Careers
Burton Group, a 15-year-old technology research and consulting firm, is a distributed
company with headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah. Burton Group is seeking talented
and motivated individuals to join its team.
Burton Group -- which supports Fortune 2000 companies in their strategic
enterprise architecture development -- is a successful company with consistent growth
and solid customer base of leading Fortune 500 companies. Burton Group was named
in the Utah 100 as one of Utah's fastest growing companies for four years.
As a member of our team, you'll be part of a progressive organization that specializes
in a pure-growth industry. You'll also enjoy a competitive salary and excellent
benefits including: medical, dental, vision, life, disability, 401(k), paid time
off, and an employee bonus referral program.
Available Positions:
Analyst - User Experience and Presentation Technologies
Location:
Anywhere U.S.A.
Burton Group is seeking an Analyst and subject matter expert who will be responsible for creating high quality content for Burton Group's clientele including, but not limited to, research documents and public presentations.
Requirements:
- At least five years experience researching, writing and presenting or seven years of direct industry experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Coverage areas include:
- User experience design methodologies
- Presentation technologies (e.g. AJAX, Flash, Java ME, Windows Presentation foundation)
- User Interface Development Environments (e.g. Adobe AIR, Adobe Open Screen, Microsoft Silverlight
- Strong research and writing skills
- Excellent writing and research skills, coupled with strong analytical skills
- Excellent presentation skills, including large audiences (500+ people)
- Ability to take a position, based on facts, and support that position to clients, both external and internal, with clear analysis
- Broad knowledge of industry trends and emerging technologies
- Ability to identify how changing technologies will impact technology choices in architectural decisions
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related area or commensurate experience
- Ability to travel approximately 20% of their time, mostly within the U.S. but some international
- History of demonstrable publishing a plus (books, periodicals, white papers, etc.)
Responsibilities:
- Create and maintain six or more high quality, timely documents or technical positions per 12 month review period through interviewing and writing
- Conduct discovery by nurturing relationships with and interviewing regularly clients, vendors, and industry thought leaders (including CxO level)
- Maintain the company's industry leadership reputation by responding to press inquiries and speaking at industry events in area of expertise
- Provides sales, marketing and consulting support
If you have initiative and are driven to raise the bar on quality, send your résumé
to:
lward@burtongroup.com
Technical Consultant – Data Center Strategies
Location:
Open U.S.A.
Burton Group currently seeks a Technical Consultant to join our Data Center Consulting practice.
Requirements:
- Direct experience in governance, architecture, design, and development of x86 server farms, racks, iSCSI and FC SANs, IP-based networks, clusters, and disaster recovery plans
- Broad knowledge of industry trends and emerging technologies, including server virtualization, storage virtualization, and iSCSI
- Ability to identify how changing technological landscape will impact Data Center design and architecture choices
- Self-starter, eager to learn about new technologies and willing to keep their finger on the pulse of the changing IT landscape
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, to both technical and business audiences including CIO-level executives
- Customer-oriented attitude, with experience and high comfort level in customer settings
- Ability to travel approximately 50% of the time, mostly within North America, with some international travel
- Previous exposure as an industry expert, analyst, consultant, author, or published writer is a plus
- At least ten years experience in the following areas:
- Requirements Analysis
- Strategy and architecture development
- Current state assessments
- Data Center governance, policy and compliance
- RFI/RFP development, evaluation and vendor recommendations
Responsibilities:
- Function as an industry expert, project mentor, and contributor who
- Delivers quality service for 2-4 simultaneous customer projects, successfully managing customer relationships
- Delivers quality service for most core areas, familiarity with at least two key platforms, and competence in at least one complementary area. The consultant should be capable of delivering training seminars. Topic areas are:
- Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
- Data Center Relocation and Consolidation
- Server and Storage Virtualization
- SANs, NAS, SAS/SATA
- Data Replication and Protection
- Backup and Archiving Solutions
If you have initiative and are driven to raise the bar on quality, send your résumé
to:
lward@burtongroup.com
Senior Consultant - Application Platform Strategies
Location:
Open U.S.A.
Burton Group currently seeks a Senior Consultant to join our APS consulting practice.
