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We are looking for a Scrum Master! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Scrum Master
Term: Contract – 8 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 1-2 days a week
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: 202
Brief Description on the Role:
Candidate Value Proposition:
The candidate will have the opportunity to work on a large highly visible project within one of Canada’s top banks on a highly visible project.
Typical Day in the Role:
- Ensure the team enacts the agile principles, values and framework
- Provide support to teams using a servant leadership style
- Coach the development team and help lead and insure the is fully adopted and understood
- Inculcate core agile values of focus, commitment, respect, openness and courage into the team ground rules through leading by example
- Assess and coach the team to higher levels of performance, tracking acceleration metrics
- Guide the development team on how to integrate agile ceremonies and values into daily work.
- Encourage an environment where open communication and collaborative problem solving can pave the way for faster removal of any impediments and where the impact of mistakes can be minimized through early detection, making them into learning opportunities
- Engage with the team and technical SMEs to identify technical debt risks and develop approaches to remediate.
- Implement and promote use of agile methodology within the team:
- Facilitate agile ceremonies including iteration planning, iteration review, retrospectives, and daily standups
- Create a forum for discussing vision, goals, and Product Backlog items amongst the team
- Apply techniques for effective workflow visualization and management (e.g. Kanban or Scrum Boards)
- Identify, manage, and help mitigate issues and risks, with particular emphasis on timely removal of impediments for the team and/or directing obstacles to appropriate owners for quick resolution- Facilitate identifying and enacting improvement strategies to increase the productivity of the team and quality of deliverables
- Ensure team execution and delivery to committed sprint work, maintaining the momentum of the initiative and upholding a sustainable pace of delivery; track agile metrics to provide statistical proof of momentum and sustainability
- Understand long-term product planning/ roadmap and help inform development teams to create quicker gains for the benefit of the end user
- Ensure that proper lightweight documentation (captured in artifacts such as program vision statement, program backlog, program roadmap, release plan, sprint backlog, and increments) is prioritized and added to the team backlog of work- Compliance with Scotiabank policies and procedures for project delivery
- Develop and nurture strong partnering relationships with Product Owner/Business Sponsor and stakeholders
- Develop strong partnership with the Product Owner to gain strong understanding of objectives, sustain open dialogue to manage product backlog efficiently
- Influence a wide range of stakeholders (business, compliance, Legal, IT, etc.) to remove impediments and maximize team output
- Support and educate the Product Owner on agile principles and practices to preserve the team from external pressures which may inhibit its productivity
- Contribute to building organizational capability and expertise on agile adoption
- Lead and coach the organization in its agile adoption, sharing successes, artifacts, and experience to accelerate transition to new delivery models
- Communicate effectively across diverse audiences within and outside of the development team (Stakeholders, Executives), acting as a champion of the agile methodology
- Partner with Agile Coach and other agile teams to share findings, best practices, and resources to help mature the organization agility
- 10+ years of Experience as a Scrum Master (Preferably in a Financial Institute)
- Experienced with effective Stakeholder Management
- Strong Familiarity with Jira/Confluence
- Wealth Management Experience
- Prior Financial Institutional Experience
- Prior Scotia Experience an asset
- Excellent written and oral communication skills. Ideas must be able to be understood and shared easily.
- Strong organizational skills
- Active listening
- Conflict management
We are looking for an HR Operations Specialist! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: HR Operations Specialist
Term: Contract – 12 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 2 days a week
Industry: Consulting
Job ID number: 201
Brief Description on the Role:
Job Description:
We are seeking a Sr Human Capital (Resources) Generalist to be part of the Human Capital Operations team within the Toronto office. The HR/HC Generalist is responsible for planning and administering human resources activities for the Canadian offices. The Sr. Human Resources Generalist provides frontline HR support to employees and management. Responsibilities include the coordination and support of a variety of Human Capital activities, including but not limited to the assigned Region/Office. This person will assist with initiatives to help build and maintain a strong office community in an inclusive and positive office environment. Activities may include program administration, policy and procedure implementation support, payroll and benefits employee assistance, orientation, employee engagement, and employee relations.
Key Responsibilities:
Program Administration
- Provide guidance and answer questions on policy interpretation, ensure uniform and equitable application of policies and procedures.
- Administer Talent Management programs, such as leaves, rotations, and work schedules, generate and distribute appropriate documentation.
- Maintain time off tracking/reporting, and data for service awards.
- Enter Employee transactions and draft related documents for new hires, transfers, manager changes, pay changes, status/role changes and terminations. Ensure and request required approvals are obtained.
- Provide assistance to resolve payroll and benefit issues and answer general questions.
- Provide assistance for involuntary terminations including, calculating severance, creating vetting files and tracking paperwork.
- Coordinate background check process for new hires
- Ensure new hires have first day logistics and details, including required paperwork and authorized work documentation.
- Organize and conduct Day 1 orientation (schedule presenters, order lunch, reserve meeting rooms).
- Coordinate with departments to address specific on boarding requirements.
- Deliver presentations that meet high quality standards.
- Process any new hire paperwork.
- Troubleshoot operational issues (such as travel, expense and IT).
- Assist with terminations and exits and manage exit interviews
- Identify ways to continuously improve policies and processes
- Liaise with Global Mobility in regard to transfers
- Provide guidance to employees relating to confidential matters.
