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We are looking for a Infrastructure Support Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Infrastructure Support Analyst
Term: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – on-site
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1412
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.
- 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
- NetApp certification
- CISCO networking
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| Job Category | Infrastructure Support Analyst |
We are looking for a Financial Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Financial Analyst
Term: Contract – 12 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 3 days on-site
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1409
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.
- 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
- Prior FI Experience
- Credit Facility Knowledge
- 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.
- Post-secondary or relevant work experience
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| Job Category | Financial Analyst |
We are looking for a Java Developer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Java Developer
Term: Contract – 9 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Mostly remote
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1410
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.
- 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
- Previous experience using JXLS preferred
- 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
- The best candidate will have extensive experience developing web applications and has all the must-have skills in particular experience in Struts 1.x.
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required 10+ years experience required
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| Job Category | Java Developer |
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 3 days on-site
Industry: Government
Job ID number: C1409
Brief Description on Duties:
Must-haves:
- Knowledge and experience with crating, augmenting and negotiating Licensing agreements
- Practical knowledge with financial analysis, forecasting and tracking multi-year engagements
- 10+ years of Integrated Enterprise project management experience across business and I&IT teams.
- Experience with the management of Stakeholders, risks, changes, issues, time, scope and resources.
- Experience with I&IT technology site deployment/rollout.
- Practical experience with crating, modifying and negotiating Licensing agreements
- Practical knowledge with financial analysis, forecasting and tracking multi-year engagements
- Experience with Public Sector ITIL process including incident management, release management, problem management, support models, etc.
- Experience with Service Ontario/Ministry of Government and Consumer Services business processes, gating procedures, project management requirements and business rules.
- Knowledge of Ontario Government network and desktop infrastructure procurement, implementation and support models.
- 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.
- 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 experience with crating, augmenting and negotiating Licencing agreements
- Practical knowledge with financial analysis, forecasting and tracking multi-year engagements
- 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
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| Job Category | Project Manager |
We are looking for a BI Developer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: BI Developer
Term: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 3 days a week on-site
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1408
Brief Description on Duties:
Job Description:
- Develop and understand business drivers, definitions, and metrics to interpret findings, take-action, and provide meaningful business direction.
- Develop and maintain specialized Business Intelligence (BI) packages, dashboards and scorecards on the MS Azure Cloud Platform
- Manage the repository of all reporting assets including and not limited to data analysis, development scripts, objects and documentation.
- Maintain expert knowledge of all main data sources for the data used within the business unit and ability to effectively utilize these data sources
- Lead the discussion with business partners to understand business objectives and develop valuable reporting for enablement and fact based decisioning
- Validate the quality and integrity of the data included in all artifacts
- Develop substantial and insightful commentary/insights on new and existing BI packages
- Work independently as the senior analyst / expert and may provide technical support to others
- Enthusiastic and focused self-starter who can work with minimal supervision to strict deadlines and is able to prioritize, multitask, and manage various projects simultaneously
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to work with various level of management and senior management to convey findings concisely through presentations and business commentaries
- Strong ownership mentality, proactive attitude, and ability to get things done
- Demonstrated passionate analytical thinker with track record of delivering business impact and results through developing and executing on innovative BI solutions
- Strong problem-solving skills, with a history of using data to understand not only what is happening, but why it is happening, and what can be done to resolve the issue
- Strong organizational skills, with the ability to excel in a fast-paced environment and run multiple deadlines and priorities
- 8+ Experience in business or financial reporting/business insights and analysis development, is knowledgeable and savvy with new technology and tools preferably within the global financial services and back-office operations
- Experience working in Agile environment
- 5+ Hands-on experience in using business intelligence, analytics and/or data visualization tools (ex: Tableau)
- 2+ Experience with Python, Databricks
- 5+ years SQL
- Strong team player who fosters and thrives in an environment of peer development and sharing
- Strong analytically-anchored problem-solving skills – a logical and strategic thinker with strong critical reasoning skills, proactively identifies risks and issues, recommends solutions, challenges the status quo
- Experience with Microsoft Azure is desired
- 2+ years JIRA and Confluence
- Undergraduate degree or above preferably in an analytically based discipline. Master preferred.
