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We are looking for a Change Manager! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!  

We are looking for a Data Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   SUMMARY OF DAY-TO-DAY RESPONSIBILITIES: Risk Shared Services team is seeking a Data Analyst to join their Data, Analytics and Reporting (DAR) team. This senior analyst will be instrumental in delivering analytic products to the internal clients we serve, which include Operational Risk (ORM), Fraud Risk (FRM), Technology Risk (TR), Credit Risk, Global Security & Investigations (GSI), and Enterprise Insider Risk Program (EIRP) partners. The ideal candidate will be able to bridge the gap between fraud risk management and analytical expertise. Key Responsibilities:

• Thrive in a fast paced, dynamic, and unpredictable environment with the ability to adopt to changing priorities, learn new skills and demonstrate a commitment to teamwork and collaborative problem solving.
• Develop end-to-end solutions by analyzing/profiling/augmenting data, applying statistical methods and communicating results through illustrative visualizations.
• Demonstrate ownership of data products by iteratively improving insights and system architecture.
• Build an analytic product target state, roadmap that highlights activities & milestones, and deliver weekly status updates to internal leaders.

Must Haves:

• Data
• Experience with SQL, and MS server data & tools.
• Experience with Python, SSIS and MS Azure cloud services (such as Azure Data Factory, Databricks, ADLS, Delta Lake, Azure SQL DB and Azure Synapse).
• A working knowledge of dimensional modeling and data warehousing methodologies
• Visualization
• Experience creating analytic or visualization data models, utilizing data models to visualize analytic results in Tableau is a must. Experience with Power BI is a strong asset.

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of Alteryx and big data technologies like Hadoop, Spark.
• Knowledge of Excel ETL features such as Power Query considered an asset.
• Ability to draft storyboards and execute narratives in PPT common in advisory or consultancy roles is also valued.
• Risk Shared Services team is seeking a Data Analyst to join their Data, Analytics and Reporting (DAR) team. This senior analyst will be instrumental in delivering analytic products to the internal clients we serve, which include Operational Risk (ORM), Fraud Risk (FRM), Technology Risk (TR), Credit Risk, Global Security & Investigations (GSI), and Enterprise Insider Risk Program (EIRP) partners. The ideal candidate will be able to bridge the gap between fraud risk management and analytical expertise.

Key Responsibilities:

• Thrive in a fast paced, dynamic, and unpredictable environment with the ability to adopt to changing priorities, learn new skills and demonstrate a commitment to teamwork and collaborative problem solving.
• Develop end-to-end solutions by analyzing/profiling/augmenting data, applying statistical methods and communicating results through illustrative visualizations.
• Demonstrate ownership of data products by iteratively improving insights and system architecture.
• Build an analytic product target state, roadmap that highlights activities & milestones, and deliver weekly status updates to internal leaders.

We are looking for a Technical Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!     Description: As member of the Enterprise Digital Accessibility Team, you will collaborate with and learn from a highly skilled accessibility team (15+ members) to provide various internal clients with information about their digital properties’ compliance, usability and guidance to make for a better accessible user experience. As Digital Vendor Accessibility Reviewer works with Digital Teams that are engaging an outside vendor to provide digital applications or digital services. You will assess the accessibility health of the vendor’s offering against WCAG 2.1 A-AA. This can be done through a combination of ways; VPAT / ACR, testing a prototype or demo site from the vendor and reviewing any other statements about their accessibility plans and capability. You then report back this assessment to the CIBC Digital and advise on impacts to full compliance. Our VPAT / ACR review process has been refined so there is a set procedure to follow and training will be provided. The role does require experience in QA Accessibility Testing and WCAG (specifically translating each success criteria to the particular user impacted). The Vendor Reviews will be 50-75% of your work. Another 25-50% will be participating in accessibility testing or consulting to support Digital Team projects. You will report to the Senior Manager for the EDA Team and work closely with Auditors, Consultants and the Digital Intake Manager.   Must Have Requirement:

• 3 years QA Accessibility Testing
• WCAG 2.0 at minimum, but 2.1 is preferable
• Manual accessibility testing experience
• Basic knowledge of VPAT / ACR documents
• Working in JIRA tickets

Nice to Have:

• Accessibility consulting skills
• Advising Digital Teams how to create and build with accessibility as a requirement.
• Figma design, copy decks and coded applications.
• Solutioning with Ui/UX, Designers and Developers how to minimally adjust their work (visual design / code) and ensure a compliant accessible experience.
• Experience as accessibility capable designer or developer
• Certifications (CPACC, WAS, 508 trusted tester or other)
• Knowledge of accessibility regulations
• Familiarity with automated testing
• JSON

Soft Skills:

• Excellent communication skills
• Listening and asking great questions
• Written emails, Teams virtual and in person meetings and Teams chat
• Detailed and accurate

We are looking for a Contract Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Description: Business group: Vendor Management – Operations – Vendor management team supports business units within operations for collection of suppliers and supplier contracts. The role will manage vendor/supplier relationship(s) through all stages of the contract and vendor lifecycle, in alignment with relevant BNS frameworks/methodologies, and with business and enterprise objectives. Candidate Value Proposition: The successful candidate will have the opportunity to gain exposure to vendor management within of the big 5 Canadian banks and contribute to the goal of becoming a paperless organization. Typical Day in Role:

