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We are looking for a 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 - 12 months with extension
Location: Toronto / Winnipeg – Hybrid – three days a week
Job ID number: C1354
Brief Description on Duties
- Support our WDC Exit– 50%
- Support internal Data Office infrastructure architecture activities creating a DR solution for IGM’s Data Platform in GCP – 50%
- Deliverables would include documenting using our Blueprint templates, filling in Architectural Decision Requestions, working with our various Engineering, Security, Operations and Data Platform Support teams.
- Report to VP for the content and quality of the deliverables and into our delivery organization for time, scope, and budget aspects
- Work with engineering, platform and application teams to ensure that we have properly sized, configured and shifted the applications over without breaking things or causing any significant performance delays.
- Supporting the IGM Data Office as part of a legacy modernization project that will re-platform our book of record system that manages our Advisor Channel with SuccessFactors. A significant part of our Data Platform is wired to this solution, and we have to ensure that the Data Platform components are identified, documented and appropriate changes made. The Architect would be responsible to identifying and driving work in this initiative.
- Extensive Data Architect experience
- 5 years Software Architecture
- 5 years Infrastructure Architecture
- Oracle and Ab Initio – need understanding in licensing agreements
- backup/recovery
- SIEM integration
- Antivirus
- on prem to cloud migration knowledge would be a great benefit
- SAP HANA/SAP Data Services
- Ability to create diagrams that describe infrastructure and enterprise software running on the infrastructure
- Ability to create diagrams that describe data solutions
- Experience designing/architecting data driven solutions
- Extensive data modeling experience and use with data modeling tools such as Powerdesigner, ERWIN, etc
- Data center migration to cloud experience (GCP)
- Strong ETL skills and data analysis experience
- Excellent communication
- Legacy modernization project experience
- Python and Reporting infrastructure and platform concerns
- SAP Successfactors
- GCP BigQuery
- Sybase IQ
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| Job Category | Data Architect |
We are looking for a Business Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Business Analyst
Term: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid – twice a week
Job ID number: C1353
Brief Description on Duties
- The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work on high visibility projects within Treasury and work on strategic initiatives. They will be exposed to a variety of work (including responsibilities outside of BA roles) and this is a great opportunity for extension or conversion to FTE if interested.
- Provide operational support to Treasury group
- Compile information and data, and build new views based off reports
- Be a strong communicator to contribute to regular meetings and drive ownership of deliverables
- Will be collaborating with directors, line of business team, and other internal parties
- Report to VP and support their key needs (prepare materials, facilitate discussions, supporting calendar activities and other odd tasks as needed, etc.)
- Manage the collection of business requirements
- 8+ years’ of relevant experience working with and supporting various levels of the organization (primarily in the capacity of a BA)
- Experience with JIRA, Confluence
- Experience with financial services and institutions
- Previous experience with Power BI or Tableau
- Verbal and written communication is central to this role
- Organization skills
- Active listening
- Ownership of deliverables
- Collaboration skills
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| Job Category | Business Analyst |
We are looking for a Quality Engineer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Quality Engineer
Term: Contract – 12 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid – twice a week
Job ID number: C1352
Brief Description on Duties
Responsibilities:
- Monitor service, productivity and assess efficiency levels within own function and implement continuous process / performance improvements where opportunities exist
- Actively seek continuous improvement and automation opportunities within the testing process
- Acquire and apply expertise in the quality engineering discipline, provide guidance, assistance and direction to others
- Identify, recommend and effectively execute standard practices applicable to the discipline
- Adhere to internal policies/procedures and applicable regulatory guidelines
- Keep abreast of emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assess potential impacts
- Collaboratively engage with relevant stakeholders at all levels, both internal and external, to shift from finding defects to proactively preventing defects
- Maintain a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite
- May lead work streams by acting as a project lead / subject matter expert for small scale projects / initiatives in accordance with project management methodologies
- Serve as a partner and provide ongoing support to the enterprise and/or business, aligning to TD Testing Methodology and QE best-practices
- Analyze the end to end solution (business, solution requirements, architecture, blue prints, etc.) requirements to recommend pragmatic and sound test specific solutions for own area; may analyze, develop, debug, and maintain test suites (automated/ manual), traceability matrix; and log defects/assist in defect resolution, as required
- Experienced working professional role providing specialized testing planning, design, automation and execution services
- Solid debugging and problem-solving skills – solving moderately complex problems
- Supports the introduction and adherence to new / advanced techniques and approaches in testing and automation (e.g. BDD, Rapid Software Testing)
- Foundational experience in software configuration and code management
- Intermediate expertise in build / code / release management to enable defect avoidance
- Solid business and technology acumen, works with other stakeholders to identify opportunities to benefit the Bank and / or introduce operational improvements
- Ability to drive work efforts related to moderately complex applications / systems / projects within one product line / business
- Ability to work independently and with minimal guidance and direction
- Collaborative team player
- Future focused - foresees issues and gaps and identifies industry trends
- QA experience – 6+ years
- Automation testing (using Java and selenium) – 5+ years
- Java experience – 4 years
- Leadership experience – 3 years
- Experience managing stakeholders
- CICD tools (Jenkins, maven) – 3 years
- Agile experience – 3 years
- SQL experience – 5 years
- Banking experience
- Wealth experience
- Messaging experience – MQ or TIBCO
- API testing experience
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| Job Category | QA Engineer |
We are looking for a Angular Developer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Angular Developer
Term: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid – three days a week
Job ID number: C1351
Brief Description on Duties
Responsibilities:
- Develop the 12C Angular UI library, aka SPIKES, to meet the latest Angular version as directed by Ontario Health
- Fix bugs in the 12C Angular library as discovered by the 12C development and QA teams
- Improve the performance of the UI library to meet Ontario Health requirements
- Enhance the UI library components to meet technologies as suggested in respective communities
- Work closely with UI/UX designers to make our applications smarter and reduce friction in the user experience.
