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Kin + Carta  is an innovation and emerging technology firm that helps Fortune 500 companies seize new opportunities through world-changing digital solutions. As strategists and consultants, we help organizations evolve their digital strategy to solve mission-critical problems. As designers and developers, we build incredible hardware and software solutions that transcend a standalone product and transform an organization’s relationship with its customers. Kin + Carta is looking for someone to join our BA team as a Scrum Master , with particular interest or experience being a servant leader for teams and coaching organizations on the Scrum methodology.  If you are just as excited about driving change with digital solutions as we are and meet the following requirements, let's chat! What you will be doing: Managing digital work streams for our clients Facilitate all necessary team meetings (Sprint planning, standups, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives,...

Kin + Carta is looking to hire an iOS Developer.  The ideal potential employee for Kin + Carta is innovative, passionate about mobile technology with full-stack experience, looks to continually learn and enjoys sharing expertise. Experience working in an Agile Scrum development environment, or in a consulting capacity is a plus.  If you have a servant leadership attitude, a love of learning and an analytical mind, read on!  About you Strong object-oriented design skills and a track record of delivering designs to market Strong background in Swift or Objective C and familiarity with at least one additional object-oriented language Strong understanding of iOS software design patterns (e.g., MVC) Experience working with Auto Layout and size classes Experience integrating with RESTful APIs Experience with source control solutions such as Git Experience integrating third-party frameworks Ability to effectively communicate technical topics to...

Kin + Carta is looking for a DevOps Platform Engineer with a system engineering and development background to join our growing team in our Cloud Native Practice. This is a new position at Kin + Carta, and you’ll be helping to continue building out this client offering. Your background includes: Comfortable working in a collaborative environment with individuals locally and distributed globally Excellent communication skills, both written and oral are required Willingness to occasionally travel within the United States (and potentially UK) Three or more years experience in data center architecture, delivery and operational services in at least one Cloud IaaS environment (vSphere, AWS, Azure, GCP and OpenStack) Experience with hardware/software load balancers including F5, BigIP, AWS, HA Proxy, Nginx, Apache, ELB or Google Cloud Load Balancing Experience automating IT Operations processes via automated pipelines using common scripting languages including...

We are looking for a relationship-driven and detail-oriented Partner Development Manager to join our Partnerships team and continue Kin + Carta’s rapid growth. You’ll be joining an arm of our demand team focused on expanding our technology partnerships' new business opportunities within the solutions we build. You will operate in a fast-paced environment on a small, nimble team. Translation: you have an opportunity to make a big impact on Kin + Carta and your career. In this role, you’ll support critical partnership management and drive forward new business relationships.  What you'll be doing: Grow, maintain, and navigate relationships with Kin + Carta’s strategic partner, Google , at corporate and local levels Determine partner program requirements and coordinate internal stakeholders and resources to fulfill them Work with Kin + Carta sales reps to drive sales opportunities that come through partner channel and/or require partner support Work with Kin...

ABOUT KIN + CARTA CONNECT  Kin + Carta is a digital transformation organization.  As one of the key strategic pillars Kin + Carta Connect is a full-service digital agency that strategizes, designs, builds, implements, tests, and optimizes world-class, global, and multi-channel experiences. The Technical Director will be an integral part in building our US technical team, capability and sales effort. The Tech Director defines and ensures a comprehensive and coherent view across Business and Systems and Technology. They go beyond designing IT systems and enterprise solutions to deliver business change. They have deep business and industry expertise, are familiar with industry standards and can work at the boardroom and senior management level. They lead operations relating to market development and/or service delivery excellence. They are seen as a role model in the community. Responsibilities :  Act as architect in design and technical project lead in the...

Employer: Solstice Consulting, LLC  d/b/a Kin + Carta, 111 N. Canal Street, Suite 700, Chicago, IL 60606 Work site:  111 N. Canal Street, Suite 700, Chicago, IL 60606 Job Title: Senior Java Developer                                                             Job Duties:   Analyze users’ needs and then design, test, and develop software to meet those needs.  Recommend software upgrades for customers’ existing programs and systems.  Design each piece of an application or system and plan how the pieces will work together.  Bridge the gap between elegant front-end (UI) design and existing enterprise backend architectures.  Work in close partnership with Product owner and QA members by adequately transferring design knowledge and collaboratively identifying Scope of Impact. Job Requirements:           Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science. Five (5) years of work experience in the area of Java code development, design, implementation, and deployment across a wide...

Kin + Carta is hiring a Solutions Architect to join our growing team. If you have a servant leadership attitude, a love of learning and an analytical mind, read on!  What You’ll Be Doing: Creating high-impact software experiences and drive digital product innovation Applying your technical vision and experience with software design patterns to create elegant, scalable, and resilient solution architectures  Implementing controls to ensure your solution will stand tall against real-world conditions Obsessing over platform security and stability, and designing monitoring to enable your DevOps team to quickly pinpoint and respond to outages and slowdowns Improving your customer’s speed-to-market by implementing CI/CD pipelines, test automation, and containerized deployments Navigating complex data footprints, introducing modern data management and integration technologies to improve information velocity and data quality Staying ahead of user needs...

