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Tech Jobs | Backbone Magazine Tech Jobs with Backbone Magazine en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Marqui webmaster@backbonemag.com webmaster@backbonemag.com Procurement Analyst (IT) Job Terms: 6 months

Job Description
Downtown
6 months

RFP Sourcing/ Procurement/ Contracting Specialist – (IT) Professional Services

Required Knowledge and Skills:
• Superior knowledge and experience in the services procurement category, especially IT professional services sourcing;
• Strong cross-functional team management and facilitation skills in a global context, with both internal and external stakeholders, with ability to lead cross-functional teams towards desired outcomes;
• Ability to work effectively with all levels within a large organization;
• Leading through influence skills;
• Good project management + presentation skills;
• Strong organizational and time management skills;
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills;
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills. Attention to detail;
• Strong financial acumen;
• Good working knowledge of MS Office suite;
• Knowledge + experience with major ERP system and auction system.

Required Education and Experience:
• Bachelors degree and minimum 3+ years equivalent experience in procurement/ vendor management line function or procurement/ vendor management related consulting/ advisory;
• Intimate familiarity with Time & Materials, Time & Materials with Deliverables, Fixed Price contract structures, negotiations, usage;
• Superior Professional Services Negotiations skills + track record;
• Extensive experience in running and successfully delivering, on time, medium-to-large scale, complex, end-to-end RFx process through a standard, scalable process.
• Strong general procurement, vendor management and sourcing knowledge and skills;
• Proven ability to lead all aspects of supplier negotiations, including end-to-end RFx process, establishment of detailed, legally binding contract terms and conditions (i.e. pricing, SLAs and performance management) from high-level agreements;
• Proven experience developing and managing successful relationships with vendors / suppliers and internal stakeholders at both working and senior level;
• Experience with eSourcing tools;
• Category Spend management experience a plus, incl. target setting, tracking + reporting;
• Sourcing opportunity identification, development + realization experience a plus.

please email a word copy of your resume to Mr Kim lee
kiml@procom.ca
647-288-4676

Backbone's Careers page receives job postings from a variety of Canadian companies in search of tech-related talent.

Please submit your most recent resume: Please visit the Procom job posting and click Apply For This Job.

]]> http://www.backbonemag.com/Tech-Jobs/techjobs02081201.aspx Wed, 08 Feb 12 08:00:00 UT Corporate Controller Job Terms: Permanent

Job Description

Well respected service company is seeking an achievement oriented Controller to join their management team. As the Controller, you will be responsible for planning and directing all accounting operational functions, reviewing internal and external financial statements, evaluating internal control systems, and managing departmental staff. The ideal candidate for this Controller position possesses an accounting designation plus a minimum of 5 years experience. Strong communication, technology, analytical, and management skills are required.

]]> http://www.backbonemag.com/Tech-Jobs/techjobs02071201.aspx Tue, 07 Feb 12 08:00:00 UT Senior Security Architect (Identity Management) Job Terms: 5 weeks

Position: Senior Security Architect (Identity Management)
Location: Calgary (Alberta, Canada)
Duration: Immediate start – March 31st 2012 (highly likely to extend)

Project Description:
The security solutions architect will be responsible to plan, design and lead the implementation of an identity management system to support our client. In addition, this individual will develop security solution standards related to systems and data integration and will oversee that all enterprise solutions within the portfolio adhere to these. The successful candidate will play a critical role within the Enterprise Delivery

Team who are accountable for:
• Improving Business / IS&T Collaboration;
• Improving Business / IS&T Understanding and Alignment;
• Improving IS&T Project Delivery Discipline and Successful Outcomes;
• Initiating Modernization of Information Technology Platforms and Business Solutions
• Anticipating and providing for technology solution designs to accommodate potential changes to the Government of Alberta approach to energy resource regulation (e.g., the Regulatory Enhancement project or REP implementation of a single regulator)

Job Responsibilities:
• Implementing, architecting and deploying identity management solutions using enterprise toolsets which may include: Active Directory, LDAP or other identity management solutions
• Implementing workflows and automating processes within the Identity Manager Design and implement Enterprise level Access Management and Single Sign-on solutions
• Architecting, developing and implementing Identity Management Solutions across various IT environments
• Leading the design, development, coding, testing and debugging of applications
• Providing technical leadership to the applications development team
• Performing design and code reviews
• Ensuring that uniform enterprise wide application design standards are maintained
• Collaborating with other stakeholders to ensure architecture is aligned with business requirements
• Implementing data security solutions to ensure confidential data and information are not compromised. These solutions may include: network zoning, data encryption, data classification etc.
• Ensuring the solution integrates and federates with government stakeholder solutions