- Produce clean, reusable, performant code and maintainable solutions that will enhance the platform’s quality.
- Diagnose and troubleshoot functional and performance issues, implement corrective fixes, preventive fixes and triage as required.
- Research and implement latest front-end technologies and standards to ensure we are always using the best techniques possible.
- Create and maintain code documentation as required.
- College/University undergraduate degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or related discipline from a recognized institution or equivalent experience
- Knowledge and experience with programming user interfaces and Internet-ready applications
- Knowledge and experience in continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) methodologies
- A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines; strong relationship building, facilitation and influencing skills to successfully partner with internal and external stakeholders
- Working knowledge of privacy policies and security principles
- Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
- Experience conducting design walkthrough sessions with project team
- 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 application design, latest design patters, deployment and troubleshooting
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills
- Experience with Application Programming Interface
- 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
- Ability to provide user and system documentation as required
- Proven track record working with Identity and Access Management solutions would be an asset
- 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.
- Experience planning, migrating, implementing and sustaining large complex system development projects
- Knowledge of JIRA and Confluence.
- Experience designing and developing large, complex, highly available, mission critical server applications
- Minimum 7 years’ experience designing and developing web user interface using Angular, 3 years+ with Angular 10, 12 and 14, ideally with experience deploying Identity and Access Management solutions - 30%
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in developing libraries - 20%
- Minimum of 7 years’ experience in software development - 10%
- Excellent Communication skills both verbal and written, and strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to manage tight deadlines and prioritize multiple projects - 20%
- Front End Development Skills: - 20%
- Proficient with both front end development using Angular leveraging CI/CD principles
- Knowledge and experience with design and implementation of the overall web application architecture
- Experience with implementation of approved user interface
- Knowledge and experience with the design and development of REST API services
- Knowledge and experience integrating front-end UI with the constructed API
- Knowledge and experience in design and implementation of continuous integration and deployment in DevOps environment
- Strong experience with Angular 12, 13, and 14, 3 years+ combined, and other Angular version 4 years+
- Strong experience in using and developing Angular UI libraries, 4 years+
- Strong experience in code review and unit testing
- Proficient with both front end and backend development
- Experience with implementation of approved user interface, design and deployment
- Knowledge and experience integrating front-end UI with the constructed API’s
- Design Architecture of angular libraries
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| Job Category | Angular Developer |
We are looking for a Business Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Business Analyst
Term: Contract – 12 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid – 1-2x/week
Job ID number: C1350
Brief Description on Duties
The Data and Artificial Intelligence Risk (DAIR) team is looking for a highly motivated change agent who demonstrates integrity, drive and courage to lead the execution of the Data Risk second line review process.
As a member of the team, the success candidate will be responsible for driving data risk related oversight activities and have an opportunity to work with a collaborative team of inspiring professionals to help deliver the Enterprise DAIR Program objectives.
The candidate will participate in the Data Remediation Audit Program, which is a key Program at the Bank, through leading and performing data risk effective challenge and oversight over data related controls implemented by the first line of defense.
Candidate Value Proposition:
Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture. Participate in a highly visible, enterprise-wide program working alongside different stakeholders with opportunities to grow within the organization.
Typical Day in Role:
- Participate in the Data Remediation Audit Program, which is a key Program at the Bank, through leading and performing data risk effective challenge and oversight over data related controls implemented by the first line of defense
- Provide expertise and advice to the first line of defense on effective design and implementation of data risk controls, metrics, compliance, and risk mitigation activities
- Through second line testing: execute risk assessments, document findings, and conduct analysis of the remediation plans in a timely manner
- Exercise sound judgment in reporting and escalating risks or issues to senior management
- Monitor and report progress of assessment execution to required internal stakeholders
- Support in the delivery and execution of the Data Risk Management Program, as required
- Identify opportunities and execute enhancements to the data risk oversight program
- Foster an inclusive and collaborative team environment, and prioritize team’s goals
- Champion a high-performance environment and contribute to an inclusive work environment
- Develop strong partnership and work in close alignment with other risk functions and business partners to provide professional advice and guidance
- Bilingual in Spanish (Spanish/English)
- 8+ years’ experience in internal control, risk management, compliance, data management, data governance, audit and/or related areas
- 3+ years of experience in testing (audit testing, risk assessments, etc.), including leading and management of testing engagements and issue resolution
- Knowledge of Data Management best practices and concepts (e.g., maturity models, data quality, metadata, financial data reconciliation, data lineage, data glossaries, etc.)
