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We are looking for a Scrum Master! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Scrum Master
Term: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1395
Brief Description on Duties:
Story Behind the Need:
Position Purpose:
Generally embeds and evolves scrum practices within a disciplined, agile delivery framework. The role will motivate, challenge and keep development teams motivated and focused while facilitating the collaborative delivery of working software. This role involves working across multiple development teams to lead the continuous transformation of customers’ delivery models and establish consistent agile practices.
Key Accountabilities:
- Update agile tracking systems to provide transparency on Product & Sprint Backlogs
- Recommend improvements and assist in changes to recommended practices
- Assist with internal and external communication for transparency of information
- Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, and other Scrum-related meetings
- Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition - Ensuring disciplined software development approach: continuous integration, refactoring practices, peer reviews, continuous QA, and sustainable pace as standard
- Participate in the organization and planning of the development schedule based on methodology to create a cohesive plan with identifiable critical path, task dependencies, and major milestones, and manages the agreed project plans and schedules, ensuring successful completion within scope, budget, time, and quality parameters
- Adapt project plans, schedules, and resource assignments as required to respond to emerging requirements and risks
- Fully track project progress, remove impediments, identify risks and provide resolutions for project issues
- Facilitate low complexity Agile initiatives from initiation through release, providing oversight to ensure alignment with internal Agile/Scrum practices, including but not limited to, project kick-off, sprint, release and deployment planning
- Accountable alongside the scrum team for the achievement of release objectives and results that meet LOB stakeholders’ needs and expectations
- Manage risks to delivery
- Track and report financials for the team
- Accountable for creating and maintaining the appropriate vehicles for open communication within the scrum team (e.g. tracker boards) to create a trusting and safe team environment
- Communicate cross functionally, ensuring transparency of progress and outcomes
- Report team progress and accomplishment up and across
- Facilitates status updates, product demos and retrospectives
- 10+ years experience as a Scrum Master
- Bachelor's degree or combination of relevant education and experience
- Industry Certified Scrum Master with project management and hands-on Scrum Master experience
- Certified Agile Practitioner or equivalent
- Thorough understanding of agile software development lifecycle methodologies, values, and procedures
- Multiple years’ experience working with an agile methodology during a large scale, complex new development project for a large enterprise
- Experience in software development and/or project management and/or business (system) analysis or other relevant professional experience
- Exposure to Project/Program delivery in Agile and/or Waterfall environment
- Practical experience with any of the key disciplines required in agile delivery – such as software development or business (system) analysis
- Ability to apply RBC Agile Management Framework and well documented Agile techniques (User Stories, Burndown techniques, Acceptance Test Driven Development, Continuous testing, etc.)
- SAFe experience is an asset
- Agile Leadership: Assuming a leadership role in enabling an agile work environment
- Business Communication: Professionally conveying and receiving information, thoughts and emotions using a variety of mediums (e.g. written, verbal, electronic)
- Agile Framework and Practice: Working within and implementing the principles of agile methodology
- Business Analysis: Investigating and analyzing business situations, evaluating options for business improvements, elaborating and defining requirements and ensuring effective implementation in line with the business needs
- Application Development, Support and Maintenance: Knowledge and ability to design, define, construct, enhance, support and maintain application software on one or more platforms including web
- Impact and Influence: Influencing and gaining others' support
- Teamwork (Collaboration): Working collaboratively with others to achieve organizational goals
- Managing and Measuring Work: Organizing time, work and resources (e.g., people) to accomplish work objectives effectively and efficiently; tracking progress toward accomplishing the work objectives
- People Development: Fostering employee development by providing a supportive environment for lifelong learning Scrum Master for GenAI
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| Job Category | Scrum Master |
We are looking for a Network Engineer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Network Engineer
Term: Contract – 12 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1394
Brief Description on Duties:
Story Behind the Need:
Data Centre Network Services team is responsible for level 3 support and project deployments, for both on premise as well as Public/Private Cloud, to support the digital transformation of the Bank’s global network. We are responsible for supporting and deploying new technologies, following best practices, and consulting and coordinating with the Bank’s many technology teams with the aim of providing a highly resilient network as the underlying core of the Bank’s technology infrastructure. Reporting directly to the project manager, the Cloud Engineer will be playing the role of deployment and supporting of our networking infrastructure supporting Google Cloud and MS Azure environment leveraging our current pipeline technology stack.
Candidate Value Proposition:
- The successful candidate will have the opportunity to join an exciting team that has high visibility. As a team, we can explore and work with an extensive variety of network technologies.
- Reporting to a Project Manager, you will play a critical part in helping the team support the various technologies within our Global Network. You will be expected to be a part of after-hours project deployments in the morning, evenings or weekends.
- You are eager to work with leading edge technologies to incorporate complex network solutions, as well as work with other technology teams to contribute to an overall solution.