Skills Required:
• Strong understanding of identity management, access management, single sign-on, and security concepts
• Experience with complex programming, program debugging, data analysis, problem analysis and resolution issues
• Strong experience using the following technologies: Active Directory, LDAP
• Strong experience with following operating systems Windows
• Strong experience with federated identity and web services security concepts such as SAML, Liberty ID-FF and ID-WSF, WS-Federation and WS-Security
• Test and troubleshoot Identity and Access Management components and provide support and implementation Works without technical oversight or as the leader of a team as required.
• Self-starter, highly motivated individual, and a team player who adapts to a dynamic work environment
• Minimum 7 years technical expertise and with hands-on deployment experience Active Directory and LDAP technologies
• Minimum 5 years’ experience developing identity management strategies, architectures and implementation plans
• Strong project management skills
• Strong oral and written communications skills in order to clearly and effectively convey concepts, issues, reports, and other deliverables to counterparts
• Exceptional demonstrated consulting skills
• Large enterprise deployment experience in complex heterogeneous environments
• Ability to move between high level architectural review/design and the “roll up the sleeves” level of actually doing all phases of an application delivery project
• The ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Open attitude towards and ability to learn and utilize new technologies and standards.
• Understanding of, or experience with TOGAF desirable.
• Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation and negotiation.
• Excellent analytical and technical skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills.
• Ability to understand the long-term and short-term perspectives of situations.
• Ability to estimate the financial impact of Architecture alternatives.
• Ability to apply multiple technical solutions to business problems.
• Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
• Knowledge of many, if not most, aspects of Exploration GeoScience Application Technical Architecture.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and how to respond to political challenges.
• Track record for remaining unbiased toward any specific technology or vendor; and being more interested in results than personal preferences.

]]> http://www.backbonemag.com/Tech-Jobs/techjobs02061201.aspx Mon, 06 Feb 12 08:00:00 UT Business Analyst / Change Manager Job Terms: 5 months

Position: Business Analyst/Change Management
Location: Kitchener/Waterloo (Ontario)
Duration: 5 month contract
Start Date: February 16, 2012

Job Description: On behalf of our large, financial services client, PROCOM KW is searching for an intermediate level Business Analyst- with depth/experience in Change Management and Incident Management

This role is for a Change Manager in an Application Support environment. 3-5 yrs experience - Understanding of Change management process and role. Background in IS environment and methodologies Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to manage client interaction effectively.

Candidates should be familiar with Incident, Problem and Change processes. Familiar with ITIL foundations, ideally ITIL v3 certified.

]]> http://www.backbonemag.com/Tech-Jobs/techjobs02031201.aspx Fri, 03 Feb 12 08:00:00 UT Enterprise Program Manager Job Terms: 5 weeks

Position: Enterprise Program Manager
Location: Calgary (Alberta, Canada)
Duration: Immediate start – March 31st 2012 (highly likely to extend)

Project Description:
The Enterprise Program Manager will be responsible to provide overall management support for a group of inter-related projects and facilitate their delivery.

The Program Manager will focus on the implementation of a set of foundational technologies which include but are not limited to: Data Integration, Data and Information Services, Enterprise Content Management, Enterprise Reporting and Analytics, Enterprise Service Bus and GeoModelling Tools. The successful candidate will see the full technologies implementation and program for our client Connect to conclusion.

Our Client’s Connect program was launched in January 2012 and we are currently procuring a set of core technologies as a foundation for solution development. The Connect program has a dependency on some other IT programs thus strong collaboration is required to ensure the success of all programs. The successful candidate will play a critical role within the Enterprise Delivery Team who are accountable for:
• Improving Business / IS&T Collaboration
• Improving Business / IS&T Understanding and Alignment
• Improving IS&T Project Delivery Discipline and Successful Outcomes
• Initiating Modernization of Information Technology Platforms and Business Solutions
• Anticipating and providing for technology solution designs to accommodate potential changes to the Government of Alberta approach to energy resource regulation (e.g., the Regulatory Enhancement Project or REP implementation of a single regulator)

