Project Manager

About Us

  • Data Piper provides specialized and competitive talent to help you build your team’s capabilities and success. Our staff have proven experience from the most competitive companies in Silicon Valley, so you know they have the experience and dedication that you can trust. For short or long-term assignments, we will take the hassle out of finding the next perfect fit for your team. 

Requirements

  • Manage the delivery of new Managed SOC including the implementation of pre-requisite infrastructure, onboarding of log sources, refining uses, integration to Service Management and operational handover to Security Operations
  • Procurement, implementation and integration of an Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) service into the newly established SOC
  • Day to day management of Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) to deliver to schedule
  • Establishing a relationship, collaborating, and driving Security Operations, Network and Infrastructure teams
  • Run stand ups, maintain schedule, Kanban or Jira boards
  • Risk and issues management, produce status reporting

Key Skills Required:      

  • Experience successfully delivering initiatives as a Technical Project Manager
  • Recent experience delivering SOC/SIEM/XDR Security projects
  • The ideal candidate for this role should be familiar with the integration of security technologies within on-premises and cloud environment 
  • Experience with Endpoint Threat Detection and Response (EDR) technology integrations such as FireEye, Crowdstrike, Microsoft Defender
  • Strong Excel skill required. Pivots, lookups, dynamic reporting and dashboards
  • Demonstrated use of MS Project, Jira, MS Planner and other planning tools use to manage detailed tasks and overall schedule

IT Change Manager

About Us:

  • Data Piper provides specialized and competitive talent to help you build your team’s capabilities and success. Our staff have proven experience from the most competitive companies in Silicon Valley, so you know they have the experience and dedication that you can trust. For short or long-term assignments, we will take the hassle out of finding the next perfect fit for your team. 

Requirements:

  • Provide daily governance oversight over Change Management process
  • Determines CAB participants and prepares / communicates CAB agenda
  • Chair weekly CAB meetings (DCAB / ExCAB)
  • Authorizes changes based on CAB outcomes
  • Collaborate with service owners / managers (i.e. Hosting, Network, Database, App Support, etc.) to ensure process effectiveness and compliance
  • Identify & recommend process improvement opportunities to process owner; update procedures and implement enhancements as approved
  • Engage Change Owners to act upon identified trends related to change process and deployment outcomes
  • Responsible for ensuring process SLA / OLA targets are tracked and met
  • Identify/document risks related to change trends and assist leadership in determining appropriate response/action plans
  • Provide ongoing process training to drive improvements in both quality and efficiency
  • Experience in IT Change Management
  • Strong Service Now understanding and usability
  • Experience in IT Operational or Business Operations delivering, managing and improving service.
  • Practitioner in ITIL based methodologies
  • Experience with Cloud hosting and Agile product delivery
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to communicate with Executive leadership
  • Strong collaboration, coaching and influencing skills
  • Working knowledge of the technology stack to include Infrastructure and Applications

Tester

About Us

  • Data Piper provides specialized and competitive talent to help you build your team’s capabilities and success. Our staff have proven experience from the most competitive companies in Silicon Valley, so you know they have the experience and dedication that you can trust. For short or long-term assignments, we will take the hassle out of finding the next perfect fit for your team. 

Requirements

  • We are looking for a tester with experience testing software applications that use Microsoft .NET, SQL Server, Azure, and other Microsoft Technologies to join our Application Cloud Migration team. The tester needs to be an expert with Microsft Azure Defender. 
  • The Tester is responsible for executing all phases of testing including planning, design and execution, with the ability to perform functional, integration, system, acceptance and regression testing. This position provides documentation to ensure all test scenarios/business requirements are covered and tested successfully. This role works on multiple deliverables with dynamic schedules.
  • Work and coordinate with project managers, business analysts and developers to understand requirements and functional specifications and ensure appropriate test coverage
  • Develop a deep understanding and expertise of the different product features and use cases and enhance this with knowledge of real-world business processes and flows
  • Design, develop, execute and maintain test cases for system, regression and integration testing
  • Document test execution results and log defects
  • Provide feedback and risk assessment on potential defects and functional/requirement gaps
  • Provide support for other testing activities as needed
  • Maintain and track project artifacts necessary for Quality Assurance throughout the development life cycle
  • Assist the development team in debugging and reproducing reported issues
  • Experience testing web based software solutions
  • Experience creating and executing Automated Tests for web solutions

Business Analyst

About Us

  • Data Piper provides specialized and competitive talent to help you build your team’s capabilities and success. Our staff have proven experience from the most competitive companies in Silicon Valley, so you know they have the experience and dedication that you can trust. For short or long-term assignments, we will take the hassle out of finding the next perfect fit for your team. 