- Most recently in a senior manager, experienced manager, or equivalent role
- FI experience
- SharePoint experience
- Strong analytical and pragmatic problem-solving skills
- Adaptability and ability to manage ambiguity
- Curious and proactive learner able to solve complex problems, multi-task and manage changing priorities
- Attention to detail and accuracy
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| Job Category | Business Analyst |
We are looking for a Software Engineer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Software Engineer
Term: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid – three days a week
Job ID number: C1349
Brief Description on Duties
- Full lifecycle application development. Designing, coding, and debugging applications in various software languages. Software analysis, code analysis, requirements analysis, software review, identification of code metrics, system risk analysis, software reliability analysis.
- Object-oriented Design and Analysis (OOA and OOD) Software modeling and simulation.
- Front end graphical user interface design.
- Software testing and quality assurance.
- Performance tuning, improvement, balancing, usability, automation. Support, maintain and document software functionality Integrate software with existing systems Evaluate and identify new technologies for implementation.
- Software Developer experience
- Java Coding
- Automation Script experience
- Selenium experience
- Eclipse experience
- Extremely strong communicator, written and verbal
- Excel Macro
- AML experience
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| Job Category | Software Engineer |
We are looking for a Software Development! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Software Developer
Term: Contract – 12 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid – three days a week
Job ID number: C1347
Brief Description on Duties
About this Role:
- Design, develop, and maintain Java applications using Spring Boot framework.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
- Lead technical discussions and provide innovative solutions to complex problems.
- Mentor and guide junior developers in best practices, code reviews, and development methodologies.
- Optimize application performance and troubleshoot issues as they arise.
- Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies to drive continuous improvement.
- Transform business requirements and research into winning delivery solutions that meet performance goals.
- Rigorously build and test applications.
- Perform systems administration: monitor, configure, back-up, authenticate, tune.
- Aim for defect-free programming, create and maintain quality code, provide support during testing cycles and post-production deployment, engage in peer code reviews.
- Contribute to project plans, estimations and status updates.
- Identify issues, develop and maintain processes that address and resolve them, (and be sure to communicate/alert stakeholders as needed).
- Primarily focus on day-to-day activities.
- Make enhancements and troubleshoot.
- Configure and develop custom components with technology partners (analysts, developers, designers etc.) to meet requirements and goals.
- Ensure applications are free of common coding vulnerabilities (and follow standard security practices).
- Proactively put forward ideas that speak to project objectives (e.g. development, testing solutions, and tools).
- Complete unit and integration testing per standards and design specs.
- Take part in scope assessment, risk and cost analysis.
- Respect TD's technology delivery practices and standards, project management disciplines.
- Stay on top of state-of-health monitoring and monthly SLA targets.
- Apply and share technical expertise during incident management life cycle (e.g. analyzes reports and outages, perform impact assessments, facilitate stakeholder communication)
- Java development – 8+ years
- Spring framework (Springboot) – 5 years
- Restapi’s – 5 years
- SQL and NO sql – 5 years
- Strong communication skills
- CICD experience – 2 years
- Angular/ React – 2 years
- Good database knowledge
- Working experience in Agile projects.
- Cloud experience
- OIDC concepts
- Former td experience
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| Job Category | Software Developer |
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 – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid – three days a week
Job ID number: C1347
Brief Description on Duties
- Owns the process for the team and is the facilitator to help the team achieve its goals.
- Protects the self-organizing team from distractions
- Removes impediments that prevent the team from achieving its goals
- Helps the teams inspect and adapt and continuously improve themselves
- Monitors and reports on project status (includes preparing executive decks)
- Identifies and negotiates project resources
- Ensures all mandatory and supporting artefacts are completed and signed-off
- Responsible for completing and preparing artefacts (e.g implementation plan, complete compliance assessment, etc.)
- Collects and performs team review of estimates to ensure consistency and completeness
- Build roadmap
- Provides oversight and maintains MIS for the project
- Leads and motivates team
- Reviews/approves and provides feedback to key artefacts (mainly for quality)
- Willingness to perform other duties required to meet sprint goals (training and support will be provided)
- Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Excel, Confluence, Jira, MS Project
- Web application development experience
- Expert in identifying and planning out activities with the team
- Bachelor Degree
- Agile and waterfall methodologies
- 8+ years Scrum Master experience
- BA/BSA experience
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| Job Category | Scrum Master |
We are looking for a Business Architect! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Business Architect
Term: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid – three days a week
Job ID number: C1347
Brief Description on Duties
The project teams consist of you, a Sr. IT Business Architect (lead), an Request for Bid Specialist, project leads, product managers, business analyst, subject matter experts and other project team members. The project team will work though the AGP 1 engagement with the LRC Enterprise Architecture team and Corporate Enterprise Architecture Review Board
New Fishing and Hunting Licensing Modernization: Fishing and Hunting Licensing is delivered through the Fish and Wildlife Licensing System (FAWLS). The current contract for FAWLS expires in 2027, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry is developing a RFB for a future state system. Extensive architecture documentation exists from the previous RFB (RFB, AGP 1 documentation), however, updates would be required to fill gaps that changes wrt business needs and functionality, as well as architectural documentation requirements have changed in the interim (e.g. standards and content requirements). Furthermore the project team and business area have been documenting workflows and developing mid-fidelity prototypes, primarily from a service design perspective.
