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We’re looking for a QA Delivery Lead! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: QA Delivery Lead
Term: 12-Month
Location: Remote, for now,/ Toronto, Mississauga, London, and Etobicoke
Job ID number: C1277
Brief description of duties:
- Act as a key point of contact for all QA-related matters, provide QA services, and coordinate work for QA analysts both local and remote.
- Represent QA team in program-level meetings and provide technical expertise.
- Provide technical and non-technical guidance to QA analysts on existing and next-generation QA activities.
- Lead all efforts involving QA processes in SDLC within the Lifeco team. This includes working hands-on with existing CI frameworks, test execution configuration, test execution reporting, and managing defects lifecycle.
- Work towards the improvement of formal QA processes, ensuring that the team is using industry-accepted best practices.
- Interpret business requirements and business rules related to Lifeco environments and translate them into test scenarios.
- Work closely with the rest of the product development team to report, reproduce, and resolve defects\bugs.
- Drive the creation of next generation testing frameworks, test automation, CI, release techniques, and test infrastructure to improve on testing and to increase the speed of release cycles.
- Design and document testing activities in formal test plans, test suites, and test runs.
- Create time estimates for QA testing activities.
- Contribute to an environment of continuous learning and improvement
- Bachelor of Computer Science / Software Engineering or equivalent degree required.
- Minimum 5+ years of demonstrated experience in IT environments
- Minimum 5+ progressive leadership experience related to both projects and teams. The team might be up to 10 QAs, coordinating testing for about 10 projects
- Define QA Best Practices to deliver the project
- Be QA Environment Owner – define the role/responsibilities of the “owner” of the Group Customer QA environments
- Orchestration – identify all processes that move data or interact with the systems in some way (batch jobs, ETL’s, APIs, etc). Define a way for QA staff to manage these jobs (eg, a way to run the jobs on an Adhoc basis)
- Environment Assignment Management – define a way to manage the use of QA environments (eg, a way to identify who is using what environment, and for what purpose
- 3+ years of experience with leading standard quality assurance processes and methodologies within IT projects including but not limited to white/gray/black-box testing, unit testing, functional testing, regression testing, and integration testing.
- Expert knowledge of UI, APIs, and RESTFUL services testing.
- Proficient in project management including risk management techniques.
- Proficiency in troubleshooting and problem-solving with paying attention to details.
- Must have excellent verbal and written communications skills.
- Expert knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies and best practices.
Job Features
| Job Category | QA Analyst |
| Leading standard quality | 3+ |
| UI, APIs and RESTFUL services testing. | 3+ |
| Trouble-shooting and problem-solving with paying attention to details | 3+ |
| Agile/Scrum methodologies and best practices | 3+ |
We’re looking for an iConnect Regional Integration Lead / Program Manager! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: iConnect Regional Integration Lead / Program Manager
Term: 12-Month
Location: Remote, for now,/ North York
Job ID number: C1277
Brief description of duties:
- Partnering with affiliate senior stakeholders to ensure high adoption of the existing global and regional integrations effectively, ensure expectations are managed appropriately, create awareness, and foster organizational change management being implemented
- Supervise the process to identify architecture setup and approve critical local Integrations signed-off, support the affiliates to take appropriate decisions, and provide necessary help and guidance for successful deployment.
- Partnering with iConnect Leads and Cross Squad Capability Leads (Data, Testing, BA) to identify and address cross dependencies (e.g. scope, planning resources) and offer a fully integrated experience to the Affiliates
- Monitor cross-divisional initiatives e.g. with Diagnostics or Manufacturing to identify synergies and to trigger effective collaboration, like e.g. master data management, Event and compliance Management, etc.
- Work self-organized, without a given detailed direction, and in the high ambiguity environment to achieve the team and program mission
- Empowered to enable the Leads to coordinate the involvement of shared pool resources needed to perform the job related to architecture and integration deployment Agile Mindset, Leadership, and Continuous Improvement
- Act as a mentor and coach for the team to build and follow best agile practices
- Be an active ambassador and coach on the program values and underlying business transformational ambitions and agile mindset. Within IT, but also in the business organization affected by the changes and new ways of working.
- Accountable to coach the team to learn and adopt agreed ways of working and reacting to potential
- Facilitate best practice sharing including methodologies, processes, tools to support rollout.