Kin + Carta is looking for someone to join our Chicago team as a Scrum Master, with particular interest or experience educating and coaching organizations on the Agile Scrum methodology.  You are just as excited about driving change with digital solutions as we are and meet the following requirements: Understanding of Agile Scrum roles, artifacts, and ceremonies and able to communicate and teach processes effectively to teams Experience working with Rally or a similar project management software A proponent for Servant Leadership Familiarity with budget management, while keeping deliverables on time and within budget You desire to bring transparency to the business team about development; growing trust while demonstrating your commitment to deliverables to the business team You have a keen eye for delivery issues and risks, and a sense of urgency for removing blocks and driving continuous improvement You understand healthy team dynamics and know...

ABOUT KIN + CARTA CONNECT  Kin + Carta is a digital transformation organization.  As one of the key strategic pillars within Kin + Carta, Connect is a full service digital agency that strategizes, designs, builds, implements, tests and optimizes world class, global and multi-channel experiences. ROLE OVERVIEW Kin + Carta is looking for an Engagement Director to lead the Client Services and Program Management team in our Chicago office.  The Engagement Director owns the client relationship as well as the successful delivery of the program through effective account and program management to ensure business success for our clients. In this role, The Engagement Director (ED) will collaborate with Kin + Carta teams to run multimillion dollar engagements, while keeping up-to-date on daily project activities.   This position requires breadth and depth of experience in Kin + Carta’s capabilities to lead large multi-disciplinary teams of people to successfully...

Employer: Solstice Consulting, LLC, 111 N. Canal Street, Suite 700, Chicago, IL 60606 Work site:  111 N. Canal Street, Suite 700, Chicago, IL 60606 Job Title: Java Spring Developer                                                                   Job Duties:   Design and develop microservices architecture-based enterprise applications that support high traffic volumes for various cloud platforms.  Support and collaborate with team members to work on planned deliverables in order to deliver products to market in an efficient and timely manner.  Produce high quality code for the full technological stack, from backend/database, middleware to User Interface (UI) and everything in-between.  Bridge the gap between elegant front-end (UI) design and existing enterprise backend architectures.  Work in close partnership with Product owner and QA members by adequately transferring design knowledge and collaboratively identifying Scope of Impact.          Job Requirements:...

Employer: Solstice Consulting, LLC, 111 N. Canal Street, Suite 700, Chicago, IL 60606 Work site:  111 N. Canal Street, Suite 700, Chicago, IL 60606 Job Title: Senior Java Cloud Developer                                                                 Job Duties:   Use latest cloud technologies such as Spring Framework, Amazon Web Services, OpenShift, Docker, Apache Maven to build highly scalable and distributed web platforms.  Develop microservice based enterprise applications that support high traffic volumes.  Produce high quality code for the full technological stack, from database to UI to everything in-between.  Assist with troubleshooting basic issues and improving application system performance by responding to client specific problems and fixing defects.    Job Requirements:           Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering. Two (2) years of experience developing Java applications across the full stack. Two (2) years of experience coding in Java...

Kin + Carta is an innovation and emerging technology firm that helps Fortune 500 companies seize new opportunities through world-changing digital solutions. As strategists and consultants, we help organizations evolve their digital strategy to solve mission-critical problems. As designers and developers, we build incredible hardware and software solutions that transcend a standalone product and transform an organization’s relationship with its customers. Kin + Carta is looking to hire a Senior .NET Engineer to join our Engineering Practice. If you are innovative, passionate about software development, look to continually learn and enjoy sharing expertise, read on!  About you: Previous professional experience working with C# You have worked with microservices Strong knowledge of full stack development and Object Oriented development Published apps, websites or other examples of solutions built Consulting experience a strong plus You have...

Employer: Solstice Consulting, LLC, 111 N. Canal Street, Suite 700, Chicago, IL 60606 Work site:  111 N. Canal Street, Suite 700, Chicago, IL 60606 Job Title: Technical Consultant                                                         Job Duties:   Work on client-facing projects with companies in the enterprise software ecosystem.  Consult with clients to understand technical needs, analyzing solution options and make a recommendation based upon knowledge and experience.  Develop enterprise grade solutions.  Gain technical knowledge of software, hardware, and open source technology stacks.  Partner with top-notch designers to create award-winning user experiences.  Bridge the gap between elegant front-end user design and existing enterprise backend architectures.   Job Requirements:           Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology and Management. Eighteen (18) months of work experience as a .net software engineer building an ecommerce web application...

