September 2016

Senior People Soft Technical Analyst

Job description

Gideon Taylor is seeking a senior PeopleSoft developer who is ready for a new technical challenge, and for the opportunity to work directly with enterprise customers to improve their lives through business process automation.

If PeopleSoft is your thing, you know that technical work in the PeopleSoft world covers a huge range of tasks and skill sets. Many PS techs spend most of their time managing updates and patches, writing reports, fixing bugs, and making minor customizations, with only rare opportunities to build something new, robust, and exciting.

Working at Gideon Taylor means high-end, high-impact PeopleSoft development opportunities. We build custom PS automation solutions for elite consulting clients, every day. We also develop and market a cutting-edge product for the PS ecosystem. We need top-flight coders who can keep the pace, handle the pressure, and produce innovative solutions – all while being a great team player, a persuasive communicator, and genuinely focused on customer success. If that describes you, you’ll love being part of our team!

Please note that Gideon Taylor cannot sponsor any type of VISA at this time.

Company Description 

Gideon Taylor is a growing consulting and software company with a vision of revolutionizing the business processes of our clients using cutting-edge technology, including our custom electronic forms toolkit application, GT eForms™ for PeopleSoft. Based in beautiful Pleasant Grove, Utah, Gideon Taylor is customer-focused and results-driven, and gives top priority to hiring and retaining bright, motivated, values-driven people to carry the vision of our firm to our top-tier enterprise clients, like Princeton University, the State of Tennessee, and Wells Fargo. We are experiencing strong growth and sharp interest in our solutions and anticipate increasing opportunities for those who join our team. Learn more at www.gideontaylor.com.

Responsibilities 

This Senior Analyst’s primary responsibility is to develop and implement new PeopleSoft-based automation solutions for clients, including using GT eForms™. GT eForms™ enables functional development of workflow-enabled electronic forms and self-service applications inside PeopleSoft. These projects require the ability to interact confidently in a team environment that includes GT colleagues and client professionals.

This Analyst will:

• Analyze the client’s business processes and collaborate with other GT team members and the client to design custom solutions, developed in PeopleTools and GT eForms™, to replace paper-based or other less efficient data collection and approval processes. This includes custom integration solutions, using Web Services technology and custom application design, and other applications of high-end PeopleSoft technologies.
• Develop, test, and deploy the designed application, collaborating with functional experts, client technical resources, process owners, and project stakeholders.
• Supervise, train, and mentor less-experienced technical resources assigned to client and internal development projects.
• As assigned, develop, test, and deploy new features for the GT eForms™ product.
• As assigned, work escalated support tickets pertaining to GT eForms™ and client solutions.
• Contribute productively and supportively to our family-like Gideon Taylor team by lifting, helping, and encouraging other team members in work and life. Personify our company values to Build, Grow, and Serve.

Our clients expect us to increase the value of their PeopleSoft ownership through creativity, innovation, unparalleled expertise with PeopleSoft and GT eForms™ software and the ability to persuasively communicate the right vision to the right people in their organization. Our clients are willing to risk radical changes in the way they do business if they trust the vision this analyst presents.

This position will be challenging, rewarding, fun, and appropriately compensated.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of development experience with PeopleTools. (Applicants with less experience may still be considered for an entry-level position.)
• 3-5 years of development experience with object-oriented development, either heavily using Application Classes in PeopleTools, or another object-oriented language. (Applicants with less experience may still be considered for an entry-level position.)
• Degree in Computer Science or related field a plus. Masters degree a plus. Applicants without related degrees but with significant PeopleTools and object-oriented experience will still be considered.
• Willingness to learn and perform at an escalated pace.
• Must be able to read, write, fluently speak and understand the English language.
• Type 35+ WPM.

Required Skills 

• Confidence, creativity, persuasive written and verbal communications skills, and a relentless dedication to our client’s success.
• Deep object-oriented programming skills, with the immediate ability to develop complex PeopleCode using Application Classes, understanding and employing inheritance, polymorphism, data abstraction, and encapsulation.
• Strong SQL skills.
• Ability to think critically and creatively, while following our design methodologies and philosophies.
• A successful candidate will recognize what they need to know to make a project successful and acquire that knowledge quickly. He/she need not know everything, but should be able to know anything by early next week.

Desired Skills 

• PS Component Interface
• PS Integration Broker
• PS Fluid development
• PS App Engine
• PS Data Mover
• PS Change Assistant
• PS Cloud Manager
• Oracle DBA, PeopleSoft Admin, Unix Admin
• OCI Cloud
• Web technologies, including Web Services, SOAP, REST, Ajax, XML, JSON, JavaScript, CSS3, HTML5, Mobile
• UI/UX Design
• Chatbot
• Oracle Cloud Apps

Technical Analyst II (IntraSee)

Job Description

The Tech Analyst II position is a multi-faceted role, geared towards building text-based digital assistants and chatbots in the enterprise for employees, managers, students, faculty and advisors. The role is self-driven, but also part of a bigger collaborative team. The position offers the ability to exercise your full complement of skills, while allowing the freedom to also unleash your creative side. The role involves using the power of AI and Machine Learning, anchored on Natural Language Processing (NLP)to automate the support of enterprise user through conversational AI.

