Associate technical consultant job description

**The Opportunity**

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We collaborate with education organizations to develop strategies and implement solutions that enable the transformative change our clients need to own their future. Together, we empower clients to drive innovation, create sustainable funding streams and deliver better student outcomes.

Today, leaders of higher education institutions and academic medical centers are spending too much time reacting to market forces, rather than focusing on the essential priorities that help students, faculty and staff thrive. The most productive path forward requires an intentional approach and innovative thinking, whereby stakeholders across the entire institution rally around a shared vision and embrace the hard work of effecting change.

You'll help our clients to achieve organizational effectiveness, improve student outcomes, implement new technologies and align resources and investments to ensure long-term sustainability.

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

**Position Summary**

As a Technical Integrations Associate, you will serve as a technical resource for integrating a customer's ERP and spend management solution. This is a unique opportunity for a passionate and motivated individual to serve as a strategic partner and technical expert, building seamless integrations to help clients simplify and streamline their spend management solution. In addition, this position will look to for the individual to provide continuous improvement ideas related to technical consulting excellence within Huron's Spend Management team.

**FLEXIBLE LOCATION**

**Qualifications**

- Huron requires a bachelor's degree in a field related to this position or equivalent work experience

- 3-5 years of professional services experience while performing in the role of a technical lead

- Prior technical experience with ERP or SaaS applications

- Experienced in gathering integration requirements, project management, problem solving, documentation, and negotiating with technical resources

- Proven ability to work independently and drive projects to completion

- Proven ability to design and optimize business processes and to integrate business processes across disparate systems

- Demonstrated ability to analyze the application needs and determines most appropriate strategy and design to meet business requirements, increase cost effectiveness and ensure infrastructure stability

- Experience in troubleshooting the technical components of a vendor purchased application and its associated back-end processes and integrated applications

- Experience designing and implementing web services for real-time data integration with SaaS solutions

- Experience with all aspects of the software life cycle and development methodologies

- Experience working within a broader team of functional and technical colleagues working toward a common goal

**Posting Category**

Education

**Opportunity Type**

Regular

**Country**

United States of America

Huron Consulting Group offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage to employees and dependents; a 401(k) plan with a generous employer match; an employee stock purchase plan; a generous Paid Time Off policy; and paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Our Wellness Program supports employee total well-being by providing free annual health screenings and coaching, bank at work, and on-site workshops, as well as ongoing programs recognizing major events in the lives of our employees throughout the year. All benefits and programs are subject to applicable eligibility requirements.

Huron is fully committed to providing equal employment opportunity to job applicants and employees in recruitment, hiring, employment, compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, training, and all other terms and conditions of employment. Huron will not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, religion, veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, creed, citizenship or any other status protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we do business. We endeavor to maintain a drug-free workplace.

Galen is an award-winning healthcare IT technical & professional services and solutions company providing highly-skilled, cross-platform expertise. We have partnered with specialty practices, hospitals, health information exchanges, health systems and integrated delivery networks to provide high-quality, expert level IT consulting services & solutions including strategy, data archiving, data migration, optimization, project management, and interoperability. Our Technical and Professional Services groups are ranked #1 in KLAS by our clients, including winning 2021’s Top Overall IT Services Firm award. But Galen is more than an IT company. We are a team of talented individuals who build meaningful relationships and produce exceptional results. That’s why Galen has been recognized by Modern Healthcare as one of the Best Places to Work for the past 9 years.

About You:

You may be a recent college graduate or someone who has experience working for only a few years. You are interested in learning about electronic medical records (EMRs), data archival and data extraction. You are interested in building meaningful professional relationships, working both independently and collectively with clients and teammates. You thrive in a collaborative environment, where knowledge is shared, and feedback is welcomed. You want to work hard, and you want to be rewarded for your work. You are honest, take responsibility, and understand that the work you do requires confidentiality and a strong character. You are positive and supportive and want to have fun at work.

