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We are looking for a Senior Data Architect/Data Modeler! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Senior Data Architect/Data Modeler
Term: 6-month - 40 hours
Location: Toronto - Hybrid, 2 days a week
Job ID number: C1036
Brief description of duties:
The Data Architect/Modeler will plan, design, and implement enhancements requested by Investment business partners to their investment systems. This includes Front-Office, Investment Risk, and Investment operations. The strategies are mandated together as a pool: upstream from investment system and carried downstream. There are ETL changes to be made, including reporting.
The Data Architect/Modeler will need to incorporate new clients to be onboarded into the systems. The requirements will be to automate the processes that they receive. They will lead full-time staff in supporting the cloud-based infrastructure for the data pipeline and analytics development and data platforms to produce high-performance and scalable solutions. They will be responsible for establishing best practices, new technologies, and architecture and will also act as a mentor and guide within the development team.
Responsibilities:
- As a key member of the data platform design committee, set guidelines, standards, and best practices for new project initiatives across development and data management teams.
- Lead design and implementation of data and technology infrastructure for new data and analytics platform with Azure data stack
- Lead design and build data solutions for distributed ETL processing for all data ingestion into the data platform with scalable and usable data pipelines.
- Be the primary liaison and owner for data projects, technical backlog, and managing the delivery solutions with business stakeholders.
- Oversee and build custom web APIs using Azure Function Apps to integrate with external services
- Oversee and develop complex SQL for ETL and data extractions with high-performing and easy-to-manage code.
- Build and design complex Power BI Dashboards and reporting solutions.
- Data Architecture and Data Modeling
- Lead Data engineers
- Master Data Management
- Experience with;
- Data Factory
- Azure Databricks
- Azure Analysis Service
- Azure Synapse
- Azure Function App
- .Net/C# development with API in Azure Function App OR Power BI experience with DAX
- Strong communication skills, ability to lead a team, build processes (plan, design, and implement enhancements end-to-end), creative
- Capital Markets, Investments, Banking
- Snowflake
Job Features
| Job Category | Data Architect |
| Data Architecture and Data Modeling | 8+ |
| Lead Data engineers | 8+ |
We are looking for an Application Developer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Application Developer
Term: 2-years - 35 hours
Location: Toronto - Hybrid, one day on campus
Job ID number: C1035
Brief description of duties:
The Application Developer provides technical support and day-to day administration for application development and design of various in-house and 3rd party applications and web administrative systems, sites and services used by the various academic and business units supported by the University Information Technology (UIT) - Business Management & eCommerce Applications Unit.
The role is responsible to coordinate related projects, research solutions, develop, design, and implement applications as directed.
- Approximately 70% production support (configuration, identifying/fixing bugs), 30% development
- Meet with client groups, identify and analyze business requirements – develop and/or propose solutions to meet requirements and objectives
- Provides technical consultation to non-technical users to illustrate the options/opportunities towards a resolution
- University Degree in Computer Science
- 3+ years of total experience
- C#.Net, VB.Net, ASP.Net, ADO.Net and Compact Framework technology
- RDBMS - (Oracle, MS SQL, Access), and SQL programming (T-SQL, PL/SQL), LDAP.
- JavaScript (server and client), XML, SOAP, RESTFul API’s, WCF, XSLT, ASP, HTML, DHTML, CSS, IIS
- Excellent written/communication skills
- Higher Education experience
- Any of the following – Java, Mobile Technology, Java Servlets, JSP, Apache, Microsoft PowerApps, PowerBI, Azure, and other cloud platforms
Job Features
| Job Category | Application Developer |
| Application Developement | 3+ |
We are looking for a Digital Transformation Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Digital Transformation Analyst
Term: 12-month - 37.5 hours
Location: Toronto, Mississauga and Etobicoke - hybrid model, candidates who are open to occasionally coming into their Mississauga head office will be given highest priority
Job ID number: C1034
Brief description of duties:
- Provides leadership and oversight to plan, build, and maintain strong practices for the suite of CoE technology platforms (DocuSign, Office 365, Salesforce & WalkMe)
- Manage and support CoE platform requests during various stages of the pipeline (intake, discovery & underway)
- Analyze opportunities for digitization through documenting business problems, new features, current and future state processes
- Act as point of escalation for CoE technology platforms
- Collaborates with multiple stakeholders
- Participate and consult in enterprise initiatives and project development to provide input and recommendations to ensure successful delivery
- Creates, establishes, and manages CoE platform standard procedures, working practices, guidelines, processes, and tools
- Provides direction and guidance to departmental teams to grow their skills for implementing the CoE platforms in their business area
- Help lead the application of industry-standard methodologies and best practices in the adoption of the CoE platform suite of products
- Track and report on CoE platform team KPIs to measure the success and progress of the team deliverables and activities for achieving the team mandate
- Apply strong business acumen to analyze, distil and make sense of business information to drive conclusions and decisions.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal experience
- BA acumen
- PM understanding, but not be shackled to it
- Automation & Digitization experience
- Wealth/financial industry knowledge
- Process improvement/process analysis
Job Features
| Automation & Digitization | 3-4 |
We are looking for a Senior Data Business Systems Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Senior Data Business Systems Analyst
Term: 6-month - 37.5 hours
Location: Toronto - Hybrid
Job ID number: C1033
Brief description of duties:
BSA’s candidates needed to work on IFRS regulatory projects from the data perspective. Candidates must be able to work from the data perspective – define data requirements, source to target mappings, and data profiling. Work with Data Engineers (ETL developers) who will actually transform / transfer the data.
