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At BrandSafway, we know our employees are our greatest asset, which is why we give them the tools, training and resources to be successful. Come join our growing team. We are looking for a Senior IT Applications Analyst.

The Senior IT Applications Analyst analyzes business processes and program requirements. Plans, designs and develops IT solutions support organizational functions. Applies communication, analytical and problem-solving skills to help identify, communicate and resolve systems issues in order to maximize the benefit of IT systems investments. Acts as lead on roll out of BrandSafway IT systems and leads project configurations, testing, integrations and data migrations. Prepares documentation of requirements and functional specifications. Provides direction to technical developers. Supports end users with problem resolution.

Responsibilities

• Work with the IT Director / Project Managers to respond to the project requirements

• Analyze business processes, identify and propose new business processes or program changes to address specific requirements.

• Create appropriate specification documents including time and cost estimates

• Identify, analyze and design program changes consistent with division and Corporate standards and best practices

• Research alternative business solutions and, where appropriate, document cost, recommend, present and justify such alternatives

• Prepare and update necessary documentation and assist in developing and maintaining system documentation

• Manages multiple priorities successfully.

• Provide technical expertise to solving day-to-day issues

• Provide training to the users, when appropriate

• Collaborates with global IT team on projects and support. Follows governance framework, ensuring all related activities comply with the company standards and procedures.

Qualifications

• Associate degree required in Information Systems, Science, Engineering or a closely related discipline or equivalent experience.

• Project management training desired.

• Epicor Kinetics functional experience required, ideally with both Financials and Manufacturing

• Strong analytical skills and SQL knowledge required.

• Must have a minimum of 5 years’ experience in a business analyst or support analyst role

• Strong analytical and communication skills required.

• English and French language skills essential

BrandSafway, including its subsidiaries, is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, religion, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, age, disability, special disabled or Vietnam or other era veteran status.

As a seasoned Cloud Quality Assurance Automation Engineer, you will own the quality for the Cloud HSM product.  You will work in close collaboration with the development team, in a scaled agile environment, to ensure the highest level of quality of our Multi-Cloud and on premise products.  You will understand the feature and develop testplans and testcases to ensure the feature meets the requirements and is bug free.  You will research, recommend, and integrate industry leading test frameworks, so that our complete deployment pipeline is automated and every software update merged can be automatically validated and pushed to production. You will have working experience developing automation on the cloud such as AWS or GCP.

At our Thales Ottawa office, we develop leading edge technologies to secure the cloud, the digital transaction, the mobile world, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Our security solutions are prevalent in today's digital world.

Your quality DNA, and automation programming experience, is the foundation to your success on our team.  We will educate you about our products, industry and customers with on-the-job training through mentorship with skilled, experienced peers. You will have an opportunity to work on products that secure critical infrastructures in the global economy.

Be part of a team required to design, implement, test, and support features with the following mind-set: end-user experience, maintainability, scalability, performance, cost, resilient CI/CD.

Key Responsibilities

• Own overall Quality for our product both from a process and testing perspective

• Testing cloud native software, using various platform-as-a-service (PaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) technologies and related tools

• Implementing, and maintaining industry leading cloud technology automation framework, in order to test complex cloud product offerings

• Document our quality processes and automation tooling

• Test against our rigid software security practices

• Develop and maintain a suite of automated tests to verify existing functionality, refining the tests as the functionality changes, monitoring results, resolving any issues related to the tests and the test bed

• Mature/replace, our existing automation test suite and tooling

• Maintain our testcases and execution results using Jira and Xray

• Maintain Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) for test automation of features, release over release, and address the backlog of existing manual tests

• Document bug reports for identified issues during testing. Detail clearly the procedure followed, narrow down the area affected and perform preliminary troubleshooting

• Participating in issue investigation, deployment of applications, and testing/integration in various deployed environments (i.e. Dev, Stage, Production)

• Documenting, managing, and maintaining internal knowledge and processes

• Stay current on industry trends,  evolving technologies, and frameworks in the Quality Assurance domain

• Collaborate with other developers, to share knowledge, and improve overall product/solution.

