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We’re looking for a Network Manager! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Network Manager
Term: Full-time - 7 hours if located in Quebec and 7.5 hours if located in Ontario
Location: Remote for now
Job ID number: C1001
Brief description of duties:
- Manage a team of approximately 20 employees and contractors, specialists in networking and data center infrastructure
- Manage the workload of the resources under your responsibility
- Be accountable for the provision of services as well as the performance of your team
- Play a key role in the digital transformation of the company.
- Be the operational IT respondent for networking and data center infrastructure
- Perform human management of resources (recruitment, integration, mobilization, motivation, retention, performance, training plan, career path, etc.)
- Coordinate resource allocations by ensuring a healthy workload for everyone.
- Define the strategies, action plans, and activities to be carried out in your areas of intervention
- Manage, plan, organize, direct and control certain operational activities in order to meet business needs and expected service levels.
- Align with vice-presidency and organizational managers to ensure alignment of practices and prioritization of joint or collective work.
- Be accountable for the quality of the results as well as the satisfaction of the team's clientele
- Be accountable for the continuous improvement and operational performance of the services under your responsibility
- At the request of your manager, you will be able to act as a front-line guarantor of all IT service delivery provided to the areas served by your team.
- Be available to manage escalations or satisfaction related to your team
- Intervene on behalf of your team with other areas of the company during problematic situations
- Support your supervisor in the management of the budget for which he is responsible and ensure the availability of the financial, material, and human resources necessary to achieve the objectives
- Take ownership of the mission, vision, and strategic plan, inform the resources under your responsibility and ensure your understanding of them
- Participate in the definition of annual orientations and objectives and establish the specific objectives of the management.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, business administration, actuarial science, or any other analytical discipline of the same level
- Experience in information technology and its resource management
- Excellent command of French and English, both orally and in writing
- Good knowledge of the fields of telecommunications, networking, data centers.
- Ability to simultaneously process multiple dimensions of the same file that can be complex, in the best interest of the partner and the organization
- Excellent collaboration skills, both with IT teams and with business people
- Excellent negotiation and advanced conflict resolution skills
- Strong tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty
- Experience in Agile, Lean, DevOps methodologies
- Experience working in a multicultural environment (an asset)
- Proven knowledge of the financial services and insurance industry (an asset).
Job Features
| Job Category | Network Manager |
| Information technology and it resource management | 8 |
We’re looking for a Scrum Master! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Scrum Master
Term: 12-month Contract - Toronto
Location: Remote for now
Job ID number: C1000
Brief description of duties:
- Responsible for successful ensuring Scrum is understood and enacted by ensuring that the Scrum Team adheres to Scrum theory, practices, and rules
- Coordinates all Scrum meetings (Daily, Planning, Review, Retrospective)
- Verifies feasibility of provided requirements with the development team
- Monitors development/sprint progress
- Works with Scrum Team on any development related issues
- Works with stakeholders on removing impediments in the team
- Responsible for coordinating work with the development team, ensuring timelines are met
- Responsible for project status communication and reporting;
- Understand the basic fundamentals of iterative and incremental development.
- Collaborate with vendors and internal team of developers and testers
- Experience with data integration projects
- Experience managing budget, project status reporting
- Stakeholder management
- Experience in working with virtual/dispersed project/service team
- Good knowledge of project management methodologies
- Experience as a Scrum Master in work related to software development
- Experience in coordinating project teams and managing IT projects of local/global scope, in a multicultural, international environment (medium to large projects)
- Strong consulting and negotiation skills
- Must have: - PMP, Scrum Master CERTIFICATIONS (PSM II, ACP or CSM)
- Nice to Have: One scaled certification (SAFe 4, LeSS Practitioner)
- Degree in Information Technology or Business or relevant experience
Job Features
| Job Category | Scrum Master |
| Data Integration | 5 |
| Scrum Master | 5 |
| Coordinating project teams and managing IT projects | 7 |
We’re looking for a Project Manager! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Project Manager
Term: 6-month Contract - Toronto
Location: Remote for now
Job ID number: C13433
Brief description of duties:
Accountable for actively leading and supporting delivery teams through a number of interrelated, complex, and high-profile initiatives that require planning, collaboration, and execution. Regardless of the delivery framework, you will demonstrate a commitment to creating a productive, engaged, and capable delivery team(s). Ensure key metrics provide the basis for teams to deliver quality customer experiences, in a timely manner building and fostering a culture of transparency focused on the ability to inspect and adapt as needed.
