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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 – 12 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 2-3 days a week
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: 244
Daily Responsibilities:
Candidate Value Proposition: The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work within Scotiabank. We are technology partners who help the business transform how our employees around the world work. You will get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology. The candidate will be able to work with the latest security technologies.
Typical Day in Role:
The Scrum Master is empowered to introduce better ways to drive team productivity. They guide the team by embodying agile values, facilitating ceremonies, and supporting a culture of continuous improvement and shared practices. The incumbent will actively participate in developing and maintaining a high performing, self-organizing team.
Is this role right for you? In this role you will:
- Coach the development team and help lead and insure the “agile mindset” is fully adopted and understood
- Inculcate core agile values of focus, commitment, respect, openness and courage into the team’s 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.
- Facilitate agile ceremonies including Sprint planning, Sprint review, retrospectives, and daily standups
- Create a forum for discussing vision, goals, and Product Backlog items amongst the team
- Apply techniques for effective workflow visualization and management (e.g. Kanban or Scrum Boards)
- Identify, manage, and help mitigate issues and risks, with emphasis on timely removal of impediments for the team and/or directing obstacles to appropriate owners for quick resolution
- Facilitate identifying and enacting improvement strategies to increase the productivity of the team and quality of deliverables
- Develop and nurture strong partnering relationships with Product Owner/Business Sponsor and stakeholders
- Influence a wide range of stakeholders (business, compliance, Legal, IT, etc.) to remove impediments and maximize team output
- Support and educate the Product Owner on agile principles and practices to preserve the team from external pressures which may inhibit its productivity.
- 6+ years of IT experience
- 5+ years of performing hands on Scrum Master role
- 5+ years’ experience working in an Agile environment, with common development practices and in service-oriented environments
- Experience in commercial banking applications.
- Experience in Banking/financial institutions.
- Excellent English verbal and written communication skills
- Organization skills is a great asset.
- Problem solving
- Bachelor’s in computer science or information Systems
- Preferred - ScrumMaster Certification (PSM/CSM)
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| Job Category | Scrum Master |
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: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 3 days a week
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: 243
Daily Responsibilities:
Together with our Risk IT partners, we are building an application called Market Data and Scenario Service 2 (MDSS2), a next-generation market data and scenario engine. The daily responsibility of this role includes:
- Perform analysis on historical time series and shock scenarios of risk factors to ensure the risk can be properly captured and simulated. This includes a wide range of risk factors and product class, including IR, FX, EQ, credit, and commodity.
- Research and implement required configuration changes to the application to ensure the correct choice of market data source, region, and proxy is used for market risk calculation.
- Research business requirements and draft business requirement documents (BRDs) for new features of the application.
- Define test cases and carry out User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for new features of the application.
- Provide specifications to transform vendor market data feeds to standardized format.
- Carry out daily monitoring of market data feeds and shock scenario anomaly detection using statistical methods.
- Monitor the health and performance of the application and assist Risk IT partners for production incidents.
- Implement utilities and tools for carrying out daily work, primarily using Python.
- Support MDSS2 users by answering their questions and investigate any issue users report.
- The program’s objective is to modernize the risk management infrastructure to make it more performant and scalable.
- The application provides both historical and hypothetical scenarios to downstream PnL engines for simulating different market conditions. The PnL results is then used for guiding internal risk management and for trading/risk analysis. The application is built using Java + Spark distributed computing framework.
- Python – intermediate to advanced.
- SQL – intermediate
- Spark/PySpark/HDFS – good to have
- Linux/Unix shell script – working knowledge
- Git/GitHub – working knowledge
- Java/C++ - Good to have, but not required.
- The configuration of the MDSS2 application is stored in a database. This role will also use SQL to view and to configure the application.
- The MDSS2 application itself is built using Java + Spark distributed framework. Having prior experience with distributed systems or working with Spark is a plus but is not required.
- The candidate should be comfortable working with Linux command line user interface. Prior experience with Unix shell script is a plus.
- Prior experience with version control systems such as Git/GitHub is a plus.
- 0-2 years of experience with market risk, market data, or CCR, or CCAR.
- Intermediate level of proficiency with Python, SQL. Prior development experience with Python with a focus on financial applications is a plus.
- Master’s degree in financial engineering, statistics or equivalent. PhD in finance, engineering, or applied sciences
- Strong verbal communication skills
- High level of proficiency in technical writing
- Basic knowledge across capital market products and business
- Attention to detail
- Strong quantitative skill and analytical skill is a plus
- Experience with financial market data across different asset classes
- Experience with developing application for financial institutions
- Experience with Agile framework and project management
- Comfortable working with Linux command-line user interface
- Prior experience with C++, Java, Spark/PySpark, HDFS, Unix shell script
- Prior experience with version control tools (e.g. Git/GitHub)
- Good communicator
- Able to communicate business and technical concepts to both business and IT stakeholders.
- Able to draft well-written technical documentation
- High level of proficiency in technical writing
- Strong verbal skills, able to drive the discussion on business requirement.
- There will be two rounds of interviews. The interviews will be conducted in-person.
- First round (1 hour – 90 minutes) with manager and possibly another team member
- We will cover prior experience, domain knowledge, technical skill, and a small programming exercise.
- Second round (30 min – 1 hour) with Senior Director
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| Job Category | Risk Analyst |
We are looking for a Infrastructure Project Manager! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Infrastructure Project Manager
Term: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 3 days a week
Industry: Government
Job ID number: 242
Job Description
The Project Manager/Leader will be responsible for the following activities and deliverables:
Assisting project manager(s) with project statements, resource planning, status reporting, and monitoring status of deliverables.