MUST haves:
- Data Business System Analyst experience
- Property & Casualty Insurance Experience
- Data Mapping
- Data profiling – source to target mappings
- SQL
- Data warehouse / EDW / Regulatory reporting environment experience
- Warehouse projects in the past, good use cases
- IFRS
Job Features
| Job Category | Business Systems Analyst |
| Data Business System Analyst | 3+ |
| Data Mapping | 3+ |
| SQL | 3+ |
We are looking for a Solution Architect! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Solution Architect
Term: 6 to 12-month - 37.5 hours
Location: Toronto and Winnipeg - Will be required to work in a hybrid environment
Job ID number: C1032
Brief description of duties:
Work as a solution architect under the direction of a lead architect to complete solutions architecture artifacts related to new system implementations. The project will be working with a vendor on a new mortgage platform.
MUST haves:
- 10+ years' (Solution Architect) experience designing, integrating, and implementing application solutions for businesses in a large, complex systems environment
- Banking experience: Mortgages and loans
- Experience with Mortgage systems
- Experience designing and delivering multi-platform business application solutions
- Strong SQL skills and data analysis experience
- Enterprise project experience
- Must come from a technical background (application development background not infrastructure)
- Ability to collaborate
- Effectively communicate with executives and juniors
- Financial Industry experience
- Ability to influence
- Experience delivering capabilities involving packaged / SaaS solutions.
- Knowledge of the Canadian Financial Services industry
- Familiarity with cloud implementations and migrations
- Previous experience with data integration
- Experience working with a vendor
- Business process changes experience
Job Features
| Job Category | Solution Architect |
| Solution Architecture | 10+ |
| Mortgages and loans | 4+ |
| Mortgage systems | 4+ |
We are looking for a Senior Business Systems Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Senior Business Systems Analyst
Term: 12-month - 37.5 hours
Location: Toronoto and Winnipeg - Hybrid model will be flexible but they will give priority to candidates willing to occasionally come in
Job ID number: C1031
Brief description of duties:
- Liaises with business stakeholders to understand industry trends and business objectives to design the solution that will meet their decision support and management reporting needs
- Defines and communicates systems requirements at the appropriate level of detail to ensure applications are flexible, open, scalable, available, testable and maintainable within a high-volume production environment
- Authoring system specifications to support integration, development, and testing.
- Analyzes and conceptualizes the design of the solution, working with the Systems Architect, Vendors and Software Developer to achieve the client stakeholder objectives through effective deployment of technology.
