BigID Administrator / BigID Engineer

Location: Riverwoods, IL (Hybrid 3 days/week) — Open to 100% Remote for strong candidates
Duration: 6-month contract (extension or contract-to-hire potential)

Overview

We are seeking a skilled BigID Administrator / Engineer to support and optimize our enterprise data discovery environment. This role focuses on administering BigID, tuning performance, configuring scans, monitoring system health, and troubleshooting issues to ensure the platform runs efficiently at scale. You will join an established team and play a critical role in strengthening our data protection and discovery capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer, configure, and optimize the BigID platform
• Set up, modify, and monitor assessment scans and full scans
• Review logs, troubleshoot errors, and ensure scanning throughput meets performance targets
• Monitor system health and build observability dashboards within BigID
• Identify defects, bottlenecks, and optimization opportunities
• Support integrations such as S3 bucket scanning and other connectors
• Collaborate with engineering team members to resolve issues and improve processes
• Document configurations, processes, and system changes in the knowledge base
• Provide clear communication and updates to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Required Experience

• 1+ years of hands-on BigID experience (admin or engineering)
• Strong knowledge of BigID scans, logs, troubleshooting, and configuration
• Experience with data discovery, data-at-rest scanning, or data management tools
• Ability to analyze performance issues and tune platform behavior
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work effectively within a technical team

Soft Skills

• Strong communicator able to explain technical concepts in simple terms
• Team-oriented, proactive, takes initiative
• Strong documentation habits
• Mission-driven mindset focused on protecting sensitive data

STRATEGIC STAFFING SOLUTIONS (S3) HAS AN OPENING!

Strategic Staffing Solutions is currently looking for a Product Owner (Infrastructure/Middleware) for a W2 contract opportunity with one of our largest clients!

Candidates should be willing to work on our W2 ONLY.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Must Have

• 4+ years of Agile Coaching, Release Train Engineer, or Scrum Master Experience
• 5+ Years Project Management acceptance testing adequate testing and monitoring Agile communication and presentation skills
• Conducted sprint planning and diligent Jira board maintenance
• 5+ years of Infrastructure/Middleware experience, 2+ years in Layer 7 API Gateway
• 3+ years of application development and implementation experience
• 1+ years of Java experience
• 1+ years of Agile experience
• Demonstrate the ability to create robust automations using shell scripting.

Nice To Have

• Java 2. Spring boot 3. Experience with one of UI technology
• Expertise in key technologies to be leveraged by the team including Java, CI/CD technologies.
• Experience in S3, Snowflake, Postgres
• Experience working with containerization and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes/Openshift) and cloud providers like AWS, Azure, GCP or others.
• Experience in key technologies to be leveraged by the team including Java, CI/CD technologies
• Experience working with a variety of data platforms such as S3, Snowflake
• Experience building and implementing API service architectures
• Understanding of software testing principles and methodologies
• Experience in high availability & scalability design, as well as performance monitoring

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Partnering with Product Family Director, the Product Owner is responsible for developing, maintaining, and presenting the vision, strategy and consumer facing roadmaps for OpenShift Container Platform (OCP aka the Red Hat version of Kubernetes / k8s). These product roadmaps will be in alignment with the BT Technical Strategy and operation capabilities.

  The Product Owner should have in-depth knowledge of the k8s platform, operators running on the platform, CICD integration to k8s, cluster health observability, and cost optimization awareness.  The Developer Experience (DevEx) area is responsible for maintaining a self-service portal, Golden Image creation, helm chart updates and optimization of the platform for the teams that use it.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for defining, prioritizing, and accepting initiatives and features, in partnership with consumers and Architects, including acceptance criteria.
• Accountable for managing the product pipeline (feature backlog) and delivery of these features for every release and iteration.
• Responsible for delivery of features and accountable for the delivery of User Stories, in partnership with the Scrum Master and Team
• Manage initiatives and features from a consumer perspective. Identifies, communicates, and breaks down features to define MVP.
• Responsible for clarifying and communicating features to the delivery team in collaboration with the Product Area Director
• Responsible for writing, refining, and updating user stories in an agile management tool, ensuring the team backlog stays full and prioritized.
• Plays a significant role in quality and is the only team member empowered to accept features and user stories as complete.
• Partners with Product Area Director, and Architects on the Product vision/roadmap and initiative prioritization/delivery.
• Responsible for setting the Objectives and Key Results (OKR’s) encompassing their span of control.
• Responsible for managing product budget/financials, vendor management, risk management, and compliance per the company’spolicies and procedures.
• Accountable for managing product total cost of ownership (TCO)
• Ensures the team builds the right product or solution as required in accordance with the Architectural specifications and in alignment with the product roadmap and vision.
• Engages with stakeholders, Product Owners, and Architects to understand consumer needs.
• Partners with Chapter Leads to provide input on team member performance.

