Job Description:

• Mastery of ETL in general with specific experience directing large-scale legacy system conversion projects. Ideally, experience includes Medicaid or other healthcare/claims processing applications
• Experience in establishing project-level and/or organizational-level ETL processes, standards, tool usage models, etc.
• Diverse ETL tool experience – first hand experience with a variety of ETL tools such as Informatica, Pervasive, Oracle PL/SQL, etc.
• Track record of successful delivery at the individual and team levels
• Strong project management skills – schedule management, resource management, issue management, etc. PMP certification preferred, but not required
• Strong leadership skills – proven track record of leading developing staff to meet the organizational needs and grow into new roles
• Strong customer skills in general. Able to manage scope without negatively impacting the customer
• Experience contributing to proposal development and meeting with prospective clients for new business opportunities
• Willing to travel as required to be onsite with customer

Location: Multiple
Interested individuals may apply by sending their resume to:
Srinivas Tutika
S2Tech
720 Spirit 40 Park Drive
Chesterfield, MO 63005

Job Description:

• The Data Conversion Manager will be responsible for managing a large scale data conversion project from requirements through post implementation support. The conversion manager will participate in requirements meetings to determine the scope of the conversion effort, will manage the effort to design, develop and test the conversion modules, will supervise the final data conversion effort, and will manage any post-go live data conversion issue resolution.
• The Data Conversion Manager will also be responsible for managing project deliverables, maintaining the project schedule, providing status reports and dashboards to key stakeholders, managing the data conversion team, and all other responsibilities of a senior project management position.

Desired Skills:

• Experience directing large-scale legacy system conversion projects. Ideally, experience includes Medicaid or other healthcare/claims processing applications
• Strong project management skills – schedule management, resource management, issue management, etc. PMP certification preferred, but not required
• Experience communicating with and providing status to project stakeholders
• Experience in establishing naming conventions, coding standards, best practices, procedures for peer reviews
• Strong customer skills in general. Able to manage scope without negatively impacting the customer
• Track record of successful delivery at the individual and team levels
• Strong leadership skills – proven track record of leading developing staff to meet the organizational needs and grow into new roles
• Experience contributing to proposal development and meeting with prospective clients for new business opportunities
• Experience in establishing project-level and/or organizational-level ETL processes, standards, tool usage models, etc.
• Diverse ETL tool experience – first hand knowledge with ETL tools such as Informatica, Pervasive, Oracle PL/SQL, etc.
• Willing to travel as required to be onsite with customer

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with Healthcare Information Exchange implementations
• Experience with Enterprise Service Bus implementations
• Experience with Master Data Management implementations

Activities may include:

• Leading all facets of the Data Conversion effort
• Managing design and development teams
• Conducting requirements gathering
• Facilitating Joint Application Design (JAD) or other design sessions
• Creation and administration of all project administration deliverables
• Creation and administration of detailed work plan
• Creation and delivery of status reports and dashboards
• Building and maintaining strong working relationships with project stakeholders, subject matter experts, and development teams
• Scope management
• Project Cost Control and Budgeting

Location: Multiple
Interested individuals may apply by sending their resume to:
Srinivas Tutika
S2Tech
720 Spirit 40 Park Drive
Chesterfield, MO 63005

Job Description:

• The ETL Technical Lead will be responsible for laying and maintaining the technical foundation for the S2Tech Data Services organization. This person will work closely with the Data Services Director to ensure that the business processes defined by the Data Services organization have solid technical backing, and that the developer rules, standards, and processes are aligned with the overall vision for the organization. He or she will be responsible for creating the processes needed to stand up and maintain ETL development, test, and production environments and will be responsible for defining the technical standards, conventions, and rules to be followed by the development team. The ETL Technical Lead will also have primary responsibility for training ETL technical staff, and implementing peer review procedures to ensure development staff continue to follow standards and produce the highest quality results.