Requirements

  • We are looking for a Business Analyst who will work on our security product line. We are looking for a tenured superstar who displays great time management and can clearly and consistently say no to things that do not align with the strategic vision.
  • Experience with Microsoft security technologies such as Microsoft Defender for Endpoint or Microsoft Cloud App Security with threat intelligence, malware analysis or reverse engineering

·        Good stakeholder management in business or IT projects is desirable

·        Understanding (Cloud) Security/IT architecture frameworks is considered as a plus

  • Extensive experience working with the Cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, etc.)
  • Experience with Security within a Cloud environment (authorization, access, privilege)

Data Integration Engineer

About Us :

  • Data Piper provides specialized and competitive talent to help you build your team’s capabilities and success. Our staff have proven experience from the most competitive companies in Silicon Valley, so you know they have the experience and dedication that you can trust. For short or long-term assignments, we will take the hassle out of finding the next perfect fit for your team. 

Requirements :

  • Demonstrated proficiency in Scala (Object Oriented Programming) or Python, SQL or SPARK SQL
  • Experience with Databricks, including Delta Lake
  • Experience with Azure and cloud environments, including Azure Data Lake Storage (Gen2), Azure Blob Storage, Azure Tables, Azure SQL Database, Azure Data Factory
  • Experience with ETL/ELT patterns, preferably using Azure Data Factory and Databricks jobs
  • Fundamental knowledge of distributed data processing and storage
  • Fundamental knowledge of working with structured, unstructured, and semi structured data
  • In collaboration with the Product, Development, and Enterprise Data teams, the Data Integration Engineer will design and maintain batch and streaming integrations across a variety of data domains and platforms
  • Work with stakeholders to define and develop data ingest, validation, and transform pipelines
  • Participate in solution and architecture design & planning
  • Troubleshoot data pipelines and resolve issues in alignment with SDLC
  • Ability to diagnose and troubleshoot data issues, recognizing common data integration and transformation patterns
  • Estimate, track, and communicate status of assigned items to a diverse group of stakeholders

Data Analyst

About Us :

  • Data Piper provides specialized and competitive talent to help you build your team’s capabilities and success. Our staff have proven experience from the most competitive companies in Silicon Valley, so you know they have the experience and dedication that you can trust. For short or long-term assignments, we will take the hassle out of finding the next perfect fit for your team. 

Requirements :

  • Demonstrated proficiency in SAS/SQL (or Python/R) programming; minimum 2 years of experience
  • Strong analytic thought process and ability to interpret findings
  • Acute attention to detail (QA/QC)
  • Working knowledge of MS Office; including PowerPoint, Word, Excel and Outlook
  • Ability to work on multiple assignments concurrently
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Highly motivated and collaborative team player with strong interpersonal skills
  • Effective organization and time management skills
  • Experience working with business intelligence tools such as Tableau and MS Power BI
  • Database marketing experience/knowledge
  • Ability to program in languages such as R and Python
  • Working knowledge of Hadoop and other big data technologies

Data Engineer

About Us :

  • Data Piper provides specialized and competitive talent to help you build your team’s capabilities and success. Our staff have proven experience from the most competitive companies in Silicon Valley, so you know they have the experience and dedication that you can trust. For short or long-term assignments, we will take the hassle out of finding the next perfect fit for your team. 

Requirements :

  • Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases
  • Broad understanding of Data Modeling, OLAP, SQL and ETL
  • Practical experience with one or more ETL tools, such as SSIS
  • Experience building and optimizing data pipelines, architectures, and data sets
  • Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc
  • Knowledgeable of Source Control and Project Management tools like TFS, Git, and JIRA
  • Familiarity with DevOps best practices and automation of documentation, testing, build, deployment, configuration, and monitoring
  • Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement
  • Strong project management and organizational skills

Technical Program Manager – Security solutions

GENERAL PURPOSE :

The qualified candidate is responsible for planning and execution of cross-functional projects to implement security tools to protect client’s information and assets.  The candidate leads initiatives that harden client’s Host, Network, or IAM security posture and capabilities from requirements through delivery, following discreet procedures and protocols to ensure integrity and compliance while working with technical team and cross-functional project delivery team.   