- You thrive on being hands-on during mid to complex project deployments into production. This will include the support of assigned systems by acting as an internal consultant on assigned infrastructure and providing suggestions for viable solutions to systems problems of high complexity.
- You want to be challenged with complex problem solving in time sensitive situations to reduce system downtime and customer impact.
- 10+ years of proven experience in cloud infrastructure designs, implementation and support (Microsoft Azure required)
- 5+ years’ experience and in-depth knowledge of Cloud environments and associated networking technologies (VPCs, Shared VPC, Load Balancing, Interconnects, VNets, Application Gateways, Expressroute)
- 5+ years’ experience and in-depth knowledge of containerized and serverless technologies (PCF, Docker, Kubernetes) and their designs, implementation, and ongoing support.
- 5+ years’ experience in Cloud network troubleshooting (Networkwatcher, Network Flow logs, Azure Monitor, Google Dashboards, Wireshark).
- Experience using programming languages such as Python, GO, Ruby and/or BASH for automation of tasks.
- Experience working with Linux/Unix command line and command line tools
- Experience/knowledge of networking concepts; switches, routers, firewalls, as well as protocols such as TCP/IP, UDP, TLS, DNS/DHCP and routing protocols (BGP, OSPF).
- Familiarity with Infrastructure As Code tools such as ARM Templates, Terraform, Cloud Formation and Google Cloud Deployment Manager
- Familiarity with orchestration/configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet or Chef
- You have strong communication (verbal/written) and good interpersonal skills to build relationships with internal and external business partners and vendors.
- You possess superior problem solving and decision-making skills to resolve work issues with the ability to work under pressure in a dynamic environment.
- You are self-motivated and a results-oriented individual who is always chasing improvements.
- Ability work independently and capable of getting work completed with minimal supervision.
- Post-secondary education in Computer Science, Networking Technology or related field.
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| Job Category | Network Engineer |
We are looking for a UI/UX Developer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: UI/UX Developer
Term: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid – 2-3 days a week
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1392
Brief Description on Duties:
The Client Lifecycle Management Portal is a business-critical ecosystem, which will be used by a high volume of users, internally, as well as by external clients. The Senior User Experience Engineer (UXE) will help transform requirements, concepts, and visions into experiences which set the direction of how we will operate and engage with our clients in the future. You will play a crucial role in delivering exceptional results for our clients and colleagues across multiple regions. This is a very agile fast-paced and strategic design role, with rapid delivery expectations.
As a Senior User Experience (UX) Engineer, you will:
- Collaborate effectively with our internal team, clients, and other project teams, maintaining a high level of professionalism and patience throughout all interactions.
- Design simple and usable systems thru rapid prototypes in coordination with product owners, business analysts, and technology teams for continuous enhancements and refinements.
- Conduct and document ideation sessions, user discovery sessions, user testing collection, AB Testing, feedback synthesis for strategic direction and decision making.
- Architect scalable system design implementation through information architecture and communication design methods.
- Build and maintain style guides for modern design system and provide guidance to UI developers Maintain components and libraries for tools and technologies needed for products and services.
- Develop and maintain themes to reinforce styling guidelines and standards.
- for implementation support.
- Apply high-quality graphic and visual design expertise for all deliveries including: wireframes, icons, graphics, presentations, documents, and related product material
- Ensure to organize book-of-work tasks and manage them with management. PMs, and peers in JIRA.
- 5+ years advanced experience using Adobe Cloud products (Photoshop, Illustrator, XD, etc.)
- 3+ years designing applications and dashboards (not web-based brochureware)
- 2+ years HTML, CSS, JavaScript development
- Experience with ReactJS or advanced JavaScript development
- Experience writing user stories
- Advanced CSS using SASS, and LESS
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| Job Category | UI/UX Developer |
We are looking for a ETL Developer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: ETL Developer
Term: Contract – 12 months with extension
Location: Oshawa – Hybrid – Three days a week
Industry: Government
Job ID number: C1391
Brief Description on Duties:
Description:
The purpose of this RFS is to acquire one Software Developer - ETL - Junior to provide development and technical support as a member of the Business Intelligence and Data Analytics team.
Cluster Applications Branch (CAB) provides leadership in the planning, development, delivery and support of applications through services such as consulting and collaboration with clients and their business planning. The branch provides expertise to ensure the IT solutions align with program goals and commitments. CAB is also partnering with MOF to upgrade the current Cognos application.
Assignment Scope: Technical Knowledge and Skills: 40%
- You have application development experience with the IBM suite of products, including DataStage, Cognos and DB2, as well as knowledge in more than one field (e.g. systems analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, installation, operational techniques) to execute diverse application development activities and make technical recommendations.
- You have an ability to gain understanding of other technologies when needed.