- 8-10 years of relevant experience
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| Job Category | BI Developer, BI Developers |
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: Toronto – Hybrid once/twice a week
Industry: Government
Job ID number: C1407
Brief Description on Duties:
Must haves:
- Minimum 5 years’ experience project managing electronic health-related projects, ideally with experience deploying clinical software systems
- Experience working in the public sector, preferably in a health care setting.
- Experience with and knowledge of Project Management concepts (e.g. project goals, risk, scope, participant roles, planning and quality management)
- Experience with budgeting and financial management
- Excellent Communication skills both verbal and written, and strong stakeholder engagement skills
- Time Management, with the ability to manage tight deadlines and prioritize multiple projects
- Collaboration, coordinating tasks, and ensuring that everybody works together effectively, this also involves conflict resolution
- Collaborate closely with the Ontario Health Privacy Team to establish an efficient process for conducting privacy impact assessments on all new/modified services, spaces, and/or service delivery modes.
- Take the lead in planning, coordinating, and overseeing internal privacy reviews, data privacy impact assessments, and external assessments.
- Work in collaboration with various programs to systematically review, update, and archive all corporate policies, ensuring alignment with privacy standards.
- Assess new applications and business processes that necessitate access to personal health information, ensuring strict adherence to privacy standards, legislation, and industry best practices.
- Planning & strategy development for replacement of acCDR and existing viewers
- Provincial Clinical Viewer integration - planning/design/develop/UAT
- Planning audit data migrations for existing clinical viewers
- Change management preparation activities
- Provincial Clinical Viewer Pilot
- Provincial Clinical Viewer Roll out
- Decommission of existing viewers
- Provides project management on a large scale, complex, high profile and high risk project
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Professional certifications: Project Management Professional; Knowledge and understanding of Project Management’s Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge
- Demonstrated project management software skills and experience e.g. MS Project, MS Teams etc.
- College/University undergraduate degree in Health, Business or related discipline from a recognized institution or equivalent experience
- Knowledge of Healthcare Information Systems used throughout the province of Ontario
- Experience with health system business implementation and deployment projects
- Proven track record working with health care professionals; direct clinical data experience or experience working with clinicians would be an asset
- Experience in liaising with customers/stakeholders where customer service was a key focus to responding to queries, issues/risk management, etc.
- Relationship building, facilitation and influencing skills to successfully partner with internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to readily identify, assess and mitigate implementation and adoption issues
- Experience with and/or knowledge of change management, workflow analysis and redesign, business process integration, and/or evaluation/quality improvement, preferably in the health sector
- Experience operating in highly political environments and across various organizational cultures
- Working knowledge of privacy policies and legislative processes – Health Protection and Promotion Act (HPPA), Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) and Personal Health Information
- Protection Act (PHIPA) and associated Health Information Custodian (HIC) requirements
- Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices
- 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
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| Job Category | Project Manager |
We are looking for a Quality Assurance Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Quality Assurance Analyst
Term: Contract – 12 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 3 days on-site
Industry: Government
Job ID number: C1407
Brief Description on Duties:
Responsibilities:
- Collaborates with product managers, product owners, and technical team to develop test strategies and test plans
- Strong understanding of manual testing practices to support developing manual test scripts, test cases and/or test scenarios
- Assist with planning and creating test data as it relates to each test phase
- Executes quality assurance and testing activities for various types of testing such as integration testing, functional testing, regression testing, unit testing, load testing, performance testing and accessibility testing
- Plans and organizes testing efforts in both front-end and back-end application components/environments
- Communicate test results regularly through reports that summarize test completion and defects found
- Help with the implementation of the project technical testing strategy and methodology. This includes testing of integration points and interfaces and non-functional requirements (e.g. fail-over, component response times, data integrity, security)
- Evaluate test results against acceptance criteria to determine successful completion of the sprint increment
- Defines and measures acceptance criteria for test cases
- Record all defects/issues in the Cluster’s defect reporting tool (Jira), including detailed descriptions, screenshots, and steps to re-produce
