by Rick Stomphorst
Imagine a enabling a food processor to grow 2x over the next 5-years through new technologies?
Searching for a hands-on IT Manager for a large food processing company in Brampton/Mississauga area. Initial 3-month contract with the possibility of roll becoming permanent.
Requires someone who will position IT as a Business partner through its journey of demonstrable continual improvement.
Initial engagement will include a discovery process to review company’s as-is environment and identity areas of improvements in reliability, speed, security, costs, increased functionality and / or new technologies to accelerate the business, providing them with a competitive advantage.
About the Job
The purpose of this role and why this role exists.
We are looking for a proactive individual, one who is continually looking for ways to improve the business by new or improved technology. The company growing yearly by double-digits. They need to ensure the computing production environment will scale, and contains sufficient redundancy, to meet their expected growth.
Top Responsibilities
The part that you play in this organization, and specific duties you are measured against.
- Supporting the production environment – supporting their hosted ERP is mission critical
- Managing vendors who provide virtually all of their computer services and maintenance
- Plant communication infrastructure (e.g. scanners, scales, label printers)
- Data and network security and backups
- Planning and implementation of upgrades to IT infrastructure
- Manage helpdesk
Some of the Experiences & Background we’d like to see
All the things you’re good at because you’ve done most of these before.
- Support of a production environment including networking, security, network latency, telephony, WAN, EDI, plant connectivity, hosted applications, monitoring system performance
- Supporting a production ERP or MRP
- Superior problem resolution techniques, practices and rapid root-cause determination. Avoiding system outages is a primary responsibility
- Managing a small team providing break/fix/diagnosis
- Experience managing vendors including SaaS providers
- Experience using SQL and SSRS
- Project Management and Budget Management
- Knowledge of current with leading edge processes and technology
- Knowledgeable with Microsoft’s hosted services
- Strong knowledge of the SaaS model
- Experience with Canadian food compliancy and regulations (nice to have)
- Degree in relevant discipline
Expect travel between GTA locations.
About the Company
They are a decades old food processing company providing packaged and unpackaged perishables to your grocery store.
Connect with Us!
To learn more about the client, their culture and the opportunity, we invite you to share your resume with us via this job board or to Rick@searchvelcity.ca, Subject: IT Manager
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by Rick Stomphorst
About the Job
The purpose of this role and why this role exists
We are growing our consulting team again. You will own the discovery process, requirements gathering and resulting back-end solutions design and integration between numerous legacy enterprise registration systems.
Require a senior solutions architect with exceptional communications skills to extract requirements from the various stakeholders and persuade business stakeholders of new solution design.
Location is downtown Toronto (50% for first 3-months) & Oakville with expected travel to stakeholder sites within Canada’s major cities.
Initial 3-month contract (min).
Perks
- Recent recipient of Employee Recommended Workplace Awards.
- On the Branham300 List of Top Canadian ICT Companies, 3x in a row
- Headquarters in NE Oakville. Less than 1km from Hwy 403, walking distance to cafes and eateries.
- Monthly Socials
Top Responsibilities
The part that you play in this organization, and specific duties you are measured against
- Elicit and document tangible business objectives that can be mapped to technology solutions
- Meet with technical stakeholders to obtain a detailed understanding of existing capabilities
- Back-end solutions design and integration between legacy enterprise systems
- Present technical strategies and standards to new clients
- Lead design meetings to draw out and clearly define development and implementation options
Own and develop relationships with clients, ensuring their business objectives are met
Some of the Experiences & Background we’d like to see
All the things you’re good at because you’ve done most of these before
- 7-10 years experience with Enterprise Solution Architecture
- Experience as an Integration Analyst, Technical Business Analyst or Systems Analyst role
- Demonstrated experience analyzing business and technical requirements and solution design
- Extensive working knowledge of current technologies and computing architectures including Microservice architecture, containerization (K8s, Docker), SOAP / RESTful service design and implementation
- Extensive working knowledge of Java, JavaScript, XML, TCP/IP, SQL Server, DB Design
- Familiarity with cloud-based computing platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure, Bluemix)
- Technical degree in Computer Science or Engineering at University or College level
Sound like you? Sent your resume to rick@searchvelocity.ca now!
