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We are looking for a Project Manager! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Project Manager
Term: Contract – 12 months with extension
Location: Ontario – Hybrid 3 days on-site
Industry: Telecom
Job ID number: C1438
Brief Description on Duties:
- We are seeking a Project Manager and Principal Agile Delivery Specialist with an unparalleled 30 years of IT experience, including a remarkable 17-year journey within the Telecommunications sector. This role is ideal for a visionary leader who blends technical prowess with an in-depth understanding of telecom infrastructure, architectural frameworks, and systems structure. The successful candidate will lead technical deliveries for large-scale Telecom projects, utilizing both traditional Waterfall and modern Agile methodologies to ensure seamless project execution.
- Technical Project Leadership: Utilize your extensive IT and Telecom experience to lead technical deliveries from inception to completion, ensuring projects align with strategic goals and are delivered on time and within budget.
- Strategic Alignment: Work closely with the executive leadership to align project initiatives with corporate objectives, demonstrating your strong technical and program management skills.
- Agile Methodology Advocacy: Champion Agile best practices, providing hands-on support to both technical and business teams, and guiding the technical delivery team towards success.
- Policy and Control Implementation: Implement policies, system monitoring, and controls, leveraging your experience for effective management and reporting of corporate initiatives.
- Communication and Autonomy: Utilize exceptional communication skills to facilitate strategic decision-making, ensuring clear and effective communication at all levels.
- Agile Leadership: Serve as a mentor to Release Train Engineers (RTEs), enhancing the team's Agile practices and understanding through your extensive experience.
- Comprehensive IT and Telecom Experience: 30 years of IT expertise, with a focus on 17 years within the Telecom industry, showcasing a deep understanding of software development and technical intricacies.
- Technical and Project Management Expertise: Demonstrated ability to integrate technical skills with project management methodologies, managing large-scale projects and fostering strong vendor relationships.
- Agile and Waterfall Methodologies: Proficient in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies, able to adapt and guide teams through Agile practices effectively.
- Exceptional Leadership and Communication: Strong leadership skills with the ability to guide project resources and communicate effectively at the executive level.
- Technical Skills: Proficiency in PeopleCode, Java, XML, Cobol.
- Program Management Skills: Expertise in PMO program governance, PMP and PMI-ACP Agile methodologies, project recovery, strategic alignment, change management, risk evaluation, and stakeholder management.
- MBA
- Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science or similar
- Certified SAFe® 5 Practitioner
- Certified SAFe 5 Agilist
- Certified SAFe 5 Teams
- Certified SAFe 5 Scrum Master
- PeopleSoft Certified Consultant
- Senior Product Owner
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| Job Category | Project Manager |
We are looking for a Data Engineer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Data Engineer
Term: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 2 days on-site
Industry: Financial
Job ID number: C1437
Brief Description on Duties:
The Data Engineer will design, build, and support the cloud-based infrastructure for the data pipeline and analytics across the client's development and data platforms to produce high-performance and scalable solutions.
The role requires the incumbent to innovate and drive solutions that complement the IT vision.
- This role will lead enhancements requested by Investment business partners, including Front Office, Investment Risk, and Investment Operations. They will be providing occasional production support to their core investment data warehouse.
- As a key member of the data platform design committee, set guidelines, standards, and best practices for new project initiatives across development and data management teams.
- Design and implementation of data and technology infrastructure for new data and analytics platform with Azure data stack
- Design and build data solutions for distributed ETL processing for all data ingestion into the data platform (dimensional layer) with scalable and usable data pipelines.
- Be the primary liaison and owner for data projects, technical backlog, and managing the delivery solutions with business stakeholders.
- Oversee and build custom web APIs using Azure Function Apps to integrate with external services
- Oversee and develop complex SQL for ETL and data extractions with high-performing and easy-to-manage code.
- ETL with Azure Data Factory experience, building pipelines, with strong experience building Dimensional data warehouses
- Azure Data Factory (ADF)
- Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS)
- Azure Databricks (ADB)
- Azure Synapse
- Azure Function apps
- Build processes (plan, design, and implement enhancements end-to-end)
- Expert in SQL – development from transformation perspective, writing complex SQL queries, views, and procedures
- Some sort of investment or capital markets experience
- Independent worker needing very little guidance after being trained on framework
- Flexible and accommodating with work being done – learn existing practice/framework, can enhance and work with it
- Strong communication skills
- Power BI
- Snowflake - VERY NICE TO HAVE
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| Job Category | Data Engineer |
We are looking for a Security Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Security Analyst
Term: Contract – 12 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 2 days on-site
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1437
Brief Description on Duties:
Story Behind the Need:
The Identity Lifecycle Management team within the Access Management Operations is responsible for the execution of established security controls pertaining to identity and access. This includes the centralized provisioning of user identities, the user accounts linked to those identities, management of user access, privileged access, as well as the selection and integration of identity management tools. The Senior Analyst, Identity Lifecycle Management is responsible for supporting the achievement of the Bank’s information security objectives of integrity, confidentiality/privacy, availability, and continuity by:
- Ensuring logical access control is effectively implemented across the Enterprise.
