We are looking for a dedicated Help Desk Analyst I to join our team on a long-term contract basis in Reston, Virginia. This position involves providing technical support for hardware and software issues, as well as troubleshooting basic network problems. The ideal candidate will have a proactive approach to resolving tickets and ensuring smooth IT operations.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Respond to and resolve day-to-day technical support requests, including hardware and software-related issues.<br>• Troubleshoot Wi-Fi connectivity problems and provide efficient solutions.<br>• Manage password resets and assist users with account recovery.<br>• Perform light Active Directory tasks, such as user account modifications.<br>• Triage and escalate complex tickets to higher-level support teams.<br>• Maintain detailed records of support activities and ticket resolutions.<br>• Assist in diagnosing and resolving basic networking issues.<br>• Provide exceptional customer service while addressing user concerns.<br>• Identify recurring issues and suggest improvements to prevent future occurrences.<br>• Collaborate with team members to ensure seamless IT operations across the organization.
<p><strong>Data Modeling and Analysis</strong></p><ul><li>Design data models and optimize performance: Creating the structure of data relationships ensuring efficient data retrieval and calculations.</li><li>Create calculated columns and measures: Using DAX to calculate derived values and aggregate metrics.</li><li>Perform exploratory data analysis (EDA): Using BI tools to explore data, identify trends, and patterns.</li><li>Apply advanced data analysis techniques (e.g., statistical analysis, time series analysis, predictive modeling).</li><li>Integrate machine learning models into Power BI dashboards.</li><li>Experience building semantic models</li></ul><p><strong>Dashboard Development and Visualization</strong></p><ul><li>Designing dashboards: Creating visually appealing and interactive dashboards.</li><li>Creating visualizations: Using charts, graphs, and other visual elements to represent data.</li><li>Implementing interactivity: Adding filters, slicers, and drill-down capabilities.</li><li>Expertise in SQL and DAX and knowledge of Python, R.</li><li>Strong proficiency in Power BI.</li><li>Data modeling and visualization skills.</li><li>Strong problem-solving skills to address technical challenges and data quality issues.</li><li>Analytical skills with capacity to analyze complex data problems and draw meaningful insights.</li></ul>
<p><strong>Accounting Manager </strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Company Overview:</strong> Join an established leader that has been transforming infrastructure and communities across the DMV for decades. This organization’s body of work covers a wide range of commercial construction, including laboratory spaces, apartment buildings, schools, hotels, logistics hubs, manufacturing sites, local government buildings, and office renovations. Their culture focuses on building relationships, growth, and sustainable progress—viewing each project as a chance to cultivate trust and create long-term impact.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Role Introduction:</strong> This leadership role is charged with directing all core accounting functions for our client’s organization, ranging from transactional processes (payables, receivables, payroll, and job costing) to preparing and delivering accurate financial statements. The role is a strategic partner to executive leadership, sharing timely financial analysis for informed decision-making and driving best-in-class financial practices. Team development is central: the Accounting Manager guides, motivates, and enhances the skills of accounting staff to uphold quality, compliance, and ongoing process innovation.</p><p><strong>Essential Leadership Qualities</strong></p><ul><li><em>Strategic Mindset</em>: Brings clarity and forward-looking perspective, empowering teams to align with our long-term vision.</li><li><em>Relationship Builder</em>: Cultivates trust and engagement across departments; communicates recommendations effectively and motivates action.</li><li><em>Poised Under Pressure</em>: Leads with steadiness and emotional intelligence, even in evolving or complex scenarios.</li><li><em>Collaborative Spirit</em>: Champions shared achievement, fosters teamwork, and strengthens unity to reach organizational objectives.</li><li><em>Continuous Learner</em>: Pursues ongoing growth, welcomes feedback, and adapts to new challenges for sustained advancement.</li></ul><p><strong>Core Focus Areas</strong></p><ul><li>Supervise entire accounting lifecycle including payables, receivables, payroll, job costing, and reporting.</li><li>Coordinate and execute monthly, quarterly, and year-end closings with accuracy and transparency.</li><li>Provide business leaders with detailed financial analysis, forecasting, and variance commentary.</li><li>Track project-level budgets and expenditures to guarantee contractual adherence and correct cost allocation.</li><li>Design, implement, and maintain controls to protect financial assets, ensuring adherence to internal policies and regulatory standards.</li><li>Mentor, train, and develop accounting staff through feedback and skill-building initiatives.</li><li>Drive successful collaboration for compliance functions, audit preparation, and tax filings as required by GAAP and relevant authorities.</li><li>Leverage and optimize technology platforms to elevate accounting performance.</li><li>Maintain punctual compliance with all external reporting, business registrations, and tax obligations.</li></ul>