- Participate in elicitation and business requirement workshop sessions, sprint reviews and/or walkthrough meetings
- Work with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the agile / iterative solution development lifecycle
- Conducts post-release / post-implementation testing
- Supports clients with user acceptance testing (UAT) activities
- Creates traceability matrix to ensure testing outcomes align with business requirements
- Coordinate and facilitate regular defect review meetings with Business Analysis’ and Business stakeholders
- Provide testing and defect status updates in daily scrum stand-ups, team meetings as required
- Provide weekly report confirming status of assigned tasks
- Knowledge transfer is expected to occur throughout the duration of the assignment through regular meetings, touchpoints, and working sessions with LRC staff
- All design, development, artefacts, and source code, including all relevant and complete documents must be transferred to the ministry in the designated repositories provided
- Dedicated knowledge transfer sessions will be scheduled to ensure completeness of knowledge transfer and all documentation is shared, and allow LRC staff to ask clarification and/or follow up questions
- 10+ years experience developing Test Cases/Scripts and Data Requirements, develop test scenarios, test cases for manual testing
- 10+ years experience develop test cases/scripts as well as test data, ensuring all of the Business requirements are met by creating a traceability matrix.
- 10+ years experience developing technical testing strategies / plans
- 10+ years experience testing non-functional requirements (e.g. fail-over, component response times, data integrity, security)
- 10+ years experience executing testing activities for a number of types of testing such as:
- Integration testing
- o Unit testing
- o Regression testing
- o Functional testing
- o Accessibility testing
- o Non-functional testing
- Demonstrated experience in developing test plans, test scripts and test data; documenting software defects and tracking resolutions.
- Experience with User Acceptance Testing and leading initial UAT sessions
- Experience with agile methodology
- Excellent analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Excellent meeting facilitation skills to gather requirements
- Experience reporting progress on deliverables to team, project leads and management, including proactively raising risks/issues with mitigations
- Strong stakeholder management skills
- Demonstrated experience working with clients and technical teams to ensure effective resolution of defects and management of change requests are complete
- Experience with User Acceptance Testing and leading initial UAT sessions
- Experience in testing enterprise level systems and exposure to ministry QA processes and standards within OPS
- Previous experience working in Government or Public Sector organizations.
- Demonstrated knowledge of Public Sector applications, databases and systems while testing
- Experience working in accordance with policies and procedures of the Ontario Public Service
- Working knowledge of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA)
- Experience in quality assurance at the specified experience level
- Experience in testing Commercial off the Shelf Software (COTS/SaaS solutions), preferably Oracle Siebel Public Sector
- Working knowledge of SharePoint, .NET Web, Web Services, HTML, JavaScript, VBScript and related scripting technologies for automation
- Knowledge and experience in the use of test tools and methodologies (Waterfall/Agile/Iterative)
- 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.
- Product cycle (functional & non-functional) testing experience
- Test case & Test Scenario design and review experience (from business requirements)
- Test case development experience
- Experience in defect tracking
- Test scenarios (use-cases) design and review
- Experience in writing manual/automated test scripts
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| Job Category | QA Analyst |
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: Toronto – Hybrid
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1406
Brief Description on Duties:
Description:
Individual Accountabilities:
- Responsible for executing technical and business projects across multiple stakeholders; developing analysis to support process and project improvements
- Manages and coordinates business and technical projects through all phases of initiation, development and implementation using SDLC methodology
- Works with clients to define and manage the scope, strategy, requirements, and implementation of projects
- Ensures that assigned projects are completed within budgets and schedules while meeting client business objectives
- Identifies, analyzes, mitigates, documents, and controls project risks
- Provides effective and regular communication within the project team, stakeholders, sponsors, and management
- Identifies resource needs for the project and establishes roles, expectations, and goals with team members
- Drives the assessment and management and mitigation of project risks that impede successful project delivery
- Reports on and manages project resource tracking and budgets for project area
- Understands nature of impact and creates lessons learned for future delivery
- Strong contributor able to enable others within immediate team
- Manage all aspects of the digital product development lifecycle, including project scoping, resource assignment, project plan development, budget management, project tracking, monitoring and reporting through the application of proven project management principles and methodologies.