- Distribute employee communications as required.
- Manage required documentation in accordance with legal and company requirements and ensures accuracy and completeness.
- Other duties as assigned, including projects related to the business or the regional HC Services team.
- Bachelor's degree
- Four plus years of human resources experience required, preferably in a professional services environment, internships considered.
- CHRP/CHRL designation or in progress would be an asset
- Bilingualism in French is required
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
- Proven experience in a role requiring a high degree of organizational skill, access to confidential information and a strong sense of urgency; able to prioritize and perform multiple tasks simultaneously
- Strong client-support orientation
- Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the firm
- Ability to effectively function in a team environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills; strong interpersonal and facilitation skills
- Strong presentation skills
- Results/solution oriented
- Ability to work in a complex and fast paced environment
- A problem solver, someone that enjoys finding the solution
- Service focus to meet the needs of stakeholders
- A collaborative team player with a positive attitude
- Maintains knowledge of trends and changes in Human Resources legislation and conveys local and provincial laws where appropriate.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Suite including, Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Competence with video/messaging tools (Zoom, MS Teams,), collaboration tools (SharePoint)
- Experience with Workday is a plus
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| Job Category | HR Operations Specialist |
We are looking for a Lead Business Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Lead Business Analyst
Term: Contract – 12 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 3 days a week
Industry: Government
Job ID number: 200
Brief Description on the Role:
Scrum Master Responsibilities:
- Provide subject matter expertise and guidance on specific project methods. Prepares training materials, training sessions on project delivery methodology in accordance with guidelines. Acquires, customizes, documents, integrates, communicates and implements comprehensive IT standards and guidelines.
- Knowledge and experience with Agile Information and Information Technology (I&IT) methods and techniques associated with the development and implementation of enterprise architecture frameworks
- Communication, facilitation, negotiation, consensus building, and problem-solving skills
- Demonstrated commitment and proven ability to do effective stakeholder management
- Knowledgeable and experience in Agile methodology and ability to educate others
- Experience facilitating the relationships between the Agile team and product owner and maintaining a safe working environment for the team by helping with conflict resolution
- Experience leading the Agile methodology and development teams in self-organization and identifying and filling in blanks in the framework
- Experience mentoring and coaching the teams on removing impediments
- Experience capturing feedback and documenting sprint reviews to administer project goals and improve team performance
- Project Methodology certifications such as Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Lean Six Sigma Black/Green/Yellow Belt, etc.
- Â Provides holistic leadership across business analysis, project outcomes, and team of business analysts aligning their expertise with agile methodologies and ensuring effective collaboration.
- Acts as a central point of communication, ensuring that the BAs collaborate seamlessly with internal/external stakeholders and development teams.
- Â Identifies and remove impediments that could hinder the team's progress, ensuring a smooth workflow.
- Interacts with the business stakeholders and subject matter experts to understand their requirements through gathering, documenting, and analyzing business needs and requirements.
- Â Manage / groom product backlog based on user needs / prioritization input
- Â Defines, manages and enforces scrum process and methodology
- Â Single point of contact for business analysis, agile leadership, and team coordination minimizing communication gaps, reducing the risk of misinterpretation, and promote more effective project outcomes.
- Prepares training materials, training sessions on project delivery methodology in accordance with guidelines
- Knowledgeable and experience in Agile methodology and ability to educate others
- Experience writing business cases including current state assessments, establishing goals, outcomes and creating plans to achieve them.
- Â Experience creating cost benefit analyses
- Â Experience creating process & service measures and indicators
- Â Experience designing services and business processes for new business areas
- Â Experience creating processes, swim lanes etc. according to industry standard techniques and methodologies
- Experience facilitating in-depth workshops to elicit, review, document and confirm business requirements, business process reengineering, business models, business rules and user interface design, in order to create the technical framework/specifications
- Ability to track and report on deliverables across multiple projects
- Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring, anticipates and troubleshoots issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolves problems and provides project effectiveness
- Experience facilitating the relationships between the Agile team and product owner and maintaining a safe working environment for the team by helping with conflict resolution
- Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met
- Ability to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies
- Ability to Create and track integrated project plans (including scope, schedule, and resources)
- Monitor and report on project progress through stand-ups and weekly status updates
- Track project level Risks, Issues, Actions and Decisions and report it up to the program manager
- Create detailed iteration / sprint plans and manage sprint execution from kickoff through retrospective
- Experience providing onboarding and orientation of new staff / project resources
- Knowledge of the software development life cycle, software design, development and integration, database concepts, user interface design principle, change management, quality assurance, risk management, disaster recovery planning, business continuity planning
- Strong communication skills to prepare documentation, including but not limited to; reports, reviews, assessments
- Ability to present ideas and suggestions clearly and effectively and in a user friendly manner; maintain a high level of customer service to both internal and external clients
- Ability to communicate designs and development in clear and understandable manner
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| Job Category | Lead Business Analyst, Lead Business Analyst/Scrum Master |
We are looking for an Fullstack Developer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Fullstack Developer
Term: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid once-twice a week
Industry: Government
Job ID number: 199
Story Behind the Need:
Description
Note: This position is currently listed as "Onsite"; however, the Assignment under this request will provisionally be “Hybrid”, working 7.25 hours per calendar day, sometime between 8:00-5:00 PM (excluding lunch breaks) Monday to Friday inclusive, unless otherwise identified. These conditions are subject to change as the OPS reflects on its current situation. During the duration of the assignment you will be under the discretion of the Hiring Manager’s requirements for the Project you are assigned to.