- Accountable for the successful deployment, go-live, and hyper care of the integrations (global, regional and
- A support Operations team with Integration related updates, retrofits, and activities
- Accountable for the determination, request, and management of the budget and resources
- Identify business opportunities as candidates for to-be global best practices
- Comply with & advocate legal, regulatory, and company standards and codes of practice
- Work closely with the team to define the architecture and integration scope and facilitate Affiliates sign-off
- Work closely with the team to coordinate identify and mitigate architecture and integration-related risks and issues Problem Solving & Decision Making
- Act as the escalation point for the team in your region (including human and/or financial resource issues) Communication, Influencing, and Collaboration
- Act as the regional integration point of contact for senior and executive stakeholders from the EpiCX Program and Affiliate
- Partner with iConnect squad leads and EpiCX Product owners
- In case of conflicts, act as diplomat and coach to solve the conflicts within the teams, cross EpiCx program teams as well as cross-organization
- Coach team members on communication and conflict management
- 10+ years of experience in leading IT roles, either as enabling leader, IT program/project/deployment manager
- 5+ years of experience managing complex programs
- 3+ years pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry or related industry experience
- 5+ years of experience in strategy development and implementation
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience, MBA preferred
- Very good understanding of technology-driven transformation projects and commercial ecosystems
- Knowledge of CRM and cloud-based solutions such as Salesforce, IQVIA, or Veeva and a good understanding of data and analytics technology
- Ability to operate at the intersection of business (readiness) and IT (deployment) and bridge the gap
- Ability and experience to present and negotiate on a senior leadership level
- Domain knowledge for one or more the following areas: medical, commercial, content, data, and analytics
- Passionate about learning, sharing, and further developing ‚best practice‘ and embed it as, next practice‘ to achieve greater impact
- Possess a combination of analytical thinking, hands-on problem solving, and a customer-service mindse
- Likes to orchestrates relationships with business colleagues, IT partners, suppliers, and vendor
- Lives the spirits of an agile innovative culture
- Highly adaptive and flexible with a strong ambition to lead, coach, and push for success and win-win situations.
- Strong awareness of geographic, cultural, and organizational opportunities, conditions, and constraints
- High interaction and communication skills
- Knowledge and hands-on experience with the scrum framework
- Project management experience (incl. resource management, risk management, etc.)
- Excellent written and verbal English
- Flexibility to attend meetings outside “standard” working hours
Job Features
| Job Category | Program Manager |
| Program Manager | 10+ |
| Managing complex programs | 5+ |
| Pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry or related industry experience | 3+ |
| Strategy development and implementation | 5+ |
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
Location: Remote, for now,/ Ontario or Quebec
Job ID number: C1275
Brief description of duties:
- In collaboration with the business line PO (product owner), collect, record, and understands the users’ business needs
- Review current state business processes and put forward recommendations to improve, reduce waste and automation opportunities
- Work in collaboration with the architecture team to ensure that we implement the best solutions for the partners’ needs
- Work in close collaboration with developers
- Write, execute, and coordinate trials and help users with acceptance testing
- Participate in the application development plan and entire life cycle.
- As required, support VIP users and liaison with other IT departments to solve critical, time-sensitive issues
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Business Management, Engineering or any other relevant training/experience at the same level
- 7-10 years of experience in business analysis in various organizations and projects, with at least 5 years of experience in a business/functional analyst role
- Practical experience working with Agile and LEAN methodologies
- Experience in Financial Services, Wealth Management, or Capital Markets industry (major asset)
- Perfect knowledge of English, both orally and in writing – equivalent knowledge for French will be considered a strong asset
- Ability to manage several different potentially complex files simultaneously, in the best interests of the partner and the organization
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain things in simple terms, both to IT teams and to non-technical stakeholders.
- Excellent negotiation abilities and advanced conflict resolution skills
- High tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty
- Proven problem solving and analytical skills
- Thinks like business stakeholder to understand business problems, synthesizes opportunities, and translates into actionable plans to add value
- Bilingual
Job Features
| Job Category | Business Analyst |
| Business Analyst | 7-10 |
| Experience in a business/functional analyst role | 5 |
| Agile and LEAN methodologies | 5 |
We’re looking for a Ms Dynamics Functional Consultant! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Ms Dynamics Functional Consultant
Term: 6-Month
Location: Remote, for now,/ Toronto
Job ID number: C1274
Brief description of duties:
Looking for an ERP functional consultant to help with the deployment, implementation, and configuration of MS Dynamics ERP Suite.
Work hands-on with project manager and other ERP consultants as well as technical resources
Deployment and operation of Finance and operation modules specifically
Within that working on the configuration of accounts receivable, accounts payable, and general ledger planning
Experience with transition and implementation from legacy to new ERP platform
General user support
Typical functional expertise
Not technical expertise
Some configuration
Typical day:
Configure the environment
Data load, data mapping, testing, training
Knowledge of finance and operations.