Mandatory Skills:

• Experience training technical resources, managing technical teams, and conducting peer reviews to ensure work quality
• Experience as a lead ETL developer or technical architect for large scale legacy system conversion or data integration projects
• Experience in establishing and maintaining ETL environments for development, testing, and production
• Experience in establishing naming conventions, coding standards, best practices, procedures for peer reviews
• Experience in creating re-usable processes, procedures, and code components for consistency across projectsStrong leadership skills – proven track record of leading developing staff to meet the organizational needs and grow into new roles
• Experience with SOA architecture
• Experience in mapping legacy data to target, identifying gaps, unmapped data, data requiring cleansing, etc.
• Experience supporting the production conversion and troubleshooting data-related issues in a timely manner, without negatively impacting the online system
• Disciplined process skills with an eye for process improvement
• Diverse ETL tool experience – includes ETL tools, database management systems, etc.
• Strong customer skills in general. Able to manage scope without negatively impacting the customer
• Willing to travel as required to be on site with customer

Desired Skills:

• Experience with Healthcare Information Exchange implementations
• Experience with Enterprise Service Bus implementations
• Experience with Master Data Management implementations


Location: Multiple
Interested individuals may apply by sending their resume to:
Srinivas Tutika
S2Tech
720 Spirit 40 Park Drive
Chesterfield, MO 63005

Job Description:

• The ETL Developer will be responsible for designing, developing, and testing data conversion or data integration modules to support large scale system migrations and implementations. The ETL developers will work closely with ETL Analysts and project subject matter experts to create technical designs, will develop ETL modules using ETL software and stored procedures, will thoroughly test the software, will integrate this software in to workflows or scheduling solutions, and will execute the code modules as necessary for final conversion. ETL Developers may also be asked to perform data analysis functions and participate in design and requirements sessions to facilitate rapid design to development.

Required Skills:

• Several years of experience building data conversion or data integration software components using ETL software such as Pervasive, Informatica, Datastage, SSIS, ODI, OWB
• Experience participating in peer reviews to ensure work quality
• Experience developing code leveraging multiple ETL environments for development, testing, and production
• Experience using industry standard naming conventions, coding standards and best practices
• Experience creating re-usable processes, procedures, and code components for consistency across projects
• Experience with SOA architecture
• Experience mapping legacy data to target, identifying gaps, unmapped data, data requiring cleansing, etc.
• Experience supporting the production conversion and troubleshooting data-related issues in a timely manner, without negatively impacting the online system
• Disciplined process skills with an eye for process improvement
• Diverse ETL tool experience – includes ETL tools, database management systems, etc.
• Strong customer skills in general. Able to manage scope without negatively impacting the customer
• Willing to travel as required to be on site with customer

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with Healthcare Information Exchange implementations
• Experience with Enterprise Service Bus implementations
• Experience with Master Data Management implementations


Activities may include:

• Technical design of ETL components
• Construction of ETL components
• Data Profiling and Data Cleansing
• Creation of Balancing and Reconciliation Modules
• Creation of Workflows
• Integration with scheduling software
• Assisting ETL Analysts with creation of viable technical designs
• Reporting status to Conversion Manager and project stakeholders

Location: Multiple
Interested individuals may apply by sending their resume to:
Srinivas Tutika
S2Tech
720 Spirit 40 Park Drive
Chesterfield, MO 63005

Job Description:

• The ETL Lead Analyst will report directly to the Conversion Manager, and will be lead the team responsible for defining scope, designing solutions, developing balancing and reconciliation plans, creating technical design, construction of code modules, creating test cases, and executing testing for data conversion or integration components of large scale system implementations.
• The ETL Lead Analyst will be responsible for day to day leadership of design and development teams, achieving deliverable milestones, reporting status, and executing corrective action plans if necessary to support the project delivery schedule.
• The ETL Lead Analyst will also have responsibility for data analysis responsibilities, including requirements analysis, conversion design, balancing and reconciliation planning, test case creation and execution, data profiling and analysis, and correction of data issues using SQL or stored procedures.