Responsibilities include:

• Following agile methodology. This includes active participation in sprint planning and retrospective meetings, creation of user stories, as well as, corresponding tasks

• Providing feedback to documentation team to develop, improve, and review Customer centric feature documentation

• Interfacing with geographically distributed teams in Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Austin, and other locations on a regular basis

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

• 7+ years’ leading in a Quality Assurance role of highly secure web-based client-server applications using industry leading standards

• 3+ years’ of experience testing embedded devices

• Strong programming skills in any of these languages: Python, Linux scripting

• 5+ years’ of experience automation of API’s

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience delivering software using an Agile/SAFe/Scrum development methodology

Preferred Qualifications

• Working experience/knowledge with industry leading cloud providers GCP or AWS

• Experience with security and identity management (access management, authentication, authorization identity providers), as well as, monitoring framework

• Working with Kubernetes

• Working knowledge of cryptographic concepts (i.e. Encryption concepts and technologies), and an understanding of encryption and cryptographic key management with experience using them to protect sensitive data in database, applications, storage systems, virtualized platforms and cloud environment.

• Familiarity with FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards), and other NIST requirements

• Working knowledge of CI/CD build and deployment pipelines and DevOps common industry practices

• Experience with automated deployment and associated technologies: terraforms, helm, yaml, ansible

• Deployment and management of docker containers deployed in a kubernetes environment

• Networking and cloud infrastructure knowledge and above average application troubleshooting experience

• Demonstrate strong troubleshooting skills in a cloud environment

• Proven  backend testing skills which use micro-service technology which harness SQL/non-SQL databases such as MySQL, Postgres

• Familiarity working with continuous integration tools such as: Gitlab, Teamcity, Terraform, and CI/CD pipeline setup working experience

• In-depth experience working with Linux and Linux based applications

• Familiarity with unit test development, such as junit, and test automation, using frameworks, such as Selenium, Protractor, or Playwright, etc.

• Ability to effectively work in a cross matrixed team environment

• Highly motivated, enthusiastic, with an extreme desire for continual learning, and the ability to work under minimal guidance with demonstrated analytical and problem solving skills in order to deliver features on time in a fast paced team environment

• Strong collaboration and communication skills which will be fundamental to your, and the overall teams success, of the projects you work on

• Stay current, and provide insight on industry leading, testing & automation approaches, architectures, and vendors

• Ensure that non-functional requirements such as security, performance, scalability, usability, and reliability are being tested in our solutions

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Purpose

• The QTS development team builds, modifies, and supports trading systems for Capital Markets in equities.
• We are seeking a talented software developer (C++, Java, Python, and SQL) to work with the ETF desk to develop, support and enhance their algorithmic trading software and related tools.
• We are dedicated to leveraging data-driven insights and advanced algorithmic trading strategies and service clients in the global financial markets. You will play a pivotal role in developing, optimizing, and maintaining our trading related algorithms and vendor system(s). You will work closely with a talented team of analysts, traders, and developers to build and maintain the software. You will also be required to provide first-level support to the internal users of the systems you work on.
• We will consider a range of experience levels and adjust role, compensation, and title accordingly. Prior financial experience would be an asset but is not required. This is primarily a developer role, with some exposure to analysis and trading activities. The successful candidate is someone enthusiastic about building software in a financial environment, has excellent communication skills, and can take responsibility for multiple parts of the software development lifecycle.

Accountabilities

• Modifying, enhancing, and testing an algorithmic trading platform and related tools.
• Perform support of production trading systems to troubleshoot and quickly resolve any issues or questions throughout trading hours, and at system initialization in the morning.
• Analyze system performance and trading results to find ways to improve efficiency and client executions.
• Work with front office users to implement their trading strategies and supporting data inputs.
• Analyze system architecture to improve scalability, and reliability.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and risk management protocols.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies to advise on potential innovations to our system.

Functional Competencies

• Strong software development skills from design to implementation to testing. The ability to work in a large existing codebase to building small supporting tools/scripts from scratch.
• Experience in developing real-time event-driven applications
• Ability to problem solve in real-time with live systems
• Strong sense of ownership and responsibility for resolving issues
• Strong competence with object-oriented languages such as C++ and Java. Must have C++ experience
• Experience with tooling and scripting with python/shell scripting
• Comfortable with SQL and relational database concepts
• LUA scripting is an asset.
• Background or personal interest/experience related to trading systems, index arbitrage, ETFs, market-making and similar areas preferred but not required.
• Experience with real-time trading systems (Fidessa, Portware, Flextrade, Tbricks, etc..) an asset
• Understanding of financial markets, trading strategies, and quantitative analysis techniques preferred
• Experience with trading platforms and tools (e.g., Bloomberg, FIX protocol, order management systems).