Must-haves:
- Experience as a functional ERP consultant working with MS Dynamics; especially finance and OPS- AR, AP, and GL set up and configuration
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work with different stakeholders
- Experience doing ERP deployment and configuration at homebuilders/construction clients and/or generally within finance and OPS
Job Features
| MS Dynamics Functional Consultant | 5+ |
| ERP Functional Consultant | 5+ |
We’re looking for a Scrum Master! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Scrum Master
Term: 12-Month
Location: Remote, for now,/ North York
Job ID number: C1273
Brief description of duties:
As a Scrum Master you will ensure the team enacts the agile principles, values, and framework:
- Provide support to teams using a servant leadership style
- Coach the development team and help lead and ensure the “agile mindset” is fully adopted and understood
- Senior Scrum master
- Technical background (dev or QA background moved into scrum master)
- CSM
- Jira
- Excellent communication skills
- Outgoing, very personable
Job Features
| Job Category | Scrum Master |
| Scrum Master | 8+ |
| Technical Background | 6+ |
| Jira | 6+ |
| CSM | Must have |
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
Location: Remote, for now,/ Toronto
Job ID number: C1272
Brief description of duties:
- Contribute to designing and implementation of data architecture and technology infrastructure for new data and analytics platform with Azure data stack
- Design and build scalable ETL workflows for all data ingestion into the data platform
- Design and develop reports and analytical dashboards in Power BI
- Evaluate and implement emerging analytic tools to enhance performance and improve team productivity
- Mentor, Collaborate and foster an environment of knowledge share, design for scale and re-usability
- Partner closely with business users to understand requirements and rapidly prototype reports to maximize end-user involvement and solicit feedback
- Define and execute unit, performance, and integration testing
- Minimum 7 years of experience in data warehousing, writing complex SQL queries, views, and procedures, including performance tuning and query optimization with large data set
- Strong Data Warehouse knowledge and experience, including data ingestion, transformation and ETL patterns using modern data pipelines.
- Intermediate to senior-level experience in operationalizing data platforms with Azure data solutions and using Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure Analysis Service, Azure Synapse and Databricks
- Strong understanding of relational and dimensional data modeling concepts
- Experience building web APIs or Azure Functions
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD on Azure DevOps
Job Features
| Job Category | Data Engineer |
| Data Engineer | 8+ |
| Data Warehousing | 7 |
| Writing complex SQL queries | 7 |
| Azure data solutions and using Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure Analysis Service, Azure Synapse and Databricks | 7 |
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-Month
Location: Remote, for now,/ Toronto
Job ID number: C1271
Brief description of duties:
Working with business stakeholders to gather requirements for implementation of Proactive Chat for the client (Chatbot that initiates conversation with user). Working with technical teams to implement these rules. Working with analytics team to understand and interpret Chatbot data, determine the effectiveness of chatbot use cases. Driving insights and providing recommendations to the business. Ex – data shows positive feedback on chatbot effectiveness in deflecting call volume from call center we need to continue this.
Must-haves:
- Strong experience working with data and driving insights through data
- 2-3 years BA experience. Strong requirements gathering ability and experience working as a BA with business and technical teams
- Team player – able to participate in a collaborative team environment, contribute to the discussion
- Great attitude
- Chatbot experience
Job Features
| Job Category | Business Analyst |
| Business Analyst | 2-3 |
| Data and driving insights through data | 2-3 |
| Chatbot | nice to have |
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
Location: Remote, for now,/ Toronto, Montreal, and London
Job ID number: C1270
Must-haves:
- FX product knowledge
- FX systems knowledge (Murex, WSS, FX eTrading Platforms)
- Payments product knowledge (SWIFT, Fintech Payment Rails)
- BA skills – SDLC/Agile, leading requirements meetings, documentation (high level and detailed requirements, data mapping, test strategy, test cases, etc.)
- QA skills – leading functional/regression testing for projects
- Ability to work with cross-functional business and technology teams
Job Features
| Job Category | Business Analyst |
| Business Analyst | 7+ |
| FX product | 5+ |
| Murex | Asset |
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: 6-Month
Location: Remote, for now,/ Toronto
Job ID number: C1269
Brief description of duties:
The Business Systems Analyst maintains a “business perspective” through all phases of the problem resolution and systems enhancement. Business Systems Analyst work closely with the business and leadership to understand business needs, requirements, and strategic opportunities. Working in a team environment, the Systems Analyst is responsible for:
- Representing the business’ requirements,
- Defining and designing the business functionality of the system,
- Ensuring that the system meets the defined business requirements;
- Understand and define a strategic vision for key systems based online of business, their needs, known risks, and dependencies.
