the challenge of continuous learning and the opportunity to develop a career in Human Resources.

HR Advisor Qualifications
Pay: $21.40 hourly.
Experience in a service center environment highly desirable.
Knowledge of theories, practices, and procedures in HR required.
HR experience is required.
Bilingual Spanish/English preferred both written and verbal.
Strong verbal and written customer service skills critical, with an emphasis on soft skills, customer-focused resolution, and de-escalation.
Strong problem-solving, resolution, and decision-making skills, including the ability to quickly understand and analyze new information and situations.
Strong multi-tasking and organizational skills.
Must demonstrate initiative and the ability to work independently within a diverse team environment.
Intermediate to Advanced working knowledge of personal computers, including MS Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, Excel.
Ability to sit or stand at a desk for long periods of time.
Ability to work flexible hours.
Experience providing customer service via multiple contact channels (phone, e-mail, live chat, face-to-face, written correspondence, text, etc.).
Knowledge and understanding of HR systems and platforms required(SAP, Cronos).

One of the following:
Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
2-3 years relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
Four years’ military service in a related MOS/MOC.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Hyperspectral Imagery Technician
Our client is seeking a Hyperspectral Imagery Technician to join their dynamic team in Portland, OR. In this role, the Technician will work with a variety of GIS data across multiple disciplines on a temporary contract for approximately 2 months. 

Hyperspectral Imagery Technician Responsibilities:
The Technician will support hyperspectral production staff in data processing raw data to atmospherically corrected reflectance.
Image classification, collecting, creating and maintaining libraries of training data, and running image classification routines. 

Hyperspectral Imagery Technician Qualifications:
A Bachelor’s Degree is required.
Familiarity with satellite imagery processing or analysis.
Tree identification experience, forestry, botany, or plant biology experience required
Experience or exposure to multispectral or hyperspectral images.
Experience classifying raster data.
Experience working with geospatial data.
ENVI experience is required
Ability to work as a part of a team; and self-motivated.

Desired Qualifications:  
Hyperspectral/multispectral data analysis techniques.
Statistical modeling, machine learning.
Experience with scripting geographic data.
Familiarity with Linux.
Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills.
Ability to troubleshoot software and solve problems without much oversight. 
Experience with identifying plant species.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”
 

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IAM Security Engineer 
Our client is looking for an IAM Security engineer to join their team in Hillsboro, Oregon.

IAM Security Engineer Responsibilities
Designs, tests, and implements state-of-the-art secure operating systems, networks, and database products. 
Conducts risk assessment and provides recommendations for application design. 
Involved in a wide range of security issues including architectures, firewalls, electronic data traffic, and network access. 
May use encryption technology, penetration and vulnerability analysis of various security technologies, and information technology security research. 
May prepare security reports to regulatory agencies. 

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Incoming Quality Control Inspector
Do you consider yourself to be analytical, have logical linear thought processes and a meticulous attention to detail? This Incoming Quality Inspector might be the right job for you! Our client is committed to providing customers with top-quality products and are looking for a key member to join their team and help deliver the utmost quality.

Incoming Quality Control Inspector Responsibilities
Quality Control Test and Inspection of incoming materials.
Have primary responsibility for the quality levels maintained in component parts.
Define inspection criteria and sample plan for incoming materials.
Inspection and evaluation of first-articles.
Record and manage non-conforming materials.
Work with vendors to ensure quality standards are met.
Maintain records of vendor and part performance.
Work with Engineering and Purchasing departments to qualify new vendors.
Present quality status to Production and Quality teams.
Perform mechanical inspection for defects.
Testing of electrical and data cables.
Document and maintain first article archive.
Participate in the MRB Program.
Maintain a clean, safe work environment by following standards and procedures and complying with legal regulations.
Performance requires physical attendance.
Other duties as assigned.                              