Required Skills:

• ETL Lead Analyst should be well versed in ETL solutions, team leadership, database architecture, stored procedures, and executing SQL queries.
• A Bachelor’s degree in a related technical field or equivalent state agency work experience
• 2-3 years of relevant analyst experience or state agency experience
• 2-5 years of progressively responsible related technical or application experience
• Experience leading design and development teams
• Experience in data migration projects with specific experience as an analyst on a large-scale legacy system conversion project. Ideally, experience includes Medicaid or other healthcare/claims processing applications
• Experience with data profiling, data analysis, and data cleansing
• Experience mapping legacy data to target, identifying gaps, unmapped data, data requiring cleansing, etc.
• Experience with interface design and testing, including trading partner testing
• Experience troubleshooting data-related issues in a timely manner
• Disciplined process skills with an eye for process improvement
• Willing to travel as required to be on site with customer
• Experience with MS tools
• Experience interfacing with clients and technical staff
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple task assignments
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills (MS Visio, MS PowerPoint)
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to exercise mature judgment

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with Healthcare Information Exchange implementations
• Experience with Enterprise Service Bus implementations
• Experience with Master Data Management implementations


Activities may include:

• Managing development and design teams
• Reporting status to Conversion Manager and project stakeholders
• Conducting requirements gathering
• Facilitating Joint Application Design (JAD) or other design sessions
• Writing use cases, creating process flows, and/or creating system architecture diagrams and sequence documents
• Performing data profiling, data analysis, and data cleansing activities, including SQL data fixes
• Translating requirements into technical design
• Creating technical data mapping specifications to be used by developers
• Writing test cases, creating test scenarios, or participating in testing activities for data integration processes
• Revising specifications to accommodate changes

Location: Multiple
Interested individuals may apply by sending their resume to:
Srinivas Tutika
S2Tech
720 Spirit 40 Park Drive
Chesterfield, MO 63005

Job Description:

• The ETL Analyst will be responsible for defining scope, designing solutions, developing balancing and reconciliation plans, creating test cases, and executing testing for data conversion or integration components of large scale system implementations. The ETL Analyst will work closely with project stakeholders and subject matter experts to determine the scope of the data conversion or integration effort, will capture the business requirements, will review the technical solutions created by ETL Developers, will design balancing and reconciliation processes to validate data, will create test cases to test conversion or integration modules, and will execute the test cases and validate resulting data.
• The ETL Analyst will also be responsible for creating and executing data profiles to evaluate data quality, examining results, performing detailed analysis of legacy and target system data to identify issues, and in some cases executing SQL or stored procedures to correct data. As such, the ETL Analyst should be well versed in database architecture, stored procedures, and executing SQL queries.

Required Skills:

• A Bachelor’s degree in a related technical field or equivalent state agency work experience
• 2-3 years of relevant analyst experience or state agency experience
• 2-5 years of progressively responsible related technical or application experience
• Experience with data profiling, data analysis, and data cleansing
• Experience in data migration projects with specific experience as an analyst on a large-scale legacy system conversion project. Ideally, experience includes Medicaid or other healthcare/claims processing applications
• Experience mapping legacy data to target, identifying gaps, unmapped data, data requiring cleansing, etc.
• Experience with interface design and testing, including trading partner testing
• Experience troubleshooting data-related issues in a timely manner
• Disciplined process skills with an eye for process improvement
• Willing to travel as required to be on site with customer
• Experience with MS tools
• Experience interfacing with clients and technical staff
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple task assignments
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills (MS Visio, MS PowerPoint)
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to exercise mature judgment

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with Healthcare Information Exchange implementations
• Experience with Enterprise Service Bus implementations
• Experience with Master Data Management implementations


Activities may include:

• Conducting requirements gathering
• Facilitating Joint Application Design (JAD) or other design sessions
• Writing use cases, creating process flows, and/or creating system architecture diagrams and sequence documents
• Performing data profiling, data analysis, and data cleansing activities, including SQL data fixes
• Translating requirements into technical design
• Creating technical data mapping specifications to be used by developers
• Writing test cases, creating test scenarios, or participating in testing activities for data integration processes
• Revising specifications to accommodate changes


