DataPower Specialist -Niche

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Job Description

Our client has a requirement for a DataPower Specialist for a 6 month contract opportunity.  The position is located in Mississauga.

We are currently looking for strong DataPower Specialist to join our Mississauga facility.

Accountabilities:

The incumben will work within the change management guidelines to install, configure, deploy, and support WESB and DataPower systems within DEV, SYS, PAT, and Production environments. Provide warranty period support for new application / system deployments.

The successful applicant will be primarily responsible for the following;

- Build and deploy DataPower and WESB based infrastructures with an emphasis on DataPower web service mediations – in support of SOA based business solutions
- Applied experience in deploying configuring and troubleshooting application (mediation) within WebSphere Enterprise Service BUS
- Applied experience with XML technologies including: XML, XSDs, XSLT and related tools
- Engage in business projects to configure, troubleshoot and deploy business web services within DataPower and WESB
- Diagnose and resolve technical issues that arise in the ESB infrastructure (environment, hardware, performance, etc…)
- Working knowledge of SSL technologies including configuring SSL, AAA/SSL mutual authentication
- Excellent UNIX (AIX preferred) experience
- Ability to ask probing questions to understand the various concepts presented/discussed
- Some project management and negotiation experience would be an asset.
- Implementing infrastructure, configuring run times to support these technologies
- Diagnosing problems and resolving these challenges
- Must have strong understanding and experience with creating process flow
- The incumbent will be interacting with both internal and external technical community
- Must have experience from an enterprise-level environment
- System capacity planning and maintenance is a key aspect of this role.

Qualifications/Competencies Accreditation:

- Excellent UNIX (AIX preferred) experience
- Excellent Windows Server 2000 and 2003 admin experience
- HPUX experience a definite asset.
- IIS experience is important
- Ability to ask probing questions to understand the various concepts presented/discussed
- Excellent communication skills
- Comfortable with working in a rapidly changing, technically complex environment.
- Ability to provide technical guidance to junior team members.
- Some project management and negotiation experience would be an asset.
- Thorough understanding of PMLC and SDLC processes.
- Some after-hours\weekend and rotating pager support required

*Contractor summary should elaborate on the experience with Datapower specifically and specify the types of Webservices one has handled before

  

How to Apply

OnlineTo apply for this and other suitable exciting opportunities with Zylog Systems (Canada) Ltd., you can register and apply online at http://www.zylogcanada.com/.

Email: If you would like to email a copy of your resume for review, please reference this posted Job Number or Job Description in the subject line of your email for prompt identification and send your email with attached resume to Resumes@zylog.ca.

Company Overview

Zylog is internationally ranked within the top 100 in the Global Recruitment Industry, and one of the top five IT Professional Staffing Firms in Canada.  Zylog is a leading provider of human capital resource management applications, and technology solutions with global delivery capability and proudly represents Fortune 500, Government, and Healthcare organizations actively seeking top talent for contract and permanent positions. Zylog leverages ISO 9001:2000 certified processes, industry best practices, and ownership of one of the largest professional talent databases in Canada; we are dedicated to the progress of our clients, consultants, and our community. Apply now or contact one of our experienced professional resource managers to help you find the perfect career to make the most of your unique skills and experience.

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Intermediate Business Systems Analyst - Financial Services

Job Description

Our client has a requirement for an Intermediate Business Systems Analyst – Financial Services for a six month contract opportunity. The position is located in Mississauga.


Role:

The Intermediate Business Systems Analyst is required to understand new business requirements, conduct business analysis, undertake QA testing and help streamline existing processes to improve efficiency Prepare data mapping and perform testing of applications. Develop in depth knowledge of applications and their interdependences. Analyze and manipulate large data sets. Demonstrate leadership and partnership skills by interacting with other technology teams within organization to solve problems and deliver solutions. Understand, document and interpret complex user requirements.

They will take a leadership role in working with and liaising with business partners, other Technology Solutions organizations and external vendors to define the business and technical requirements at the program level.


Responsibilities:

•Review, analyze and evaluate detailed business and functional requirements, documentation, process flows and data models to contribute to the development of project plans including project charter, project deliverables, cost/benefits analysis, time line estimates, scope and control.
•Develop use cases, defining and documenting user procedures and workflows, and how each class of user interacts with east system function.
•Ensure Business Recovery Plans are in place.
•Integrate technical solutions with the business environment, recognizing systems design and data interdependencies and reusability.
•Establish appropriate security levels for processes, information exchange and system implementation.
•Define, review and influence standards and quality measures/metrics.
•Assist in the development of conversion and implementation strategies. Conduct pre and post implementation reviews, ensuring all technical solutions have met business requirements. They will also support system implementation and production readiness by liaising with change management, IT architecture and desktop standards, and the business.
•Collaborate with business leaders, IT professionals, and vendors ensuring that management is kept informed of project status and that problems and issues are escalated appropriately and clearly communicated.