- Addressing logical access and risks commensurate with the Bank’s risk appetite.
- Providing support for logical access working with MS Active Directory (on prem), LDAP, provisioning access on user’s local workstation, access on vFiler shares, privileged access management.
- Supporting the business to understand their responsibilities with respect to logical access controls.
- Continuously, provides value and consistency added to the user and customer experience by improvising workflows associated with bank’s onboarding and Logical Access platforms
- Perform required tasks for Logical Access Control; tasks relevant to Identity & Access Management including access request, access provision/deprovision, communication, and documentation of operational processes and procedures, etc.
- Process Add/remove/change activities, and provide support on access issues for: ScotiaID, Windows ID (Active Directory).
- AD Security Groups, Distribution Groups, Group Mailboxes access management Service Accounts.
- Utilize troubleshooting skills to understand moderately complex systems/issues related to user Identity and access, and potential root causes.
- Liaise with 2nd and 3rd level support when required.
- Provide reports and data, as requested, for audits and walkthroughs of internal controls IAMOPS ILM owned processes.
- 10+ years of technical working experience as an IT Security Analyst
- 5-7+ years of experience managing Users and Groups in on-prem Microsoft Active Directory and LDAP
- 3-5+ years of experience with PowerShell scripting for AD administration tasks, ServiceNow, SQL/Oracle
- 3-5+ years of experience with SailPoint IIQ, Centrify (or similar) PAM solution for Privilege ID onboarding and management
- Advanced Excel data management skills (working with big reports)
- Technical and Security Designation is an asset (MCSE\MCSA, CISSP, Security+)
- Previous Banking/FI experience
- Power BI experience
- Bilingual in Spanish
- Excellent written, presentation, and verbal communication skills to be able to work well with technical peers and business stakeholders at different levels within the organization.
- Strong decision making, forward thinking and creative problem-solving skills to anticipate and respond quickly to technological/market influences.
- Ability to work as part of a team, as well as work independently or with minimal direction.
- Advanced AD and PowerShell scripting skills
- Proactive and consistently seeks solutions for problems
- Post-secondary degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or equivalent work experience
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| Job Category | Security Analyst |
We are looking for a QA Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: QA Analyst
Term: Contract – 12 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 2 days on-site
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1436
Brief Description on Duties:
Job Description:
The position requires a dedicated, driven individual who can identify issues, analyze problems and propose solutions independently of management guidance. The type of person suitable for this role is someone who has experience in the QA and Automation, with at least three years in automation testing groups performing a range of testing tasks. The ideal candidate is results-oriented and forward thinking, and can help drive our long term plans.
Responsibilities:
- Define and execute the automation, testing and QA processes used in the infrastructure group from smoke testing through final acceptance testing
- Define and execute an automation strategy working with external groups
- Execute QA and automation processes on all Engineering projects with direction from a team manager
- Ensure we meet deliverable deadlines without compromising the quality of the deliverables
- Establish a culture of quality and testing within the ITS group
- Work with our Customer base to understand their needs and ensure the team delivers high-quality products that meet end-user requirements
- Design and develop automation architecture & scripts to interface with additional scripts for startup, cleanup, logging, reporting and to reduce maintenance
- Ensure that the scripts are complete, executable, reusable and maintainable
- Responsible for setting standards for scripting and the environment that best suit the production
- Responsible to ensure that all planned activities are implemented, executed and completed in accordance to the planned timeline
- Responsible for progress reporting and ensuring that problems and issues are raised for prompt corrective action
- Manage short term & long term objectives and effectively scope projects within schedule constraints
- Work with other QA teams, Business Analysts and Solution Analysts to validate requirements and incorporate the requirements for the design and development of the automation test scripts
- Attend QA team meetings and articulate any concerns and findings as well as report those concerns using standard problem reporting tools
- Participate in test strategy, test estimation and planning discussions
- Candidate must be able to read Requirement Specification documents and produce Test Plans and Test Cases
- Candidate must be able to define Automation Strategies that will verify the operation of new services or products while tracking to project schedule 5-7 years of experience.