<p>I’m building a world-class team to power our next generation of data products. We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer who knows AWS inside and out—someone who can <strong>design secure, scalable data pipelines</strong>, <strong>own ETL/ELT workflows</strong>, <strong>engineer cloud data infrastructure</strong>, and <strong>deliver dimensional and semantic models</strong> that our analysts, data scientists, and applications can trust.</p><p>You’ll work closely with product, security, platform engineering, and analytics to move our architecture toward a <strong>real-time, governed, cost-aware</strong>, and <strong>highly automated</strong> data ecosystem.</p><p><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></p><ul><li><strong>Design & build end-to-end pipelines</strong> on AWS (batch and streaming) using services like <strong>Glue, EMR, Lambda, Step Functions, Kinesis, MSK</strong>, and <strong>Fargate</strong>.</li><li><strong>Develop robust ETL/ELT</strong> (PySpark, Spark SQL, SQL, Python) for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data at scale.</li><li><strong>Own data storage & processing layers</strong>: <strong>S3 (Lake/Lakehouse), Redshift (or Snowflake on AWS), DynamoDB</strong>, and <strong>Athena</strong> with strong partitioning, compaction, and performance tuning.</li><li><strong>Implement data models</strong> (3NF, dimensional/star, Data Vault, Lakehouse medallion) for analytics and operational workloads.</li><li><strong>Engineer secure infrastructure-as-code</strong> with <strong>Terraform</strong> (or <strong>CDK</strong>) across multi-account setups; implement CI/CD via <strong>GitHub Actions</strong> or <strong>AWS CodeBuild/CodePipeline</strong>.</li><li><strong>Harden security & governance</strong>: use <strong>IAM</strong>, <strong>Lake Formation</strong>, <strong>KMS</strong>, <strong>Secrets Manager</strong>, <strong>VPC/PrivateLink</strong>, <strong>GLUE Catalog</strong>, and fine-grained access controls. Partner with SecOps on compliance (e.g., <strong>SOC 2</strong>, <strong>FedRAMP</strong>, <strong>HIPAA</strong> depending on dataset).</li><li><strong>Observability & reliability</strong>: build monitoring with <strong>CloudWatch</strong>, <strong>OpenTelemetry</strong>, and data quality checks (e.g., <strong>Great Expectations</strong>, <strong>Deequ</strong>), implement SLOs and alerts.</li><li><strong>Champion best practices</strong>: code reviews, testing (unit/integration), documentation, runbooks, and blameless postmortems.</li><li><strong>Mentor</strong> mid-level engineers and collaborate on architectural decisions, standards, and technical roadmaps.</li></ul><p><br></p>
<p>Our client, a highly stable and well‑established organization in Columbia, MD, is seeking a <strong>Staff Accountant</strong> to join their growing accounting team. This role is ideal for early‑career accountants coming from <strong>public accounting</strong> or a <strong>large corporate accounting department</strong> who want long-term stability, mentorship, and clear growth opportunities. This is onsite with a collaborative environment, consistent hours with a good quality of life, and high visibility to both accounting and operational leadership. Compensation listed does is base salary and there is bonus potential with this role and fantastic benefits. <strong> If you are qualified and interested, please email Jim Meade at Robert Half right away.</strong></p><p><br></p><ul><li>Maintain accurate financial records and prepare monthly journal entries (revenue, billings, accruals, etc.)</li><li>Manage month-end close activities and prepare variance analysis comparing actuals to budget/forecast</li><li>Perform balance sheet reconciliations and resolve outstanding items using sound GAAP judgment</li><li>Collaborate with internal operational teams to review results, address receivables issues, and support forecasting updates</li><li>Assist with the preparation and analysis of annual budgets and quarterly forecasts</li><li>Review purchase orders and invoices for proper coding and timely processing</li><li>Support annual expense reconciliation efforts and ensure adherence to company policies</li><li>Respond to internal and external inquiries related to billing, accounts receivable, and financial activity</li><li>Participate in due diligence for potential acquisitions, dispositions, or financing activities</li><li>Ensure compliance with internal controls and identify potential deficiencies</li></ul>
