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We’re looking for a Software Engineer Specialist! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: Software Engineer Specialist Term: 6-month Contract - 40 hours Location: Remote for now - Toronto, Mississauga, Etobicoke, Montreal, London and Winnipeg Job ID number: C13405   Brief description of duties:   Summary: Responsible for providing high-level consulting services to clients and preparing programming assignments. Designs plans and supervises the implementation of complex, large-scale system projects. Reviews analyze and modify programming systems including encoding, testing, debugging, and installing for a complex, large-scale computer system. Assists in supervising the daily activities of the project team members. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: • Provides high-level consulting services to client personnel (e.g., advises client on complex issues involving new regulation, technology or system functionality; evaluates various technical and business solutions and makes recommendations to a client; troubleshoots errors and inefficiencies related to the application(s) and related processes; advises client on technical direction and specific business issues). • Maintains project estimates and project management timelines for multiple major projects. • Verifies completeness and accuracy of specifications for multiple major projects to be estimated (e.g., report changes, control file changes, file fixes). • Determines programming requirements for multiple major projects (e.g., product updates, conversions). • Researches and designs system modules, program enhancements, and modifications to existing programs or modules. • Creates documents to communicate complex technical information to audiences of all levels. • Conducts research and documents findings and recommendations by using analytical problem-solving. • Provides client support, training, testing, and vendor relations. • Develops technical designs that will meet system objectives and minimize the impact on operations. • Maintains and develops online and batch application programs. • Codes programs that interface with multiple applications. • Trains new employees on all aspects of an application or system product. • Develops complex procedural language routines. • Provides applications development and support and utilizes troubleshooting and diagnostic tools. • Monitors, measures, and optimizes individual and combined utilization of hardware, software, and telecommunications components. • Responsible for software installation and maintenance. May act as project leader. • Develops and implements a disaster recovery plan. • Performs other related duties as assigned.   MUST haves:  

• Requires 10+ developer experience in the IT industry and preferably 5+ years in a senior position. At least 2 years' of experience in the banking/payments industry is preferable.
• Hands-on experience with Microservices Architecture and design, REST APIs, cloud development, Security, Testing, and deployments in high throughput environments Java, Kafka, Spring Boot, AWS, EKS(Kubernetes), React, Apigee, Drools
• Exposure to the following is preferred DevOps environments with a high degree of automation of CI/CD pipelines, build promotions and code quality testing Exposure to using cloud development, Kubernetes, Dockers and Terraform scripting for deployments in development, QA, and Production
• Exposure to Tech stack is preferred Docker, Terraform, Helm, MySQL, MongoDB, Quartz Tools - k3d, Jenkins, Maven, Git, Sonar, Skaffold, etc. QA- Cucumber, Junit, selenium

We’re looking for a UI Engineer! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: UI Engineer Term: 6-month Contract Location: Remote for now - Mississauga Job ID number: C13404   Brief description of duties:

• Design and implement key UI components, integrating with REST API
• Participate in requirements, architecture, and design specification reviews of REST APIs
• Come up with cutting-edge visualization and design for analyzing large and complex data
• Write unit and component tests. Utilize best software design practices.

  MUST haves:

• 5+ years in active UI development
• Expert in JavaScript/Typescript, AJAX, HTML, CSS; experienced with designing and using REST APIs
• Proficiency in Angular, React or similar frameworks
• Self-motivated, independent, and high-performance individual with the ability to learn new technologies and become productive extremely fast; strive for challenges with a do-what-ever-it-takes mentality
• Solid experience with software development lifecycles and agile development methodologies
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and to be an outstanding team player and leader
• Fanatical attention to detail

   

We’re looking for a Business System Analyst! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: Business Systems Analyst Term: 6-month Contract Location: Remote for now - Toronto Job ID number: C13403   Brief description of duties:   Leading and driving requirements for multiple IT/application-focused projects within Sun Life Group Benefits. Gathering requirements from business stakeholders and creating BRD.  Documenting and communicating technical specifications to developers. Project management and coordination in a large complex environment.   MUST haves:  