- You have an understanding of data integration, database design, and data modelling. You have the ability to understand clients I IT needs and business environment to define the technical scope of work and provide on-going guidance to working groups.
- You can ensure that ongoing application development, technical work, operations and services are planned, scheduled, executed, monitored and evaluated.
- You can write, explain and present technical reports and recommendations. You can establish effective working partnerships with team members.
- Software Developer - ETL - Junior to provide development and technical support as a member of the Business Intelligence and Data Analytics team.
- ETL Development experience -
- Python
- Experience working with DataStage
- Artificial Intelligence - looking at ways on how things can be automated
- Provide development skills to deliver priority data initiatives
- Provide system development and support capacity within CAB to deliver solutions for our clients
- Develop technical skills and knowledge to support government priorities of our Ministry of Finance clients
- Maintain the day to day operations of the BIDA environment which includes the monthly refresh of data, ensuring software and processes are up-to-date and supporting change and incidents raised.
- You have application development experience with the IBM suite of products, including DataStage, Cognos and DB2, as well as knowledge in more than one field (e.g. systems analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, installation, operational techniques) to execute diverse application development activities and make technical recommendations.
- You have an ability to gain understanding of other technologies when needed.
- You have an understanding of data integration, database design, and data modelling.
- You have the ability to understand clients' I&IT needs and business environment to define the technical scope of work and provide on-going guidance to working groups.
- You can ensure that ongoing application development, technical work, operations and services are planned, scheduled, executed, monitored and evaluated.
- You can write, explain and present technical reports and recommendations.
- You can establish effective working partnerships with team members.
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| Job Category | ETL Developer |
We are looking for a Business Systems Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Business Systems Analyst
Term: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Ontario – Hybrid – twice a week
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1391
Brief Description on Duties:
- Provide support and produce detailed system requirements and technical / functional specifications in alignment with standards and frameworks.
- Work in close partnership with business partners / technology / project teams and stakeholders to elicit, analyze, document, communicate and manage detailed functional specifications.
- Develop effective and efficient solutions by researching/analyzing current state system capabilities and defining technology solutions options / recommendations working closely with key technology partners (e.g., Solution Architects and Quality Assurance staff).
- Define, document, and translate business requirements into detailed functional specifications and non-functional specifications.
- Support testing teams in translating requirements and use cases into test conditions and expected results for product, performance, user acceptance, and operational acceptance testing.
- Support and contribute to project management activities by participating in the scoping and estimating of project efforts, risks identification and mitigation measures recommendation, communicating activity status and providing timely notification and escalation of possible issues/problems to the Project Manager.
- Participate in quality management reviews, in particular reviews of the designs, prototypes and other requirements work products to ensure they fulfill the requirements.
- Support collaboration with key stakeholders to determine solutions, assess impact to existing work processes and systems, and how to manage the integration.
- May provide operational / process related analysis and support to various extents. Ensure best practices related to the BSA discipline are adhered to and enforced within project processes and deliverables.
- Adhere to existing processes/standards including requirements management and project management disciplines, well-defined enterprise technology delivery practices and standards, and business technology architecture, escalating escalate issues as required.
- Continuously enhance knowledge/expertise in own area and keep current with leading-edge technologies trends/developments and develop expertise, applications, infrastructure, analytical tools, and techniques that can contribute to effective solution development/delivery.
- Continuously enhance knowledge of business domains and their products/services.
- Support the development of business cases including benefits identification, RFI/RFP, and service level agreements with vendors/suppliers consistent with technology requirements/guidelines.
- Maintain ongoing communication with all stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
- Able to perform BSA tasks effectively while assigned to a single project or multiple concurrent projects.
- Prioritize and manage own workload to deliver quality results and meet timelines.
- Support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation, and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues/ points of interest.
- Participate in knowledge transfer within the team and business units, Coach new or less experienced colleagues and act as a reference for the requirements management lifecycle. Identify and recommend opportunities to enhance productivity, effectiveness, and operational efficiency of the business unit and/or team.
- Experienced in driving ServiceNow Integration Projects 2 year
- ServiceNow BSA 5 years
- Confluence/JIRA 3 years
- Agile Delivery 3 years
- ITIL process/ITSM solutions 3 years
- Service Now Certifications ServiceNow Foundational
- Agile Delivery SAFE Agile 5.1/6.0
- Service Now Certifications Certified Systems Administrator (CSA)
- Agile Delivery SAFE PO/PM 5.1/6.0
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| Job Category | Business Systems Analyst |
We are looking for a Data Business Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Data Business Analyst
Term: Contract – 12 months with extension
Location: Ottawa – Hybrid – twice a week
Industry: Government
Job ID number: C1390
Brief Description on Duties:
Description of Service
Data Business Analyst/Data Integrator Services to support data template creation, and application configuration requirements.