- Able to look at excel spreadsheets, follow prescribed steps exactly and populate as per instructions provided with accuracy.
- Every day they will have a process to follow for testing
- They will be extracting data to excel, 100 to 200 rows, data mine text free format
- Populate field according to the procedure.
- Follow procedure and steps to populate field based on text format.
- Advanced Excel
- SQL experience
- Good communication
- IT QA experience
- Automation exp
- SAS
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| Job Category | QA Analyst |
We are looking for a Security Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Security Analyst
Term: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 2 days on-site
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1434
What can you expect:
Story Behind the Need:
As part of the Information Security and Control (IS&C), Senior Information Security Advisor is providing advisory services to business lines, subsidiaries and affiliates enabling the achievement of the Bank's Information Security Policy. As a Senior Security Advisor within the IS&C – Global Technology Applications – Security Advisory Services team, you will provide a central point of reference and core competency for Information Security. Assisting in the classification and protection of data resources by providing guidance on secure and cost-effective implementation of Bank's security policies and standards. Providing guidance to design, develop and implement sound risk management controls in accordance with Bank's standards that assure the Bank's compliance with industry regulations. Keeping informed and well versed on financial industry regulations demands in different regions based on practical experience. Pursuing security and control process improvements to advance security compliance and improve internal processes.
Candidate Value Proposition:
You will have the opportunity to work in a diverse team, that encourages teamwork, provides learning opportunities and time for knowledge sharing. You will work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top cybersecurity and technology companies around the world. Opportunity to make a significant impact as you will contribute to achieving the Bank’s regulatory and compliance commitments as well our responsibility and commitment to keeping our customers secure.
Typical Day in Role:
- Develop and execute a frameworks for risk and audit issues management, including the creation Participate in initiatives and projects driven by various business lines. Guide project and delivery managers to design and establish sound information security practices, facilitating key artifacts such as security design documents, threat/risk assessments and data classifications with the owner to ensure that risk is identified and effectively managed.
- Provide first line subject matter expert advice on pervasive Bank's information security standards, policies and processes, information security world class standards and major regulations in the industry.
- Liaise with internal and external security teams, local and international, and participate in reviews that pertain to compliance with Bank and Regulatory IT security controls and guidelines.
- Work with our business line partners to assess risk and avoid deviations to Bank standards; where possible, identifying secure solutions. When unavoidable, escalate deviations or risk acceptance requests through appropriate channels.
- You enjoy taking part in initiatives to contribute to the strategic direction for security related technologies or other controls that need to be put in place to reduce the threat levels to the company.
- You excel managing vendor interactions to evolve and continually improve the bank’s protection programs.
- You thrive in delivering best in class support for all endpoint technologies.
- You are comfortable providing metric and reports to the leadership teams.
- 10+ years of working experience as an IT Security Analyst, and keep current with relevant technological change and information security best practices.
- Recent hands-on experience with cloud security controls and experience in deployments and cloud architecture security.
- Recent hands-on experience with security controls/mechanisms and threat/risk assessment techniques pertaining to complex data, application and networking environments.
- Strong knowledge of IT infrastructure and data centre processing environments. Knowledge of security technologies such as: Identify & Access Management, PKI, Intrusion
- Prevention, vulnerability assessments. Knowledge of network security components such as firewalls, routers, intrusion detection, anti-virus software.
- Strong Microsoft Office software skills particularly Excel, Word, Visio and PowerPoint.
- Working knowledge of regulatory guidelines related to the financial industry like OSFI.
- Knowledge of the financial services’ Security Governance Framework (policies and standards) is a strong asset.
- Knowledge of Agile, Lean, Rapid Labs and other accelerated project frameworks would be an asset.
- Security Certifications: CISSP, CCSP, GSEC, CISA, CISM, etc.
- Must have advanced verbal and written communication skills in English, especially report writing ability.
- Proven ability to meet deadlines for multiple assignments and adapt quickly to changing priorities.
- Well developed communication skills are required, and the ability to confidently present ideas and recommendations at formal presentation and conference calls.
- Security Advisory Banking experience.
- Ability to complete threat risk assessments.