Requirements:
- Direct experience in governance, architecture, design, and development of application architectures including services oriented architectures (SOA) enterprise service bus (ESB) and application strategies and frameworks such as
- Presentation Strategies
- Rich Internet Applications
- AJAX
- DHTML/HTML
- Flash
- Flex
- Application Frameworks
- Business Process Management (BPM) Business Rules
- Web Server Frameworks
- Java
- .NET
- Application Rationalization
- Portfolio Management
- Software Development Strategies
- Software Development Life-cycle (SDLC) infrastructure
- SDLC methodologies
- Iterative methodologies (e.g. Agile, Extreme Programming, Scrum)
- SOA
- SOA Governance Infrastructure (SGI)
- Managed Communication Infrastructure (MCI)
- Infrastructure Services Model
- Enterprise Service Bus
- XML Gateway
- Data Access Strategies
- O/R Mapping Frameworks)
- Data Services
Responsibilities:
- Self-starter, eager to learn about new technologies and willing to keep their finger on the pulse of the changing IT landscape
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, to both technical and business audiences including CIO-level executives
- Customer-oriented attitude, with experience and high comfort level in customer settings
- Ability to travel approximately 50% of the time, mostly within North America, with some international travel
- Previous exposure as an industry expert, analyst, consultant, author, or published writer is a plus
- At least fifteen years experience in the following areas
- Requirements Analysis
- Strategy and architecture development
- Current state assessments
- Governance, policy and compliance
- RFI/RFP development, evaluation and vendor recommendations
- Function as an industry expert, project mentor, and contributor who
- Delivers quality service for 2-4 simultaneous customer projects, successfully managing customer relationships
- Delivers quality service for most core areas, familiarity with at least two key platforms, and competence in at least one complementary area. The consultant should be capable of delivering training seminars.
If you have initiative and are driven to raise the bar on quality, send your résumé
to:
lward@burtongroup.com
Senior Consultant - Enterprise Architecture
Location:
Open U.S.A.
Burton Group currently seeks a Senior Consultant to join our Enterprise Architecture consulting practice.
Requirements:
- Direct experience in IT governance, enterprise architecture, solution design, and development
- Broad knowledge of industry trends and emerging technologies
- Ability to identify how changing business landscape will impact process, information, application and technology architecture choices
- Self-starter, eager to learn about new technologies and willing to keep their finger on the pulse of the changing IT landscape
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, to both business and technical audiences
- Ability to travel approximately 50% of the time, mostly within North America, with some international travel
- Previous exposure as an industry expert, analyst, consultant, author, or published writer is a plus
- At least ten years experience in the following areas:
- Strategy and architecture development
- Requirements Analysis
- Current state assessments
- IT governance, policy and compliance
- RFI/RFP development, evaluation and vendor recommendations
Responsibilities:
- Function as an industry expert contributor and mentor who
- Delivers quality service for 2-4 simultaneous client projects
- Reviews work products of, and provides guidance to more junior staff
- Delivers quality service for three or more topic areas, and is capable of managing delivery of complex, multi-competency engagements. Topic areas that Senior Consultant shall be capable of delivering include, but are not limited to
- IT strategy
- IT investment planning
- IT Portfolio Management
- Enterprise Architecture planning
- IT Organization and cultural change
- Governance process development
- Service Oriented Architecture
- Software Development Lifecycle
- IT Application Rationalization
- IT Measurement Program Development
- IT Performance Improvement (e.g. planning, execution, operations)
- Mentors and assists other team members as requested by the Vice President, Consulting Services, Directors of Technical Architecture, and Consulting Program Manager
- Contributes to research service content development process by
- Providing input and support for the BGCS Reference Architecture model
- Supplying feedback to analysts developing content
- Supporting customer dialogue activities
- Supporting sales/marketing activities
- If requested, provides sales and service business development by
- Participating in customer-facing sales meetings
- Developing proposals
- Closing new business efforts
- Identifying new and repeat business opportunities
- If requested, assists with the development of marketing collateral
- Promotes Burton Group at conferences and other events
- Contributes to consulting practice planning and development by
- Attending and participation in planning meetings
- Performing on occasional action items
If you have initiative and are driven to raise the bar on quality, send your résumé
to:
lward@burtongroup.com
Senior consultant - Collaboration and Content Strategies
Location:
Open U.S.A.
Burton Group currently seeks a Senior Consultant to join our CCS consulting practice.
Requirements:
- Direct experience in governance, architecture, design, and development of collaboration and content architectures such as:
- Enterprise messaging (e-mail focus)
- Enterprise Portal Frameworks
- Collaboration Superplatforms (IBM Notes, Microsoft SharePoint, Oracle WebCenter, SAP NetWeaver)
- Enterprise Content Management (ECM) vendors (IBM, Adobe, Microsoft, Oracle, etc.)
