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Microsoft Project Online Developer

Protivix · Frisco, TX, USA ·

Job type:
Full Time

We are continuously growing, expanding, and looking for vibrant, innovative, enthusiastic people who want to advance their learning and elevate their career.

Due to our tremendous growth we are currently expanding our team in major markets: Dallas, Houston, and Atlanta.

Overview
A boutique consulting firm, Protivix provides customized high-value technology solutions for clients based on individual customers’ distinct needs and requirements. Our consultants, with years of technology and consulting experience, partner with organizations to help them achieve business results. We specialize in enterprise project management solutions, CRM, business analytics, and digital strategies.

Our Project Online Developers utilize their experience and knowledge of project management and Microsoft’s suite of applications to provide innovative and creative solutions to meet our clients PPM needs.

Core Responsibilities

At least 3 years’ experience in Microsoft Project Server or Project Online implementation, customization using SharePoint technologies.

Serve as project lead or lead technical staff in course of application development project.

Participate with team of technical staff and business managers or practitioners in the business unit to determine systems requirement and functionalities needed in large/complex development project.

Proven knowledge and work experience in Web Services technologies.

Demonstrate Project Portfolio Management domain knowledge in combination with broad technology knowledge and the ability to architect solution by mapping common enterprise business problems to reusable end-to-end technology solutions.

Thorough knowledge of Microsoft Project Server (or Project Online) and experience implementing, configuring, customizing and administering the application.

Microsoft SQL Server or other relational database management system.

Expertise in intranet web application development using SharePoint, C#, ASP.NET, JSON, JQuery, SQL Server 2008/2012, .NET Framework, Project Server, TFS, Visual Studio 2013/2012, MS SQL Reporting Services (SSRS); Crystal Reports, Business Objects, Actuate, Cognos BI or other related reporting software will be considered.

Microsoft SharePoint Services (WSS), Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) Microsoft Search Server (MSS) or other web-based collaboration and document management platforms.

Strong leadership, presentation, project management, and communication skills are required.

Bachelor’s degree in MIS, CIS, or Computer Science.

Desired Skills and Experience

Previous consulting experience

Experience defining Information Architecture (IA), Governance and Workflows in SharePoint

Experience with Azure, CRM, various Microsoft E-commerce platforms, or BizTalk

A boutique consulting firm, Protivix provides customized high-value technology solutions for clients based on individual customers’ distinct needs and requirements. Our consultants, with years of technology and consulting experience, partner with organizations to help them achieve business results. We specialize in enterprise project management solutions, CRM, business analytics, and digital strategies.

Our Program/Project Management professionals manage multiple, ongoing, interrelated projects to achieve a specific set of client business goals. Coordinate service levels and agreements and prioritize resources across projects and entities. Organize and manage resources and plans all work required to complete a discrete project within defined scope, quality, time and cost parameters in a client facing environment. Manage customer relationships and ensure delivery of value which meets and exceeds client expectations.

We are seeking Senior Project Managers with an entrepreneurial spirit that see themselves thriving in a fluid and dynamic growing consultancy who meet the below qualifications.

Core Responsibilities

5 years of experience as a project manager

Minimum 5 years of client facing consulting experience

Exceptional communication (verbal and written) and stakeholder management

Ability to set clear expectations and successfully manage to these agreements

Ability to work effectively with senior executives

Strong change management and negotiation skills

Must be a strong team leader, collaborator and manager, including vendors and agencies

Must be detail and process oriented, and effective at influencing without authority and driving work through others

A strong drive for results, with a proven track record, often delivering under tight deadlines

Budget management experience and the ability to manage large scale production budgets across multiple engagements and timelines

Demonstrate creative problem solving and solid judgment/decision making

Experience in strategy development, while bringing objectivity and common sense/ judgment

Desired Skills and Experience

Experience in managing large scale enterprise software implementations and systems integration

Expertise in all Microsoft Office programs including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, SharePoint

History of managing teams, teamwork and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job done

Knowledge and proficiency with Project Management tools

3+ years’ experience with Microsoft product suite (e Office365, Dynamics 365, SharePoint, Project Desktop, Azure)

4-6 years of experience in different methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Six Sigma, Waterfall, etc…)

Protivix Microsoft Business Intelligence consultants contribute on highly collaborative and challenging teams to deliver end-to-end Business Intelligence (BI) solutions for our clients utilizing the Microsoft BI stack (e.g., SQL Server, RDMS, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, Tabular, PowerPivot, SharePoint, Power View, and Excel Services).