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About the Company
Our client is a software product company, custom software development and IT professional services firm.
In 2017, they were recognized as one of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies by Profit 500, a Top ICT Company by Branham and received the Excellence Award in Quality Improvement from PBMI. They are Canadian company based in Oakville.
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by Rick Stomphorst
Can you explain in detail the difference between an inner join and outer join? Can you recite a join syntax from memory? Do you know what are SQL Constraints? If the answers are obvious to you and you want to immerse yourself in complex SQL Quality Assurance challenges, then this role may be for you.
A SQL software company’s business continues to grow and we’re searching for a Senior ETL / API QA person to join their growing team.
The ideal candidate will be an organized, structure, collaborative individual with excellent technical writing skills, have strong theoretical SQL skills and possesses a programming background and has chosen to take Quality Assurance as their desired career path.
| Who will be successful in this role |
Who will not be successful in this role |
- Non-functional testing
- API testing
- Integration testing
- ETL testing experience
- Back-end testing
- I’m very strong in SQL
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- Testing web apps, mobile apps, games
- Functional testing
- Expand your automation experience
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Great career potential with a growing young company. You will obtain diverse experiences and an opportunity to grow professionally via these experiences. They offer a relaxed work environment, walking distance to eateries, and healthcare spending account.
About the Job
The purpose of this role and why this role exists
- Ensure their software product is of the highest possible quality
Top Responsibilities
The part that you play in this organization, and specific duties you are measured against
- Review requirements and technical design documents, where they exist, to provide timely QA estimates,
- Develop test cases and plans, prioritize, coordinate and perform manual testing activities for multiple simultaneous projects
- Ensure all user stories have adequate detail in the acceptance criteria as input to test case development
- Ensure that quality issues and defects are appropriately identified, documented, tracked, and resolved
- Assist in reproducing issues reported by clients (as needed)
Some of the Experiences & Background we’d like to see
All the things you’re good at because you’ve done most of these before
- 5 years experience performing QA within software companies (vs. banks or insurance companies) and strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes
- Excellent Microsoft SQL knowledge, SQL theory and principles, creating queries, joins, indexes, data migration & integration
- Integration QA experience, testing APIs and/or ETL is a must-have
- Experience with creating test cases & plan, manual and automated regression testing, and load testing
- Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Coding experience: Ability to write code or scripts in C# or SQL
- Knowledge of XML and JSON
- Quick learner, inquisitive and independent
- You have the ability to work in a cross-functional team organization
- You have strong professional communication skills
- Understand software architecture
- Bachelor Degree in Computer Science
Additionally Preferred Qualifications
- Microsoft Team Foundation Server
- Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
- Experience with CRMs
Sound like you? Sent your resume to rick@searchvelocity.ca now!
Please include your resume.
About the Company
Our client is a growing 6-year old company which has already attracted 3,000+ Enterprise-level clients from over 70+ countries including Fortune 500 companies. These clients now rely on our client’s solutions to integrate data between their various applications. They have become a leading provider of data integration.
Application integration is a painful and daunting task, typically costly and inefficient to develop. To address this, our client has developed robust value-add additions which leverage existing Microsoft integration offerings. Their software solution is cost-effective and easy for developers to use.
They offer a relaxed work environment, walking distance to eateries, and healthcare spending account.
by Rick Stomphorst
Do you love building relationships with customers and influencers? Do you love helping to solve customers’ problems? Do you love the pre-sales side of customer management? If so, then this role may be for you.
The successful candidate will have customer success, customer service, or sales support experience dealing with international corporate buyers, responding to their product inquires, providing quotes, and generally ensuring overall customer satisfaction so they will renew.
This is not an outbound sales role. You carry no quota and there is no cold calling (whew!).
