Job Offer: Program Manager
Location: Toronto
Contract Duration: 18 months
Work Mode: Hybrid
Start Date: ASAP
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Why Join Us?
Astek is a global leader in technology consulting. With 9,600 experts worldwide, we guide our clients through digital transformation by developing innovative solutions.
In Canada, we excel in IT and engineering. We collaborate with leading companies to tackle major technological challenges, putting innovation, collaboration, and excellence at the heart of our actions.
Join a passionate and committed team ready to bring your ideas to life.
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About the Role
On behalf of our client in the Banking industry, Astek Canada is seeking a motivated Program Manager ready to take on new challenges.
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Your Responsibilities
As a Program Manager, you will be responsible for:
• Develop and document a detailed solution design within SDS, impart your subject matter expertise throughout life cycle.
• Participate in complex applications and systems development, programming.
• Propose solution options; generate stakeholder support.
• Collaborate with stakeholders on project estimates.
• Produce top-notch functional, technical and user interface designs.
• Take business, Enterprise Architecture, system performance and development standards requirements, then develop functional, technical and user interface designs for an application and/or system.
• Consult on development of the System Requirements Specification (SRS).
• Review technical deliverables for quality throughout detailed design and development phase, identify gaps or redesign as needed.
• Define metrics and performance goals with technology partners and peers.
• Deliver effective and efficient solutions by meeting milestones and ensuring project deliverables are on time, within budget, and adhere to the corporate quality and security standards.
• Identify ways to minimize cost, play a role in introducing strategic solutions to support cost effectiveness and enhance stakeholder experience.
• Conduct code reviews to address quality, standards compliance, reusability and ease of maintenance, Operational Readiness Reviews, and support gating and review sign-offs for solution design.
• Support knowledge management processes and ensure knowledge is codified, monitored, tracked and managed.
• Ensure design leverages existing reusable components, traces back to business requirements, and that new modules are designed with reusability in mind.
• Identify and address any issue that affects the integrity of the application ( e.g. cross-capability/release issues).
• Provide technical support to promptly resolve escalated incidents/outages.
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Your Qualifications
Education/Experience:
• Undergraduate Degree or Technical Certificate.
• 5-7 years of experience in Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing on SQL Server 2012 and above
• 5+ years of solid hands-on experience on the Microsoft stack, including SQL
• Experience in Entity Framework and Web API 2 would be an asset.
• Expert knowledge of the business, broader organization, technical environment, standards, processes, tools, procedures, multiple programming languages, operating systems, solutions design and other relevant technology areas from a design/support/solutions perspective.
• Readiness and motivation to work autonomously in a lead capacity on a diverse range of activities (e.g. design, support of technical business solutions) and can be relied on to coach, educate and monitor the work of others.
• Primary subject matter expertise in multiple areas; you’re seasoned in counselling clients and project teams on all aspects of research, analysis, design, hardware and software support, development of technical solutions and testing.
• Strength coaching and advising clients, partners and project teams, capable of being a internal expert resource in « technical information exchange ».
• Commitment to and belief in the quality of your deliverables.
• Demonstrate high level of proactivity and strong ownership.
• Play technical leadership role and guide other team members.
• Communicate effectively both inside and outside the team to achieve results and build strong relationships.
• Develop a good understanding of Market Risk management processes in the Banking business.
Key Skills:
• Strong verbal, written, presentation & communication skills.
• Proactive, organized, excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Works well independently, as well as, within a team.
• Financial experience is a strong asset.
Personal Qualities:
• Analytical and solution-oriented mindset.
• Team collaboration and teamwork skills.
• Autonomy and rigor in managing priorities.
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The Astek Advantages
• Personalized CARE plan for our employees.
• Diversity & Inclusion Charter.
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Ready to Take on the Challenge?
Apply now by sending your CV and discover a rewarding career at Astek Canada.
