Financial Systems Application Engineer (Elite 3E / SQL)

Role: Enterprise Applications Engineer

Location: Hackensack, NJ (Hybrid)

Fulltime Opportunity

Full job description

This person will work closely with the Enterprise Applications Manager in IT, Accounting, Marketing, Records, and other firm personnel to ensure all applications run optimally and without interruption. Good communication, technical and analytical skills are required, with a heavy focus on Microsoft SQL (querying, reporting in SSIS and other tools, maintenance, documentation, and upgrades), Windows Servers, and Microsoft online services. Some programming knowledge would be ‘nice to have,’ but expert knowledge is not required.

Essential Job Functions and Responsibilities:

• As part of team, integrate, update, administer, and support the firm’s management applications, which include the following:
• Finance: Elite 3E, Intapp (Time, Risk, Intake), Concur, Iridium reporting and analytics
• Practice-specific tools: Aderant CompuLaw.
• Marketing: Foundations

Responsibilities within the firm’s application stack include:

• Performing application implementations, reconfiguration, upgrades, and periodic maintenance.
• Administering the underlying platforms, especially Microsoft SQL, SSRS, SSIS, Active Directory and Azure AD authentication and integration, and Windows Servers.
• Coordinating with other departments and stakeholders during projects and system upgrades; assessing and communicating risk factors, primarily when integrated systems cause a “trickle-down” effect.
• Participating in month-end maintenance such as: Windows updates, SQL maintenance, query optimization, and security patching.
• Testing applications during system changes, enhancements, upgrades, and monthly system maintenance.
• Documenting system configurations, integrations, backup, and disaster recovery processes and other processes.
• Creating how-to guides and documenting resolutions to frequently asked questions.
• Communicating and informing the department and management of project statuses, issues, and proposed resolutions.
• Resolving support requests/tickets escalated from the helpdesk team, including ‘end user’ application troubleshooting.
• Managing vendor support tickets.
• Tracking and optimizing system performance and storage utilization, plan for necessary hardware or software upgrades to support system growth.
• Researching and evaluating new tools/technologies to improve the current application stack.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Proficiency in SQL administration, data queries, and reporting (“SSRS”) essential
• Demonstrated ability to learn functional and technical integration aspects of the firm’s applications, based on experience in a variety of environments.
• 3 years’ experience operating accounting, time tracking, billing, and management software in a legal or other professional services company strongly preferred.
• Fluency in the Elite 3E SQL database schema preferred or a demonstrated ability to develop such fluency based on experience with other systems.
• Experience with any of Elite 3E Templates (“Design Gallery”), Workspace, BizTalk, Elite Application Framework and Tools and 3E Solutions Manager a plus and would be very attractive.
• Proficiency in XML/XSLT transformation.
• Proficiency with some combination of PowerShell, C# and Visual Basic .Net, HTML5 or other programming or scripting languages.
• Experience administering Windows Server.
• Solid technical foundation with the ability to troubleshoot, diagnose and resolve complex problems and implement solutions with minimal guidance.
• Self-motivated with excellent time management skills.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to communicate results.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to communicate with staff of varying technical expertise.

Education and/or Experience:

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in management, design, and implementation of large enterprise applications in a heterogeneous operating system environment with hands-on experience in maintaining mission-critical enterprise applications at a high level of availability.
• Broad knowledge of the specialized and technical field of computer science and business/management acumen equivalent to a complete college or university education; includes thorough skills knowledge.
• 4-year college degree preferred; equivalent experience considered.

About Arthur Grand Technologies: 

Arthur Grand Technologies is a leading provider of staffing and technology consulting services. Our company is managed by a team of professionals who have worked for big 5 consulting firms for 20 years. We are a minority-owned staff augmentation and technology consulting company.

At Arthur Grand Technologies, we value our employees & contractors and strive to provide them with challenging, interesting work, market-relevant benefits, and opportunities for professional growth. If you have the necessary qualifications, and are excited to join a dynamic team, please send your resume to abishek.s@arthurgrand.com for immediate consideration.

Thank you for considering Arthur Grand Technologies. We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Thanks & Regards

Abishek Satheesan | Senior Technical Recruiter  

Arthur Grand Technologies Inc

T: (571) 336-6664 | E: abishek.s@arthurgrand.com | W: arthurgrand.com

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Arthur Grand is an Equal Opportunity Employer (including disability/vets)