About the Job
The purpose of this role and why this role exists
- To ensure overall customer satisfaction so they will renew
- To handle in-bound product inquiries, responding with web demos, quotes and invoices
Top Responsibilities
The part that you play in this organization, and specific duties you are measured against
- Customer Engagement:
- Working with prospective end-clients ensuring they understand the product’s value proposition, often by asking them the right questions
- Delivering sales presentations and web demos
- Providing quotes and invoices, following up on quotes
- License Management for renewals and trials. Proactively look at churn and contact customers at risk prior to renewal time and track information regarding any cancellations
- Advocate our product and services to existing or prospective customers
- Inspire clients to think strategically about how our product can support their business needs
- Collect customer stories about successes using our software
- Vendor management – working with resellors, producing quotes and invoices
- Customer Advocacy – ensuring we are providing superior service and support to ensure customers are successful and renew
- Trusted Adviser – Coach customers on the best practices of using our software, and the use and benefits of our products
Some of the Experiences & Background we’d like to see
All the things you’re good at because you’ve done most of these before
- Post-Secondary degree in a business-related field (Marketing, Sales, Management, Communications)
- 3-5 years experience in B2B Customer Success, Customer Service, Customer Advocacy, Pre-Sales, or Sales Support roles within a technology company
- Strong remote presentation skills
- Demonstrable experience delivering value propositions for pragmatic and conservative enterprise-sized buyers
- A willingness to take the initiative
- An exceptional attention to detail
- Excellent business-level verbal, written, copy-writing, and presentation skills. Efficient communications is king
- Ability to manage multiple competing priorities
Additionally Desired Experience
- A successful candidate will bring a technical background with an understanding of B2B business workflows
- Authoring procedural documentation
- Experience in a software company
- Experience with CRMs
Candidates must be legally entitled to work in Canada and must be able to travel intermittently to the United States
Sound like you? Sent your resume to rick@searchvelocity.ca now!
Please include your resume.
About the Company
Our client is a growing 6-year old company which has already attracted 3,000+ Enterprise-level clients from over 70+ countries including Fortune 500 companies. These clients now rely on our client’s solutions to integrate data between their various applications. They have become a leading provider of data integration.
Application integration is a painful and daunting task, typically costly and inefficient to develop. To address this, our client has developed robust value-add additions which leverage existing Microsoft integration offerings. Their software solution is cost-effective and easy for developers to use.
They offer a relaxed work environment, walking distance to eateries, and healthcare spending account.
by Rick Stomphorst
If your career goal is to build commercial applications from scratch vs maintaining pre-existing apps, then this role may be for you.
Front End Developer | ReactJS or Javascript | Senior or intermediate level – for a custom software development company in Oakville specializing in in mobile and web based product development. They use open source development tools to build scalable solutions. They’re 6+ year old growing firm with over 25 people including software engineers, business analysts/project managers, and creative talent delivering some really cool stuff. They own some projects entirely, sometimes they’re an extension of the client. 50%+ of their products can be found in an app store or publicly on-line.
Perks
Our work environment
- Flex-hours outside core hours 10-4
- Flexible working location when required
- Located in trendy ol’downtown area right beside a terrific coffee shop. Lots of eateries, specialty food shops and outdoor patios within a stone’s throw
- Walking distance to the GO station on Lakeshore West line which runs every 30 minutes
- We use Slack and other video conferencing tools to collaborate remotely alongside many other modern tools
- We have amazing clients who are fun to work with and appreciate our value to them
- We are the sole technology provider for several clients where we have been able to earn their trust and respect
- A breadth of experience exposure across several personalities, client types, projects, and industries
- Casual, yet professional environment
- BYOD
Top Responsibilities
The part that you play in this organization, and specific duties you are measured against
- Proactively collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, front-end coding of new Products, features and functionality
- Front-end delivery, implementation, development testing, defect investigation and resolution
- Direct interaction with the client
- Provide effort estimates, planning out weekly sprints, while identifying and assisting in mitigating technical, schedule, and other project risks
Experience & Background
All the things you’re good at because you’ve done most of these before
- ReactJS and/or React-Native
- HTML5 / CSS3 / JavaScript / Bootstrap
- 3 years experience with open-source development and technology foundations, and a pragmatic approach to using the right tool for the job
- 5+ years of experience in a software development roles
- Successful track record of delivering projects, both individually and as a team member (hint: bring them to the interview!)
