BC Forward
Chandler, Arizona
Job Title: Technology Recovery Consultant / Business Continuity Consultant Location: Chandler, AZ Duration: Contract - 10 months Pay Range: $77.35/hr (W2) Job ID: 407684 About BCforward BCforward is a leading global IT consulting and workforce solutions firm providing services and support to Fortune 500 and government clients. Founded in 1998, BCforward has grown with our customers needs into a full-service business solutions provider. With delivery centers and offices across North America and India, we take pride in building long-term relationships and delivering excellence through innovation, collaboration, and integrity. Job Description We are seeking an IT Security Specialist III to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in enterprise critical infrastructure recovery planning, technical business continuity, and multi-platform operations, and a proven ability to develop, review, and validate comprehensive restoral plans and test execution in hybrid environments. Responsibilities: Lead reviews with Bank SMEs to understand the Enterprise Critical Infrastructure (ECI) and gather information to assess restoral plans, test plans, and test execution documents for completeness and quality. Identify and highlight gaps that could impact timely restoration of critical services, and recommend mitigations. Collaborate with SMEs and IOR team members to refine ECI plans to ensure accuracy, readiness, and test preparedness. Support and review technical recovery exercises and document outcomes to meet audit and regulatory expectations. Required Skills & Qualifications: Working knowledge of architecture and operations across Mainframe, VMware-based cloud hosting, storage, backup, Autosys, and network firewalls. Experience with vendor solutions including Cisco, HP, Broadcom, Check Point, and VMware. Background in technical recovery and technical Business Continuity Planning. Strong analytical and logical thinking skills with high attention to detail. Effective interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate across teams. Ability to work under pressure and meet competing requirements. Prior experience conducting technology assessments and addressing audit and regulatory issues. Preferred Skills: Hands-on participation in disaster recovery tests for complex, hybrid infrastructures. Exposure to first-line and second-line risk or IOR functions in financial services. Work Arrangement & Notes: Hybrid schedule with a minimum of 3 days on site per week. Role has a specific start date requirement. Candidates must be able to meet the defined start date. Assessment: Glider code BOA-ITSecSpec-IV-V-3. Hours per Day: 8. Labor Type: Technical. Why BCforward? At BCforward, we believe in advancing lives and careers. When you join our team, you gain access to: Competitive compensation and benefits. Opportunities for growth with global clients. A supportive, inclusive culture that values innovation and people. Exposure to cutting-edge technologies and projects. About Our Commitment BCforward is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status. Interested? Apply Now! If this sounds like the right opportunity for you, please apply with your most recent resume.
Job Title: Technology Recovery Consultant / Business Continuity Consultant Location: Chandler, AZ Duration: Contract - 10 months Pay Range: $77.35/hr (W2) Job ID: 407684 About BCforward BCforward is a leading global IT consulting and workforce solutions firm providing services and support to Fortune 500 and government clients. Founded in 1998, BCforward has grown with our customers needs into a full-service business solutions provider. With delivery centers and offices across North America and India, we take pride in building long-term relationships and delivering excellence through innovation, collaboration, and integrity. Job Description We are seeking an IT Security Specialist III to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in enterprise critical infrastructure recovery planning, technical business continuity, and multi-platform operations, and a proven ability to develop, review, and validate comprehensive restoral plans and test execution in hybrid environments. Responsibilities: Lead reviews with Bank SMEs to understand the Enterprise Critical Infrastructure (ECI) and gather information to assess restoral plans, test plans, and test execution documents for completeness and quality. Identify and highlight gaps that could impact timely restoration of critical services, and recommend mitigations. Collaborate with SMEs and IOR team members to refine ECI plans to ensure accuracy, readiness, and test preparedness. Support and review technical recovery exercises and document outcomes to meet audit and regulatory expectations. Required Skills & Qualifications: Working knowledge of architecture and operations across Mainframe, VMware-based cloud hosting, storage, backup, Autosys, and network firewalls. Experience with vendor solutions including Cisco, HP, Broadcom, Check Point, and VMware. Background in technical recovery and technical Business Continuity Planning. Strong analytical and logical thinking skills with high attention to detail. Effective interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate across teams. Ability to work under pressure and meet competing requirements. Prior experience conducting technology assessments and addressing audit and regulatory issues. Preferred Skills: Hands-on participation in disaster recovery tests for complex, hybrid infrastructures. Exposure to first-line and second-line risk or IOR functions in financial services. Work Arrangement & Notes: Hybrid schedule with a minimum of 3 days on site per week. Role has a specific start date requirement. Candidates must be able to meet the defined start date. Assessment: Glider code BOA-ITSecSpec-IV-V-3. Hours per Day: 8. Labor Type: Technical. Why BCforward? At BCforward, we believe in advancing lives and careers. When you join our team, you gain access to: Competitive compensation and benefits. Opportunities for growth with global clients. A supportive, inclusive culture that values innovation and people. Exposure to cutting-edge technologies and projects. About Our Commitment BCforward is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status. Interested? Apply Now! If this sounds like the right opportunity for you, please apply with your most recent resume.
