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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: 8-Month Location: Remote, for now,/ Toronto or Winnipeg Job ID number: C1261   Brief description of duties: • Manage all phases of large or several media, high-risk projects from initiation to closure while leveraging best practice standards and processes set out by the client’s PMOs and other industry organizations, including PMI. • Provide clear direction and motivation to project team, mentor and develop project managers to track, execute and report on project activities. • Lead project work that is distributed across a substantial number of vendor and Internal teams and resources. • Responsible for working with various teams across the globe to ensure proper implementation of change. • Work in a matrix organization with a group of project managers who are individually responsible for planning, executing, and reporting on interdependent projects. • Work with the Project Management Office to develop and enhance project management processes, performance, and client satisfaction. • Ensure the definition and approval of project scope, deliverables, desired quality, and measures of success. • Develop and manage stakeholder relationships including Corporate and BG Business leaders to ensure project delivery expectations are specified and successfully met. • Develop and manage detailed work plans, project schedules, estimates, and resource plans in conjunction with project team members and other involved business teams. • Monitor and report on project status highlighting issues and risks appropriately; as necessary, coordinate the development, discussion, and approval of corrective action and/or contingency plans. • Define and manage project risks and issues ensuring appropriate strategies and plans are in place to mitigate or handle effectively. Proactively escalate risks and issues as appropriate. • Ensure effective and timely communication occurs within the project team and between the project team and its stakeholders. • Ensure that appropriate processes, tools, and techniques are available and used by the project team. • Ensure that project activities and deliverables adhere to internal quality standards.   Must-haves: • Can effectively contribute to the analysis of project expense trends and understands the impact on projected spending. • Has a personal sense of urgency about solving problems and getting work done and instills the same in the project team. • Ability to positively motivate project teams to meet aggressive deadlines. • Ability to partner with resource managers to deal fairly, firmly, and promptly with performance problems. • Ability to create project plans for complex projects with many interrelated paths. • Excellent organizational skills. • Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills. • Ability to work with ambiguity and help project team members work with ambiguity.   Nice to haves:

• 7 – 10 years of progressive experience in project management
• University degree, college diploma, or appropriate experience in lieu of.
• PMP Certification, and in good standing with PMI.
• Project management experience in the insurance industry or finance industry.

   

We’re looking for an SAP Business Analyst! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: SAP Business Analyst Term: Fulltime Location: Remote, for now/ Etobicoke Job ID number: C1259   Brief description of duties:   The Business Analyst – SAP WM will be a valuable member in contributing to the client’s future. Supporting the Applications Manager, this "hands-on" role will interface with our business areas, its managers, and system users to define, design, implement, train, and provide ongoing support for IT services across the client Group. Thus, the successful candidate for this position will have subject matter expertise in one or more of the above-mentioned areas. This role will also involve configuration of SAP WM and XPS/Connectship primarily, documenting business processes and reporting solutions, as well as assisting and coordinating aspects of ongoing cross-functional projects as required. The Business Analyst – SAP WM will work closely with an extended cross-functional team of SAP ABAP programmers, Basis, and Business Analysts who are subject matter experts in various modules of SAP and other tools used within the client. Please note that this position will require participation in on-call and after-hours support based on a predefined schedule. Lastly, as a member of our core team, the right person for the role will be a leading example of our culture.   Must-haves:  

• Bachelor’s Degree in Operations Management and/or Supply Chain Management, Management Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience implementing SAP-WM in diverse environments is required (e.g. Configuration of WM - Bin and Storage Locations, Movement Types, Picking and Putaway Strategies, Serialization, Batch Management, etc.).
• You have experience with implementing XPS/Connectship (configuring courier shipments within SAP WM solution).
• You have integration experience of WM to other supply chain modules.
• Business and technical experience in Warehouse Management and Transportation Management.
• Good understanding of test strategies, test planning, and test methodologies.
• Demonstrated accuracy with reports and projects, analytical aptitude, and strong attention to detail.
• You are able to prioritize and handle multiple tasks and competing priorities in a high-pressure environment.
• You operate with integrity to do what is right for the team and the business as a whole.
• When making decisions, you consider everyone and engage those who can add value to the process.
• You are adaptable in your approach and prioritize with a focus on what adds value to the client.
• You have a good understanding of SAP problem-solving approach (logs, dumps, OSS notes, etc.), and have performed data migration activities (e.g. LSMW for inventory loads).
• Integration experience with third-party systems using APIs, HTML, EDI, Webservices, etc.
• Advanced knowledge and experience with Microsoft Office products (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio) are a must.