Incoming Quality Control Inspector Qualifications
3+ years QC experience, required.
Demonstrated ability to meet and maintain high quality standards for incoming materials.
Experience with relevant ISO, Six Sigma and MIL standards for QC, required.
Experience with simple mechanical inspection, required.
Ability to read and interpret mechanical drawings, required.
Experience with measurement and inspection tools, required.
Skilled computer operator and proficiency with Microsoft Windows platforms, required.
Independent professional that can perform job assignment with limited supervision.
Ability to lift and carry 35 pounds at least 40 feet.
Ability to multi-task and manage various project related duties.
Strong work ethic.
Touch typist – minimum of 25 to 30 WPM.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Accuracy and attention to detail is a must.
Must be able to self-organize workloads and manage all deadlines.
Accomplish organization mission by completing related results as needed.
 

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

Industrial Controls Engineer
Our client has an exceptional opportunity for an Industrial Controls Engineer in Portland, OR. This high visibility and high impact position works collaboratively across the organization, supporting their efforts to offer increasingly efficient, high performance equipment that helps their customers get their job done right. 
As a subject matter expert and innovator, the Automation Controls Engineer develops and delivers elegant solutions to highly complex equipment design and manufacturing technology projects at their global locations. This position is expected to continue advancing their manufacturing capabilities, capacity, quality, reliability, and safety. As a mid to senior-level engineer, this position is expected to execute controls systems projects from concept through design and programming, manufacturing start-up, and lifecycle support. 

Responsibilities of the Industrial Controls Engineer
Contribute to the design and development of effective controls systems to support global manufacturing processes.
Collaborate throughout the company to develop and implement solutions that advance their manufacturing technology.
Investigate and propose applications of cutting edge technologies to new and existing manufacturing processes.
Develop elegant, robust solutions to complex systems using Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), machine vision systems, sensors, motion control devices, robots etc.
Establish and maintain engineering standards, such as: coding practices, tag naming, network connectivity and device management, etc.
Participate in bi-directional peer design reviews.
Lead technical activities with suppliers, system integrators, and internal customers.
Contribute to quality systems using toolsets such as Lean, Design for Six Sigma, House of Quality, etc. to advance equipment designs and process improvements.
Identify opportunities for improvement in equipment and internal work processes.
Build business case to explain technical recommendations.
Lead collaborative efforts with diverse backgrounds and functional aras.
Define schedules based on projects and experience.
Coach and mentor others regarding customer service; manage communications and opportunities with customers and recommend actions.
Engage in and lead continuous improvement initiatives; act as a role model for safety, 5S, etc. 
Prepare presentations to outside suppliers, system integrators, and leadership team with support from senior team members.
Maintain open communication through conversation and both formal and informal documents.

Qualifications of the Industrial Controls Engineer
BS in Controls Systems, Electrical, or Mechanical Engineering required, degrees in other engineering disciplines considered with relevant industry experience.
2-8 years minimum experience.
Equipment design for an industrial, high volume production environment.
Programming ladder logic PLC’s, safety PLCs and HMIs.
Selecting appropriate circuit protectors, wiring and cabling, sensors. Hardware (PLC, HMI, safety, remote I/O, etc.) motors and drives, motion controllers etc. 
Integrating vision systems, robots and other devices into a custom-designed manufacturing cell
Able to complete responsibilities in a timely, professional and quality manner.
Solve problems analytically, search out relevant information and gauge its importance when making decisions.
Effective written and oral communication skills; able to express oneself clearly and in technical and non-technical terms.
Creative thinker.
Proficiency documenting system schematics in CAD Software (AutoCAD, SolidWorks).
Deep understanding of closed loop controls, instrumentation, process controls systems (PLC, HMI, SCADA, networking), panel design, safety codes and regulations (OSHA, ANSI, NEC, etc.).
Collaborative and effective team player able to work with globally dispersed teams.
Demonstrate ability and willingness to learn; seek out development activities to improve skills and increase knowledge; learn from other team members and own mistakes.
Take imitative, seek and act on opportunities to improve organization performance.
Ability to translate specific goals into action and follow through to achieve goals.
Proficiency in MS Office suite (Outlook, Word, Excel) and data management software (SAP preferred).
Available for domestic and international travel 1-2 weeks per year. .
 