Kaiser Permanente
Greensboro, North Carolina
Tech Support This principal-level individual contributor serves within Kaiser Permanente's Container Platform and Adoption Services organization and provides operational leadership for the enterprise container platform service across on-premises and public-cloud environments. The department supports a growing portfolio of business-critical applications and shared technology capabilities that require consistent service reliability, operational readiness, security, compliance, and resilience. The Container Platform Operations Lead centralizes operational accountability and serves as the primary coordination and escalation point for platform health, major incidents, tenant-impacting risks, service readiness, and operational performance. The position partners with internal support organizations and external service providers to establish clear ownership, effective support models, reliable operating procedures, and measurable service expectations across the container platform ecosystem. The role leads operational governance across incident, problem, change, capacity, availability, vulnerability, compliance, business continuity, and disaster recovery practices. It also maintains the operational improvement backlog, strengthens monitoring and service-health reporting, and converts operational lessons into preventive controls and engineering priorities. In close partnership with the Engineering Lead, this position improves service stability, reduces operational risk, and ensures the enterprise container platform remains ready to support mission-critical healthcare services as adoption grows. Job Summary: This senior level employee is primarily responsible for influencing and leveraging the technical direction of integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions and for serving as an expert for technical teams. This employee is accountable for ensuring software solutions are managed with full adherence to industry best practices. Essential Responsibilities: Drives the execution of multiple work streams by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and updating new procedures and policies; gaining cross-functional support for objectives and priorities; translating business strategy into actionable business requirements; obtaining and distributing resources; setting standards and measuring progress; removing obstacles that impact performance; guiding performance and developing contingency plans accordingly; solving highly complex issues; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others. Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by soliciting and acting on performance feedback; building collaborative, cross-functional relationships; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership; influencing, mentoring, and coaching team members; fostering open dialogue amongst team members; evaluating and responding to the strengths and weaknesses of self and unit members; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback. Provides insight into recommendations for complex technical solutions that meet design and functional needs. Serves as an expert for innovative technical solutions that meet design and functional needs. Collaborates with architects and/or software consultants to ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs. Provides technical expertise for the development, configuration, or modification of integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions within various computing environments by providing insight, guidance, and an escalation point for the design and coding of component-based applications. Translates business requirements and functional specifications into physical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions by partnering with Business Analysts and other team members to understand business needs and functional specifications. Leverages networks to drive collaboration between technical teams, architects, and/or software consultants, and ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs. Builds and maintains trusting relationships with internal customers, third party vendors, and senior management to ensure the alignment, buy-in, and support of diverse project stakeholders. Oversees the review and implementation of recommendations of technical solutions across multiple functions. Takes accountability for ensuring specific interfaces, methods, parameters, procedures, and functions support technical solutions and are aligned with architectural designs. Derives an overall strategy of data management, within an established Information Architecture, that supports the business model. Identifies information structures and detail to enable the development and secure operation of new information services. Takes overall responsibility for planning effective information storage, sharing, and publishing within the organization. Sets strategies for effective use of database technology taking account of the complex interrelations between hardware/software. Provides specialist expertise in the development, use, or operation of database management system tools and facilities. Provides expert knowledge in the selection, provision, and use of database architectures, software, and facilities, typically taking responsibility for a team of technical staff. Facilitates and serves as a technical expert for project teams throughout the release schedule of business and enterprise software solutions. Provides expertise and guidance to team members for systems incident responses for complex issues. Fosters and leverages partnerships with IT teams and vendors to ensure written code adheres to company architectural