Job Responsibilities:
•Managing, analyzing and identifying IT and related critical path risks within a portfolio of projects
•Development and management of overall program plan for core technologies implementation
•Delivering feedback to the stakeholders and sponsors
•Liaising with vendors, Project Managers and external teams
•Liaising with Change Management, Communications and Internal Audit and QA
•Ensure appropriate mobilization of resources in response to identified critical path issues
•Reporting against the program plan and identifying where the plan is off critical path for vendors
•Monitoring and assessing progress within projects
•Reporting progress to program stakeholders and engaging them as necessary for decision-making and issue escalation
•Providing updates on master schedule events A point of escalation for issue resolution for Project Managers within the program
•Provide overall risk management and risk management reporting at a program level
•Provide mentoring and leadership to Project Managers within Program and keep projects on task and progressing to timeline.
•Program reporting at a management level for the overall program

Skills Required:
• Significant Program Management experience on large, multi-year programs
• Experience implementing complex technical solutions and toolsets in the EAI, EII space
• Proven track record of working with staff and stakeholders at all levels within an organization
• Proven team-building ability across disparate groups to achieve unified objectives
• Strong leadership skills (proven success as a leader of people; able to delegate and achieve results through team-work)
• A track record as a pro-active, self-directed individual who is able to work independently
• Excellent critical thinking, decision making, problem solving and analytical skills
• Proven experience in relationship management and client support in a program environment
• Proven ability to influence and strong negotiation skills
• Experienced in conflict management
• Ability to work in a complex environment, adapt to change and tolerate stress
• Strong oral and written communications skills in order to clearly and effectively convey concepts, issues, reports, and other deliverables to counterparts
• Exceptional demonstrated consulting skills
• Large enterprise deployment experience in complex heterogeneous environments
• Ability to move between high level architectural review/design and the “roll up the sleeves” level of actually doing all phases of an application delivery project
• Exposure to GeoScience Applications such as Petra, Petris, Petrel, Landmark, Paradigm, etc.
• Expert in Relational Database Management Systems such as Oracle and SQL Server.
• Exposure to integration/QC/middleware applications such as OpenSpirit, QCPro and DataFlux and Biztalk.
• Open attitude towards and ability to learn and utilize new technologies and standards.
• Understanding of, or experience with TOGAF desirable.
• Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation and negotiation.
• Excellent analytical and technical skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills.
• Ability to understand the long-term and short-term perspectives of situations.
• Ability to apply multiple technical solutions to business problems.
• Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and how to respond to political challenges.

• Track record for remaining unbiased toward any specific technology or vendor; and being more interested in results than personal preferences.

]]> http://www.backbonemag.com/Tech-Jobs/techjobs02021201.aspx Thu, 02 Feb 12 08:00:00 UT SAP Share Services Coordinator Job Terms: 12 months

Position: SAP Shared Services Coordinator
Location: Calgary (Alberta, Canada)
Duration: One Year Contract

Position Description
This position reports into the Team Lead of SAP Shared Services and will provide support to the following sub-teams: SAP Education, SAP Role Mapping, and Capacity Planning. The selected individual will work collaboratively with all SAP Shared Services team members.

Communication and administrative skills will be used extensively in this fast-paced work environment.

This will include:
•Teamwork: Knowledge, skill and ability to work effectively with others to achieve optimal collective results.
•Communication: Ability to speak and write clearly and succinctly in a variety of settings and styles; ability to secure information, listen effectively and get messages across that have the desired effect.
•Technical/Operating Skills: Possession of appropriate technical and operational knowledge, skills and experience to ensure performance at a high level of accomplishment.
•Initiative: Think critically and act logically to evaluate situations and generates required steps to ensure success.