• Responsible for building, maintaining, and enhancing relationships with vendors and internal stakeholders (such as leadership and end users). This role serves as liaison to the business.
• Tasked with ensuring business requirements align to specifications and priories, and they are also tasked with arbitration with vendors, and responsible for their Vendor’s Risk, Performance, Financial and Contract obligations.
• Provide leadership, direction and coaching to stakeholder teams(s) while partnering with business and executive stakeholders within a line of business
• Assigned to manage one or more vendors and interact with various stakeholders that receive the products and services from that supplier
• Work on digitization strategies and actions to reduce print, and move to a paperless environment
• The role is a combination of managing suppliers to ensure they are delivering, and monitoring suppliers to ensure their adherence to contractual obligations, performing, and being the relationship liaison with them, as well as working internally and with the suppliers to digitize to become a paperless organization
• Maintaining updating supplier dashboards using Power BI and/or Excel

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

• 1-2+ years of experience as a contract analyst - experience in vendor/contract management
• Experience with MS Office Suite applications (Excel mandatory)
• Hands on experience using Power BI

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Analytics experience is an asset

Soft Skills Required:

• Detailed and result oriented.
• Organized, self-motivated, and can interact well with other stakeholders
• Self- analytical skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, attention to detail, negotiation skills and interpersonal skills

Best candidate vs Average

• The best candidate will have analytics background and experience as a contract analyst - experience in vendor/contract management is a bonus. In addition, the best candidate will have good communication skill, able to multitask and have all the soft skills.

Education:

• Post-secondary or relevant experience preferred.

We are looking for a QA Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Description: The Ontario Learn and Stay Grant (OLSG) system consists of Student Facing Application (SFA) and an Administration Facing Application (AFA) modules of OSAP application. The SFA application will allow students to apply online for OLSG whereas AFA is used by ministry staff and educational institutions for assessment, eligibility, payments, reviews, and other program administration activities. Assignment Scope: QA Skills - 45% Proven experience in executing testing related activities and data reconciliation activities for large complex business critical business systems. Experience in developing test plans, test cases and expected test results for complex business systems. Experience in setting up test strategies for complex business systems involving data, rules and images which undergo a very high rate of change annually. Experience in data analysis, cleansing, conversion and reconciliation on large complex systems. Experience in executing test cases and test scenarios for large complex systems. Excellent coordination and organization skills to assist with all QA activities in a tight timeline with conflicting priorities. Experience in Accessibility testing of applications with alignment to AODA (WCAG2.0 AA). Technical Skills - 35% Excellent working knowledge of workflow, portfolio management and rule-driven business solutions. Experience with web-based 3-tier software platforms. Experience with testing tools, problem tracking software (i.e., Jira, Bugzilla and Microfocus Product Suite). Good knowledge of Oracle database tools. Proficiency with desktop tools (Visio, MS Office, MS Project, MS Outlook) Experience testing custom implementations and COTS implementations, which include IBM J-Rules Engine Working knowledge of web-based application development. Experience with Accessibility testing tools like WAVES, JAWS, NVDA, Compliance Sheriff. General skills - 15% Experience in effectively coordinating multiple teams representing various business and technology areas, each with responsibility for a component of the solution. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, presentation skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills. Excellent analytical problem solving and decision-making capabilities. Public Sector Experience - 5% Experience in the Public Sector, either as a vendor representative or under contract to a government ministry or agency. Assignment Description:Responsibilities: Provides advice on the testing strategy, test plans, the selection of testing tools, and the identification of resources required for testing Plans and organizes testing efforts for large systems in Graphical User Interface (GUI) and non-Graphical User Interface (GUI) environments, including the execution of systems integration tests, specialized tests, and user acceptance testing (e.g., stress tests) The Quality Assurance Specialist is responsible for the development of test plans, test scripts and test cases and executing these against the various components. The tester will work with the testing lead and IT lead of each project as well as the project team members in the analysis, design, development, implementation and ongoing support of the required systems General Skills: Experience in planning, organizing and implementing testing efforts at the specified experience level Knowledge of structured methodologies for the development, design, implementation and maintenance of applications Knowledge and experience in the use of Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools and data query tools to aid in the development of test cases Knowledge and experience in the use of automated test tools and version control systems on one or more platforms Experience executing functional tests, non-functional tests and systems level integration tests Experience supporting user acceptance testing and participating in UAT activities Experience with quality assurance principles, practices, tools and structured methodologies Experience creating testing strategy documentation, test plans, test cases and test data for various types and phases of testing, including technical and business functional validation Experience in quality assurance and testing, including unit testing, integration testing, load testing, performance testing, etc. Knowledge and experience in all phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; organizational, creativity and perseverance skills; verbal and written communication skills; and interpersonal skills A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines Knowledge of one or more automated testing tools Desirable Skills: Knowledge and experience in at least one programming language Experience in the use of information retrieval packages Knowledge and understanding of testing methods in an object-oriented environment 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 Experience planning and organizing testing efforts for both large and small systems Experience coding automated test scripts to produce sets of automated test cases Experience testing Commercial Off-the Shelf Applications (COTS) Must Haves:

• Proven experience in leading and executing manual testing related activities and data reconciliation activities for large complex business critical business systems
• Experience in developing test plans, test cases and expected test results for complex business systems
• Experience in setting up test strategies for complex business systems involving data, rules and images which undergo a very high rate of change annually
• Experience in Accessibility testing of applications with alignment to AODA (WCAG2.0 AA) and complete testing of web-based 3 tier software platforms
• Excellent working knowledge of workflow, portfolio management, testing custom implementations and COTS implementations, such as IBM J-Rules Engine, Jira, Bugzilla, HP/Microfocus Product Suite,

Nice to Have:

• Public Sector Experience
• Large Business Systems Knowledge

We are looking for a Project Manager! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!     Description Deliverable:

• Assist in carrying out project management functions including charter, change requests, and managing the triple constraint of scope/schedule/budget.
• Familiarity & knowledge of html and other Service Catalogue solutions.
• Comfort using Content Management Systems.
• Establishing governance forums along with PM practices/disciplines to manage key stakeholders via a defined communications strategy.
• Proper documentation and a transfer of knowledge to internal resources will be required in such a way that ensure the work completed by the PM can be understood.

