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We are looking for a Lead Business Analyst/Scrum Master! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Lead Business Analyst/Scrum Master
Term: 12 months contract with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid once or twice a week on-site
Job ID number: C1258
Brief Description of Duties:
- Provide subject matter expertise and guidance on specific project methods. Prepares training materials, training sessions on project delivery methodology in accordance with guidelines. Acquires, customizes, documents, integrates, communicates and implements comprehensive IT standards and guidelines. General Skills
- Knowledge and experience with Agile Information and Information Technology (I&IT) methods and techniques associated with the development and implementation of enterprise architecture frameworks
- Communication, facilitation, negotiation, consensus building, and problem-solving skills • Demonstrated commitment and proven ability to do effective stakeholder management
- Knowledgeable and experience in Agile methodology and ability to educate others
- Experience facilitating the relationships between the Agile team and product owner and maintaining a safe working environment for the team by helping with conflict resolution
- Experience leading the Agile methodology and development teams in self-organization and identifying and filling in blanks in the framework
- Experience mentoring and coaching the teams on removing impediments
- Experience capturing feedback and documenting sprint reviews to administer project goals and improve team performance Desirable Skills
- Project Methodology certifications such as Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Lean Six Sigma Black/Green/Yellow Belt, etc.
- Provides holistic leadership across business analysis, project outcomes, and team of business analysts aligning their expertise with agile methodologies and ensuring effective collaboration.
- Acts as a central point of communication, ensuring that the BAs collaborate seamlessly with internal/external stakeholders and development teams.
- Identifies and remove impediments that could hinder the team's progress, ensuring a smooth workflow.
- Interacts with the business stakeholders and subject matter experts to understand their requirements through gathering, documenting, and analyzing business needs and requirements.
- Manage / groom product backlog based on user needs / prioritization input
- Defines, manages and enforces scrum process and methodology
- Single point of contact for business analysis, agile leadership, and team coordination minimizing communication gaps, reducing the risk of misinterpretation, and promote more effective project outcomes.
- Prepares training materials, training sessions on project delivery methodology in accordance with guidelines
- Knowledgeable and experience in Agile methodology and ability to educate others
- Experience writing business cases including current state assessments, establishing goals, outcomes and creating plans to achieve them.
- Experience creating cost benefit analyses
- Experience creating process & service measures and indicators
- Experience designing services and business processes for new business areas
- Experience creating processes, swimlanes etc according to industry standard techniques and methodologies
- Experience facilitating in-depth workshops to elicit, review, document and confirm business requirements, business process reengineering, business models, business rules and user interface design, in order to create the technical framework/specifications
- Ability to track and report on deliverables across multiple projects
- Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring, anticipates and troubleshoots issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolves problems and provides project effectiveness
- Experience facilitating the relationships between the Agile team and product owner and maintaining a safe working environment for the team by helping with conflict resolution
- Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met
- Ability to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies
- Ability to Create and track integrated project plans (including scope, schedule, and resources)
- Monitor and report on project progress through stand-ups and weekly status updates
- Track project level Risks, Issues, Actions and Decisions and report it up to the program manager
- Create detailed iteration / sprint plans and manage sprint execution from kickoff through retrospective
- Experience providing onboarding and orientation of new staff / project resources
- Knowledge of the software development life cycle, software design, development and integration, database concepts, user interface design principle, change management, quality assurance, risk management, disaster recovery planning, business continuity planning
- Strong communication skills to prepare documentation, including but not limited to; 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 designs and development in clear and understandable manner
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| Job Category | Lead Business Analyst/Scrum Master |
We are looking for a Digital Product Designer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Digital Product Designer
Term: 12 months contract with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid once or twice a week on-site
Job ID number: C1257
Brief Description of Duties:
As member of highly collaborative senior design team, the designer will focus on internal web software that enables our Advisors to provide strategic advice to their clients. The designer will be engaged in the digital transformation of business banking, from the Design Thinking that drives the user experience of the tool, to the analysis and research to that distills banking complexity into user-centered information design, to the visual design that enables the user experience.
