Project Lead

We’re looking for a Project Lead! Reach out if you’re interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!

Type of Employment: Contract
Title: Project Lead
Term: 6-month Contract – Toronto
Location: WFH while they adopt their return to work plan
Job ID number: C1032

Brief description of duties:

• Manage the release cycle management activities (create release documentation and coordinate release night activities).
• Manage the incident ticket management queue on Service Now
• Manage project activities (project-related comms with project teams, participate in relevant meetings, refine related stories, … etc).
• Be able to read and understand Java and React-based applications to be on the same page during tech conversations.
• Participate in code reviews.
• Raise access requests on behalf of the team
• Future responsibilities may include running Scrum ceremonies, owning release and team capacity planning

MUST haves:

• Willingness to convert to full-time within a year from contract start.
• Strong hands-on software technical background – having worked as a software developer, preferably Java
• Experience with reviewing code, proper documentation, and having the ability to learn, analyze and adapt to constantly changing technologies and strategic directions.
• Experience in collaborating with other teams and stakeholders to enable new capabilities.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and lead investigating issues in Production all the way to resolution.
• Experience with working in an Agile environment.
• Experience with SOAP / REST web services.
• Experience with build tools, e.g. Gradle, Maven
• Experience with source code control, e.g. Git