Employment at Pixstar, Inc.
Current Positions:
Data Administrator and ETL Developer
Report Testers and Quality Assurance Inspector
Technical Training Coordinator
Founded in 1998, Pixstar, Inc. is a Delaware based company of highly trained and customer oriented Information Technology (IT) professionals with offices in Rehoboth Beach Delaware, Washington DC, Washington State and Toronto. Pixstar is committed to improving the quality of computing for our customers, enriching our employees work experience and contributing to the real and virtual communities we inhabit. If you have the same values as we do, we want to talk to you!
Interested applicants should submit a cover letter and resume to:
Pixstar, Inc.
Human Resources
1515 Savannah Road, Suite 102
Lewes, DE 19958
(Fax) 302-644-8651
hr@pixstar.com
An employment application is available for you to download, print, complete and mail, e-mail or fax to us. 
At Pixstar, we understand what you do, and select challenging projects to provide the best working environment for our employees. We recognize each employee is unique and strive to bring employees the training, benefits and professional team approach that is critical. Pixstar offers excellent benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401(k), great holiday pay and tuition reimbursement.
Project Manager
Job Category: Information Technology
Status: Full Time – Employee
Location: Washington, DC
Currently, we are seeking an experienced project manager responsible for all operational aspects of deployed solutions and services for our organizations' end-users. The successful candidate will primarily be responsible for managing the planning, design, development and deployment of IT solutions for our clients' users. Additionally the candidate will coordinate with additional project managers in the operation and maintenance of existing IT solutions.
Essential Functions:
- Participate with Business Development to prepare requests for proposals for a variety of system products and services; Develop performance criteria and technical specifications.
- Translating client business needs into requirements, support the resolution of requirements issues across internal and external client business units; Establish systems development schedules, priorities and standards.
- Assist in the initiation of projects, including project charter development, scope & requirements definition, planning, scheduling, effort/cost tracking, risk analysis.
- Coordinate project solution releases through all phases - requirements analysis, design, development, testing, and deployment - delivering the highest quality systems that meet business needs ensuring client’s services are properly monitored, have high availability and perform to client’s requirements and expectations.
- Communicate with the end-users and report progress, changes or problems.
- Perform all required personnel, software and hardware planning and budgeting functions for assigned projects.
- Coordinate the allocation and approval of staff for approved projects and system support.
- Ensure compliance with policies, procedures and standards for computerized systems and perform project and contract management duties as needed.
- Review computer studies and documentation to ensure conformance with approved standards and that all studies consider all relevant technical, personnel and organizational issues.
- Monitor program development and thoroughly document necessary system modifications and enhancements.
- Maintain project sites for project communications and repository for project artifacts such as status reports, schedules, meeting minutes, issue/risk logs, etc.
- Coordinate project activities/meetings with internal business units, and external client business units and end-users.
- Develop and execute user acceptance tests, as necessary, to ensure that systems delivered meet business needs.
- Act as back-up for other Project Managers.
Requirements:
- 8 or more years of planning, directing, scheduling, budgeting, staffing and managing single and multiple Information Technology projects that fulfilled business needs and priorities with in quality, budget, and time constraints for third party clients;
- A thorough knowledge of the capabilities and requirements of various computer platforms.
- Experience functioning in centralized, distributed, web-based, client server, and stand-alone operating environments.
- Systems integration experience involving the interfacing of complex systems components with one another.
- High energy, can-do, results-oriented personality.
- Financial Analysis Business acumen combined with technical software background.
- Understanding of private and public sector business process management.
- Knowledge of system integration.
- Knowledge of the development life cycle.
- Strong personality, with the ability to manage, influence and lead people.
- Strong communication skills.
- Ability to manage conflicting interests and identify compromises.
- Ability to deliver results under pressure.
- Excellent written and oral English skills.
- Four year degree or equivalent work experience required.
Education:
- B.S., Computer Science, MIS, Finance, or related technical field or equivalent work experience
Data Universe Designer
Job Category: Information Technology
Status: Full Time – Employee
Currently, we are seeking qualified candidates responsible for full life cycle development of a Business Objects XI Universe. This includes collecting requirements, creative universe(s), building reports and working with validation team to validate the universe.
Required Knowledge and Skills:
- Design and develop new Universes and make modifications to existing Universes.