standards, design patterns, and technical specification. Maintains and enhances technical expertise and knowledge of industry trends by attending participating conferences, and developing a network with other IT industry experts. Leads consultation efforts to help ensure new and existing software solutions are developed with insight into industry best practices, strategies, and architectures. Provides expert technical advice and recommendations to others within the organization on matters related to software engineering, including market trends, and new programs and applications. Reviews and verifies resource estimates for complex technical design, coding, and testing efforts. Identifies specific interfaces, methods, parameters, procedures, and functions, as required, to support technical solutions, serving as an escalation point for complex or unresolved issues related to requirements translation. As part of the IT Engineering job family, this position is responsible for leveraging DEVOPS, and both Waterfall and Agile practices, to design, develop, and deliver resilient, secure, multi-channel, high-volume, high-transaction, on/off-premise, cloud-based solutions. Minimum Qualifications: Minimum six (6) years experience working on project(s) involving the implementation of solutions applying development life cycles (e.g., SDLC). Minimum four (4) years in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports. Bachelors degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field and Minimum ten (10) years experience in software development or a related field. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.
Tech Support This principal-level individual contributor serves within Kaiser Permanente's Container Platform and Adoption Services organization and provides operational leadership for the enterprise container platform service across on-premises and public-cloud environments. The department supports a growing portfolio of business-critical applications and shared technology capabilities that require consistent service reliability, operational readiness, security, compliance, and resilience. The Container Platform Operations Lead centralizes operational accountability and serves as the primary coordination and escalation point for platform health, major incidents, tenant-impacting risks, service readiness, and operational performance. The position partners with internal support organizations and external service providers to establish clear ownership, effective support models, reliable operating procedures, and measurable service expectations across the container platform ecosystem. The role leads operational governance across incident, problem, change, capacity, availability, vulnerability, compliance, business continuity, and disaster recovery practices. It also maintains the operational improvement backlog, strengthens monitoring and service-health reporting, and converts operational lessons into preventive controls and engineering priorities. In close partnership with the Engineering Lead, this position improves service stability, reduces operational risk, and ensures the enterprise container platform remains ready to support mission-critical healthcare services as adoption grows. Job Summary: This senior level employee is primarily responsible for influencing and leveraging the technical direction of integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions and for serving as an expert for technical teams. This employee is accountable for ensuring software solutions are managed with full adherence to industry best practices. Essential Responsibilities: Drives the execution of multiple work streams by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and updating new procedures and policies; gaining cross-functional support for objectives and priorities; translating business strategy into actionable business requirements; obtaining and distributing resources; setting standards and measuring progress; removing obstacles that impact performance; guiding performance and developing contingency plans accordingly; solving highly complex issues; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others. Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by soliciting and acting on performance feedback; building collaborative, cross-functional relationships; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership; influencing, mentoring, and coaching team members; fostering open dialogue amongst team members; evaluating and responding to the strengths and weaknesses of self and unit members; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback. Provides insight into recommendations for complex technical solutions that meet design and functional needs. Serves as an expert for innovative technical solutions that meet design and functional needs. Collaborates with architects and/or software consultants to ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs. Provides technical expertise for the development, configuration, or modification of integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions within various computing environments by providing insight, guidance, and an escalation point for the design and coding of component-based applications. Translates business requirements and functional specifications into physical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions by partnering with Business Analysts and other team members to understand business needs and functional specifications. Leverages networks to drive collaboration between technical teams, architects, and/or software consultants, and ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs. Builds and maintains trusting