- Applies both in-depth business and technical knowledge, to successfully represent the business and technology community in arriving at technical solutions
- Provides guidance and leadership to other Systems Analysts on the team
- Works with Delivery Leader, Project Manager and Senior Business and Technical Architects to formulate project approach, schedule, and estimates for delivery
- Demonstrated ability to provide technology recommendations to the business
- Experience working with developers to design and analyze alternative technical solutions, test completed code and complete a smooth implementation with business partners
- Proficient analytical, troubleshooting, and debugging skills
- Advanced knowledge, experience, and understanding of architecture, application development, application systems design, and integration
- Experience performing data analysis
- Demonstrated proficiency in a team environment with projects involving the integration of disparate types of technologies/platforms and agile development
- Experience with system integrations using ETL
- Experienced in providing operational and sustainment services
- Proven capabilities in establishing and maintaining effective partnerships and relationships
- Strong communication skills (oral, written, facilitation, presentation) and facilitation skills
- Demonstrated initiative and leadership abilities - comfortable managing issues in cross functional teams
- Conflict and issue resolution and escalation
- Positive attitude, keeping a constant watch on how to do things better
- Adaptability and a willingness to take on new challenges
- Ability to work remotely and with a geographically dispersed IT Team and Business Stakeholders
- Post-secondary education in a related discipline
- Needs excellent communication skills
- Knowledge of the Wealth Management and the Financial Services industry
- Experience working in a complex corporate financial accounting system
- Canadian accounting designation
- Experience with Frontier (FiServ)
- Experience with SAP ECC, BW, BOBJ, S/4 HANA
Job Features
| Job Category | Business Systems Analyst |
| Business Systems Analyst | 7+ |
We are looking for Cloud Analytic Engineer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Cloud Analytic Engineer
Term: 6-month - 37.5 hours
Location: Mississauga - Hybrid, Wednesday and Thursday in the office
Job ID number: C1030
Brief description of duties:
As a member of the Enterprise Data Platform team, reporting to the EDP AI/ML Senior Manager, the Cloud Analytic Engineer and DevOps will play a leading role in the development of new products, capabilities, and standardized practices using Cloud and Data technologies. Working closely with our business partners, this person will be part of a team that advocates the use of advanced Data technologies to solve business problems, and be a thought-partner in Data space.
Key Responsibilities:
Data Analysis and visualization:
- Ability to own and lead your projects through all phases including identifying business requirements, technical design & implementation, and final delivery and refinement with business teams
- Elicit, analyze and interpret business and data requirements to develop complete analytic solutions, includes business process diagram, data mapping, data models (entity relationship diagrams, dimensional data models), ETL and business rules, data life cycle management, governance, lineage, reporting and dashboarding
- Facilitate data discovery workshops, downstream impact analyses and proactively manage stakeholder expectations
- Must have Analytical thought leadership
- Advanced expertise in SQL (Big Query, Trino, Impala or similar)
- Comfortable with data visualization, and data strategies. Experience with BI Analytic tools like Looker, MicroStrategy, Tableau, Kibana or similar.
- Communicate analysis results with effective storytelling.
- Comfortable working in complex and constantly changing environments, with multidisciplinary teams.
- Being able to effectively challenge the Status quo and set standard and direction for the solutions
- Well organized, able to multi-task and manage priorities.
- Proven experience building and deploying data analytic workflows in a big data environment (Hadoop, Google cloud platform or similar)
- Design and develop ETL workflows based on business requirements and using multiple sources of data in various formats within Hadoop platform or Google Cloud platform
- Clean, manipulate and analyze large, complex data sets, spanning a wide variety of sources.
- Develop scalable and robust analytic solutions that can support the growing volumes of our data environments.
- Build data models, implement business rules, and engineer responsive and scalable data analytics pipeline.
- Design and implement component execution orchestration in Cloud Composer/ Cloud Data Fusion / Oozie / Airflow
- Promote code to different environments using GitLab CICD
- Produce well documented quality codes
- Masters degree in Data Science and Analytics, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science or related field
- 5+ years of experience in a analytic engineering role, working in different data management disciplines including data integration, modelling, optimization and quality
- 5+ years of experience in coding with Python, SQL, Scala,
- 2+ years of CI/CD deployment, code management platform GitHub, building and coding applications using Hadoop components - HDFS, Hive, Impala, Sqoop, Kafka, HBase, etc.
- 2+ years experienced in working in Big Data Analytical environments/technologies (Hadoop, Hive, Spark), with a deep understanding of data mining and analytical techniques.
- 1+ years experience with Cloud platforms such as Google Platform, AWS, Azure, or Data bricks
- 1+ year Experience working with Google Cloud services, including Dataflow, Cloud Composer, Airflow, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub
- 5+ years experience building reports and visualizations in Tableau, MicroStrategy, Looker, Kibana or equivalent.
- 5+ years experience with traditional data warehousing and ETL tools
- Comfortable in version control tools such as Git.
- Deep understanding of techniques used in creating and serving schemas at the time of data consumption
- Use AI, ML, and other big-data techniques to provide a competitive edge to the business.
- Advanced Cloud data technologies in ML space (Vertex AI, BQ-ML etc)
- Experience in AWS/Azure data platforms
- Past experience using Maven, Git, Jenkins, Se, Ansible or other CI tools is a plus
- Experience in Exadata and other RDBMS is a plus.
