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We are looking for a Business Intelligence Developer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: Business Intelligence Developer Term: 12 months (with extension) – 37.5 hours/Week Location: Toronto – Hybrid (2-3 days on-site) Job ID number: C1206   Brief Description of Duties:   Responsible for detailed technical design and development of specifications and applications according to business units requirements. Work closely with business to understand objectives, recommend solutions and/or alternatives and translate them into specific logic. Extract and Transform data using SQL/ Hive/ Pyspark to create VDS tables. Design visualizations using Tableau.. Experience with SQL and Python is essential. Experience in big data environment (Hadoop/Spark) an asset. Extensive knowledge of business functions. Experience with project management methodology. Excellent analytical skills and very strong relationship management skills. Strong writing and presentation skills   Must Haves:   

• SQL
• Python
• Ability to demonstrate sound business/process understanding
• Resume lists/mention Python and SQL extensively in their resumes and used both SQL and Python in the last 3 years
• Work experience/role titles include "data analyst", "BI developer", "analytics consultant" etc.

  Nice to Haves:  

• Previous banking exp./ banking exp.
• Pyspark
• VBA Macro

We are looking for a Network Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: Network Analyst Term: 6 months (with extension) – 37.5 hours/Week Location: Toronto – Hybrid (2 days on-site) Job ID number: C1205   Brief Description of Duties:  

• Manage day to day deliverables during the shift, under the overall direction of the NOC Team Lead/Manager. The primary accountability of this position is to ensure that all work deliverables during the shift are efficiently managed with strong delivery and prompt escalations to the Team Lead positions as needed. Engage other teams or escalate to L2/L3 teams as necessary. Smooth takeover of work as well as well documented and smooth hand over is part of the accountability.
• Provide strong technical troubleshooting while ensuring that NOC processes and procedures are followed properly. This includes ensuring proper use of automation, following proper remediation procedures, high quality ticket and vendor issue updates, handover documentation, etc.
• Collaborate strongly with the Team Lead to manage the queue, work intake as well as delivery. This includes helping solve team issues and escalating issues as needed
• Engage in P3's or incident calls and provide support
• Ensure work being taken over is followed up promptly while providing proper handover to the next shift as well as to the Team Manager (including process issues or improvements, automation opportunities, etc.)
• Support the incident, change and problem management processes.
• Manage incident queue and effectively prioritize and triage incidents based on critical devices and shared services.
• Manage escalations with internal teams and 3rd party vendors.
• Manage chronic, repeat and aging incidents with proper internal/external escalations.
• Support shift turnover process effectively.
• Create MoPs and how-to docs for better support and training of new and junior team members. Also, peer review such documentation created by other team members and provide suggestions for improvement.
• Report on any challenges with internal processes, gaps, or any challenges with vendors and telcos.
• Report on any new influx of repeated alerts/incidents to identify opportunities related to alert modification, etc. to reduce noise.
• Identify and report on gaps for process optimization.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite of products (Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Outlook).
• Other duties as required.

  Must Haves:   

• Firewall - Palo Alto and Cisco : 3 years
• Load Balancing - F5 and Wireless - Aruba Experience: 3 years
• VOIP - Cisco experience: 3 years
• CISCO Switching and Routers 5 Years
• At least 3 years of Network Operations experience as opposed to network projects based work
• In-depth experience troubleshooting on Network operation systems
• Strong verbal and written communication skills required.
• Must be CCNA or CCNP Certified with 3 -5 Years of industry experience

Nice to Haves:   

• ACI
• SevOne
• Guardicore

We are looking for a Java Developer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: Java Developer Term: 6 months (with extension) – 37.5 hours/Week Location: Toronto – Hybrid (1 day on-site) Job ID number: C1204   Brief Description of Duties:  

• Development and support of a high-volume, low-latency trading system used for trade booking, trade execution and pricing of derivatives trades.
• Participate in design discussions on scalability, performance, security, Microservices best practices.
• Hold meetings for issue investigations and solutions
• Timely response on critical production problems.
• Join scrum meetings and provide status update
• Take ownership and responsibility of development of products onboarding to the trading platform and be efficient with sizing and estimates for development.
• Guide team members through technical issues and challenges
• Champions a high-performance environment using a coaching mindset, behaviors and embracing the client’s values and contributing to an inclusive work environment.

