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Consistently named one of IDG's Computerworld 100 Best Places to Work in IT, OCLC is a nonprofit library service and research organization that has provided computer-based cataloging, reference, resource sharing, eContent, preservation, library management and Web services to 74,000 libraries in 170 countries and territories. OCLC and its member libraries worldwide have created and maintain WorldCat, the world's richest online resource for finding library materials. We are seeking candidates for a Consulting Systems Engineer at our Corporate Headquarters located in Dublin, Ohio. The person in this position will serve as consulting engineer, portfolio liaison and systems analyst for Global Systems and Information Technology (GS&IT), including leading engineering and provisioning efforts to support the OCLC products and portfolios, as well as enterprise systems and the global data centers. Provide program support for enterprise-wide IT efforts, including project management and technical documentation. Position follows and ensures adherence to the PMLC processes as they relate to GS&IT services to our product groups. Responsibilities: Serves as GSIT-Product Liaison to product and global engineering personnel to plan initiatives, understand system requirements, provision equipment and configuration specifications with internal fulfillment teams and ensure the quality end-to-end delivery of GSIT services and technologies to meet software and other release requirements. Uses industry standard programming techniques to translate requirements and designs into integrated system deliverables. Analyze and solve problems in existing systems. Understands Cloud computing technologies and processes, Service Oriented Architectures (SOA's) and is able to develop technical specifications for the infrastructure environment. Assists in developing functional requirements from prototype systems. Plans and participates in load, capacity, and performance analysis and/or testing, along with recommending/making improvements/fixes to systems. Provides technical documentation including systems architecture diagrams, operating support procedures and service level agreement documents. Works closely with developers and other engineers to create artifacts to document the end-to-end designs of products and services. Participates in architectural reviews and plans. Interprets all OCLC ISO-9000 and ISO-27001 procedures and the PMLC, as they pertain to their work unit, and continually seeks improvements to systems infrastructure procedures. Participates in the business analysis, systems design and implementation of 3rd party solutions for OCLC applications with the ability to understand the impact and analyze the risk. Other tasks as assigned. Qualifications: Strong technical background is required -- infrastructure services (preferred); application development (secondary). Ability to implement industry standard systems engineering techniques by: Mastering advanced fundamental systems to software design concepts, practices, and procedures, and Having the ability to analyze and solve problems in existing systems. Must have the ability to concentrate on a strictly technical focus, project management or a combination of the two depending on interests and project load of the work unit. Expert in at least one discipline (UI, telecom, database, performance, etc.) on a single product or research project. Has experience with Cloud computing technologies and relationship management with service provider. Has successfully implemented across multiple areas of functionality. Participates as technical lead in sub-projects. Works with other areas in implementing significant architectural changes. Understands technical documentation techniques and practices; ability to provide these services. Project Management Focus: Successfully manages multiple projects or sub-projects, at a Project Initiation approved level of up to $500,000, using proven project management techniques. Strong negotiation and problem solving skills. Bachelor's degree in a Computer Science or related discipline required and skills usually represented by 5-8 years of infrastructure engineering and deployments and/or software development. Project management experience required. Relationship management with business and/or product groups is a plus. Technical Focus Must have ability to meet detailed delivery specifications. Global distributed systems and working in a multi-regional organization, crossing time-zones and cultures. Strong communication and inter-personal skills are required. In order to be considered for this position, you must go to the OCLC Career Center (Internet) and apply towards Job ID 2223, Consulting Systems Engineer. Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/5794/