- Content, information architecture and re-use
- Enterprise and desktop search
- Taxonomy, content categorization, meta-tagging
- Document management
- Web content management
- Digital asset management
- Offline/disconnect/sync and mobile
- Content Analytics
- Attention management
- Collaboration business case creation
- Collaborative workflow
- Document formats and related standards
- Information modeling
- Offline and disconnected collaboration
- Instant messaging and presence
- Unified messaging (includes group calendaring/scheduling)
- Virtual workspaces, team rooms, project workspaces, discussion forums
- Knowledge Management, organizational productivity, community
- Web 2.0 (blogs, feeds, social networking, wiki, bookmarking, social search)
- Web conferencing
Responsibilities:
- Self-starter, eager to learn about new technologies and willing to keep their finger on the pulse of the changing IT landscape
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, to both technical and business audiences including CIO-level executives
- Customer-oriented attitude, with experience and high comfort level in customer settings
- Ability to travel approximately 50% of the time, mostly within North America, with some international travel
- Previous exposure as an industry expert, analyst, consultant, author, or published writer is a plus
- At least ten years experience in the following areas:
- Requirements Analysis
- Strategy and architecture development o Current state assessments
- Governance, policy and compliance
- RFI/RFP development, evaluation and vendor recommendations
- Workshop delivery/training seminar
- Function as an industry expert, project mentor, and contributor who
- Delivers quality service for 2-4 simultaneous customer projects, successfully managing customer relationships
- Delivers quality service for most core areas, familiarity with at least two key platforms, and competence in at least one complementary area
If you have initiative and are driven to raise the bar on quality, send your résumé
to:
lward@burtongroup.com
Research Director - SRMS
Location:
Open U.S.A.
The Research Director supports the fulfillment of the Company’s mission and vision by providing technical leadership for all aspects of a given service’s deliverables, including both research and consulting.
A Research Director contributes to the company’s knowledge base by being a subject matter expert, using his or her expertise to guide the creation of content, mentoring analysts and potentially consultants, developing their skill sets, and empowering them to meet the service’s goals.The Research Director works with the Service Director to ensure the quality of the knowledge and research made available to the company’s clients in the form of reports, reference architectures, presentations, and client interaction as well as the timely delivery of that content in accordance with the service’s content goals. The Research Director also works with the Service Director and the Consulting Practice Manager to leverage consulting deliverables into content for the research service.
A Research Director contributes directly to the service’s deliverables by authoring content, including reports, reference architectures, presentations, and client interaction. The Research Director may occasionally contribute directly to the service deliverables by performing productive consulting work (a mix of billable, content, and other productive days) particularly as it relates to generating important subsidized research, transferring knowledge to principal or senior consultants, assisting at the early stage of instantiating consulting content for new packages, or contributing to other extremely critical consulting projects.
Requirements:
- At least ten years experience researching, writing and presenting in two or more of the following areas:
- Coverage areas include:
- Distributed Security Architectures
- Network Admission and Access Controls
- Securing Web Services and XML Security Standards
- Application Firewalls and Gateways
- Content and Application Security
- Security Event Management
- Managing Risk and Risk Aggregation
- Mobile Device Security
- Security Governance, Programs and Practices
- Regulatory Compliance for IT
- Strong research and writing skills
- Excellent writing and research skills, coupled with strong analytical skills
- Excellent presentation skills, including large audiences (500+ people)
- Ability to take a position, based on facts, and support that position to clients, both external and internal, with clear analysis
- Broad knowledge of industry trends and emerging technologies
- Ability to identify how changing technologies will impact technology choices in architectural decisions
- Strong leadership and management experience
- Experience setting quarterly and annual objectives
- Experience leading a team to achieve those objectives
- Experience mentoring junior staff
- Strong organizational skills
- Strong time management skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related area or commensurate experience
- Ability to travel approximately 20% of their time, mostly within the U.S. but some international
Responsibilities:
- Mentor and provide thought leadership for the service
- Work with the Service Director to ensure the quality of research deliverables through peer reviews of documents, technical positions, presentations, and other content deliverables. This includes creating and adhering to corporate standards for content creation, review, and production.