  Nice to haves:

• knowledge of Radio Frequency (Functional) systems with the ability to design custom WM RF transactions.

             

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: Contract to hire - Must be willing to join the client's team or can start FTE from the beginning Location: Remote, for now/ Toronto Job ID number: C1258   Brief description of duties: • Identify and analyze clients’ business needs and requirements • Participate in analysis and definition of product business requirements • Identify and analyze non-functional requirements both from a client’s business needs and product system needs • Lead/participate in requirements workshops both internally and if required, with client’s to identify business needs and requirements • Act as proxy product owner on the development team and work with technical lead to define clear business solutions • Document current business processes, business flows, rules and artifacts, and propose business processes, business flows, rules and artifacts • Produce detailed requirements documents and requirements traceability matrices utilizing traditional documentation methods (business requirements, functional and non-functional specifications) and current documentation processes of User Stories, Business and System Use Cases, Business Flows, etc. • Prepare solution requirements by translating business requirements into functional and system requirements • Review and analyze existing product effectiveness and efficiency • Ensure new software integration meets functional requirements, systems compliance, and interface requirements • Lead requirements walkthrough sessions with technical and QA resources ensuring that business and system requirements are understood, information is adequate to facilitate design, development, and testing of the business requirement • Participate in quality reviews of deliverables including test cases and results • Participate in design reviews to ensure requirements are being addressed • Partner with project managers, technical resources, QA resources, vendors, and Management to ensure accurate execution of project requirements on time with exceptional quality • Provide leadership; mentor other team members   Must-haves:

• Business Analyst experience in an agile methodology
• Banking experience
• Content Management System experience
• IBM CM or CMOD (IBM Content Manager or Content Manager on Demand)

   

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: Contract to hire - Must be willing to join the client's team or can start FTE from the beginning Location: Remote, for now/ Toronto Job ID number: C1257   Brief description of duties: • Should have 10+ years of experience with 5+ years of experience on IBM CMOD ( last 3 years should be on CMOD) • Ability to develop a deep understanding of the application and platform to provide the design and development of solutions to ingest and retrieve various kind of data to CMOD • Experience in ARS commands(arsdoc, arsxml, etc) • Experience in CMOD application Configurations, various file formats, Indexing methodologies, etc • IBM Documentation of CMOD • Experience in end to end delivery of the projects from requirement analysis, design, development, testing, and delivery • Must have prior experience working in onsite and offshore model • Experience in Banking Domain is an asset • Experience with AS400, RPGLE, CLLE, FTP/SFTP, JS configuration, SQL, Shell scripting, DB2 is an asset • Should be able to mentor new or Junior Developers and motivate the team members • Knowledge of Java and Webservices is an asset • Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills – Creating, updating, modifying existing code • Strong problem-solving & analytical skills • Strong communication and Interpersonal Skills   Must-haves:

• Should have 10+ years of Java development experience
• Banking experience
• Content Management System experience (5+ years of experience on IBM CMOD ( last 3 years should be on CMOD))
• Experience of Webservices

           

We’re looking for a Director - Consulting Expert! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: Director - Consulting Expert Term: Fulltime Location: Remote, for now/ Markham Job ID number: C1256   Brief description of duties:

• Working with and organizing technical delivery teams
• Some delivery of projects
• Technical RFP responses
• Business Development / identifying new opportunities

  Must-haves:

• Technical background progressing to Project/Program Management – will have been an architect or developer in the past
• Financial Services experience (Banks, etc.)
• Willingness to learn the consulting practice.

  Nice to haves:

• Consulting background but this is preferred.