You’ll be comfortable within agile team environments and an iterative process, you’ll collaborate with interdisciplinary team members and stakeholders as you analyze, design and convey your responsive design vision. A natural problem solver, communicator and facilitator, you’ll be involved in every step of the process from idea generation to implementation.
Main Responsibilities:
Interaction design:
- Understand user interface patterns and behaviours, and use that understanding to drive user comprehension, and improve task performance
- Design artifacts of high complexity to communicate task flows,touchpoints, behaviours, and the exchange of information
- Use visualizations and interactions to support analytic thinking with large data sets
- Facilitate design critique, evaluate interactions for inclusivity and provide expert advice and guidance to cross-functional teams and stakeholders
- Act as an interaction design subject-matter expert for the product design team
- Understand visual-spatial displays, and use that understanding to improve user comprehension, and improve task performance
- Design high complexity visual artifacts to communicate information, facilitate interaction, and drive action
- Create complex low-fidelity sketches, hi-fidelity mock-ups and prototypes to communicate intent, and/or delivery specifications for development
- Have primary team accountability for usage of the Design System, and act as the visual design expert on the team
- Facilitate ideation sessions, collaborative work activities, and provide expert advice and guidance to cross-functional teams and stakeholders
- Participation in Agile ceremonies and decision making
- A degree or certification in Design (interaction/product/industrial/visual design) or Human Computer Interaction (HCI) or related/equivalent experience
- A minimum of 7 years of experience in both Interaction Design and Visual Design, with a Portfolio that includes application design examples featuring data/information design
- Experience in integrating user research into product designs and design practices
- Demonstrated ability to articulate design strategy, rational and logic; describing benefits and highlighting risks associated with design decisions
- Demonstrated expertise with design, prototyping, and collaboration tools such as Figma, Mural, and design systems
- A BA/BS or MA/MS degree or certification in Design (interaction/product/industrial/visual design) or Human Computer Interaction (HCI) or related/equivalent
- Experience with facilitating or supporting user research, with an understanding of various research methods and how/when they are applied
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| Job Category | Digital Product Deisgn |
We are looking for a Data Quality Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Data Quality Analyst
Term: 12 months contract with extension
Location: GTA - Remote
Job ID number: C1256
Brief Description of Duties:
Enterprise Data Operations and Technology is building and supporting the use of enterprise data and analytics tools, process and quality data assets, a critical foundation for the client’s objectives of transforming into a Digital organization.
The Senior Data Quality Analyst service provider is a high performing role that supports the quality management of the client‘s critical data across the data lifecycle. This individual will work within a network of business and technical data stewards, product owners, data engineers, and other data management professionals to ensure the integrity of the data; it’s fit for use, and compliance within the Information Management policy.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Provide data quality advisory, and design and deploy new data quality capabilities for digital transformation priority initiatives using Agile delivery methods.
- Profiling source data to identify any major Data quality anomalies.
- Develop Automated Data Quality processes to help identify Data anomalies using Analytics/ML and remediate DQ issues.
- Engage business and technical stewards and stakeholders to identify data quality requirements and rules, and design and implement data quality analysis and exception reporting from multiple source systems such as Data marts and legacy systems and within the Microsoft Azure enterprise data platform.
- Develop data quality dashboards to report on data quality metrics and trends that can be presented to a broad stakeholder audience for actioning.
- Using existing data assets and metadata, identify data requirements and sources, support and investigate root causes of data integrity issues, and recommend remediation approaches and controls to business and technical stewards.
- Support the implementation of a centralized metadata management solution for cataloging enterprise data assets and for discovering and harvesting business and technical metadata.
- Expertise designing and implementing automated Data Quality solutions using Spark, python, Scala.
- Design and develop automated solution to detect Data Anomaly in a Databricks environment.
- Expertise with data and analytics tools such as data profiling and quality tools, data asset catalogs, ETL tools, Power BI, Denodo, Data Bricks or the Azure Data Platform.
- Strong understanding of data flow, lineage, data transformation and business rules as it relates to root cause analysis and remediation of data quality issues.
- Expertise writing SQL queries to support data extraction, analysis and exceptions reporting.
- Experience with database design principles, data lake or other cloud platforms, ETL, Data Warehouse, and Power BI.