- Assisting project manager(s) in the identification, preparation and tracking of project change requests, reviewing the requests to ensure all impacts are identified and estimates are reasonable
- Assist project manager in Stakeholder management, gathering & documenting requirements, documenting the project plan, strategy and implementation plan as per the Ministry standards
- Creating and maintaining project schedules (Work Breakdown Structures) using Planview
- Coordinating project meetings (e.g. steering committee, team meetings), including issuing of agendas, scribing minutes and following up on action items with the project team
- Generating and publishing project reporting (status reports with schedule information, milestones, dependencies, issues, risks, change requests, financials, metrics, etc)
- Preparing project presentations and communications, at the direction of the project manager(s)
- Ability to document compliance report
- Managing overall program/projects budget and expenditures
- Supporting program/projects orientation for new staff and consultants assigned to the project
- Transferring knowledge to designated TSSDB staff
- Regular review of all actual expenses to budgets, which includes tracking and monitoring of monthly expense accruals, and perform reconciliation of expenditures against budget.
- Create and maintain a summary report of expenditures for Sr. PM.
- Assist in the development of Quality Management, Change Management, Issues & Risk Management plans, Communication plan and Project Charters
- Monitor project deliverables and documentation for quality and ensure standards are followed
- Review of current computing and network environments
- Ensure timely communication with various internal and external stakeholders All PM Services
- Agile and waterfall methodologies
- Co-ordinate with ITS Project Managers as required
- Release Management tasks related to the maintenance deliverables
- Experience in Program and Project Management
- Managing multiple concurrent tasks in a multi-tiered application development environment with proven record for meeting strict deadlines by coordinating development/testing, UAT and Production environments
- Selecting and establishing project management methodologies
- Knowledge of PCI (Payment Card Industry) Data Security Standards (DSS) compliance Requirements v3.2.1
- Ideally, shall have experience working on PCI Compliance projects with first-hand knowledge
- Shall have at minimum five years of experience in conducting pre-site PCI Compliance audits within the Ontario Government
- Experience working with Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) in obtaining organization PCI Compliance Ideally, experience with MTO business policies and processes as relates to MTO PCI Compliance
- Demonstrated ability to develop successful relationships with high level stakeholders including executives and managing 3rd party vendors
- Establishment and/or management of information resource management functions in large or medium sized organizations
- Managing the governance, change management and implementation activities associated with large IT projects
- Experience in structured methodologies for the design, development, implementation and maintenance of support services
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; oral and written communication skills; inter-personal and negotiation skills
- Experience with Ontario Public Sector (OPS) Architecture standards and Enterprise Architecture Review process.
- Knowledge of Technical Architecture & experience with OPS gating and checkpoint Processes
- Knowledge of and experience with tools and techniques for planning, organizing, monitoring and controlling IT projects schedules, plans and costs
- Demonstrated experience identifying issues/risks and providing the proper mitigation Strategies
- Knowledge of and experience with monitoring and reporting on project progress and delivery using, Planview, Share-Point and Visual Process are optional assets
- Knowledge of and experience with maintaining a central repository of project schedules, plans, reporting and deliverables
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Experience with OPS Unified I & IT Project Methodology (UPM) and project gating processes.
- Ability to produce a variety of business documents (in MS Office) that demonstrate command of language, clarity of thought and orderliness of presentation (including MS Word, Excel, Power Point and Visio)
- Demonstrated experience with MS project
- Experience with the Ministry of Transportation, Transportation Safety Division architecture applications, database and systems.
- 10+ years of project management on enterprise projects including managing scope, risk, resources, schedules, and costs
- 10+ years of experience in the creation of project documentation
- Experience with recommending revisions or changes in scope, format, content, and methods of reproduction for published material, existing guides, documentation, and framework
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience with I&IT Project management frameworks
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience with the following computing environments:
- Oracle Database, Unix (Solaris, AIX, Linux), and Windows (Server) Operating Platforms,
- WebLogic and Microsoft IIS Web/Application Servers and Mainframe applications
- Experience with the use of tools for the creation, distribution, and maintenance of project documentation
- Experience with completing a cost-benefit analysis
- Experience in working in accordance with policies and procedures of Ontario Public Service would be an asset
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| Job Category | Infrastructure Project Manager |
We are looking for a Business Analyst! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Business Analyst
Term: Contract – 8 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 3 days a week
Industry: Government
Job ID number: 241
Job Description
Description
Deliver business analysis work packages on concurrent projects to ensure project deliverables meet requirements, including:
- Lead and conduct business analysis in order to assess and prioritize client’s business problems/opportunities and document the business requirements in such a way that technology solutions can be delivered iteratively.
- Apply data mining and data scripting techniques to enable data analysis and reporting solutions that are appropriate for business problem solving.
- Apply process re-engineering concepts to promote business improvements through evidence-focused and cost-effective service delivery approaches.
- Work across system development teams to coordinate and document data interface use cases, data standards, and ETL specifications.
- Conduct business modeling; use case modeling; conceptual and logical data modeling; process and data flow modeling; use case surveys; business rules definition and non-functional requirements definitions for assigned projects.
- Lead and conduct business analysis at varying levels of detail, appropriate to the project phase and/or release plan, aligning with agile methodologies as well as the OPS Unified Project Management Methodology, Enterprise Architecture and Gating Process.