- Develop and maintain all project documentation (Project Plan, Issue and Action Logs, Risk Management, Communication Plan, Status Reports, Post Implementation Reviews, etc.).
- Identify benefits expected from initiatives and conduct post implementation reviews to report on and track results.
- Pull together resources effectively to implement projects. Orchestrate multiple activities at once to accomplish objectives.
- Use critical thinking skills to anticipate and manage potential risks that will arise. Communicate these to the stakeholders on a regular basis and ensure decisions are made quickly and effectively.
- 7 -10 years progressive experience in project management, preferably in projects associated within the Human Resources domain
- Experience implementing Candidate Relationship Management applications associated with all aspects of recruitment and hiring
- Have expertise in managing both waterfall and Agile/Scrum project methodologies; PMP or CSM designation would be an asset
- Experience with both SDLC and Agile methodologies
- Experience with Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence, etc.) a plus.
- Sound foundational knowledge of IT infrastructure and architecture.
- Strong project financial forecasting and cost management
- Vendor management experience would be an asset
- Experience in defining and completing fit / gap analysis of technology solutions
- Understanding of IS Risk review processes and controls for technology implementations
- Ability to communicate effectively in both technical and non-technical terms.
- Has experience overseeing programmers, database admins, system engineers and architects, server admins, security admins, network engineers, vendor SME's, functional business managers
- Demonstrates skill, and strong interpersonal skills for the role across the project
- Strong working knowledge and experience of area of practice
- Use knowledge of the discipline and the market to suggest alternate approach options to leadership based on current project obstacles and objectives
- High standard of work within the project applying both skills and experience
- Links actions to clear outcomes
- Working knowledge of the business needs related to the project with some industry awareness of key trends
- Constantly learns from both success and failure
- Good organizational and problem-solving abilities that enable you to manage through creative abrasion
- Good verbal and written communication; able to effectively articulate technical vision, possibilities, and outcomes to technical and non-technical audience
- Strong analytical skills, copes with complex situations using both skills and experience to lead to the right outcome
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| Job Category | Project Manager |
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 – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1405
Brief Description on Duties:
The team is extending the trade surveillance and a new system needs to be implemented. The successful candidate will be conducting UAT testing to ensure operation runs smoothly.
Global Compliance Trade Surveillance (GCTS) Team is seeking a Trade Surveillance Analyst to join our team. We are building a leading, best-in-class, Global Compliance function to maintain customer trust, deliver efficiencies across business units, and to be trusted advisors and partners in protecting the Bank’s reputation and strengthen the overall Compliance program.
Candidate Value Proposition:
- The successful candidate will be working on high-visibility initiative with opportunities to grow within the corporation.
- Translate business needs into requirements, identify opportunities for process improvement and ensuring delivered solutions meet business expectations in managing/mitigating risks.
- Act as a resource for the team by supporting the OTC Trade Surveillance department Senior Manager(s) and assisting Compliance Officers and other Senior Compliance Officers in the execution of their duties.
- Act as Subject matter expert for issues involving business divisions, Operations, Finance and any other external group as required.
- Execute test cases in Trades Surveillance solution/applicable source system(s) and document results from testing in JIRA.
- Act independently, conduct research and perform analyses in support of regulatory or marketplace inquiries, investigations and/or examinations; including internal matters escalated to Trade Surveillance.
- Recommend solutions and actions to resolve outstanding issues. Escalate matters requiring further investigation or specialist assistance.