Location: Multiple

Interested individuals may apply by sending their resume to:
Srinivas Tutika
S2Tech
720 Spirit 40 Park Drive
Chesterfield, MO 63005

Skills Required:

• A Bachelor’s degree in a related technical field or equivalent state agency work experience
• 2-3 years of relevant analyst experience or state agency experience
• 2-5 years of progressively responsible related technical or application experience
• 1+ years of MMIS or Healthcare related Claims, billing and business systems experience in a large scale computer/systems environment would be preferred or 2+ years of related state agency experience
• 6 months or more of major responsibility for developing, revising and controlling technical documentation of a complex system
• Experience with MS tools
• Experience interfacing with clients and technical staff
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple task assignments
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills (MS Visio, MS PowerPoint)
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to exercise mature judgment

Activities may include the following:

• Conducting requirements gathering
• Facilitating Joint Application Design (JAD) or other design sessions
• Writing use cases, creating process flows, and/or creating system architecture diagrams and sequence documents
• Translating requirements into functional design
• Creating technical specifications to be used by developers
• Designing screen layouts and navigational flows
• Developing design specifications for correspondence, reports or interfaces
• Writing test cases, creating test scenarios, or participating in testing activities for new functionality in a Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS)
• Revising business or technical operations to accommodate changes


Location: Multiple

Interested individuals may apply by sending their resume to:
Srinivas Tutika
S2Tech
720 Spirit 40 Park Drive
Chesterfield, MO 63005
E-mail: srinivast@s2tech.com

Required Skills & Attributes:

• Experience as a project manager on a Medicaid/MMIS implementation or systems manager on a Medicaid/MMIS account.
• Strong, practical project management competencies.
• Solid technical and/or quality background.
• Strong customer relationship and communication skills.
• Ability to recognize personal and corporate growth opportunities.
• Excellent people skills.
• Impeccable integrity.

Responsibilities:

• Provide industry consulting expertise to State and/or Vendor customers.
• Leads the planning and implementation of all S2Tech project activities.
• Facilitates the definition of project scope and deliverables.
• Develops project plans in support of project scope and deliverables.
• Perform resource management activities for all assigned S2Tech staff.
• Establishes processes to ensure that all deliverables meet quality standards.
• Track project progress using approved tools and metrics.
• Consistently reports progress to internal and customer stakeholders.
• Confronts/resolves issues and risks to minimize impact to the owned projects.
• Coordinates with internal stakeholders to apply lessons learned and improve internal project delivery disciplines.

Location: Multiple

Interested individuals may apply by sending their resume to:
Srinivas Tutika
S2Tech
720 Spirit 40 Park Drive
Chesterfield, MO 63005

S2Tech is a fast growing and leading edge IT consulting company based in St. Louis, Missouri with clients all over the United States and is looking for Project Manager with following skill sets:

Responsibilities:

• Delivering project customer scope, on-time and within approved budget utilizing ACS PMM processes and tools.
• Driving and assigning CMMI-L3 processes, workflows and workitems specific to PMM tailoring.
• Reporting and directing project customer and executive? deliverable/schedule status, risks, actions items and decisions.
• Direct deliverable ownership which includes; Project Status Reports, Project Schedule, Issue Log, Action Item Log and Risk Log; and coordinating customer deliverables with the Project Team to include; Requirements Management Plan, RAD, DSD, UAT Test Plan and Implementation Plan.
• Direct deliverable ownership for Project Management Plan, Integration Mgmt, Scope Management Plan and Resource Plan; and coordinating internal project deliverables with the Project Team to include Release Plan, WorkPlan, Security, Cost Plan and DR.
• Plan and forecast resource/skills to support defined project deliverables and workitems; including estimating and labor costing following PMM standards.
• Integrate project workplans based on WBS deliverables and milestone time points; coordinate with support teams to align deliverables and schedules; track and report weekly workitem/deliverables by schedule date, costs and risks.
• Report overall project team and deliverable metrics using dashboard and scorecard formats; conduct customer, team and executive project plan/deliverable communications and reviews.
• Manage project scope and risks; accountable for scope/risk? management and ensuring change control management.
• Coordinate project team training, knowledge and retrospective exercises/sessions.
• Prior Medicaid experience is a MUST