- Develop performance measures for business analysis evaluation and conducts follow-up as required.
- Support QA activities
- Lead analysis of new client requests and support the forming of emerging priorities, including
- Lead and conduct business analysis to understand and capture requirements
- Develop strategies, prepares business cases and cost-benefit analysis, and conducts feasibility studies for business I&IT initiatives.
- Support the unit’s efforts to improve BA maturity.
- 10+ years experience with business analysis
- Experience on large scale, complex IT projects delivering mission critical IT solutions.
- Experience in understanding and accurately translating business problems into technology requirements documents that support technology solution development using a wide range of tools and techniques.
- Experience in translating technology features and defects into business implications using a wide range of tools and techniques.
- Demonstrated experience delivering a wide range of documentation both business and IT focused, including business requirement documentation, use case documentation, business workflow, IT process flow.
- Experience with gathering data requirements and writing report specifications
- Experience applying information engineering and information management methodologies, tools, and techniques.
- Demonstrated skills performing information architecture, interoperability and API/interface design, data modelling and data warehousing concepts and practices.
- Experience applying database development methodology, programming languages, database concepts, data types, data dictionaries, and data storage and retrieval techniques.
- Knowledge of government/ministry directives, standards, policies and guidelines governing data management and data governance.
- Experience in bringing clarity to complex business challenges and conflicting articulation of business issues through business analysis 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 capturing, and analyzing complex and sometimes competing business requirements to develop a set of technical recommendations
- Experience in capturing and translating complex business processes and procedures into technology workflows, features and configurations
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, interpersonal and negotiation skills
- Experience with data related projects (Data analytics, ETL, Data Visualization, Business Intelligence)
- Experience developing and implementing dashboard projects.
- Experience with Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD application)
- Experience working in a public safety environment, such as ambulance, fire or police
- Experience with telephony and radio technologies such as IP based telephony, Avaya, P25
- Experience with implementing and integrating Medical Triage Algorithm such as MPDS
- Demonstrated experience delivering a wide range of documentation both business and IT focused, including business requirement documentation, use case documentation, business workflow, IT process flow.
- Experience with gathering data requirements and writing report specifications
- Experience in bringing clarity to complex business challenges and conflicting articulation of business issues through business analysis techniques that result in common understanding of the issues, as well as agreement on business process requirements vs technology requirements to solve the issues.
- Demonstrated skills performing information architecture, interoperability and API/interface design, data modelling and data warehousing concepts and practices.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, interpersonal and negotiation skills
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| Job Category | Business Analyst |
We are looking for a Testing Consultant! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Testing Consultant
Term: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 2 days a week
Industry: Insurance
Job ID number: 240
Job Description
Applications Operations Services & Quality Engineering (AOSQE) is looking for a Principal Software Development Engineer in Test – SAP GL with a proven track record of leading testing activities to join the Data Testing Chapter. The successful candidate acts as the Quality Advocate and is responsible to ensure the delivery of quality solutions to our clients through testing.
What you will do:
- Responsible for setting up a regression model for the SAP Modules - General Ledger, Account Payable, Fixed Assets, Material Management and Good Receipt.
- Responsible to creating the automation scripts for all the regression test cases for each module using TOSCA (Tricentis) test automation tool.
- Responsible for driving and managing the testing which includes creating the test plan, scenarios, cases, test execution and defect management.
- Align to Sun Life Quality Engineering practices.
- Apply an automation-first mindset to testing activities.
- Participate in design review meetings to understand testability and automation test impact of new features.
- Ensure the testing team has the appropriate test environment and test data.
- Provide the IT and Business teams with detailed information on any defects found and help prioritize defects based on risk.
- Defect Management using qTest and report status and/or metrics to project stakeholders.
- Provide training/coaching to team members.
- University degree in Computer Science/Accounting or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of experience working with S/4HANA with exposure to at least 2 projects
- 5+ years of experience in TOSCA and able to create test cases using TOSCA.
- Hands-on experience with the following S4/HANA modules, GL/AP/FA/MM.
- Exposure to SAP AFO
- Strong Communication and Client Management Skills
- Well-developed client facing skills, customer service and results focused.
- Understanding of ETL concepts
- Experience with Agile (Scrum and Kanban) and Waterfall methodology.
- Certification on test automation tools (Tosca Automation Specialist Level 1 & Level 2 and Tosca Data Integrity Specialist)
- Knowledge of DevOps, Continuous Integration and delivery concepts, specifically continuous testing
- Ability to work independently with little to no supervision.
- Strong research, analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to quickly process complex information and present it clearly.
- Approach tasks with an innovative mindset, positive outlook
- Strong communication, organizational and interpersonal skills
- Basic knowledge of financial accounting.
- S/4HANA Certification considered a plus.
- Exposure to SAP Ariba.
- Responsible for setting up a regression model for the SAP Modules - General Ledger, Account Payable, Fixed Assets, Material Management and Good Receipt.
- Responsible to creating the automation scripts for all the regression test cases for each module using TOSCA (Tricentis) test automation tool.
- Responsible for driving and managing the testing which includes creating the test plan, scenarios, cases, test execution and defect management.
- Apply an automation-first mindset to testing activities.
- Participate in design review meetings to understand testability and automation test impact of new features.
- Ensure the testing team has the appropriate test environment and test data.
- Provide the IT and Business teams with detailed information on any defects found and help prioritize defects based on risk.
- Defect Management using qTest and report status and/or metrics to project stakeholders.
- Provide training/coaching to team members.