Responsibilities:
- Analyzes government information pertinent to business architecture, consults with appropriate government contacts on specific business architecture elements and conducts focus group workshops.
- Develops and maintains business capabilities of the enterprise in line with the corporate strategy as well as contributing to the business strategy and plans.
- Develops/revises business architecture artefacts as part of the Enterprise Information Architecture (EIA) Federated Framework and ensures that these are vertically integrated.
- Models business at enterprise and/or core business levels.
- This also includes:
- Design of capability models and related architectural solutions of business tasks, mapping capability functionality to the internal and external resources,
- Developing business transformation plans jointly with senior business management,
- Handling business solutions to the delivery and operational business functions of the company
- Developing and maintaining architectural governance and controls over implementation
- For each step of the business transformation plan, business architects contribute in development of a blueprint of the enterprise in order to promote a common understanding of the organization and alignment of strategic objectives with tactical demands.
- Total IT experience of at least 10 years, out of which 5 years doing Business Architecture on large complex projects
- Excellent communication, concept visualization, facilitation, stakeholder management, negotiation, consensus building, and problem- solving skills.
- Experience collaborating with executives and senior management.
- Successfully completed Business and Information Architectures at the enterprise and/or core business levels for governments or large organizations
- Contributed to the successful transformation of government or large organization program delivery by applying Business Architecture practices
- Ability to work across Projects in a Portfolio, and across Portfolios.
- Leading project teams through the enterprise engagement process.
- Proven ability in designing optimized future versions of business areas.
- Proven ability in horizontal business integration ( i.e. identifying common elements, delineation points)
- Knowledge of or experience in Government of Ontario Information Technology Standards (GO-ITS) for Architecture.
- Data Modeling and development of solution and Program Area(s) Data Architecture.
- Development of solution and Program Area(s) Information Architecture and corresponding Information Architecture Documentation (IAD) according to OPS standards and industry best practices.
- Knowledge of or experience with Information Management, including Data Governance, Data Quality, Master Data Management, Records Management.
- Knowledge of or experience with Ideation, including Information/Data Requirements Analysis and corresponding Test Strategy planning.
- Experience in developing business architectures using Ontario Government Enterprise Architecture methodologies and GO-ITS.
- Development of Program Area(s) Business Architecture and corresponding Business Architecture Documentation (BAD) according to OPS standards and industry best practices.
- Creation of alignment of Business Architecture Document to the Solution Requirements Document (SRD) and the Information Architecture Document (IAD), as per OPS standards and industry best practices, ensuring vertical integration.
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience with Services modeling, Business Function Modeling, Business Process Modeling, proficient use of BPMN, Value Chain Analysis, Business Outcomes, Performance Measures and KPIs definition, Strategic, Legislative and Technology alignment,
- Ability to create Business Architectures that directly informs and supports the elicitation of business and system requirements.
- Ability to develop and maintain architectural governance and controls over Business and Information Architecture.
- Ability to leverage reference artefacts to enable shared use and to develop Business Architecture artefacts that align with acquired solutions/services and existing strategic IT Products.
- Ability to integrate stand-alone Business and InformationArchitectures.
- Ability to align Business Architecture processes and artifacts with Service Design practices.
- Ability to model Business Functional and Contractual Accountabilities.
- Knowledge of Zachman Framework
- Experience in other architectural domains such as Information Architecture and Application Architecture
- Experience with the OPS Enterprise Architecture governance process, in general, and with Governance Point 1 (AGP1) in particular.
- Familiarity with Privacy and Records Keeping principles and concepts as they pertain to Business Architecture.
- Familiarity with Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards as they pertain to Business Architecture.
- Ability to design/propose Business Architectures that leverage latest cutting-edge technologies.
- Experience with SAFe Methodology.
- Familiarity with Ontario Digital Service’s Service Design principles and practices .
- Knowledge of Enterprise Architecture modeling tools e.g. PowerDesigner, Sparx Enterprise Architect, Orbus etc.
- Ability to provide advice and support to teams acquiring services or solutions via procurement (e.g. advise on documentation to include, how to evaluate, etc)
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| Job Category | Business Architect |
We are looking for a QA Lead! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: QA Lead
Term: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid – once a week
Job ID number: C1346
Brief Description on Duties
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work on a net-new project initiative which is highly visible within the organization.