Responsibilities:

• Perform discovery and analysis on new and existing legacy systems to understand the relationships and logic necessary to extract data for archival
• Work with client stakeholders to understand legacy application workflows and requirements
• Develop and execute data extractions from various EHR, Patient Accounting, and ERP systems
• Transform and load data to our Azure-hosted data archival platform for long term record retention
• Collaborate with our ETL and archival software engineers to develop processes for handling various data formats
• Provide quality assurance on data archival work, verifying data integrity and data cleanliness
• Manage multiple projects, across a wide array of clients
• Work and manage support tickets independently
• Establish strong relationships with co-workers and clients
• Provide exemplary customer service by understanding and resolving issues quickly
• Participate in informal internal training as part of ongoing team improvement
• Work with internal stakeholders to improve current processes

Qualifications:

• 1-2 years of relevant experience preferred
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Desire to solve challenging technical problems
• Self-starter who wants to learn, grow, and excel in their role
• Basic knowledge of SQL query language
• Familiarity and working knowledge of patient clinical EHR’s, patient financial systems and non-patient systems such as HR/Payroll, Materials Management, General Ledger, Accounts Payable systems, is a plus
• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Information Systems, Informatics, or related field

Benefits:

• Performance Bonus
• Comprehensive Medical/Dental/Vision
• 401k with 100% Match up to 4% of salary
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Annual technology stipend
• Annual company trip

Galen has offices in Boston, MA, Chicago, IL, and Burlington, VT. The position could report to any of these offices.

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Want to learn some of the hottest technologies around right now, such as Google Apps, Amazon Web Services, Salesforce, Heroku and Adobe AEM? Perficient is looking for an Associate Technical Consultant to join the team.

Usually a major in computer science, engineering or an engineering degree with programming coursework and an interest in being a software developer, the Associate Technical Consultant builds world class software applications for some of the country's largest companies.

Perficient's Associate Technical Consultants utilize top technologies including Microsoft Azure, Office 365, .Net, Adobe, Oracle and SalesForce to implement popular software products such as IBM WebSphere Portal, AEM, TIBCO, Siebel, SharePoint, etc. while working in a collaborative environment.

Perficient is always looking for the best and brightest talent and we need you! We're a quickly-growing, global digital consulting leader, and we're transforming the world's largest enterprises and biggest brands. You'll work with the latest technologies, expand your skills, and become a part of our global community of talented, diverse, and knowledgeable colleagues.

+ Designing, coding and unit/integration testing using Perficient methodology

+ Debugging and troubleshooting code related issues/defects

+ Producing client deliverables such as detailed design documentation, unit test plans and well documented code

+ Gaining an understanding of the unique business and technical requirements on each engagement to facilitate the most appropriate solution design

+ Practicing strong configuration management and version control

+ Representing Perficient professionally in both client and team situations

+ Experience working in an Agile/Scrum/XP environment a plus

+ Pursuing Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Management Information Systems or other technology related studies from accredited university

+ Knowledge of current technologies, application software development, Agile and iterative development methodologies

+ Excellent listening, oral, and written communication skills

+ Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills

+ Flexible to new situations and challenges

+ Prefer candidates that have the ability to travel up to 50 percent

Perficient full-time employees receive complete and competitive benefits. We offer a collaborative work environment, competitive compensation, generous work/life opportunities and an outstanding benefits package that includes paid time off plus holidays. In addition, all colleagues are eligible for a number of rewards and recognition programs including billable bonus opportunities. Encouraging a healthy work/life balance and providing our colleagues great benefits are just part of what makes Perficient a great place to work.

WHO WE ARE

Perficient is a leading global digital consultancy. We imagine, create, engineer, and run digital transformation solutions that help our clients exceed customers' expectations, outpace competition, and grow their business. With unparalleled strategy, creative, and technology capabilities, our colleagues bring big thinking and innovative ideas, along with a practical approach to help our clients - the world's largest enterprises and biggest brands succeed.

WHAT WE BELIEVE

At Perficient, we promise to challenge, champion, and celebrate our people. You will experience a unique and collaborative culture that values every voice. Join our team, and you'll become part of something truly special.

We believe in developing a workforce that is as diverse and inclusive as the clients we work with. We're committed to actively listening, learning, and acting to further advance our organization, our communities, and our future leaders... and we're not done yet.

Perficient, Inc. proudly provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Perficient, Inc. complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. Perficient, Inc. expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or covered veterans. Improper interference with the ability of Perficient, Inc. employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.

Disability Accommodations:

Perficient is committed to providing a barrier-free employment process with reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please contact us.

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ID: 2022-16276

External Company URL: www.perficient.com

Street: 1200 Ashwood Parkway, 4th Floor