- Create and manage the research calendar, including the planning of research content, consistent with the service’s product definition. This includes setting annual research goals (in terms of subjects the service covers), overseeing the objectives, quality, and scope of the Reference Architecture. In managing the research calendar, the Research Director must work with the Service Director to ensure that the service’s research goals are consistent with the service team’s capacity to produce the content.
- Work with and mentor both analysts and (occasionally) consultants as they create service deliverables.
- Drive interaction and integration across the consulting and analyst teams through various means, including cross-functional meetings and projects.
- Work with the Research Chair to develop and disseminate Burton Group strategy with regard to information technology.
- Produce research content
- Write three new (or heavily revised) documents or technical positions annually; the content must be of high quality and delivered in a timely fashion, consistent with deadlines defined by the service director
- Maintain reference architecture in accordance with Burton Group’s refresh policy and client needs
- Contribute to other reports and technical positions
- Guide and produce the yearly service VantagePoint document.
- Contribute to consulting objectives
- Work on consulting projects of strategic value when financial circumstances warrant it and when schedule permits. Except for Analyst Consulting projects, or projects of very short duration, the Research Director only conducts consulting projects as part of a team including a full-time consultant as project manager.
- Work with the Practice Manager and Service Director to review consulting offerings and transfer knowledge to Consultants as necessary to support both project and company objectives..
- Perform customer Dialogues
- Maintain the capacity to perform an average of four (4) dialogues per month, understanding that this requirement may fluctuate based on customer demands. The Research Director must also participate in dialogues to provide direction and support for other analysts or consultants as necessary..
- Participate in Catalyst conference
- Work with the Research Chair and other service Research Directors to determine overall direction for Catalyst.
- Guide the research team in preparation for Catalyst by driving agenda and focus for the service tracks, participating in the content team effort to recommend Company speakers, recruit and assign external speakers and case studies, and participate in peer review of speakers during dry runs.
- Deliver appropriate content at Catalyst
- Provide sales support
- Participate in sales calls, both physical and virtual, as practical and necessary, supporting sales of both research and consulting services
- Work with marketing, sales, and the Service Director to participate in sales and marketing events and activities
- Participate in TeleBriefings
- Participate and guide annual Trends TeleBriefing
- Plan and review appropriate Telebriefing content throughout the course of the year
- Provide marketing support, maintain industry leadership reputation
- The Research Director will respond to press requests in his or her area of expertise
- The Research Director will lead the service blogging effort
- The Research Director will be expected to speak at two or more industry events that are approved by the company’s marketing group (and agreed to by Service Director) in his or her areas of expertise
- The Research Director will attend industry conferences, trade shows, and other meetings as necessary and agreed upon by the Service Director to maintain his or her knowledge, create relationships, and further the services objectives
- Provide occasional marketing content, such as columns and commentary, for third-party publications, as well contributing to press releases
If you have initiative and are driven to raise the bar on quality, send your résumé
to:
lward@burtongroup.com
Analyst, Enterprise Architecture
Location:
Open U.S.A.
Burton Group is seeking an Analyst and subject matter expert who will be responsible for creating high quality content for Burton Group's clientele including, but not limited to, research documents and public presentations.
The Analyst will work with customers, vendors, and industry leaders as part of their research responsibilities. The Analyst will be part of the Enterprise Architecture program at Burton Group, and will work extensively with senior executives and their staff.
The research emphasis of this position is Enterprise Architecture. Priority will be given to applicants demonstrating extensive real-world experience as an enterprise architect within a complex enterprise environment.