- Knowledge of predictive analytics techniques (e.g. predictive modeling, statistical programming, machine learning, data mining, data visualization).
- Familiarity with different development methodologies (e.g. waterfall, agile, XP, scrum)
- Strong inter-personal and communication skills including written, verbal, and technology illustrations.
- Experience working with multiple clients and projects at a time.
Job Features
| Job Category | Cloud Engineer |
| Analytic engineering role, working in different data management | 5+ |
| Python, SQL, Scala | 5+ |
| CI/CD deployment, code management platform GitHub, building and coding applications using Hadoop components | 2+ |
| Cloud platforms | 1+ |
| Google Cloud services, including Dataflow, Cloud Composer, Airflow, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub | 1+ |
| Reports and visualizations | 5+ |
| Data warehousing and ETL tools | 5+ |
We are looking for DevOps Engineer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: DevOps Engineer
Term: 12-month - 40 hours
Location: Toronto, Mississauga or Etobicoke - Remote for now but must be able to commit to 1 day in office
Job ID number: C1029
Brief description of duties:
This opportunity for an experienced SRE / DevOps / Platform Engineer to join our expanding engineering team. You will participate in defining technical solutions, infrastructure architectures and will be responsible for delivery of production-ready infrastructure as code.
The ideal candidate will be someone who genuinely enjoys operational excellence, SRE & DevOps principles and has a high standard of quality in that regard.
You will be working in a fast paced organization using Agile/Scrum methodology to deliver excellent solutions for our demanding customer service and operations requirements.
- Demonstrate practical experience of engineering best practices, while being obsessed with continuous improvement
- Work closely with the engineering team to bring new data application to production more effectively
- Develop, deploy and manage a highly-scalable and high-availability data platforms in Cloud platforms, as well as monitoring and maintaining service performance and availability metrics
- Automate everything from deployment to monitoring and management to incident response
- Take ownership of our configuration management platforms
- Collaborate with engineers to bring new features and services into production
- Assist identifying and mitigating security threats to comply with a strict security compliance
- Develop and improve operational practices and procedures
- Minimum 5 years engineering experience
- 3+ years’ experience Data platform/DevOps/SRE experience
- Strong experience with DevOps/SRE practices (for continuous improvement)
- Strong experience with multiple database models ( relational, document, in-memory, search, etc. )
- Strong experience with Data Streaming Architecture ( Kafka, Spark, Airflow, SQL, NoSQL, CDC, etc. )
- Strong knowledge of cloud data platforms and technologies such as GCS, BigQuery, Cloud Composer, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Dataproc, Looker, and other cloud-native offerings
- Strong Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and associated tools (Terraform, ansible etc.)
- Strong understanding of CI/CD and associated tools (Jenkins, TeamCity, CircleCI and Codeship)
- Strong knowledge of monitoring & alerting systems (Nagios, Dynatrace, Prometheus)
- Hands-on development experience with languages such as Java, Python, Scala, Groovy or Go
- Knowledge of build artifact repositories (Artifactory)
- Experience developing operations SLOs and KPIs
- Understanding of microservices architecture
- Understanding of container orchestrations platforms such as Kubernetes/OpenShift
- Understanding of operations of cloud native apps
- Understanding of API gateways & Service Mesh architectures
- Experience with other Big Data technologies ( Hadoop, ETL, Data Warehouse, BI/Analytics tools )
- Experience with Security Audits - Penetration tests - Security certifications - ISO 27000 / PCI
- JIRA / Confluence
Job Features
| Job Category | DevOps Engineer |
| Engineering experience | 5 |
| Data platform/DevOps/SRE experience | 3+ |
We are looking for a Java Developer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Java Developer
Term: 12-month - 40 hours
Location: Toronto, Mississauga, Etobicoke or GTA - must be okay with eventually coming into office 1-2x/wk
Job ID number: C1028
Brief description of duties:
- Delivery of end to end projects on your own and in multi-person environments
- To work as part of a team without close supervision
- Review code of other developers to insure optimal code structure and adherence to company coding standards
- Development of new features and products
- Mentor junior developers
- Minimum 7 years software engineering experience
- 5+ years experience with Java & Spring Boot Framework
- Experience with REST concepts
- Experience with XML and JSON data formats
- Experience of large-team development in integrated environments (eg: Intellij ) using managed source control systems (e.g. Git)
- Evidence of Design Skills and a good understanding of Design Patterns and why it is good practice to use them
- Good experience with Test Driven Development (TDD) and unit testing frameworks
- Agile program experience with continuous delivery approach