- Undergraduate Degree in Management Information Systems, Finance, Business Administration, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other relevant disciplines.
- Minimum 5 years of related experience in areas such as data quality management, data analysis, ETL procedures, data integration or data migration, data warehouse, metadata discovery and analysis, or data governance.
- Experience in analytics, software engineering, data architecture, or similar
- Experience with Databricks, Information Analyzer, Informatica, Collibra, or other similar tools
- Bilingual in both official languages (English & French)
- Agile Training
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| Job Category | Data Quality Analyst |
We are looking for a Senior Technical Writer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Senior Technical Writer
Term: 6 months contract with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 2-3 a week on-site
Job ID number: C1255
Brief Description of Duties:
- Plan, research, design and develop content and messaging to support the Public Safety Radio Network (PSRN) project
- Create monitoring and evaluation measurements for current and future communications strategies, activities and approaches
- Develop communications to support the team, including identifying key messaging, audiences, schedules, and distribution methods of PSRN-related communications
- Participate in Knowledge transfer
- Demonstrated ability to understand and translate complex technical concepts into clear, concise, and accurate technical documentation targeting a wide range of audience.
- Experience with tools/software for composing comprehensive documents and presentation materials using ( MS-Office Suite, Adobe Framework or Adobe Acrobat); Other desktop publishing software experience would be beneficial.
- Knowledge of Organizational Change Management principles and practices to contribute to material content for the program.
- Proven work experience as a Technical Writer, Creator, Communications or Issues Management or similar role
- Demonstrated experience creating content in an engineering, IT or technical environment
- At least 5 years of experience
- All roles procured are required to be cleared through the Contractor Security Clearance Process of the OPS.
- Security Clearance process, levels, roles etc. are subject to change without prior notice. Candidates may be required to undergo revised/new process (or levels) any time prior or during the term of the contract
- Proven work experience as a Technical Writer, Creator, or similar role
- Demonstrated experience creating content in an engineering, IT or technical environment
- Proven experience creating complex subject content for end users, business decision makers, and IT professionals at a variety of levels
- Experience in creating different types of artifacts, for examples, process flows, raci charts, workflow designs and procedures.
- Demonstrated ability to understand and translate complex technical concepts into clear, concise, and accurate technical documentation targeting a wide range of audience.
- Experience with delivering professional documentation; demonstrated ability with increasing documents quality, through well designed supporting materials and user interfaces.
- Experience with tools/software for composing comprehensive documents, such as, MS-Office Suite, Adobe Framework or Adobe Acrobat.
- Experience with desktop publishing software and use of collaboration tools, Enterprise Content Management and web site content development and maintenance
- Demonstrated experience drafting communications strategies and plans
- Education in Communications/Marketing and/or equivalent professional writing experience
- Knowledge of Organizational Change Management principles and practices to contribute to material content for the program.
- Ability to partner with internal/external stakeholders and liaise with technical experts and non-technical colleagues, regarding content development and revision
- Proven experience in developing on-line documentation, creation, distribution and maintenance of project and governance documentation
- Ability to perform copy/edit and provide suggestions for improving structure, presentation, and delivery of content
- Demonstrated experience collaborating with Developers, Testers and Program Managers to develop and document features in online help content
- Proven experience in producing diagrams, videos, and other visual content
- Demonstrated experience producing and maintaining writing style guides, document templates, process guides and other internal processes and standards.
- Ability to partner with internal/external stakeholders and liaise with experts regarding technical content creation
- Experience analyzing customer feedback and responding to it to improve the customer experience
- Experience in bringing clarity to complex business challenges and conflicting articulation of business issues through techniques that result in common understanding of the issues, as well as agreement on business process requirements vs technology requirements to solve the issues.
- Experience in understanding, capturing, and analyzing complex and sometimes competing business requirements to develop communications material
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, interpersonal and negotiation skills
- Facilitation skills, interpersonal and consultative skills,
- Stakeholder management skills. Demonstrated strong problem-solving and organizational skills,
- A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines.
- Working knowledge and experience developing reports for use by a wide spectrum of stakeholders
- Strong written, presentation and interpersonal communication skills with special attention to correct use of tense, grammar/spelling and terminology.