relationships with internal customers, third party vendors, and senior management to ensure the alignment, buy-in, and support of diverse project stakeholders. Oversees the review and implementation of recommendations of technical solutions across multiple functions. Takes accountability for ensuring specific interfaces, methods, parameters, procedures, and functions support technical solutions and are aligned with architectural designs. Derives an overall strategy of data management, within an established Information Architecture, that supports the business model. Identifies information structures and detail to enable the development and secure operation of new information services. Takes overall responsibility for planning effective information storage, sharing, and publishing within the organization. Sets strategies for effective use of database technology taking account of the complex interrelations between hardware/software. Provides specialist expertise in the development, use, or operation of database management system tools and facilities. Provides expert knowledge in the selection, provision, and use of database architectures, software, and facilities, typically taking responsibility for a team of technical staff. Facilitates and serves as a technical expert for project teams throughout the release schedule of business and enterprise software solutions. Provides expertise and guidance to team members for systems incident responses for complex issues. Fosters and leverages partnerships with IT teams and vendors to ensure written code adheres to company architectural standards, design patterns, and technical specification. Maintains and enhances technical expertise and knowledge of industry trends by attending participating conferences, and developing a network with other IT industry experts. Leads consultation efforts to help ensure new and existing software solutions are developed with insight into industry best practices, strategies, and architectures. Provides expert technical advice and recommendations to others within the organization on matters related to software engineering, including market trends, and new programs and applications. Reviews and verifies resource estimates for complex technical design, coding, and testing efforts. Identifies specific interfaces, methods, parameters, procedures, and functions, as required, to support technical solutions, serving as an escalation point for complex or unresolved issues related to requirements translation. As part of the IT Engineering job family, this position is responsible for leveraging DEVOPS, and both Waterfall and Agile practices, to design, develop, and deliver resilient, secure, multi-channel, high-volume, high-transaction, on/off-premise, cloud-based solutions. Minimum Qualifications: Minimum six (6) years experience working on project(s) involving the implementation of solutions applying development life cycles (e.g., SDLC). Minimum four (4) years in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports. Bachelors degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field and Minimum ten (10) years experience in software development or a related field. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.
American Association of Colleges of Nursing
Washington, Washington DC
About AACN The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is the national voice for academic nursing. AACN works to establish quality standards for nursing education; assists schools in implementing those standards; influences the nursing profession to improve health care; and promotes public support for professional nursing education, research, and practice. POSITION SUMMARY Responsible for providing leadership, operational oversight and management of AACN's information technology environment. This role ensures that all technology systems, infrastructure, applications, and services are secure and reliable, and aligned with AACN's mission and business objectives. PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Leadership and Planning Develops, implements, and maintains AACN's enterprise IT strategy and roadmap aligned with organizational goals. Works with staff to develop strategies to improve service delivery, operational efficiency, and user experience. Monitors emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices; evaluates and recommends solutions that meet business, security, and scalability requirements. Infrastructure, Systems, and Network Administration Working with external IT service provider, oversees the administration, availability, performance, and security of all networks, endpoint and cloud-based services. Ensures proper user access controls, identity management, and security configurations to prevent unauthorized access to systems and data. Oversees systems for disaster recovery, business continuity, data backup, and restoration procedures. Manages mobile device services, email systems, spam filtering, antivirus and endpoint protection solutions. Ensures high availability and reliability of systems supporting both internal staff and external users. Cybersecurity and Risk Management Working with IT partner, establishes information security policies, standards, and best practices to protect AACN data and systems. Monitors cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities; coordinate remediation, patching, and incident response activities. Leads staff training and awareness initiatives related to cybersecurity, data protection, and acceptable technology use. Ensures compliance with applicable legal, regulatory, and contractual technology requirements. Application and Systems Management Works with staff and consultants