- Apply advanced knowledge to complex work and supports the project, product, and operations teams by sharing skills and mentoring. This role leads the work to implement solutions to complex problems, which may be independently or through leading or supporting the collaboration with other stakeholders. Define and maintaining business architecture through conceptual business models
- Define business problems/opportunities, providing a clear definition, and performing benefit analysis
- Perform business and systems analysis and design, articulating the logical design alternatives and recommending appropriate solutions
- Perform functional analysis and design, defining and documenting detailed business requirements
- Work with quality assurance team members to ensure adequate testing and validate that the system meets business needs/expectations
- Lead and orchestrate the overall analysis, scoping, estimating, and planning for large or complex initiatives
- Lead the elicitation and validation of business requirements impacting multiple products using various methods, techniques, and tools
- Lead and facilitates meetings, walkthroughs, workshops, and reviews of deliverables
- Contribute to training strategies and business implementation planning
- Develops and delivers training & support materials for affected stakeholders’
- 5-7 years of experience as an Analyst
- Degree in a related discipline (Commerce/Management Information Systems, Business Administration, etc.) or equivalent combination of training and experience;
- Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, that is appropriate for the audience;
- Good interpersonal skills and a demonstrated ability to work effectively in a team environment;
- Experience in Wealth and/or Financial Industry would be an asset;
- Good understanding of business principles and experience with a broad range of different types of business functions;
- Understanding of general Technology project methodologies, processes, and practices
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills that rely on a structured approach to problem-solving;
- Effective internal consulting skills with a strong customer service focus;
- Ability to adapt to change and perform effectively under pressure;
- Effective planning and organizational skills;
- Good understanding of information technology
- Experience and ability to understand and effectively work with legacy technologies and contribute as legacy applications evolve and are migrated to new platforms would be an asset
Job Features
| Job Category | Business Analyst, Business Systems Analyst |
| Business Systems Analyst | 5-7 |
| Wealth Management | 5-7 |
| Legacy Systems | Must have |
We’re looking for a React Developer! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: React Developer
Term: 3-Month + high chance of extension
Location: Remote, for now,/ Toronto
Job ID number: C1268
Brief description of duties:
As part of the client’s API center of excellence, responsible for developing the front end of API automation solution POC that will be rolled out across the enterprise using React. This solution will automate the design and development of API. This role will focus on developing the front end working in an Agile Kanban environment. The role will also involve UX design and the creation of screen mockups. Sun life templates and support will be provided for UX design. This is an internal-facing application.
Must-haves:
- 5+ years of experience as a React Developer
- UX experience
Job Features
| Job Category | React Developer |
| React Development | 5+ |
| API | 3-4 |
| UX experience | 3-4 |
We’re looking for an API Architect! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: API Architect / Solution Architect
Term: 3-month + High chance of extension
Location: Remote, for now,/ Toronto
Job ID number: C1267
Brief description of duties:
As part of the client’s API center of excellence, responsible for architecting and API automation solution POC that will be rolled out across the enterprise. This will automate the design and development of API’s. Looking for an innovative Solution architect with a deep understanding of API design and delivery to create an automation solution. Deployment is automated using Docker and Kubernetes.
Must-haves:
- Strong technical background designing and developing API’s
- Strong experience as a Solutions Architect designing and documenting solutions across application, infrastructure
- Deep knowledge of full API lifecycle
- Experience with automated deployment CI/CD pipelines this team is currently using Docker and Kubernetes
Job Features
| Job Category | Solution Architect |
| API Architect | 8+ |
| Solution Architect | 8+ |
| Automated deployment CI/CD pipelines | 5+ |
| Technical background designing and developing API’s | 5+ |
We’re looking for an R Developer / Shiny Developer! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: R Developer / Shiny Developer
Term: 12-Month
Location: Remote, for now,/ Toronto
Job ID number: C1266
Brief description of duties:
Our client is looking for an R Developer to join its OAK Garden Development Team. OAK Garden is an innovative project that aims at automating the SDTM (Standard Data Tabulation Model) workflow, to simplify and speed up the process for the e-submission of SDTM deliverables and thus delivering medicine to patients faster.
The components of the OAK Garden rely primarily on the R technology, as the brain behind the automation lies in a series of self-developed R packages. Thus, the project is looking for an R Developer who has experience or is willing to deepen their skills in R package development. A first MVP of the Product has already been released and the resource would be helping in both refactoring/ improving some functions of the existing packages as well as contributing to the development of new R packages and functions to enable new functionalities.