- Demonstrated effective time management and organizational skills, including the ability to plan and prioritize workload, ensuring timelines are met and respond to demands of a dynamic environment
- Knowledge and experience both in strategic and operational public sector governance models, experience managing complex, multi-unit, multi-stakeholder and multiple levels of public sector executive stakeholder project team, experience with public sector ITSM and ITIL processes and policies, ability and demonstrated experience developing mutually beneficial relationships with public sector entities.
- Strong experience of working on Public Safety Radio/telecom domain. Demonstrated experience of working with multiple stakeholders in a broader public sector (BPS) environment.
- Experience of projects involving, network design, civil structures, user equipment distribution and operations.
- Experience with projects involving large number of users (over 30,000), meeting their business requirements, training and communications needs etc.
- At least 5 years of experience as a Technical Writer, Creator, Communications or Issues Management or similar role
- Demonstrated experience creating content in an engineering, IT or technical environment
- Experience with tools/software for composing comprehensive documents and presentation materials using ( MS-Office Suite, Sharepoint, Adobe Framework or Adobe Acrobat); Other desktop publishing software experience would be beneficial.
- Experience with delivering professional documentation and presentation material for committees; demonstrated ability to produce quality, well designed supporting materials
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| Job Category | Technical Writer |
We are looking for an Solutions Developer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Solutions Developer
Term: 6 months contract with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid (once or twice a week)
Job ID number: C1254
Brief Description of Duties:
Reviews, analyzes, and modifies programming systems including encoding, testing, debugging and documenting programs. Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Performs a variety of complicated tasks. May lead and direct the work of others. May report directly to a project lead or manager. A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected. A vacancy exists for a senior developer to join the team in the delivery and development of this project and to eventually contribute to future enhancement, support, and maintenance post-delivery. Prime responsibility will be to develop detailed design specifications, create and review code and assess impact on other applications. Role will work closely with other team members to ensure consistency in coding standards and approaches and to optimize any synergy and re-use opportunities. Key accountabilities are: Responsible for leading technical aspects of project from inception through to deployment. Participate in analysis and system design specification sessions. Documentation of design options and solutions according to System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology. Ensure that solutions adhere to development best practices and architectural principles. Apply analytical skills to resolve problems and deliver viable solutions. Anticipate obstacles and execute proactive approaches to issues. Active participation in issue resolution. Provide detailed development estimates to Project Manager for development effort as well as weekly status reporting and budget forecasting. Configuration management for the sub projects within the release. Responsible for coding, testing, packaging, deployment, and support of builds as code is promoted from development, system, acceptance, and production environments. Participate in development of test strategy, test plans, test cases and testing efforts (unit testing and integration testing of code). Provide technical support to business and testing team during testing phases. Track defects, defect triage and resolution. Data set up and environment shake down.
Must Haves:
- Extensive knowledge on data platform architectures on RDBMS, NoSQL, data storage, transformation, access, cataloging, sharing, data mart, data warehouse, business intelligence, advanced analytics, AI/Machine learning solutions
- Experience on Azure, including hands on and detailed architecture level engagements.
- Extensive knowledge of Azure data services such as Data Factory, Databricks, Delta Lake, Azure SQL. Azure certifications are a plus.
- Experience in n-Tier architectures, frameworks, and the ability produce conceptual & logical reference architectures. Ability to create Technology strategy artifacts is an asset.
- Ability to design and define the various integration patterns for APIs and Realtime Events.
- Preferably knowledge and experience with Kafka.
- Experience as either a solutions architect, data architect, integration architect, application architect or enterprise architect in the data domain
- Knowledge of Financial Services / Banking industry is preferred but not required
- Experience in Agile/Scaled Agile/Scrum methodology is preferred but not required
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| Job Category | Solutions Developer |
We are looking for a Risk Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Risk Analyst
Term: 6 months contract with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 2-3 a week on-site
Job ID number: C1253
Brief Description of Duties:
The primary objective of this position is to critically assess the completeness and accuracy of technology and cybersecurity key risk indicators. This involves performing risk assessments, evaluating existing processes, and documenting processes, risks, and controls in the organization’s technology environment. This will be accomplished by partnering with clients, performing comprehensive review of Infrastructure Technology processes, and identifying key issues.