- Strong communication skills
- Microservices architecture
- Development of cloud native apps
- Experience with "The twelve-factor app" methodology
- JIRA / Confluence
- Financial services experience
Job Features
| Job Category | Java Developer |
| Software engineering | 7 |
| Java & Spring Boot Framework | 5+ |
| REST concepts | 5+ |
| XML and JSON data formats | 5+ |
We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Senior Data Engineer
Term: 12-month - 40 hours
Location: Toronto, Mississauga, Etobicoke and GTA - Hybrid, must be okay with eventually coming into office 1-2/ week
Job ID number: C1027
Brief description of duties:
- Some of the challenges the candidate would tackle are:
- Design, implement and operate the client’s core datasets that have extreme requirements on scalability, reliability, maintainability, flexibility, auditability, and quality
- Design large scale streaming and batch data pipelines (billions of data points) that involve analyzing transactions over a long period without reprocessing vast amounts of data
- Perform data profiling and source to target mapping analysis for the best design
- Collaborate with business solution analysts, other engineers, solution architects, and other team members to innovate and evolve our datasets to data products to create a single coherent platform with sources of truth that serve a plethora of stakeholders
- Apply your expertise in data and software engineering to design and implement data products that meet extreme requirements on scalability, reliability, maintainability, flexibility, auditability, and quality
- Be T-Shaped. Your primary area is data engineering, but you are comfortable working in a secondary area of expertise such as data presentation/visualization, backend engineering, or data modelling (SQL, NoSQL, Graph & Time-series)
- Work closely with cross-functional teams of data, backend and frontend engineers, product owners, technical product owners, and technical support personnel
- Gaining technical expertise in building a data platform at scale to solve business, product, and technical use cases
- Getting hands-on experience with technologies such as Elasticsearch, Apache Airflow, Apache Kafka, Apache Beam, Apache Spark, Hive, HDFS, Kubernetes (Openshift)
- Getting hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform and technologies such as BigQuery, Cloud Composer, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Dataproc, GCS, Looker, and other cloud-native offerings in GCP
- 6+ years of professional software engineering and programming experience (Java, Python) with a focus on designing and developing complex data-intensive applications
- 3+ years of architecture and design (patterns, reliability, scalability, quality) of complex systems
- Advanced coding skills and practices (concurrency, distributed systems, functional principles, performance optimization)
- Professional experience working in an agile environment
- Strong analytical and problem-solving ability
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Experience in operating and maintaining production-grade software
- Comfortable with tackling very loosely defined problems and thrive when working on a team which has autonomy in their day to day decisions
- In-depth knowledge of software and data engineering best practices
- Experience in mentoring and leading junior engineers
- Experience in serving as the technical lead for complex software development projects
- Experience with large scale distributed data technologies and tools
- Experience pulling data from a variety of data source types including Mainframe (EBCDIC), Fixed Length and delimited files, databases (SQL, NoSQL, Time-series)
- Strong coding skills for analytics and data engineering (Java, Python, and Scala)
- Experience performing analysis with large datasets in a cloud-based environment, preferably with an understanding of Google’s Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Understands how to translate business requirements to technical architectures and designs
- Comfortable communicating with various stakeholders (technical and non-technical)
- Exposure to data-science or machine-learning packages (Pandas, Pytorch, Keras, TensorFlow, etc...)
- Contributions to open-source software (code, docs, or mailing list posts)
- GCP Professional Data Engineer Certification
- Confluent Certified Developer for Kafka
Job Features
| Job Category | Data Engineer |
| Architecture and design | 3+ |
| Software engineering and programming experience (Java, Python) with a focus on designing and developing complex data-intensive applications | 6+ |
We are looking for a Technical Writer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Technical Writer
Term: 12-month - 37.5 hours
Location: Ottawa - Hybrid 5 times a month
Job ID number: C1026
Brief description of duties:
In 2021 EDC embarked on a digital transformation journey to become a more customer focused digital organization. Key to achieving the digital transformation at EDC is the data and analytics strategy. Over the last years, to enable the Digital transformation and data analytics strategy, EDC has invested in developing a consolidated Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) on Azure cloud, enabled by data and analytics tools and best practice operational and governance processes.