- Develop and deliver periodic and ad hoc compliance training for team members based upon particular expertise. This may, on occasion, extend to external stakeholders.
- Supports effectiveness testing of business supervision related processes and controls, including identification of gaps in the existing trade surveillance processes.
- Assist in the development and enhancement of policies, procedures and processes of the surveillance program. Assist other team members in continually evaluating compliance procedures and in drafting and updating procedures. Provide back-up support within the team and work on other projects as assigned.
- Assist in the risk assessment of existing controls in adherence with enterprise risk assessment procedures and standards.
- Analyze and process data relevant to KRIs and KPIs to monitor the effectiveness of the GCTS program.
- Develop and maintain productive relationships with key stakeholders.
- Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
- Champion a customer focused culture and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
- Champions a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.
- 5+ years of experience with foreign exchange, fixed income, commodities and/or OTC derivatives trading markets , including knowledge of hedging and other trading strategies
- 8+ years of related trading or surveillance experience at a financial institution and/or regulated securities dealer
- 5+ years’ experience in building testing strategies and executing UAT
- Previous experience in identifying external market activity, news and additional factors that may influence trading activities
- 2+ years of regulatory and compliance experience
- Canadian Securities Course, Conduct and Practices Handbook Course, and/or the Trader Training Course are helpful
- An understanding of the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) dealer rules
- Able to work independently and with other staff across functional lines within the Bank
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Post-Secondary education and/or professional designations
- The best candidate would have strong trade surveillance experience and planning and test execution experience as well.
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| Job Category | Business 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 – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1404
Brief Description on Duties:
Candidate Value Proposition:
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work alongside many different professionals and have many chances to learn new skills, specifically within accessibility testing. The team is looking to convert the contractor at the end of the contract term.
Typical Day in Role:
- Execute test plans, scenarios, scripts or procedures
- Test system modifications to prepare for implementation
- Develop testing programs that addresses areas such as database impacts, software scenarios, or usability
- Document software defects, using a bug tracking system, and report defects to software developers
- Identify, analyze and document problems with program function, output, online screen or content
- Monitor bug resolution efforts and track successes
- Create or maintain databases of known test defects
- Plan test schedules or strategies in accordance with project scope or delivery dates
- Experience in testing software
- Experience in writing test documentation such as Test Plans, scripts and test results reports
- Ability to analyze/interpret test results and provide recommendations to improve testing
- Willing to help manual testing team and work with them to identify automatable test cases and reduce regression test workload.
- In conjunction with the development team, decide where to build automated and manual tests, develop/create test data, construct and execute exploratory, system, regression, migration, back-end, and user acceptance tests and determine whether to create automation frameworks.
- Write clear and concise defect reports and work as an empathetic advocate for the user’s quality experience. Triage and prioritize defects for remediation, with the Product Owner and development team.
- Conduct exploratory testing to find bugs that other testing means would not find during every sprint and drive testing workshops.
- Willing to help manual testing team and work with them to identify automatable test cases and reduce regression test workload.
- Design test approach, Develop Test Strategies and Plans. Align test cases to requirements and user stories.
- 3+ years of experience in architecting and building automated testing frameworks, make decisions on using data driven, keyword driven, hybrid or Behavior Driven Development (BDD) frameworks. (Go above and beyond the traditional approaches to automate, and build custom automation scripts to test repetitive tasks, create test data or regression test high value test cases.)
- 2+ years of experience in tools Selenium, TestNG, LogBack, Rest Assured Library, Allure, and Java language.
- 2+ years Experience in Postman
- Familiarity with the concept of in-sprint automation and integrating test scripts with DevOps tools like Jenkins, Artifactory.
- 2+ years of Experience in SQL Query and SQL Developer for data base testing
- Familiarity with SaaS and cloud-based operating model.
- Experience in performing accessibility testing activities by ensuring accuracy of guidelines and overall accessible quality of the application under test by using NVDA Screen Reader, Lighthouse, keyboard Testing, Screen magnification, Color Contrast tools
- Experience in AEM Authoring Testing
- Experience in Cross browser and devices testing with Selenium Grid, BrowserStack, SouceLabs etc.