- The Corrections Systems Portfolio requires a temporary Programmer/Developer (L3) with 10+ years’ experience for the design, coding and unit testing of enhancements and for troubleshooting and break/fix solutions support for a number of system in the portfolio. The successful proponent will be responsible for translating business requirements and functional specifications into working, tested applications.
- The Corrections Systems Portfolio requires a temporary Programmer/Developer (L3) with 10+ years’ experience for the design, coding and unit testing of enhancements and for troubleshooting and break/fix solutions support for a number of system in the portfolio. The successful proponent will be responsible for translating business requirements and functional specifications into working, tested applications. This includes
- Development of rich UI/UX application using C#, .Net Core, Angular and HTML5
- Define the architecture for Azure cloud implementation
- Implement DevOps CI/CD
- Development for new interfaces with .Net systems within the Corrections
- Developing detailed programming specifications, user interface designs, prototypes, writing and/or generating code
- Compiling data driven programs, Conducting unit tests and debugging code Troubleshoot incidents and defects, Provide break fix and change management support to the systems
- Working with any one or more of the technologies below, the consultant will participate in the coding and development of application components including: user interface, data services, data synchronization, and deployment services.
- Participate in project design and application JAD sessions / walkthroughs;
- Development of required Software Architecture Documentation for the project;
- Produce Use Cases, Class diagrams, component diagrams, state diagram etc.; Create code modules, as well as other necessary system scripts and .Net modules
- Develop documentation for testing, implementation, defect tracking as per OPS standards;
- Participate in, document and configure output from application design sessions
- Participate in the Unit / System / Integration Testing
- Development of user authentication and access component according to predefined business rules
- Design and development of user and system interface(s) Preparation of install package and install books as required
- Provide input and complete documentation for the application deployment plan for the production environment;
- Completion of all required documentation and system artifacts Estimates for assigned tasks and percent complete
- Develop and/or update technical documentations, and provide input for User Guide & Training Guide; The consultant will provide a detailed list of all work/artefacts completed on the project Attend any meetings related to the resolution of any request as required
- Ensures knowledge transfer to internal staff – that is, upon leaving the project, the consultant will transfer over all information/research/code/documents, etc. to the client Presentations (as required)
- Other Documentation (as required)
- Undertake special assignments/sub-projects as assigned
- Other JTS PMO and Enterprise Architecture documentation, as required
- Angular
- HTML 5, Web API, XML
- .Net core
- Azure knowledge and hands on experience
- Implement DevOps procedures
- ASP.NETProgramming – all supported versions
- .NET Framework - all supported versions C #.Net VB.NETSQL XML Visual Studio - all supported versions
- MS Web Services Enterprise Library
- Team Foundation Server – all supported versions
- Experience in programming and analysis at the specified experience level
- Experience in structured methodologies for the development, design, implementation and maintenance of applications
- Windows Communication Foundation Windows Presentation Foundation Web Client Software Factory MS Sync Framework
- MS SQL Server - all supported versions Oracle RDMS – all supported versions
- Experience with relational and hierarchical database technologies Experience in the use of information retrieval packages using SQL
- Experience with one or more communications protocols
- Experience with middleware and gateways Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills; Highly developed interpersonal skills A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines
- Experience building applications using the following Microsoft and MS .Net elements
- Windows Communication Foundation
- MS Web Services Entity Framework Visual Studio 2008 2010
- Team Foundation Server
- Define the architecture for Azure cloud implementation
- Implement DevOps CI/CD
- Experience coding and implementing applications using, C#.Net and ASP.Netand Microsoft Web Services
- Development of rich UI/UX application using C#, .Net Core, Angular and HTML5
- Implement Web API
- Experience coding and implementing SQL procedures, scripts, and Object
- Previous experience in OPS and JTS would be an asset
- The FTE will meet weekly with the consultant to facilitate the knowledge transfer.
- All aspect of design, documentation and code related to this project will be transferred to the FTE.
- All code and related documentation will be stored in the JTS TFS for retrieval.
- The FTE will also ensure the consultant is checking-in proper version of the code and the related documents into the repository.
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| Job Category | Fullstack Developer |
We are looking for an Data Architect! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Data Architect
Term: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 3 days a week
Industry: Financial
Job ID number: 198
Must Haves
- 7 – 10 years of experience as a Data Architect
- SAP Hana
- GCP Big Query
- Extensive experience working on Data projects at an Architect level
- Reporting experience
- Extensive Data movement experience
- ETL Databases
- SAP tools
- Data centre migration to cloud experience
- SAP SuccessFactors
- Sybase IQ
- Python
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| Job Category | Data Architect |
We are looking for an Guidewire PolicyCenter Developer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Guidewire PolicyCenter Developer
Term: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid twice a week
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: 197
Story Behind the Need:
Must Have
- PolicyCenter
- P&C Insurance
- Strong Communication skills
- Certified Guidewire Developer
- Auto Insurance
- Configuration is the most important with integration as a nice to have
- Certification of PolicyCenter Cloud Elysian or Similar
- Ratings or Rate review or Pricing experience
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| Job Category | Guidewire PolicyCenter Developer |
We are looking for an BI Developer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: BI Developer
Term: Contract – 4 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid once or twiceÂ
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: 196
Story Behind the Need:
Selling Points of Position: Chance to work on a strong BI team, working with stakeholders within the bank which presents opportunity for growth and portfolio expansion
How will performance be measured: Deliverables and deadlines being met
SUMMARY OF DAY-TO-DAY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Responsible for detailed technical design and development of specifications and applications according to business units’ requirements.