Specific responsibilities for this role are as follows:
- Evaluate the People, Processes, and Technologies that support a key risk indicator
- Review the design and operating effectiveness test workpapers performed by the RCSA team
- Review the processes and controls supporting how data used to calculate the KRIs are sourced, transformed, and reported
- Document end-to-end process narratives
- Use Microsoft Visio or Lucid chart to map out steps in a process
- Ensure documentation meet Manulife’s standard of quality
- Contribute to the growth and success of our ETS Governance & Control Team by adapting to an ever-changing technical environment
- Research, learn, and apply knowledge to keep up with next-generation technologies in the environment and promote credibility with our partners
- Collaborate effectively within the ETS G&C Team, to support several Governance & Control functions that will leverage parent process information and documentation.
- Technology audit
- Microsoft Visio
- Excel, Powerpoint and Word
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to read and understand query logic (i.e., SQL, Python, e.t.c)
- Strong analytic skills
- Understanding of IT Risk and Controls
- Understanding of cybersecurity and technology risk
- Understanding of IT governance
- Understanding of Enterprise technology and IT infrastructure
- Understanding of NIST Cybersecurity framework
- Strong Data analysis skills
- Technology Audit, SOX IT Audit or Technology RCSA experience
- Experience with reviewing Processes, identifying risks and mapping controls to the risks.
- Experience documenting a process from End-to-End, such that the document becomes a point of reference for internal and external stakeholders.
- Strong understanding of controls, audit and risk management
- Highly analytical with strong organizational and problem-solving skills
- Excellent problem solving, analytical skills, including the ability to hold client meetings, obtain evidence, and properly document workpapers independently.
- Strong understanding of audit methodologies, control test execution, risk, and remediation efforts
- Strong written and verbal communication, ability to effectively collaborate with multiple stakeholders
- Bachelor’s degree related to Information Systems, Computer Science, Information System Auditing
- Professional certification(s) related to audit or information risk management such as CISA, CISSP, CISM, CISA, GIAC, CRISC preferred
- Min 2+ yaesr of Technology Audit, SOX IT Audit or Technology RCSA experience
- Bachelor’s Degree required.
- Must be able to think outside the box (within reason) if “What can go wrong” is presented to them.
- Must be adaptable.
- Strong Data Analyst skills and be analytical.
- 3+ years of Technology Audit, SOX IT Audit or Technology RCSA experience
- Professional certification(s) related to audit or information risk management such as CISA, CISSP, CISM, CISA, GIAC, CRISC preferred.
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| Job Category | Risk Analyst |
We are looking for an Agile Coach! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Agile Coach
Term: 12 months contract with extension
Location: Ottawa – Hybrid
Job ID number: C1252
Brief Description of Duties:
Looking for Agile coaches to provide
- Training and coaching on agile Leadership, agile practices and frameworks like Scrum and Kanban.
- Assisting in the development and delivery of content for Agile Communities of Practice
- Developing and delivering agile workshops
- 10+ years of non overlapping experience as a change management consultant.
- OR – a recognized professional certification along with 5 years of experience as a change management consultant.
- Experience providing strategy, setting up workshops for enterprise-wide agile (software development) transformation.
- Experience in development of architecture requirements design, process development, mapping and training.
- Have created agile training material and established training curriculum on agile (SCRUM and Kanban).
- Training experience both in person and virtually.
- Experience in change impact analysis & change management activities.
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| Job Category | Agile Coach |
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: 6 months contract with extension
Location: Toronto – once a week on-site
Job ID number: C1251
Brief Description of Duties:
The GWMS - Customer Relationship Management team is looking for a Scrum Master to work with the Canadian Wealth Management Transformation program. The Scrum Master will be supporting various Canadian Wealth Business Transformation streams, with the opportunity to work on Salesforce initiatives to onboarding new business lines.
Typical Day in Role
- Conduct all Agile ceremonies such as User Story Grooming sessions, Sprint Retros, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Up
- Provide support to teams using a servant leadership style
- Coach the development team and help lead and insure the is fully adopted and understood
- Inculcate core agile values of focus, commitment, respect, openness and courage into the team ground rules through leading by example
- Assess and coach the team to higher levels of performance, tracking acceleration metrics
- Guide the development team on how to integrate agile ceremonies and values into daily work.