Typical Day in Role:
- Leads projects (planning, scheduling, oversight and status reporting) and releases, taking part in scripting/testing where needed and seeing projects through to completion while upholding the strongest quality assurance testing standards and methodologies
- Reviewing and analyzing requirement documentation and specifications to determine the appropriate QA test approach & develop detailed test cases in order to schedule and plan in accordance with SDLC methodology
- Work collaboratively with QA Analysts or Scrum team members to make certain the quality outcomes of their scripting and test execution activities is aligned with customer expectations
- Train new members to the team, provide assistance to other team members as required and to champion quality assurance best practices and methodologies within the QA team
- Communicates test progress, test results and other relevant information to the project manager and other stakeholdersCandidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
- 5+ years of experience as a QA in FI
- 1+ years of experience with MS Azure DevOps
- 5+ years of experience writing tests
- Previous experience with API interfaces and testing
- 1+ years of experience in an agile environment (Scrum)
- Experience Postman
- Canadian banking Experience
- Brokerage experience
- Cloud experience
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Time management and ability to prioritize based on tasks needed to be completed
- Ability to work collaboratively on a larger team
- Strong communication skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Ability to interpret test results and provide recommendations to improve processes
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| Job Category | QA Lead, QA Test Lead, QC Test Lead |
We are looking for a Business Systems Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Business Systems Analyst
Term: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid – once a week
Job ID number: C1345
Brief Description on Duties
- Liaises with business stakeholders and other teams to understand business objectives and design a solution that will meet their decision support and management reporting needs.
- Elicits requirements from business stakeholders through interviews, workshops, business process analysis, business scenarios, and user stories.
- Analyzes and conceptualizes the design of the data solution, working with the Systems Architect and Software Developer to achieve the client stakeholder objectives through effective deployment of technology.
- Analyzing the transactional system data requirements and modeling the data design to match the enterprise data warehouse design.
- Identifying outlying data patterns and data cleanliness issues for resolution.
- Working with the data architecture team to understand the design of the data warehouse.
- Documenting the high-level design and models for the software development team.
- Ensuring the quality of the solution by testing the results of the development meets the requirements of the business.
- 8+ years experience working as a Business Systems Analyst/Data Systems Analyst
- Leadership abilities (This will be a leadership role, asking the right questions, delegating responsibilities, etc)
- Extensive experience in the writing and use of SQL (Expert)
- Strong Data experience (Data Masking, Stored Procedures)
- Strong understanding of IS Methologies, processes and practices, and experience with data systems analysis and data warehouse design
- Experience working with business stakeholders & eliciting data focused requirements.
- Leadership skills
- Experience with dimensional models
- Effective planning and organizational skills with the ability to adapt to change and perform effectively under pressure
- Experience in financial services/Wealth Management industries
- Experience with investment ROR would be beneficial.
- Experience in Tableau would be an asset
- Knowledge of SAP in the one or more of the following areas (Web Intelligence, ECC, BW, and HANA) would be an asset
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| Job Category | Business Systems Analyst |
We are looking for a Business Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Business Analyst
Term: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid – once a week
Job ID number: C1344
Brief Description on Duties
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work within one of the top five banks. 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:
- Independently resolve complex, multi-faceted problems to meet the business needs, by applying their HR and technological knowledge to the design of methodologies, models, and/or systems solutions. This includes conducting research and analysis, accurately and clearly defining user requirements and processes, participating in the reengineering of the HR business process work flows and liaising with the users.
- Manage multiple small HR technology projects and/or manage specific sections of large projects to implement technology solutions to HR business problems. This involves planning and scheduling resources, developing detailed project plans and monitoring progress against planned objectives.
- Participate in the SuccessFactors systems implementation process by interpreting business requirements into technical specifications, systems analysis, documenting detailed reporting requirements, configuration of HR vendor software and providing post-implementation support.
- Participate in the review of Quality Assurance (QA) test strategies for assigned projects/initiatives to ensure the planned testing is comprehensive and consistent with the business requirements. Support QA testing by analyzing defects to provide clarification of technical specifications.
- Review and analyze business requirements and create systems requirements that will be utilized by development partners and impacted vendors.
- 5-7+ years of Systems Analyst experience.
- 3+ years of SQL experience (ability to run queries).
- Working knowledge of Pension and Benefit process to oversee day to day activities.
- Working knowledge of HR business process.
- Expertise in MS Excel and PowerPoint.
- Must have a very good understanding of current IT practices, systems development techniques, including requirements specification and testing methodologies, real time analytical and formal modelling tools and keep current with rapidly changing technology.
- SAP SuccessFactors experience is an asset.
- SAP SuccessFactors Employee central certification.
- Creative, self-starting, results oriented and highly motivated individual with very good analytical skills in order to apply this knowledge to independently resolve complex business problems.
- Proven interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills in order to build consensus and obtain cooperation from both users and senior management. These skills, along with the incumbent’s good time management and organizational skills, will allow the incumbent to effectively manage small projects while planning and scheduling resources within those projects to optimize productivity.