- Leads advising process on the use of tools and processes.
- May supervise people and consult with project teams and business units on the use of tools and processes within their organizations.
- Work closely with business to understand strategic and financial objectives, recommend solutions and/or alternatives and translate them into technical specifications and applications.
- Construct & implement physical database models and structures in databases.
- Develop data extraction and transformation software components.
- Develop scripts to automate administrative tasks.
- Write Reports in Business Objects. Develop Business Objects Universes. Performance Tune Reporting Applications.
- High level communication skills – working closely with stakeholders
- Azure Databricks experience
- Cloud Developer background
- ADLS
- Synapse
- SQL
- Python
- PySpark
- Data Modeling
- Tableau
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| Job Category | BI Developer |
We are looking for an IT Security Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: IT Security Analyst
Term: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Remote
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: 195
Story Behind the Need:
Business Group: The US Information Security Team is sourcing one (1) IT Security Analyst to assist with the completion of security Threat Risk Assessments (TRAs) for the US application technology landscape. An additional resource is necessary due to increased workload, competing regulatory projects, and the need to keep all BAU work and upcoming projects on track. We are seeking self-starters who can immediately contribute to the threat risk assessment process, security advisory services including support for regulatory requirements and projects.
Candidate Value Proposition:
In addition to gaining experience with a top global bank, successful candidate(s) with outstanding performance and skills will have the opportunity to be converted to full time employment, assuming the budget allows.
Typical Day in the Role:
- Conduct threat risk assessments on technology assets, specifically applications. Verify security controls, provide suggestion on compensating controls, and advise stakeholders on security best practices
- Work with third and fourth parties to capture data inputs to the assessments, including the review of testing reports and summaries
- Experience with architecture documentation – ability to recognize and identify risks based upon application design or implementation plan
- Review and evaluate responses to security assessments, collect and validate supporting evidence
- Review security and technical design documentation
- Understand compensating and mitigating controls
- Identify risks and understand their impact
- Clearly and intelligently communicate findings to stakeholders
- Provide guidance to stakeholders regarding risks and corresponding actions necessary to remediate said risks
- Prepare and report results to stakeholders and management
- Understand regulatory requirements and how they apply to the evaluation/assessment of tooling or solution
- Understand the financial regulations that legislate and impact technology and security controls
- Work closely with stakeholders, including application owners and business lines to ensure risk remediation or acceptance is addressed
- Conduct security risk assessments for 3rd and 4th party applications, components, services
- Understand cloud infrastructure and cloud security controls
- Work closely with third party relationship managers to define security expectations and hold vendor accountable for risk mitigation or remediation plans
- Collaborate with IT business partners and team leads
- IT Security Analyst or related cybersecurity background (2+ years of experience, but will consider recent university graduates with a degree in Cyber or Information Security)
- Recent experience working directly on Cyber Risk Assessments ( 2+ years, or 1 recent project)
- Experienced with GCP or related Cloud Platforms
- Prior knowledge of security engineering/architecture
- Proficiency in MS Office with extended knowledge in MS Excel – 3+ years
- CISA OR CISSP Certification
- An understanding and experience with security controls/mechanisms and risk assessment techniques pertaining to complex data, application, infrastructure and networking environments proven through recent experience or last project
- Recent relevant Financial Industry Experience
- Extensive knowledge of Financial regulations and regulatory requirements (NYDFS, FIECC, Federal Reserve, Treasury, CFTC, etc.)
- Experience with vulnerability management tools such as Tripwire or Tenable
- Ability to read and interpret vulnerability, host audit/configuration and code scanning (DAST/SAST) reports and
- Excellent grammar and communications skills to coordinate with senior leadership (Director, VP level and up), as well as C-Suite of some of the third party vendors
- Comfortable putting together and presenting risk assessments to a wide range of individuals
- Candidate must have a natural curiosity and the ability to assess each situation separately
- Fast, adaptable learner who can hit the ground running
- Strong organizational skills
- Ability to manage assigned tasks and expectations without direct instruction or oversight
- Ability to work well under pressure while demonstrating strong professionalism
- Must be able to collaborate closely with teams and independently
- Must be accountable to meet individual deadlines without hand holding
- 1-step process – Panel Video Interview with Sr. Manager (hiring manager) and 3 other team members
- Interviews to take place ASAP
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| Job Category | IT Security Analyst |
We are looking for a Reconciliation Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Reconciliation Analyst
Term: Contract – 12 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 2-3 days a week
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: 194
What is the opportunity?