  Responsibilities: 

• Engaging with stakeholders,
• Ensure all IT services/solutions are designed, planned and activated in a consistent manner,
• Establishing an effective executive governance model,
• PM documentation management, including Charter, Scope doc, work breakdown structures, MS Project plans, PCR (Project Change Request) management, Executive Dashboards, summary documentation and other docs leading to the successful outcomes of this project.
• Solid Governance experience and proven record to help influence key stakeholders including overcoming procedural changes to various areas.

  Skills Experience and Skill Set Requirements Evaluation Breakdown

1. Strong English Communications skills - 20%

Parameters:

• Influencing, positioning, and documentation skills will be paramount helping to ensure proper collateral is readily available to support initiative.
• Demonstrated experience working with key stakeholders and vendor partners (internal and external) and using communication skills to negotiate and document any project and process-related status information, and obtain support from key stakeholders and clients on project-related deliverables.

 

2. Effective Governance structures including - 20%

Parameters:

• Proven executive level influencing pertaining to people change management.
• Supported by effective Exec dashboards, value statement, evidence of organizational efficiencies and benefits.
• Effective communications ensuring stakeholder engagement, business needs and appropriate outcomes are delivered in a way that promotes value and support to Ministry, and GovTechON IT needs.

 

3. Project Management methodologies - 30%

Parameters:

• PM collaterals, Exec dashboard and summaries, proper PCR processes and all relevant documentation pertaining to the triple constraint for project.
• The resource's depth of experience leading complex Enterprise level projects related to technology, report transformations, influence, collaboration abilities with other defined stakeholder groups, adaptability, scope management, and overall planning capabilities.
• Demonstrated experience of PM methodologies, experience in creating project charters, integrated plan development, tracking issues/risks, managing and reporting project financials and developing governance models.

We are looking for a Mainframe DBA! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Description: The contractor will be responsible for providing subject matter expertise on the selection, design, development and integration of mainframe databases including IMS, DB2 and CICS. This position requires a solid understanding of mainframe application development and database technology with an emphasis on database administration. The candidate would provide technical guidance on related database and mainframe software updates, in addition to providing database admin support for IMS, DB2 or CICS. A good understanding of application code development using Cobol is required and knowledge of mainframe assembler is an asset. This role provides guidance and technical support for mainframe database issues, code development processes and assists other team members in provide technical expertise in investigating functional, application performance and capacity related issues.   Must Have Requirement: - 3+ years' experience in one or more of IMS, DB2, CICS (Oracle and DB2 together can be total of 3 years') - 3+ years' experience working in a z/OS TSO/ISPF environment - 3+ years' experience and knowledge of mainframe tools including: MACRO4, DB2 and IMS administration tools, IBM Application Performance Analyzer (APA) or equivalent - 3+ years' experience with code/change management process using ServiceNow, Endevor.   Nice to Have: - Skills in Easytrieve, SAS, DB2 Connect, TOAD are an asset. - Knowledge of CA-7 scheduler functionality (awareness of how jobs are scheduled)   Soft Skills: - Good communication skills (English) are required for this position. - Strong team player - DBA Banking experience would be a nice to have   Supplier Call Notes: - Ideally someone who can hit the ground running without much training. The more senior the better - Small team of 10 people - Support specialized databases - Needs sufficient experience to help app developers in resolving app issues within the technology areas that are covered by the team. - Mainframe Familiarity is required - Awareness of application code development would be an asset - DB2 experience is preferred but IMS and CICS will also work. - Team is very tight knit, lot's of good collaboration and strong communication.

We are looking for a Data Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!     Description: Interesting work: Deliver work that matters to you. We provide the opportunity to get involved in highly technical, complex and interesting projects where you can leverage your specific skillset and expertise to add value. Enrich your skills: Access to best-in-class technology, market intelligence and resources to advance your unique technical skills and expertise. Work alongside diverse, passionate and highly skilled professionals working together to drive innovation. Flexible opportunities: Find projects that match when and where you want to work. What you will do

• Work with business teams to define and document business requirements and functional specifications for new projects and change requests, ensuring all stakeholders are consulted and informed, and ensuring that all documented requirements are fully reviewed and approved.
• Design data visualizations that deliver meaningful data metrics via easy-to-use dashboard solutions.
• Map data flows from source to target systems, ensuring all data elements are fully categorized and cataloged.
• Complete analysis on datasets of many sizes and clearly communicate the resulting insights to stakeholders, enabling them to make informed business decisions.
• Lead and perform end-to-end (source to target) data validations for all newly developed projects before handing the results over to business teams for user acceptance testing.
• Collaborate with the Enterprise Analytics team to continuously improve the program’s methodology, including document templates, pipeline management and reporting solutions.
• Work with the Data Management team to support and maintain data analytics standards across, ensuring relevant data standards and policies are observed in all Enterprise Analytics projects.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in an analytics role, including large-scale data transformation projects.
• Ability to analyze and document data source systems, data objects, linage, applications, data usage and privacy.
• Exceptional communication skills, including the ability to deliver concise requirements and flow diagrams.
• Ability to forge consensus within a group of stakeholders, to deliver a solution that works for all.
• Knowledge of agile methodology and the software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, a creative approach, and superior design aesthetics.
• Strong knowledge of data analysis tools and frameworks such as Oracle, SQL Server, SSIS and SSRS, and the ability to write complex SQL queries and statements and analyze large data sets.
• Experience with tools such as Azure DevOps, SharePoint, Office 365, Microsoft Teams, etc.

