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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

We’re looking for a Change Manager! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: Change Manager Term: 6-month Contract Location: Remote for now - Toronto Job ID number: C1390   Brief description of duties:

• Looking for an OCM-type Change Manager who works well with people (*not* ITIL)
• Needs to be able to assess who stakeholders are, make sure planning is accomplished, talk to the right people, and be responsible for communication being delivered effectively
• Need someone who can hit the ground running and maneuver in a bank ideally
• We Will be working on a mix of private wealth, insurance, tax enhancements projects

  MUST haves:

• Excellent communication skills
• OCM-style change experience

  Nice to haves:

• Banking experience
• Wealth experience
• Insurance experience

 

We’re looking for an Enterprise Architect! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Full Title: Enterprise Architect Location: Remote for now - Toronto Job ID number: C1388   Brief description of duties: The Enterprise Architect is responsible for the enterprise architecture design, including its applications, information, and technical architecture process. This includes the design and implementation of business models and the application services within the overall computing infrastructure and capturing the requirements for these services in order to identify the techniques and technologies required.   MUST haves:

• Strong communication skills
• TOGAF and/or enterprise architecture frameworks within an organization
• Experience in service-oriented architectures including ESB, WS-* standards, SAML, service registries, SOAP, XML, web services, BPEL
• Working knowledge of mainframe systems
• Knowledge/experience with Wintel Servers, HP/UNIX Servers, Mainframe (OS/390, Z/OS), Virtualization Technology (VMware)

  Nice to haves:

• Microfocus COBOL

We’re looking for an Agile Project Manager! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: Agile Project Manager Term: 18-month Contract Location: Remote for now - Toronto Job ID number: C1387   Brief description of duties:   The Agile Project Management service provider Enterprise Portfolio has expertise in Agile Delivery and Product Management. They pursue success for their clients & teams, removing impediments and creating high-performing teams to achieve business outcomes. They are responsible for end-to-end delivery, ensuring teams are delivering demonstrable value on every iteration. Reporting to a Director or Program Manager, they work with the Technology and Business partners to deliver products and services and evolve and improve our current processes. They will require a solid Agile Project Management background and particular expertise within large-scale transformation initiatives.  

• Working with Project teams and Senior Management/Stakeholders in achieving alignment on project direction and functionality - considering project functionality, cost, schedule, and quality
• Acting as one of the prime liaisons with third party organizations on project-related issues or inquiries
• Ensuring all groups are being provided with timely and accurate project information
• Working with Project teams and third parties to develop complex project plans to support successful project delivery
• Managing and tracking these project plans, including integration milestones, release activities and milestones, etc.
• Setting up relevant meetings and ensuring ongoing project progress is tracked and communicated
• Ensuring resolution and escalation of issues or risks in a timely fashion and ensuring that these are recorded for tracking and closure on the project tracking tool
• Working with Project teams to define resource requirements, budget, technology, facility needs and report these as required.
• Working directly with Product / Business Owners to help on execution alignment & business strategy of projects
• Working with development team members to execute sprints effectively
• Identifying, solving, and removing external impediments or roadblocks that impact team/ sprint progress
• Ensuring team keeps storyboard updated related to all stories (Sprint Backlog, To-do, In Progress, Verify, Done)
• Tracking and effectively communicating team sprint progress to all affected teams and management
• Developing and managing Project Management reports such as status updates, Sprint Burndown Chart, and developing Dashboards in Lean Kit or Azure (ADO)
• Reporting on project success criteria results, metrics, test and deployment management activities
• Providing status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and issues using Planview

  MUST have:  

• (Project Manager) of work experience in a program/project management capacity
• Directly managing complex* programs/projects of significant scope and risk
• Managing using the Agile Framework
• University degree or college diploma in Business Administration, Public Administration, Information systems or other related fields

 

We’re looking for a Cloud Engineer! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: Cloud Engineer Term: 12-month Contract Location: Remote for now - Toronto Job ID number: C1386   Brief description of duties:   the client is currently in process of migrating solution to google cloud which will help support network assurance and service assurance teams. Looking for a cloud engineer to work on this platform managing a cluster in Cassandra, Janusgraph database (mule4j, amazon Neptune, DataStax). Experience with DevOps CI/CD an asset.   MUST haves:  

• Software development background
• Experience with a graph database would be a huge plus
• Experience with data streaming technologies, Nifi,
• Experience with NoSQL database (Engineering).  CI/CD tools.  Jenkins, Git lab, artefactory.  Openshift, Docker swarm.