Primary Responsibilities
- Data requirements development and integration support between source systems
- Work directly with Line of Business Users to support data collection, cleansing, and uploading into new system of record.
- Communicates with administrators, end users, vendors, service providers and other outside organizations to coordinate activities, programs, schedule work, resolve issues
- Investigates, understands, describes and documents data contents in transaction systems and target systems.
- Report progress and highlight gaps and issues with Project team
- What are we trying to solve and what's included in the IFRS9 Solution?
- The IFRS9 Solution is intended to better inform decision-making wrt allowance measurement, and to make scenario generation and model life-cycle mgmt. more efficient.
- The primary purpose of the IFRS9 Solution initiative is to reduce operational risk in the Expected Capital Loss calculation process and to produce trusted and intuitive IFRS9 PD curves for use in allowance calculations.
- The primary objective in 2024 is to run EDC's Dec 31, 2024 fiscal financial statements through the new IFRS9 PD models in a well-controlled environment.
- The IFRS9 Solution includes new IFRS9 PD models, a new Scenario generator, a new ECL calculation engine, and (outside of the scope of the ICO CAD 2.5M funding and for completion in 2025) a new model platform.
- This role will support getting the correct data into a well-controlled technology solution to ensure validation, IFRS9 Compliance, reducing our Operational, and Financial risk. Skills
- Background/Experience in Financial Servies industry- Knowledge of Risk Management Practices, and experience with Moody's implementations, and SaaS solutions
- Experience with Data Extractions, Data Mapping, and Data Loading
- Experience working with multiple source/target systems such as Oracle, MS SQL Server, XML files, flat files, MS access/excel documents.
- Background/Experience in Financial Servies industry- Knowledge of Risk Management Practices, and experience with Moody's implementations, and SaaS solutions
- Experience with Data Extractions, Data Mapping, and Data Loading
- Investigates, understands, describes and documents data contents in transaction systems;
- Communicates with administrators, end users, vendors, service providers and other outside organizations to coordinate activities, programs, schedule work, resolve issues;
- Experience with API Integration implementation
- Development of detailed process maps
- Experience in a Kanban team, experience writing and managing user stories
- Experience working with multiple source/target systems such as Oracle, MS SQL Server, XML files, flat files, MS access/excel documents.
- Strong knowledge of system testing and software quality assurance best practices and methodologies.
- CPA, CFA, IFRS9 Accounting experience
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| Job Category | Data Business Analyst |
We are looking for a Systems Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Systems Analyst
Term: Contract – 10 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid – 3 days a week
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1389
Brief Description on Duties:
Position Summary
The Systems Analyst will analyze, design and test software solutions to meet our business objectives. They have
outstanding problem-solving abilities and can communicate their ideas easily to others. They are willing to learn to
technologies and eager to apply their learning’s in a fast-paced environment.
Duties Include:
- Liaises with business stakeholders and other teams to understand business objectives and design a solution that will meet their decision support and management reporting needs.
- Elicits requirements from business stakeholders through interviews, workshops, business process analysis, business scenarios, and user stories.
- Analyzes and conceptualizes the design of the data solution, working with the Systems Architect and
- Software Developer to achieve the client stakeholder objectives through effective deployment of technology.
- Analyzing the transactional system data requirements and modeling the data design to match the enterprise data warehouse design.
- Identifying outlying data patterns and data cleanliness issues for resolution.
- Working with the data architecture team to understand the design of the data warehouse.
- Documenting the high-level design for the software development team.
- Design of models (including views, table functions, etc.), ensuring alignment to standards both industry (e.g., Kimball) and internal.
- Ensuring the quality of the solution by testing the results of the development meets the requirements of the business.
- Post-secondary degree/diploma in a related discipline (CMA, MBA, Management Information Systems, Commerce, Business Analysis, and Computer Science).
- 5+ years’ experience working with business principles and a broad range of different types of business functions.
- Strong understanding of IS Methodologies, processes and practices, and experience with data systems analysis and data warehouse design.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills that rely on a structured approach to problem solving.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills with a demonstrated ability to work effectively in a team environment.
- Effective planning and organizational skills with the ability to adapt to change and perform effectively under pressure.
- Experience in Financial Services and Wealth Management industries would be an asset.
- Experience in the writing and use of SQL
- Experience in Tableau would be an asset
- Knowledge of SAP in the one or more of the following areas (Web Intelligence, ECC, BW and HANA) would be an asset
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| Job Category | System Analyst, Systems Analyst |
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 – 10 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid – twice a week
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1388
Brief Description on Duties:
Story Behind the Need:
- Business group: GOCT Solution Architecture & Engineering (OU20020954). The Innovation team within the Emerging Technology and Platform Engineering utilizes emerging technologies like Blockchain, AI, Cloud, and others to optimize the Bank's internal processes. The team is seeking a Business Analyst to support the Athena application project – Athena is an internal chatbot that answers users' questions.