Individuals may apply by sending their resume to:
Ajoy Lal
ajoyl@s2tech.com
S2Tech
720 Spirit 40 Park Drive
Chesterfield, MO 63005

Job Title:Team Lead / Programmer Analyst
Division: Operations
Location: Durham, NC or Client site

Purpose/Role:
Plans, designs, develop and tests software systems or application enhancements and new products. Also provides leadership to a team of programmers (three or more).

Job Duties/Responsibilities:
Using current programming languages and technologies, writes COBOL programming, and performs testing and debugging of applications. Analyzes programs and modifies software enhancements. Team Leads will have supervisory responsibilities for their team and may assist in the training of lesser experienced programmers on their teams. Our clients use a diverse set of applications to manage its enrollment, eligibility, and claims processing functions for Medicaid Systems. The applications are Legacy based Mainframe applications with some web functionality. They have a high degree of interdependent functionality and a great deal of care must be given to any changes or additions. They have implemented all X12 EDI transactions to support HIPAA transactions and use EDI extensively to distribute and receive data with their vendors and provider groups. Team leads provide leadership and supervision to their team. They participate in performance evaluations and provide direction for day to day work.


Knowledge/Qualifications:

• 4 year degree in IT or related field
• 6 plus years in software application development in a large scale IT environment.
• One or more years of supervisory experience in a development environment
• COBOL
• CICS
• COM
• JCL
• VSAM
• Endevor
• Expediter
• File-Aid
• SyncSort
• Experience in Medicaid or Healthcare related systems preferred.

Travel Required:
None or Minimal

Metrics:

• Ability to meet deadlines
• Quality of coding
• Ability to problem solve
• Ability to work with and support co-workers
• Ability to think outside of the box and be creative and/or flexible
• Ability to understand the whole picture of the project and how it fits the needs of the client

Compensation & Benefits: Best in the industry If you fit the above profile, please submit your updated resume.

Note: Management retains the discretion to add or change duties of the position at any time based on Company needs. An Equal Opportunity Employer.
please submit your updated resume.

Job Title: Business Analyst
Division: Field Operations
Location: Raleigh, N.C.
Report To: Onsite Coordinator, Team Lead, or Project Manager

Purpose/Role:
The Business Analyst is a fully qualified individual producer who applies a broad knowledge of systems analysis concepts, practices and procedures. Specializes in Healthcare business systems and process flows, including Claims, Provider, TPL, Hospital Billing, ADT Functions, and Medical Records systems, etc.(This healthcare experience would be ideal) Incumbents are competent to work on fairly complex assignments (and/or portions of more large, complex systems) and perform a full range of system analysis activities. The Business Analyst generally works under deadlines and is capable of handling heavy workloads, operating with only general supervision. They may provide occasional functional guidance to less experienced staff. The BA provides functional and technical expertise to formulate computer system scope and objectives. Devises or modifies procedures to solve problems using information systems. Prepares detailed specifications from which programs are written, and the functional design, against which computer programs can be coded, tested, debugged and documented. Assignments are in technical and business functional areas.