- Experience in JIRA/Confluence
- Bitbucket/Git suite and managing test cases, test plans using Jira plugins like X-ray or Zephyr
- Excellent Communication
- Proactive attitude and eager to learn
- Organization and accuracy
- Post-Secondary degree in Engineering, Information Technology, or related field
- The ideal candidate would have strong API automation experience and would have AEM Authoring Testing experience as well Accessibility testing experience.
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| Job Category | QA Analyst |
We are looking for a Java Developer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Java Developer
Term: Contract – 12 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1404
Brief Description on Duties:
Responsibilities
The candidate will work on the global transaction banking development team, will working on vendor based and in house applications to develop and deliver various business requirements.
Must Haves:
- Java and springboot
- React experience
- Restapi’s
- CICD tolls
- Jira and confluence
- Agile experience
- Devops experience
- Banking experience
- Transaction and payments
- Azure Cloud experience
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| Job Category | Java Developer |
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: Toronto – Hybrid
Industry: Government
Job ID number: C1402
Brief Description on Duties:
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.
- 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
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| Job Category | Project Manager |
We are looking for a SQL Developer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: SQL Developer
Term: Contract – 10 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1401
Brief Description on Duties:
Typical Day in Role
- Working with BA and project managers and essentially implementing the relationships data base objects
- Take technical descriptions and create procedures, functions, manuals, etc.
- Work with senior management, technical and client teams in order to determine data requirements, business data implementation approaches, best practices for advanced data manipulation, storage and analysis strategies
- Write and code logical and physical database descriptions and specify identifiers of database to management system or direct others in coding descriptions
- Design, implement, automate and maintain large scale enterprise data ETL processes
- Modify existing databases and database management systems and/or direct programmers and analysts to make changes
- Test programs or databases, correct errors and make necessary modifications
- 8+ years of experience of SQL development – preferably within a bank or similar FI
- 3+ years of experience with Oracle RDBMS and Oracle SQL*Plus
- Recent experience with all of ServiceNow, JIRA, and Confluence is required
- Experience with UNIX shell scripting
- Backend development (Python, C#, C++, Java, all acceptable) experience is highly preferred
- AML/ATF experience is an asset
- Spanish speaking is an asset, but not critical to success
- Strong communication skills both written and verbal
- This is a very technical role, communication is not the most important aspect
- Candidate must be a team player, that does not need to be micromanaged – wants someone who can get up and hit the ground running everyone morning without necessarily being told what to do
- Ability to manage assigned tasks and expectations without direct instruction or oversight
- Fast, adaptable learner who can hit the ground running
- Ability to work well under pressure while demonstrating strong professionalism
- Must be able to collaborate closely with a team at times, while also being capable of holding themselves accountable to meet individual deadlines without hand holding
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required
- Any Oracle Database certifications are preferred
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| Job Category | SQL Developer |
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
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1400
Brief Description on Duties:
Story Behind the Need
Business group: Data & AI Risk
The Data and Artificial Intelligence Risk (DAIR) team is looking for a highly motivated change agent who demonstrates integrity, drive and courage to lead the execution of the Data Risk second line review process.
As a member of the team, the success candidate will be responsible for driving data risk related oversight activities and have an opportunity to work with a collaborative team of inspiring professionals to help deliver the Enterprise DAIR Program objectives.
The candidate will participate in the Data Remediation Audit Program, which is a key Program at the Bank, through leading and performing data risk effective challenge and oversight over data related controls implemented by the first line of defense.
Candidate Value Proposition:
Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture. Participate in a highly visible, enterprise-wide program working alongside different stakeholders with opportunities to grow within the organization.