  Must Have Skills:   

• Service side development experience with Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate (in order of priority)
• Experience in micro services development
• Experience of using DevOps tools for Micro Services development: Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis, Prometheus, Grafana etc. With hands on experience in setting up DevOps infrastructure, including above tools.
• Strong experience with relational or no sql databases
• Proficiency in using Git for source code repository; Maven and Jenkins for build

  Nice to Haves:   

• Broad understanding of Information Security and Technology domains with focus on the Financial Industry will be an asset
• Capital Markets experience, in trading or analytical platforms

  Soft Skills:   

• Excellent verbal and written communication, negotiating and interpersonal skills with the ability to summarize material for senior management.
• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple complex initiatives
• Ability to work as part of a team, as well as work independently or with minimal direction.

We are looking for a Project Manager! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: Project Manager Term: 6 months (with extension) – 37.5 hours/Week Location: Toronto – Hybrid (2 days on-site) Job ID number: C1203   Brief Description of Duties:   The successful candidate will have the opportunity to use leading-edge technologies and real-time applications and processes that help drive a cross-asset blotter used by Equity and Equity Derivatives Trading Desks. They will also work on resolving complex and multi-faceted problems interacting with the stakeholders on the trading desk to ascertain requirements and with technology teams to develop and deploy the required software.  

• Participating/leading in scrum session with team on a daily basis
• Managing stakeholder requirements and expectations to project timelines and budget
• Maintaining JIRA backlog and planning
• Hands-on management of meetings, status reports, reporting to steering committees and working groups
• Leading an agile team and holding scrum meetings
• Facilitating KPIs and measuring productivity within the team
• Maintaining project plans (Gantt)
• Reporting project status, roadblocks and milestones to the project stakeholder and sponsors throughout the course of the project
• Communicating with vendors, main stakeholders on the trading desk, system architects, development staff, QAs, BAs, and other PMs.
• Assist in some BA duties (creating flow-charts, diagrams, documentation, etc.)
• Assist or lead on other smaller projects
• Involved in network planning, hardware planning and architecture
• Providing guidance to the project team to ensure efforts are aligned to the project delivery goal.
• Facilitating project control processes, project gating documents in adherence to Scotiabank’s EPMO standards. Focus on Governance processes, ensuring projects are moving through the appropriate channels and drive the initiatives

Must Haves:   

• Experience as a project manager
• Experience developing solutions for Trading Desk
• Required product groups: Institutional equities or listed derivative products
• Experience with application development is required (e.g. has a development background and has the ability to read code in Python/Java)
• Architecture concept exposure in recent projects
• Database design (SQL) experience

  Nice to Haves:   

• Order Management and Execution Management System experience
• Experience with vendor systems (Fidessa, Itiviti)

  Soft Skills:   

• Strong communication Skills (ability to position concepts, articulate to Senior Managers, motivate developers)
• Proactive and self-driven
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment is required

  Degrees or certifications:  

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required.
• PMI/PMP designations are an asset

We are looking for a Project Manager! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: Project Manager Term: 6 months (with extension) – 35 hours/Week Location: Toronto – Hybrid Job ID number: C1202   Brief Description of Duties:  

The PM will be part of a dynamic and collaborative team that plays a significant role in leading and implementing our conversion platform and solutions within the Personal Lines platform. As a leader of this initiative, you will succeed by delivering and implementing multiple large and highly complex new systems, projects, processes, and programs that improve profitability, reduce costs, streamline operations, or enhance service to the business and customers. You will collaborate effectively with cross-functional business and technology leaders across the organization to solve problems and implement new solutions. 