Requirements:
- A recognized leader in Enterprise Architecture
- The EA Analyst shall be capable of writing research and speaking about issues related to two or more topic areas listed below:
- Business Process Management (BPM) and Business Process Improvement (BPI)
- Industry trends and emerging technologies related to business architecture, process modeling, process execution and orchestration
- IT strategy
- Enterprise Architecture planning
- IT Organization and cultural change
- Governance process development
- Service Oriented Architecture
- Software Development Lifecycle
- IT Application Rationalization
- IT Measurement Program Development
- IT Performance Improvement (e.g. planning, execution, operations)
- At least 7 years experience researching, writing, and presenting one or more of the following areas:
- One or more of the common EA frameworks (i.e., ITIL, TOGAF)
- Enterprise infrastructure and application architecture
- Standards design, implementation, enforcement, and evolution
- Software Development Lifecycle, Methodologies, and Processes
- Process design and improvement
- Oursourcing/Offshoring
- Modeling
- Broad knowledge across the common enterprise technology domains:
- Application design and development
- Data management
- Security and Risk Management
- Data Center Operations
- Networking
- Identity and Privacy
- Superior business-facing skills, including:
- Strong record of interaction with senior business leaders
- Ability to clearly and succinctly articulate complex ideas, including strategy
- Ability to translate business objectives into architecture and system design
- Strong negotiation skills and a record of consensus-building
- Excellent writing and research skills coupled with strong analytical skills
- Excellent presentation skills, including large audiences (500+ people)
- Ability to take a position, based on facts, and support that position to clients, both external and internal, with clear analysis
- Broad knowledge of industry trends and emerging technologies
- Ability to identify how changing technologies will impact technology choices in architectural decisions
- Ability to travel approximately 30% of their time, mostly within the US but some international
Responsibilities:
- Work with all Burton Group services and the Burton Group Executive Advisory Program to build out Enterprise Architecture research that intersects primary coverage areas
- Creates and maintains six to seven high quality, timely documents, reference architecture components or other content types per 12 month review period
- Works with Burton Group public relations to secure industry press writing opportunities
- Performs a minimum of two customer dialogues per month, or 24 over the course of a twelve month period
- Prepares and delivers one or more content presentation(s) at one or more of the company’s annual Catalyst Conferences, or performs other tasks to support to conferences, such as speaker recruitment and management
- Participates in Telebriefings: a minimum of two as principal speaker and as a contributor at the January Trends Telebriefing
- Covers a minimum of two industry conferences per year
- Participates in a minimum of four vendor briefings per month
- Performs a minimum of sixteen customer surveys per twelve month review period in order to glean content, quality and results produced. Report information to analyst teams
- Provide consulting support by contributing up to three days of billable consulting work in the twelve month review period
- Maintain the company’s industry leadership reputation by responding to press inquiries and speaking at industry events in area of expertise
- Provides sales and marketing support by participating in a minimum of one sales support calls/visits per month
- Contributes to the practice planning and development by participating in planning meetings, performing occasional action items and assignments
- Other duties as assigned
If you have initiative and are driven to raise the bar on quality, send your résumé
to:
lward@burtongroup.com
Analyst - Data Center Strategies
Location:
Open U.S.A. or Europe
Burton Group is seeking an Analyst and subject matter expert who will be responsible for creating high quality content for Burton Group's clientele including, but not limited to, research documents and public presentations.
Requirements:
- At least five years experience researching, writing and presenting or seven years of direct industry experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Coverage areas include:
- Server Virtualization
- Desktop Virtualization
- Storage Virtualization
- Network Virtualization
- Operating System Virtualization
- Data Center Operating Systems
- Virtual Environment Management
- Virtual Environment Orchestration/Automation
- Remote Management
- Provisioning and OS installation
- Change Management
- Dense Computing
- Networking technologies and protocols
- Data Center Management
- High Performance Computational Clusters
- Cloud and Grid Technologies
- Data Center Disaster Preparedness
- Storage Platforms and Storage interconnects
- Strong research and writing skills
- Excellent writing and research skills, coupled with strong analytical skills
- Excellent presentation skills, including large audiences (500+ people)
- Ability to take a position, based on facts, and support that position to clients, both external and internal, with clear analysis
- Broad knowledge of industry trends and emerging technologies
- Ability to identify how changing technologies will impact technology choices in architectural decisions
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related area or commensurate experience
- Ability to travel approximately 20% of their time, mostly within their region but some international
- History of demonstrable publishing a plus (books, periodicals, white papers, etc.)
Responsibilities:
- Create and maintain six or more high quality, timely documents or technical positions per 12 month review period through interviewing and writing
- Conduct discovery by nurturing relationships with and interviewing regularly clients, vendors, and industry thought leaders (including CxO level)
- Maintain the company's industry leadership reputation by responding to press inquiries and speaking at industry events in area of expertise
- Provides sales, marketing and consulting support
If you have initiative and are driven to raise the bar on quality, send your résumé
to:
lward@burtongroup.com
If you have initiative and are driven to raise the bar on quality, send your resume
to:
Burton Group
Attn: Human Resources
7090 Union Park Center
Midvale, Utah 84047
E-mail: Lynn Ward
Fax: +1.801.460.0093
Burton Group is an equal opportunity employer.
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