- Reason: Support the current migration initiative.
- Work with the business to identify gaps and enhancements to the business instances' knowledge bases and work with the development team to implement the changes.
- The incumbent is responsible for providing product/project/initiatives status to the product manager and management team and raising any escalated issues promptly.
- Participate in the product implementation by developing and documenting test cases, performing integration testing, raising defects, and providing end-user documentation for the product changes.
- Identify enhancements for Athena.
- Responsible for creating end users' stories in JIRA or similar product management software to manage the Agile projects.
- Provide post-implementation support (Hypercare) by tracking, analyzing, monitoring, and reporting project and application-related problems and issues.
- The incumbent is an active contributor to designing sustainable DevOps. The Product analyst is required to come up with best practices and procedures.
- Must possess good listening and communication skills to work effectively with end-users and project team members.
- 5-8 years of relevant work in or experience in delivering Technical Products/Business Solutions
- 5-8 years of experience in conducting business analysis and documenting business requirements for medium to large-size projects.
- 8+ years of experience in generating Power BI presentations from scratch and working with other Microsoft products.
- 5-8 years of experience working with Systems and process knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (Agile) and Project Management
- Prior experience in the following Business lines (CB, GBM, IB)
- Project management and business analysis certificate
- Collaboration in diverse teams and settings
- Passionate about Innovation and Innovative technologies
- Being able to work up- down within the organization
- Excellent written and communication skills to clearly express concepts and ideas.
- Ability to work as part of a team, as well as work independently with minimal direction.
- Post-secondary education is required but would be preferred in a related field.
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| Job Category | Business Analyst |
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 – 3 days a week
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1387
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.
Scotiabank’s 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 Scotiabank’s overall Compliance program.
Candidate Value Proposition:
- The successful candidate will be working on high-visibility initiative with opportunities to grow within the corporation.
- The Trade Surveillance Analyst will report into the Senior Manager, OTC Trade Surveillance and collaborate with various internal stakeholders to support processes within the Trade Surveillance program.
- Candidate should possess a combination of in-depth knowledge of Capital Markets, OTC Products, trade lifecycle, trading strategies, trade surveillance and market abuse concepts.
- 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
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| Job Category | Business Analyst |
We are looking for a Data Architect! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Data Architect
Term: Contract – 12 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid – twice a week
Industry: Government
Job ID number: C1386
Brief Description on Duties:
Responsibilities Develops and implements the data architecture for application development in a complex and distributed environment, including the determination of the flow and distribution of data, the location of databases, and data access methods. Provides a standard common business vocabulary, expresses strategic data requirements, outlines high level integrated designs to meet these requirements, and aligns with the enterprise strategy and related business architecture. General Skills Knowledge and experience in information resource management tools and techniques Experience with at least two different platforms, operating systems, environments, database technologies, languages and communications protocols Knowledge of performance considerations for different database designs in different environments Experience in structured methodologies for the design, development and implementation of applications Experience in systems analysis and design in large or medium systems environments Experience in the use of Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools for the development and documentation of data architectures and detailed data models Experience in the use of data modelling methods and tools (e.g. ERWIN, VISIO, PowerDesigner) including a working knowledge of metadata structures, repository functions, and data dictionaries Knowledge and experience in the use of information retrieval packages Awareness of emerging I&IT trends and directions Experience in monitoring and enforcing data modelling/normalization standards Experience in developing enterprise architecture deliverables (e.g. models) Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines Desirable Skills Experience with middleware and gateways Experience in designing/developing an automated data distribution mechanism Knowledge and understanding of object-oriented analysis and design techniques. Experience in developing enterprise architecture deliverables (e.g. models) based on Ontario Government Enterprise Architecture processes and practice Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices Experience creating detailed data standards to enable integration with other systems Experience reviewing conceptual, logical and physical data models for quality and adherence to standards Knowledge and understanding of dimensional and relational data models Knowledge and experience in information resource management tools and techniques
Skills
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
Technical Skills:
- Experience creating physical database designs and operates and experience administering database management systems (DBMS) including database optimization, capacity planning, installation and migration, database design, performance tuning, backup and recovery
- Experience cloud environments especially Azure
- Extensive hands on experience in Azure SQL Database experience, proficiency in T-SQL, understanding of SQL maintenance and audit, user and permissions management, performance management and tuning
- Hands on experience with the following technologies, certifications are an asset: Azure Data Factories, Databricks, Azure Synapse, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Oracle DBMS, along with Big Data/Data Lake/Hadoop experience
- Hands on experience with SSIS, SSRS, Talend, Informatica etc.