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| Job Category | Security Analyst |
We are looking for a Solutions Architect! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Solutions Architect
Term: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 2 days on-site
Industry: Insurance
Job ID number: C1433
What can you expect:
- As the Solution Architecture Lead within Corporate Information Solutions, you will be responsible for driving Solution Architecture best practice across our CIS teams
- Reporting to the Head of CIS Shared Services Enterprise Architecture, you will provide team management, strategic direction and thought mentorship to our team of global Solution Architects, enabling them to deliver solutions aligned with our technical strategy.
- You will collaborate with stakeholders across our organization, contributing towards the successful delivery of business goals whilst adhering to technical strategy, driving innovation promoting reuse through effective solution design
- In addition, you will manage the resource allocation and technical development for our team of global Solution Architects
- We will count on you to
- Work with other as part of the Product Development and Engineering Leadership Team
- Lead the Solution Architecture practice, ensuring standards, frameworks and policies are in place and aligned with our technical strategy
- Manage a high performing team of Solution Architects whilst driving a culture of collaboration and knowledge sharing
- Collaborate with MMC Enterprise Architects to drive the evolution of the technology portfolio in support of the business strategy
- Ensure that project Architecture resourcing needs are met, and that architecture processes and policies are adhered to during delivery
- Represent the Solution Architecture practice in discussions with central functions and partners across the organisation (such as Enterprise Architecture)
- Provide technical expertise on key initiatives that have a departmental impact (such data centre migrations)
- Stay up to date with industry trends, emerging technologies and best practices in solution architecture
- Proven experience as a senior solution architect with hands-on experience in solution design
- An expert understanding of solution architecture standards and best practices
- Extensive experience designing solutions that can be rapidly built, tested and deployed using Agile best practices
- Demonstrated experience in guiding and developing a team of Solution Architects
- Excellent relationship building skills, including the ability to influence and collaborate with senior business and technology partners
- Advanced communication skills at all levels, including the ability to convey complex technical strategy and obstacles to senior business and technology partners
- In-depth knowledge of modern software architectures, including microservices, APIs, cloud computing, data insights and modernisation patterns
- MEAN stack, Python, or any other middleware technologies
- AWS Cloud
- Multi Factor Authentication, Single Sign On (OAuth, SAML)
- Containerization / Kubernetes
- Microservice based architecture
- Secure By Design concepts, Secure DevOps
- Exposure to Big Data / Data Lake / LakeHouse/ BI Tools
- Application Performance Monitoring (APM) techniques
- Large language models
- Agile
- Recognized document standards (C4, UML, Archimate)
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| Job Category | Solution Architect, Solutions Architect |
We are looking for a Project Coordinator! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Project Coordinator
Term: Contract – 12 months with extension
Location: Toronto – fully remote
Industry: Telecom
Job ID number: C1432
Project Description:
- Leveraging data to maintain clean and reliable data from diverse sources. working with comprehensive reports, dashboards, and visualizations that offer stakeholders a clear understanding of key performance indicators, trends, and patterns.
- Through collaborate engagement with stakeholder, the team ensures that their deliverables align closely with organizational objectives, facilitating informed decisions.
- The end goal of this project is to deliver clean data and generate actionable insights, supporting Bell Business markets.
- Develop and maintain clean and accurate data for customer records.
- Collect, clean, and organize data from multiple sources to ensure accuracy and reliability.
- Perform quality assurance checks on reports to ensure data integrity and accuracy.
- Collaborate with business partners to understand reporting requirements and translate them into actionable deliverables.
- Communicate findings and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences in a clear and concise manner.
- Prepare and sort documents for data entry.
- Research and validate company info, resolve discrepancies, and obtain further information when needed.
- Review source data and process documents for data entry purposes
- Ensure all entered data are accurate and complete.
- Research data by using tools such as SQL, Google, and Government related sites.
- Bachelor's/Diploma in related Data Field
- Previous experience in reporting and data analysis roles.
- Proficiency in SQL is an asset.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Aptitude for numbers, accuracy, and analysis
- Ability to manage multiple tasks at one time.
- Strong customer service skills
- Experience with Microsoft (Word, Excel)
- Ability to work quickly and accurately under pressure.
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Ability to utilize new systems and tools.
- Good understanding of Canadian corporation's structure
- Bilingual (French/English) is a strong asset.
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| Job Category | PCO, Project Coordinator |
We are looking for a Project Manager! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Project Manager
Term: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 1-2 days on-site
Industry: Insurance
Job ID number: C1431
Responsibilities:
Looking for an experience project manager who can take over the day to day activities of our Publication Review Process. Attention to detail and strong organizational skills are an important criteria for Publications Review Process. Reporting to the team’s Director, looking for a project manager to ensure the process is delivered meeting Sun Life standards of accuracy, compliance and governance. You will manage the end to end flow of the process – ensuring that documents are submitted properly, that the correct reviewers are tagged for review and that you can respond to questions from submitters as to next steps and general guidance. You will also help educate users on how to move documents through the PRP process smoothly.