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.”Senior 

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Infrastructure - Integrations Engineer
Our client is seeking an Engineer 3 Server to include researching new technologies and upgrades and determining their effectiveness; engineering and integrating new and existing technologies, tools, and applications into the company environment; documenting decisions, designs, and installation instructions; and training the appropriate internal resources. On call support is usually a requirement for an Engineer. These responsibilities span facilities throughout the Oregon region. At times, engineers will be expected to assist IS employees in other service areas where equipment resides.

Infrastructure - Integrations Engineer Responsibilities
Prioritizing work and managing time with a high volume of work and many interruptions, in order to meet deadlines.
Maintain technical knowledge in a rapidly evolving environment.
Keeping systems running and functioning properly.
Ensure proper documentation is created and maintained for all technical environments that reside within the company.

Provide leadership to others as demonstrated by:
Provides technical support of production, development, and/or test Windows based and other client and server systems based OS, Citrix, Exchange Server, IIS, SAN, DNS/DHCP/WINS, Design and Architecture, Print Services, business critical applications and Anti-Virus deployment and support.
Assists in the coordination and establishment of disaster recovery processes and business resumption planning across Windows based server platforms.
Schedules, performs and maintains operation system installations and upgrades, as well as layered software packages, in accordance with established. policies and performance levels.
Monitors, evaluates and configures systems to achieve optimum performance levels. Ensures server data integrity by evaluation, implementing and managing appropriate software and hardware solutions.
Ensures data recoverability by implementing a schedule of system backups and database archive operational procedures.
Conducts routine hardware and software audits of Windows based servers to ensure compliance with established standards, policies and configuration guidelines. Maintains a comprehensive operating system hardware and software configuration library of all supported systems.
Provides the highest degree of data security and integrity through diligent and daily monitoring of backup logs for each assigned server with action plans should such monitoring indicate a need to resolve a failure.

Additional Responsibilities:
Provide a mentoring relationship to ensure the user device staff have and maintain the skills necessary to collaboratively (as guided) resolve remote hardware problems.
Provide clear, concise and complete operational change communication.
Provide optimal problem resolution processes by making full and appropriate use of internal and external resources including OEM and third party maintenance vendors.
Continual research, learn and acquire new knowledge to improve the operational services delivered by the Windows based sever team. Communicate this knowledge with the other members of your team to enhance our overall knowledge and competency level.
Carry a pager and/or cell phone and be available during specified hours of coverage on a standby basis and also available as an integral member of a system support team during normal and crisis situations.

Project/Support Responsibilities:
Responsible for engineering large, technical projects by:
Researching and maintaining a knowledge of new emerging products and strategies and their relative value against competitors and the benefit to the organization. Easily assimilates new technologies and arrives at viable conclusions regarding their value to the organization.
Conducting integrated testing of all system functions.
Assimilating new technologies and features, conceptualizes these with the current environment and long term goals, and provides technical strategies/directions for the region.
Producing procedures and policies for new products and/or methodologies in an exemplary manner, setting the standards for the group.
Documenting the technical standards decisions, system designs and procedures in an exemplary manner, setting the standards for the group.
Being established as a leader in teamwork, documentation, technical expertise, judgment, and strategy.
Facilitating engineering teams.
Develop comprehensive cost projections, demonstrated by:
Preparation of a comprehensive cost/benefit analysis.
Create a comprehensive project charter template for proposed projects, demonstrated by:
Completion of standard IS charter template for proposed projects.
Completion of standard IS project timeline template for proposed projects.
Produce clear, concise, and meaningful project status reports, demonstrated by:
Production of relevant status reports on time and with use of standard IS reporting mechanisms and tools.
Orchestrate a project involving multiple IS departments, demonstrated by:
Preparation and execution of work plan involving resource responsibility by multiple departments.
Identification of, and negotiation for, resources outside of area of influence.
Orchestrate multiple teams as demonstrated by:
Providing coordination for resolving issues across multiple teams or departments.