- Hands on experience working with NoSQL databases and formats (JSON, xml)
- Experience in one or more programming languages
- Experience with custom build cloud development and microservices based architecture
- Experience with data migrations
- Experience in the use of information retrieval packages and proficiency with query languages
- Experience in monitoring and enforcing database rules
- Experience in Incident, Change and Configuration Management procedures
- Experience with one or more communications protocols
- Experience with distributed data systems
- Experience with middleware and gateways
- Experience with researching and implementing cyber security vulnerability remediation
- Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices
- Extensive experience in production Database Administration, Maintenance Optimization
- Subject matter expert in database design of the data warehouse or data marts.
- Experience and expert knowledge in technology and/or application required including installation, configuration, maintenance, upgrade (technology stack) and cloning
- Experience in designing/developing an automated data distribution mechanisms
- Knowledge and understanding of object-oriented analysis and design techniques.
- Experience in developing enterprise architecture deliverables (e.g. models) based
- Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices
- Experience in impact analysis, implementation planning and implementation of technology or suite specific patches, maintenance packs and releases, and technology stack patch sets and releases
- Experience in technical design, planning and implementation of specific technology or suite
- Experience with database administration and working with vendors
- Strong communication skills to prepare documentation, including but not limited to: solution documentation, user manuals, reports, reviews, assessments
- Ability to present ideas and suggestions clearly and effectively and in a user-friendly manner; maintain a high level of customer service to both internal and external clients
- Ability to communicate technical designs and development in clear and understandable manner
- Three days onsite per week is required. Must be comfortable with working outside the hours of 9-5 as required by the client.
- Extensive hands on experience in Azure SQL Database experience, proficiency in T-SQL, understanding of SQL maintenance and audit, user and permissions management, performance management and tuning
- Hands on experience with the following technologies, certifications are an asset: Azure Data Factories, Databricks, Azure Synapse, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Oracle DBMS, along with Big Data/Data Lake/Hadoop experience
- Oracle experience is an asset
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| Job Category | Data Architect, DBA |
We are looking for a Content Creator! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Content Creator
Term: Contract - 9-10 months contract
Location: Hybrid - 2 days per week in office
Industry: Telecom
Job ID number: C1385
Responsibilities:
- Brainstorming original ideas for social media campaigns that promote Bell Canada's products, services, and corporate initiatives, and help build brand love (we have team huddles every morning!). This includes our iconic sponsorships like Raptors, Habs, Formula 1, Toronto Ultra, Canada’s biggest music festivals and so much more!
- Creating OG and platform-specific content that align with Bell's strong brand guidelines. We’re talking posts, stories, reels, videos, graphics, and contests and more for Facebook, X, Instagram, TikTok, Threads, LinkedIn etc.
- Crafting relatable copy that'll resonate with and spark meaningful interactions with our followers and audiences.
- Telling stories with visuals that you’re proud to show your friends! Your visual storytelling techniques will keep our audiences captivated.
- Being a trendsetter! Stay ahead of the curve on social media trends, platform updates, and industry best practices. We’ll rely on you to keep us in the know of what’s happening on the feeds – and how we can tap in.
- Scheduling and prioritizing! Collaborate with our social media team to plan and schedule content calendars, ensuring our followers see us daily as they scroll. To excel in this role, it’s important that you possesses excellent communication skills and an understanding of creative and content creation workflows.
- Proven Experience: We're all about creativity! Share your portfolio showcasing your best work as a social media content creator so we can get to know what makes you, you!
- Social Media Savvy: You know your way around different social media platforms like you do your favourite store. Engagements, hashtags, trends and the ever-changing platform technicalities – you got it all!
- Creativity & Innovation: Your passion for storytelling and design knows no bounds and your content is consistently strong. You’re not afraid to try new things in a test and learn environment.
- Copywriting Skills: You have the unique ability to connect with audiences through your exceptional writing skills. Adaptability is your secret superpower, as you'll switch tones and styles depending on the target audience and portfolio.
- Tech Savvy: You'll be a pro at using social media management tools, graphic design software, and video editing.
- Visual Guru: You shine bright with your skills in photography, videography, and editing. Whether it's a professional camera or a phone, you are comfortable and confident capturing the moment!
- Brand Experience: Your understanding of branding principles will ensure that your content aligns perfectly with Bell's messaging and identity.
- Time Management: Remember us saying; “no two days are ever the same!” If the idea of juggling multiple projects at once and shifting gears in real-time is the opposite of overwhelming for you, keep reading on! We’re looking for someone who can stay calm under pressure and thrives in the fast-pace.
- Team Player: Collaboration is everything! We’re looking for someone who thrives working closely with others, and embraces feedback to make the content even better.
- Camera ready: Experience being both on and off camera is a bonus.
