- - Consultant (Jobs in Seattle, WA)   Requirement id 59421 Job title Consultant Job location in Seattle, WA Skills required Sitecore Upgrade, -, -, Open Date 27-Feb-2017 Close Date Job type Not specified Duration 5 Months Compensation DOE Status requirement --- Job interview type ---    Email Recruiter: coolsoft Job Description Consultant: Sitecore Upgrade, -, -, [ NOTE : SUBMISSION DEADLINE - 3/10/2017 PM CST] Client : King County Department of Information Technology (KCIT) Description : King County Information Technology (KCIT) requires technical consulting to plan for an upgrade from Sitecore version 7.2 update 6 to version 8.2. All hosting, operations, design and development of the Sitecore installation as well as customer support for agency content authors is done in-house by KCIT. There is currently no Sitecore Partner providing technical services, but the contract with Sitecore does include Gold level technical support. The KCIT team includes systems engineers, Sitecore certified backend developer, front-end developers, and a designer. Due to recent turnover of the development team, KCIT is seeking strategic technical consulting to plan the next version upgrade with the development team, to ensure the implementation and architectural design follows current best practices as well as positions the team and content authors to be able to utilize all the new functionality available in version 8. The team does not currently use: components, in-page editor, MVC, or customer personalization features. The upgrade plan should outline how to incorporate those into the upgrade project. Requirements : The Consultant shall build a project workplan for the Sitecore 8 upgrade and shall provide a strategy for architecture of upgrade project. Consultant shall help team determine: • Best hosting solution for Sitecore installation and for xDB o Relative pricing, pros/cons, and method for selecting (King County hosted, AWS, Azure, Sitecore partners) • Best strategy for upgrade o Build from scratch and migrate versus upgrade in place o Options for automating content migration o Recommendations for MVC switch • Recommendations for current/additional modules • Template changes needed to fully utilize features of Sitecore 8 o Including need to move from content editor to page editor, turning reusable code snippets into components, modifying standard template architecture • Most appropriate aspects of customer personalization (for government) to initially target in the development roadmap. • Timeline and staffing needs to complete the upgrade project o Determine if this work should be phased or completed in one project • Training impact on agency customers and, if needed, for design/development team.   Call 502-379-4456 Ext 100 for more details. Please provide Requirement id: 59421 while calling.   Other jobs in WA: Bellevue (2), Olympia (8), Seattle (18),         (Consultant: Sitecore Upgrade, -, -, in Seattle, WA)

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