Wrike platform experience is mandatory
Skills
- You are a highly organized and focused multi-tasker with strong attention to detail, analytical and project management skills, and can work independently within a team
- You thrive on small details and the ability to work on several projects simultaneousl
- Excellent interpersonal skills: must be able to consult, influence and negotiate with people from diverse backgrounds and levels throughout the organization
- Ensure that submissions are tagged to the appropriate groups for review
- Check in on submissions that are ‘stuck’ in the process and see how to assist in getting them reviewed, based on SLAs
- Coordinate with content creators to ensure that they are following established processes.
- Support marketing operations team with managing Wrike access
- Support any changes required to the forms for efficiency’s sake.
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| Job Category | Project Manager |
We are looking for a Business Service Delivery! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Business Service Delivery
Term: Contract – 12 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 2-3 days on-site
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1430
Responsibilities:
- Conducts penetration tests, web application vulnerability assessments, code reviews and network vulnerability assessments of all environments or applications related to the OPS province-wide I&IT infrastructure and information resources.
- Defines, evaluates, and assesses security architecture requirements for systems environments and IT projects.
- Ensures the incorporation of IT security and contingency measures in the development of systems.
- Advises on the identification, analysis, and resolution of specific security factors, risks, vulnerabilities; protection of personal privacy issues; and appropriate industry and international security standards.
- Carry out information and information technology (I&IT) security projects and tasks in the Ontario Public Service as assigned by Corporate Security or cluster I&IT management
- Experience in vulnerability assessment/penetration testing of web applications by identifying, analyzing and exploiting common vulnerabilities contained in web applications by using manual techniques and automated tools appropriate for enterprise use.
- Experience performing penetration tests and red team assessments.
- Experience with vulnerability assessment methodologies, tools and techniques used to conduct network vulnerability assessments and penetration testing
- Knowledge of techniques to secure information assets and the planning, design, and implementation of security technologies.
- Proven techniques to discover gaps or weaknesses in security architecture to identify and mitigate known security threats or inherent weaknesses.
- Strong understanding and expertise in security architecture.
- Knowledge and understanding of relevant legislation and corporate directives related to the security and confidentiality of information (e.g. Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act) in order to identify and assess areas of concern and risk.
- Solid knowledge of current security and contingency technology and techniques (e.g. digital signature, encryption, access controls, fire-walls, authentication, virus protection, etc. ); and a proven working knowledge of security audit procedures and protocols.
- Experience in establishing secure environments at a network, operating system or application level.
- Experience with implementing security on complex and distributed systems.
- Experience in writing reports to a large audience both at an executive/non-technical management level and technical resources.
- Awareness of emerging IT trends and directions, especially as related to security.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills; written and verbal communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills.
- A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines, managing competing priorities and client relationship management experience.
- Experience with multiple operating systems such as Windows and Linux, multiple programming languages such as.NET and Java, and common network services and protocols.
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| Job Category | Business Service Delivery |
We are looking for a Full Stack Developer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: FullStack Developer
Term: Contract – 4 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Remote
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1429
Candidate Value Proposition:
- The candidate will have the opportunity to work at once of Canada’s top 5 banks working for Digital Factory using the latest tech stack.
- Design, develop, and implement cloud based applications, using in-demand languages and technologies (e.g. React Js, Node Js)
- Analyze highly complex business requirements
- Generate technical specifications to design or redesign complex software components and applications
- Act as an expert technical resource for modeling, simulation and analysis efforts
- Leverage industry best practices to design, test, implement and support a solution
- Assure quality security and compliance requirements are met for supported area
- Be flexible and thrive in an evolving environment
- Adapt to change quickly and adjust work accordingly in a positive manner.
- Working with a team of developers in Toronto, Chile, and Dominican Republic to implement the solution.
- 8+ years of previous experience as a full stack developer
- 5+ years of React JS experience (Front end)
- 3+ years of Node JS experience (Backend for front-end layer)
- 5+ years of HTML, CSS, and Typescript
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with implementing accessibility (implement accessibility related functions onto app – code, etc.)
- Building applications for web and mobile channels (loaded in web views)
- Previous experience in banking
- Previous experience within Digital Factory Canada.