- University degree in Computer Science/Accounting or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of experience working with S/4HANA with exposure to at least 2 projects
- 5+ years of experience in TOSCA and able to create test cases using TOSCA.
- Hands-on experience with the following S4/HANA modules, GL/AP/FA/MM.
- Exposure to SAP AFO
- Strong Communication and Client Management Skills
- Well-developed client facing skills, customer service and results focused.
- Understanding of ETL concepts
- Experience with Agile (Scrum and Kanban) and Waterfall methodology.
- Certification on test automation tools (Tosca Automation Specialist Level 1 & Level 2 and Tosca Data Integrity Specialist)
- Knowledge of DevOps, Continuous Integration and delivery concepts, specifically continuous testing
- Ability to work independently with little to no supervision.
- Strong research, analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to quickly process complex information and present it clearly.
- Approach tasks with an innovative mindset, positive outlook.
- Strong communication, organizational and interpersonal skills.
- Basic knowledge of accounting and general ledger.
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| Job Category | Testing Consultant |
We are looking for a Computational Biologist/Bioinformatics Scientist! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Computational Biologist/Bioinformatics Scientist
Term: Contract – 12 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 2 days a week
Industry: Pharmaceutical
Job ID number: 239
Ideal candidate background:
The Data and Analytics - Computational Science section of Roche Informatics is seeking a highly motivated computational biologist/bioinformatics scientist with strong prior experience in single-cell and transcriptomics/genomics analysis. The successful candidate will work within cross-functional and matrix teams within Genentech Research and Early Development (gRED) to support discovery of targets and development of therapeutics aimed at treating diseases in the immunology space, including Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). The position is based in the Roche Canada office in Mississauga, Ontario (Canada). The Opportunity Analysis of public and internal bulk and single-cell RNA data to support specific therapeutic hypotheses, target and biomarker discovery and development of novel therapeutics Computational assessment of single cell omics technologies for implementation in clinical trials Evaluating mechanisms of non-response to standard-of-care therapies in IBD
Who you are
PhD in computational biology, bioinformatics, or related field with 3-5 years of experience. Post-doctoral or industry experience is preferred. Proficiency in R and Python and demonstrable experience in single-cell and genomic analyses Strong record of impactful contributions to scientific research Familiarity with core concepts of cellular biology and immunology. Prior experience in IBD or other immunological indications is preferred. Strong written and verbal communication skills Commitment to work collaboratively in cross-functional and matrix teams
We are looking for a Applications Programmer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Applications Programmer
Term: Contract – 12 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 2 days a week
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: 238
Ideal candidate background:
- 7-10 years' experience in ETL development, data analysis/ reporting and working with large volumes of data, ideally within financial services.
- Well organized, high attention to detail, results oriented.
- Craft complex and comprehensive BI reporting packages by understanding data structure on Azure platform, constrains, existing reports in SSIS, Access, Tableau and ensure reengineered processes meet the business needs and currently technology architecture.
- Validate the quality and integrity of the data included in reporting
- Create and maintain detailed documentation on all projects/requests.
- Validate the quality and integrity of the data included in the Reporting Packages and Dashboards
- Adopt, implement, and effectively evolve report automation standards
- Design/develop dashboards and scorecards to support business needs; ensure alignment of metrics across the organization
- 7-10 years' experience in ETL development, data analysis/ reporting and working with large volumes of data, ideally within financial services.
- 5+ years' Experience in SQL writing complex queries and minimum two years in advanced PySpark / Python preferably in Azure environment
- Extensive knowledge of data engineering practices and developing scalable data pipelines
- Excellent troubleshooting skills with ability to interpret data and do trend analysis to identify anomalies and ability to understand and Tableau
- Project and time management skills and work independently to delivery on the tasks.
- Experience using visualization tools and ability to develop basic to intermediate complex Tableau Dashboards.
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| Job Category | Applications Programmer |
We are looking for a Project Manager! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Project Manager
Term: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 2 days a week
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: 237
Job Description:
- Reporting to the Senior Director, Enterprise Data Management, you will be a key member of the Enterprise Chief Data Office.
- 7-10 years of Project Management experience
- looking for someone with strong strategic planning and initiatives experience
- Run, protect and Transform programs
- Proactive and Engaging
- Strong relationship with Business stakeholders
- Collaboration – Help internal partners make informed decisions about the development of programs, products, and services. Coach and mentor, your teams as you work toward a common goal. Negotiate deliverables and milestones whenever necessary.
- Project Coordination – Proactively identify risks to the project schedule and find ways to mitigate them. Monitor milestones; ensure they are completed according to timelines and budgets. Execute a project plan that strikes the right balance between budget, time, and risk.
- Communication and Persuasion – Share ideas, build consensus, and write with impact. Chair meetings and
- Relationships – Develop trusted working relationships with business stakeholders and technology partners.
- Leadership – For those candidates with extensive experience, training, and mentoring colleagues.
- You can demonstrate at least five years of experience in project management, preferably managing Strategic Initiatives. You have experience with project management and issue management tools like Planview, ServiceNow, and JIRA. It is an asset of you come from Financial Services Industry.
- You have a degree/diploma in Computer Science, Engineering, Management Information Systems, or a related field of study. It’s an asset if you have your PMP designation.
- You embrace and champion change. You'll continuously evolve your thinking and the way you work in order to deliver your best.
- Your influence makes an impact. You know that relationships and networks are essential to success. You inspire outcomes by making yourself heard.