• 10 years BA experience in the financial sector
• Proven ability to work with both business and technology
• Ability to be in a BA/PM hybrid role
• Excellent communication skills take initiative, and the ability to drive requirements forward in a complex environment

  Nice to haves:

• Group Benefits experience

   

We’re looking for an Application Support  Analyst! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: Application Support Analyst Term: 12-month Contract Location: Remote for now - Toronto Job ID number: C13402   Brief description of duties:  

• Identify and resolve medium to highly complex production problems for support of applications
• Deliver within IT General Controls and IT Application Controls required for Financial Systems.
• Identify root cause and define actions to eliminate reoccurrence of problems.
• Manage, support, and resolve complex vendor and proprietary technical issues in a calm and efficient manner.
• Evaluate service requests to ensure adherence to standards and processes, identify inconsistencies while analyzing potential impacts of problems.
• Successfully prioritize and manage multiple requests, projects, and activities typically working under pressure.
• Effectively communicate problems and resolutions in a high-stress environment.
• Escalate technology issues appropriately.
• Identify proactive solutions for recurring technology occurrences to benefit the business.
• Provides troubleshooting and maintenance of data, interfaces, and communications links as necessary to ensure operational availability.
• Devises and/or modifies procedures to solve the most complex technical problems related to integrated systems.
• Recommends changes and/or enhancements at the application level to management, clients, and other support areas.
• Respond quickly as per the SLA (Service Level Agreement) to acknowledge and update the status of any production problems.
• Determines the source of the problem versus the symptoms, with the ability to quickly assess the magnitude and implication of the problem.

  MUST Haves:

• University degree OR college diploma in Computer Science OR equivalent work experience.
• Experience in application support or development.
• Knowledge of Enterprise Billing systems, ServiceNow ticking system.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written - clear and concise manner.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Works well under pressure to meet specific timelines in a multi-task environment.
• Commitment to providing quality customer service!
• Team player!!
• Knowledge of server-based OS (Wintel / UNIX / etc.), FTP (standard communication protocol used for the transfer of computer files from a server to a client on a computer network.), Shell Scripting, .net, SQL, Databases (Oracle / SQL), integration platforms (Tibco, MuleSoft), Mobile apps (IOS), monitoring tools a plus.

We’re looking for a Business Systems Analyst! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: Business Systems Analyst Term: 12-month Contract Location: Remote for now - Toronto Job ID number: C13401   Brief description of duties:   Our API Accelerator project is currently in need of a Senior BSA to fill the void due to a recent vacancy. The project currently has high-level requirements completed, an initial POC done and now are ready to get into full execution mode   MUST haves:   the client is looking for someone who would be a strong fit with the team as the last candidate was highly skilled, but let her personality get in the way of being successful. Key skills the client looking for would be experiencing with APIs, particularly RESTful APIs; insurance industry experience would be ideal but would settle on financial industry experience; ability to wear multiple hats from writing detailed technical requirements, writing test cases/test plans, might be test execution in there as well, etc. The client really looking for versatility in the role and as you know, our structure is loose and we aren’t looking for someone that is so driven by a theoretical approach and can easily adapt to the team. The team constructs consist of a small external vendor, a large external vendor, internal business, and IT teams.

We’re looking for a Business Systems Analyst! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: Business Systems Analyst Term: 12-month Contract Location: Remote for now - Toronto Job ID number: C1399   Brief description of duties:   As a Digital Analyst, you will work closely with the client Wealth Management and Investments business partners and technology teams to enable the business strategy through digital capabilities and the delivery of marketing, sales and distribution, product development, and operations initiatives.   Key Responsibilities may include:

• Analyze functional, non-functional, usability/user experience requirements to ensure story-readiness.
• Performing business, systems, functional, and data analysis
• Provide specifications as needed by the team, and dependent teams, including, business process, logical data model, data flow, and sequence diagrams.
• Collaborating with stakeholders, product owners, and development team to articulate business goals
• Support the product owner to ensure complete acceptance criteria are captured and understood by the Development team (Devs and QM)
• Supporting training and solution implementation activities
• Contributing feedback and improvement ideas at regular retrospectives
• Ensuring requirements and analysis processes, best practices, and tools are known and followed
• Coaching and mentoring other Team Members to build overall competency of the team

  MUST haves:  

• Experience with the Agile framework, and user stories
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Strong planning, organization, analytical/problem-solving skills
• Resourceful, Results-Oriented, Progressive, and a Team Player
• Preference (not mandatory) for those with Salesforce experience, with one or more of:
  • Lightning, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud
  • Marketing Cloud, Einstein, Financial Services Cloud
  • Salesforce Communities
  • Salesforce Voice

• Proficient at data modeling, data mapping, SQL, and ETL data integration (strong desired but not mandatory)
• Proven ability to build trust with business partners
• Tools: JIRA, Confluence

We’re looking for a Cognos BI Developer! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: Cognos BI Developer Term: 12-month Contract Location: Remote for now - Toronto Job ID number: C1399   Brief description of duties:

• Responsible for working with the Business System Analyst to gather requirements using a standard and efficient template and methodology.
• Responsible for data analysis, designing, developing, and testing reports in Cognos 11\10.x.
• Responsible for the version control and deployment of the Cognos reports and Cognos Framework using MotioCI.
• Develop and enhance Cognos frameworks.
• Develops/maintains appropriate documentation on reports/dashboards, during the development lifecycle.
• Performance management and best practices for Cognos reporting and modeling.

  MUST haves:  

• Cognos BI Development experience
• MotioCI
• Cognos Analytics 11
• Cognos v10.2, Business Intelligence: Advanced Concepts of Report Studio, Framework Manager, Workspace Advanced, Cognos Administration
• Proficient with XML, Oracle, and SQL
• Experience with Cognos installation, configuration, implementation, production support, security, administration, and performance tuning
• Sound knowledge of Cognos Server Architecture and Dependencies
• Experience safeguarding sensitive and proprietary information

  Nice to haves:  

• Cognos BI Certifications
• Strong communication is great, but if someone is just okay in this area we can make it work

     

We’re looking for a Programmer Analyst! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: Programmer Analyst Term: 6-month Contract Location: Remote for now - Toronto Job ID number: C1398   Brief description of duties:  

• Modifies existing code or creates new programs in accordance with the approved design specifications, best coding practices, the client technical guidelines, and system development life cycle.
• Provides advice as required to the Quality Assurance Analysts (QAs) if problems are encountered in conducting system and integration testing; provides ad hoc advice to peers through discussion of current programming projects, and joint problem-solving.
• Provides feedback and coaching to staff on new practices and developments in programming techniques and self-discovered methods that increase program productivity and quality.
• Prepares the code package for review, QA testing, and deployment.
• Other related duties as assigned.

  MUST haves:

• In-depth experience with Oracle PL/SQL is a must
• In-depth knowledge of SQL and relational databases, data modeling, and data analysis
• In-depth knowledge of JAVA/J2EE is a must
• Experience creating documentation that is easy to understand for future reference
• Strong in communication problems and solutions with Business Users and other technology staff

  Nice to haves:  

• Working knowledge with CPAS software and IBM Cognos is a definite asset
• Strong communication skills would be ideal here

We’re looking for an IT Senior Auditor! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: IT Senior Auditor Term: 4-month Contract Location: Remote for now - Toronto Job ID number: C1397   Brief description of duties:  

• As Internal Audit Manager you will be consulting for a large financial services provider.
• This opportunity is remote and work is managed from our Toronto location (hours in EST)
• 4-5 month contract position

  Responsibilities:  

• Review of information security controls and practices within client environment for completion for SEC Audits.
• Lead other audit engagements related to information systems and outsourced service providers.
• Managing and providing risk and compliance services with a focus on information technology audits.

