We are looking for dynamic, highly energized individuals who are ready to join a fast-paced, global leader in the financial services industry. In return for your drive, dedication and commitment, we provide the opportunity to transform an industry, and to be part of a real team. We offer a full range of benefits to complement a rewarding employment experience.

Position Summary:
Candidates should be self motivated and ready to take on any engineering challenge. A thirst for improving processes is essential for this role. Candidates should be ready to jump into any situation and be able to quickly identify solutions and drive them to completion. This position truly believes the motto “There is no problem that cannot be solved”

Essential Job Functions:
Develop tools and methods to improve and automate existing processes and infrastructure.

Continuously identify ways to accelerate build times, improve self-healing strategies and consolidate existing tools.

Develop consoles and dashboards to provide control and metrics for day-to-day operations.

Technical knowledge of ET RouteEX and Capital Markets environments.

Minimum/Required Qualifications:
-Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
-Strong systems and tools development background.
-Strong scripting skills and automation experience required.
-Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
-3+ Years experience as a Software Engineer.
-3+ Years experience with perl and java.
-3+ Years with shell (ksh, bash, csh).
-Experience handling large file transfers and processing (> 2 GB).
-Experience with web/application servers and networking.
-Solid understanding of network protocols and file systems (nfs, gfs).
-Experience with source code repository such as CVS (subversion is a plus).
-Experience developing and implementing tools and dashboards.
-XML, JSP or PHP.
-Experience in C/C++
-Knowledgeable in mySQL (Sybase is a plus)

Skills: .NET/C#/SQLServer/Crystal reports
Note: Crystal Reports mandatory!
Type: Contract
Duration: 6 months with possible extension
Location: Vaughan

The project manager will have the responsibility of planning, directing and coordinating the life cycle phases for implementation and support of multiple development and integration projects.

Essential Functions:
- Create and maintain project work plan(s), monitor results, and facilitate communication of project scope, technical requirements, priorities, and issue resolution.
- Set realistic expectations about quality, schedule and cost equilibrium.
- Lead projects through effective and proactive project management and leadership skills.
- Maintain communication and act as a liaison for various internal and external groups.
- Provide technically feasible solutions for complex problems using innovative insights and creativity in evaluating alternatives.

Knowledge & Skills Required:
- Bachelor`s degree in Computer Science or other similar degree; and minimum of 5 years related experience in the financial industry; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Superior project management skills and the ability to coordinate, lead and motivate staff from development areas to achieve goals and objectives on time and within budget.
- Broad technical knowledge, with an emphasis on full life cycle application development, middleware and multi-tiered technology architecture, principles and design processes.
- Very well organized and detail oriented with excellent time management skills
- Proven experience in managing software development projects
- Good interpersonal skills and ability to work with a large team
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent analytical skills
- In-depth knowledge of Microsoft desktop productivity applications

Behavioral Attributes Necessary:
- Must work well under pressure
- Ability to work independently
- Must have constant and effective communication among everyone involved in the project
- Strong ability to work very effectively in multi-tasking, global, dynamic and cross-site environment
- Flexibility to adjust in a multi-project environment

Our client, a leading IT consulting company based on Toronto, is looking to augment its staff for a series of current projects. This is a 2-3 months contract with great potention for an extension. The main responsibilities of this role will include:
3-5 years experience in the following areas:

o Systems Management/Automation

o Windows and UNIX scripting,

o automation tools and processes

Our client, a leading IT consulting company based on Toronto, is looking to augment its staff for a series of current projects. This is a 2-3 months contract with great potention for an extension. The main responsibilities of this role will include:

- 3-5 years experience in the following areas:

o MICROSOFT SERVER 2003 – administration and configuration

o TSM

o Operating system backups and restores, scripting, automation

o Sata Migration,

o VMware,

o SAN,

o NAS, implementation and operation;

o Working experience in environments with 10-50 servers

Contract: 4-6 weeks/60 hours/week, Saturday and Sunday potentially

Skills: customer facing, Windows NT, 2000, 2003, troubleshooting, system imaging, data migration, Vmware ESX, Platespin powerconvert.

Location: Markham

Our client, a financial institution downtown, is looking for a Netwok Engineer:

- 3+ years of Desktop support experience in Windows XP / 2000 environment
- Be able to solve users’ PC / laptop related problems / requests
- Backup / Restore experience (BackupExc)
- Microsoft Office support
- MS Outlook setup / PST archive
- Maintain users’ email distribution list
- PC imaging / setup in Windows Active Directory
- Blackberry Enterprise user setup
- User PC relocation in office
- IMC experience is a plus
- MAC request experience (Action Request System) is plus
- MCP is a minimum, A+ is a plus. MOS is a plus
- Can lift 75 lb material

COMPANY DESCRIPTION
XYZ technologies is an exciting startup company focused on developing unique and leading edge solutions in the Internet commerce arena. Our company is aggressively seeking highly motivated, energetic, results oriented and genuinely smart people to work on a dynamic team in a demanding environment.