MUST haves:
- PMP not necessary
- Must have experience in Agile environment- currently working with a hybrid waterfall/Agile methodologies
- Banking/finance is preferred
- Project Management experience
- Diplomatic, highly developed negotiation and influencing skills.
- Solid Analytical and critical thinking skills with an ability to communicate at levels with all key organizational partners
- Exceptional applicable and working knowledge of delivery frameworks for effective workflow visualization and management (Jira, Confluence, Kanban, Scrum Boards, etc)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to communicate at all levels (from technical discussions to high-level executive
- Skilled in applying a pragmatic approach to leading and coaching teams with a focus on transparency coupled with the ability to inspect and adapt, change course as needed and appropriate
- Strong customer-centric view, strong team player
- STEM education, preferably Computer Science, Programming, Engineering or a related field
Job Features
| Job Category | Project Manager |
| Project Management | 8 |
| Agile | 8 |
| PMP | Asset |
We’re looking for a Project Manager! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Project Manager
Term: 6-12 month Contract
Location: Remote for now
Job ID number: C13432
Brief description of duties:
Accountable for the System Requirement, data modeling, and mapping in Lines of Business strategies.
Additional functions of role but not limited to:
- Collects business requirements from business partners
- Participates in project and team meetings interacting and collaborating with team members and other departments as appropriate
- Contributes to successful completion of project deliverables
- Provides support to team members and application business partners.
Knowledge/Skills:
- Thorough in-depth knowledge of data model design and data analysis methodology
- Knowledgeable about Basel and Risk Management
- Exhibits solid knowledge of databases and data warehouse
- University degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent industry experience
- CFA is an asset
- Experience in financial institutes
- Strong Analytical skills, communication skills, and presentation skills
- Quick learning skills
- Ability to carry out complex tasks in a stressful environment
- Credit Risk Experience
Job Features
| Data Model Design | 4-5 |
| Data Analysis | 4-5 |
We’re looking for an ETL Developer! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: ETL Developer
Term: 6-month Contract
Location: Remote for now
Job ID number: C13431
Brief description of duties:
Accountable for the design, development, testing, and support of applications utilized in Lines of Business strategies.
Additional functions of role but not limited to:
- Writes high quality and well-documented code according to accepted standards based on user requirements
- Participates in project and team meetings interacting and collaborating with team members and other departments as appropriate
- Contributes to successful completion of project deliverables
- Provides support to team members and application business partners.
Knowledge:
- Thorough in-depth knowledge of design and analysis methodology and application development processes
- Exhibits solid knowledge of databases
- Programming experience with extensive business knowledge
- University degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent industry experience
- Solid understanding of SDLC and QA requirements
- Strong ETL experience and Data Warehouse development
- Working Experience with SQL design/coding
- Experience with SQL Server, Netezza, PL/SQL, MS SQL
- Proficient in SSIS, SSAS
- strong in SSIS, Java, or .NET
- Strong with Programming Design Pattern
- Strong analytical skills for complex problem solving
- Quick learning skills
- Possesses solid communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to carry out complex tasks and prioritize when multi-tasking
Job Features
| Job Category | ETL Developer |
| ETL Development | 3-4 |
| Data Warehouse Development | 3-4 |
| SQL Server, Netezza, PL/SQL, MS SQL | 3-4 |
| SSIS, SSAS | 3-4 |
We’re looking for a Project Manager! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Project Manager
Term: 6-12 month Contract
Location: Remote for now
Job ID number: C13430
Brief description of duties:
- Manage project scope, timeline, and budget within agreed tolerances throughout the lifecycle of the project and adjust project plan in consultation with stakeholders as required in order to meet objectives.