  MUST haves:

• Experienced Manager
• Experience managing a team of at least 3-4 people
• Financial audit background, ideal if external audit background

   

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 Location: Remote for now - Toronto Job ID number: C1396   Brief description of duties:  

• Analyze current technology utilized within the company and develop steps and processes to improve and expand upon them
• Establish milestones for necessary contributions from departments and develop processes to facilitate their collaboration
• Assist other department engineers in creating practical demonstrations of proposed solutions and demonstrating them to other members of the team
• Provide detailed specifications for proposed solutions including materials, manpower, and time necessary
• Provide clear goals for all areas of a project and develop steps to oversee their timely execution
• Work closely with engineering professionals within the company to maintain hardware and software needed for projects to be completed efficiently
• Mentor and train other engineers throughout the company and seek to continually improve processes companywide
• Work alongside project management teams to successfully monitor progress and implementation of initiatives

  MUST haves:  

• Experience with Angular, Spring Boot, Mongo DB, Python, Docker, Kubernetes, Bamboo, CICD
• Previous experience migrating from Docker Swarm to Kubernetes
• Experience setting up High Availability for Mongo DB using Kubernetes
• Experience migrating application dependencies/versions across Angular, Spring Boot, Python

We’re looking for a Data Engineer! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: Data Engineer Term: 6-month Contract Location: Remote for now - Toronto Job ID number: C1395   Brief description of duties:

• 5+ years of IT experience in large scale technology architecture, operations, and design-related disciplines
• Data Architect/Data Engineer, successfully designing and developing enterprise big data solutions
• SQL experience with large data sets
• Concrete programming and scripting language experience (e.g. Python, NodeJS) with the understanding of SDLC principles
• Working experience using AWS and Azure platform services including AWS Glue, AWS Athena, AWS SQS, AWS Kinesis, AWS Redshift, AWS EMR, AWS S3, and Azure Data Lake.
• Experience with big data technologies including Spark, Hadoop, Hive, HDFS, Python
• Experience with metadata management, data stewardship, data quality, IT governance, enterprise data models, and enterprise frameworks
• Solid understanding and experience with relational databases (MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, etc.)
• Experience working with REST APIs
• Business information requirement analysis experience
• Solid understanding of project management principles

  MUST haves:  

• Data warehouse and data lake architecture principles
• Data integration and streaming integration concepts and architecture
• Data ETL pipelines for large-scale transformations
• Database design for read-only access
• Data warehousing technologies such as OLAP
• Data transformation, conversion, and partitioning
• Business intelligence, query, and reporting tools
• Techniques for detecting and addressing data quality issues
• Data formats for loading and unloading of data
• Middleware (API gateways)
• Data modeling for data warehousing/data lakes (Denormalized – Star & Snowflake Schemas, Data Vault)
• Parallel execution
• Indexing and statistics strategies
• Writing complex, highly-optimized SQL and Python to interact with large data sets as needed for data engineering and processing
• Semantic modeling and modeling for parallel access
• Infrastructure provisioning using IaC principles and CI/CD pipelines
• Ability to communicate highly technical and complex security concepts effectively across all levels of the organization (both IT and business)
• Team player with excellent communication skills

 

We’re looking for a Program Manager! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: Program Manager Term: 6-month Contract Location: Remote for now - Toronto Job ID number: C1394   Brief description of duties:   The Hub Program will involve significant change both for our clients and the client staff. The objective of the work is to deliver the overarching multi-year (FY21-23) program plan, effectively organize the program of work into work packages with the required level of project plans, and support the implementation of all aspects of the program.   The client requires the services of a Program Manager with experience in and able to adapt various methodologies (Agile, DevOps, Iterative, etc.) to organize the work and manage all the activities of the client’s implementation of the program. The program will encompass a series of sub-projects to deliver the objectives set out in the Roadmap, in addition to ongoing activities such as internal and external engagement; and as implementations are completed, the operations of the new tools and processes.   The Program Manager directly reports to the Manager, Project Management Office, with dotted line accountability to the Program Director, for all project activities and has overall responsibility for the conduct and coordination of the projects and supporting activities within the program. During the effective date of this agreement, the Program Manager will be a key member of the program team and will perform the tasks outlined below:

1. Manage all aspects of program planning and execution including refining program scope and deliverables, leading resource planning (acquisition and management of external resources), prioritizing issues and risks, ensuring timelines are met, updating the program and project documentation, collaborating with the client internal stakeholders, and contributing departments.  This includes development, oversight, and coordination of projects and sub-projects within the program working with associated project managers.
2. Conduct regular program team meetings to review program status, monitor progress, collect relevant information, identify issues that may impede progress, and ensure appropriate plans are implemented to mitigate any risks to the program.
3. Prepare regular program status reports and all relevant background materials to support needs assessment and conceptual solutions, conduct status reporting to the Program Director, the Program Steering and Advisory Committees, and Project Management Office.
4. Provides leadership and guidance to the client project team members.
5. Provide leadership in the development of the program evaluation plan and change management plans integrated into the program to ensure smooth implementation.

  Deliverables:  

1. An integrated program delivery plan which includes but is not limited to a revised Roadmap, program schedule and interdependencies, scope management plan, program budget, resourcing plan (including required training plans) – for the remainder of this fiscal year and next year, aligning with planning requirements set by Corporate Services.
2. Change management plans and operational transition plans embedded into the integrated program delivery plan, to ensure any/all newly developed or implemented solutions are properly supported during and after implementation through knowledge transfer, roles and responsibilities of the various support personnel are identified and properly trained to accept the handover of the solutions and appropriate support processes and documentation are delivered upon delivery of the solutions outlined in the scope.
3. The execution of the end-to-end delivery plan, maintaining line of sight across the entire program (all ongoing and future projects), managing key interdependencies between projects in the current FY21-22.
4. Approach for defining and evaluating program success criteria and indicators, working with Manager, Hub Implementation, and other subject matter experts.
5. All required program artefacts/templates, background supporting documentation and record of decisions.
6. Oral briefings on an ongoing basis to appraise the client’s Program Director, business owners and IT management as to program status, challenges, risks and performance. Regular status report to the Program Steering and Advisory Committees, and project teams formally and informally as required providing progress updates as well as alerts of anomalies.
7. Management and reporting of the program to the established budget, schedule and resource allocation, and address risks with a risk mitigation strategy and changes with a prescribed change management process.

 

We’re looking for a Project Coordinator! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: Project Coordinator Term: 6-month Contract Location: Remote for now - Toronto Job ID number: C1393   Brief description of duties:

•  Clearly identify and meet the project delivery expectations through stakeholder management
• Engage project stakeholders and communicate project updates to ensure buy-in and project success (examples: meetings, status updates, meeting notes, etc.)
• Commit to ongoing learning and development; participate in conferences and educational programs.
• Stay up to date with current best practices and emerging technologies. Participate and contribute to company culture
• Assist in the creation/implementation of PMO process and artifacts Leading/facilitating of the Project Intake Process and assessment.

  MUST haves:

• Great communication skills
• Eager to learn
• Excellent CRM skills
• Ability to navigate and learn their environment

We’re looking for a Java ETL Consultant! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: Java ETL Consultant Term: 12-month Contract Location: Remote for now - Toronto Job ID number: C1392   Brief description of duties:   This Senior Consultant/Developer will mainly create, test and deploy Java transformations from AB Initio code for migration into Informatica BDM/DEI. This migration is like for like, so the end result of new products re-written in Informatica must produce the same results as the existing products written in AB Initio. Support in the Ab Initio area will be provided by the client when required, so some knowledge of AB Initio is an asset but it is not a mandatory requirement for this consultant   So, in summary, the main deliverables are:

• Develop complex Java transformations in Informatica BDM for conversion from Ab Initio graphs
• Test the new Java transformations thoroughly to ensure the results are exactly the same as before the migration to Informatica
• Create scripts/workflows to execute the new Java transformations properly in a UAT and Production environments ready for ongoing data releases
• Provide technical direction to the team regarding Java best practices that will help the team deliver on time and high-quality deliverables
• Create documentation for the new application environment, technical design, and ETL mappings

  MUST haves:  

• Profound knowledge and experience in developing in:
  • Oracle DB / pl/SQL
  • Java (in the context of ETL / data processing)
  • Unix shell scripting
• Proven ability to effectively manage deliverables on time and first time right
• Ability to handle the heavy workload
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with logical and good attitude team player with strong oral and interpersonal skills

We’re looking for a System Administrator! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: System Administrator Term: 10-month Contract Location: Remote for now - Toronto Job ID number: C1391   Brief description of duties: • Configuring and maintaining the networked computer system, including hardware, system software, and applications. • Ensuring data is stored securely and backed up regularly. • Diagnosing and resolving hardware, software, networking, and system issues when they arise. • Replacing and upgrading defective or outdated components when necessary. • Monitoring system performance to ensure everything runs smoothly and securely. • Researching and recommending new approaches to improve the networked computer system. • Providing technical support when requested. • Documenting any processes which employees need to follow in order to successfully work within our computing system.   MUST have: • Post-secondary degree or technical diploma in computer science or related field • Experience administering Unix and Windows operating systems. • Strong system performance monitoring and tuning skill • Virtualization experience (Hyper-V, VMWare, or other hypervisors) • Understanding of network fundamentals (TPC\IP, Routing, VLAN, etc.) • Experience with the deployment and management of complex system architectures. • Experience in scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, Bash, and Powershell • Experience with configuration management tools such as Puppet and RunDeck • Extensive experience with enterprise application development and integration • Familiarity with running databases such as Oracle and SQL Server • Experience in the internet, telephony, wireless, billing, provisioning, or mediation systems would be a definite asset • Team player with excellent communication skills both written and verbal Job Requirement: • Design, install, configure, and provide architectural and engineering support for various infrastructure ecosystems comprising Linux (RedHat and Oracle) Servers deployed on VMware ESX Clusters, HP Systems, Oracle Exadata, and Nutanix Private Cloud • Install, configure, and manage VMware infrastructure comprising VMware Virtual Centers, ESX hosts clusters, vCenter Server Appliances, Datastores/ Shared Storage, Distributed Switches /VLANs, NSX, DRS clusters, SRM high availability/DR solutions for various Linux/Intel VMs. • Perform RedHat Linux upgrade • Install, Configure and Manage RedHat Satellite servers for OS provisioning, Software and OS updates/rollout on Linux VM and Physical Servers • Manage and develop custom security-hardened VM images and VM snapshots as per business guidelines and requirements • Implement automation and configuration management with Jenkins, Terraform, and RedHat Ansible Tower • Develop, Implement and manage Ansible playbooks/roles and Chef recipes/cookbooks for new and existing applications, OS software, VMs provisioning, and systems/packages updates • Install, configure and manage Ansible Towers and components including Job Templates, Projects, and ansible playbooks, roles and inventories, and RBAC assignments. • Provide architecture and platform support during the project execution, Dry run, and Workload swap events for the DR and subsequent Runbook updates. • Prepare project/infra documentation and runbooks, share and knowledge transfer with Operations teams • Work with various teams to install and configure servers as per application requirements including Oracle RAC and other business applications   Technical skillset:   • OS Platforms: RedHat Linux, Oracle Linux • Hypervisor/Virtualization: VMware ESX • Automation/Provisioning: CloudFormation, Ansible Tower, Chef/Puppet, RedHat Satellite • Scripting/CICD: Bash/Ksh, Perl, Python, Jenkins, PowerShell • Hardware: HP DLs and Blades, Oracle Exadata, Oracle PCA • Storage: Hitachi G600/G1500, Oracle ZFS