We are looking for an experienced Data Center Technician to join our team in Ashburn, Virginia. In this role, you will play a critical part in managing and maintaining infrastructure installations, ensuring reliability and efficiency in operations. This is a long-term contract position that offers the opportunity to work on diverse projects and collaborate with various teams to deliver high-quality results.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Oversee infrastructure installation requests from initiation through completion, ensuring all objectives are met.<br>• Conduct certifications of network connections and peripherals prior to deployment.<br>• Coordinate with contractors to manage power remediation projects and ensure Service Levels are consistently achieved.<br>• Provide detailed project estimates, interpreting schematics and drawings, and documenting requirements through collaboration with IT and project management teams.<br>• Handle the creation, approval monitoring, and closure of work tickets and TCMs.<br>• Assist in rack-level capacity management and monitor infrastructure performance.<br>• Participate in meetings related to infrastructure projects and provide input on ongoing initiatives.<br>• Generate Root Cause Analysis reports for power issues and implement corrective measures.<br>• Manage infrastructure installations, including power surveys, cabling setups, and new data center build-outs.<br>• Oversee equipment procurement processes, including ordering materials, tracking purchase orders, and managing inventory.
<p><strong>Development Accountant (Hybrid, DC-Based)</strong></p><p>Are you passionate about making an impact in the affordable housing sector? Join a mission-driven team dedicated to building, preserving, and financing high-quality affordable housing. With nearly 40 years of experience and a collaborative, cross-functional staff of 60+, we put residents first and innovate solutions that help strengthen communities nationwide.</p><p><strong>Position Overview</strong> As a Development Accountant, you will report to the Assistant Controller, Real Estate and Property Accounting, overseeing the financial operations for a portfolio of affordable housing properties in various stages of development and operation. This highly collaborative role offers a blend of accounting, analysis, and stakeholder engagement to ensure accuracy, transparency, and compliance with organizational and GAAP standards.</p><p>You’ll interact with property managers, lenders, internal teams, deal investors, and external partners to deliver timely financial information, facilitate audits, and drive ongoing improvements. This DC-based position qualifies for a hybrid work schedule</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p><ul><li>Full-cycle accounting and financial statement preparation for assigned real estate projects (operational, predevelopment, and development).</li><li>Oversee monthly reconciliations, variance analyses, and financial reporting from third-party property management accountants.</li><li>Track and account for partnership interests, fees, funds, and project financial execution (General Partner/Limited Partner).</li><li>Monitor intercompany activity: operating properties, loans receivable/payable, and related reconciliations.</li><li>Collaborate on annual budget and forecast development and report significant variances to management.</li><li>Assist with audits, tax process coordination, proforma preparation, settlement statements, and compliance activities.</li><li>Manage construction draws, lender requisitions, and reconcile draw schedules to project budgets and actual costs.</li><li>Update and maintain property ledgers; integrate development activities and construction transactions into operating records.</li><li>Develop and maintain depreciation, amortization, and asset retirement obligation schedules.</li><li>Lead preparation of supporting audit documentation and communication with vendors, contractors, and banks.</li><li>Contribute to internal controls and process improvements per GAAP.</li><li>Serve as liaison between finance and development teams for assigned properties.</li></ul><p><strong>Why Apply?</strong> This is an extraordinary opportunity for a skilled accountant with a passion for affordable housing and public service to be involved in several areas (predevelopment, development, operational, funds, etc.) of real estate accounting. Grow your career while helping deliver lasting impact and stability to communities while being mentored by and have direct access to a fantastic leadership and executive team. Apply directly to this posting for immediate consideration. If you have additional questions, contact Lee Chernett, VP at Robert Half Finance & Accounting, via LinkedIn.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