    Must Haves:     

• Responsible for leading, planning and delivering all aspects of highly complex and strategic projects and program across multiple departments
• Manage overall Project Management functional scope and schedule.
• Define the overall project scope and objectives with business sponsors. Provide project leadership and vision; formalize processes, procedures, and quality control measures; develop and manage project resource plans and dependencies.
• Provide oversight of budget management and allocation of personnel and resources to all Conversion and Acquisition projects
• Lead and develop the definition and measurement of success metrics to objectively quantify project success
• Create and manage project schedules and budgets to ensure project completion is on time, on budget and within scope.
• Identify potential risks and dependencies across a broad number of individual projects and programs and establish communications (Steerco, Directorate) and risk mitigation strategies.
• Monitor implementation efforts to identify business risks and solutions are recommended.
• Partner with Directors, Pos, Architects, and peers to ensure strategy and execution alignment and resolve cross-functional project issues.
• Develop and maintain a detailed program plan to deliver the program. Leads all IT project management activities (staffing needs, budget, risk register, audit requests, performance, security, PMO requirements, etc.).
• Has led a cross-functional or multi-team effort in defining budget requirements for a project or program, providing thought leadership into initial financial estimates for the business case.
• Manage stakeholder and project team expectations and ensures that the deliverables align with business needs
• Perform some portfolio management activities to ensure the entire portfolio is well resourced and planned
• Support organizational change management efforts related to assigned projects or otherwise

  Nice to Have:   

• Insurance domain experience.
• Software Engineering and delivery group PM experience.

We are looking for a Software Developer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: Software Developer Term: 6 months (with extension) – 37.5 hours/Week Location: Toronto – Hybrid (3 days on-site) Job ID number: C1201   Brief Description of Duties:

• Will work on the Nutcracker application

  Must Haves: 

• Node JS
• Java
• Oracle
• SQL

   

We are looking for a Project Coordinator! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: Project Coordinator Term: 4 months – 35 hours/Week Location: Toronto – 100% remote Job ID number: C1200   Brief Description of Duties: 

• Direct and coordinate project activities to ensure projects progress on schedule.
• Work with project team members to log and track issues or action items, and provide advice to resolve problems
• Update project management tools to accurately reflect project status and coordinate schedule changes as required with support project delivery team and consultants.
• Summarize projects status and project issues to report to Project Management Office (PMO)
• Assist in preparation of requirements documentation throughout the project lifecycle using templated documents and prescribed logs to document needs
• Review requirements documentation and logged change requests to check for completeness, accuracy and compliance with product functionality.
• Identify and escalate requests for non-standard, out of scope work to designated project team members and PMO for guidance.
• Conduct quality assurance testing of sites to ensure that the content (text, links, images/widgets etc.) have been configured as per the request and/or fixed as necessary
• Oversee QA and UAT logs and liaise with consultants on testing status
• On occasion, perform simple updates/fixes to web content on the client’s systems using Sitecore’s content management system as needed to minimize issues logged.

  Skills and Experience:   

• Ability to support and work with multiple team members simultaneously, to deliver high-quality services to clients
• Ability to prioritize and manage individual tasks independently, being able to work to scheduled deliverables under tight deadlines
• Ability to prioritize and manage issues, escalating complex issues when needed
• Strong administrative skills with a focus on details
• Ability to work well under pressure
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Must be proactive, accountable, collaborative and externally client focused
• Experience with Microsoft Office: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and SharePoint

• Some experience with web content editors preferred

We are looking for a Infrastructure Engineer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Full-time Title: Infrastructure Engineer Term: Full-time – 37.5 hours/Week Location: Toronto – Hybrid Job ID number: C1199   Brief Description of Duties:    The Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for collaborating on the development and execution of complex projects. Infrastructure Engineers have a thorough skill, understanding, and mastery of all aspects of the specialty area. Infrastructure Engineers lead projects with 2-3 internal/external resources.