Nice to Have:

• Ability to build dashboards and visualizations using PowerBI
• Experience with establishing best practices and standards for an EA program

We are looking for a QA Lead! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   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

Nice to have:

• Automation Skills

Experience and Skill Set Requirements 

• 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

  Testing Proficiency 75% Proven experience as a:

• 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

  Database Systems:         

• 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 Frameworks:

• Test Automation Tools (e.g., Selenium, Robotic)
• API Testing (REST, SOAP) Postman and Swagger
• AODA Testing tools

  Collaboration and communication: 25%

• Good team collaboration, documentation, problem solving and communication skills

We are looking for a Scrum Master! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Brief Description on Duties: Requirements: This work will require Reliability status Description of Service

• EDC is seeking a Scrum Master Service Provider to support EDC by creating the conditions for the team to frequently deliver high-user value / high-quality products, allow the team to self-organize, remove impediments, shield the team from outside distractions, and continuously promote and support the team’s use of Agile and Scrum.
• The Scrum Master Service Provider is to focus on developing a new and innovative solution for aggregating and displaying company information will be a facilitator who supports team members in applying Agile practices, processes, and behaviors for executing effectively and with quality; raises the performance of delivery teams through impediment management, continuous improvement, and ceremony facilitation.

Primary Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance and continuous improvement of Agile events and project/program management practices.
• Support the Product Owner to ensure teams actions are aligned with the Product goals, vision, and roadmap.
• Identify and action impediments that interfere with team progress and achievement of the team’s goals (for example, using burndown charts at stand-ups, reviewing OKRs (Objective and Key Results) on an ongoing basis, identifying risks etc.).
• Clear obstacles in the team’s path (for example, dependencies on other teams), maintain a list of risks, impediments, and improvements.
• Ability to navigate, communicate and decipher trends using team metrics (for example, velocity), DevOps, IT metrics along with barometer scores and progress against OKRs).
• Facilitate team events (planning sessions, retrospectives, mid-cycle reviews, and demos).
• Organize the processes of decomposition and story/task estimation. Co-ordinate cross-team technology dependencies.
• Coordinate interaction with other teams and any other relevant product level synchronizations.
• Support identification of trade-offs between short-term and long-term benefits to drive shared vision between the team and Product Owner.
• Identify ways to strengthen teams’ understanding and adoption of Agile concepts and principles.
• Foster a continuous learning environment, helping teams to inspect and adapt. Role model and coach Agile behaviors as needed.
• Create and maintain an atmosphere of trust through facilitation of retrospectives and feedback exchange among team members.
• Bring transparency to Business and IT organizations about team and Product development.
• Bring an element of project management skills to the team to assist in planning larger initiatives that require an organized timeline.

Specific Project/Platform Requirements

• Completed an undergraduate Degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or related field.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in project management, program management or business analysis.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience as a dedicated Scrum Master.

Skills Top Skills Required: Servant Leadership:

• Capable of building strong relationships with squads and individuals, building a reputation as a trusted advisor, coach, and friend.
• Contributor to fostering a healthy work environment and builds self-sufficiency within the squad by ensuring the talent and tools for success are available, and squads are empowered to leverage them.
• Effective navigator of communications within and beyond the squad to align stakeholders.

Coaching and facilitation:

• Capable of delivering effective coaching to squad members to help achieve the full potential of the individual and the squad.
• Strong supporter of squad members by helping them develop necessary skills and Agile expertise.
• Effective collaborator with the Product Owner and squad to drive towards achieving Product Vision and OKRs.
• Ability to lead proactive resolution of intra-or-inter squad conflicts.

Agile knowledge and expertise:

• Familiar with Agile and leverages relevant frameworks (e.g., Scrum or Kanban) to optimize squad outcomes.
• Grasps the details of squad members’ technical approaches and proactively drives initiatives to improve engineering practices.
• Fluent in customer centricity and effectively encourages the squad to uphold those principles. Effective at re-orienting the squads thinking around continuous iteration based on customer feedback when necessary.

Mindset and behaviors:

• Naturally and consistently brings enthusiasm and passion about the Enterprise Agile process to effectively encourage the squad to contribute to that environment.
• Adopts a growth mindset and promotes and open-feedback culture within the squad.

We are looking for a System Administrator! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Brief Description on Duties: Story Behind the Need: Combining the competencies of DevOps, Systems Administration, and Cloud Engineering, the role of Cloud Operations Engineer provides the opportunity to combine your technical ability, strategic thinking and detail-oriented execution in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. You will join a team with the purpose of constantly improving the reliability of our systems through continuous improvements to running infrastructure. You will work with application teams to deliver continuous improvements to applications and support the transformation of our approach to both operations and development. You will work with the Cloud Engineering team to design and implement tools and processes that monitor and respond to the state of our systems. Candidate Value Proposition: The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work within Scotiabank. We are technology partners who help the business transform how our employees around the world work. You will get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology and engage with the latest emerging technologies. Typical Day in Role:

• Manage reliability of critical infrastructure platforms on our Public Cloud Platforms (Google and Azure)
• Improve and maintain site availability, scalability, service and system performance
• Investigate system errors and problems, bottleneck analysis of the system at scale, etc.
• Provide solutions for performance management, disaster recovery, monitoring and access management
• Participate in solution design sessions
• Participate in planning and retrospective sessions, attending stand-ups, etc.
• Build and operate highly available and scalable software and infrastructure.
• Supporting application teams on the use of the platform including providing guidance on design patterns, best practices, and security considerations.
• Our teams are flexible and fast – you will be asked to provide peer review and quality control on a daily basis.
• Be part of on call rotation (occurs every 7 weeks; on call for 1 week).