<p>Are you a detail‑oriented accounting professional looking to grow your career with a national, industry‑leading organization? We’re partnering with a <strong>well‑established professional services company</strong> seeking a <strong>Senior Accountant</strong> to join its high‑performing corporate accounting team. This role offers the chance to work with large data sets, complex accounting structures, and a collaborative team that values professional development. This is an ideal role for candidates coming from <strong>public accounting (Big 4 or large regional)</strong> or <strong>large corporate accounting departments</strong> with <strong>2+ years of experience</strong>. This position is hybrid and offers a much better quality of life with stable hours and strong benefits. Email Jim Meade at Robert Half right away for consideration!</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Lead key portions of the <strong>monthly general ledger close</strong></li><li>Prepare and review <strong>journal entries</strong>, including recurring and ad‑hoc items</li><li>Perform <strong>income statement analysis</strong> and compare actuals vs. budget/prior periods</li><li>Complete <strong>balance sheet reconciliations</strong> and resolve monthly variances</li><li>Assist with <strong>interim and year‑end audits</strong></li><li>Reconcile and review <strong>payroll and operating bank accounts</strong></li><li>Support A/R with write‑offs and maintain audit-ready documentation</li><li>Contribute to <strong>special accounting projects</strong> as assigned</li></ul><p><strong>Why Candidates Love This Role</strong></p><ul><li>Join a <strong>fast-growing, nationally recognized company</strong> supporting Fortune‑level clients</li><li>Clear <strong>career path</strong>, strong internal mobility, and long-term growth potential</li><li>Hybrid work flexibility in the <strong>Hanover area</strong></li><li>Exposure to high-impact projects with significant visibility</li><li>Supportive leadership and a team culture built on collaboration and development</li></ul>
<p>We are looking for a highly motivated User Experience Designer II to join our team in Seattle. This long-term contract position offers an exciting opportunity to create impactful and user-centered designs that enhance customer experiences. The ideal candidate will be passionate about advocating for customer needs, driving design strategies, and collaborating across teams to deliver innovative solutions.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Develop and implement user-centered design strategies using tools like personas and journey maps to enhance product experiences.</p><p>• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to define business and feature requirements through data analysis, usability studies, and market research.</p><p>• Create detailed process flows, wireframes, and design mockups to conceptualize and communicate interaction behaviors effectively.</p><p>• Facilitate workshops and design sessions to align diverse stakeholders and drive consensus on user experience strategies.</p><p>• Present design concepts and solutions to various audiences, including executives, product teams, and user experience groups.</p><p>• Advocate for best practices in user interface design and usability principles to ensure high-quality outcomes.</p><p>• Utilize Figma to design and iterate on web-based applications and software interfaces efficiently.</p><p>• Manage multiple projects in an agile environment, ensuring timely delivery of design artifacts and solutions.</p><p>• Provide guidance to technical teams on implementing design solutions that align with usability standards.</p><p>• Continuously research and stay updated on industry trends to inform and refine design strategies.</p>
<p>Robert Half is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with AI‑enabled development experience to support the modernization of a real-time, high-availability air traffic management platform. This role offers the opportunity to work on safety-critical systems that directly support national airspace operations in a collaborative, mission-driven environment.</p><p>You will contribute to the development and sustainment of complex software systems using both traditional systems engineering practices and AI‑augmented development techniques throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).</p><p><br></p><p>Key Responsibilities:</p><ul><li>Design, develop, test, and maintain software for real-time, high-availability systems</li><li>Apply AI-assisted development tools to accelerate coding, refactoring, debugging, and automated test generation</li><li>Utilize AI responsibly across the full SDLC including:</li><li>Requirements analysis</li><li>System design</li><li>Implementation</li><li>Testing</li><li>Documentation</li><li>Code review</li><li>Analyze complex system requirements and translate them into efficient, maintainable software designs</li><li>Develop and maintain automation scripts across development, test, and production environments</li><li>Promote code quality, reuse, traceability, and cross-team collaboratio</li></ul>