Requirement or Qualifications:

Qualified Candidates will have:

•Demonstrated experience in Financial Services, specifically recent credit card experience
•A high level knowledge of development and SDLC
•Knowledge of QA and testing is required
•Strong analytical and problem solving skills
•Demonstrated business acumen
•Strong presentation and communications skills and collaborative team building skills
•Proficiency in MS Office tools


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Company Name Zylog Systems (Canada) Ltd.

Inside Software Asset Manager

Job Description
Inside Software Asset Manager

About the Job


Job Description:

Our client has a requirement for Inside Software Asset Manager for a Renewable 12 month contract opportunity. The positions are located in Mississauga.

Requirement or Qualifications:

Qualified Candidates will have:


Job Description

Position Summary:

Dedicated telephone based SAM & licenses compliance resource for Microsoft Public Sector. This person is responsible for generating revenue and long term compliance by driving payment for unlicensed usage of Microsoft software.


Duties and Responsibilities:

• Drive for revenue opportunities in the managed and unmanaged account base meeting revenue quota
• Follow up on pending customer orders for license shortfalls
• Drive customer and partner satisfaction through understanding customer needs and helping them acquire the licenses they need
• Identify roadblocks within accounts affecting deployments and engaging resources to remove obstacles
• Proactively engage customers around compliance campaigns
• Proactively drive SAM adoption within customers accounts and through Partners as a way to avoid future non-compliance
• Crisp articulation of the benefits of software asset management and compliance
• Work with CREST on queries regarding Compliance Tool, Tool technical issues & Tool Enhancements
• Update customer end user license information using Microsoft license tools or equivalent
• Establishes good working relationships within SMSP including Tele-Partner Account Managers


The preceding functions have been provided as examples of the types of work performed by employees assigned to this job classification. Management reserves the right to add, modify, change, or rescind the work assignments of different positions and to make reasonable accommodation, if required, so that qualified employees can perform the essential functions of the job.


Qualifications:

Required experience in the following areas:

· 2+ years of sales experience in IT
· Advanced communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills, combined with high levels of organisational ability
· Good understanding of inside sales techniques
· Good knowledge of features, benefits and competitive positioning of Microsoft products specifically Microsoft Licensing
· Proficient in computer systems, in particular experience with navigating Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems an advantage
· Bilingualism an Asset
· Use of CRM Experience (Seibel, Onyx, Pivotal, etc.)
· Must demonstrate leadership abilities and maintain a strategic, visionary outlook
· Software Asset Management Certification an Asset
· Ideal candidate is dynamic, adaptable, and proactive with an entrepreneurial spirit


Working Environment:

Professional corporate office environment and high-tech lab.


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Company Name Zylog Systems (Canada) Ltd.

IT Database Administrator III

Job Description
Database Administrator


Job Description:

Our client has a requirement for Database Administrator for a 6 month contract opportunity. The position is located in Mississauga.

The Database Administrator’s role is to design, install, monitor, maintain, and performance tune production databases while ensuring high levels of data availability. This individual is also responsible for developing, implementing, and overseeing database policies and procedures to ensure the integrity and availability of databases and their accompanying software.

•Plans, coordinates, and supervises complex informatics assignments; designs and applies new methods and procedures; may supervise staff.
•Responsible for physical databases on specific database technologies; design and implement back up, recovery, archiving and conversion strategies.
•Maintains the integrity of databases.
•Lead or provide subject matter expertise in production and non production databases for data development.
•Manage database distribution, configuration, security and access requirements.
•Design and develop physical databases.
•Lead or perform testing, reporting, capacity planning, performance tuning, backup and restores.
•Provide leadership and technical expertise to ongoing problem identification and resolution and root cause analysis process for database environments

Requirement or Qualifications:


SKILLS:

•DBMS, Data warehousing expertise, Performance tuning and Root cause analysis experience. Previous application and operating systems knowledge.
•Can perform data warehousing and data modeling functions.
•Advises and updates management on database concepts and techniques.
•The ideal candidate will have a strong background and experience as a DBA with DB2 in both Development and Production environment.
•Degree or Diploma in Computer Science or equivalent experience DB2 DBA Certification from IBM Corporation or an accredited institution 10 years hands-on experience in developing, maintaining and optimizing DB2 based applications and databases.
•5-7 years supporting very large DataWarehouse (10 Terabytes)
•5-7 years hands-on experience supporting development using SQL, Java, Stored Procedures, Triggers


Must Haves:

-Strong DB2 Warehouse Edition
-AIX experience
-7+ years of experience in this area as a DBA
-Strong knowledge of and experience with Data Warehousing
-Korn Shell scripting
-SAN Technology (Storage Area Network)
-DPF (Database Partition Feature)
-Excellent communication skills


Company Overview:

Zylog Systems (Canada) Ltd is internationally ranked within the top 100 Global Recruitment Industry, and one of the top five IT Professional Staffing Firms in Canada.

