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Company: Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions
Location: map it!US-NY-New York
Base Pay: N/A
Employee Type: Full-Time
Industry: Computer Software
Education - Teaching - Administration
Manages Others: No
Job Type: Information Technology
Req'd Education: 4 Year Degree
Req'd Experience: At least 5 year(s)
Req'd Travel: Not Specified
Relocation Covered: No
Contact: Not Available
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Ref ID: 9279BR


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Job Title: Content Management Systems Lead Engineer - New York

11/5/2009
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Company Overview

Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions, a division of Kaplan, Inc., is a premier provider of educational and career services for individuals, schools and businesses. Established in 1938, Kaplan is far and away the world leader in the test prep industry and has served well over 4 million students. With 4,000 classroom locations worldwide, a comprehensive menu of online offerings and a complete array of books and software, Kaplan offers preparation for more than 80 standardized tests, including entrance exams for secondary school, college and graduate school, as well as English language and professional licensing exams. Kaplan also provides private tutoring and college and graduate admissions consulting services. Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions is a division of Kaplan, Inc., a subsidiary of The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO).

Kaplan offers full and part time career opportunities worldwide in addition to part time teaching, coaching and tutoring opportunities. Career opportunities include marketing, information technology, administration, human resources, curriculum development, teaching, communications, graphic design, web technology development and more. For more information, please click on one of our job search engines.

Job Description

Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions is looking for an experienced Content Management Systems Lead Engineer to design and drive how we implement Content Management and Digital Asset Management technologies across the service.
We're looking for someone willing to take ownership of key areas, turn ambiguous goals into clear directions, coordinate with vendors, mentor others, and have demonstrated success in their previous positions.

Responsibilities will include:

  • Dive deeply into the assets that we collect today and new services/data sources while they're in the design phase. Analyze them, develop and document the appropriate CMS/DAM structure, environments, and quality assurance strategies and work with key stakeholders, other technical leaders and architects, product teams, and partner teams to drive adoption.
  • Providing hands-on technical leadership for the team that will be designing and developing the CMS/DAM. Work with business stakeholders and systems architects to recommend specific implementation strategies to satisfy business requirements.
  • Work hands-on with internal and external teams (authoring tools, learning management systems) to integrate the CMS/DAM into their systems.
  • Develop a process for content import, export and publishing.
  • Work with vendors, and external and internal developers, in order to implement CMS/DAM technologies that satisfy business requirements.
  • Support the ongoing evolution of content taxonomy and structure, and team workflows by implementing and enhancing CMS capabilities.
  • Support the ongoing production of CMS/DAM-based content.
  • Work hands-on with KTPA technical teams to integrate the CMS/DAM into their systems.
  • Work hands-on with software vendors, developers and operations team to optimize systems scalability and performance.

Job Requirements

Required:


  • 5+ years industry experience designing and implementing CMS/DAM-based systems.
  • Experience with Web Server and Content Management Systems.
  • Experience in managing and organizing digital assets and delivering them to Content Delivery Networks.
  • Experience integrating multiple authoring systems and content delivery services (both software systems and CDNs).
  • Experience in implementing workflows, roles, and permissions within a CMS.
  • Demonstrated experience using current Web communication methodologies (Web services, REST, Javascript/AJAX), WebDAV, CIFS, FTP, NFS, Sharepoint protocol, etc.)
  • Excellent conceptualization, analytical, and logic skills enabling comprehension and development of complex technical and business issues, topics, and plans
  • Ability to manage short-, medium-, and long-term planning horizons concurrently
  • Ability to understand and relate product technology, strategy and direction with business needs
  • Leader and role model comfortable working as an individual contributor and as a member of a team, across diverse organizations
  • Excellent communications skills, with the ability to work with business users as well as other members of the technical staff.
  • Ability to partner with senior developers and to mentor junior developers
  • Experience with large-scale production CMS systems (i.e. scalability, high-availability), with the ability to optimize architecture and implementation across all layers of architecture.


    Additional:

    • Experienced with a wide range of technologies and standards, and experienced selecting the appropriate approaches for each application.


    Full time employees enjoy these outstanding benefits:
  • 401(k) plan
  • Comprehensive health, dental and short term disability & long
    term disability plans
  • Business casual dress code
  • Sick days, personal days, holidays, and vacation days
  • A friendly, team oriented environment

    Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions (www.kaptest.com), a division of Kaplan, Inc., is a premier provider of educational and career services for individuals, schools and businesses. Established in 1938, Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions is the world leader in the test prep industry and has served millions of students in nearly 70 years. With 3,000 classroom locations worldwide, a comprehensive menu of online offerings and a complete array of books and software, and private tutoring options, Kaplan offers preparation for more than 60 standardized tests in the U.S. and the U.K., including entrance exams for secondary school, college and graduate school, as well as English language and professional licensing exams. Kaplan also provides college and graduate admissions consulting services, as well as after-school learning programs for K-10 students through its SCORE! centers. Additionally, the division's K12 Learning Services unit is a leading nationwide provider of a broad range of academic intervention and support programs for school districts seeking to meet the demands of No Child Left Behind (NCLB).
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