- Parlez-vous français? Speaking French is a huge plus
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| Job Category | content creator |
We are looking for a Full Stack Developer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Full Stack Developer
Term: Contract – 10 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1384
Typical Day in Role:
- Part of a team that will be working to migrate over 50 cloud-based applications from PCF to Atlas
- Work with DevOps teams to support cloud migration activities
- Make necessary changes based on source code (configuration side not functionality side)
- Squad model – 4 squads, 1 dev assigned to each squad which will be assigned to a group of applications
- Most apps use JavaScript, many still using Java
- Low likelihood of database migration
- Tech stack: JavaScript, ReactJS, NodeJS, Java and Cloud Applications
- Full stack role - 50/50 front end and back-end based on type of application they will be working on
- Set up the local development environment in machines: including node with NPM/Yarn, Java Gradle/maven, etc.
- Debug and analyze the application logs from local or dev environment
- Analyze and oversee the team’s development efforts working towards successful code delivery
- Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship
- Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits
- Collaborate with other software developers, business analysts and software architects to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain different applications
- Design, develop, and unit test applications in accordance with established standards
- 10+ years’ progressive working experience as a Full Stack Developer
- 2+ years’ experience with either ReactJS or NodeJS or Java/JavaScript (either 1 is fine but if have experience with more/all 3 will be a strong asset)
- 1+ years’ experience with Cloud applications
- Experience with cloud migration projects
- Cloud apps experience: Google, Kubernetes
- Knowledge of PCF
- Extensive experience in designing and developing enterprise grade software
- Experience from FI/banking
- Experience with build and deployment of applications with NPM/Yarn, Java Gradle/maven
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills coupled with strong interpersonal and problem-solving skills
- Time management skills with the ability to handle multiple assignments
- Bachelor’s in technical field
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| Job Category | Fullstack Developer |
We are looking for a UI/UX Designer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: UI/UX Designer
Term: Contract – 9 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid – twice a week
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1383
Brief Description on Duties:
Story Behind the Need
Business group: Canadian Digital Banking – Product management and product design for digital properties for mobile and web relating to the Wealth Management business at the Bank.
Project: iTrade mobile app (iOS and Android)
Candidate Value Proposition:The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work on cutting edge market platforms and work on the mobile digital wealth platform as part of the fastest growing Digital group at the Bank, alongside Scotia’s product and design community of practice.
Typical Day in Role:
- Play a pivotal role in enhancing the Bank’s Direct Investing app, iTRADE, for both iOS and Android platforms.
- Collaborate with a cross-functional team of product managers, engineers, fellow designers, content producers, and researchers to craft best-in-class digital experiences.
- Translate customer feedback, stakeholder insights, and analytics into actionable design improvements.
- Engage in design thinking to tackle complex challenges, seeking simple, elegant solutions.
- Utilize expertise in Material Design 3 and Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines to create intuitive, user-centric designs.
- Apply deep understanding of typography, grid systems, visual hierarchy, and color theory to produce aesthetically pleasing and functional designs.
- Create design documentation details including, user flows, dark and light themes, prototypes and accessibility annotation.
- Help evolve our design system, ensuring consistency and efficiency across our products.
- Use advanced skills in Figma to bring innovative design concepts to life.
- 10+ years of experience as a product designer
- 3-5 years of recent professional experience with iOS and Android mobile app product design
- 2+ years of experience with Figma
- Strong demonstrated experience with visual design / UI
- Experience having worked in a large product team (with researchers, product managers, engineers, designers)
- FI/Banking experience
- Animation experience
- Meticulous attention to detail and a knack for finding simple solutions to complex design problems.
- Proven ability to work effectively in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
- A passion for translating insights and analytics into thoughtful design solutions.
- Bachelors or master’s degree in Design
- Studies and/or experience in complementary fields to Product Design, visual design, animation, applied arts, etc. an asset
- A strong individual contributor in Product Design who has the right soft skills and the education and experience to excel in role; strong customer focus; experience in product design and strong visual design skillset and proven experience to support it (e.g. strong portfolio). A formal design education vs just a bootcamp or UX course makes a difference in elevating the candidate’s skillset.
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| Job Category | UI/UX Desginer |
We are looking for a Business System Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Business System Analyst
Term: Contract – 12 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid – twice a week
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1383
Brief Description on Duties:
SUMMARY OF DAY-TO-DAY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- This team runs under an Agile project delivery and completes two weeks prints
- Gathering requirements from product owners and up streams where AML data is being sourced
- BSA will create data mapping documents based on requirements.
- When design is finalized they would support project delivery phase (help developers and testing teams) and see to the end of the project
- Provide support and produce detailed system requirements and technical / functional specifications in alignment with standards and frameworks.
- Work in close partnership with business partners / technology / project teams and stakeholders to elicit, analyze, document, communicate and manage detailed functional specifications.