       

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: 6-months Location: Remote, for now/ Markham Job ID number: C1255   Must-haves:  

• have hands-on development & design experience in C#, MVC, REST, Micro-service, JavaScript, AJAX, MS SQL Server, ASP.NET MVC, SSRS
• Proficiency in .Net Framework, .Net Core, Angular JS, and Angular 10
• Expertise in WCF/web Services, XML, JSON
• Experience in Team Foundation, DevOps, Octopus, cloud technology
• Experience in developing multi-tier Internet/Intranet applications using any design patterns
• Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills
• Demonstrated analytical and design capabilities
• Self-starter with excellent organizational and time management skills
• Fast learner, quality-conscious, and committed to deadlines
• Experience working in offshore-onsite delivery teams
• Team player with excellent analytical and effective communication skills
• At least 5 years of relevant experience in a similar role
• Be able to work a flexible schedule to accommodate off-hours support and meetings

   

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-months Location: Remote, for now/ Down Toronto Job ID number: C1254   Brief description of duties: The project is building DBaaS platform leveraging Azure Arc on Openshift and Azure.   Must-haves:

• Experience with Kubernetes  - administration, configuration, and DevOps
• CKA certification (Certified Kubernetes Administrator)
• Experience developing custom operators using GO language
• Experience with OpenShift
• Knowledge of databases
• Knowledge of Azure

  Nice to haves: 

• Large environment experience

       

We’re looking for a Business Data Analyst! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues! Type of Employment: Contract Title: Business Data Analyst Term: 6-months Location: Remote, for now/ Toronto Job ID number: C1253   Brief description of duties:  

• Analyst, Collections & Recoveries contributes to the overall success of the Collections vertical by building an in-house solution to manage the Recoveries life-cycle. Key deliverables include building systemic solutions for Recovery related processes, while integrating collections systems in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies, and procedures, and delivery of regularly scheduled processes to facilitate flawless execution at 3^rd party agencies while managing the client’s operations. Support the delivery of Collection Systems and technology projects that contribute to the delivery and execution of the in-house Recovery process to deliver on objectives
• Act as a direct liaison and represent the Collection System to its partners within Technology and Operations
• Develop insight into data to develop Industry-standard Collections Reporting
• Front-end with 3^rd Party Collections agencies to ensure they deploy best-in-class process to deliver Recovery objectives
• Identify opportunities to streamline processes within the technical and functional design of the existing Collection System
• Champions a high-performance environment and contribute to an inclusive work environment
• Champion a customer-focused & compliant culture while delivering results
• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions
• Working with the Collections/Fraud Teams to develop a Database for Collections
• Building Performance reports for Collections/Fraud Team

  Must-haves:

• Strong technical aptitude with the ability coupled with the ability to drive business partners to deliver results
• Related work experience in Financial Services within Risk Operations or a Collections vertical, managing account life-cycle using automated techniques & building performance Reporting
• Experience in Data Analysis, Database Management Tools & Programming languages knowledge to derive business & system insights
• Working knowledge of consumer credit lifecycle and Collections
• Strong knowledge of MS applications (Word, Excel, Visio, Projects, PowerPoint, Sharepoint)
• Relevant work experience : 3-5 years, preferably Banking/credit cards
• SQL queries
• Knowledge of SAS
• Strong Excel

   

We’re looking for a Research and Innovation Consultant! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues! Type of Employment: Contract Title: Research and Innovation Consultant Term: 6-months Location: Remote, for now/ Toronto Job ID number: C1253   Brief description of duties: The digital platform acceleration project. The platform does predictive analytics on their prospective customers, the teams deliver underwriting analytics solutions, verify risks are profitable and dependencies. Subteam of 2-4. They work on singular solutions ex. One dedicated for the Atlantic province group. 1.) Data extraction at beginning more individual programming 2.) Then they start the modelling. Interact to ensure they are well built 3.) Analysis of the result. A lot of stakeholder involvement. Explain to non-tech people about the models. Modelling and analysis were done in R. Must-haves:

• 5 years in the insurance industry or related area. If not know to pick up business quick.
• Pharma or finance is good to grasp
• R Programming language is an asset
• Data extraction in SQL for analyses
• Analysis in R programming language
• Predictive Modelling
• Build Predictive Models

We’re looking for a DevOps! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues! Type of Employment: Contract Title: DevOps Term: 12-months Location: Remote, for now/ Toronto Job ID number: C1251   Brief description of duties: Work with development, QA, and infrastructure teams to develop automation procedures and workflow processes to streamline deployment and release of multiple cloud solutions. Experienced professional who can collaborate with technical leads, project managers, and IT management to plan and implement CI/CD strategies including implementation of DevSecOps tools and technologies.