Responsibilities

• Build custom dialogue flows, entities and other AI elements required by projects
• Build new data sources with SQL and/or code
• Build integrations via APIs via REST or SOAP
• Review logs, trace and debug software issues
• Conduct quality assurance and unit testing of any software changes made
• Interact with clients to ensure their success and satisfaction on regular calls and email. Serve as level 2 support via our support channels for NLP or content issues.
• Provide on-call support for SaaS production issues

Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Systems or equivalent experience
• Knowledge in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
• Experience with customer facing roles, enterprise experience a plus
• Experience in integration via REST and SOAP APIs
• Understand authentication routines and single signon platforms
• Proficient in JavaScript, XML, XSL, JSON and JSON Templating
• Experience in Node.js and/or Python
• Experience with PeopleSoft, Oracle Cloud, Canvas, ServiceNow/Salesforce a big plus
• Experience in HR or Student Information systems a plus
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Highly self-motivated, organized and results-oriented
• Proactive and critical thinker
• Ability to challenge the status quo
• Resourceful and creative problem-solving skills

Senior PeopleSoft Business Analyst

Job Description

This consultant’s primary responsibility is to implement GT eForms™-based solutions for clients. GT eForms™ is a native PeopleTools bolt-on toolset. These projects require the ability to provide functional PeopleSoft and strategic consulting. Training on GT eForms™ will be provided.

This consultant will:

• Analyze the client’s business processes and collaborate with the client to design custom electronic forms solutions, developed in PeopleTools using GT eForms™, to replace paper-based or other less efficient data collection and approval processes.
• Design customized versions of eForms to meet the specific business needs of our individual clients. Define how eForms will interact with the core PeopleSoft applications to execute transactions. Set up the flow of these electronic processes using the GT eForms™ setup tables. Acceptance test the resulting solutions.
• Work with technical experts, client functional resources, process owners and project stakeholders. Contributions to project planning and management may also be expected.
• Train client functional resources to design and administer additional GT eForms™-based electronic form applications.

Our clients expect us to increase the value of their PeopleSoft ownership through creativity, innovation, unparalleled expertise with their software and the ability to persuasively communicate the right vision to the right people in their organization. Our clients are willing to risk radical changes in the way they do business if they trust the vision this consultant presents.

This position will be challenging, rewarding, fun, and appropriately compensated.

Required Skills

• Confidence, creativity, persuasive written and verbal communications skills, and a relentless dedication to our client’s success.
• Deep functional experience with PeopleSoft applications.
• Ability to think critically and creatively, while following our design methodologies and philosophies.
• A successful candidate will recognize what they need to know to make a project successful, and acquire that knowledge quickly. He/she need not know everything, but should be able to know anything by early next week.

Desired Skills

• PeopleSoft application experience – Human Capital Management, Financial and Supply Chain Management, Campus Solutions
• Workflow or AWE experience helpful

Jr. Computational Linguist (IntraSee)

Job Description

The Jr. Computational Linguist position is a multi-faceted role, geared towards building text-based digital assistants and chatbots. As a key member of a collaborative team, you will be able to exercise your full complement of skills, while allowing the freedom to also unleash your inventive side. The role involves utilizing the power of AI and Machine Learning, anchored on Natural Language Processing(NLP). They will work to optimize NLP for client implementations of our software.

Responsibilities

• Content Creation and Copywriting: build smart, engaging and customer-centric dialogue content for our product catalog and for custom client needs.
  Digital Assistant Training: create synthetic training data and curate user-provided data along with annotation to optimize the AI.
• Quality Assurance: perform regular quality control checks on the digital assistant’s performance and resolve accuracy issues in the NLP. Additionally review user feedback for opportunities to improve the product.
• Customer Support: interact with clients to ensure their success and satisfaction on regular calls and email. Serve as level 2 support via our support channels for NLP or content issues.
• New opportunities, as they arise, if deemed a good fit for skillset.

Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree from top universities, degree in computational linguistics a big plus
• Knowledge in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
• Experience with customer facing roles, enterprise experience a plus
• Experience in HR or Student Information systems a plus
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Advanced writing skills, especially in chat dialogue style
• Highly self-motivated, organized and results-oriented
• Proactive and critical thinker
• Ability to challenge the status quo
• Resourceful and creative problem-solving skills
• Experience in language annotation and data mark up
• Familiarity with basic data analysis processes
• Experience using python for data analysis a plus