Infrastructure - Integrations Engineer Qualifications 
Bachelor's Degree with 4 years of IT related experience or;
Associate's Degree with 8 years of IT related experience or equivalent education/experience.
10 years of IT related experience without a degree.
At least 4 years Industry experience supporting production level Windows servers in a 24x7 environment.
Experience providing technical and/or work process guidance and direction to team members.
Experience at creating, assigning and following up on task across multiple technology disciplines.
Experience in two or more of the following sub-specialties associated with Windows based sever management: Active Directory, Virtual Machine, Linux-based OS, Citrix, Exchange Server, IIS, SAN, Back-ups, Design and Architecture, Print Services, specific business critical applications, Anti-Virus deployment and support.
Progressive mindset embracing change and new technologies (where appropriate to the business).
Information Services experience providing support, preferably in a healthcare industry setting.
Excellent interpersonal communication skills, relates to and effectively communicates with employees at all levels within the company as well as vendors.

Evidence of advanced competency in technical expertise through the following:
Ability to provide mentoring to level 1 and 2 staff regarding the execution of tasks, emerging technologies, and best practices for maintaining the highest levels of server reliability, application stability and data integrity.
Professional level communication and presentation skills to effectively conduct productive technical and non-technical meetings and briefings with colleagues, vendors, organizational leaders and executive level attendees.
Provide leadership role in obtaining and directing technical resources during problem resolutions or during a crisis or critical problem event. Takes the lead in communications and vendor management.
Ability to recognize when standards, processes, policies or procedures are no longer effective and proactively resolves or assigns responsibility to resolve these issues and follows through to completion including a review of new policies, procedures, and standards.
Effective project management for medium to large applications, servers and technology enhancements.
Knowledge in two or more of the following sub-specialties associated with Windows based sever management: Active Directory, Virtual Machine, Linux-based OS, Citrix, Exchange Server, IIS, SAN, Back-ups, Disaster Recovery, Design and Architecture, Print Services, specific business critical applications, Anti-Virus deployment and support.
Ability to create, and design an architecture to integrate applications, taking into account security, Servers and SAN environments.

Licenses and Certifications:
IT engineering certifications (MCSE, MCSD, or CNE) may be considered to supplement experience where the same or similar accountabilities could not be substantiated.

Additional Desirable Skills:
Jenkins
Elastic Stack
Ansible

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.
 

Infrastructure DevOps Developer 
Our client is seeking an Infrastructure DevOps Developer to join their dynamic team in Bend, OR. This role is responsible for helping to enable the agile framework through systems for various engineering projects and initiatives while looking for ways to become more efficient by implementing various DevOps practices.

Infrastructure DevOps Developer Responsibilities 
Build and extend our software delivery pipeline supporting continuous integration and delivery for multiple teams.
Work as a dedicated DevOps resource with multiple development teams becoming the liaison between development and infrastructure.
Design, implementation and management of build, deployment configuration, and automated test toolset.
Design and maintain a release management strategy supporting an always-on 24/7 SaaS platform with a focus on performance and scalability.
Responsible for developing, documenting, and socializing DevOps processes and tools across the organization.
Develop patterns to improve the velocity and self-sufficiency of the development team.
Shared team responsibility for the up-time of the SaaS products.
Work with architects and engineers to provide automated solutions driving improved efficiency throughout the SDLC.
Drive ongoing improvements and efficiencies in operational practices, tools, and processes.
Responsible for troubleshooting issues with SaaS products for the teams assigned.
 