- Prepare weekly and monthly status reports. Provide timely project reporting for senior management.
- Create and manage the project plan, including dependencies with other projects.
- Assign work and provide instructions, advice, and direction to the project teams.
- Employ and adhere to the processes and procedures stipulated for all phases of project work and create Project Change Requests to seek approval.
- Ensure project transition and handover activities upon project completion are planned and implemented as agreed, and in consultation with Central 1 PMO, client and production support, and other relevant stakeholders.
- Proactively identify potential risks and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed. Manage Risk and Issue logs.
- Articulate and prioritize issues and risks to senior management and executive leadership team and recommend mitigation strategies for decision-makers.
- Lead and work with cross-functional teams across the organization.
- Work closely with stakeholders
- Excellent Project Management skills
- Experience managing projects or programs, working on projects in accordance with standard project management methodologies, best practices, principles, tools, and techniques.
- Project Management education and PMP / PRINCE2 certification are preferred.
- Strong communication skills and comfortable interacting with external and internal parties.
- Ability to proactively drive the completion of the project
- Understanding and experience with System integrations.
- Technical knowledge and proficiency.
- Excellent client management skills including the ability to challenge, drive towards outcomes and to effectively raise or escalate issues as needed to resolve.
- Thorough understanding of Agile as well as Waterfall and Hybrid SDLC principles to support the delivery of complex technical solutions
- Knowledge and experience working with organizational business processes; ideally in banking or other regulated industry. Ex: process improvement, process mapping, value-driven.
- Working knowledge of change management practices to ensure success
- Good knowledge of techniques for planning, monitoring, and controlling programs
- Good knowledge of budgeting and resource allocation procedures
- The ability to find ways of solving or pre-empting problems around people, processes, and technology
- Experience with system implementations.
- SCRUM master experience
- Financial Banking experience
- Credit cards would be nice to have but not necessary
- Anyone from a Brokerage industry would be nice
Job Features
| Job Category | Project Manager |
| Managing projects or programs, working on projects in accordance with standard project management methodologies, best practices, principles, tools and techniques. | 5+ |
| Financial Experience | 5+ |
We’re looking for an SAP Business Objects Developer! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: SAP Business Objects Developer
Term: 6-month Contract
Location: Remote for now
Job ID number: C13429
Brief description of duties:
- Develop reports specific to the cash processing industry (typically inventory and financial content)
- Universe development, SQL optimization, test case development
- Team: Initially, work closely with a small team (senior G+D and one other contractor)
- Degree in computer science or equivalent
- Reporting/BI experience
- Experience developing reports using SAP Business Intelligence (BI) for Analytics
- Business Analysis/ Requirements Analysis
- Relational database (Oracle & SQL Server), Strong SQL
- SAP BO 4x
Job Features
| Reporting/BI experience | 7+ |
| Developing reports using SAP Business Intelligence (BI) for Analytics | 2+ |
We’re looking for an IMAC Technical Specialist! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: IMAC Technical Specialist
Term: 12-month Contract
Location: Remote for now
Job ID number: C13427
Brief description of duties:
- Experience within an IT environment supporting the workstation environment
- Knowledge of PC hardware and software components and how they fit together e.g. memory, hard drive, cards, adapters, operating systems, and networking
- Ability to lift 30 lbs or more of computer equipment
- Ability to demonstrate analytical and troubleshooting skills performed locally and on remote systems (this requires the ability to visualize the problem when you can’t access the system directly)
- Technical knowledge of Windows 10
- Technical knowledge of client/server infrastructure
- Technical knowledge of common workstation hardware and software
- Knowledge of network terminology and troubleshooting
- Knowledge of software distribution processes and tools
- A+ certification is an asset
- Executes IMAC services with significant technical and procedural guidance for desktops, laptops, personal mobile devices, printers, and peripherals for head office and remote office locations within agreed service levels.
- Validates hardware and software requests for technical configuration, approvals, completeness, and compliance with corporate guidelines.