- Encourage an environment where open communication and collaborative problem solving can pave the way for faster removal of any impediments and where the impact of mistakes can be minimized through early detection, making them into learning opportunities
- Experience as a Scrum Master with excellent knowledge of scrum techniques
- Working experience with Salesforce Software Development (SDLC)
- Experience with Jira & Confluence
- Previous experience delivering large-scale agile project implementation (Scrum Kanban methodologies)
- FI or Scotiabank experience
- Scrum Master certification CSM is an asset
- Experience working in Agile environment
- Great communication skills
- Organization
- Leadership
- Problem solving & conflict resolution
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| Job Category | Scrum Master |
We are looking for a Python Developer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Python Developer
Term: 6 months contract with extension
Location: Toronto - once a week
Job ID number: C1250
Brief Description of Duties:
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with a dynamic and experienced team of software developers, infrastructure specialists, and business analysts, as well as gaining experience in the capital markets and credit risk technology fields. The project will contribute to the bank’s core risk management and reporting functions, helping to protect the bank and its customers.
Typical Day in Role
- Project aims to implement a counterparty credit risk check in to existing system.
- Primary function is to support the building out of a reporting system.
- Building the limit reporting system to display credit check information.
- Development of calculation and/or reporting applications
- Producing thorough, clear, and detailed documentation
- Communicating with stakeholders to ensure they are implementing best practices, integrating existing technologies, etc.
- Leveraging existing infrastructure to communicate information between systems and applications.
- Will be working on creating net new code and enhancement of existing code in a 70/30 capacity, depending on project deliverables.
- Working collaboratively with project team, participating in scrums and meetings, implementing all steps of SDLC.
- Experience in the capacity of a developer
- Hands on experience in Python Django/Flask web framework.
- Hands on experience using all listed Python libraries: NumPy, SciPy, Panda
- Experience with Unix/Linux environment and proficient in shell scripting
- Experience with RDMS including: Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, or Sybase
- Recent experience in Object Oriented Programming (Java)
- Experience with Messaging Bus technologies such as Kafka, MQ and JMS
- Banking or Capital Markets experience is an asset
- Previous credit risk monitoring systems experience is an asset
- Good communication, both written and oral, whether producing documentation or attending meetings with other developers, non-technical team members, or external stakeholders
- Proactively raise issues as they are identified
- Creativity and resourcefulness in solving problems within the framework of the existing technology stack
- Willingness to learn and upgrade skills as needed on the job
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| Job Category | Python Developer |
We are looking for a Business/Data Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Business/Data Analyst!
Term: 6 months contract with extension
Location: Toronto - twice a week on-site
Job ID number: C1249
Brief Description of Duties:
The candidate will be working on the Data Management team on a few projects.
- Finishing off a Private Attribution project – hand-holding performance team members and helping them understand logic and processes that are sitting on top and underneath data
- Portfolio management system implementation + Master data management (MDM)
- Total Return Swaps (TRS) system implementation
- Strong focus on data quality, data feeds, data reporting, data mapping, ETL, Business Intelligence and reporting
- Work with internal team, custodians, and vendors
- Understanding business process, business requirements, and working with performance team to understand what they need and how to overcome challenges that arise
- Dealing with investment operations (accounting, clearing, settlements)
- Experience with a variety of assets classes (Equities, Derivatives, FX, Fixed Income, etc.)
- Swaps experience
- Portfolio Management System experience
- SQL – must be able to write stored procedures and analyze SQL code
- Master Data Management (MDM) experience – implementation of system
- Experience with investment-related applications (Eagle, Bloomberg, MSCI BarraOne, Mpower, Murex, Sophis, Charles River)
- Shops: HOOPP, CPPIB, OMERS, Manulife investments, OTPP, AIMCO, other pension companies
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| Job Category | Business/Data Analyst |
We are looking for a Project Control Officer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Project Control Officer
Term: 6 months contract with extension
Location: Toronto or Winnipeg - once or twice a week on-site
Job ID number: C1248
Brief Description of Duties:
Senior Project Control Officer or Junior Project Manager Academic, Research and Collaborative (ARC) Technologies Overview:
We are looking for a strong working technical senior project control officer or junior project manager who will be responsible using our PM tools and techniques (i.e. the project management lifecycle) to ensure successful completion of projects.