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The Utilities Analyst will be responsible for assisting in resolving margin disputes as a result of exposure differences on OTC uncleared Derivative trades. The incumbent will create daily reconciliation reports and be responsible for monitoring, reporting and escalation of trade and portfolio level exposure differences keeping in compliance with regulatory guidelines for in scope counterparties including EMIR, CFTC, SEC.
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What will you do?
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- Produce exposure reconciliations for in-scope counterparties according to regulatory guidelines including ageing and reasons for differences
- Track and monitor frequency of required reconciliations based on counterparty trade volumes in compliance with industry regulations
- Partner with IT to reduce systemic risk and increase operational efficiencies in the daily process
- Case Management and reporting of exposure differences in TriResolve and using EUC tools
- Escalating disputes/discrepancies as per Standing Orders and department Operating Procedures
- Liaise with internal stakeholders and counterparties to ensure timely resolution of exposure differences in compliance with regulatory requirements
- Assist in producing management reporting for KPI purposes
- Proactively advise margin teams on potential disputes through the day
- Cross-train as required on additional control functions including CSA onboarding
- 1-2 years’ experience in an operations/middle office role ideally with Derivatives and/or reconciliation
- College or University Diploma/degree
- Advanced EXCEL skills
- Attention to detail
- Ability to multi-task while adhering to deadlines
- Strong organisational and time management skills
- Good understanding of the OTC margining workflow under the ISDA-CSA protocols
- Experience with Database queries for reporting
- Familiarity with pricing and valuations of Over the Counter Derivatives and risks associated with collateralisation of these products
- Management Information reporting
- Familiarity with COLLINE, TriResolve, Acadia
- Understanding of regulatory requirements for OTC Derivative reconciliations across regimes in scope
- Understanding of Over the Counter Derivative trading and settlement process
- Understanding of risks and controls framework as it applies to Capital Markets and the OTC Derivative markets
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| Job Category | Reconciliation Analyst |
We are looking for a Project Manager! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Project Manager
Term: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid twice a week
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: 194
Story Behind the Need
CANDIDATE PROFILE DETAILS:
Degree/Certifications Required: PMP Certification and Agile Certifications is helpful
Years of experience: 7 years
Selling Points of Position: work in an amazing team environment.
Best Vs Average Candidate: A candidate that has demonstrated they have the ability to manage large projects and can delegate/hold people accountable. A candidate that can articulate specific experiences/examples of their PM experience in an interview.
How will performance be measured: Deliverables, project artifacts- measures on ability to use those.
MUST HAVE:
- PM experience
- MS Project experience
- Demonstrated experience – need to be able to give examples of Project mgmt experience in the interview (missing piece from previous interviews)
- PMP Certification
- Strong ability to communicate with stakeholders at all levels.
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| Job Category | Project Manager |
We are looking for a Data Scientist! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Data Scientist
Term: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid once a week
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: 193
Story Behind the Need
The Global AI & ML team is part of the Customers Insight & Analytics division. They are responsible for delivering AI and ML solutions across the Bank. The Data Scientist will be an integral part of maintaining the performance of the Chatbot. They will work with a team of Data Scientists, Data Engineers, and Product Owners to evaluate customer interactions with the Chatbot in order to measure the efficacy of the AI and augment training data where needed.
Candidate Value Proposition:
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work within the bank. We are technology partners who help the business transform how our employees around the world work. You will get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology.
Typical Day in Role:
- Review customers’ conversations to validate chatbot’s performance and relevant trends
- Suggest and apply changes to conversational flows
- Triage and fix issues discovered through front and back-end testing
- Manage content in the content management system
- Ensure technical feasibility of suggested content changes and conversational flow designs
- Keep content documentation up-to-date
- Support data scientists with training-related tasks
- Analyzes performance of process activities, identifies problem areas, and presents findings in clear, concise charts, graphs, tables, or summaries
- Establishes standardized methods of recording, tracking and reporting on activity
- Ability to experiment with Generative AI
- 5-7+ years of working experience as a Data Scientist
- 1-2+ years of experience with Chatbots/AI training, and familiarity with Generative AI
- 1-2+ years of hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform
- Familiarity with other Cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, etc.
- Previous coding experience with Python and SQL
- Good understanding of Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Previous contact center experience in financial institutions extremely preferred
- Dialogflow CX experience
- Excellent written, presentation, and verbal communication skills to be able to work well with technical peers and business stakeholders at different levels within the organization
- Attention to detail, critical thinking and pro-active aptitude to identify improvement opportunities
- Ability to work as part of a team, as well as work independently or with minimal direction
- Good time management and organizational skills to effectively manage high scale project
- The ideal candidate is someone who has hands-on experience with Chatbots or trained any AI models.
- They should have expertise in GCP in Dialogflow CX. In terms of soft skills, the candidate should proactively come up with idea and solutions.
- Post-secondary degree in any STEM discipline or related field.
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| Job Category | Data Scientist |
We are looking for a Performance Business Systems Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Performance Business Systems Analyst
Term: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 2 days on-site
Industry: Financial
Job ID number: 192
Story Behind the Need
Description:
The Senior Business Systems Analyst, IT Performance and Corporate Analytics, will lead requirements and business systems analysis, and support development, testing and support business stakeholder inquiries. This role will liaise with Performance business stakeholders to understand business goals and translate them into actionable requirements and technical specifications to build sustainable business and technology processes and reporting.