- Hit the ground running
- Strong communication skills (written & verbal), interacting with Product, Design and Back-end Teams
- Self-starter that actively engages issues seeking resolution, ability to meet dynamic changes on prioritization
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| Job Category | Fullstack Developer |
We are looking for a Project Control Officer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Project Control Officer
Term: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid (1 day on-site)
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1428
Story Behind the Need
Typical Day in Role
- Act as the project secretariat; this includes preparing/distributing agendas, attending meetings, preparing/distributing clear and detailed minutes on a timely basis, recording, communicating, and following up on action items, and maintaining project distribution lists.
- Support the Delivery Manager / Project Manager to ensure all appropriate areas are represented on the project team and to maintain the momentum of the project against a background of constantly conflicting priorities. The individual is required to multitask on several projects at one time depending on the complexity and activities in progress.
- Formally document and cost project activities by using the Microsoft Project tool Definition of development activities at sufficient detail levels (not to exceed 10 workday increments and not to detail less than 4 hours) Ongoing communication of project status, completing the agreed-on project reports, and escalating issues to the Delivery Manager, or Senior Delivery Manager as required
- Responsible for supporting the Delivery Team in the following: Maintain the project files; Risk, Actions, and Issues log (RAID), this pertains to project documentation, approvals, drawdowns, spreadsheets, meeting minutes, monthly status reports, third-party contracts, and other correspondence and documentation as appropriate.
- Maintain the budget; this includes auditing items to be delivered under projects, reviewing the weekly and monthly time tracking reports for anomalies, ensuring all invoices have been approved with the proper signoffs before payment ensuring drawdowns are properly recorded, and maintaining ongoing costs to complete forecasts. This includes full reconciliation of the project budget and completing investigations for differences as they occur. All this meeting the Bank's deadlines.
- Perform financial management activities such as project budget forecasting and payment processing while following the bank guidelines, for the different components of the budget including international and Canadian project teams. Create financial Project Change Requests (PCRs) to ensure the costs are allocated to the correct Component/Cost Element. Use Smart Stream to track invoices submitted to accounts payable.
- Update the financial information for the Executive Steering Committee documents. Administrate the SharePoint for the Collection Solutions. Interact and support the countries/regions with the financial management of the budget assigned as per the approved business case, by building and maintaining a strong partnership with them.
- 3+ years of Financial Management Experience specifically budgeting experience
- 3+ years of Relevant Experience in a Project Control position
- Experience working with Project Manager or Delivery Manager
- Strong familiarity with Excel (V-lookups, pivot tables, formulas), PowerPoint, and MS Project required
- Bilingual (English/Spanish)
- 2+ years of financial institution experience
- PMP designation is an asset
- Strong Leadership Qualities
- Extroverted and Outgoing
- Excellent Communication and Interpersonal Skills
- Ability to adapt to new software
- Quick learner
- Willingness to work under a Project Manager with assist them with all their needs
- Attention to detail
- The Best vs Average Candidate would have previous Project Control experience in a Financial institution and be able to work alongside a project manager providing support to the project.
- BA in a related field (Computer/Systems Engineer, Business Admin, Finance, etc.)
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| Job Category | PCO, Project Control Officer |
We are looking for a Delivery Manager! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Delivery Manager
Term: Contract – 12 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid (1 day on-site)
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1427
Story Behind the Need
Candidate Value Proposition:
Typical Day in Role
- Champions a customer-focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
- Be accountable for supporting the implementation and optimization of Scotiabank’s SEO strategy in Canada
- Regularly perform detailed keyword research, analyze search trends and provide insights and opportunities for Scotiabank that will deliver the SEO commercial and strategic goals.
- Review technical SEO issues, such as including site architecture, URL structures, and recommend fixes
- Collaborate across various teams to ensure new pages and projects are optimized for search from the moment of launch.
- Support our content team for content ideation, development, design and delivery. Advise on best practices needed for technical implementation of new content through detailed content briefs
- Develop appropriate metrics for SEO related projects, measure against goals and build the necessary reports to communicate performance
- Help design SEO experiments, test tactics for additional opportunities for organic growth
- 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 by Scotiabank’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 concerning operational, compliance, AML/ATF/sanctions and conduct risk.
- Champions a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.
- 5+ years of experience in digital marketing, with demonstrated expertise in SEO and digital content strategies and execution.