Security Project Lead act as a liaison to the other Information Security and IT functional groups, influencing outcomes as appropriate and coordinate with security engineers to provide 3rd level production support for security applications working hands in hand on cross-functional teams. 

Lead/Manager should be able to navigate diverse personalities and understand when to escalate and when to drive forward. 

Candidate will be part of a broader client team which collaborate to share ideas, challenges to be effective at the client.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONs:

  • Create, build, manage project plan with discreet tasks given a project charter and access to the teams which will deliver the solution
  • Regularly present project risks, issues, and status to client stakeholders
  • Drive the project through the client’s pre-defined System Development Lifecycle / Change Management Processes
  • Manage and provide lead role to cross functional teams to build security capabilities based on the requirement of the projects. 
  • Act as a liaison to the security SMEs and cross-functional project team, creation of the technical support artifacts such as process flow diagrams for incident management, standard operating procedures (“SOPs”) for handling system alerts and implementation of mitigating controls as defined by client security standards.
  • Develop Technical and Functional Documents as required for the project team 
  • Define and develop RACI, SLAs and support documentations for the project
  • Develop Standard Operating Procedure and Troubleshooting guides while working with the technical team 
  • Update documentation for new users and disaster recovery as needed
  • Participate in project status/technical discussions 
  • Plan and drive security team with the help from security engineers and ensure implementations are done based on the requirements and standardized process. 
  • Communicate and escalate issues related to project and provide weekly status update. 
  • Manage and lead technical discussions for artifacts creation between Security, Infrastructure and Support teams.
  • Drive technical demonstrations of new tech or workflow processes
  • Shadow and reverse shadow training of resources taking over the support transition.
  • Potential to gain junior PMs underneath, and lead that team to support administrative tasks for the overall PM of project

COMPETENCIES :

Planning & Time ManagementListening 
Communication Problem Solving & Drive for Results
Requirement GatheringProcess Development
Customer FocusTechnical writing
Project ManagementInformation Security / Technology

Other REQUIREMENTS :

Job requires ability to work Pacific Time Zone work hours

Data Scientist

About Us :

  • Data Piper provides specialized and competitive talent to help you build your team’s capabilities and success. Our staff have proven experience from the most competitive companies in Silicon Valley, so you know they have the experience and dedication that you can trust. For short or long-term assignments, we will take the hassle out of finding the next perfect fit for your team. 

Requirements :

  • Proficient in statistical programming languages (e.g.Python and/or R)
  • Solid hands-on experience working with unstructured text data and many different NLP tools
  • Practical experience with using and understanding algorithms for classification, regression, dimensionality reduction, and clustering
  • Highly detailed-oriented and exceptional organizational and follow-through skills a must
  • Excellent at planning and project management
  • Ability to quickly prototype ideas and use creative approaches for solving complex problems
  • Strong desire to take initiative, thrives on change, and is comfortable with ambiguity
  • Independent learner with a keen interest in continuous learning
  • Use machine learning and other advanced statistical methodologies to extract actionable insights from large multi-dimensional customer behavior data sets

ETL Developer

About Us :

  • Data Piper provides specialized and competitive talent to help you build your team’s capabilities and success. Our staff have proven experience from the most competitive companies in Silicon Valley, so you know they have the experience and dedication that you can trust. For short or long-term assignments, we will take the hassle out of finding the next perfect fit for your team. 

Requirements :

  • Integrate data between applications with data systems like DWH, Lake, MDM in both real time and batch patterns.
  • Experience of ETL, including the ability to read and write efficient, robust code, follow, or implement best practices and coding standards, and create reusable maintainable jobs
  • Assess business requirements and understand current business processes to design and develop solutions to enable these processes.
  • Work in agile teams to perform test-driven developments
  • Experience/Knowledge with one or more public cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Understanding/ Willing to learn-integration platforms such as Snaplogic,  Mulesoft or Boomi and/or applications such as Apigee or AWS gateway etc