- You’re digitally savvy. You seek out innovative solutions and embrace leading-edge technologies. You can easily adapt to new tools and trends.
- You're driven by collective success. You know that collaboration can transform a clever idea into a great one. You understand the power of an inclusive team that enjoys working together to create a shared vision.
- Values matter to you. You bring your real self to work and you live our values - trust, teamwork, and accountability
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| Job Category | Project Manager |
We are looking for a Project Control Coordinator! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Project Control Coordinator
Term: Contract – 12 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 3 days a week
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: 237
Job Description:
Must Have Requirement:
- Experience with IT projects in the financial industry
- 2-4 years experience
- Financial industry experience within Canada
- Certifications or education
- FI experience outside of Canada
- Assists in coordinating schedules
- Coordinates deadlines on all deliverables
- Assists in monitoring teams progress
- Coordinates client support efforts
- Assists in preparing progress and planning documentation when necessary
- Attends all client and staff meetings pertaining to project
- Previous project coordination experience
- Excellent customer service skills
- Ability to work in a team environment
- Computer knowledge and interest
- Bachelor's degree in a technical or business-related field
- 2-4 years experience required
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| Job Category | Project Control Coordinator |
We are looking for a Technology Architect! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Technology Architect
Term: Contract – 8 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 3 days a week
Industry: Government
Job ID number: 236
Description
Responsibilities:
The Sr. Technology Architect will be key members of the Secure Solutions Design Unit leading the design and implementation of enterprise network security solutions, repeatable cloud security patterns and models. Including leading:
- Network security specific security pattern development and design improvements
- Architecture and iterative design support for the Ontario Government Secure Access Service Edge and VPN - Palo Alto Prisma suite.
- Subject matter expertise and guidance on implementation and continued improvements to align network security services with our business objectives.
- Architecture, design, and configuration leadership/support as required.
- These resources bring specialized skills, knowledge and industry best practices in the areas of cloud and on-premise security domains / services, application architecture, networking and security operations.
- Develops, recommends, implements and manages the security / technical architecture which will be used for all or specific applications in a large, distributed multi-cloud environment.
- Responsibilities also include the identification of relevant information and the determination of the environment, which will be used for solution development.
- Provide program oversight and technical guidance to security and technology teams working on security process improvements and deployment & configuration of security platforms.
- Leadership experience in the development and implementation of technical security architectures at the specified experience level
- Extensive experience with at least two cloud service providers (i.e. AWS, Azure, GCP) , enterprise security services, Identity and database technologies, and network access protocols
- Experience in structured methodologies for the design, development and implementation of cloud applications
- Extensive experience in systems analysis and design in large secure solution environments
- Knowledge and experience designing processes around ITIL and is able to guide others using this methodology
- Experience translating business requirements into solution needs
- Experience preparing conceptual, logical and/or physical processes and data models
- Experience developing, recommending, implementing and managing technical security architecture
- Awareness of emerging technologies, trends and directions
- 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
- Knowledge and understanding of Information Management security principles, concepts, policies and practices
- Palo Alto Prisma Access
- Radware Web Application Firewall (WAF)
- Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)
- Firewall Policy Management
- Cloud Infrastructure network architecture e.g. cloud security groups and network access control lists
- Experience working on agile project delivery teams
- Working Experience with
- Backlog
- User Stories
- Scrum
- Sprints
- Experience developing solution design and architecture documents
- TOGAF Architectural Framework
- Solution Design Framework and Documentation
- requirements gathering
- conceptual design
- detailed design
- Engineering implementation support
- Previous Public Sector work experience is considered a positive
- Network Security focus role
- Architecture and iterative design support for the Ontario Government Secure Access Service Edge and VPN - Palo Alto Prisma suite
- Endpoint Protection & Detection Response (Palo Alto Prisma)
- Strong Networking Architect
- Advanced knowledge and experience with core security technology domains
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| Job Category | Technology Architect |
We are looking for a Law Clerk! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Law Clerk
Term: Contract – 12 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 2 days a week
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: 235
SUMMARY OF DAY TO DAY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Job responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:
- Significant involvement in the preparation of the Bank's annual information form, annual report on Form 40-F and management proxy circular.
- Substantial involvement in the preparation of the annual questionnaires for the Bank's directors and executive officers, including reviewing, disseminating, and analyzing the completed questionnaires.
- Maintain compliance with internal policies and procedures implemented to support compliance with securities regulatory obligations.
- Overseeing the Bank's regulatory and public company filings and reports, both domestically and internationally, including the preparation of, or support of lawyers in their preparation of, these materials.
- Manage the Shareholder Relations function of the Bank, including corresponding with shareholders and working with other internal stakeholders and the bank’s external service providers to resolve inquiries.
- Provide organizational and preparatory support for the Bank’s annual shareholder meeting, including maintaining task lists and timetables; preparing documents for shareholders and regulators; preparing voting forms, the Annual Shareholder Meeting webpage, drafting the agenda, Confidentiality Agreements and helping to manage the mailings to registered and beneficial shareholders.
- Direct the Bank’s Canadian and U.S. transfer agents on various matters.
- Assist with managing service provider relationships and accounts for the team, including preparing and managing budgets; reviewing, obtaining sign-off and paying all invoices; and reviewing service levels and terms.
- Assist with the preparation and delivery of materials, including memos, policies, for TD's board of directors and associated committees.
- Assist in reviewing and analyzing the impact on the Bank of new legislation and initiatives in securities regulation in Ontario, at the federal level, and internationally.