 

We’re looking for a Business Analyst! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: Business Analyst Term: 6-month Contract Location: Remote for now - Toronto Job ID number: C1385   Brief description of duties: A Business Analyst with experience in network segmentation and lateral movement attacks, technical familiarity with network engineering would be good, if not necessarily with solutions addressing that specific kind of attack. the client is working on a project concerning inspection and policy enforcement of SSL/TLS traffic. So experience with crafting governance documents (for security).   MUST haves:  

• Vulnerability and configuration management, e.g., mainframe configuration scanning
• Identity and Access Management, e.g., cloud privileged access, business process mapping for the management of onboarding/offboarding/access provisioning
• Network Security, e.g., Ransomware, API controls, network segmentation, lateral movement attacks (already mentioned)
• Security Monitoring
  • SIEM, e.g., Splunk and Splunk products, such as Phantom, Enterprise Security, etc.
  • Database activity monitoring, e.g., Imperva (vendor) solution

We’re looking for a QA Analyst! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: QA analyst Term: 12-month Contract Location: Remote for now - Toronto Job ID number: C1384     Brief description of duties:  

• Lead the setting up of approaches, reporting, and standards to do with Quality Engineering within various Services—Mobile, Mobile Shop, Gift Cards, and Insurance
• Become a subject matter expert in how to implement and execute test cases within our full-stack Javascript pods to ensure the continuous delivery of code without sacrificing quality
• Drive Modernized Test Automation Frameworks and Solutions to achieve component-based testing - across multiple layers GUI layer, API Endpoints layer, and Data Batch ETLs
• Work with other engineers to architect, build and continuously improve our test frameworks/pipeline
• Collaborate with application development, architecture, IT infrastructure, and business operations teams to lead the definition of Integration requirements for both new releases and application/system updates.

  MUST haves:  

• Hands-on experience with the Javascript stack and familiarity with several of the tools used (Jest/Jasmine/Mocha, Cypress, and Postman)
• This QE Lead will have to work within this technology—unit tests are not a problem as the engineers will handle that, but integration and system testing and end to end testing they hope to do in JavaScript
• Strong automation (want to move towards an entirely automated approach)
• Enterprise
• Angular, React JS
• Hands-on experience in API Endpoints testing and Customized Automation Test automation frameworks integration to DevOps Pipelines
• Extensive experience working with Rest APIs, Swagger, and API generation tools
• Curiosity and passion to learn and adopt new things; the client takes a different approach to banking and is always changing to deliver the best value to our customers
• Excellent communication skills
• Self-motivated, team player, ability to work independently and in collaboration

 

We’re looking for a Forecast Analyst! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: Forecast  Analyst Term: 12-month Contract Location: Remote for now - Toronto Job ID number: C1382   Brief description of duties:   The Workforce Controller (WFM) is responsible for the operational planning efforts inclusive of capacity planning, forecasting, scheduling, intraday, performance analysis, and crisis management for the SBIS and CDS contact centers (National). This role will be accountable to drive effective workforce management practices and continual business improvements that will deliver enhanced capability to the outbound and inbound contact centers and back-office operations. Job duties :

• Time and attendance
• Forecasting and scheduling
• Absence and leave management
• Adherence/conformance to schedule
• Intraday  (real-time management and monitoring)
• Crisis Management
• Optimize operational resource management
• Anticipate and influence trends / Call volumes
• Develop and maintain key reporting
• Outbound dialer monitoring
• Hiring process

  MUST haves:  

• Extremely organized
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, systematic thinker
• Excellent communication skills as will be working with multiple groups

We’re looking for a Performance Analyst! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: Performance Analyst Term: 12-month Contract Location: Remote for now - Toronto Job ID number: C1381   Brief description of duties:

• Directly support and execute day-to-day performance testing activities within test region and production, working with delivery teams (agile and waterfall) and other areas of IT (enterprise architects, solutions architects, development) to validate performance testing and non-functional requirements
• Utilize a variety of testing techniques that support the performance and non-functional testing activities, single-user profiling, spike, stress, endurance, failover etc.
• Act as the key point of contact for the Performance Testing and Engineering Center (PTEC) for delivery teams and other areas of IT in evaluating intake requests and defining initial testing scope as pertaining to Performance across all channels
• Analyzes, recommend and implement engineering suggestions to improve efficiencies and increase the responsiveness of client project requirements, ensure technology is current and up to date with industry standards, while maintaining established service level
• Assess the risks associated with the development aspects of each solution/project and define a performance-testing approach, making solution recommendations to development, architecture, infrastructure where possible
• Support continuous performance testing within CICD pipelines and support /maintain performance tests and metrics gathering to ensure system stability and trending analysis