Responsibilities will include:
SAP Role Mapping & Remedy Distribution
•Respond to User requests for SAP access and determine what SAP roles to assign;
•Uphold audit controls on SAP system access;
•Distribute SAP related remedy help desk tickets to the appropriate SAP support sub-team

SAP Education
•Assist with the coordination of SAP education activities such as updating content, booking training facilities, advertising course offerings, managing the registration process, and distributing and analyzing training evaluations;
•Upload and sustain content on our SAP Education website;
•Manage and analyze reports on website traffic and the education materials ownership strategy;
•Maintain SAP education team standards, processes, and tools such as our training need; assessments, evaluations, and curriculum paths;
•Administering the mandatory SAP online courses

Capacity Planning
•Provide assistance in the quarterly capacity planning process for remedy tickets, SAP enhancement requests, and projects

Please submit your most recent resume to Diana Hoang (dianah@procom.ca)

]]> http://www.backbonemag.com/Tech-Jobs/techjobs02011201.aspx Wed, 01 Feb 12 08:00:00 UT Application Administrator Job Terms: 12 months

Job title : Application Administrator
Job type : Contract
Duration : 12 months
Location : Canada-Ontario-Toronto
Start date : ASAP
Number of Positions open : 1
Travel required : Not Required
Educational requirements : N/A
Languages required : English
Nice to have core skills : Oracle ,JAVA ,Testing/QA ,XML ,C ,UNIX
Nice to have non-core skills : QA

The successful candidate must have:
Experience implementing Manhattan WMOS.
Experience implementing Manhattan SCI, LM, Slotting.
Websphere, version 7.1 or higher
HTTP Server

The application administrator provides project delivery and ongoing support for 3rd party packaged software. Working closely with the project development group the application administrator ensures the seamless implementation of vendor packaged software into production through established best practices and custom configuration that meets clients' requirements. After project completion the application administrator ensures optimal day to day execution.

The application administrator reports into the Technology Application Support team. The Technology Application Support team's focus is to ensure the smooth operation of 3rd party software and in-house developed applications. The business focus includes all corporate systems (examples: supply chain, marketing, finance, real estate, treasury, petroleum) and systems at the retail level (associate stores, gas bars, Partsource).

Specific role accountabilities:
Tangible outcomes
Planning and installing applications and their patches into environments
The stable implementation of 3rd party packaged software that meets both clients’ requirements and meets or exceeds established SLAs.
Planning and managing upgrades, infrastructure changes, and/or application initiated changes
Ongoing maintenance and patch installations that ensure the supportability of applications. Database, OS level, and application version are all vendor supported.
Participation in the planning and implementation of configurable user initiated application changes
Implementation of new functionality to meet evolving business requirements.
Acting as an application administration lead on projects when required
Leadership and guidance on projects to advise IT partners and mentor junior members on the team.
Planning all activities that impact the application
An in-depth understanding of how 3rd party applications impact and are impacted by the CTC IT environment. Being able to anticipate impacts and plan accordingly.
Troubleshooting, problem/issue management and resolution for the applications
Minimum production downtime through problem resolution.
Production support for the applications - includes off-hours pager support
Sustaining 24/7 production support.
Application "production support" during the project lifecycle, including pager and off-hour support during specified project warranty periods
Support for all instances of the software package (Dev, QA, sandbox etc...) during the project lifecycle.
Optimization of applications' performance
Regular performance tuning to meet anticipated growth in usage and peak periods.
Where needed, developing processes and procedures to ensure consistency of operation
Documented processes that ensure all members of the team maintain a consistent approach to support and starting and stopping the applications.
Obtaining process buy-in from stakeholders
When necessary, building consensus from IT and business partners on processes and configurations unique to the 3rd party package in question.
College or University education in Computer Science or Business or Mathematics
A customer service attitude
A demonstrated advanced problem solving and issue resolution skills
Experience in AIX or UNIX system administration (3+ years)
Experience in UNIX shell scripting (AIX version 4.3 and up is preferred)
Experience in supporting applications in UNIX and Wintel environments
Experience in administering IBM HTTP servers, IIS
Oracle database experience (2+ years)
Application server administration – WebSphere, Weblogic, Tomcat
The ability to work independently, and in a team environment, with many competing priorities
Strong interpersonal and communication skills (verbal, written and listening)
The ability to communicate in technical and non-technical terms
The ability to deal with ambiguity
Strong customer focus, and a "can do" attitude
A demonstrated ability to deliver to plans
A quick learning ability

Nice to Have:
Experience in the systems development life cycle
Good knowledge of PVCS or similar configuration management tools
MQ Series, XML, LDAP security
Experience in C
Java
Knowledge of CTC environments, both production and test

Interested and qualified candidates should submit their resume in Word format to Carmine, carminep@procom.ca. Please include salary/rate expectation for this role. We thank all those who express an interest, however, only those chosento proceed in the selection process will be contacted.

