What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Technology Engineer position at Advocate Consulting?
Advocate is an advisory and managed services company of IT business experts and data scientists dedicated to helping companies optimize their technology infrastructure. Utilizing marketplace intelligence, decision analytics and acceleration capabilities, Advocate partners with its clients in innovative ways to save money, improve performance and deliver crucial insight to help them make the best possible decisions related to their technology investments. That’s why we work, Smarter. Together.
We are seeking a Sr. Technology Engineer to join our Managed Services – Engineering Team. As a member of the Engineering Team, the Sr. Technology Engineer will be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of business IT needs. This would include the sourcing and refining of business requirements and the development, QA, release, and support of the final product. The Technology Engineer will be seen as Advocate’s internal system’s expert and will be called upon as a SME to address any new development, enhancements, or support issues.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Support our end-to-end internal IT architecture
- Perform required user administration activities
- Troubleshoot data and software issues
- Identify requirements and develop new tools and functionality
- Help to enable Advocate resources to access data through reliable and scalable methods
- Support and maintain a strong security and data governance practice, ensuring data reliability, accuracy, and end to end data protection
- Build relationships and practice effective collaboration within the Technology and other Advocate teams
- Drive areas for process improvement
SKILLS
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative, team environment
- Maintains an enthusiastic, positive, constructive attitude in the workplace
- Analytical aptitude and curiosity to learn new things at a fast pace
- Ability to work autonomously given fundamental priorities and responsibilities
- Willingness to think outside of the box and push yourself beyond your typical comfort zone
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Keen attention to detail
- High self-confidence with the ability to take and apply constructive feedback
- Advanced analytical and big data analysis skills
- An understanding of IT Infrastructure (Servers, Databases, Storage, Network etc.)
QUALIFICATIONS
- Four-year college degree in computer science or related engineering degree
- Microsoft SQL Server - development and administration duties (including indexes, views, stored procedures, functions, and ETL)
- T-SQL on Microsoft SQL Server
- Microsoft Office with advanced proficiency in Excel (formulas, pivot tables, v-lookups, etc.)
- Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure environment
- Python
- Docker
- VB.NET
- .Net Framework
- JavaScript
- Experience working with external / 3rd party VPN connections
- HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript (nice to have)
- Microsoft Power BI or Tableau (nice to have)
- R (nice to have)
- Telecommunications experience (nice to have)
- IT certifications a plus, but not required
- Must provide Proof of Right to Work in the United States on the I9 Form
OPPORTUNITIES
- Join a company named to the Inc. 5000 list of Fastest Growing Companies for eleven consecutive years.
- Named one of the Top 150 Workplaces by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
- Work daily with Fortune 500 Global Clients.
- Opportunity for rapid career advancement.
REWARDS AND BENEFITS
- Competitive base pay
- Incentive bonus plan
- Industry Competitive Health and Welfare Benefits
- Company matched 401(k) with immediate vesting
- Two paid days off for community service
- Flexible work arrangement to support a good work-life balance
- Professional development with a long-term career path
- Continuing education reimbursement
- Paid employee referral program