Candidate Requirements/Must-Have skills:

• 8+ years of System Administration experience and/or Enterprise Operations skills
• 3-5+ years of experience OS Experience (RHEL 7.X and Windows 2K12 and above)
• 2+ years of experience developing in any of the following languages (Java, Javascript, Python, Ruby, Go, C#)
• 2+ years of experience supporting GCP and/or Azure; and Experience with Kubernetes (GKE & AKS)
• You have strong knowledge of Agile & Lean methodologies for requirements / design methodology

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Knowledge of software design patterns, infrastructure architecture, DevOps, or security considerations.
• Experience designing and implementing tasks in Continuous Integration systems (Jenkins, Travis, CircleCI, etc.).
• Understanding of software release process (environments, binary repositories, CI/CD).
• Experience with Tanzu (PCF), Pipelines, and other cloud development platforms
• Experience supporting containers, container orchestration platforms.
• Knowledge of network engineering – DNS, TCP/IP, Load balancing, DMZ, routing protocols, etc.
• Knowledge of Cloud security – Cryptographic key management, certificate infrastructures/PKI, secure coding practices, etc.
• Experience with Terraform
• Fluency in Spanish

Soft Skills:

• Ability to work on ambiguous problems of moderate complexity.
• Solid verbal and written communication skills.
• Attention to details, high standards for quality.
• Ability to work as part of a team, as well as work independently with minimal direction.

Best vs. Average Candidate:

• A self-starter with a strong sense of personal accountability and team responsibility.
• Detail oriented, analytical and capable of investigating complex / technical issues and provide alternative solutions, project & production methodologies.

Education:

• Post-secondary degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related IT field is an asset.