• Maintain and enhance enterprise-level IT infrastructure.
• Interface with systems analysts, solution designers, data architects, and business stakeholders, to understand the business-technology infrastructure requirements.
• Daily management, maintenance, and enhancement of enterprise-level IT infrastructure policies and solutions; ensure they are adopted across the enterprise.
• Design, develop, test, and document solutions within a complex technology infrastructure environment to align technical and business goals.
• Work with a team of analysts, engineers, management, and business stakeholders to identify optimal infrastructure solutions for implementation, while assessing technical and business suitability and its impact to the enterprise’s systems.
• Manage daily operations and functionality of technology infrastructure solutions and applications.
• Research, evaluate, and recommend operational procedures and best practices to optimize processes and workflow efficiencies.
• Develop and maintain a knowledge and understanding of company operations/procedures, and insurance industry trends/developments, to enhance the security process.

  Must Haves:   

• 7-10 years of the following technologies:
• CICS, BMS Maps (IMS DB/DC)
• JCL
• JES2, SDSF, MVS commands
• VSAM
• z/OS concepts and utilities

  Nice to Haves:   

• 5+ years in the following technologies (preferably)
• Control-M (job scheduling)
• DFDSS, FDR (back-up/restore)
• DFDSSrmm (tape mgmt.)
• RACF (Really nice to have)
• ADO, GIT, IDz, Topaz, VS Code
• Assembler
• COBOL, DB2 for z/OS, SQL
• DumpMaster
• Insync
• ISPF/PDF, CLIST
• Mainview (CICS, DB2, z/OS)
• OMVS/USS
• REXX
• Knowledge/experience in the following technologies
• AIX, IBMi
• DB2 Admin Tools
• SAS, SAS/MXG
• Selcopy
• TraceMaster
• Vanguard
• Windows Server, Hyper-V, ESX

We are looking for a Front End Developer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: Front End Developer Term: 6-12 months (with extension) – 8 hours/day Location: Toronto – Hybrid 1-2 Job ID number: C1198   Brief Description of Duties:    The contractor will be assisting with Quote and Buy website as well as online services for P&C Insurance customers. Migrating to newer versions of Angular. Current environment is a mix of different languages (Angular JS, Angular, React, Jquery, typescript… etc)   Must Haves:  

• Angular Front End – needs to be strong
• Node.JS
• Some react would be nice but not necessary
• Typescript
• Bootstrap
• Must have strong Javascript
• Strong JQuery – Must have
• .Net Back End
• .Net Core
• API
• Strong Communication Skills
• Able to problem self
• Independent worker
• Able to Collaborate with team members

  Nice to Haves:  

• Azure
• DevOps

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: 12-months (with extension) – 37.5 hours/Week Location: Toronto – Hybrid 1-2 weeks on-site Job ID number: C1197   Brief Description of Duties:    We are looking for someone who is passionate about learning and contributing to the success of the overall team by assisting and supporting the project manager with the below-listed skills:

• Develop and maintain project plans & consolidate individual project plans into a program-level integrated plan
• Produce thorough key milestone tracking charts and high-level timelines
• Communicating with stakeholders to ensure priorities of upcoming deliverables
• Working collaboratively with project team, participating, and leading scrum meetings
• Assisting in follow-up of out‐standing deliverables, issues, risks, and action items
• Planning monthly sprints and supporting with execution/closing activities
• Demonstrating and promoting best practices in project management and schedule management

  Must Haves:   

• Proven work experience as a Project Coordinator/PCO or similar role
• Strong working experience with all of: MS Project, Excel, Confluence and JIRA
• Adept in using MS Office applications (SharePoint, PowerPoint, Word, Excel)
• Experience in project management practices/methodologies (Agile and Iterative Waterfall), from conception to delivery

  Nice to Have Skills:   

• Experience in change management is an asset
• Experience in working in a banking environment is an asset