• Analyzes the current technology landscape and develops plans and processes for improvement and expansion
• Leads the implementation of development, testing, and automation tools
• Define/Refine development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation
• Build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
• Collaborate and work with corporate teams to provision IT infrastructure for various levels
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management
• Understand customer requirements and project KPIs
• Actively participates in project planning meetings to share their knowledge of system options, risk, impact, and costs vs. benefits.
• Possess technical skills to review, verify, and validate the software code
• Perform troubleshooting and root cause analysis to eliminate inefficiencies and manual processes
• Performs routine application maintenance to ensure the production environment runs smoothly. Develops maintenance requirements and procedures.
• Recommends performance enhancements by performing gap analysis, identifying alternative solutions, and assisting with modifications.
• Monitor and measure KPIs and regularly report on the progress to the project team and management

  Must-haves:

• Jenkins, Github, SVN.
• Dev experience writing automation scripts (javascript, python or other languages).
• Public cloud experience ideally Azure.
• 3-5 years of Dev Ops experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (30% developing pipelines for Azure and 70% maintaining and enhancing existing pipelines).

  Technical Skills:

• Thorough understanding of DevOps and Agile principles
• Experience in developing and maintaining CI/CD processes for cloud applications by accessing tools like Jenkins
• Hands-on experience in building, designing, and maintaining cloud-based applications with Azure, AWS, etc.
• Hands-on experience to build and handle VM’s, Containers utilizing tools like Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• 5+ years experience in the following
• Scripting languages such as Java, JavaScript, Perl, Ruby, Python, PHP, Groovy, Bash, and so on
• Source Control version tools such as SVN, Gitlab, Jira
• Configuration management tools like Puppet, SaltStack, Ansible, etc.
• Databases such as SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Mongo
• Windows and Linux operating system environments.

  Qualities:

• Self-starter with willingness to learn and take initiative
• Excellent Communication & Collaboration skills
• Demonstrate flexibility and manage the delivery of multiple initiatives
• Detail-oriented, Process-focused team player

  Nice to haves:

• QA automation background ideally who moved into DevOps

         

We’re looking for a Technical Navigator! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues! Type of Employment: Contract Title: Technical Navigator Term: 6-months Location: Remote, for now/ Toronto Job ID number: C1251   Brief description of duties: Technical navigator is our client's title for a cross-functional project resource. Part BA, part project lead/ product owner. Facilitate the delivery of several complex projects.   The Technical Navigator ensures the delivery of technically complex business solutions targeted at various business units. The Technical Navigator coordinates the development, delivery, and support activities and ensures deliverables are of the highest quality while adhering to defined release, change, project and architectural standards and methodologies by leveraging a team of technical staff.   The incumbent manages resources, sub-projects, and activities while contributing to delivery goals in direct support of business and technology drivers (including revenue goals and customer project targets). Contributes to the overall success of the Systems, ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed/delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives.  Ensures all activities conducted are in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies, and procedures.   Must-haves:

• Champions a customer-focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems, and knowledge.
• Responsible for assembling project plans and teamwork assignments, directing and monitoring work efforts on a daily basis, identifying resource needs, performing the quality review, and escalating functional, quality, timeline issues appropriately.
• Responsible for managing releases comprising of multiple implementations of one or more applications end to end ensuring all the gates such as on-time development, security, and QA are followed. This includes the ability to manage Operational Readiness and respective approvals, Architecture Review Board triage submissions, and LETs (with the support and supervision of the Senior Manager Dev). Responsible for ensuring test and release environments are all aligned and in sync, there is no room for error in this as any slight error can take away the team’s productivity and ability to meet the critical product release/implementation deadline.
• Operationalizes technical and managerial processes and supervises the development and maintenance of business support systems.
• Schedules and manages daily huddle, establish and own the production support roster/change calendar
• Leads a team of IT professionals (FTEs and contractors) and is responsible and accountable for reporting solution delivery.
• Leads the team in the areas of release scheduling, technical direction, future planning, and standard development methodologies.
• Meets scheduled milestones to ensure project/program objectives are met in a timely manner, has an in-depth knowledge of the principles, theories, practices, and techniques for managing the activities related to planning, managing, and implementing software solutions.
• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas in accordance with the client’s Values, its Code of Conduct, and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to, and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational, compliance, AML/ATF/sanctions, and conduct risk.
• Champions a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.
• Ensure Agile and Lean best practices are applied to software development and architecture creation.

  Nice to haves:

• Strong Banking experience as a BA, PM
• Experience working in an AGILE environment.

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: Project Business Analyst Term: 6-months Location: Remote, for now/ Toronto Job ID number: C1252   Brief description of duties: • Works with key stakeholders within all business functions to align technology solutions with business strategies • Gathers requirements from business units and translates those to programmers and developers • Prepares cost-benefit and return-on-investment analyses to aid in decisions on system implementation Demonstrates an informed knowledge of business functions to resolve problems and capitalize on improvement opportunities • Supports one or more highly complex business processes • Works on multiple projects as a project team member Serves as a liaison between the business community and the IT organization to provide technical solutions to meet user needs • Ability to exercise good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions   Must-haves:

• 3+ years of experience basic knowledge of programming languages to comprehend reading code and basic functions
• 5-7 years of past work experience within Banking or FI. Demonstrating the ability to work with the business groups to create BRDs and/or Jira stories for Credit Card applications
• Any past regulatory experience (for example AML, KYC, IIROC) Related to Credit Cards
• 2-3 years of past project management responsibilities to handle diverse projects, oftentimes simultaneously, and meet aggressive deadlines
• Ability to analyze complex situations and problems, do the necessary research using multiple sources of information, and work with various teams to arrive at workable solutions.

  Nice to haves:

• Ability to solve technical problems/ processes and understand complex details
• A high level of interpersonal and verbal communication skills is necessary to relate to other people at their systems knowledge level
• Degrees or certifications: Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering, or related field required.

       

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: 12-months Location: Remote, for now/ Toronto Job ID number: C1250   Must-haves:

• Strong understanding and experience in Mobile Banking platform projects
• Excellent communication + soft skills to interact with stakeholders and build relationships
• Good technical know-how
• Previous Canadian banking experience
• Wealth experience
• Extremely polished
• Can deal with and produce in a high-pressure environment

   

We’re looking for a Cloud Security Analyst! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues! Type of Employment: Contract Title: Cloud Security Analyst Term: 4 months Location: Remote, for now/ Toronto Job ID number: C1249   Brief description of duties: Need an intermediate operations analyst to come in and work with Grant Thornton’s new cloud infrastructure (Azure) and work with their information security team to close vulnerabilities based on their recommendations.  Prioritizing critical and severe vulnerabilities and drafting recommended action plans.  Azure cloud security experience and Palo Alto firewalls etc.   MUST haves:

• Azure Cloud security
• Azure IAM (identity management)
• Azure PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)
• Understands penetration test reports and how to find and close vulnerabilities
• Palo Alto Firewalls - configuration

  Nice to haves:

• Security certifications

     

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 months Location: Remote, for now/ Toronto Job ID number: C1248 Brief description of duties: Looking for a business Project Manager to be a part of the discovery team, the candidate will help with the project financials, and engage with numerous stakeholders.   Must-haves: • 8+ years in project management. • Comfortable working in Agile and using Planview. • Concrete experience in the application of agile principles in the Scrum or Scrumban framework (ceremonies, artifacts, etc.). • Experience in budget management and capacity management of a sector of activity, strong financials.   Nice to haves: • PMP Certification • Scrum Master certification • Knowledge of the business domain. • Experience in facilitation and presentations at the executive level • Real-world experience with accountability in both agile AND traditional modes • Concrete experience in the application of best practices (e.g.: recognized repository) in project management