The candidate will work with inputs from public and private investments data and market data to calculate performance processes, calculations and analytics and drive reporting solutions. We are looking for someone with strong understanding of investment performance concepts (e.g. portfolio hierarchies, composites, benchmarks, performance attribution, money-weighted & time-weighted returns, IRR) and system expertise in implementing performance system solutions (Eagle PACE experience preferred). Experience working with market data, benchmarks, and ABOR data is required.
The incumbent has worked in an agile environment and practices, and can expect to work in SCRUM or Kanban methodologies. This role will report to the Senior Manager, IT Performance and Corporate Analytics.
You Will be Responsible For:
- Lead requirements gathering, testing and system configuration for upgrades, and day-to-day enhancements.
- Act as performance subject matter expert to business partners, IT stakeholders, and operation teams.
- Contribute to business cases for corporate projects and systems implementations
- Execute supporting business system activities such as system configuration updates and market data onboarding
- Managing client and support relationships and run intake sessions and request backlog, and business facilitate prioritization.
- Coordinate backlog, collaborate through forums, and coordinate with technology architects and IT partners for requirements, design, prioritization, and architecture decisions.
- Define and refine operational processes, SOC 2 compliance, and production support, as well as ensure the supportability of all solutions /with proper documentation and training.
- Investment performance concepts (e.g portfolio hierarchies, composites, benchmarks, performance attribution, money-weighted & time-weighted returns, IRR)
- Data experience with - IBOR data, data management, and investment reference data
- Requirement analysis, testing, and implementation of large scale implementation projects
- Agile - Scrum or Kanban
- SQL
- Reporting (Power BI preferred)
- Data mapping, create queries, navigate database
- Market and risk data
- Knowledge of investment performance systems, Eagle PACE is preferred.
- Knowledge in reporting and analytics with Power BI is preferred.
- CFA, CBAP, PMI-PBA, CSC, Lean and/or Six Sigma, or PMP designation is an asset.
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| Job Category | Performance Business Systems Analyst |
We are looking for a Salesforce Developer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Salesforce Developer
Term: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 3 days on-site
Industry: Government
Job ID number: 191
Story Behind the Need
Responsibilities:
- Undertakes the design of hosting technology solutions based on the client’s service specifications, standards, policies, best practices and cost models, in order to meet client CRM application business requirement and project/initiative deliverables.
- Knowledge of CRM applications, operating systems, environments, database technologies, programming languages and communication protocols.
- Planning, implementing and supporting large complex CRM systems.
- Configurating and integrating Salesforce with other applications using web services or other mechanisms
- Collaborate with IT Professionals throughout the Software Development Life Cycle
- Participating and conducting Knowledge Transfer process
- Documenting processes and technical designs and updating build books
- Conduct root cause analysis to troubleshoot and resolve defects/incidents resolve issues
- Manage issues and User Stories in tool such as JIRA and/or Devops
- Agile sprint management, bug tracking and testing life cycle management using Azure DevOps
- Reporting progress on deliverables to team, project leads and management, including proactively raising risks/issues with migrations
- Providing estimates for proposed solutions and review the estimates from other team members for completeness and accuracy
- Experience in programming and analysis; specialized CRM software package support at the specified experience level
- Ability to collaborate with IT Professionals throughout the Software Development Life Cycle
- Experience in structured methodologies for the development, design, implementation and maintenance of applications
- Experience in design, code, test, debug and document applications
- Experience in the use of object and/or third generation language development tools
- Experience in one or more programming languages
- Experience in application design, latest design patters, deployment and troubleshooting
- Experience with relational and hierarchical database technologies
- Experience in the use of information retrieval packages using query languages
- Experience with one or more communications protocols
- Experience in structured methodologies for the design, development, implementation and maintenance of applications
- Experience eliciting and documenting information from diverse business area stakeholders and subject matter experts
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills
- A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines CRM Software Development Skills
- Knowledge and experience with specific CRM software and anticipated future releases high availability solution design and implementation
- Knowledge and experience with specific CRM enterprise architecture methodologies, design standards and tools
- Experience with middleware and gateways
- Expertise in specific tools for CRM software development Desirable Skills
- Knowledge and experience with programming Internet-ready applications
- Knowledge and experience in rapid application development (RAD) methodologies
- Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices
- Experience with middleware and gateways
- Experience reviewing, analyzing, and modifying product installation scripts including encoding, testing, debugging
- Ability to provide post-implementation support and resolve any post-implementation technical issues
- Experience conducting design walkthrough sessions with project team
- Knowledge and understanding of Ontarians with Disability Act (ODA) and related regulations and standards
- Ability to provide user and system documentation as required
- A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines
- Knowledge of integrated networking technologies, mainframe, midrange server, enterprise storage and SAN, and personal computer system technologies
- Knowledge of related best practices, OPS directory/messaging standards, standard facilities infrastructure/architecture management, facility service delivery processes, infrastructures policies, procedures and direction, cost models and procurement processes
- Knowledge of leading edge technologies design criteria, security and recovery procedures, preparation of technical specifications for installation, testing and performance of integrated, multi-services systems; assess performance and capacity of existing system making recommendations for improving performance and develop technical documentation.