- Hands-on experience Technical experience and knowledge in HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- 5+ Experience with SEO Tools including Ahrefs, Clearscope, OnCrawl, Screaming Frog or similar industry tools
- Solid understanding of Google Search Console in order to inform and make data-driven decisions
- Prior FI Experience
- Strong Leadership Qualities
- Extroverted and Outgoing
- Excellent Communication and Interpersonal Skills
- Ability to adapt to new software
- Quick learner
- Attention to detail
- BA in (Marketing, business or related areas) or years of experience in the field
We are looking for a Business Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Business Analyst
Term: Contract – 12 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid (1 day on-site)
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1426
Story Behind the Need
- Business group: Product Strategy, Asset Management - This team oversees the planning and implementation of new Scotia products as well as the strategic planning of ongoing products within the bank
- Project: The Business Analyst will be working to complete a large data migration Scotia is currently undergoing. This project would include large scale data migration from an internal system to Google Cloud Platforms.
- Reason for request: Additional support needed, this BA would be working closely to assist one of the Project leads. This is a multi-year project and extension is highly likely.
- The successful candidate will have exposure to a varieties of business lines across Scotia and have the opportunity to strengthen their knowledge of financial institutions.
- Ensure the end to end process is fully analyzed and documented which include all delivery channels, affected processing units and technologies
- Ensure that requirements are clearly, accurately and thoroughly documented and understood for both system changes and/or process changes and that there is value and consistency added to the user and customer experience. Experience must include both Waterfall and Agile.
- Assist in creation of Business Cases and cost/benefit analysis to ensure quantitative and qualitative benefits are achieved.
- Manage timely and accurate delivery of tasks for assigned projects through all stages of the project life cycle from concept to implementation. E.g., scope work effort, track task to a project plan, map process flows, document requirements/stories, liaise with Business, Development and Vendors, Test Validation/Defect mitigation, Communication plan execution, etc., ensuring that the Senior Manager and/or Project lead are kept informed of all unresolved issues, other areas of concern and any other deviations from plans through timely and well documented reporting.
- Activities include; cost/benefit analysis, data analysis, impact analysis, process analysis, preparing detailed documentation of requirements for systems/process changes, and preparation of instructions/training material for users.
- Ability to perform project management tasks including the creation and monitoring of project plans and tasks to drive the delivery of the project to successful implementation
- Manage work and tasks with Development and other stakeholders and ensures system requirements are realized.
- Develops, maintain and enhances relationships with management within service, product, development and delivery areas in the execution of projects.
- 5-7 Years’ experience as an IT Business Analyst
- 2+ Years’ experience working with Google Cloud Platform Services
- 2+ Years’ experience with Power BI/Google Looker
- 2-3 Years’ experience MS Project, MS Office and MS Visio
- 2-3 Years’ experience with Jira and Confluence
- Prior FI Experience an asset
- Prior experience with back office systems (e.g. iFAST, AWD) and Fund Accounting applications (e.g. Mpower, NAVAlert)
- Demonstrate effective leadership skills, including the ability to assume end-to-end ownership on behalf of the Product Owner during project execution, knowing when to assume responsibility for the related project deliverables, or seek approval.
- Strong verbal and business writing skills: with the ability to communicate effectively with different audiences and levels: - e.g. Channel management; developers and management; internal business clients, and external vendors.
- Associate's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required
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| Job Category | Business Analyst |
We are looking for a QA Test Lead! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: QA Test Lead
Term: Contract – 12 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid (3 days on-site)
Industry: Government
Job ID number: C1425
Description
Responsibilities Lead the design of test strategy, plans, scenarios, scripts, or procedures for testing General Skills Experience co-ordinating the test strategy and plan with project managers and others Experience writing and reviewing a test strategy for the project, and test policy for the organization. Experience contributing the testing perspective to other project activities, such as development, integration testing, etc. Experience planning the tests - considering the context and understanding the test objectives and risk - including selecting test approaches, estimating the time, effort and cost of testing, acquiring resources, defining test levels, cycles and planning incident management Experience initiating the specification, preparation, implementation and execution of tests, monitor the test results and check the exit criteria Experience adapting planning based on test results and progress(tweaking the plan) and take necessary actions to compensate for problems Experience introducing suitable metrics for measuring test progress and evaluating the quality of the testing and product. Experience providing input to test automation strategy, test automation framework roadmap Experience selecting tools to support testing and organize any training in tool use for testers Experience coordinating usage and assignment of test environment with all stakeholders. Experience writing test summary reports based on the information gathered during testing. Experience executing full lifecycle software development Experience programming well-designed, testable, efficient code Experience creating / producing specifications and determine operational feasibility Experience leading / providing guidance to team members A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines
Skills
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
Must Have:
- API Testing skills
- Knowledge of AODA
- Knowledge of SQL
- Automation Skills
- Please note this role is part of a hybrid Work Arrangement and resource(s) will be required to work at a minimum of 2-3 days per week at 5700 Yonge St.