Kin + Carta is looking for a DevOps Platform Engineer with a system engineering and development background to join our growing team in our Cloud Native Practice on a contract basis. This is a new position at Kin + Carta, and you’ll be helping to continue building out this client offering. Your background includes: Comfortable working in a collaborative environment with individuals locally and distributed globally Excellent communication skills, both written and oral are required Willingness to occasionally travel within the United States (and potentially UK) Three or more years experience in data center architecture, delivery and operational services in at least one Cloud IaaS environment (vSphere, AWS, Azure, GCP and OpenStack) Experience with hardware/software load balancers including F5, BigIP, AWS, HA Proxy, Nginx, Apache, ELB or Google Cloud Load Balancing Experience automating IT Operations processes via automated pipelines using common scripting...

Kin + Carta is looking for a high-performing, passionate, and creative Site Reliability Engineer that understands the importance of deploying and building quality software at high-speeds through automated streamlined operations and processes to achieve a business outcome. Skilled in designing, building and maintaining tools for deployment, monitoring, and operations. In addition to troubleshooting, resolving issues across several environments in order to enable development teams to quickly deliver digital products for customers.  Responsibilities: Design and develop products and major components which serve millions of users. Design, Develop tools and automation to minimize delivery time and increase developer productivity. Ensure products scale and perform consistently and reliably. Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews....

Kin + Carta is an innovation and emerging technology firm that helps Fortune 500 companies seize new opportunities through world-changing digital solutions. As strategists and consultants, we help organizations evolve their digital strategy to solve mission-critical problems. As designers and developers, we build incredible hardware and software solutions that transcend a standalone product and transform an organization’s relationship with its customers. The Americas Talent Development (TD) team manages the strategy and implementation of processes and programs within the areas of Performance Management (PM), Talent Management (TM), Learning & Development (L&D), and Culture for Kin + Carta’s operations in Argentina and the United States.   Kin + Carta is looking for a passionate people leader who is interested in running the Kin + Carta Americas Talent Development team What you will be doing: Own the evolution and administration of performance...

Kin + Carta is an innovation and emerging technology firm that helps Fortune 500 companies seize new opportunities through world-changing digital solutions. As strategists and consultants, we help organizations evolve their digital strategy to solve mission-critical problems. As designers and developers, we build incredible hardware and software solutions that transcend a standalone product and transform an organization’s relationship with its customers. Kin + Carta is seeking a Senior BI Develope r to join our Data Science team. You will be working with one of our sister companies in the UK, K+C Edit, with multiple client-facing projects, distributed teams and a wide variety of BI/MI reports and data structures. I f you are solid communicator with a servant leadership attitude, love of learning, and an analytical mindset, lets chat! About you: Ability to pull Insight from the reports and recommend actions Ability to easily identify key issues and...

Kin + Carta is looking for a passionate people leader who is interested in running the Kin + Carta Americas Talent Development team.  The Americas Talent Development (TD) team manages the strategy and implementation of processes and programs within the areas of Performance Management (PM), Talent Management (TM), Learning & Development (L&D), and Culture for Kin + Carta’s operations in Argentina and the United States.   Responsibilities Own the evolution and administration of performance management. Partner with Employee Experience Business Partners and business leaders to conduct employee talent assessments and make development recommendations. Design, implement and administer specialty recognition and development programs (e.g. mentorship and leadership development programs). Provide thought leadership and innovative ideas to enable our learning culture and bring to life our core values: Deeply Connected; Always Courageous; Instinctively...

We are looking for a relationship-driven and detail-oriented Partner Development Manager to join our Partnerships team and continue Kin + Carta’s rapid growth. You’ll be joining an arm of our demand team focused on expanding our technology partnerships' new business opportunities within the solutions we build. You will operate in a fast-paced environment on a small, nimble team. Translation: you have an opportunity to make a big impact on Kin + Carta and your career. In this role, you’ll support critical partnership management and drive forward new business relationships.  What you'll be doing: Grow, maintain, and navigate relationships with Kin + Carta’s strategic partner, Google , at corporate and local levels Determine partner program requirements and coordinate internal stakeholders and resources to fulfill them Work with Kin + Carta sales reps to drive sales opportunities that come through partner channel and/or require partner support Work with Kin...

Kin + Carta is seeking a User Experience Researcher to help us design amazing experiences from our Office for our Fortune 500 clients and their customers. If you’re passionate about emerging tech and have a deep understanding of human-centered design and interaction design read on!   What we are looking for in you: You are excited and passionate about gathering critical user data for our clients and project teams. ​You are well versed in implementing a variety of user research techniques including in-depth interviews, surveys, card-sorting, click testing, etc. You are able to manage recruiting and coordinate small sample user groups with the help of our clients and partners. You’re able to manage your own time, whether working on a team in a collaborative environment or working independently. You have a proven ability to collaborate with designers to realize human-centered designs based on your understanding of HCI fundamentals. Communication...