Not looking for Program or Portfolio managers or leaders.
- We are not looking for someone to lead projects – we have project leads.
- We are looking for a classic senior project control officer or junior project manager – a person who will work with a project lead to track and document project tasks in detail, work with stakeholders and project team members to ensure tasks are being completed and reported properly, identify potential project risks, and ultimately produce project reports and visualizations.
- Documenting overall project design.
- Developing charter, scope, resources and schedule for project(s).
- Documenting planning and implementing project phases.
- Liaising with management to document goals and priorities.
- Assisting with the development of, and documenting project schedules to expedite and/or compress the critical path to meet timelines.
- Developing and maintaining project quality control standards.
- Documenting and assisting with the implementation of workflow for a group.
- Tracking milestones and timelines and gathering information in preparation for planning reports.
- Building and strengthening relationships with stakeholders and partners of strategic importance.
- Implementing project communications plans
- As directed, conducting detailed data analysis to inform management decision making.
- Reviewing and assessing requirements needed to meet project timelines.
- Informing project leaders of issues and roadblocks.
- Verifying that project approvals are received.
- Researching, analyzing and recommending solutions to project challenges.
- Fostering and maintaining positive relations with stakeholders to support knowledge translation activities.
- Coordinating tasks for projects and other strategic initiatives with stakeholders
- Checking that assigned work completed meets expected standards
- Resolving issues identified in project planning reports and escalating problems as required.
- Tracking service metrics to inform continuous service improvements.
- Designing surveys to support project objectives and collecting feedback from users.
- Scheduling, managing and/or hosting meetings, vendor presentations, and other project-related activities and events.
- Recommending future business innovations and/or process changes to leadership.
- Collaborating on cost estimates and monitoring project finances, where appropriate.
- Must be prepared to handling complex and/or sensitive information, with the possibility of having to sign nondisclosure and conflict-of-interest agreements for certain projects.
- Education & Certification: Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent.
- Education & Certification: Formal project management training an asset.
- Experience: 2 to 4 years in relevant role.
- Higher Education, or similar K12 or government institution experience.
- Excellent demonstrable experience using JIRA or similar project management software;
- Excellent demonstrable skills in developing Gannt and similar charts and reports;
- Excellent demonstrable skills with PowerPoint;
- Excellent demonstrable communication skills, both oral and written;
- Experience using PowerBI or Tableau an asset.
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| Job Category | Project Control Officer |
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: 6 months contract with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid (once/twice a week)
Job ID number: C1247
Brief Description of Duties:
The Corporate Treasury Team has responsibility for the group treasury function. Reporting to the Manager, Treasury Controls & Reporting, the Financial Analyst will support the treasury accounting function with emphasis on ensuring the integrity of the cash accounting and its impact to financial reporting. Resulting from the adaptation of the IFRS17 standard and related system implementations, this role will focus on identifying and investigating differences within financial reporting and reconciliations and working with business partners and Treasury team members to communicate, provide guidance on and/or resolve identified issues.
Responsibilities
- Monitor Treasury owned G/L accounts and reporting to identify differences resulting from parallel reporting processes.
- Interact with business partners across the organization to ensure that reconciling items are investigated and addressed in a timely manner.
- Prepare and provide guidance on cash related journal entries in Oracle and SAP.
- Support implementation of updated bank reconciliation process in Frontier, including critically assessing, investigating, and clearing reconciling items.
- Work with the IT support teams to resolve identified issues.
- Treasury/finance related experience
- Undergraduate degree in related field or equivalent experience.
- Professional accounting designation, or working towards one.
- Experience working in SAP, Oracle and/or Frontier Reconciliation.
- Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills to assess and investigate financial information independently/with minimal supervision.
- Clear and concise written and oral communication.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work collaboratively with team members and Business Partners across the organization.
- Computer proficiency, including at least an intermediate skill level in Microsoft Excel.
- Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment and handle multiple priorities.
- Frontier Reconciliations
- SAP
- Oracle
- Excel
- Treasury and/or Finance experience
- Clear and concise written and oral communication
- Strong knowledge of financial reporting and internal controls.
- Professional accounting designation preferred
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| Job Category | Financial 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: 9 months contract with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid (once a week)
Job ID number: C1246
Brief Description of Duties:
- Business group: Prime Services, Collateral Management & Funding Engineering (PACE)
- Project: T+1 project - Looking for Business Analyst with development background on Prime Services Data Interface (PSDI) team in PACE group with good communication skills. PSDI is a central operational data store and data warehouse for the Prime Services transaction processing systems The role requires understanding of Securities Lending business with the ability to work within a team of Business Analysts and Developers and work closely with business users and vendor for deliverables.
- Reason for request: Net new requirement
- The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work on a high visibility project (T+1), and interact directly with a variety of teams and stakeholders.
- Work closely with business stakeholders in the Prime Services business in understanding business requirements and work closely with vendor for deliverables.
- Analyze and document business and functional requirements as per business needs.
- Must be able to test and analyze data as part of data testing using various tools such as Microsoft Excel, SQL tools etc.
- Analyze and understand the deliverables as per business needs and work on the allocated tasks based on priority.
- Work closely with QA for testing vendor deliverables
- Work closely within the BA/Dev team and QA team as part of system testing.
- The role will provide this person with extensive opportunity to interact directly with securities lending sales-traders in Toronto, NYC, and London and will provide them with unique insight into how hedge funds & prime brokers operate.
- Experience as a BA/BSA
- Experience with Securities Lending (within Prime Services) a requirement.
- Experience of using SQL on databases such as Oracle, Sybase etc.
- Experience with Unix or Linux scripting.
- Understanding of Software design and software development lifecycle.
- Experience in testing and analyzing data as part of data analysis.
- Experience with inventory management, rehypothecation processing a strong plus
- Experience with Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Visio a plus
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
- Strong sense of ownership for system stability and capacity.
- Ability to communicate with key business and technology stakeholders on a daily basis
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| Job Category | Business Analyst, Business Systems Analyst |
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: 6 months contract with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid (as required for on-site duties)
Job ID number: C1245
Brief Description of Duties:
The client’s 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.
Typical Day in Role:
- 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.
- Proven experience in cloud infrastructure designs, implementation and support (Google GCP and Microsoft Azure).
- Experience and in-depth knowledge of Cloud environments and associated networking technologies (VPCs, Shared VPC, Load Balancing, Interconnects, VNets, Application Gateways, Expressroute)
- Experience and in-depth knowledge of containerized and serverless technologies (PCF, Docker, Kubernetes, GKE) and their designs, implementation, and ongoing support.
- 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.
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| Job Category | Network Engineer |
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: 12 months contract with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid (twice onsite)
Job ID number: C1244
Brief Description of Duties:
- Experience in Data Integration, Data mapping, Data analysis is a must for this role.
- Experience in performing analysis on the quality of data, investigating & identifying the root cause of bad data quality issues
- Experience in Agile Methodology
- Experience in any other Credit Banking applications or Business Banking applications is an asset
- Experience in the Financial industry is an asset
- Advanced to Expert knowledge of system analysis process and techniques
- Familiar with RDBMS systems, ability to read, write and execute SQL queries is a must
- Knowledge of Sales/Ncino is an asset
- 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.
- Advanced understanding of business supported
- Works independently as the senior or lead system analyst and coaches/ guides members within area of expertise
- Subject matter expert and consults with clients and/or project teams
- Generally, reports to a Manager or Senior Manager
- Regulatory reporting experience, data mapping experience
- Ability to read, write and execute SQL queries is a must
- 7+ years as a BSA
- Strong communication – able to work with various stakeholders – managing stakeholders
- Agile Exp. – flexible, take on other roles when needed
- Previous financial industry exp – strong asset
- Salesforce and ncino platforms
- Works independently as the senior or lead system analyst and coaches/ guides members within area of expertise
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| Job Category | Business Analyst, Business Systems Analyst |