Core Responsibilities

Understand clients’ business objectives and functions to support data and information needs.

Communicate how Microsoft BI aligns with client organization’s business and strategic objectives.

Architect and oversee development for Microsoft BI Solutions including data models, ETL packages, OLAP cubes, and reports utilizing Microsoft SQL BI Stack and Power BI.

Architect cloud based, highly scalable data platform and data analytics solutions in Azure.

Lead design, development, and testing of BI solution based on specifications, sound development and testing methodologies, and best practices.

Apply best practices through the development lifecycle.

Assist with business development cycles providing subject matter expertise in client proposals.

Estimate effort and cost for a Microsoft Business Intelligence solution.

Experience with multidimensional and Tabular data warehouse design, including a solid understanding of MDX/DAX, calculated measures, hierarchies, slowly changing dimensions, and data/time dimension analysis.

Build effective and visually pleasing dashboards/ reports to represent the story to answer those business questions with the help of data.

Desired Skills and Experience

Minimum of five (5) years of development experience with Microsoft Business Intelligence Stack (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS).

Proficient in the development of front-end reporting and analytics platforms including OLAP cube design in SSAS, tabular data modeling, Power Pivot, Power View, Power BI, SSRS report development, and SharePoint integration.

Experience with Project Management capabilities including scoping, estimating, tracking project actuals against budget, issue and risk management.

Demonstrates analytical and problem-solving skills.

Experience with deployments of BI Solutions into upper environments.

Foundation and knowledge of the following areas: Data Warehousing, Data Transformation, Data Quality, Reporting and Data Analytics, understanding query performance tuning methods.

Strong prioritization and multi-tasking skills with a track record of meeting deadlines.

Adaptable to new environments, people, technologies and processes.

Eager to contribute ideas and understands different points of view.

Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.

Senior Dynamics 365 (CRM) Functional Consultant – Frisco, TX
Overview
An experienced Senior Dynamics 365 (CRM) Functional Consultant is required in our Dynamics 365 practice to assist with the successful implementation of our clients’ Dynamics 365 applications. Your experience and knowledge of Dynamics 365 systems, sales cycles, workflows and associated business processes combined with an appreciation of associated technologies will help you launch your career at Protivix.

This is a varied and demanding role involving all aspects of implementing Dynamics 365 solutions from pre-sales work through the project life cycle to go-live.

Your involvement with clients will include off-site and on-site work and you will be encouraged to develop your product knowledge and achieve relevant certification. As we grow the functional team, you will have the opportunity to develop and lead a team of consultants and / or specialize either by function or industry and ultimately be seen as a thought leader in the eyes of our clients and Microsoft.

Core Responsibilities

Leading or participating in business requirements and functional design sessions with clients.

Assisting with overall configuration of the Dynamics 365 system, related customizations, portals, and reports to model the client’s organizational process.

Advising customers on best practices for Dynamics 365, business or integration processes.

Writing functional specifications for planned work.

Creating data migration and integration mappings.

Mocking up specifications for our overseas development team, and facilitating the completion, testing and deployment of development projects.

Installing Dynamics 365 and its related components.

Documenting customer needs and requirements for Dynamics 365 forms, screens, and views, as well as workflows and reports.

Guiding projects along through daily communications with the customer or project manager.

Regularly communicating with the customer on the status of the issue resolution.

Estimating the completion of task and gaining customer approval.

Participating in informal or formal design and architecting sessions with fellow consultants.

Distribute information on the latest Dynamics 365 related and technology news to the team members.

Support the application post go-live during system setting and fix applications issues not necessarily related to code.

Desired Skills and Experience

A strong passion for Dynamics 365 and associated Microsoft technologies.

Four years’ experience of Dynamics 365 software.

Proven project experience of implementing Dynamics 365 solutions either in industry or for a consulting company.

Experience as a lead on at least three Dynamics 365 assignments having led analysis, design and rollout of solutions throughout the full software development lifecycle in several different business sectors.

Track record of leading work streams in large or complex scenarios with managed external parties and contractors.