- Able to quickly integrate new concepts and easily understand business needs
- Evaluating which Salesforce components and other technology products and frameworks to use based on cost benefit analysis, risk management and market research.
- Experience with building Salesforce solutions based on user stories and low level designs
- Adhere to defined coding standards and develop well-structured, maintainable and easy to understand code
- Strong experience delivering products in Agile/Scrum mode.
- Map Salesforce capabilities, features and best practices against business and technical requirements by performing fit-gap analysis against Salesforce cloud, service, community, available tools available within AppExchange and Salesforce Platform
- Design, develop, implement, configure, maintain, administer, and integrate solutions on Salesforce Lightning Cloud platform (LWC)
- Hands-on knowledge of Apex, lightning, VisualForce, Salesforce APIs, data loaders, SOQL, SOSL, and web services
- Strong understanding of Salesforce security model including sharing rules, roles, profiles, sharing settings, etc.
- Build integrations between Salesforce and external applications using REST, SOAP APIs, Auth and Single Sign-On
- Migrate changes from development to test to production environment(s) using CI technologies like Salesforce DX, Jenkins and ANT
- Experience with deployment tools such as GitLab, Jenkins, etc.
- 5+ years of Salesforce development experience in Public Sector Foundation and Sales Cloud with a solid understanding of when salesforce configuration options are desirable over custom code
- Certified Salesforce Platform Developer I or equivalent experience
- Salesforce Certified OmniStudio Developer
- Salesforce Certified Experience Cloud Consultant
- Salesforce Certified Administrator
- Knowledge transfer is expected to occur through the duration of the assignment through regular meetings, touchpoints, and working sessions with LRC staff
- All design, development and artefacts, including all relevant and complete documents must be transferred to the ministry in the designated repositories provided
- 5+ years of experience (including recent experience) solutioning and hands-on configuring in Salesforce
- Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I
- Salesforce Certified OmniStudio Developer
- Salesforce Certified Experience Cloud Consultant
- Salesforce Certified Administrator
- Demonstrated experience supporting, developing, maintaining, and configurating Salesforce solutions
- Hands-on experience configurating and troubleshooting of issues in Salesforce implementation and its integration with subsidiary systems in Development and Production environments
- Demonstrated experience configurating and integrating Salesforce with other applications using web services or other mechanisms
- Demonstrated experience designing and supporting the development of prototypes and proof of concepts
- Demonstrated experience conducting root cause analysis to troubleshoot and resolve defects/incidents resolve issues
- Demonstrated experience documenting build books, working with staff on actual implementation document performance measures of the new environments
- Experience conducting fit/gap analysis between high-level requirements and Salesforce Public Sector capabilities
- Experience conducting diagnostics and determining methods to help incident management
- Experience implementing AODA compliant solutions
- Excellent analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Experience reporting progress on deliverables to team, project leads and management, including proactively raising risks/issues with migrations
- Demonstrated experience working with clients and technical teams to ensure effective resolution of defects and management of change request are complete
- Experience documenting processes and technical designs and updating build books
- Experience engaging with project team to develop techniques to expedite implementation; works closely with Project Manager and lead architect and participate in the planning and design process
- Experience providing estimates for proposed features/enhancements and review the estimates from other team members for completeness and accuracy
- Experience with Agile scrum methodologies
- Demonstrated experience with agile sprint management, bug tracking and testing life cycle management using Azure DevOps
- Thorough understanding of SDLC, specifically DEV processes in agile development environments
- Previous experience working in Government or Public Sector organizations
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| Job Category | Salesforce Developer |
We are looking for a ETL Developer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: ETL Developer
Term: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Remote
Industry: Health
Job ID number: 190
Story Behind the Need
Background:
We are in need of a Senior ETL developer for doing product updates, operations and maintenance on a series of ETL products. This Senior Developer must be knowledgeable and experienced in the following technologies to be able to support the related portfolio of products: Informatica DEI and shell scripting, Oracle PL/SQL and have at minimum basic knowledge of Cloud environment (preferably AWS).
Services:
This Consultant/Developer will operate (run processes), maintain (small code changes) and develop changes (medium to major changes) to the portfolio of products assigned to them as well as, test, prepare deployment packages, deploy code/script changes, support user tests and inquires and perform or follow up on application administration tasks required for the products maintenance.
In summary, the main deliverables are:
- Understand systems and Business processes related to the products in their assigned portfolio
- Process operational tasks in these products like running scripts in test and prod environments, change config files, etc, to support scheduled releases of the products
- Perform maintenance tasks in these products like changes to roll-over to next Fiscal Year and others
- Develop code changes as per approved product updates requirements to these products
- Test thoroughly the changes and maintain test scenarios as applicable
- Perform deployment to test environments and support QA team (as applicable) and users testing
- Support users inquiries
- Communicate well with Business users as well as other groups to ensure all tasks required for the products maintenance are covered
- Perform or follow up with application administration tasks as required
- Prepare deployment packages and required release tickets to deploy the changes
- Follow up on deployment tasks with all groups involved
- Create or modify documentation related to the changes in the products technical design, and ETL mappings.
- Profound knowledge and experience in developing in Informatica and PySpark.
