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We’re looking for a Business Process Analyst! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: Business Process Analyst Term: 12-Contract Location: Remote for now - Ottawa Job ID number: C1354     Brief description of duties:   The IFRS 17 program is seeking a Business Process Consultant to facilitate and optimize process transition onto the new IFRS 17 solution landscape and ensure alignment between business processes and technology solutions. The consultant will be responsible for actively resolving the day-to-day technology needs of the business unit with a focus on the analysis of processes - dissecting problems and suggesting solutions. Responsibilities:

• Provide analysis and develop business process maps, diagrams, and models to support transformational initiatives
• Conduct interviews and facilitate meetings with business owners to derive and validate business process models and gaps
• Document the current and future state of business processes, using business process modeling notation (BPMN), to gain required insight
• Analyze and document dependencies between new and existing processes
• Identify key business readiness considerations, activities, and deliverables to adopt IFRS 17 process changes or system improvements
• Monitor business readiness and adoption through process performance audits and reports

  MUST haves:  

• 5+ years of experience in consultative business process design, change, and implementation
• Ability to quickly learn and apply skills needed for business process diagram development and BPMN
• Familiarity with capability modeling and levels
• Curious and passionate about discovering how processes work
• Good problem-solving and conflict resolution skills
• Good written and verbal communication skills; good presentation skills

  Nice to haves:

• Six Sigma Green Belt certification; Six Sigma Black Belt certification is a plus
• IFRS17 experience

     

We’re looking for a SAP Analytics Cloud! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: SAP Analytics Term: 6-Contract + 40 hours per week Location: Remote for now - Ottawa Job ID number: C1353     Brief description of duties:   Required skills: SAP BW (backend and frontend knowledge mandatory) + SAP Analytics Cloud knowledge. Important is the Data Visualization / Dashboards in SAC, knowledge of planning in SAC is not required. This person is supposed to be a member of their already existing operations team for SAP BW/SAC reporting. This team maintains the SAP BW regional solutions we have, implements the enhancements, also they are working on PoCs, and if successful they develop new reports in the SAP Analytics Cloud frontend.   MUST haves:  

• knows how to visualize data in SAC, with hands-on project experience in deploying and presenting various SAC capabilities to the business customers (not just PoC, but full implementation).
• The knowledge of the planning process is optional, if someone will have experience in planning with SAC, good, but this should not be mandatory. They use SAP BW data mostly for data sources so it will be beneficial if a candidate will understand how it works.

 

We’re looking for a SAP Hana Developer! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: SAP Hana Developer Term: 12-Contract Location: Remote for now - Toronto, Mississauga, Etobicoke, Montreal, and London Job ID number: C1353     Brief description of duties:  

• A Developer is required to work as part of an implementation team on an IFRS17 Financial System project initiative for the Corporate Technology Division. This individual is considered a subject matter expert in SAP HANA and the main functional components of the SAP HANA platform functional components including Interfaces, Application Services, Database Services, and Data Integration services.
• The consultant will be expected to provide coaching, mentoring, and knowledge transfer to Canada Life technical staff.
• The consultant will be expected to take on technical leadership responsibilities across multiple IFRS17 project workstreams.
• Experience with SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA with the ability to develop all layers of an application, including user interfaces, SAP HANA XS Advanced server applications, and HANA database content
• Experience working within the SAP HANA programming model: User Interface layer, SAP HANA platform including application and database layers
• Experience designing and modeling HANA views: Attribute, Analytical, Calculation
• Demonstrated experience with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) including Modeling, Stories, Analytic Application Designer and Digital Board Room
• Experience with SAP Smart Data Integration ETL suite
• Experience using the external GIT repository for source code management
• Experience moving and promoting code from one environment to another
• Experience designing and implementing HANA security is an asset
• Strong communication skills to articulate design concepts and interact with team members, business clients, and vendors
• Demonstrated experience coaching and mentoring client staff
• Strong results orientation, driving to deadlines and project goals
• Demonstrated work scoping and planning experience
• Ability to make progress when faced with uncertainly and ambiguity
• Ability to work under the pressure of a constrained delivery date
• Ability to work independently and with teams
• Previous work experience within large organization’s technology departments in the Banking or Financial Services sectors

  MUST haves:  

• SAP HANA XSA/XS - Web IDE for SAP HANA - Knowledge of BIT Bucket or GIT HUB - SAP HANA Studio - Smart Data Integration - Modeling, Functions, SQL Views, Procedures, Remote Source, Virtual Object, Calculation Views, Roles - Transport – VIA HANA/IDE
• Additional details: Job scheduling SAP Analytics Cloud - Stories, - Analytic Application - Digital Board Room - Modeling - Security Nice to have - Security knowledge of SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP HANA - Jira - SAP Business Objects - Microsoft Power BI"