- Develop effective and efficient solutions by researching/analyzing current state system capabilities and defining technology solutions options / recommendations working closely with key technology partners (e.g. Solution Architects and Quality Assurance staff). Define, document, and translate business requirements into detailed functional specifications and non-functional specifications.
- Support testing teams in translating requirements and use cases into test conditions and expected results for product, performance, user acceptance, and operational acceptance testing.
- Support and contribute to project management activities by participating in the scoping and estimating of project efforts, risks identification and mitigation measures recommendation, communicating activity status and providing timely notification and escalation of possible issues/problems to the Project Manager.
- Participate in quality management reviews, in particular reviews of the designs, prototypes and other requirements work products to ensure they fulfill the requirements.
- Support collaboration with key stakeholders to determine solutions, assess impact to existing work processes and systems, and how to manage the integration.
- May provide operational / process related analysis and support to various extents.
- Ensure best practices related to the BSA discipline are adhered to and enforced within project processes and deliverables.
- Adhere to existing processes/standards including requirements management and project management disciplines, well-defined enterprise technology delivery practices and standards, and business technology architecture, escalating escalate issues as required.
- Continuously enhance knowledge/expertise in own area and keep current with leading-edge technologies trends/developments and develop expertise in TD services, applications, infrastructure, analytical tools, and techniques that can contribute to effective solution development/delivery.
- Continuously enhance knowledge of business domains and their products/services.
- Support the development of business cases including benefits identification, RFI/RFP, and service level agreements with vendors/suppliers consistent with technology requirements/guidelines.
- Maintain ongoing communication with all stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
- Able to perform BSA tasks effectively while assigned to a single project or multiple concurrent projects.
- Prioritize and manage own workload to deliver quality results and meet timelines.
- Support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation, and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues/ points of interest.
- Participate in knowledge transfer within the team and business units, Coach new or less experienced colleagues and act as a reference for the requirements management lifecycle.
- Identify and recommend opportunities to enhance productivity, effectiveness, and operational efficiency of the business unit and/or team Additional Information.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and comfortable working with both Business and Technical teams.
- Self-starter with the ability to multi-task effectively and independently within a fast-paced environment.
- Able to gauge the appropriate level of priority and detail and/or effort on any given project.
- Able to adapt quickly to changing priorities.
- Highly motivated with a proven track record of delivering results.
- Exhibit effective problem-solving skills with a high degree of attention to detail.
- Excellent time management and prioritization skills. Demonstrated ability to follow-up on issues independently and ensure they are resolved promptly, escalating when necessary.
- Able to coach.
- Advanced to Expert knowledge of system analysis process and techniques.
- Advanced to Expert knowledge of systems and applications supported by the team including system components, functionality, interfaces, data flows, and business rules.
- Advanced to Expert knowledge of enterprise technology delivery practices and standards and related expertise including design, development, testing and project management.
- 3+ years experience in AML background/Fraud background
- BSA experience – 8- 10 years
- Knowledge or Experience Case Management Systems (no particular system specified)
- 8-10 years experience in SQL
- 3 Years Data Profiling and Data Analysis Experience
- 2-3 years ORACLE – Basic Experience
- 2-3 years AZURE – Basic Experience
- Able to work independently, great communication written and verbal
- Banking experience
- GSI background
- Data Profiling Tools – e.g. Python
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| Job Category | Business Analyst, Business Systems Analyst |
We are looking for a QA/QC Test Lead! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: QA/QC Test Lead
Term: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: C1383
Brief Description on Duties:
Business Group: Commercial Global Engineering: Oversees changes/implementations to commercial client programs.
Project: The team is seeking an QA Test Lead to work on an ETL Salesforce project specifically working with Talend 8. The project is currently half completed and planning to run for the next 2 years.
Candidate Value Proposition: The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with one of Canada’s top 5 banks.
Typical Day in Role:
- Develop Test Strategies for project delivery.
- Develop Test scenarios and queries for In-house developed application, DB level and E2E testing scripts
- Execute test plans, scenarios, scripts or procedures
- Plan test schedules or strategies in accordance with project scope or delivery dates
- Produce dashboards and reports for sprints or code releases.
- Develop testing programs that addresses areas such as database impacts, software scenarios, or usability
- Identify, analyze and document problems with program function, output, online screen or content
- Monitor bug resolution efforts and track successes
- Document software defects, using a bug tracking system, and report defects to software developers
- Create or maintain databases of known test defects
- Good understanding of testing standards and methodologies
- 5+ years of previous QA Testing experience
- 3+ years of previous Experience with ETL
- 3+ years experience with JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket/Git suite and managing test cases, test plans using Jira plugins like X-ray or Zephyr.
- Previous experience working with Talend 7 or 8
- Working with Salesforce integration
- Previous FI experience
- Great communication both oral and written
- Team player
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| Job Category | QA Test Lead, QC Test Lead |