We are looking for a Senior Program Manager! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Brief Description on Duties: Description: The Government Mobile Communications Branch (GMCB) under the Ministry of Solicitor General (SolGen), has undertaken an ambitious project to upgrade Ontario s Public Safety Radio Network (PSRN). PSRN is one of the largest and most complex public safety radio networks in North America. It covers approximately 750,000 square KMs of area. PSRN serves more than 38,000 front-line and emergency responders, such as, police officers, enforcement officers, fire service staff and ambulance paramedics with the radio communications technology, equipment and other resources that they need to keep Ontarians safe. Responders use this technology to communicate with their dispatchers and one another when responding to emergencies. GMCB is executing this large project in collaboration with other ministries and partners including the Land and Resources I IT Cluster (LRC) who are leading and managing the PSRN project on behalf of its ministry partners: Ministry of Northern Development, Mines, Natural Resources and Forestry, Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks and Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. The successful candidate will oversee directly the LRC Stream Leads deliverables within the PSRN Program. Manage, lead, and plan in support of the transition of public safety radio within the partner ministry operations in such a way as to minimize operational impact while staying on track with the overall PSRN project. Assignment Supplier Comments: Closing Date/Time 2024-02-15, 10:00 a.m. Maximum # of supplier submissions: 1 Position is remote - in-office attendance required as needed by the client. Must Haves: At least 10 years of Program Management experience Knowledge and experience in managing large-scale telecommunications deployment initiatives. Experience managing large-scale, complex, integrated project plans. Radio/Telecom and/or Network Infrastructure Experience Experience leading meetings with stakeholders and clients and strong Stakeholder management skills Experience managing risks and issues that cross multiple internal/external organizations and sub-project streams. Experience developing and managing complex radio/telecommunication/network projects Nice to have: Knowledge and experience in the public sector is an asset Assignment Scope: Program Design Management Knowledge and experience in project managing large-scale telecommunications deployment initiatives. Experience developing complex network transition and migration strategies with cross-stream dependencies. Experience developing and implementing transition plans. Experience managing large-scale, complex, integrated project plans. Experience managing executive relationships and dealing with senior executives across multiple organizations. Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills Excellent verbal and written communication skills Highly developed interpersonal and negotiation skills A team player with a track record of meeting deadlines At least 10 years of Program Management experience Criteria Ratings MUST TOTAL 100 Program Management Experience 45 points Experience developing and implementing large-scale, complex, integrated project plans at a program level. Experience managing risks and issues that cross multiple internal/external organizations and sub-project streams. Experience managing multiple teams in an integrated fashion to achieve outcomes. A seasoned project professional with the ability to apply concepts, practices, and procedures to practical project scenarios. Works with minimal direction and can lead and train others in project management concepts and practice. High level of expertise in program/project management and able to provide advice to others as needed. Demonstrated experience in managing project activities across multiple complex technology projects. Knowledge or certification of industry standards such as Project Management Institute (PMI) and demonstrated experience in Project Management methodologies, producing documentation, collaterals, and artifacts Demonstrated IT project management experience managing all phases (Initiate, Plan, Execute, Monitor and Control, and Closeout) of large-scale, complex IT projects. Effectively manage large project budgets and ensure a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts, and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals Demonstrated experience identifying and evaluating specific issues or risks and providing options and recommendations. Demonstrated experience with applications used in project management: MS Office suite, MS Project and Planview Experience consolidating and integrating multiple project plans and managing interdependencies across various program streams. Experience creating and maintaining project management artifacts and collateral. Experience with meeting facilitation, minute creation, and action item tracking Experience working with both business users and technical teams. Experience creating various levels of reports (e.g. executive, summary, status, etc.) Experience leading portfolio-level planning sessions involving multiple program streams. Experience of working on projects or programs involving multiple highly inter-dependent applications and/or data sources Experience in vendor management, financial management, and procurement activities in projects Demonstrated experience preparing and issuing project updates and progress reports to stakeholders. Experience developing and implementing large-scale, complex transition plans. Experience managing vendor commitments to ensure contractual obligations are met. Experience providing oversight and direction for third-party vendor resources. Experience managing interdependencies related to key contract deliverables. Excellent planning and time management skills and a focus on attention to detail Experience of projects involving, network design, civil structures, user equipment distribution, and operations Experience with projects involving large numbers of users (over 30,000) and meeting their business requirements, training, and communications needs Communication and Relationship Management Experience 25 points Experience managing executive relationships and dealing with senior executives across multiple organizations. Experience building relationships with 3rd party vendors and effectively managing and reporting to governance. Leadership skills to align activities across several project streams and organizations. Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills Excellent verbal and written communication skills Strong communication and interpersonal skills to negotiate, collaborate, document, and achieve approvals from a wide variety of decision-makers. A team player with the ability to coordinate multiple tasks with competing priorities and strict deadlines. Experience reviewing and ensuring submitted documentation is complete and accurate Experience developing and presenting briefing notes, status reports, communications, team and executive presentations Experience leading meetings with stakeholders and clients and strong Stakeholder management skills Experience consulting with senior management to achieve project outcomes. A team player with a track record of meeting deadlines Demonstrated experience with acting independently and making decisions that achieve optimal results with minimal supervision. Detail-oriented and strong multitasking abilities in order to juggle multiple clients demands Radio/Telecom and/or Network Infrastructure Experience 25 points Experience developing and managing complex radio/telecommunication/network projects Public Sector Experience 5 points Knowledge and experience in the public sector Experience managing complex public sector multi-stakeholder and multi-level executive stakeholder project teams at a program level. Demonstrated experience developing mutually beneficial relationships with public sector entities Knowledge Transfer Completed Deliverables details. Processes used for Developing deliverables. Artifacts collected Project Manager / Team members 1:1 meetings/team meetings/documentation on the SharePoint site, throughout the duration of the project life cycle etc. Assignment Description: Provide senior-level program management and develop comprehensive project plans for the extremely large, complex, multi-ministry, multi-year, high profile and high risk PSRN project. Manage all stream lead activities throughout all phases of the project including establishing priorities and schedules; monitoring and reporting on progress and deliverables and managing issues and risks to ensure compliance with enterprise and corporate I IT standards, policies, directives, and vendor agreements. Identify resource requirements and physical and financial dependencies to help effectively manage the project and ensure a high level of fiscal control and accountability. Conduct project assessments and prepare business cases, project terms of reference and related documentation to facilitate senior level decision-making. Through effective program management ensure ministry business requirements and the PSRN project are aligned to best meet the needs of all stakeholders. Work with ministry clients to develop and implement key operational infrastructure and business practices as necessary to improve the ministry s ability to transition to the new PSRN without impacting any operational requirements for their Programs. Participate on committees and task forces at the Ministry, Cluster, and OPS levels to analyze the impact of changes to existing service levels and support structures. Develop, manage, and maintain the public safety radio portfolio for MNRF, MECP, and OMAFRA. This includes capital planning, asset planning, risk management, and operational planning. Manage the execution and implementation of radio project activities, directly or through stream lead members. Provide leadership, and guidance to staff in the setting of priorities, interpreting policies and procedures, problem-solving and assigning work to ensure efficient and effective implementation of the project and portfolio objectives. Plan, manage, and control all technical elements of the project in accordance with processes and corporate and industry standards to minimize risks, and meet time, cost, service delivery expectations. Through effective use of an Issues and Actions Log, identify, manage, and track resolution of complex issues. Effectively use a Risk Register to log, identify, manage, and track the mitigation, avoidance or acceptance of risks. Articulate and prioritize risks at senior executive levels and recommend risk mitigation strategies for decision-makers. Manage change through the effective use of a Change Register to log, track, and assess the impact of requested changes to the project scope. Amend project plans, schedules and budget to support implementation of approved changes. Prepare and deliver LRC PSRN Status Reports and Executive Dashboard updates to Senior and Executive Management including ADM Deputy Ministers and project stakeholders regularly. Lead/participate in steering committee and stakeholder forums. Manage project procurement through established processes for the acquisition of radio solutions. Lead the development of long-term capital planning and forecasting for PSRN LRC ministries. Participate in the development of operational and strategic planning for LRC and its ministries. Optional extensions will have travel associated. Contract Value:$276,403.00 CAD Must Haves:

• At least 10 years of Program Management experience
• Knowledge and experience in managing large-scale telecommunications deployment initiatives.
• Experience managing large-scale, complex, integrated project plans.
• Radio/Telecom and/or Network Infrastructure Experience
• Experience leading meetings with stakeholders and clients and strong Stakeholder management skills
• Experience managing risks and issues that cross multiple internal/external organizations and sub-project streams.
• Experience developing and managing complex radio/telecommunication/network projects

Nice to Have Knowledge and experience in the public sector is an asset. Program Manager Description