Zylog Systems (Canada) is a leading provider of human capital resource management applications, and technology solutions with global delivery capability and proudly represents Fortune 500, Government, and Healthcare organizations actively seeking top talent for contract and permanent positions. Zylog leverages ISO 9001:2000 certified processes, industry best practices, and ownership of one of the largest professional talent databases in Canada; we are dedicated to the progress of our clients, consultants, and our community. Apply now or contact one of our experienced professional resource managers to help you find the perfect career to make the most of your unique skills and experience.


Top Jobs for Top Talent

www.Zylog.ca


How to Apply:

Online:

To apply for this and other suitable exciting opportunities with Zylog Systems (Canada) Ltd., you can register and apply online at www.ZylogCanada.com

Email:

If you would like to email a copy of your resume for review, please reference this posted Job Number or Job Description in the subject line of your email for prompt identification and send your email with attached resume to resumes@zylog.ca


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Company Name Zylog Systems (Canada) Ltd.

Project Manager

Job Description

Project Manager x 2


About the Job

Job Description:

Our client has a requirement for Project Manager for a 6 contract opportunity. The positions are located in Mississauga.


Requirement or Qualifications:


Our client is looking for 2 strong Project Managers – to be qualified for this position you will have.

• Banking/Credit card experience as an IT Project Manager (preference will be given to candidates with recent experience)
• Management of mid size (500K to 1m) projects
• Candidate must have extremely strong communication (written & verbal) skills.
• Strong multitasking skills to manage multiple projects
• Must have extensive experience with MS Project and Excel
• Autonomous – able to work on their own to gather information and get the job done
• Understanding of distributed systems environment (WAS, Java) and Host


Qualified Candidates will have:

• Managed the day to day development and support activities of 1 or more projects at a time
• Works independently
• Creation of detailed project plans as required including delivery of the applicable SDLC and PMLC documents.
• Work with the delivery and support teams to deliver solutions to the business partner and meet the approved scope/cost/schedule/quality for the project.
• Provide effective and timely communications to the business partner, key stakeholders and the project team.
• Status reporting, project change control, continual risk/issue assessment/ management, and escalation/resolution are essential.
• Collaborate with the management team to manage the overall project portfolio and challenges facing the team and participate in the development of strategy to address gaps.
• Manage a team that consists of IT specialists and 2 to 3 developers for each project.
• Management of small to large projects (ranging in size from $500K to $2M), including multiple internal applications and external vendors.
• Estimation and planning, risk assessment, contingency planning, tracking and management of progress, issues, budget, risk and resources.
• Accountability for project budget and time lines. SKILLS: Proven leadership skills and experience managing IT projects. Full life cycle development experience. Experience with proven project methodology tools. PMI or ITIL certification. Expertise in MS Project, Excel, Visio and Powerpoint.


Company Overview:

Zylog Systems (Canada) Ltd is internationally ranked within the top 100 Global Recruitment Industry, and one of the top five IT Professional Staffing Firms in Canada.

Zylog Systems (Canada) is a leading provider of human capital resource management applications, and technology solutions with global delivery capability and proudly represents Fortune 500, Government, and Healthcare organizations actively seeking top talent for contract and permanent positions. Zylog leverages ISO 9001:2000 certified processes, industry best practices, and ownership of one of the largest professional talent databases in Canada; we are dedicated to the progress of our clients, consultants, and our community. Apply now or contact one of our experienced professional resource managers to help you find the perfect career to make the most of your unique skills and experience.


Top Jobs for Top Talent

www.Zylog.ca


How to Apply:


Online:

To apply for this and other suitable exciting opportunities with Zylog Systems (Canada) Ltd., you can register and apply online at www.ZylogCanada.com

Email:

If you would like to email a copy of your resume for review, please reference this posted Job Number or Job Description in the subject line of your email for prompt identification and send your email with attached resume to resumes@zylog.ca


Contact Information
Company Name Zylog Systems (Canada) Ltd.