- High knowledge and experience in developing in DEI in a Cloud environment
- High knowledge in shell scripting.
- Knowledge of Apache Airflow is definitely asset.
- Proven ability to effectively manage multiple deliverables on time and first time right
- Ability to handle heavy workload
- Willingness to work on what is required for the products maintenance, being it operations, development or other tasks
- Strong trouble shooting and problem solving skills with logical and good attitude team player with strong oral and interpersonal skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to communicate to different audience, being Business users or managers as well as technical peers
- Excellent collaboration with others in the teams and in other groups
- 5+ years of Informatica ETL.
- Intermediate Informatica ETL. 5-7 years.
- Profound knowledge and experience with Informatica DEI development 5 5+
- Profound knowledge and experience with PySpark development 4 2+
- Experience building reusable transformations and mappings in Informatica BDM/DEI 5 2+
- Experience implementing complex business rules using Informatica DEI Oracle PL/SQL and other data integration tools 5 5+
- Experience with development and troubleshooting of Informatica Python transformations 2 1+
- Experience with Python programming in the context of data processing / data science applications 2 1+
- Profound knowledge and experience with Oracle database 5 5+
- Profound knowledge and experience in Oracle PL/SQL 5 5+
- Profound knowledge and experience in shell scripting in Linux/Unix environment 5 5+
- Experience in creating and maintaining documentation of project ETL design, technical artifacts and ETL environment
- Good communications skills
- Experience with Health Care Standarddization.HL7 , FHIR.
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| Job Category | ETL Developer |
We are looking for a Data Engineer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Data Engineer
Term: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 2-3 days/week on-site
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: 189
Story Behind the Need
Business group: IWM Advisor & Client Solutions
The Data Product Owner – Business Platforms & Experience contributes to the overall success of International Wealth Management organization (IWM) strategy, by enabling a common data platform for all wealth applications, and International Wealth Management in resolving complex business and data issues.
Project:
This is a demanding hands-on role which requires the incumbent to be knowledgeable of the data architecture, managing highly complex projects, specific to data, and has in-depth experience collaborating with multi-jurisdictional teams. The incumbent should have the ability to develop recommendations, propose solutions, and define functional requirements, in collaboration with business, tech, and various other partners. Additionally, should be highly analytical and have a good understanding of databases, technical architecture, and query tools, with previous experience in wealth management or capital markets or related domains.
This role will be focused on acceleration of IWM’s data & analytics transformation, particularly on implementing a Wealth Data Hub; build a data platform that consolidates information structured by relevant domains such as clients, portfolio, and performance, enabling Advisor and Client experience across IWM.
Candidate Value Proposition:
- The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work in a growing business with exposure to various stakeholders including leadership to enhance their network and skills within the bank. The successful candidate will be a part of transformation in a strategic part of the bank such as International Wealth Management, to help accelerate growth and get to do high impact work. Candidate will be working with the international team and will get to travel internationally along with the exposure to learn big data cloud technologies.
- Support the definition of the International Wealth Management data hub strategy and roadmap to drive specific operational data capabilities.
- Work collectively with the Business Platforms and Experience team to articulate business requirements into system requirements for new enhancements or projects.
- Responsible and accountable for the business requirements/specifications to be complete, correct, consistent, concise, and achievable.
- Collaborate with head office and in-country business partners to Document, analyze, research, and define user and system requirements and features relating to strategic data projects/initiatives. Develop and deliver Business Requirements Documents, source-to-target data mapping, data specifications, User stories, as required.
- Document data transformation and cleansing rules for data migration. Previous expertise with Data warehousing projects.
- Provide expertise on systems gap analysis and potential risks/issues on projects, enhancements, and initiatives.
- Acts as a liaison between business and IT to provide technical solutions to meet user needs. Present recommendations with technology teams, collaborating on system design, and understanding process, database structures, and Data Model.
- Responsible for reviewing and analyzing end-to-end testing results for data projects.
- Manage communications and status reporting of ongoing initiatives, including summarizing project risks and options and facilitating prompt decisions when needed.
- Provide expertise on relational and dimensional data modelling.
- Provide the team expertise on data models such as star and snowflake schemas.
- Proficiency in SQL is a must have.
- 10+ years of experience in big data analysis, data engineering, or data architecture field
- 3-5 years in a managerial or leadership role - Experience in leading and coaching teams, with track record of attracting and developing talent.
- 8-10 years in experience in relational databases and SQL; ability to run complex queries independently.
- Hands on experience in big data tools and technologies, as well as data visualization and reporting tools such as PowerBI.
- Strong knowledge of data governance, data quality, and data security best practices.
- Experience in working with cloud-based data platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform.
- Proven ability to translate business requirements into technical specifications and deliver working results.
- Critical thinking skills: using logic and reasoning to evaluate alternative solutions, summarize conclusions and approaches to mitigate risks. Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Ability to develop strong working relationships with business and technology partners globally.
- Full proficiency in Spanish, nice to have, an asset.
- Relevant working experience in the financial sector, Wealth Management, or capital markets experience, in data projects, an asset.
- Portfolio link if possible
- post-Secondary education and Advanced degree preferred but not mandatory in data analytics.
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| Job Category | Data Engineer |