• Provide senior-level program management and develop comprehensive project plans for the extremely large, complex, multi-ministry, multi-year, high profile and high risk PSRN project.
• Manage all stream lead activities throughout all phases of the project including establishing priorities and schedules; monitoring and reporting on progress and deliverables and managing issues and risks to ensure compliance with enterprise and corporate I&IT standards, policies, directives, and vendor agreements.
• Identify resource requirements and physical and financial dependencies to help effectively manage the project and ensure a high level of fiscal control and accountability.
• Conduct project assessments and prepare business cases, project terms of reference and related documentation to facilitate senior level decision-making.
• Through effective program management ensure ministry business requirements and the PSRN project are aligned to best meet the needs of all stakeholders.
• Work with ministry clients to develop and implement key operational infrastructure and business practices as necessary to improve the ministry's ability to transition to the new PSRN without impacting any operational requirements for their Programs.
• Participate on committees and task forces at the Ministry, Cluster, and OPS levels to analyze the impact of changes to existing service levels and support structures.
• Develop, manage, and maintain the public safety radio portfolio for MNRF, MECP, and OMAFRA. This includes capital planning, asset planning, risk management, and operational planning.
• Manage the execution and implementation of radio project activities, directly or through stream lead members.
• Provide leadership, and guidance to staff in the setting of priorities, interpreting policies and procedures, problem-solving and assigning work to ensure efficient and effective implementation of the project and portfolio objectives.
• Plan, manage, and control all technical elements of the project in accordance with processes and corporate and industry standards to minimize risks, and meet time, cost, service delivery expectations.
• Through effective use of an Issues and Actions Log, identify, manage, and track resolution of complex issues.
• Effectively use a Risk Register to log, identify, manage, and track the mitigation, avoidance or acceptance of risks.
• Articulate and prioritize risks at senior executive levels and recommend risk mitigation strategies for decision-makers.
• Manage change through the effective use of a Change Register to log, track, and assess the impact of requested changes to the project scope.
• Amend project plans, schedules and budget to support implementation of approved changes.
• Prepare and deliver LRC PSRN Status Reports and Executive Dashboard updates to Senior and Executive Management including ADM & Deputy Ministers and project stakeholders regularly.
• Lead/participate in steering committee and stakeholder forums.
• Manage project procurement through established processes for the acquisition of radio solutions.
• Lead the development of long-term capital planning and forecasting for PSRN LRC ministries.
• Participate in the development of operational and strategic planning for LRC and its ministries.

Optional extensions will have travel associated. Skills Experience and Skill Set Requirements

• Program Design & Management
• Knowledge and experience in project managing large-scale telecommunications deployment initiatives.
• Experience developing complex network transition and migration strategies with cross-stream dependencies.
• Experience developing and implementing transition plans.
• Experience managing large-scale, complex, integrated project plans.
• Experience managing executive relationships and dealing with senior executives across multiple organizations.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Highly developed interpersonal and negotiation skills
• A team player with a track record of meeting deadlines
• At least 10 years of Program Management experience

Program Management Experience

• Experience developing and implementing large-scale, complex, integrated project plans at a program level.
• Experience managing risks and issues that cross multiple internal/external organizations and sub-project streams.
• Experience managing multiple teams in an integrated fashion to achieve outcomes.
• A seasoned project professional with the ability to apply concepts, practices, and procedures to practical project scenarios.
• Works with minimal direction and can lead and train others in project management concepts and practice.
• High level of expertise in program/project management and able to provide advice to others as needed.
• Demonstrated experience in managing project activities across multiple complex technology projects.
• Knowledge or certification of industry standards such as Project Management Institute (PMI) and demonstrated experience in Project Management methodologies, producing documentation, collaterals, and artifacts
• Demonstrated IT project management experience managing all phases (Initiate, Plan, Execute, Monitor and Control, and Closeout) of large-scale, complex IT projects.
• Effectively manage large project budgets and ensure a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts, and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals
• Demonstrated experience identifying and evaluating specific issues or risks and providing options and recommendations.
• Demonstrated experience with applications used in project management: MS Office suite, MS Project and Planview
• Experience consolidating and integrating multiple project plans and managing interdependencies across various program streams.
• Experience creating and maintaining project management artifacts and collateral.
• Experience with meeting facilitation, minute creation, and action item tracking
• Experience working with both business users and technical teams.
• Experience creating various levels of reports (e.g. executive, summary, status, etc.)
• Experience leading portfolio-level planning sessions involving multiple program streams.
• Experience of working on projects or programs involving multiple highly inter-dependent applications and/or data sources
• Experience in vendor management, financial management, and procurement activities in projects
• Demonstrated experience preparing and issuing project updates and progress reports to stakeholders.
• Experience developing and implementing large-scale, complex transition plans.
• Experience managing vendor commitments to ensure contractual obligations are met.
• Experience providing oversight and direction for third-party vendor resources
• Experience managing interdependencies related to key contract deliverables.
• Excellent planning and time management skills and a focus on attention to detail
• Experience of projects involving, network design, civil structures, user equipment distribution, and operations
• Experience with projects involving large numbers of users (over 30,000) and meeting their business requirements, training, and communications needs

Communication and Relationship Management Experience

• Experience managing executive relationships and dealing with senior executives across multiple organizations.
• Experience building relationships with 3rd party vendors and effectively managing and reporting to governance.
• Leadership skills to align activities across several project streams and organizations.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to negotiate, collaborate, document, and achieve approvals from a wide variety of decision-makers.
• A team player with the ability to coordinate multiple tasks with competing priorities and strict deadlines.
• Experience reviewing and ensuring submitted documentation is complete and accurate
• Experience developing and presenting briefing notes, status reports, communications, team & and executive presentations
• Experience leading meetings with stakeholders and clients and strong Stakeholder management skills
• Experience consulting with senior management to achieve project outcomes.
• A team player with a track record of meeting deadlines
• Demonstrated experience with acting independently and making decisions that achieve optimal results with minimal supervision.
• Detail-oriented and strong multitasking abilities in order to juggle multiple clients demands

Radio/Telecom and/or Network Infrastructure Experience

• Experience developing and managing complex radio/telecommunication/network projects

Public Sector Experience

• Knowledge and experience in the public sector
• Experience managing complex public sector multi-stakeholder and multi-level executive stakeholder project teams at a program level.
• Demonstrated experience developing mutually beneficial relationships with public sector entities

Knowledge Transfer

• Completed Deliverables details.
• Processes used for Developing deliverables.
• Artifacts collected
• Project Manager / Team members

We are looking for a Infrastructure Support Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Brief Description on Duties:   What is the opportunity? This position provides implementation, administration, support, monitoring and/or maintenance of the Server environment. Responsible for timely user problem resolution, including problem recognition, project resource, isolation and resolution/escalation.   What will you do?