Typical Day in Role:
- Participate in the Data Remediation Audit Program, which is a key Program at the Bank, through leading and performing data risk effective challenge and oversight over data related controls implemented by the first line of defense
- Provide expertise and advice to the first line of defense on effective design and implementation of data risk controls, metrics, compliance, and risk mitigation activities
- Through second line testing: execute risk assessments, document findings, and conduct analysis of the remediation plans in a timely manner
- Exercise sound judgment in reporting and escalating risks or issues to senior management
- Monitor and report progress of assessment execution to required internal stakeholders
- Support in the delivery and execution of the Data Risk Management Program, as required
- Identify opportunities and execute enhancements to the data risk oversight program
- Foster an inclusive and collaborative team environment, and prioritize team’s goals
- Champion a high-performance environment and contribute to an inclusive work environment
- Develop strong partnership and work in close alignment with other risk functions and business partners to provide professional advice and guidance
- 8+ years’ experience in internal control, risk management, compliance, data management, data governance, audit and/or related areas
- 3+ years of experience in testing (audit testing, risk assessments, etc.), including leading and management of testing engagements and issue resolution
- Knowledge of Data Management best practices and concepts (e.g., maturity models, data quality, metadata, financial data reconciliation, data lineage, data glossaries, etc.)
- Most recently in a senior manager, experienced manager, or equivalent role
- FI experience
- SharePoint experience
- Strong analytical and pragmatic problem-solving skills
- Adaptability and ability to manage ambiguity
- Curious and proactive learner able to solve complex problems, multi-task and manage changing priorities
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Post-Secondary education and Advanced degree preferred but not mandatory in data analytics.
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| Job Category | Business Analyst |
We are looking for a Solution Architect! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Solution Architect
Term: Contract – 12 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1399
Brief Description on Duties:
Story Behind the Need:
Strategic Portfolio Office (SPO) manages the development, execution and performance of GTEP’s strategy and roadmap. We ensure a stable, secure and efficient infrastructure and service delivery, that protects the customer experience and supports business growth. We lead efforts around performance, optimization and innovation, best practice portfolio management, GTEP financial management and transparency, and GTEP employee experience excellence. The Technology Program Office reports into the SPO and is responsible for the delivery of GTEP Strategic Initiatives. This includes Project/Program Management, Project Life-Cycle Planning, KPI Reporting and Benefits Realization. We provide an end-to-end view of all Global Strategic Programs and liaise with key IT Corporate Functions. Reporting to the Portfolio Director, the Solution Architect will be leading the upgrade and remediation of core technologies within the Bank.
Typical Day in Role:
- Developing and presenting functional and technical designs.
- Solutioning and developing scripts to deliver projects.
- Leading application teams to deliver solutions.
- Creating and executing implementation plans.
- Working with technical team members within matrix environments and communicating with stakeholders on an Executive level.
- Working on project end-to-end to define procedure/processes and push changes through delivery.
- 10+ years of technical experience as a Solutions Architect, demonstrating a proven track record in delivering technical solutions. Their extensive experience should also include expertise in Software/Database development and design.
- 5+ years of experience on various protocols, scripting and programming (e.g. PowerShell, Shell Scripting, SQL Programming and Java).
- 5+ years of experience with designing system, network, and application architectures; both cloud and hybrid technologies (e.g. Azure and GCP preferred).
- 5+ years of experience performing root cause impact analysis and identify system interdependencies.
- Previous exposure to the Banking Industry/Financial Services.
- Working in diverse large-scale enterprise environments.
- Working experience with MS Excel/Visio/PowerPoint.
- Certifications (PMP, TOGAF, CCNP, Cloud).
- Bilingual in Spanish.
- Project management experience and ability to drive solution and delivery of project.
- Excellent leadership skills.
- 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.
- The ideal candidate should be well rounded, willing to wear many hats and handle multiple responsibilities.
- Clear, crisp and concise communication skills.
- Well organized and strong problem-solving skills.
- Desire to drive solution and ability to influence various levels of key stakeholders to push project results forward.
- Post-secondary degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related IT field required.
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| Job Category | Solution Architect |