At EDC, a change management methodology is in place and when enacted it provides, among others, a Change Scope Assessment, a Change Canvas and a Change Plan. The Enterprise Data Operations & Technology (EDOT) team is seeking an experienced communications content developer / writer services with experience in Data and Analytics (D&A) domain to support the implementation of the change plans and create the content.
- Work with the EDOT Chapter Leads, COE Leads and Product Owners to review change plans and their required content and support requirements
- Monitor, support and report on progress of change plan activities
- As part of the change plan execution activities, work with EDOT stakeholders at all levels to create communications content and participate in reviews of the content.
- Create various types of content such as: email, presentation materials, articles, job aids.
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Experience writing communications content within the data and analytics domain.
- Excellent project management, prioritization, and organizational skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Strong working knowledge of MS suite of products, including creating and organizing MS Teams Channels
- Bilingualism (English/French, spoken and written) is a strong asset.
- Technical Writing certification/diploma and/or university degree in a related field, such as Journalism, Communications or English
- Minimum 5 years' experience writing communications content in a data & analytics or IT environment
- Experience in graphic and web design, external corporate communications and branding is an asset
- Experience in implementing available change management plans, tactics supporting delivery teams in their daily comms requirements to stakeholders.
Job Features
| Job Category | Technical Writer |
| Data and analytics domain | 4+ |
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: 6-month - 37.5 hours
Location: Toronto - Hybrid such as 1 day onsite per week or more when necessary
Job ID number: C1025
Brief description of duties:
Building security on campuses and access card project
Project involves Access, Permissions, Access Cards
A vendor will be providing the solution but they need a person to assist with moving this forward
Links into active directory in azure cloud
Process is decentralized from facilities department currently and looking for improvements and efficiencies
Define some requirements
Main part is impact assessment and working with change management team to identify change requirements
All printing Some printing is using
Defining and documenting requirements:
- building, access, levels, permissions, IAM, printing, floor access,
- knowledge of active directory in Azure is important
- BA/BSA Experience
- Experience with requirements definition
- Infrastructure background
- Active Directory in Azure Cloud
- Ability to complete an impact assessment
- Experience in a similar sized environment (industry doesn’t matter)
- Prior experience implementing building access card solutions in other companies
Job Features
| Job Category | Business Analyst |
| BA/BSA | 4+ |
| Requirements definition | 4+ |
| Azure Cloud | 2+ |
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: 9-month - 37.5 hours
Location: Toronto - Hybrid
Job ID number: C1024
Brief description of duties:
Manulife North America Procurement is looking for a driven, motivated, and hands-on Project Leader to manage the Contingent Workforce Program strategic initiatives. The Project Manager reports to the Program Director, Contingent Workforce Management Program within North America Procurement. This role will be responsible to lead the implementation process of the Program’s strategic roadmap and govern the scope of business initiatives and activities of all workstream leaders and team members. In this role, the individual will partner with the functional groups to communicate and clarify business needs, lead the development of project and system plans, process flows, and ensure products and services are aligned. In addition, the role holder will be accountable to conduct business process analysis, needs assessments, discovery sessions, and communicate trends and requirements. The holder will work collaboratively with global partners and stakeholders, supporting both regional and global initiatives.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for management of the entire project lifecycle from project definition/scope through implementation
- Leads the development of client and team presentations
- Manage all communication plans, training, and documentation - develop project plan and drive project milestones
- Communicate project status to all stakeholders on a regular basis throughout the lifecycle of the project.
- Deliver projects on time, at/under budget and within scope
- Provide strategic consultancy support in defining or designing business processes
- Assess needs utilizing structured interview processes to establish business priorities; consult with technical subject matter experts; advise on options, risks, costs versus benefits, and impact on other business processes and system priorities
- Responsible for proactively identifying opportunities to apply best practices
- Develop and maintain credibility and effective working relations in a way that demonstrates an understanding of business problems, as well as implementation strategies, issues, and priorities
- Partner with other functional areas to remain apprised of project status, and inform of progress; equally, keep management issues and potential risks.
- Work closely with Program Management Office to develop training to ensure all functions understand business processes and the integration of technologies.
- Act as the key contact to assure accurate and consistent communication throughout the project
- Drive key decisions and assures a best-in-class solution is delivered on time and within budget
- Coordinates the activities of all workstream leads and team members, such as but not limited to; Solution Design, Change Management, Communications, Vendor Engagement, Data, Reporting & Analytics, Technology, Operations, etc.
- Plans and coordinates project scheduling and all project administrative tasks; Supports project team by facilitating project logistics such as meetings, conference rooms, conference calls, etc.