• Day-to-day server administration and support. Key technologies include Microsoft Windows Server 2016/2019, Active Directory, VMware, NetApp, CISCO.
• Promptly respond to and rectify system instability or failure.
• Upgrades and enhancements to maintain the infrastructure hardware and software.
• Maintain IT documentation.
• Implement IT policies, procedures, and best practices to meet the needs of the organization and ensure they are being followed.
• Actively discuss, review, and recommend technical options and activities with the team.
• Proactively make recommendations to resolve technical system issues.
• Benchmark, analyze, report on, and make recommendations for the improvement and growth of the IT infrastructure and IT systems.
• At all times, interface with various members of the organization in a professional, calm, helpful and courteous manner.
• Adopts and shares best practices among colleagues.

  What do you need to succeed? Must Have:

• Advanced knowledge of Windows, Active Directory, VMware, Storage and Networking
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work with multiple teams and stakeholders
• Ability to analyze incident response and escalate to so correct resources are brought in to solve incident

  Nice to Have:

• NetApp certification
• CISCO networking

We are looking for a Financial Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!     Brief Description on Duties:   Story Behind the Need: The team is currently looking to backfill a key member of the project who will be leaving for maternity leave. The contractor will be able to train under the current FTE team member prior to their leave but the team is looking for someone who can jump into the day to day tasks. Project: The successful will be responsible for providing, and if directed leading a loan operations team in delivering, quality administrative services to Clients of corporate credit facilities generated by GBM and other units as required wherein the Bank is an agent, participant lender or direct lender in a credit facility. The incumbent will be responsible, as directed, for supervising a team of loan Analyst and working with the Manager/ other Assistant Managers to oversee completion of operational duties in a timely manner, maintaining team productivity to target, execute staffing plans, monitor and oversee operational controls and form part of the working management team Candidate Value Proposition: The successful candidate will be working on a central project and have the opportunity to gain experience in one of Canada’s top 5 banks. They will also gain experience working in a high volume, fast paced work environment and learn under senior members of the team. Typical Day in Role:

• Leads and drives a customer focused culture throughout their team to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• As directed, managing a team that administer loan information given by Customers on syndicated or direct deals including verification of limit available, accuracy of calculations, and disbursement/application of funds.
• Administers instructions by Agents on participations and customers on direct and agented deals including verification of limit availability, accuracy of calculations and disbursement/application of funds.
• Ensuring that terms and conditions of authorizations and/or loan documentation are being adhered to including pricing, term, limits etc.
• Communicating effectively with various contacts including other Banks to resolve issues on a timely basis.
• Recognizing and bringing exceptions to policies and procedures to the attention of Manager/Senior Manager/Director for further guidance and resolution.
• Developing a solid knowledge of loan platform, ACBS and Loan IQ to ensure accuracy of posting accounting entries to source system and business line dissemination. .
• Assist Manager, Senior Manager and Director in various team-related tasks, resolution of exception items as well as special project-related work
• Oversee and monitor team productivity, staffing and work volume information and report to Manager/Senior Manager on a weekly basis.
• Provide guidance and coaching to immediate team staff.
• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Creates an environment in which his/her team pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational risk, regulatory compliance risk, AML/ATF risk and conduct risk, including but not limited to responsibilities under the Operational Risk Management Framework, Regulatory Compliance Risk Management Framework, AML/ATF Global Handbook and the Guidelines for Business Conduct.
• Builds a high performance environment and implements a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and motivates their team by fostering an inclusive work environment; communicating vison/values/business strategy and managing succession and development planning for the team.

Candidate Requirements/Must-Have skills:

• 5-7 Years as a Financial Analyst
• 3+ Years Working with corporate lending services
• 3+ Years Experience with Loan IQ
• Solid working knowledge with MS Suite – Excel, Word, Power Point etc.,
• Prior Experience providing Customer Service in a Financial Institute

Nice to Have:

• Prior FI Experience
• Credit Facility Knowledge

Soft Skills:

• High attention to detail and ability to stay organized with high volume work load.
• Good time management and organization skills in order to co-ordinate multiple training sessions and complete training material in a timely fashion
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Education/Experience:

• Post-secondary or relevant work experience

We are looking for a Java Developer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!     Brief Description on Duties: Story Behind the Need Global Payments Technology Solutions and Support (OU20016362) Business group: Trade and Supply Chain Finance Products Project: Trade Services Input Facility Enhancement – Enhance and streamline automation of some of their business operations – The application is running and the project is to enhance the app with an expected completion date of end of November for development Candidate Value Proposition: The successful candidate will have the opportunity to enhance an existing critical application by developing code and working with the trade finance business team. Typical Day in Role:

• 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.

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

• 10+ years of experience designing, developing, and implementing web applications using Java and related technologies (e.g. JSP, Servlets, HTML5, Hibernate, jQuery, Tomcat 9+) to support business requirements.
• 3-5 years of experience with Struts 1.x preferred if not Spring framework experience
• 3-5 years of experience working with SQL
• Proficiency using Microsoft Excel
• Hands-on experience in designing, developing, and successful deployment of Medium scale projects from end-to-end.
• Hands-on experience in following the iterative and agile SDL

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Previous experience using JXLS preferred

Soft Skills Required:

• Problem-solving skills are important for success in this role.
• Communication skills
• Organization skills
• Time management skills
• Team Player
• Fast learner and taking initiative of own training speed
• Positive Attitude

Best VS. Average Candidate:

• The best candidate will have extensive experience developing web applications and has all the must-have skills in particular experience in Struts 1.x.

Education & Certificates:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required 10+ years experience required