 

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• Project Manager

  Location: Riverwoods, IL
  Duration: [Insert Contract Length – e.g., 12 months]
  Employment Type: Contract / W2

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  About the Role

  We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to provide program oversight, coordination, and reporting support across multiple risk-related workstreams. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience managing cross-functional initiatives, developing JIRA dashboards, and driving accountability for project deliverables, milestones, and approvals.

  This role is highly collaborative and requires excellent organization, attention to detail, and communication skills to ensure program governance and transparency.

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  Key Responsibilities

  • Actively engage with workstream leads to monitor initiatives, track epics/stories/sub-initiatives, and identify potential risks or delays early.

  • Develop and maintain the program plan (roadmap), JIRA dashboards, and export processes for executive status reporting.

  • Ensure all documentation, attachments, and approvals are uploaded to JIRA and reflect the most current project activities and milestones.

  • Collaborate with program management and risk partners to align reporting with enterprise process gates, requirements, and evidence standards.

  • Support risk governance by coordinating approvals, tracking compliance deliverables, and maintaining data integrity within JIRA.

  • Provide timely updates on project progress, dependencies, and risks to leadership.

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  Required Qualifications

  • 3+ years of project management experience leading cross-functional programs, ideally within risk management, operations, or technology.

  • Hands-on experience as a JIRA Project Administrator and proficiency in JIRA project management, dashboard creation, and workflow tracking.

  • Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills.

  • Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

  • Proven experience collaborating across technical and business teams.

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  Preferred Qualifications

  • 4+ years of project management experience in a regulated or enterprise environment.

  • Experience in risk, compliance, or governance projects.

  • Familiarity with Agile methodologies, process documentation, and reporting automation.

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, or related field.

Beckend Engineer
Location: Riverwoods Illinois
Pay: min $58.62 – $72.41/hr
Duration: 4 months

As a Beck End Application Engineer, you’ll analyze, develop, and design solutions for our application software. In our Agile environment, you’ll do this by performing technical design, coding with test automation, support, and documentation of software application modifications. Ultimately, through continuous integration, development and testing, you’ll ensure we deliver quality code.  Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management. 

 Responsibilities 

• Analyze, design, program, test, and deploy new user stories and features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production.  
• Tends to Associate Application Engineers by providing learning tasks as well as work related tasks, directs the work of Senior Associate Application Engineers, and helps them continue to grow  
• Achieves team commitments (and influence others to do the same) by using informal leadership & highly developed communication skills  
• Has an oversight on design decisions and guides team to achieve key results for products assigned to them
• Remediates issues using engineering principles and creates proactive design solutions for potential failures

 Minimum Qualifications  

• Bachelors – Computer Science or related  
• 3+ Years – Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related  

 Preferred Qualifications  

• Experience in Cloud Technologies, preferably AWS 
• Programming language experience in Java and/or Python, and various frameworks 
• Strong working knowledge of data structures and algorithms 
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines with Jenkin, Git/GitHub 
• Passionate about high quality standards and test automation practices 
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities 
• Exceptional customer service and interpersonal skills 
• Superb collaboration and communication 

 Bonus Points If You Have:  

• Experience with OpenShift Container Platform
• Experience with contract testing using Pact and/or setting up Pact Broker
• Experience with Golang
• Full stack web applications development experience using React, Node.js
• Risk management knowledge