  Nice to haves:

• IFRS17 experience is ideal

 

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: 14-Contract Location: Remote for now - Ottawa Job ID number: C1352     Brief description of duties:  

• Work with a team of system analysts to deliver bug/fixes, operational enhancements, and new functionality to existing in-house software.
• Translate business requirements into viable technical solutions.
• Collaborate with other infrastructure groups within the organization
• Use best practices and coding standards. Ensure implementations follow proper corporate design, development, and deployment standards and adhere to corporate security policies.
• Conduct thorough unit testing documenting test results. Design and implement the automated unit testing framework as required. Collaborate with the Testing team for testing of overall technical solution.
• Ensure all changes are developed in a secure source control process, allowing for deployment and rollback of releases where necessary.
• Define levels of security/access control required for the technical solutions within and across non-production environments.
• Leads/Assists in the deployment of new applications and enhancements to existing applications, utilizing modern DevSecOps practices
• Reviews and analyzes the effectiveness and efficiency of existing systems and develops strategies for improving or further leveraging these systems.
• Support go-live activities to transition to Production.
• Perform knowledge transfer to the Solution Support team to ensure product sustainability.
• Collaborate with Solutions Support team(s) and contribute to Level 3 Support activities for Incident and Problem resolution as required.

  MUST haves:  

• 7+ years experience in IT systems development, full software Lifecycle or related experience
• 7+ years experience building APIs and web applications in C# (.Net Framework, .Net Core, .Net)
• 7+ years experience programming for SQL Server (or relevant Oracle)
• Experience with systems utilizing Event Sourcing and projections
• Experience with Object-Oriented Programming principles

• 3+ years designing, coding, and testing single-page applications utilizing the Angular v4+ framework utilizing Bootstrap v4/v5

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: Full-Time Location: Remote for now - Mississauga Job ID number: C1351   Brief description of duties:  

• Act as a key point of contact for all QA-related matters in a product development setting, providing QA services, and conducting manual and automated testing.
• Work closely with the rest of the product development team to provide testing to the software delivery process within a distributed team.
• Interpret business requirements and business rules related to Canada Life environments and translate them into test scenarios.
• Drive the creation of next-generation testing frameworks, test automation, continuous integration, release techniques, and test infrastructure to improve testing and to increase the speed of release cycles.
• Design and document test automation activities in formal test plans, test suites, and test runs.
• Coordinate the end-to-end integration testing effort across distributed systems.
• Work towards the improvement of formal test automation processes, ensuring that the team is using industry-accepted best practices.
• Create time estimates for test activities.
• Contribute to an environment of continuous learning and improvement.

Required skills:

• Practical experience testing distributed software systems.
• Practical experience with continuous integration and testing frameworks (g. Postman, SoapUI, Jenkins, Bamboo, Selenium, Cucumber, JUnit, JMeter, NodeJS).
• Hands-on experience with UI, APIs, SOAPand RESTful services testing.
• Solid understanding of application-based solutions, WSDL/XML/JSON, ETL, and event-based technologies.
• Knowledge of JIRA and Confluence collaboration tools.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and within a distributed team.
• Proficiency in testing API, ETL, and event-based solutions.
• Proficiency in troubleshooting and problem-solving with attention to detail.
• Experience designing test strategies and coordinating work efforts on multiple projects.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and best practices.

  MUST-have:

• Bachelor of Computer Science / Software Engineering or equivalent degree required.
• Minimum 2+ progressive software testing experience related to software delivery projects.

     

We’re looking for a XSLT Developer! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: XSLT Developer Term: 6-Contract Location: Remote for now - Toronto Job ID number: C1350   Brief description of duties:   The Senior XSLT Software Developer will lead an initiative to convert the client’s 20-year old custom Webtalk from Internet Explorer to Chrome. The intended outcome is to make Webtalk accessible to customers on current applications. This assignment requires expert knowledge of Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT), the recommended style sheet language for XML, a mature, widely accepted standard. Currently, the client’s in-house developed Webtalk works only on Explorer. Many of our customers have migrated to Chrome. We envision this conversion to Chrome will require approximately 6 months to complete, although there may be additional and related requirements. The conversion work will require documentation and testing. This will be an exciting opportunity for someone with mature skills in XSLT to contribute to this modernization. We seek a self-motivated and resourceful candidate proficient in XSLT and comfortable working to defined deadlines. Candidates should be at ease making recommendations to senior management and working within a structured project framework with weekly update reporting requirements.   MUST haves:  