- Proven experience with the Pension and Benefit process.
- Proven experience leading the design, development, configuration, and implementation of HR processes within SuccessFactors.
- Experienced BA working with technology partners (relationship management experience).
- Time management skills and ability to work on multiple initiatives simultaneously.
- Post-secondary degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related IT field is an asset.
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| Job Category | Business Analyst |
We are looking for a .NET Developer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: .NET Developer
Term: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid – once a week
Job ID number: C1343
Brief Description on Duties
Story Behind the Need:
- Business group: US AML Technology group
- Project: The main function of a Developer is to design, develop, and implement changes to applications using general languages and technologies (e.g. MS SQL, .NET ASP, Python, IIS, Autosys configuration, scripting, bit-bucket) to support business requirements. This role is a senior developer role to support the US AML Transaction monitoring applications – Prime BSA, Syntelliread & DFS504 Attestation tool. PrimeBSA is a FIS vendor tool and is being used by US GBM AML Risk business teams for their transaction monitoring and DFS attestation. The work expected is to make any small change requests, BAU production issues support activities, support during technical server patch activities.
- Reason for request: This role is required to function as a developer in supporting the DFS504 Tool upgrade to meet the software currency compliance requirements, production support GBM AML as the sole developer on PrimeBSA, work on decommissioning activities collaborating with the upstream, downstream interfaces, Application support, Infrastructure and DBAs to ensure all required technology activities are complete as part of the decommissioning.
- The successful candidate will have the opportunity to be the sole developer to manage all development activities for GBM AML, to learn about the Enterprise Delivery Framework, and technologies like bit-bucket, ACCP Pipeline for deployment, etc.Typical Day in Role:
- Analyze complex business requirements; generate technical specifications to design or redesign complex software components and applications
- Leverage industry best practices to design, test, implement and support a solution; Responsible for whole SDLC
- Assure quality, security and compliance requirements are met for supported area
- Support team in creating, documentation and testing the necessary test cases to ensure successful implementation of the new technologies. Developers is required to troubleshoot, report, and debug all test scenarios with defects and errors.
- Track the activities in JIRA, Servicenow for deployment following the SDLC/Change Management procedures
- Provide ad hoc production support for the application
- Ensure completeness of the decommissioning of the application, closing the project with the required artifacts stored appropriately.
- Be flexible and thrive in an evolving environment
- Adapt to change quickly and adjust work accordingly in a positive manner
- 10+ years’ experience development experience required using: MS SQL and .NET ASP
- 5+ years’ experience using Python, IIS, Autosys configuration, scripting
- Recent experience using bit-bucket, JIRA and ServiceNow for change requests
- Hands on experience in designing, developing and successful deployment of large scale projects from end-to-end
- Hands on experience in following the SDLC, collaborating with the Infrastructure, DBA, Application Technical Support teams
- MS Power Platform experience is an asset
- Hadoop experience is an asset
- Financial payments and AML experience is an asset
- Independent contributor
- Written and verbal communication
- Independent contributor, while being a team player. Does not need hand holding on basic coding standards.
- Key skillsets are MS SQL and .NET, and we are seeking senior resources who have deployed code following change management processes for a large organization.
- Seeking experience writing clear runbooks for implementation.
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required
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| Job Category | .Net Developer |
We are looking for a IT Service Management Consultant! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: IT Service Management Consultant
Term: Contract – 12 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid – twice a week
Job ID number: C1342
Brief Description on Duties
Responsibilities: Provide execute and coordinate ITSM process activities and establish standard methodologies Provides technical guidance in ITSM processes that relates to: Service Planning, Incident Management, Change Management, Release Management, Service Level, Service Activation, Configuration, Problem management, Availability, Capacity and continuity Management, Training and Reporting. General Skills: Knowledge of systems analysis, design, development, configuration, testing release and installation principles, and tools for IT Service Management (ITSM) Identify technical and change management needs Knowledge of technology management, network infrastructure, and emerging technologies in the areas of telecommunications, office automation, productivity tools, and information management tools. Enterprise ITSM/ITIL principles, protocols, processes and standards knowledge Customer relationship management experience.