Strong workshop, facilitation and presentations skills.

Understanding of the principles, implications and design considerations of the underlying platform aspects of Dynamics 365 solutions.

Deep understanding of the methods and tools used to customize and extend Dynamics 365 solutions.

Client facing, ability to demonstrate good written and oral communication skills.

Ability to understand customer requirements and deliver applicable solutions.

Ability to use own initiative and work within a team environment.

Self-motivated and driven to achieve professional success in a consulting environment.

Ability to manage workload and time.

Ability to lead business requirement and functional design sessions.

Senior Dynamics 365 (CRM) Technical Consultant – Frisco, TX
Overview
An experienced Senior Dynamics 365 (CRM) Technical Consultant is required in our Dynamics 365 practice to assist with the successful implementation of our clients’ Dynamics 365 applications. Your experience and knowledge of Dynamics 365 systems, sales cycles, workflows and associated business processes combined with an appreciation of associated technologies will help you launch your career at Protivix. This is a varied and demanding role involving all aspects of implementing Dynamics 365 solutions from pre-sales work through the project life cycle to go-live. Your involvement with clients will include off‑site and on‑site work and you will be encouraged to develop your product knowledge and achieve relevant certification. As we grow the Technical team, you will have the opportunity to develop and lead a team of consultants and / or specialize either by function or industry and ultimately be seen as a thought leader in the eyes of our clients and Microsoft.

Responsibilities
You will be leading the technical implementation of Dynamics 365 applications for new clients and supporting our existing ones. Your day to day tasks will include:

Leading or participating in the technical design and architecture sessions with the clients

Assisting with architecting the Dynamics 365 system, related customizations, portals, and reports to model the client’s organizational process

Advising customers on best practices for Dynamics 365, development or integration processes

Writing technical specifications for planned work

Creating data migration and integration mappings

Mocking up specifications for our overseas development team, and facilitating the completion, testing and deployment of development projects

Installing Dynamics 365 and its related components

Building the Dynamics 365 forms, screens, and views, as well as workflows and reports around the customer needs for an interface

Guiding projects along through daily communications with the customer or project manager

Resolving technical issues with servers, authentication, IIS, Exchange, SQL, SRS and other related technologies to Dynamics 365

Regularly communicating with the customer on the status of the issue resolutionEstimating the completion of task and gaining customer approval

Participating in informal or formal design and architecting sessions with fellow consultants

Distribute information on the latest Dynamics 365 related and technology news to the team members

Support the application post go‑live during system setting and fix applications issues not necessarily related to code

Desired Skills and Experience
QUALIFICATIONS:

A strong passion for Dynamics 365 and associated Microsoft technologies

Four years’ experience of Dynamics 365 software

Proven project experience of implementing Dynamics 365 solutions either in industry or for a consulting company

Experience as a lead on at least three Dynamics 365 assignments having led analysis, design and rollout of solutions throughout the full software development lifecycle in several different business sectors

Track record of leading work streams in large or complex scenarios with managed external parties and contractors

Understanding of integration techniques and tools

Understanding of Active Directory and Windows Server administration

Knowledge of MS SQL Server and T‑SQL language

Expertise in developing .Net (C#) plug‑ins for Dynamics 365 Platform

Expertise in developing .Net assemblies for Dynamics 365 Workflows

Expertise in developing client‑side Jscript for Dynamics 365 entity form events

Understanding of other MS "Stack" products – SharePoint, MS AX, BizTalk, Exchange

SKILLS:

Strong workshop, facilitation and presentations skills

Understanding of the principles, implications and design considerations of the underlying platform aspects of Dynamics 365 solutions

Extensive experience in designing, customizing, developing or integrating complex Dynamics 365 solutions in multiple environments

Deep understanding of the methods and tools used to customize and extend Dynamics 365 solutions

Experience with third party ISV products and add‑ons

Strong analytical and problem solving skills

PERSONAL SKILLS:

Client facing, ability to demonstrate good written and oral communication skills

Ability to understand customer requirements and deliver applicable solutions

Ability to use own initiative and within a team environment

Self‑motivated and driven to achieve professional success in a consulting environment

Ability to manage workload and time

Ability to produce technical design specifications

EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS:

Beneficial: MCSE / MCSD / Microsoft Dynamics 365 Certified

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