• University or College Degree, plus relevant experience.
• Proficient knowledge of Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) including industry best practices.
• High degree of knowledge in the development of lifecycle and software development methodologies
• Knowledge of some of the following: Java, JavaScript, J2EE, .Net, Web Services (SOAP & REST), Angular JS, Junit, XML, Workflow, Data Power, IBM Campaign Suite of products
• Understanding of various, industry-standard software development techniques, methodologies, and best practices
• Competent in effectively using software development and source control tools
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

 

We’re looking for SAP Authorizations! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: SAP Authorizations Term: Full-Time Location: Remote for now - Mississauga Job ID number: C1347   MUST haves:  

• 3+ years experience in SAP Authorizations with at least 1-2 full SAP implementation cycles.
• Experience in implementing and maintaining these applications, in regards to application authorizations.
• Good understanding of the Industry's Best Practices and SAP Audit Guidelines.
• Must have knowledge of SAP Enterprise Portal (EP) and is able to set up EP roles.
• Good team player, responsible and conscientious.
• Preferably to have SAP Certification in User Administrations/Authorizations.
• Ability to design, develop, and articulate solutions based on strategic business or technical requirements.
• Ability to work independently and efficiently, managing timelines and expectations, and producing high-quality deliverables (documentation, presentation, research).
• Expertise in implementing and maintaining authorizations/security solutions for SAP systems (e.g. ERP, EP, BW, HANA, GRC) for at least 4 years full-time (incl. minimum four years experience in SAP Authorizations);
• knowledge of automated data protection controls
• Knowledge of the newest security developments, trends, and tools;
• Proven track record of IT projects was working in a key technology role (i.e. subject matter expert, solution architect, tech lead);
• professional and team-oriented approach to work, a strong sense of responsibility,
• Has analytical and process thinking skills can provide Business Analysis, properly estimate tasks and propose solution architecture,
• Demonstrates strong communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills teach and enables other team members;
• Advanced level of spoken and written English is a must as well as the will to work in the multicultural, international virtual project team;

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: Full-Time Location: Remote for now - Mississauga Job ID number: C1346   Brief description of duties:   Delivering IVR and call center routing initiatives, working closely with business teams to gather and document requirements in a fast-paced environment.  Working with vendor development teams as well as internal teams to communicate technical specifications.   MUST haves:

• IVR/Telephony background
• Amdocs nm1
• Strong BSA skills
• Able to gather requirements directly from business and work closely with internal and vendor development teams

We’re looking for a Java Developer! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: Java Developer Term: Full-Time Location: Remote for now - Mississauga Job ID number: C1345   Brief description of duties:

• You have a Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline
• You have at least 6 years of experience in systems development with 3 years in the Java/J2EE environment
• You have experience developing client-facing, web applications supporting multiple browsers.
• You have experience with creating and maintaining applications on the Openshift platform.
• You have excellent J2EE skills as they pertain to developing for Weblogic or JBoss containers.
• You have a strong knowledge of concepts, practices, and procedures of systems development life cycle
• You have experience developing client-facing, W3C standards-compliant, web applications supporting multiple browsers and operating systems and have a good understanding of application security principles.
• You are a self-starter and have strong analysis and problem-solving skills
• You understand and value Business Partnerships and Customer perspectives
• You are able to deal with a broad spectrum of personality types
• You are a strong team player with a positive attitude

  MUST haves: Main skills are the following:

• J2EE
• Font end Angular
• DevOps

  Multi-tier web-based solutions, a wide variety of hardware and operating systems (Linux, AIX, Windows, etc), SQL Server, Agile, and RUP (development methodology)   Development Environment and Tools: Java, J2EE, Spring, hibernate, JPA, JDBC, SOA, JAX-WS, JAXB Bindings,  JMS, JMX, XSLT, JSON, Springboot, Openshift platform, AMQ, CSS, XML, GWT, HTML5, Debugging tools, application servers (Weblogic 12), tools such as Ant, Apache, Linux, scripting tools and languages, Sybase or Oracle, Eclipse, GIT / Jira,  Confluence, UML, Knowledge of modeling tools.

We’re looking for a Full-stack Developer! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: Full-stack Developer Term: 6-Month Location: Remote for now - Toronto Job ID number: C1344   Brief description of duties:   This is an influential role where experience with technology and a passion for the next step in customer-facing software application design intercept. Proven expertise for quickly conceptualizing and executing software application solutions satisfying customers’ evolving expectations within a robust and competitive marketplace. Anticipating next levels of application design and functionality within the frameworks of existing technology platforms.