]]> http://www.backbonemag.com/Tech-Jobs/techjobs01311201.aspx Tue, 31 Jan 12 08:00:00 UT MS Dynamics GP Support Job Terms: 6 months

Mandatory Technical Requirements
· Must have 3 years hands on experience working with Microsoft Dynamics GP financial modules (GL, AP, AR, BR) in a supporting role.

6 month contract
downtown Toronto

Deliverables
· Communicate effectively with users to understand, explain, track and resolve issues and tasks with a high degree of customer satisfaction.
· Prepare documents & status reports for tasks, issues & problem solving efforts.
· Prepare effective user documentation, and facilitate knowledge transfer
· Contribute to, develop, and maintain action plans.
· Monitor issues, trends, escalations and risks.
· Make proactive recommendations to improve service.
· Facilitate the prompt and full resolution or escalation of issues.
· Actively identify and facilitate the mitigation of risks.
· Ensure that all deliverables are achieved with quality and to the customer’s satisfaction.
· Subject matter expert for MS Dynamics GP.

Skills Matrix
•Describe in which capacity you’ve worked with MS Dynamics (please identify the modules you’ve implemented and/or supported).•Describe your experience providing formal IT support to users (please specify telephone vs. in-person support).

Qualifications Knowledge, skills and abilities
· Minimum three years in a related role.
· Post-secondary education in a related field.
· Knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics GP v10 financial modules and related tools (GL, AP, AR, BR, MICR, FRX, Report Writer, and Integration Manager).
· Previous experience working with Quadrant Financials (MIS) modules an asset.
· Understanding of Generally Applied Accounting Principles (GAAP) an asset.
· Excellent verbal/written communication skills, analytical skills and problem solving skills.
· Experience in a support environment with Microsoft Dynamics GP.
· A team player with a track record of delivering on commitments
· Experience in developing and maintaining a detailed project plans and providing regular project updates.
· Demonstrated customer service excellence.
· User training experience an asset.
· ITIL principles

Nice to have
•Experience supporting Dynamics GP V10 within a Citrix environment.Please Emaiil Mr Kim Lee a MS WORD copy iof your resume to

kiml@procom.ca

647-288-467

]]> http://www.backbonemag.com/Tech-Jobs/techjobs01301201.aspx Mon, 30 Jan 12 08:00:00 UT Financial Reporting Manager Job Terms: Permanent

We currently have an exciting fulltime opportunity for a Financial Reporting Manager with a strong construction background. Our client requires a Financial Reporting Manager with the ability to examine, analyze, and interpret financial data as it relates to strategic initiatives. Key responsibilities of the role include preparation of financial and management reports for key stakeholders. The ideal candidate is a designated accountant (CGA,CMA.,CA) with a minimum of 5 years financial reporting experience. A solid knowledge of financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting, and variance analysis are required.

]]> http://www.backbonemag.com/Tech-Jobs/techjobs01271201.aspx Fri, 27 Jan 12 08:00:00 UT Maximo Developer Job Terms: 3 months

We are in need of a Maximo Developer for a 2-3 months contract. The specifications are below.

Required to work on-site
Responsibilities:
The incumbent works as a team member or on individual projects as assigned. His/her primary task is to provide technical support for the Maximo Asset Management System. Main responsibilities include:
· Analyze customer business requirements and application objectives
· Develop functional and technical specifications to meet clients needs
· Produce technical designs and customization to the base Maximo application
· Perform code reviews of code developed by other developers

Essential skills /competencies
· At least 5 years related experience, including 3 years of business analysis and application design and development
· 1-2 years in-depth technical experience with Maximo 6.2 or higher
· 1-2 years BIRT report development experience
· 1-2 years experience with complex Maximo workflow development
· Working experience with Maximo Application Designer, Integration Framework and Migration Manager
· Must have worked with Java Beans and have an intimate knowledge of Maximo classes
· Extensive SQL experience

Preferred skills/competencies
· Experience with Maximo version 7.1
· Experience with Oracle 9i or higher and application development using Oracle PL/SQL
· Experience with Maximo Work Order Tracking, Inventory and Purchasing modules
· Excellent interpersonal skills to work as a team member and as a liaison with customers
· 1-2 years Java experience

Rush your resume to mushahidk@procom.ca to be considered for this opportunity

]]> http://www.backbonemag.com/Tech-Jobs/techjobs01261201.aspx Thu, 26 Jan 12 08:00:00 UT