- Assist members of the Treasury and Corporate Securities Legal team with other duties as assigned.
- Post-secondary education at a university or community college. Being licensed as a paralegal, a law clerk designation or equivalent law clerk education would be an asset.
- Experience as a securities or corporate law clerk at a major law firm or financial institution, including experience with SEDAR and EDGAR, would be an asset.
- Knowledge of securities regulatory obligations for public companies would be an asset.
- Highly organized and detail oriented with ability to manage and execute projects with multiple stakeholders under tight timeframes.
- Exceptional communication skills (written/verbal) with the ability to tailor messaging to the audience are essential for this role.
- Excellent judgment and unwavering integrity, showing discretion and maturity in handling sensitive and confidential matters.
- A self-starter who is able to work independently, prioritize own workflow, and understands when to escalate issues, ensuring quality output and efficiency.
- Ability to develop, maintain and build positive relationships with partners while demonstrating tact and diplomacy to impact and influence at all levels of the organization.
- Strong technical proficiency with software applications (such as MS Office, Adobe Pro, etc.). Familiarity with TyMetrix would be an asset.
- Interest in and ability to learn legal concepts and principles (Canadian Securities Course, and law clerk, securities law or similar experience, are preferred).
- Previous project management experience is an asset.
- Law clerk experience
- Can work with confidential information
- Work in a fast paced environment
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong attention to details
- Corporate law clerk experience (rather than court experience)
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| Job Category | Law Clerk |
We are looking for a Cyber Security Specialist! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Cyber Security Specialist
Term: Contract – 12 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 3 days a week
Industry: Government
Job ID number: 234
Description
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
The main function of the Senior Accessibility and Equity & Inclusion Specialist will be to lead accessibility efforts under our multi-year accessibility plan by prioritizing and managing initiatives, progress reports, and budgets. They will also work with internal stakeholders, external partners, and our networks to develop a sound understanding of our culture and opportunities for growth.
Additionally, the selected candidate will:
- Lead the Centre of Excellence’s accessibility plan and reporting with a focus on strategic planning
- Complete analysis of screen reader capabilities of the Cyber Security Ontario portal, present findings, and implement solutions
- Coordinate reporting for, and advise on all cyber education and awareness products
- Contribute to the implementation by Design Multi-Year Strategy
- Develop presentations, reports and briefing notes for a range of audiences, including senior executives
- User Experience Design/ Quality Assurance
- Provides quality assurance and user experience design expertise and advice to internal stakeholders on design principles and the development and implementation of best practices in accessibility to ensure compliance with legal requirements and industry best practices. Extensive experience in the analysis, development, design, testing and implementation of websites, as well as accessibility testing (such as screen readers) and knowledge of accessibility principles and internationally recognized guidelines.
- Accessibility Liaison and Advice
- Maintains ongoing liaison with cyber security staff and senior client ministry program management to facilitate working relationships on all accessibility planning, implementation and management matters by assessing accessibility needs and assisting asset custodians in the identification, design, and implementation of accessibility solutions.
- Project Management
- Leads and/or carries out large scale and sensitive projects and/or significant components of other projects with accessibility design elements, to mitigate identified risk to an acceptable level, ensuring compliance and integration with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) standards; provide supervision/technical direction to teams, coordinate development of design specifications, prepare reports, estimates, and feasibility studies.
- Communication and Relationship Management Skills
- Demonstrated communication, consultative and advisory skills to act as the lead accessibility resource and provide expertise to ongoing contacts.
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| Job Category | Cyber Security Specialist |
We are looking for a Cloud Platform DevOps! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Cloud Platform DevOps
Term: Contract – 4 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 2 days a week
Industry: Banking
Job ID number: 233
Description:
- Implement ML Infra as code using AWS CDK. Requires familiarity with Typescript
- Manage Github and Github workflows to implement CI / CD systems for automated infra deployment
- Deploy and manage ML modeling workloads using AWS Services – AWS Sagemaker, AWS Lambda, ECS & ECR
- Collaborate with data scientists during model development phase and assist in productionization of models
- Experience in architecting and designing scalable, reliable ML infra. Individual will participate with other stakeholders while building out solutions.
- Good understanding of S3, AWS Glue and PySpark for data processing
- 3-5years of experience preferably focused on AWS
- Proficient in python, ML frameworks and libraries
- Experience in deploying infra-as-code using AWS CDK
- Strong understanding of Sagemaker, ECR, S3, ECS, Lambda and AWS Glue
- Experience in supporting data scientists during model development phase and productionization of models
- Familiarity with Gen AI is a plus
- Ability to adapt to learning new technologies, strong engineering mindset, problem solving skills
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| Job Category | Cloud Platform DevOps |
We are looking for a Business Analyst/Scrum Master! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Business Analyst/Scrum Master
Term: Contract – 6 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 2 days a week
Industry: Government
Job ID number: 232
Description:
- Prepare and present complex/strategic communications material including issues management responses, proposals, briefing materials, and presentations for senior management decision-making.
- Develop funding packages, business cases, and cost-benefit analysis for business I&IT initiatives.
- Lead and conduct analysis at varying levels of detail in order to assess client’s business problems/opportunities and document the assessments.
- Monitor progress, resolve problems and report regularly to I&IT management and clients’ decision makers.
- Develop performance measures for business analysis evaluation and conduct follow-up.
- Act as a liaison between business clients, technical teams and service providers/partners.