- Assist with Crystal Reports development, using Universes and OLTP environments as data sources.
- Establish and maintain close, productive working relationships with the extended team, including ETL, DBA, Testing, Business Analysts and Production support.
- Communicate and document Universe changes to Report Developers, Business analysts and Testers.
- Recommend best practices for Universe and report development.
- Work closely with data modeling team and DBAs to determine solutions to performance or functionality problems or to implement enhancements.
- Assist in the design and development of report specifications; provide assistance in setting up an overall enterprise reporting architecture.
- Participate in the design of data models to improve report usability and performance.
- Provide performance tuning for reports and Universes.
- Provide support for structured test phases such as System Acceptance, User Acceptance, Load Testing and Report Performance. Test support may include defect resolution, environment set up, documentation and training.
- Mentor junior team members in Universe development.
- Four year degree or equivalent work experience required.
Data Administrator and ETL Developer
Job Category: Information Technology
Status: Full Time – Employee
Currently we are seeking individuals responsible for developing and implementing business intelligence solutions focusing on data modeling and database development. The successful candidate will work with data architects, developers and business analysts to design robust, scalable solutions. This is a high visibility position developing critical Data Warehouse and reporting components and will lay the foundation for internal data warehouse solutions. This person will need to be able to learn quickly, to work in a fast-paced team-driven environment, and to communicate well with technical personnel. The successful candidate should possess deep technical expertise in database design, ETL, reporting and analytics and will have previous consulting experience utilizing a structured delivery methodology.
Some of the essential job functions of this position include:
- Proven ability to design, implement and understand dimensional models/query tools, and metadata repositories.
- Design, develop and support data mart solutions for analytical reporting.
- Strong knowledge of data warehouse concepts, such as star schemas, snowflakes, conformed dimensions, slowly changing dimensions, etc.
- Strong background with relational database management objects (tables, schemas, indexes, stored procedures, macros), database design principles and data administration standards, and information security terminology.
- Database and ETL performance tuning.
- Responsible for participating in the development for ETL solutions loading and validating data from source systems into the corporate data warehouse.
- Analyze business requirements and translate them into functional and technical design specifications and implementation plans.
- Design of the data warehouse data storage strategy/technique (ODS, EDW, DM, etc.)
- Ability to solve complex technical problems, assimilate information rapidly, and work under time constraints. General problem and issue resolution.
- Works closely with IT staff, and consultants to coordinate plans and activities for development projects.
- Works with the Project Leader to define tasks and create team work plans with moderate supervision. Able to understand and estimate work efforts.
Required Knowledge and Skills:
- Five plus years experience architecting large scale data warehouses using Oracle.
- Seven plus years of relevant consulting experience preferred or 10 years of corporate IT.
- Strong dimensional data modeling skills (i.e. conceptual, logical and physical model design, experience with operation data stores, enterprise data warehouses and data marts.
- Understanding of various dimensional modeling strategies including design differences and trade-offs (e.g., Kimball, Inman, etc.)
- Expert RDBMS knowledge of Oracle (ideally, 10g).
- Implementation and design experience with ETL concepts and tools.
- Implementation and design experience with one or more BI/enterprise reporting tools.
- Must have a strong knowledge of SQL and PL/SQL.
- Ability to learn quickly in a dynamic environment and deliver on commitments in a timely manner.
- Excellent organizational, communication, analytical and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to juggle multiple projects and tasks.
- Strong documentation skills and attention to detail.
- Four year degree or equivalent work experience required.
Report Developer
Job Category: Information Technology
Status: Full Time – Employee
Currently, we are seeking experienced report developers with either Business Objects or Crystal Reports experience for our Delaware and Washington, DC locations. The successful candidates will define, develop, document, implement and maintain reports and ad-hoc queries that provide real time business information to all levels of personnel through mission critical documents/reports and on-line applications using Business Objects and Crystal Reports.
Required Knowledge and Skills:
- 5+ years of experience with using Business Objects software in a data warehouse environment, or
- 5+ years of experience writing Crystal Reports.
- Ability to work with end users and transform requests into robust report solution.
- Demonstrated skills with report writing and business / technical requirements analysis.
- Experience with troubleshooting problems with business intelligence applications and reports.
- Experience with data warehouse design and application.
- Knowledge of relational data warehouse database design and SQL.