• Proven expertise as a thought leader influencing, designing, implementing new and leading-edge customer-facing software application solutions.
• Design presentations for senior management to explain software application solutions and architecture validations for new customer-facing enhancements and to bring leading designs to reality.
• Passionate about well-designed software application concepts achieved through ideas generation, whiteboarding prototypes, wireframes, and validation of end-to-end timeframes.
• 5+ years experience in imaginative, innovative, and robust software applications development, including brainstorming, conceptualization, elegant design, implementation development, and debugging.
• 2+ years experience and sophistication of hands-on architectural design for software applications combined with significant knowledge and experience understanding design patterns, not limited to MVVM, MVC, Clean Architecture.
• Solution-oriented experience solving problems to take software applications to the next level in a highly competitive marketplace.

  MUST haves:  

• Java, J2EE
• Web Services (REST & SOAP)
• Angular 5(+)
• Java Script
• Spring Boot (Micro Services)
• Experience with unit-testing, code for robustness, security, usability and improving performance of the overall application
• Proficiency understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Strong command in Computer Science concepts (SOLID, etc.)
• Experience in integrating Third Party libraries and SDKs
• Experience building applications that consume web services and HTTP REST interaction with JSON

We’re looking for a Pega Developer! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: Pega Developer Term: 6-Month Location: Remote for now - Toronto and London Job ID number: C1343   Brief description of duties:  

• Senior Developer delivering the design, development, and Implementation of Pega BPM application changes for multiple technology projects • Provide technical leadership, direction, and mentorship to a team of IT professionals including Project Managers, Software developers, Business analysts, and other project stakeholders • Consult on all aspects of research, analysis, design, and development of technical solutions including work effort and cost estimation • Demonstrate strong communications skills (written & verbal), proven ability to effectively interact with individuals across business units and at various levels within the Bank (technical, business) • Participate in technical recommendations and decision making with other technical teams, architects, and business partners • Produce and/or assist with the production of various SDLC/PMLC deliverables • Identify and manage project risks and dependencies, ensuring that they are managed appropriately • Build consensus and relationships with the project team and Business, through the use of superior negotiation skills

  MUST haves:

• College Diploma or University degree in Computer Science
• Pega CSA certification
• Pega Development
• DBMS in Oracle
• SQL scripting

 

We’re looking for a .Net Developer! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: .Net Developer Term: 9-Month for a start - 40 working hours Location: Remote for now - Mississauga Job ID number: C1342   Brief description of duties:   Working on the browser-based version of a new front end to their cash management application. Backend in C#/SQL/Linq remains the same, but replacing WinForms front end with a Microsoft Blazer (Razor framework) front end with asynchronous design. Need senior developers who can work with the architect to program this new front end.   MUST haves:  

• Development experience
• Front end web/browser-based development, able to code off of UX/UI designed wireframes
• ASP.NET Razor engine
• C#/SQL back end (able to understand the interface from the front end into a complex backend that G&D has)
• Experience with programming asynchronous applications

  Nice to haves:  

• ATMs or Cash Management technology experience
• Winforms

 

We’re looking for a QA Engineer! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: QA Engineer Term: 12-Month - 40 hours per week Location: Remote for now - Mississauga, Toronto, Etobicoke, and GTA Job ID number: C1341   Brief description of duties:  

• 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 we use (Jest/Jasmine/Mocha, Cypress, and Postman)
• 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 Project Manager! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: Project Manager Term: 7-Month - 40 hours per week Location: Remote for now - Guelph and Burlington Job ID number: C1340   Brief description of duties:   The client embarked on a  “Digital Strategy Program “ to advance the capabilities of our front-end online ‘sales & service’ channel available to clients on their personal devices (via browser, mobile, etc).  This role will oversee the streams of work to bring together a holistic offering driving toward the client's strategic business outcomes.   MUST haves:  

• Managing IT Delivery projects but focus on Digital applications and products
• Strong IT background
• Quote and Buy online
• Customer buying process
• Change management experience
• Online Digital customer experience
• Digital experience needed
• P&C would be ideal
• Must have at least financial background
• Strong communication skills
• Needs to be ready to really drive
• Finding areas of improvement within the current roadmap and strategy
• Service-based mentality
• Self-service
• Online services
• Website and portal experience

We’re looking for a Security Consultant! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: Security Consultant Term: 6-Month Location: Remote for now - Cambridge, Ontario Job ID number: C1339   Brief description of duties:  

• Review existing security policies against those of Intact Corp
• Create a document of steps that Frank Cowan needs to take to align to Intact security policy
• Update document and implement some of the recommended changes as required to align
• DR Planning and testing
• Assist in preparing an environment for security audit that is coming up
• Security Patch deployment

  MUST haves:  

• CISSP or equivalent
• Azure Security Center
• MS Intune