- Assures that meeting minutes and action items are accurate and distributed to all stakeholders in a timely manner and performs basic follow-up with all workstream leads/team members
- Support the day-to-day operational activities including ad hoc project execution relating to the continuous improvement of the program.
- Understand all facets of the program operations and identify areas of process improvement including interacting and providing direction to the MSP of the Program
- Document and operationalize new processes or requirements as brought forward by internal or external team
- Support the roll out, change management, process updates as part of technology enhancements and adjustments within the vendor managed system (e.g., functional expansion, system changes, workflow adjustments, etc.)
- Work with IT partners to resolve any integration issues and improve integration function between VMS and HR System
- Lead operational initiatives relating to cross BU teams and vendors on an as needed basis
- Attend and participate in weekly MSP/VMS program activity meeting and quarterly business reviews
- Technical and professional knowledge – demonstrated understanding and application of procurement and contracting principles and best practices.
- Problem analyzer and decision maker – effectively searches and uses industry and market insights; able to assimilate, synthesize, and present complex information in a value-added form; attention to detail; evaluates feasibility and practicality of ideas and options; takes ownership and makes informed and timely decisions.
- Proven innovator – expert in identifying and implementing change management and business process transformation; consistently challenges the status quo; takes balanced risks to promote growth of ideas; comfortable in high pressure environments.
- Strategic thinker – thinks conceptually beyond day-to-day business realities; creates a clear vision and goals and adopts a long-term perspective; anticipates emerging issues.
- Global thinker – dedicated to improving the Company’s competitive position on an enterprise and global level; understands and is respectful of what works in different parts of the world and what doesn’t.
- Team builder – builds strategic partnerships with internal clients and vendors; builds buy-in and engagement with key stakeholders.
- Skilled communicator – communicates complexity with clarity and ease; articulates a clear view of concepts, ideas, and objectives; able to interface with different stakeholders at all levels; represents the company externally with confidence; skilled in both oral and written communication.
- Collaborator – shares resources and leverages knowledge across the organization; builds and nurtures an extensive network
- University degree required
- Project Management: Project Management Certification or equivalent experience (Preferred)
- Experience in managing mid to large-scale initiatives relating to; a source to pay procurement model; experience in a related industry (Staffing and/or Financial Services); experience in global supply chain management and/or vendor management and/or contract management and/or staffing industry
- 3+ years of relevant business area experience in which one or more of the following occurred:
- Demonstrated competency in project management and execution
- Demonstrated competency in strategic thinking with strong abilities in relationship management
- Gained experience in management of resources to meet goals and multiple projects
- Participated on multidiscipline, high-performance work teams, preferably in a leadership capacity
- Demonstrated competency in developing efficient and effective solutions to diverse and complex business problems
- Committed to continuous improvement.
- Working knowledge of procurement practices and vendor management
- Experience with a Vendor Management System (Beeline, Fieldglass, etc. Preferred) and/or P2P System
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to demonstrate excellent listening skills
- Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical individuals.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
- Capability to multi-task and execute on several deliverables simultaneously in an organized fashion
- Solid analytical skills
- Excellence presentation skills and strong comfort level with key audiences. Ability to engage and present to all levels of the organization
- Demonstrated ability to present complex information and concepts to executive levels both clients and internal
- Strong ability to work with and influence a variety of stakeholders, while representing their requirements and VOC
- Experience in working with teams remotely where locations are international and within different time zones
- Previous experience in business process re-engineering or process improvement is desirable, involving broad-based information systems and utilizing tools and techniques to effect business change
- Expert knowledge of MS Project, Excel, MS Word, and Visio.
Job Features
| Job Category | Project Manager |
| Project management and execution | 3+ |
| Relationship management | 3+ |
| Vendor Management System (Beeline, Fieldglass, etc. Preferred) and/or P2P System | 3+ |
We are looking for a Payroll Coordinator! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Payroll Coordinator
Term: 12-month - 37.5 hours
Location: Waterloo - Hybrid
Job ID number: C1022
Brief description of duties:
Payroll Coordinator Canadian Division Operations is responsible for delivering a consistent end-to-end client experience across business units and markets. We support the growth of our business through service excellence and a client-focused approach. We build our competitive advantage by leveraging our global scale, our global capabilities and our local market focus. Our Centers of Expertise and Shared Services structure allow us to thrive in an environment of open communication and collaboration. Human Resources (HR) Administration Services, North America which is a new department within Global HR Client Services, provides HR administration services for payroll and workforce administration for employees in North America. As a member of the Payroll Services team the Payroll Coordinator will assist with day to day payroll and administrative duties. In this busy and fast-paced team you will be working to tight deadlines with high volumes of work.