- Lead or participate in agile ceremonies, such as sprint planning meetings, daily stand-up meetings, sprint review meetings, sprint retrospective meetings, backlog refinement meetings.
- Support/Assist Product Owner with backlog prioritization and refinement.
- Document and manage user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Document functional requirements as needed.
- Apply/perform in-depth knowledge of industry standard methodologies such as I&IT project management and development (Agile, Waterfall, Iterative) methodologies.
- Transfer skills and knowledge to selected OPS staff.
- Collaborate with business and IT teams to convert requirements into IT solutions.
- 10+ years of experience in business analysis and requirements gathering.
- Knowledge and skills in order to prepare and present complex/strategic communications material including issues management responses, proposals, briefing materials, and presentations for senior management decision-making.
- Experience in successfully developing funding packages, business cases, and cost- benefit analysis for business I&IT initiatives.
- Experience in successfully completing business requirements/user stories in government settings or similar complex, multi-project/multi-client organizations.
- Knowledge and experience with information technology providing the ability to integrate and identify IT-enabled opportunities to solve business pressures/needs.
- Experience and knowledge of Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Zachman Framework including business / information /application / technology / security architectures.
- 5+ years of experience with Agile project management and development practices (managing the backlog, supporting or acting as the scrum master, sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospectives, creating user stories and acceptance criteria, etc.)
- Exceptional analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills.
- Demonstrated strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication, and presentation skills.
- Proven troubleshooting and critical thinking experience.
- Demonstrated ability to apply strong listening skills to facilitate issue resolution.
- Effective consulting skills to engage with all stakeholders with proven track record for building strong working relationships.
- Strong facilitation and negotiation skills with ability to build rapport with stakeholders and drive negotiations to a successful outcome.
- Strong organization skills with the ability to compile data from numerous sources and synthesize and write up clear, concise summaries.
- Excellent customer service skills, including tact and diplomacy to ensure client needs are managed effectively.
- A motivated, flexible, detail-oriented and creative team player with perseverance, excellent organization and multi-tasking abilities, and a proven track record for meeting strict deadlines.
- Experience working with unified project management methodology.
- Experience with large complex IT projects.
- 10+ years of experience in business analysis and requirements gathering and translating business requirements into epics and scenarios and creating mock-ups for the stakeholders to review.
- Experience with cloud-hosting and integration of micro-services.
- Proven and demonstrable troubleshooting and analytical experience.
- Demonstrated excellent problem solving and decision-making skills.
- Demonstrated awareness of emerging IT trends and technologies.
- In-depth knowledge of industry standard such as Project Management Institute (PMI) and I&IT project management methodologies.
- Experience adopting and adhering to unified I&IT project methodology, architecture and gating processes, and standard systems development methodologies.
- Knowledge and understanding of project management policies and IT project approval processes and requirements.
- Highly proficient using MS Office products.
- Exceptional analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills.
- Demonstrated strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication, and presentation skills.
- Proven troubleshooting and critical thinking experience.
- Demonstrated ability to apply strong listening skills to facilitate issue resolution.
- Effective consulting skills to engage with all stakeholders with proven track record for building strong working relationships.
- Strong interpersonal, facilitation and negotiation skills with ability to build rapport with stakeholders and drive negotiations to a successful outcome.
- Excellent customer service skills, including tact and diplomacy to ensure client needs are managed effectively.
- A motivated, flexible, detail-oriented and creative team player with perseverance, excellent organization and multi-tasking abilities, and a proven track record for meeting strict deadlines.
- Knowledge and experience with Health related or Health Insurance related projects.
- Knowledge of Ontario’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) and it’s municipal equivalent the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (MFIPPA), Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA) and their respective regulations.
- Knowledge and experience using workflow automation tools such as IBM BAW.
- Knowledge and experience using decision engines such as IBM ODM.
- 5+ years of experience with Agile project management and development practices (managing the backlog, supporting or acting as the scrum master, sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospectives, creating user stories and acceptance criteria, etc.)
- Experience in successfully completing business requirements/user stories in government settings or similar complex, multi-project/multi-client organizations.
- 10+ years of experience in business analysis and requirements gathering and translating business requirements into epics and scenarios and creating mock-ups for the stakeholders to review.
- Effective consulting skills to engage with all stakeholders with proven track record for building strong working relationships.
- Strong facilitation and negotiation skills with ability to build rapport with stakeholders and drive negotiations to a successful outcome.
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| Job Category | Business Analyst/Scrum Master |
We are looking for a QA Tester! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!
Type of Employment: Contract
Title: QA Tester
Term: Contract – 8 months with extension
Location: Toronto – Hybrid 2 days a week
Industry: Government
Job ID number: 231
Responsibilities
Provides advice on the testing strategy, test plans, the selection of testing tools, and the identification of resources required for testing. Plans and organizes testing efforts for large systems in Graphical User Interface (GUI) and non-Graphical User Interface (GUI) environments, including the execution of systems integration tests, specialized tests, and user acceptance testing (e.g., stress tests).
The Quality Assurance Specialist is responsible for the development of test plans, test scripts and test cases and executing these against the various components. The tester will work with the testing lead and IT lead of each project as well as the project team members in the analysis, design, development, implementation and ongoing support of the required systems.
Responsibilities/Assignment Deliverables:
- Strong background in, and at least 3+ years of working in QA automation using Selenium or similar tool
- Compose manual and automated test scripts for new functionality
- Knowledge of Agile SCRUM preferred.