Education

• Post-secondary degree in a technology field (Computer Science/Engineering etc.) or equivalent training.
• Relevant Industry courses/certification such as CSC, CFA an asset

Requirements:

Languages: Candidates must have knowledge of the English Language.
Education: Candidates need standard educational qualifications such as a College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 3 months to less than 1 year
Experience: Candidates need experience of 3 years to less than 5 years
Computer and Technology Knowledge: Candidates must have knowledge of Android, ASP, JavaOS,HTML, Desktop applications, XML, Java, JavaScript, Security software, CSS, PHP, Programming software, C++, MySQL, Database software, Software development, API and Python

Responsibilities:

• The candidate should be able to plan, design, write, modify, integrate and test Web-site related code

Benefits:

• The employees get bonus and stocks/shares
• The employees get life insurance
• The employees get free parking availability, team building opportunities, transportation provided by employer and parking availability

How to apply:

If the position is fit for you and the basic requirements are fulfilled then you can now apply directly to the employer by sending an email (along with your resume) through below mentioned details.

By Email
[email protected]

Requirements:

Languages: Candidates must have knowledge of the English Language.
Education: Candidates need standard educational qualifications such as a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience – Information technology/ Computer science/ Graphic design
Experience: Candidates need experience of 3 years to less than 5 years
Experience and specialization: Computer and technology knowledge, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, HTML editing software, Web service design, MySQL and React.js

Physical Requirements:

• The candidate should be attention to detail

Other Requirements:

• • The candidate should have dependability and efficient interpersonal skills

• The candidate should be able to work in an organized way
• The candidate should have quality of as a team player

Responsibilities:

• The candidate should be able to create and optimize content for Website using a variety of graphics, database, animation and other software
• The candidate should be able to prepare mock-ups and storyboards
• The candidate should be able to develop Website architecture and determine hardware and software requirements
• The candidate should be able to source, select and organize information for inclusion and design the appearance, layout and flow of the Website
• The candidate should be able to create and optimize content for Website using a variety of graphics, database, animation and other software
• The candidate should be able to research and evaluate a variety of interactive media software products
• The candidate should be able to conduct tests and perform security and quality controls
• The candidate should be able to plan, design, write, modify, integrate and test Web-site related code

• The candidate should be able to lead and co-ordinate multidisciplinary teams to develop Website graphics, content, capacity and interactivity

How to apply:

If the position is fit for you and the basic requirements are fulfilled then you can now apply directly to the employer by email (along with your resume) through below mentioned details.

By email:
[email protected]

We are hiring a Senior Operations Specialist.

Reporting to the Manager, Marketing & Experience Operations, this role will be responsible for collaborating with business partners, primarily across our Marketing & Experience division, to identify Marketing process opportunities and implement solutions to achieve operational excellence. The Senior Operations Specialist will learn all functional roles within the Marketing & Experience process and what their responsibilities include.

The ideal candidate is enthusiastic, professional and people focused who is adept at critical thinking and experienced in solution analysis, planning and implementation. You are skilled at process documentation and development, training and change management across multiple functional roles.  Responsibilities also include ongoing business support for implemented solutions as well as monitoring and control practices to evaluate process effectiveness and to maintain process and data integrity.

What you will do 

• Collaborate closely with various stakeholders and senior leaders within Marketing & Experience, and with the business units they support across Canada Life, to ensure a collaborative approach and seamless process / handoff within the operations of those teams.
• Revisit and redesign planning and operational processes and procedures followed by any business group requiring Marketing & Experience collaboration.
• Identify best practices, pain points, and recommend solutions to optimize business outcomes.
• Determine strategic direction for new operational processes within Marketing & Experience with cross over into supporting teams across Canada Life.
• Design and deliver all training for individual contributors and stakeholders on all processes and systems within the Marketing process model.
• Understand corporate priorities to ensure all processes support them.
• Maintain the Marketing & Experience SharePoint sites with important and relevant content.
• Onboarding and offboarding functional activities.
• Other duties as required.

What you will bring 

• Post-secondary degree, certification, or comparable work experience.
• 3+ years’ experience in a process, training, or instructional designing role.
• A positive, high energy and enthusiastic outlook and the ability to influence those around you.
• Critical mindset that challenges existing processes for continuous improvement.
• Proven ability to think in a solution oriented, and innovative way.
• Proficiency with common Microsoft products (eg. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Forms, SharePoint), and skilled at discovering and self-learning modern technology tools regularly.
• Instructional design experience creating materials and plans to deliver training.
• Experience in implementing new solutions and supporting stakeholders through the change process.
• Agile Project delivery and agile methodology experience an asset.
• Knowledge of Marketing processes an asset.

Role Description:

As a Lead, DevSecOps within the Canada Life Information Security Department, you will be responsible for the security posture of the products your team supports. You will grow your team through hiring, develop the team through coaching, act as a technical escalation point, and ultimately guide the team through critical decisions that always prioritize our customers.