  Soft Skills:   

• Capability to manage multiple priorities across a number of assignments and prioritize effectively
• Motivated and analytical, with strong achievement orientation and attention to detail
• Knowledge of enterprise project management information systems Ability to work in a diverse / fast-paced environment and able to meet deadlines
• Able to define the next steps required when the plan changes during project activities
• Ability to deal with tight deadlines and pressure; Comfortable with information technology (IT)
• Able to establish and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Willingness to take responsibility for assigned tasks and demonstrate a strong work ethic
• Have leadership skills and be able to work independently
• Good interpersonal and relational skills

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: 12-months (with extension) - 37.5 hours/Week Location: Toronto - Hybrid 1-2 weeks on-site Job ID number: C1196   Brief Description of Duties:   

• Contributing to the success of DSL project
• Enhancement items that need to be viewed on a regular bases. Management/project will prioritize items and assign to the contractor
• Analysis and typical roles for a BSA
• Running SQL queries and work with Oracle
• Looking at data attributes (related to FX) and ensuring that the data is accurate and complete. Ensure that what is fed from upstream is accurate (investigation, analysis, altering format to fit system format, etc.)
• May be expected to look into downstream reporting to assist with building out some reports
• Will be working internally with the project team, other BSAs, Developers, as well as with some business users
• May undertake some work on the back end using Unix, if able

  Must Haves:   

• Experience within in the capacity of a BA/BSA
• Capital markets or 3+ years’ experience within FX/Credit Risk
• Professional experience writing and designing SQL queries (intermediate to advanced skills)
• Working knowledge of SDLC (testing and technical specifications), as well as a strong understanding of configurations, technical mappings, data attributes

Nice to Have Skills:   

• Working knowledge of Unix
• Wallstreet and/or other FX platforms experience is an asset
• Credit Risk experience is an asset

  Soft Skills:   

• Willingness to learn new things is a key value
• Problem solver

 

We are looking for a AML Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: AML Analyst Term: 6-months (with extension) – 37.5 hours/Week Location: Toronto – Hybrid 1-2 weeks on-site Job ID number: C1195   Brief Description of Duties:   

• Review, triage and assess high risk client alerts to determine if further investigation is required.
• Conduct Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) analysis and reports for higher risk clients in order to identify key high risk factors.
• Assign appropriate risk rating to the bank’s clients in accordance with the client's risk rating methodology.

  Must Have Skills:   

• Knowledge of and/ or experience in AML Compliance, Financial Crimes investigations (within law
• Working knowledge of AML compliance requirements and regulations for Canada, US, Caribbean and other jurisdictions where the client operates.
• Strong investigative and problem solving skills
• Strong analytical aptitude and risk mindset
• Skilled in Microsoft Office Outlook, Excel, Word applications

  Nice to Have Skills:   

• Experience working in law enforcement or the financial sector or financial regulatory oversight.

  Soft Skills:   

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently.

  Languages:   

• English (Fluent);
• French (Nice to have, written & verbal);

 

We are looking for a QA Automation Engineer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: QA Automation Engineer Term: 6-months (with extension) - 37.5 hours/Week Location: Toronto - Hybrid 1-2 weeks on-site Job ID number: C1194   Brief Description of Duties:   

• Design, develop and maintain automation framework/software solutions
• Recommend innovative ideas to automate and reduce manual QA efforts
• Coordinate and perform all testing activities in the software development process
• Build, maintain and analyze the regression suit being used by automation tools
• Work with RESTful APIs, Restful Interfaces, Regular Expressions
• Participate in ongoing process improvement efforts to ensure test automation is promoted and applied effectively in the squad
• Research tools, methods, and technology trends to support program test automation objectives
• Analyze and present test reports to project teams
• Optimize and improve testing process where applicable to increase testing efficiency

  Must Have Skills:   