- Provide ITSM expertise and leadership for the development of service planning, policy, and procedure
- Execute and coordinate ITSM process activities in order to establish a standard methodology/practice that will optimize Service Support and Delivery performance
- Provide technical guidance to stakeholders
- Ensure documentation for I&IT best process procedures and protocols are drafted and recommend related policies for management approvals
- Assess process operations and collaborate with management and senior management on various process improvement opportunities
- Provide representation on local, provincial, and international specialist or professional bodies
- Provide advice and process expertise to project management teams, external vendors, senior management, and executive level committees
- Coordinate and facilitate the development and delivery of Service Management training strategies
- Monitor compliance with agreements, and ensure the timely identification and resolution of problems and issues
- Participate as a process specialist on best practice committees, council, and boards
- Develop specifications for the tendering process participating in selecting and negotiating with vendors
- You have knowledge of systems analysis, design, development, configuration, testing, release, and installation principles and practices, methods, techniques and tools for ITSM
- You have knowledge and experience with enterprise ITSM/ITIL principles, protocols, processes, and standards, IT Service Management (ITSM), including techniques, trends, and resources management to identify technical and human change management needs and plan, manage, and evaluate technical change management initiatives, and provide user support required by IT change
- You have knowledge and experience with ITIL body of language, best practice, service and process planning and implementation to ensure client service outcomes and cluster commitments are achieved
- You understand the ITSM operational environment and user/clients' need to define technical scope of work for very diverse and broad in scope technical release projects
- You have knowledge of technology management, network infrastructure, and emerging technologies in such areas as telecommunications, office automation, internet and intranet, productivity tools, and information management systems
- You have knowledge of OPS/Cluster I&IT strategies, plans, policies, directives, best practices, and standards to ensure compliance in the coordination and implementation of ITSM processes
- You have knowledge of outsourcing, contract management, RFP, and tendering process to ensure compliance with corporate standards and client needs
- You have experience with OPS procurement policies/procedures to manage administrative processes required to implement and manage technical change
- You can research, plan, lead, and evaluate very diverse and broad in scope release projects
- You are able to coordinate project planning and management of projects in all technical areas
- You have excellent project management techniques and methodologies to lead concurrent projects
- You have strong planning, priority setting, and co-ordination skills to plan, co-ordinate, and direct activities
- Design and implement the processes and rules for the efficient handling of routine Service Requests
- Create and maintain service catalog of available services including clear user expectations and service level targets
- Ensure service requests are correctly prioritized and fulfilled according to defined targets.
- Design and implement self-serve options to streamline the submission process and allow clients to access services easily
- Conduct regular reviews of performance to measure client satisfaction and identify areas for improvement
- You can manage stakeholder relations, provide written/verbal instructions, and advice to clients on options, solutions and courses of action
- You can prepare reports, make presentations, and provide recommendations to senior management and clients
- You can negotiate contracts with external vendors, manage arrangements with clients and external service suppliers
- You can manage complex linkages and interfaces among multiple parties
- You can explain risks and benefits, convince decision-makers of the advantages of specific courses of action or solutions, and manage client expectations
- Experience and extensive expertise leading and conducting analysis for projects to assess, design, create and execute operational models according to industry standards
- Hands on experience developing process models, creating, updating and maintaining processes and driving IT improvements and efficiencies through ITIL best practice.
- Hand on experience gathering and analyzing business requirements and data in support of continuous improvement opportunities and further enhancement
- Experience writing conducting options analysis
- Experience developing functional and non functional requirements, leading and facilitates in-depth workshops to elicit, review, document and confirm business requirements, process reengineering, business models, business rules and user interface design,
- Experience developing performance measures for a projects and operations across lines of business
- Reviewing changes and ensure all records meet the acceptance criteria while maintaining the process standards.
- High attention to detail in cross-impacting changes and coordinating the implementation plans to eliminate any risks or customer impact.
- Overall knowledge of weekly changes and readiness to represent changes at any given time.
- Attention to change trends and metrics to define weak points for future improvements.
- Evaluate and maintain release change management processes and quality gates.
- Review and ensure completeness of release artifacts and change readiness criteria.
- Production support - Investigate and define operational issues and prioritize based on severity, risk, and/or strategic business needs. Manage issue logs and Contact Centre requests.
- Design and implement solutions to prevent recurrence with the end goal of ensuring clients satisfaction.
- Driving the recovery of critical incidents, managing business and IT stakeholder communication, and will work with Subject Matter Experts to identify ongoing risks and devise a plan to mitigate those risks.
- Ensuring incidents are correctly triaged, prioritized, and remediated.
- Conducting post-incident reviews and drive the teams to identify root causes, lessons learned, and a plan to prevent a recurrence of similar incidents.
- Following reasonable identification, categorization, prioritization, and escalation for all Problems, their investigation and diagnosis, and ensure the root cause is fixed.
- Recording, managing, and advancing the problem by escalating to an elevated level of expertise, if appropriate, by integrating with Change Enablement, incident management, and configuration management.
- Facilitating release planning and go-no-go sessions with Stakeholders
- Managing and identify risks that may affect release scope, release duration, and environments
- Plan and communicate release schedule to Stakeholders
- Publish regular release status to Stakeholders
- Maintain a strict risk-averse approach to any or all activities that may our customers and or our business.
- Monitor and control all release activities
- Maintain and publish release calendar
- Managing and execute emergency release activities
- Expertise and Experience applying ITSM principles and standards to applications and business lines to develop operating models and processes from inception and later executing and optimizing
- Experience on a medium sized project in a similar role
- Experience in cross-functional teams and responsible for managing daily ITSM activities including Change, Release, Incident, and Problem Management.
- Experience in managing large, complex software releases from conception to Production, ensuring strict adherence to core Agile practices.
- Experience with 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 to develop solutions and/or infrastructure services to satisfy business needs.
- Experience conducting business analysis reviews, recommending options & changes and contingency provisions.