Infrastructure DevOps Developer Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related information technology field; or equivalent combination of education and experience preferred.
Understanding of Agile methodologies.
At least five (5) years’ experience with scripting technologies such as Python (the main language we use), Ruby (a plus), and Bash (a plus).
At least three (3) years’ experience with of DevOps practices.
At least three (3) years’ experience with Windows 2012, CentOS 7 and VMWare.
Demonstrated ability to learn, implement and evangelize new technologies.
At least two (2) years’ experience automating cloud (AWS preferred) and on-premise infrastructure.
At least five (5) years’ experience troubleshooting distributed applications.
Ability to deliver innovative solutions for problems where there are no available precedents.
At least five (5) years’ experience using configuration management tools (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, etc.).
At least five (5) years’ experience supporting Java applications.
Must demonstrate strength in the following areas daily; analytical problem solving, risk identification/mitigation, sense of urgency, sense of accountability, relationship building and excellent communication skills.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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Inventory Management Analyst
Our client is hiring an Inventory Management Analyst for their team in Beaverton, Oregon. You will be responsible for inventory management and purchasing strategies that enable sustainable, profitable growth for the geography. You show initiative, a sense of urgency and work independently with minimal guidance while handling competing priorities. This role will require an ability to move seamlessly between details and big-picture thinking.

On any given day, you will perform & manage purchasing activities to ensure timely and accurate buys. This will include ad-hoc data analysis and reporting to identify, resolve, and escalate production and shipping delays. You will identify opportunities, implement process improvements, and make recommendations to maximize inventory productivity. This role is part of our Demand & Supply Management organization within the North America geography. You will work with IM teammates within your category to influence and drive results with internal and external stakeholders.

Inventory Management Analyst Qualifications
Pay $24-25 Hourly.
Bachelor’s degree.
2 years of directly related work experience or an additional 2 years of experience in lieu of a degree.
Advanced Excel.
Proficient in MS Office (Outlook, PowerPoint, Word).
Proficient in SAP.
Demonstrated ability to achieve business results.
Ability to communicate, influence, and partner effectively using strong verbal and written communication.
Self-motivated.
Familiarity with Cognos and PEGASUS reporting software.
Familiarity with software programming (SQL, Tableau, Alteryx and/or Python).

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

iOS Developer
Our client is looking for an iOS Software Engineer to join our Product Development team in Beaverton, Oregon. The Engineering team is responsible for delivering customer solutions on multiple platforms that are responsive, scalable, and of the highest quality. We use the Agile development process, and value employees who foster collaboration between team members.

They are looking for a highly motivated self-starter with excellent communication skills, and the ability to successfully interact with fellow development and scrum team members on a daily basis. This person will participate in the architecture, design, development, and support of a suite of native mobile iOS applications.

iOS Developer Responsibilities
Designing, developing, and maintaining native iOS.
Contributing to the development of REST APIs and/or BFFs consumed by iOS.
Participating in task estimation and code.
Helping the team develop software that is reliable, scalable.
Write unit, integration, and functional tests, and work with others.
Review functional requirements and analyze their impact on software design.
Document software designs and project tasks.
Work with team members to improve development processes and practices.

iOS Developer Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
Minimum 8 years overall experience in software development.
Minimum 2 years working in the native iOS platform using Swift 4+.

Apple HIG and iOS best practices; practice iOS UX / UI standards.
Design Principles and Patterns; according to established best practices.
REST APIs; Consuming REST APIs from mobile client.
Scrum/Agile SDLC.
Ability to communicate (written and verbal) effectively with others.
Ability to present, communicate, exchange and influence ideas.
Ability to connect and build relationships with others.
Awareness of the emotional needs of self and others.
Ability to keep focused on work necessary to accomplish goals.
Ability to solve problems based on the needs of the problem.
Ability to be aware of self and manage your unique limitations.
Ability to generate ideas, investigate, and discover outcome to a goal.
Adapt to challenges, accept differences and progress despite conflict.
A supportive peer, mentor, support, leader, or example for others.
Ability to maintain ethics and morale throughout categories of skills.

Building Backend-for-Frontend GraphQL experience a plus
Node.js / JavaScript; Building REST APIs
App Store Connect; Limited     
Fabric / Crashlytics; Fatal / non-fatal error reporting
Static code analysis; Sonarcloud, Swiftlint
Mobile CI solutions;Bitrise.io
Material Design Guideline; Material.io
Cloud Native Development; Especially AWS.
APNS;Understanding of how APNS works.
Test Automation; Automating tests as part of CI/CD pipeline

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws. 