  MUST haves:  

• 4+ years of experience working within SDLC/TDLC
• 3+ years of testing experience specifically within the Performance testing discipline
• Solid understanding of Performance test process methodologies, approaches, and tools
• Ability to understand enterprise-scale infrastructures and emerging technologies such as DataPower, Micro Services, Mobile Native Apps, Akamai services, middleware technologies, Various DB services, complex networks
• Solid understanding of web and mobile applications and implementations
• Must have Unix/Linux Intermediate experience
• Must be strong in one of the coding languages: Java, JavaScript, Python, etc.
• Hands-on experience with web services and implementing APIs
• Sound knowledge about SQL / PL-SQL, stored procedures, and SQL Server database
• Solid understanding of hardware utilization and related Garbage Collection and memory footprints
• Expertise in metrics gathering and developing dashboards and reports which clearly and concisely capture and communicate performance testing analysis/results
• Demonstrated competency with various tools including Defect Management Tools, Requirement Management Tools, Test Management and Planning Tools, Web Content Management tools and concepts, Banking systems, and their integration
• Extensive experience with Performance testing and automation tools such as Jmeter, Loadrunner, Cloudtest, Selenium, Appium, or similar
• Hands-on experience with Performance engineering and monitoring tools such as SumoLogic, Dynatrace, Crashlytics, etc
• Hands-on experience within API REST/SOAP testing and experience using related tools, Postman, ReadyAPI, etc.
• Experience with CI/CD and related tools and techniques; Jenkins/Dockers/Kubernetes an asset

   

We’re looking for a Junior QA Analyst! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: Junior QA Analyst Term: 6-month Contract Location: Remote for now - Toronto Job ID number: C1379   Brief description of duties:   The client is creating Building Access APP to monitor  Student and Employee Vaccination. This application will be used by security to scan student cards and verify that students are vaccinated against COVID-19 Performing functional testing on this new application. Writing basic SQL queries to perform database (Oracle) testing, back-end data validation.   MUST haves:  

• Strong functional testing experience
• Strong database testing and Oracle experience
• Great attitude and eagerness to learn

   

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: C1379   Brief description of duties: A Business Systems Analyst to analyze the data from a Governance perspective Data Quality and Data Requirements, need to have strong problem-solving skills, data governance background, and financial experience.   MUST haves:

• Looking for a BSA with strong Data Analysis
• Strong SQL
• Strong SQL Scripting and Data Profiling/Analysis skills in Large Database environment, preferably in Hadoop EDL
• Solid working experience in data visualization tools (PowerBI or Tableau)
• Solid knowledge in Data Model concepts (esp. dimensional modeling)
• Knowledge in Data Governance

  Nice to have:   

• AML experience

       

We’re looking for a SQL Developer! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: SQL Developer Term: 6-month Contract Location: Remote for now - Toronto Job ID number: C1378   Brief description of duties:   Provide the PROD support for the Data Warehouse system. The current PROD support person is retiring in 6 weeks, we need this person to join and start the knowledge transfer, then be able to support the day-to-day Data Warehouse operation, with minimum supervision.  

• Responsible for the daily DWH operations running on the IBM DB2 LUW platform
• Review the daily ETL job status and fix any issues that arise.
• Lead the month-end, quarterly report, and year-end processes.
• Conduct root cause analysis, and advise business and DWH team to correct the data and fix the issue.
• Work with multiple IT teams to ensure all the ETL processes with various systems run smoothly as expected.

  MUST haves:  

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, Information Technology, Information Security or equivalent
• 5 to 8 years in Data Warehouse management, family with ETL concept and tools - ETL is very basic, just a schedule jobs running scripts and stored procedure.
• Strong DB2 LUW programing and development skills are mandatory.
• Hand-on experience on various scripting, Linux, Shell, PowerShell.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Good communication skills and ability to communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical groups.

  Nice to haves:

• Microsoft SQL Server is a plus.
• Insurance or banking experience
• Experience in the insurance business, understanding the Third Party Deductible in a complex environment is a strong asset.
• knowledge\experience on AS400 and Guidewire Oracle DB is definitely an asset because the data warehouse integrates with those systems through the ETL process.