Job Duties/Responsibilities:

• Performs definition of user functional requirements by translating development and/or maintenance requirements into specifications.
• Analyzes existing software for incorporation of desired enhancements. Performs detailed reviews and analysis of program changes, and other factors and trends impacting existing systems in order to facilitate the development and conformance of system modifications.
• Formulates recommendations on alternative approaches to realize desired functionalities and/or enhancements and desired levels of performance. Performs life cycle analysis and/or cost/benefit studies.
• Designs system, providing interpretive analyses, preparing flowcharts and associated diagrams/ enhancement plans
• Prepares system and acceptance test plans, conducts acceptance tests and confirms results.
• Ensures that systems documentation is updated according to client standards.
• May assist in user training.
• Occasionally may provide guidance to and assist in the training of less experienced staff.

Job Duties/Responsibilities:

• A Bachelor’s degree in a related technical field or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum 3-5 years of progressively responsible related technical experience.
• A Minimum of 1 year MMIS or Healthcare related Claims, billing and business systems experience large scale computer/systems environment would be preferred.
• 6 months or more of major responsibility for developing, revising and controlling technical documentation of a complex system.
• Experience with MS tools.
• Experience interfacing with Clients and our technical staff.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.

Travel Required:
Travel will depend on work location. If off site, some travel could be required to Client site.

Metrics:
The BA’s performance will be measured by a combination of:

• Client satisfaction
• Project success
• Training success
• Quality of Documentation
• On time completion

Compensation & Benefits: Best in the industry

If you fit the above profile, please submit your updated resume.

Note: Management retains the discretion to add or change duties of the position at any time based on Company needs. An Equal Opportunity Employer.
please submit your updated resume.

Job Title: Programmer Analyst
Division: Operations

Purpose/Role:
Our clients use a diverse set of applications to manage its enrollment, eligibility, and claims processing functions for Medicaid Systems. The applications are Legacy based Mainframe applications with some web functionality. They have a high degree of interdependent functionality and a great deal of care must be given to any changes or additions. They have implemented all X12 EDI transactions to support HIPAA transactions and use EDI extensively to distribute and receive data with their vendors and provider groups. Your role would be to participate in the development, enhancement or maintenance of those Systems

Job Duties/Responsibilities:
As a programmer/analyst you will be involved in the following:

• Work with BA’s to define and document end-user business and reporting requirements based on input from users.
• Review, manage and resolve straightforward to highly complex problems involving one or more systems or functions; undertaking & overseeing the process of defining problems and implementing solutions with the help of the S2Tech Project Lead.
• Conduct analysis of alternatives and develop recommendations.
• Analyze the business requirements through research and your technical knowledge.
• Ensure that all or your work adheres to the organization's methods and practices and report on the status of the tasks as well as their compliance with the methodology.
• Develop detailed test plans and test data for system, business, and post-production testing.
• Work with the BA’s to conduct rigorous testing per requirements and support User Acceptance Testing.
• Document all designs and code modules according to CMMI standards.
• Be responsible for managing assigned tasks within a business/systems application, including problem resolution and applying internal application development standards.
• Participate in team discussions and knowledge sharing sessions and help your team grow with your contributions.

Knowledge/Qualifications:

• A 4 year technical degree .
• 1-2 years technical work experience in positions, such as programmer analyst, systems analyst, etc., in a Mainframe and or distributed platform environment. Each of these positions should represent your growth in technical and analytical skills.
• 1-2 years experience designing information systems for health care companies such as claims processing systems, eligibility systems, and enrollment and application processing systems. Strong analytical, problem solving, interviewing, and fact-finding skills.
• 1-2 years of successful development and implementation experience on projects.
• 1-2 years experience using JCL, COBOL, CICS, and DB2.
• Experience with Legacy System SDLC development projects.
• A well-developed, comprehensive knowledge of business process design, applications and systems design, unit-testing practices, and release cycle methodologies. (database architecture, object-oriented programming would be a plus)
• Thorough knowledge of general programming concepts and data modeling concepts.
• Knowledge of database concepts, including normalization, referential integrity and indexing strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong organization and planning skills.

Compensation & Benefits: Best in the industry

If you fit the above profile, please submit your updated resume.

Note: Management retains the discretion to add or change duties of the position at any time based on Company needs. An Equal Opportunity Employer.

please submit your updated resume.