OPPORTUNITY:
XYZ technologies is seeking an outstanding INTERMEDIATE LEVEL QUALITY ASSURANCE LEAD who will significantly contribute to the architecture, design, development and deployment of the company’s core product offering. Salary range is targeted at $60-65K pending experience.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Quality Assurance Lead is responsible for organization and execution of all QA activities for our company’s new product offering. QA activities will span both functional and non-functional testing of our end-to-end solution and given the startup nature of our company, will require both planning experience and hands-on execution. The successful candidate will work closely with the business leads to fully understand the requirements of the solution and with the development team to fully understand the inherent architecture and design.
Candidates who can demonstrate prior project successes working with the required technologies and QA processes combined with exceptional written and oral communication skills are considered ideal.

QUALIFICATIONS:
5+ Years experience in QA methodology and practices, across both functional and non-functional areas.
5+ Years experience in automated testing and automated test suites
2+ years QA team leadership experience.
Very strong understanding of the software development life cycle;
Excellent written and verbal communications skills;
Excellent organization skills.
Experience with testing J2EE Web/Application architectures.
Experience with both Security and Performance testing.
High energy/motivation level with a proven ability to deliver.
Ability and flexibility to act as a lead and tester.
Understand the localization process for delivering multi-language products;

Required Skills:
Test Strategy and Plan Development Experience
Test Case and Script Development Experience
Testing Execution across:
Functional testing;
Customization / Localization Testing;
Load/Performance Testing;
Regression Testing;
User Acceptance Testing (UAT);
Launch Verification Testing;
Non-Functional Testing (i.e. Backup & Recovery, Cluster Failover, etc.)
Java/J2EE Experience
Scripting Experience for Test Automation
Experience with testing both OLTP and OLAP solutions an asset.
Strong documentation skills.

Assets:
Experience with managing/partnering with test outsourcing companies.
Experience with MS Visio.

COMPANY DESCRIPTION
XYZ technologies is an exciting startup company focused on developing unique and leading edge solutions in the Internet commerce arena. Our company is aggressively seeking highly motivated, energetic, results oriented and genuinely smart people to work on a dynamic team in a demanding environment.

OPPORTUNITY:
XYZ technologies is seeking an outstanding Intermediate to Senior level J2EE Architect who will significantly contribute to the architecture, design, development and deployment of the company’s core product offering. Salary range is targeted at $80-95K pending experience.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
This demanding role requires very strong J2EE architecture and development skills for delivery of our seamless web-based application. Additionally, it is expected that the J2EE Architect will significantly contribute to the data architecture of our solution. Candidates who can demonstrate prior project successes working with the required technologies combined with exceptional written and oral communication skills are considered ideal.

QUALIFICATIONS:
Minimum 7+ years architecture, design and development experience creating web based applications using Java and J2EE (portfolios/samples will be requested during the interview process).
Professional experience with application-level development using EJB, Java Beans, JSP, Java Servlets, Struts, JDBC, XML, XSLT, and Web Services in a 3-tiered architecture.
Business-tier design, development and implementation using Java and J2EE.
Experience with design and implementation of Service Oriented Architectures. Experience in developing multi-threaded architectures.
Experience with data structures and algorithm design/development. Experience with Security Design and Implementation, ranging from network to application security. Excellent experience with OOP Programming Techniques and component architectures. High energy/motivation level with a proven ability to deliver. Strong communication skills, both written and oral.

Required Technical Skills:
Java/J2EE
EJB, Java Beans, XML, XSLT, HTML, SQL and JSP
Design Patterns, OOAD
STRUTS and MVC
SAX/DOM Parsers
MySQL database experience, including architecture, development and deployment for high availability
Technical infrastructure design, architecture and deployment.
Experience working with Internet based OLTP solutions an asset.
Strong documentation skills.

Assets:
Strong working knowledge of UNIX/Linux systems programming interfaces, utilities and tools.
Experience with implementation of security authentication and authorization services.
Experience with MS Visio.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
This demanding role requires very strong Java and J2EE development skills for creation of best practice sample code for our seamless web-based application. Candidates who can demonstrate prior project successes working with the required technologies combined with exceptional written and oral communication skills are considered ideal.

QUALIFICATIONS:
- Minimum 5+ years design and development experience creating web based/e-commerce applications using Java and J2EE (portfolios/samples will be requested during the interview process).
- Professional experience with application-level development using EJB, Java Beans, JSP, Java Servlets, Struts, JDBC, XML, XSLT, and Web Services in a 3-tiered architecture.
- Business-tier design, development and implementation using Java and J2EE.
- Excellent experience with OOP Programming Techniques and component architectures.
- High energy/motivation level with a proven ability to deliver.
- Strong communication skills, both written and oral.

Required Technical Skills:
- Java/J2EE
- EJB, Java Beans, XML, XSLT, HTML, SQL and JSP
- Design Patterns, OOAD
- STRUTS and MVC
- Relational database experience
- Experience working with Internet based OLTP solutions an asset
- Strong documentation skills.

Assets:
- SQL development experience.
- Strong working knowledge of UNIX/Linux systems programming interfaces, utilities and tools
- Experience with performing systems integration.