Note: R Shiny and data visualization skills are not specifically required for this role.
The resource would be working as part of an Agile team, across different time zones (US West Coast, US East Coast, Europe), so familiarity with the SCRUM framework would be a plus
Must-haves:
- Skills: Advanced R programming, including:
- Experience with code repositories is a must, including:
- Package development cycle using R CMD check
- Experience working in a SCRUM team
- Devops skills (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD)
- Experience leading a team of developers
- Work on open source projects
Job Features
| R programming | 4-5 |
| Shiny | 4-5 |
| Code repositories | 4-5 |
| Package development cycle using R CMD check | 4-5 |
We’re looking for an RPA Developer! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: RPA Developer
Term: 6-Month
Location: Remote, for now,/ Toronto
Job ID number: C1264
Brief description of duties:
RPA development for the ingestion of XML and automated data entry of client data into windows application using RPA Blue Prism. Working with use cases to perform RPA development and automate processes. Working with the Governance team to ensure RPA standards are met.
Must-haves:
- Canadian experience - Reliability clearence
- RPA Blue prism
Job Features
| Job Category | RPA Developer |
| RPA Development | 2-5 |
| Canadian experience | 5 |
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: 6-Month
Location: Remote, for now,/ Toronto
Job ID number: C1264
Brief description of duties:
Our client needs a Senior Java developer for doing operations, maintenance, and product updates on a series of Java web applications. This Senior Developer must be knowledgeable and experienced in the following technologies to be able to support the related portfolio of products: Java/Spring, JSP, Javascript/jQuery, HTML/CSS, JBoss, Eclipse, Jasper reports, and Oracle PL/SQL and have at minimum basic knowledge of Cloud environment (preferably AWS).
Services:
This Senior Consultant/Developer will operate (run processes), maintain (small code changes), and develop changes (medium to major changes) to the portfolio of products assigned to them as well as, test, prepare deployment packages, deploy code/script changes, support user tests and inquires and perform or follow up on application administration tasks required for the product's maintenance.
- Understand systems and Business processes related to the products in their assigned portfolio
- Process operational tasks in these products like running scripts in test and prod environments, change config files, etc, to support scheduled releases of the products
- Perform maintenance tasks in assigned products e.g. setting up environments, changes to roll-over to next Fiscal Year, support scheduled releases of the assigned products, etc
- Develop medium to major code changes as per approved product updates requirements to these products
- Develop test cases and execute unit, module, and system integration test plans and conduct comprehensive testing of information systems according to client’s quality assurance standards and processes
- Perform deployment to test environments and support QA team (as applicable) and users testing
- Support users inquiries
- Communicate well with Business users, Project Manager as well as other groups to ensure all tasks required for the product's maintenance are covered
- Perform promotion and implementation of applications utilizing client’s ITSPD Change Management Protocols
- Create or modify documentation related to the changes in the product's technical design and others as advised by the client's internal IT team.
- Profound knowledge and experience in developing in:
- Oracle DB / pl/SQL
- Java / Spring /MVC
- JSP
- Javascript / jQuery
- SOAP-based Web services (JAXB, JAXWS)
- HTML/CSS
- Jboss
- Eclipse
- Jasper reports
- myBatis experience is a bonus
- SAS coding knowledge/experience is a bonus
- Oracle Reports experience is a bonus
- Proven ability to effectively manage multiple deliverables on time and first time right
- Ability to handle a heavy workload
- Willingness to work on what is required for the product's maintenance, being its operations, development, or other tasks
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with logical and good attitude team player with strong oral and interpersonal skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to communicate to a different audience, being Business users, project managers or managers as well as technical peers
- Excellent collaboration with others in the teams and in other groups
Job Features
| Job Category | Java Developer |
| Java Developer | 4-5 |
| Javascript / jQuery | 4-5 |
| Oracle DB / pl/sql | 4-5 |
| Jboss | 4-5 |
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
Location: Remote, for now,/ Toronto
Job ID number: C1263
Brief description of duties:
The goal is to develop a new IVR routing application that will serve to automate a number of manual and excel based processes within the call center group at the client. Using the Microsoft stack of technologies. Working alongside businesses to understand requirements and create application design. Working with vendor development teams, reviewing and managing quality of end product, and submitting changes back to the vendor as required. Performing testing and deploying it into production.
Must-haves:
- .Net Development
- Good communication skills
- Ability to gather, analyze and provide feedback on requirements to vendor partners
Job Features
| .Net Development | 3-4 |
| Ability to gather, analyze and provide feedback on requirements to vendor partners | 3-4 |