- Reporting to the Payroll Manager, the Payroll Coordinator will be responsible for Gross to Net payroll calculation
- Process Daily transactions from Inbound Interface from Workday, 3rd party vendors, and ASKHR Cases.
- Reconcile and report payments
- Assists with Sox audit document preparation
- Investigate and respond to Payroll Tier 1B escalated cases
- Calculate and process transactions include but not limited to the Gross to Net payroll, review daily Payroll Effective Change Interface (PECI) between HR system (Workday and ADP GV) New Hires, Employee Transfers, Pay Incentives, Voluntary deductions, Garnishments, Employee Tax setup, Voluntary and Involuntary Terminations, STD, LTD,
- Maternity Leaves (others), Rehab Hours, Overpayment process.
- Process transactions from Inbound Interfaces, and other data files from Workday, and 3rd
- Party vendors. Commissions, Benefits, Solium, etc. if applicable.
- Prepare batch files to load into payroll
- Create on-demand checks and ACHs for off-cycle payments
- Process ROEs
- Audit payroll records and correct payroll errors
- Research, resolve and respond (written and verbal) Tier 1B payroll inquiries from HR Call center via case management tool Salesforce
- Verify payroll data for reasonableness and compliance
- Ensure payroll documentation and procedures are maintained for SOX and any other audits required.
- Other responsibilities as assigned.
- 2 to 4 years of full cycle Payroll Processing experience · PCP with NPI (National Payroll Institute). (Asset ) · Payroll experience with a minimum of 1000 employees in a fast-paced environment · Large selection Canadian Provinces a plus · Experience with HR system like Workday. · Experience with large 3rd party payroll providers like ADP, PeopleSoft, · Experience with ADP Global view as a processing services client a plus
Job Features
| Full cycle Payroll Processing experience | 2-4 |
| HR system like Workday | 2-4 |
We are looking for a Sr. ITSM Change Mgmt Specialist! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Senior ITSM Change Mgmt Specialist
Term: 12-month - 37.5 hours
Location: Toronto and Winnipeg - Hybrid
Job ID number: C1021
Brief description of duties:
The Sr. Specialist, ITSM Change will participate in, and support the Change and Release management processes by working with and assisting project managers, process managers and owners, the client's Technology teams, and external partners. They will participate in project timeline discussions, ensure Changes are recorded in accordance with the client’s Change Management processes and policies. In addition, the role will be expected to identify and implement process specific improvements, inclusive of maintaining or creating process and training documentation as required.
Responsibilities:
- Execution, maintenance, and improvement of core IT Change Management process across the Technology organization
- Ensure complete and accurate documentation within the ITSM tooling for change records
- Collaborate with multiple teams including vendors to understand release/project schedules and ensure changes are recorded
- Coordinate with Change Management team to schedule changes and avoid scheduling conflicts
- Perform change ticket quality and compliance audits
- Participate and take action on follow-up tasks as a result of Post Implementation Reviews (PIR)
- Identify and execute updates required to the CMDB as part of Change implementations
- Socialization and training to various Technology and business stakeholders on change management procedures
- Support process owner with continuous improvement efforts
- Develop/maintain reporting to leadership related to project initiative
- ITIL Foundation (ITIL 4 preferred, v3 2011 acceptable) certification or similar certification
- Understanding of ITIL/ITSM processes, how they interact and integrate including but not limited to: Incident Management, Problem Management,
- Knowledge Management, Change Management Release Management, Configuration Management, Service reporting, SLAs and KPIs Proficiency in relationship building skills
- Ability to influence others at all levels of an organization with proven leadership skills
- Ability to work across functional areas to drive continuous improvement
- Ability to work in challenging and ambiguous environments
- Ability to use data-driven techniques, analyze and interpret data
- Ability to remain flexible and adapt to changing priorities with promptness, efficiency, and ease
- Strong service orientation mindset
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with attention to detail
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Strong ability to work independently while still being a part of a high-performance team
- Self Starter
- Post-secondary education in Computer Science, Management of Information Services, or related field
- Experience in ITSM Standard capabilities of Service Now including Incident, Change, CMDB, Problem and reporting
- Excel experience
Job Features
| ITSM Change | 4+ |
| ITIL Foundation | 4+ |