- Experience providing technical leadership, functional business analysis and architecture expertise to project staff, colleagues and clients.
- Service delivery management, portfolio, program/project management and resource management to manage the business analysis to clients and provide recommendations on clients' I&IT business and infrastructure needs.
- All aspects of business analysis including enterprise level and client program area business analysis and modeling expertise; related business analysis tools, technology, processes, and methodologies; business analysis-related technical and business planning.
- I&IT Cluster and corporate policies, directives, guidelines and procedures related to service delivery processes, enterprise business architecture, current trends and technologies relate to business driven IT solutions to provide practical expertise to meet business needs, ensure traceability of business requirements to I&IT solutions and ensure compliance with OPS I&IT policies and standards.
- Clients' policies and programs, business goals and objectives, plans, issues and resources and linkage to understand business needs, identify partnership opportunities and match technology solutions to business requirements and provide advice on application of I&IT.
- Enterprise business architectural concepts in order to ensure that recommended technologies are consistent with OPS standards.
- 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 to develop solutions and/or infrastructure services to satisfy business needs.
- Assess clients' business requirements, identify best technology solutions from among alternatives to ensure clients' expectations are satisfied in the cost effective manner, both for individual issues and longer-term overall requirements.
- Evaluate directions, trends, standards and policies in a complex and evolving environment using multiple sources of guidance; identify requirements, develop options and make recommendations on general and specific information architecture and data management issues.
- Planning, coordinating and leading all phases of assigned business analysis, process improvements, architecture or infrastructure projects or services within risk, time and resource constraints to meet client needs.
- Ensuring the quality of business solution recommendations and implementation and ensuring integration with enterprise and cluster standards and directions.
- Conducting analysis reviews, recommending options & changes and contingency provisions.
- 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
- ITSM Specialist for CXP - The government services integration cluster is seeking resources to operationalize a custom build cloud platform. The resources will be required for building IT Service Management Processes, service onboarding and technical documents along with operational best practices, automation, and processes for devops.
- Hands on experience developing process models, creating, updating and maintaining processes and driving IT improvements and efficiencies through ITIL best practice.
- Experience in designing and implementing processes for operations, release management on a custom built system and operate them
- Experience with building processes and documents
- Experience with larger scale enterprise systems, or related background
- Business Analyst experience
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| Job Category | IT Service Management Consultant |
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 – 3 times a week
Job ID number: C1341
Brief Description on Duties
- This PM will be responsible of planning, execution, and implementation of projects with technology changes that may impact internal stakeholders as well as clients.
- They will be accountable for all aspects of execution and delivery across both business and technology - Application Development (IT) work, as well as managing/supporting the Change lead for Change Management and Operational readiness deliverables.
- They will work closely with all technology partners to ensure there is an integrated delivery plan with clearly defined R&R.
- They will coordinate closely with the Business and Operational leads on the business impacts and deliverables, ensuring close alignment and dependency management between tech delivery plan and operational readiness plan.
- They will maintain a detailed delivery plan and ensure that team is aligned on objectives and times lines, and ensure that risks and issues are escalated for support in a timely manner
- They will maintain a detailed view of the resource allocations and project financials, and ensure that timely and accurate status reporting is provided on a regular basis.
- They will ensure that all delivery and execution work is aligned with the organizational policies, and they will be responsible for relevant project governance and gating artifacts
- Typical PM tools (MIS, MS Project, Planview SaaS, MS Excel, etc).
- JIRA, Confluence
- 12-15 years as Senior Project Manager working on large projects with hands-on experience on managing application installation or upgrades and complex integration that delivery new or changed business, operational or client capabilities. Applications should be supporting core business teams.
- Not looking for only tech PMs involved in only infrastructure upgrade, or upgrade of enterprise tools like MS office, purely technology currency projects etc.
- At least 7-10 years of program or project experience in Banks or FIs, especially asset managers and working with managing project in both hybrid and agile environments.
- Should have experience managing both business and technology deliverables, managed services, or SOW arrangements with vendors for build and QA work.
- Seasoned senior PM who can manage expectations across different stakeholder groups, expertly handle difficult conversations, and keep the key influencers aligned to common project goals
- Demonstratable experience in managing projects with very high vendor (onshore and offshore) involvement and high-degree of business impact
- Ability to use project governance levers and strong change management practice to ensure project scope and delivery schedule are protected and managed
- Should have solid experience in delivering projects in the $5-10MM range, engaging with a wide stakeholder group and managing multiple technology delivery streams
- Excellent presentation skills and savvy in MS office product suite (Power Point, Excel and Project)
- Experience with custodians and FIs providing securities services.
- Leading gap analysis and vendor RFI/RFP processes
- Experience in projects related to trade capture/processing, cash processing or regulatory changes
- Experience working with senior stakeholders
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Comfort with executive transparency, sensitivity
- Demonstrated political savvy
- Experience with complexity in execution and solutions
- Expertise working in rapidly evolving environment, managing through change
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| Job Category | Project Manager |