- Coordinates and executes the shipping, receiving, and transferring of computer equipment between sites and locations.
- Identifies, validates, and provides updates to Asset Management through the execution of IMAC services, break/fix events, and disposition of equipment.
- Performs hardware refresh by executing data backup/restore activities, installation of new desktops, laptops, and LAN printers at user locations, and updating of asset records upon completion.
- Participates in ongoing asset inventory monitoring to ensure supply of equipment is available and accounted for.
- Validate completeness of vendor shipments by reconciling quantities and equipment ordered to quantities and equipment received.
- Executes the disposal and liquidation of assets based on technical and information security guidelines, i.e. scrubbing hard drives, to ensure secure data removal, packaging equipment for shipment, and providing updates for equipment records to Asset management.
- Serves as a point of contact with external vendors for IMAC activities in-home offices and remote offices.
Job Features
| IT environment supporting the workstation environment | 3+ |
We’re looking for a BMC Discovery Specialist! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: BMC Discovery Specialist
Term: 6-month Contract - 40 hours
Location: Remote for now - Toronto, Mississauga, Etobicoke, London and Winnipeg
Job ID number: C13427
Brief description of duties:
This resource will be required to engineer and support our BMC discovery tool (ADDM). This resource will work with my asset and configuration team to stand up new collection nodes and perform upgrades on existing infrastructure.
Deliverables:
- Working in collaboration with the project team
- The creation of BMC collector nodes
- The successful implementation of updates to the discovery tool
- Support and documentation for work completed
- Education: University or College IS program, ITIL v3 highly desirable
- Systems: understand Linux/Unix, Windows, Storage, Mainframe, Network, Database, Application software, Cloud infrastructure
- Experience in managing technology implementation
- Implementation and configuration of BMC Discovery for Enterprise Configuration Management
- Working with a holistic and dynamic view of data center and multi-cloud assets
- Strong communication, presentation, and client relationship building skills
- Implementation, training, and development in Discovery products
- Capable of dealing with multiple Stakeholders/ user groups to ensure Discovery meets their desired outcomes
- Hands-on experience with the latest version of BMC Discovery (HELIX)
- In-depth experience with infrastructure discovery and business application modeling
- Act as the BMC Discovery subject matter expert and advise on implementing best practices in one or more datacenter technologies – Storage / Backup / Networking / Virtualization / Unix
- Excellent TPL development skills to expand discovery beyond the out-of-the-box capabilities
- Work in conjunction with the end client to best utilize the full capability of BMC Discovery
- Perform Data Quality Assurance tasks on an operational basis
- Experience being “the go-to” person on a Discovery implementation and customization
Job Features
| Managing technology implementation | 6+ |
We’re looking for a Development Lead! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Development Lead (Cloud Machine Learning)
Term: 6-month Contract
Location: Remote for now
Job ID number: C13426
Brief description of duties:
- Accountable for the design, development, testing, and support of applications utilized in Lines of Business strategies.
- Additional functions of role but not limited to:
- Writes high quality and well-documented code according to accepted standards based on user requirements
- Participates in project and team meetings interacting and collaborating with team members and other departments as appropriate
- Contributes to successful completion of project deliverables
- Provides support to team members and application business partners.