to identify and implement software solutions that support business processes. Maintain and support internal websites and platforms (e.g., Board portals, internal systems, and databases). Administer the Zoom enterprise collaboration and communication platforms. Staff and End-User Support Oversees day-to-day IT support services, including hardware, software, and system issues submitted through TechSupport. Provides or coordinates training for staff on software, systems, and IT procedures. Ensure consistent, high-quality customer service for internal users and timely resolution of technical issues. Documentation, Policies, and Procedures Maintains comprehensive documentation for IT infrastructure, systems, configurations, procedures, assets, licenses, and credentials. Establishes standard operating procedures and best practices for IT operations and end users. Vendor and Contract Management Serves as the primary liaison with IT vendors, contractors, and service providers. Manages and monitors vendor contracts and service-level agreements. REQUIREMENTS Baccalaureate degree in information. At least 5 years of prior experience in similar role. Must be highly organized, detail oriented, flexible and collaborative, and have good interpersonal Excellent ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing. Additional qualifications include good time management, problem solving skills and strong project management, with ability to manage concurrent Ability to communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences. COMPENSATION RANGE $120,000 - $150,000 APPLY Submit an employment application, including a resume and cover letter.
About AACN The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is the national voice for academic nursing. AACN works to establish quality standards for nursing education; assists schools in implementing those standards; influences the nursing profession to improve health care; and promotes public support for professional nursing education, research, and practice. POSITION SUMMARY Responsible for providing leadership, operational oversight and management of AACN's information technology environment. This role ensures that all technology systems, infrastructure, applications, and services are secure and reliable, and aligned with AACN's mission and business objectives. PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Leadership and Planning Develops, implements, and maintains AACN's enterprise IT strategy and roadmap aligned with organizational goals. Works with staff to develop strategies to improve service delivery, operational efficiency, and user experience. Monitors emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices; evaluates and recommends solutions that meet business, security, and scalability requirements. Infrastructure, Systems, and Network Administration Working with external IT service provider, oversees the administration, availability, performance, and security of all networks, endpoint and cloud-based services. Ensures proper user access controls, identity management, and security configurations to prevent unauthorized access to systems and data. Oversees systems for disaster recovery, business continuity, data backup, and restoration procedures. Manages mobile device services, email systems, spam filtering, antivirus and endpoint protection solutions. Ensures high availability and reliability of systems supporting both internal staff and external users. Cybersecurity and Risk Management Working with IT partner, establishes information security policies, standards, and best practices to protect AACN data and systems. Monitors cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities; coordinate remediation, patching, and incident response activities. Leads staff training and awareness initiatives related to cybersecurity, data protection, and acceptable technology use. Ensures compliance with applicable legal, regulatory, and contractual technology requirements. Application and Systems Management Works with staff and consultants to identify and implement software solutions that support business processes. Maintain and support internal websites and platforms (e.g., Board portals, internal systems, and databases). Administer the Zoom enterprise collaboration and communication platforms. Staff and End-User Support Oversees day-to-day IT support services, including hardware, software, and system issues submitted through TechSupport. Provides or coordinates training for staff on software, systems, and IT procedures. Ensure consistent, high-quality customer service for internal users and timely resolution of technical issues. Documentation, Policies, and Procedures Maintains comprehensive documentation for IT infrastructure, systems, configurations, procedures, assets, licenses, and credentials. Establishes standard operating procedures and best practices for IT operations and end users. Vendor and Contract Management Serves as the primary liaison with IT vendors, contractors, and service providers. Manages and monitors vendor contracts and service-level agreements. REQUIREMENTS Baccalaureate degree in information. At least 5 years of prior experience in similar role. Must be highly organized, detail oriented, flexible and collaborative, and have good interpersonal Excellent ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing. Additional qualifications include good time management, problem solving skills and strong project management, with ability to manage concurrent Ability to communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences. COMPENSATION RANGE $120,000 - $150,000 APPLY Submit an employment application, including a resume and cover letter.