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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 |
We’re looking for a Regional Integration! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Regional Integration Lead
Term: 9-month Contract
Location: Remote for now - Toronto
Job ID number: C13420
Brief description of duties:
- Work closely with the Test management Leadership to ensure:
- Consistent communications to regional teams, ensure appropriate training is provided in advance
- Consistent communications to regional, global and internal stakeholders
- Project plans, schedule, and key Milestones are clearly and consistently communicated across the Program
- Ensuring we meet all key stakeholder and actively manage feedback
- Ensure stakeholder listing is maintained - key internal and external stakeholders for the OTT.
- Ensure we proactively meet with key stakeholders and obtain feedback on issues and blockers
- Ensure meetings are minute (action agenda) and actions are tracked to closure
- Responsible for ensuring meetings are prepared for in advance where appropriate
- Liaise with Program on stakeholder Mgmt.
- Helps drive consistency in communications
- Draft communications pack for stakeholders, rooted in baselined plans
- Review all key information artifacts before they are released for consistency in key messages and timing (relative to the overall plan). This include plan updates, playbooks, and plan results
- Support Leads and PM in OTT meetings
- Ensure attendance at key OTT delivery meetings and collate feedback requiring actions [in support of the Test Lead role]
- Track tactical asks from regions through to closure
- Support Status Reporting
- Project Manager/Analyst skill set and experience would be considered an asset
- Previous experience with Project/Program Management
- Experience in the financial/insurance industry leading Global teams (onshore/offshore)
- Ability to drive the work forward, proactively identify risks, and follow through on gap closure and mitigation strategies
- Strong communicator, ability to tailor messages to diverse audiences
- Excellent communication
- IFRS/Regulatory experience an asset
Job Features
| Project Management | Asset |
| Project Analysis | Asset |
We’re looking for a Network Technical Support Specialist! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Network Technical Support Specialist
Term: 6-month Contract
Location: Remote for now - Toronto
Job ID number: C13419
Brief description of duties:
- Support the Cisco ACI and internal cloud automation in collaboration with the SMO team
- Maintain and support for a 7x24 core network environment, this includes all data centers, head offices, and Canada-wide remote offices
- Build, deploy and operate the enterprise-wide network following the industry-standard design and support best practices
- Documentation of operational and recovery procedures
- Support the development of implementation strategies and plans including identification of technical work packages, dependencies, estimates, and schedules
- Degree/diploma in technology-related discipline or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Cisco, Checkpoint, Aruba, f5, and/or Radware training/certification would be an asset
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Proven ability to follow ITIL best practices on incident management, break-fix, permanent resolution, problem management, and change management
- Solid communications and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment
- Ability to script/automate Network tasks
- Effective internal consulting skills with a strong customer service orientation
- Attention to detail and effective planning and organizational skills
- Ability to troubleshoot complex network issues and perform capacity planning
- Excellent communication
- Insurance/financial services experience
Job Features
| Technical Support | 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-month Contract
Location: Remote for now - Toronto
Job ID number: C13418
Brief description of duties:
Looking to bring on an IT PM with an emphasis on developing and creating a change management office, setting-up processes, and reporting operations:
- Creating a change management office (CMO) and all that that entails
- Create a Basic project outline for their CRM business case (MS Dynamics implementation)
- Coach the other 5 PM’s on the team about IT projects and provide guidance as to process optimization
- Develop data migration project plan and outline (Shared drive to SharePoint 365)
- Experience as a Project Manager setting up a change management office (ideally in a medium sized shop)
- Experience working as a PM on IT SDLC projects
- Strong communication and leadership skills.
- Soft skills
- Open-minded
- Experience working on CRM implementation and data migration projects
Job Features
| Job Category | Project Manager |
| Project Manager | 5-8 |
| CRM implementation and data migration projects | Asset |