What you will do:

• Act as a subject matter expert and provide consulting on-demand for various initiatives.
• Manage the daily operations and projects for a team of Application and Offensive Security professionals. 
• Monitor key performance indicator (KPI) metrics, track program and employee performance, and provide reporting to senior management on a regular cadence.
• Collaborate with product and development teams to ensure the adoption of Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) best practices across the organization.

What you will bring:

• Experience leading, managing, and developing high performance teams.
• Experience within an Application Security, Software Security team, or similar operating environment.
• Experience with conducting Offensive Security assessments, such as Penetration Testing or Red Teaming.
• Experience with Threat Modeling and/or Security Architecture.
• Excellent written communication skills, with a focus on translating technically complex issues into simple, easy to understand concepts.
• Ability to think offensively like a hacker and defensively by evaluating applications and architecture.
• Read and write multiple programming languages. Java, C#, JavaScript, Apex, and Python are highly valued, but others will help too.
• Demonstrated knowledge of security best practices, principles, and common frameworks, such as: OWASP, NIST, ISO, SOC, etc.
• Prior experience in implementing and integrating DevSecOps tools for SAST, SCA, DAST, IAST, ASPM, WAF, RASP, Fuzzing, Bug Bounty, etc.

We are looking for a Software Developer for the Individual Customer (IWIS) API Team within the Technology Enablement Platforms area.

Any specific tools/skillset:  API, microservices, and event-based software development with proficiency in technologies such as:

• Java and SQL programming languages
• REST- and SOAP-based services
• Spring Boot or Apache Camel frameworks
• Agigee or equivalent API Gateway platform
• Confluent Kafka or Apache ActiveMQ eventing platform
• JHipster Domain Language or Liquibase database utilities
• Docker, Istio, Rancher, or Kubernetes container hosting platforms

Qualifications:

• Software development experience
• University or College education in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience Interest in or active pursuit of related industry certifications are considered an asset
• Experience as a developer in a team environment
• Proficient experience with:
  • Database systems and data access methods
  • Source code management and build automation systems
  • Test-driven development and test frameworks
  • Working with production/application support during a critical incident

What you will do

1. Product Solution and Delivery (Development)

• Delivers code based on specifications and/or develops, modifies, configures, maintains or integrates solutions to meet design specifications to meet business functional requirements and non-functional engineering specifications
• Configures and integrates software components and third-party software products, tools and solutions
• Facilitates and actively participates in meetings, walkthroughs and reviews of software development deliverables
• Delivers fixes and improvements to existing software products, maintains environments and versions, adhering to standards and compile versions
• Ensures technical responsibility over assigned software products and codebases 2. Problem Solving & Analysis

2. Problem Solving and Analysis

• Analyzes current software products
• Produces or contributes to the design documentation and technical specifications for development
• Applies software engineering patterns to identify and troubleshoot problems, requiring analysis and exploration of options, recommending solutions or preparing discussion for escalation
• Conduct system support and change management activities
• Conduct impact analysis to support proactive identification of actions to minimize production system interruptions
• Ability to understand data designs, standards, and specifications

3. Quality Testing

• Delivers clean and efficient code, ensuring quality and accuracy of products
• Tests and deploys software products and fixes defects
• Works with QA team to automate and maintain software product test suites, maintaining test documentation, review as required
• Creates and maintain test documentation, test strategy, review as required

4. Continual improvement

• Gains exposure to and learns new languages, frameworks and tools
• Evaluates and learns new technologies that provide business value
• Improves current practices and tools
• Adapts to organizational change, best practice and improvements across teams, including the effective implementation and adherence to software development processes and practices
• Participates in audits, governance and support activities

5. Customer focus

• Takes accountability for own and towards team deliverables
• Trains and collaborates with other developers in how to write effective code and solve problems
• Partners with product teams and/or architects to develop technical requirements and engineering/non-functional specifications
• Resolve client issues as they arise

6. Technical leadership and mentorship

• Provides training to new or less senior professionals or cross discipline practitioners on processes, tools and approaches
• Shares knowledge and experience with members of the team to identify and share opportunities to improve the work, identify better ways of doing things