- Thorough understanding of SDLC, specifically automated QA processes in agile development environments
- Building test infrastructures using containerization technologies such as Docker and working within continuous delivery / continuous release pipeline processes
- Participate in business requirement review and walk through meetings;
- Collaborate with the Ministry to develop a Test Strategy and Plan for the pilot implementation
- Provide feedback to Drive Clean Management regarding the completeness and quality of the proposed vendor plan to execute
- Functional testing;
- Application integration (links, connections, security transactions between functions and main modules);
- System testing (end-to-end testing);
- Regression testing;
- User Acceptance testing;
- Execute UAT test cases and document the results
- Record application defects reported in the Cluster’s defect reporting tool – Azure
- Coordinate and facilitate regular defect review meeting with stakeholders
- Provide defect status reports throughout the testing cycles
- Participate in regular project team meeting and provide status and update as required;
- Provide weekly report confirming status of assigned tasks
- Prioritize problems based on severity level definitions;
- Identify problems, isolate them and document as defect;
- Regression test for resolved defects
- Functional testing:
- Component level testing;
- Low level (test cases, GUI, check lists);
- Functional (test existing functions, sub-functions and their objects);
- Non-functional (boundary conditions- “login” and “password” windows, security issues); and,
- Data and Database Integrity Testing
- The databases and the database processes should be tested as separate systems within the test plan. These systems should be tested without the application (as the interface to the data).
- System Testing
- System testing should focus on any target requirements that can be traced directly to use cases (or business functions), and business rules. The goals of these tests are to verify proper data acceptance, processing, and retrieval, and the appropriate implementation of the business rules.
- Load Testing
- Load testing measures subject the system-under-test to varying workloads to evaluate the systems ability to continue to function properly under these different workloads. The goal of load testing is to determine and ensure that the system functions properly beyond the expected maximum workload. Additionally, load testing evaluates the performance characteristics (response times, transaction rates, and other time sensitive issues).
- Security and Access Control Testing
- Experience in doing AODA testing for WebUI and Documents
- Security and access control testing focus on two key areas of security:
- Application security, including access to the data or business functions, and system security, including logging into / remote access to the application
- Application security which ensures that, based upon the desired security, users are restricted to specific functions or are limited in the data that is available to them. For example, everyone may be permitted to enter data and create new accounts, but only managers can delete them. If there is security at the data level, testing ensures that ‘user “type” one’ can see all customer information, including financial data, however, ‘user “type” two’ only sees the demographic data for the same ministry. System security ensures that only those users granted access to the system are capable of accessing the application and only through the appropriate gateways.
- Configuration Testing
- Configuration testing verifies operation of the software on different software and hardware configurations. In most production environments, the particular hardware specifications for the Client workstations, network connections and database servers vary. Client workstations may have different software loaded (e.g. applications, rivers, etc.) and at any one time many different combinations may be active and using different resources.
- Experience with Agile Scrum methodologies
- Experience with Agile Sprint Management and Bug tracking solutions such as Azure
- Experience running automated tests
- Experience working with Selenium to develop automated test cases
- Use Azure or other bug tracking tools.
- Demonstrated experience in all functions of system testing;
- Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of testing methods in an object-oriented environment;
- Ability to identify, trace, isolate and replicate problems and successfully conduct root cause analysis as required;
- Experience in documenting in detail the UAT Test Cases, and other related UAT artifacts;
- Need to have experience testing Business Process Management based application
- Experience in managing defect reporting and resolution during the defect cycle, this includes working with the user acceptance test lead to report and resolve defects in a timely manner;
- Demonstrated experience in development of test plan and reusable test cases; and
- Excellent analytical and interpersonal skills; excellent English language verbal and written communication skills
- Participates in ongoing process improvement efforts to ensure test automation is promoted and applied effectively across multiple teams
- Researches tools, methods, and technology trends to support departmental test automation objectives
- Demonstrated 5+ years of experience in all functions of system testing
- Demonstrated experience in Agile test methodology
- Demonstrated experience in developing and running automated test cases
- Demonstrated experience with documenting in detail the UAT artifacts the UAT test
- cases, UAT execution findings
- Demonstrated experience with the Software development life cycle (SDLC)
- Demonstrated experience with software QA methodologies, tools, and processes
- Demonstrated experience in developing Test Cases, Test Strategies, Test plans;
- including Test Case Execution, Defect Triaging, and Defect Logging
- Demonstrated the ability to Plan and develop Test Plans and Test Cases to ensure
- development outputs meet defined specification cases in coordination with Business
- requirements, Technical Specifications, installers / upgrades documents, and
- management.
- Demonstrates the ablity to use existing tools and techniques to execute test cases and
- build/script new tools for performing testing/validation function.
- Develop and execute automation scripts using automation tools (primarily) Selenium
- and other automation tools.
- Ability to execute and analyze automation test results.
- Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of testing methods in an object-oriented environment
- Demonstrated knowledge in testing applications in BPM 8.6
- SOAP/ Rest UI Backend testing
- Demonstrated experience in defect management process, using defect management
- tools, and reporting defect status
- Demonstrated experience in identifying, tracing, isolating and replicating problems and
- successfully conducting root cause analysis
- Experienced with using defect management tools for QA/QC work such as Rational
- Document, track and escalate issues as appropriate, using Azure Devops or similar tools/means
- Excellent analytical and interpersonal skills; strong verbal and written communication
- skills.
- Articulate, detail oriented, hard-working, team player being able to work under pressure
- Strong collaboration and negotiation skills
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| Job Category | QA Analyst, QA Engineer |