- Experience in the design of tables supporting Business Objects BI projects.
- Experience designing and developing Business Objects application interfaces.
Report Testers and Quality Assurance Inspector
Job Category: Information Technology
Status: Full Time – Employee
Currently we are seeking qualified individuals to maintain reports, ad-hoc queries, and review and enforce adherence to format standards that provide real-time business information to all levels of personnel through mission-critical documents/reports and on-line applications using Business Objects and Crystal Reports.
Required Knowledge and Skills:
- Three plus years of experience with using Business Objects software in a data warehouse environment, or
- Three plus years of experience with using Crystal Reports
- Demonstrated skills with report writing and business ad-hoc queries.
- Some demonstrated experience with troubleshooting business intelligence applications and reports.
- Experience working with data warehouses.
- Experience with review and enforcement of corporate standards, policies, format and style guidelines.
- Excellent organizational ability, attention to detail and experience working with teams.
- Four year degree or equivalent work experience required.
Web Developer
Job Category: Information Technology
Status: Full Time – Employee
Currently we are seeking qualified candidates responsible for the development of user interfaces, technical layouts, and system usability, including programming, testing and documentation of web applications.
Required Knowledge and Skills:
- Demonstrated expert working knowledge in web design and development.
- Integrate custom front end coding using server-side scripting technologies such as Java, XML and servlets using JBoss, Tomcat as JSP server.
- Custom code .NET, ASP and Visual Basic applications.
- Develop object-oriented applications.
- Create and maintain templates using XHTML, CSS, XML, XSL, VB Script, ASP.NET controls.
- Troubleshoot, maintain and debug as needed.
- Embed 508 Compliance.
- Demonstrated understanding and working relationships with database and network administration functions are preferred including:
- Server technology on either UNIX or Windows platforms.
- Development of interfaces with database management systems using SQL with Oracle, Sybase and MS SQL Server.
- IIS and deploying applications through a CCB process.
- HTTP over SSL communication design development and testing.
- Four year degree or equivalent work experience required.
Technical Training Coordinator
Job Category: Information Technology
Status: Full Time – Employee
Currently we are seeking individuals with three to five years of technical training and courseware development experience. Qualified candidates will be responsible for training at the company site, as well as travel to conduct training at the customer’s site.
Required Knowledge and Skills:
- Three to five years related experience and/or training or equivalent combination of education and experience is acceptable.
- Troubleshooting skills are required and must be well versed in computer and MS Office applications.
- Must have experience and proven success in developing and delivering training with ISD methods and then coordinating delivery and oversight of that training with a Learning Management System.
- Ability to communicate ideas in a structured and logical manner both verbally and written.
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers and the general public.
- Ability analyze, develop and design training and support materials.
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures or governmental regulations.
- Ability to write reports business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
- Four year degree or equivalent work experience required.
Administrative Assistant
Job Category: Information Technology
Status: Full Time – Employee
Location: Lewes / Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
Currently, we are seeking an Administrative Assistant for our Delaware location to perform routine clerical and administrative functions such as drafting correspondence, scheduling appointments, organizing and maintaining paper and electronic files, and providing information to callers. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:
- Answer telephones and give information to callers, take messages, or transfer calls to appropriate individuals.
- Arrange conferences, meetings, and travel reservations for office personnel.
- Compose, type, and distribute meeting notes, routine correspondence, and reports.
- Greet visitors and callers, handle their inquiries, and direct them to the appropriate persons according to their needs.
- Locate and attach appropriate files to incoming correspondence requiring replies.
- Maintain scheduling and event calendars.
- Make copies of correspondence and other printed material.
- Open, read, route, and distribute incoming mail and other material, and prepare answers to routine letters.
- Schedule and confirm appointments for clients, customers, or supervisors.
- Maintain paper and electronic filing systems for records, correspondence, and other material.
- Coordinate conferences and meetings.
- Learn to operate new office technologies as they are developed and implemented.
- Order and dispense supplies.
- Operate office equipment such as fax machines, copiers, and phone systems, and use computers for spreadsheet, word processing, database management, and other applications.
- The successful candidate will be a high school graduate with prior office or business experience; have a working knowledge of software applications such as MS Word and other business office applications; have excellent spelling, punctuation, grammar and oral communication skills; and possess discretion, good judgment, organizational ability, initiative and the ability to work independently.