What you will bring

• Rapidly acquires new knowledge, learns new skills, and applies creative thinking to solve problems while understanding the organization’s vision, purpose and values
• Adaptable to changing assignments and product outcomes Process and prioritization
• Directs work of self through goal setting, time management, and planning
• Meets deadlines for work through use of time management
• Identifies prioritization conflicts and works with PM’s, Program Managers, Senior Software Developers and leaders to resolve
• Leverages practices to manage and simplify work, and use resources effectively Attention to Detail
• Ensures accuracy and completeness of work to maximize quality, build credibility, and avoid re-work
• Decision-making: understands the costs and benefits of actions, and makes recommendations towards the most appropriate one, uses collaboration and judgement to form conclusions
• Facilitates cooperation among peers and within the team, and builds relationships with colleagues quickly and confidently
• Builds effective relationships with colleagues and external stakeholders quickly and confidently, to positively influence outcomes
• Explains technical issues to diverse audiences
• Leverages feedback to improve
• Seeks to understand business needs, and delivers high quality service to the business while understanding the organization’s vision, purpose and values
• Is passionate about technology, the user experience, demonstrates inner self starter, and is accepting of and open to learning new ideas outside scope or knowledge

What you will do?

What you will bring?

We are looking for a Senior FTM / IIB Developer to join the application development team. You will be responsible for delivering applications designed to resolve business system needs while working closely with various partners across IT. Duties include design and development for FTM applications in a WMB/IIB environment. You will be involved in all aspects of the development and or maintenance process within a well-established team. The preferred candidate would have experience working directly with the IBM FTM (Financial Transaction Manager) product.
 
 

Is this role right for you? In this role you will:

• Design, code and document applications in an FTM/IIB environment
• Execute unit test, system and integration test
• Provide consulting services on new initiatives (small to large of varying complexity)
• Assess, research and analyze business and system needs, exploring alternative options to recommend technology solutions and designs that meet sponsor needs including component reusability, data sharing and security
• Prepares high level and detailed technical specifications for small to medium projects in accordance with security and architecture documentation objectives
• Together with the Architect and BA, determines best mix of development, interfacing applications, third party vendor solutions to meet business requirements and project objectives
• If required, develops criteria for and participates in the evaluation of 3rd party vendors and software as well as due diligence exercises
• Possible off-hours support

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We'd love to work with you if you have:

• 5+ years of experience in an application development role using IBM IIB
• 1+ years of experience in application development role using IBM FTM
• Programming experience with ESQL. Java is a nice to have.
• DB/2 & SQL Experience and or Knowledge
• Experience/Understanding of ‘Automated Build/Deploy process through Jenkins’ and familiar or experience with the DevOps / Agile Methodology
• Knowledge of multiple platforms e.g. z/OS, UNIX, Client/Server and the ability to select appropriate one to meet business needs
• Experience  an application development role using Java
• Calling RESTFul APIs from IIB

What's in it for you?

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship - We strive to create an inclusive culture where every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are, and are embraced through bias-free practices and inclusive values across Scotiabank. We embrace diversity and provide opportunities for all employee to learn, grow & participate through our various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability & veterans.
• Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations - We value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Scotiabank continues to locate, remove and prevent barriers so that we can build a diverse and inclusive environment while meeting accessibility requirements.  
• Upskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.  
• Competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days and benefits will start on day one.
• Community Engagement - no matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons, contests, cooking with friends, Humans of Digital and much more!

Working location condition: Hybrid 
 
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You will join an agile squad that builds in-house applications and integrates vendor products for our Axiom US Regulatory Reporting business in Finance IT. You will be leading the squad to collaborate with business partners to create scalable technology solutions powering growth, improving client experience, and making our client facing and support teams more efficient.  We value positive attitude, willingness to learn, open communication, teamwork and commitment to clean, secure and well-tested code.

What will you do?

• Hands-on application design, coding, and deployment
• Manage 3 to 4 development resources
• Liaison with business partners to delivery solution based on clients’ needs
• Provide technical influence by sharing deep knowledge and experience
• Maintain code quality and best practices across the stack
• Support and maintain the team application suites on various technical infrastructures and architectures.
• Ensure system availability and lead the planning of disaster recovery & help increase adoption of emerging technology within area of expertise

What do you need to succeed?

Must have:

• 7+ years of experience combined in Oracle, SQL or Unix scripting and architecture design principles
• 3+ years of development experience of AXIOM (Data sources, Data models, Modify models, Aggregations, Portfolios, Free-form Reports and Tabular Reports).
• Participating in design of strategic regulatory data acquisition processes;
• Participating in the impact assessment and estimation of functional requirements;
• Experience with various DevOps pipeline and cloud tools such as Jenkins, Kubernetes, HashiCorp Vault, Apigee, GitHub, JIRA, Confluence, Nexus IQ, SonarQube, UCD, Artifactory, etc.

Bilingualism (English and French) required, as you will regularly do business with partners across Canada

What’s in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
• A world-class training program in financial services
• Flexible work/life balance options

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