- During the interview, candidates can expect to be asked questions on anything and everything mentioned on their resume
- Functional tester for large scale enterprise systems undergoing transformation or being built from scratch.
- Experience in developing automated test scripts using different tools such as Selenium, Robotic, WAVE and others
- testing and in use of REST API to create test data and verify expected results.
- Experience using Rest API clients such as Postman, Curl, SOAP UI
- Experience with designing, developing, and maintaining test
- cases based on industry best practices and standards
- Experience with manual test execution and defect reporting, testing
- of various types of integration technologies
- Understanding of relational Database technology and working experience
- with SQL in the context either test data preparation or expected result
- verification with one of the database management systems such as SQL Server, Oracle, MS Access
- Database testing
- Test Automation Tools (e.g., Selenium, Robotic)
- API Testing (REST, SOAP) Postman and Swagger
- AODA Testing tools
- Good team collaboration, documentation, problem solving and communication skills
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| Job Category | QA Lead, QA Test Lead |
We are looking for a Project Manager! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Project Manager
Term: Contract – 7 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid (2 days on-site)
Industry: Government
Job ID number: C1424
Description:
Responsibilities:
- Provides project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high risk projects for OPS I&IT initiatives.
- Ensures project deliverables meet clients’ business requirements on time, scope and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness, efficiencies and compliance with OPS project management methodologies and frameworks.
- Provide senior project management oversight and support for cyber security platforms that are currently being deployed and rolled out within the OPS over 2024-25 fiscal year. In addition, to lead and provide project management support for smaller security-focused projects, initiatives or iterative improvements as required based on need and capacity throughout the year.
- Microsoft Enterprise Security (E5) capability implementation/adoption projects
- Internal cyber security projects and improvement initiatives
- Current state analysis and Target state operating model for protection platforms Database Protection and Privileged Access Management solution.
- Leads organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.
- Gathers and develops requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.
- Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met
- Experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope
- Ability to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies
- Demonstrated experience directing project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards
- Extensive experience coordinating and monitoring project processes, and developing/communicating guidelines and procedures
- Sources, selects and on-boards team members in various disciplines, clarify roles and responsibilities and set task/deliverable/performance expectations for resources that are both OPS unionized employees as well as fee for service (FFS) consultants.
- Resolves resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiates changes to resourcing, ensures knowledge is shared among team members such as project objectives and deliverables are met.
- Develops complex project budgets based on multiple funding channels and cross ministry dependencies.
- Effectively manages large project budgets and ensures a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals.
- Proactively identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
- Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.
- Establishes and participates in steering committee and stakeholder forums
- Provides, project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.
- Uses appropriate strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of projects – concept, definition, planning, implementation and close-out.
- Promotes OPS I&IT standards and best practices for project management to facilitate control of system quality, adherence to standard methodology and the control of the use of I&IT resources.
- Knowledge and understanding of Project Management’s Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge
- Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices
- Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
- Ability to make recommendations on the acquisition of software, hardware, and technology resources
- Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring, anticipates and troubleshoots issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolves problems and provides project effectiveness
- Ability to identify conflict between project and functional areas and develops responses to successfully address conflict
- Ability to handle client relationships to manage expectations, provides updates as required, identifies potential conflicts between project and functional areas
- Attention to Detail
- Calculating Costs for Implementation
- Critical Thinking
- Defining Mechanisms for Input
- Defining Purpose of the Strategic Planning Process
- Developing a Plan for Implementing Strategies
- Logical Thinking
- Facilitating Group Discussion
- Creating Mission/Vision Statements
- Engaging Reluctant Members in Discussions
- Negotiation
- People Skills
- Persuasiveness
- Pitching
- Public Speaking
- Presentation / MS PowerPoint
- Active Listening
- Building Consensus
- Establishing Measurable Objectives for Goals/Projects
- Creating and Enforcing Timelines
- Prioritizing
- Goal Oriented
- Aligning Business Practices with Emerging Strategy
- Assessment
- Brainstorming
- Creativity
- Evaluation
- Identifying Obstacles
- Problem Sensitivity
- Multitasking
- Stress Tolerance
- Experience working on agile project delivery teams
- Working Experience with:
- Backlog
- User Stories
- Scrum
- Sprints
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| Job Category | Project Manager |