- Thorough in-depth knowledge of design and analysis methodology and application development processes
- Exhibits solid knowledge of databases
- Programming experience with extensive business knowledge
- University degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent industry experience
- Solid understanding of SDLC and QA requirements
- Strong ETL experience and Data Warehouse development
- Working Experience with SQL design/coding
- Experience with SQL Server, Netezza, PL/SQL, MS SQL
- Strong experience with SSIS, SSAS
- strong in SSIS, Java, or .NET
- Strong with Programming Design Pattern
- Strong analytical skills for complex problem solving
- Quick learning skills
- Possesses solid communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to carry out complex tasks and prioritize when multi-tasking
Job Features
| ETL experience and Data Warehouse development | 5-7 |
| SQL design/coding | 5-7 |
| SQL Server, Netezza, PL/SQL, MS SQL | 5-7 |
| SSIS, SSAS | 5-7 |
We’re looking for a Guidewire Developer! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Guidewire Developer
Term: 6-month Contract
Location: Remote for now
Job ID number: C13425
MUST haves:
- Guidewire development and maintenance projects
- Experience with Policy center
- P&C experience
- Canadian insurance
- Good Communication skills
- Testing skills required
- Systems analysis
- SQL queries may be required
- Excel experience may be required
- Strong coordination and collaboration
- Rating experience would be an asset
- Ability to gather technical requirements
- Auto experience would be nice
- PolicyCenter
Job Features
| Job Category | Guidewire |
| Guidewire development and maintenance | 5-7 |
| PolicyCenter | Asset |
| SQL Queries | 5-7 |
We’re looking for a DevOps Engineer! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: DevOps Engineer
Term: 6-month Contract - Toronto
Location: Remote for now
Job ID number: C13424
Brief description of duties:
- Develop and maintain relationships with remote associates and local team members participating in the completion of IST cloud project
- Design & Development on cloud containers for IST product components
- Design and coding of DevOps product deployment scripting
- Prepare design & development documentation to be ready for publication
- Working in CI/CD and DevOps environment
- Support QA for testing for IST cloud projects
- Experience in Terraform, Azure Portal
- Programming and Shell scripting knowledge
- Experience in scheduling scripting
- Expert infrastructure knowledge in DevOps
- Cloud experience (Azure and/or AWS)
- Payment (IST Switch) experience
Job Features
| Job Category | DevOps Engineer |
| Devops Engineering | 8-9 |
We’re looking for a Cloud Architect/Engineer! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Cloud Architect/Engineer
Term: 6-month Contract - Toronto
Location: Remote for now
Job ID number: C13423
Brief description of duties:
- Experience in scalable, high availability low latency cloud architectures.
- Azure and/or AWS experience is a must
- Experience in containerization, specifically with Kubernetes
- Extensive hands-on experience implementing scalable solutions using Azure or AWS services
- Experience with Micro-service architectures and principles and experience in building, deploying, and operating microservices-based systems
- Current tools: Terraform, Packer, Helm, Jenkins. Databases are PostgreSQL
- Software development background is required and Java is strongly preferred.
Job Features
| Job Category | Cloud Engineer |
| Cloud Architecture | 7-9 |
| Azure or AWS | 7-9 |
| Implementing scalable solutions using Azure or AWS services | 7-9 |
We’re looking for a Pega LBA! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Pega LBA
Term: 6-month Contract
Location: Remote for now - Toronto
Job ID number: C13422
Brief description of duties:
As part of the Pega center of excellence at Sunlife working to migrate manual business processes and legacy applications to the new Pega platform. Working across multiple lines of business including Group Benefits, Group retirement services, individual insurance. Gathering requirements from businesses and working closely with technical teams for delivery in an Agile environment.
MUST haves:
- Strong experience on multiple large ends to end Pega projects or workflow related projects as a Sr. BA
Job Features
| Job Category | Pega |
| Pega | 2-8 |
We’re looking for a Business AcceptanceTester! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Business Acceptance Tester
Term: 6-month Contract
Location: Remote for now
Job ID number: C13421
Brief description of duties:
- Responsible for the verification of data on client output including but not limited to statements and trade confirmation
- Creation, maintenance, and execution of testing plans and cases for system changes
- Validation of output from reports created in house or by established systems
- Testing of Advisor targeted outputs including reports and forms
- MFDA dealer (mutual funds) back-office or fund company experience, preferably with Univeris as a back office
- Strong attention to detail
- Experience with SQL
- Excellent verbal and written communication;
- Sense of organization and autonomy;
- Sense of priorities and ability to work under pressure;
- Good knowledge of financial services products;
- Diploma in administration or other related disciplines;
- Above-average knowledge of Excel and Word software;
- French is an asset
Job Features
| Job Category | Business Systems Analyst |
| MFDA dealer (mutual funds) back-office or fund company experience | 2 |
| SQL | 2-3 |
| French | Asset |