- Ruby / Ruby on Rails (nice to have)
- MySQL (nice to have)
- Effective communication skills as you will be in regular contact with the client – great opportunity to further refine your communication skills
- Experience working in a Mac and Unix environment
- Experience consuming third-party libraries, APIs and Web services
- Proficiency with cross-browser/cross-platform issues
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent
You Decide
To learn more about the client, their culture and the opportunity, we invite you to share your resume with us via this job board or to Rick @ SearchVelocity.ca, Subject: FE – React
Have a canned cover letter? Delete it. Tell us why you’re perfect for this opportunity and you’re virtually guaranteed an interview.
Please include your resume.
About SearchVelocity.ca
We provide recruitment services to technology companies to identify and acquire high-value technology staff. We specialize in complex assignments, roles requiring multiple technologies, skills and/or business vertical knowledge, like this one.
We bring 25+ years of broad experience working in software companies and IT professional consulting firms as hiring management of Technical staff. We can help you find the right people.
Based in Halton Region, Ontario (GTA-West) we specialize on the staffing challenges of tech companies located in Oakville, Burlington, Milton, Halton Hills, Georgetown, Hamilton, Mississauga, Brampton and Toronto. Visit us at SearchVelocity.ca
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by Rick Stomphorst
Do you love building relationships with customers and influencers? Are you technically inclined? Do you love helping to resolve customers’ problems? Do you love the pre-sales side of customer engagement? If so, then this role may be for you.
The successful candidate will have hands-on customer success, technical support, customer service, or sales support experience ensuring overall customer satisfaction so they will renew and responding to the pre-sales product questions.
About the Job
The purpose of this role and why this role exists
- To ensure overall customer satisfaction so they will renew (80%)
- To handle in-bound product inquiries, responding with web demos, quotes and invoices (20%)
Top Responsibilities
The part that you play in this organization, and specific duties you are measured against
- Customer Advocacy – ensuring we are providing superior service and support to ensure customers are successful and renew
- Customer / Reseller Engagement – Working with prospective clients ensuring they understand the product’s value proposition, often by asking them the right questions and answering their technical questions
- Providing quotes and invoices, following up on quotes
Some of the Experiences & Background we’d like to see
All the things you’re good at because you’ve done most of these before
- Post-Secondary degree in a business-related field (Marketing, Sales, Management, Communications)
- 3-5 years experience in B2B Customer Success, Technical Support, Customer Service, Customer Advocacy, Pre-Sales, or Sales Support roles within a technology company
- Strong remote presentation skills
- A willingness to take the initiative
- Exceptional attention to detail and well organized
- Excellent business-level verbal, written, and presentation skills. Efficient communications is king
Additionally Desired Experience
- A successful candidate will bring a technical background with an understanding of B2B business workflows
- Authoring procedural documentation
- Experience in a software company
- Experience with CRMs
Candidates must be legally entitled to work in Canada and must be able to travel intermittently to the United States
Sound like you? Sent your resume to rick@searchvelocity.ca now!
Please include your resume.
About the Company
Our client is a growing 6-year old company which has already attracted 3,000+ Enterprise-level clients from over 70+ countries including Fortune 500 companies. These clients now rely on our client’s solutions to integrate data between their various applications. They have become a leading provider of data integration.
Application integration is a painful and daunting task, typically costly and inefficient to develop. To address this, our client has developed robust value-add additions which leverage existing Microsoft integration offerings. Their software solution is cost-effective and easy for developers to use.
They offer a relaxed work environment, walking distance to eateries, and healthcare spending account.