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

iOS Engineer
Our client is looking for a iOS Engineer to join their team in Beaverton, Oregon.

iOS Engineer Responsibilities
Develops, codes/configures, and tests programs and systems, typically within the parameters of two to three sprints. 
Shares knowledge effectively with the work team. 
Builds productive networks with technical colleagues, participating in technical forums and user groups. 
Demonstrates a strong working understanding of production systems, with the ability to troubleshoot and resolve many problems on assigned systems with minimal support.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

iOS Engineer
Our client is looking for an iOS Engineer to join their team in Beaverton, Oregon.

iOS Engineer Responsibilities
Develops, modifies, applies, and maintains standards for software quality operating methods, processes, systems and procedures. 
Conducts software inspection, testing, verification, and validation. 
Implements software development and maintenance processes and methods. 
Ensures measures meet acceptable reliability standards. 
Develops overall operating criteria to ensure implementation of the software quality program according to project, process and contract requirements and objectives. 
Ensures that project and process control documentation are compliant with requirements, objectives, and/or contract. 
Reviews software design, change specifications, and plans against contractual and/or process requirements. 
Reviews include applicable specifications, materials, tools, techniques, and methodologies. 
Performs or directs verification of software requirement allocations, traceability, and testability.

iOS Engineer Qualifications
iOS, UIKit, Swift, Cocoapods, and Redux experience required.
Minimum 8 years of technical experience with 4 years in software quality.

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

iOS Engineer
Our client is hiring an iOS Engineer for their team in Beaverton, Oregon.

iOS Engineer Responsibilities
Develops action plans and processes, in coordination with management team, for integrating activities and optimizing department resources to meet major goals and objectives. 
Facilitates or performs application support, problem solving, and issue resolution with internal and external resources. 
Contributes and reviews recommendations for technical solutions. 
Manages and/or contributes to the technical components of the RFP process. 
Resolves issues and determines options for issue resolution and risk mitigation. 
Defines and communicates requirements for technical environments and determines the technical scope for projects.
Provides technical estimates for project budget input to Senior/Project Manager. 
Leads and owns engagements with software vendors to ensure that code and configuration requirements and deliverables are met. 
Enforces architecture, governance, security, and global process standards to system changes and deployments. 
Coordinates compliance issue identification and remediation. 
Collaborates with other teams on integration needs/design. 
Contributes to database design and creates critical-path, high-risk, advanced technical designs. 
Approves proof of concept efforts and reviews results. 
Enforce company and department architectural direction and ensure consistent technical approach within department. 
Decide on engineering tools based on recommendations. 
Allocate resources based on performance monitoring and tuning results. 
Manage and enforce performance thresholds and standards. 
Review and approve performance test results, recommendations, and tuning results. 
Oversee and is responsible for the creation of test plans, test execution, and validation of test results. 

Benefits
Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

***Not able to use 3rd Party Agencies***

iOS Software Engineer
Our client will be hiring an iOS Software Engineer to join their growing Portland development team.

iOS Software Engineer Responsibilities
Expect to build the next generation of features for their iOS App.
Work effectively with a distributed, agile team, and within established standards and processes.
Your local team will include a Product Owner and Designer to provide specifications, engineers to develop REST APIs that serve the app, and QA to test the app; you will also have frequent communication and occasional travel to meet with a peer based in Sweden.
Communicate well. With offices in multiple time zones and multiple countries, this position requires strong written and verbal communication skills.
Build automated testing and performance/stability monitoring into the apps.

iOS Software Engineer Qualifications
5 years of experience developing data-driven iOS apps using Objective-C, with recent experience in Swift.
Bring experience maintaining and supporting iOS apps over multiple years and iterations of development.
Experience with source control and bug tracking software (we use Git and Jira).

Preferred:
Experience using Fastlane for continuous integration and deployment automation is a plus.

About VanderHouwen 
VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.  Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.