Chief Technology Officer at Money-Media (Financial Times of London)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:05:30 GMT

Location: New York, NY, United States
URL: http://www.money-media.com
Posted: 7/3/2008

Job Description:
The Chief Technology Officer is the Money-Media's top technology executive, playing an integral role in the company's strategic direction, development, and future growth. The CTO is responsible for establishing the company's technology vision and leading all the aspects of the company's technology deployment and development. This includes optimizing the electronic distribution of our business information products, maximizing the speed and uptime of our websites, launching new standalone products and enhancements for existing products and adept managing of project timelines. This position reports to the Managing Director of Money-Media.

The Chief Technology Officer will be responsible for managing a staff of 11, comprised of both internal employees and subcontractors. This team supports the information technology needs of our internal and external staff, as well as users of our products. This role requires someone who is an intuitive translator between technology and the business. The ideal candidate will be energetic, positive and outgoing, an innovative thinker and business leader.

The successful candidate will have demonstrated success building and leading a cohesive team and strong staff and management communication skills.

This role will hold influence over all technology initiatives. It requires someone who has in-depth experience with both infrastructure and software product development. Our environment is comprised of commercially available software and a blend of in-house development.

The CTO is responsible for the development of IT strategy and architecture, disaster recovery and business continuity, and governance and compliance.

As the top technology executive in a Financial Times company, the CTO will have the ability to leverage the resources, intelligence and teams of our corporate parent.

The type of individual we need has experience working with small companies and is comfortable with evolving their strategy within a small company framework.

Sample of some of the key projects we have scheduled for this year:
. Redesign and Rebuild websites for our business information services
. Launch new Content Management System
. Implementation of Business Intelligence System and Data Warehouse
. Telephony system upgrade
. Launch of European edition of Ignites, an online-only business information service
. Implementation of statistical intelligence tool for our websites
. Optimization of Production and Disaster Recovery facilities and equipment

REQUIREMENTS
. Bachelors degree or higher in related technical and business areas
. 8 - 10 years of technology experience and related progressive management experience
. Strong management and leadership experience, proven ability to motivate a team
. Understand project management methodologies and tools and have a strong knowledge of applicable business areas, the supporting technology architecture, and applicable processes.
. Strong influencing/negotiation skills, excellent written and verbal communication skills, knowledge of business and technology trends
. Experience managing a budget
. Process and detail oriented

RESPONSIBILITIES

. Lead the execution of technology strategy for technology platforms, partnerships, and external relationships.
. Build and manage a top-flight technology team and oversee research and development, as well as project management.
. Provide visible leadership for the company within the technology community.
. Anticipate and react to major technology changes to ensure the maintenance of company leadership in the competitive landscape.
. Review and make any necessary improvements to our technical standards and ensure adherence to them for product development and company operations.
. Vendor management
. Staff management and P&L responsibility for IT organization

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE

Candidates must have extensive experience working with the following technologies:
. LAMP stack development environment (Linux - Centos4.2, Apache 2.0.52
MySQL 5.0.37, and PHP 5.2.1)
. Content Management
. Internet Software Development
. Publishing
. Windows Desktop Environments
. Server Infrastructure at Data Centers

The following additional experience is highly desirable:
. Fulfillment Systems
. Subscription-based Email
. Financial Publishing
. Additional requirements include strong knowledge of relevant applications and development of life cycles, general knowledge of professional services vendors, and tools and experience overseeing geographically distributed and culturally diverse work-groups.

ABOUT MONEY-MEDIA
Money-Media (http://www.money-media.com) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Financial Times of London, a subsidiary of Pearson PLC, an international media company of over 29,000 employees. Money-Media is a leader electronic business intelligence for leaders in money management and corporate boardrooms. Money-Media, through its products Ignites, Fundfire, BoardIQ, Agenda and ODX, offers must-have, highly-respected online services, publications and conferences. We are an entrepreneurial group that emphasizes initiative, positive thinking, continual improvement and resiliency in our work culture.

Drupal Developer at ImageX Media

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:01:28 GMT

Location: Surrey, BC, Canada
URL: http://imagexmedia.com
Posted: 7/3/2008

Job Description:
ImageX Media is looking for a talented contract web developer with significant experience working as a Drupal themer/programmer. The position requires exceptional programming skills, problem solving abilities and a strong work ethic. Reporting to the Project Manager the successful candidate will be responsible for taking a web project from the development phase to the final product. In some cases this will require creating or customizing Drupal modules to integrate with other applications.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

Responsibilities:
. Working with a team (designers, creative director, project manager, and other developers) to create compelling and cutting edge web sites and web applications.
. Responsible for turning design and user interface mockups into functional web sites.
. Custom programming and web application development.
. Testing, maintenance, and troubleshooting of existing client sites.

Qualifications:
. Independence, willingness to learn and problem solving skills are a must.
. At least one year of education in web development/programming.
. At least one year of developing Drupal sites (full time).
. Must be able to handle a face paced work environment, deadlines, and new challenges.
. Ability to communicate and work well with others.
. Able to deliver on time and on budget.

Required Skills:
. Experience with the Drupal content management system.
. Proficient with handcoding HTML and tableless CSS.
. Advanced knowledge and implementation of W3C Web Standards.
. Dynamic/Database Driven Development (PHP/MySQL).
. JavaScript; experience with AJAX or jQuery.

Additional Assets:
. Project management experience.
. Adobe Flash/Action Scripting is an asset.

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