• Automation design and scripting skills
• Strong development skills with Selenium, Python and Pytest Framework, Web Services, REST API, LoadRunner, JMETER, POSTMAN etc.
• Experienced with variety of Quality Assurance technology architecture including application, infrastructure, data and security
• Solid understanding of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum frameworks
• Good understanding of web frameworks
• Application Development Life Cycle - SDLC
• Experience with Tools such as JIRA, TestRail
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, technical, and troubleshooting skills
• Well organized, result-oriented, self-motivated, collaborative
• Experience in all functions of system testing
• Experience in software development and quality assurance

  Nice to Have Skills:   

• Experience with automation within the Salesforce platform (Service Cloud/ Experience Cloud
• Previous experience in Financial Services and/or Capital Markets Industry
• Organized, focused and persistent - ability to work to the plan and meet delivery dates
• Experience using automation frameworks is an asset
• Knowledge of Javascript is an asset

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: 12 months (with extension) - 37.5 hours/Week Location: Toronto - Hybrid 1-2 weeks on-site Job ID number: C1193   Brief Description of Duties:    The main function of a Developer (Other Specialty) is to design, develop, and implement applications using in-demand languages and technologies to support business requirements. Job Responsibilities: Analyze highly complex business requirements; generate technical specifications to design or redesign complex software components and applications. Act as an expert technical resource for modeling, simulation, and analysis efforts. Leverage industry best practices to design, test, implement and support a solution. Assure quality security and compliance requirements are met for supported area. Be flexible and thrive in an evolving environment. Adapt to change quickly and adjust work accordingly in a positive manner. Must to Haves:  

• Datastage ETL Developer with Salesforce Data Migration experience Key Job Requirements:
• Strong ETL experience with Datastage ETL tool 8+ years
• Data migration experience into Salesforce/nCino
• Data migration delivery from the project initiation till closure (full cycle)
• Agile delivery experience

We are looking for a Java Developer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!   Type of Employment: Contract Title: Java Developer Term: 6-months (with extension) - 37.5 hours/Week Location: Toronto - Hybrid 1-2 weeks on-site Job ID number: C1192   Brief Description of Duties:   

• Independently develop solutions to resolve complex, multi-faceted problems to meet the business needs, by applying financial and technological knowledge. Ability to wear multiple hats at a time to run with multiple ongoing projects.
• Provide third level application support at times when required across multiple business units globally.
• Communicate with different technology and business groups to define requirements and test
• Deliver the assigned project to specs within the projected timelines
• Continuously expand on team knowledge
• Documentation and development of workflow based on project requirements
• Testing code and ensuring that any bugs are resolved through troubleshooting
• Act as an expert technical resource for modeling, simulation and analysis efforts
• Leverage industry best practices to design, test, implement and support a solution
• Analyze highly complex business requirements; generate technical specifications to design or redesign complex software components and applications
• Assure quality, security and compliance requirements are met for supported area
• Be flexible and thrive in an evolving environment
• Adapt to change quickly and adjust work accordingly in a positive manner
• Migration and modernization project, currently in Phase I, moving away from existing infrastructure to private cloud
• Focused on enhancement and consolidation of existing code, as well as removing some components and adding them to the private cloud

Must Have Skills:

• Experience in enterprise application development using Java required
• Recent working experience with Unix/Linux environment and proficient in shell scripting
• Recent working experience in Oracle and Sybase databases
• Experience with Messaging Bus technologies. Must have at least two of: Kafka, MQ, JMS, or Solace (note that Kafka, MQ, and JMS are most widely used)
• Good working knowledge of design patterns and best practices

  Nice to Have:   

• Scala experience is an asset
• Working knowledge of functional programming is a plus
• Experience with DevOps practices and pipelines would be an asset
• Experience working in capital markets and more specifically Fixed Income trading environment would be an asset
• Experience with Fixed Income trading platforms, more specifically ION MMI would be an asset

  Soft Skills:   

• Must have excellent written and oral communication skills and be a team player
• Ability to work independently