by Rick Stomphorst
Project Manager for Software Company
About the Job
The purpose of this role and why this role exists
We are growing our team again.
The consistent high quality of our products and services is resulting in continued healthy growth. Resultingly, we are searching for additional Technical Project Managers to take over client deliverables, enabling us to further scale and further grow client engagements within our Data Analytics portfolio.
Our successful Project Managers have an entrepreneurial spirit and a leader personality. They’ve become trusted advisors to their clients, managing client’s expectations, and have a keen eye on new opportunities for future business. They eventually, effectively, play the role of Account Manager and Program Manager, ensuring overall client satisfaction.
You will be involved in projects from their inception – ideation sessions with the client. Then you will be responsible for delivering projects and managing the teams delivering these projects.
This is a growth role with an opportunity to move into a leadership role.
Perks
Why we’re a cool company
- Recent recipient of Employee Recommended Workplace Awards
- Flex time, partial work-from-home
- Full benefits package from Day-1
- Fitness membership allowance
- Company cell phone or cell phone allowance
- Headquarters in NE Oakville, with satellite office in Waterloo. This role can optionally be partially based in Waterloo
- HO less than 1km from the QEW, walking distance to cafés and eateries
If people only knew the great stuff we do here. – Unsolicited quote from team member
Top Responsibilities
The part that you play in this organization, and specific duties you are measured against
- Manage project, evaluate talent, manage resources, manage budget, deliver projects on-time and on-budget
- Aligning with clients’ vision and priorities
- Develop strong relationships with assigned clients, understanding their challenges, and mapping their business objectives to our solutions
- Ensure high quality delivery of service solutions
- Facilitate requirements gathering
- Actively promote our company, its products, services, and solutions
Client Management
- Develop and maintain a strong client relationship that aligns with the company’s objectives and client centric approach
- Act as the escalation point on assigned clients to resolve any issues or concerns
- Proactively analyze potential client requirements and take appropriate steps to align us in the best position to meet the needs
Project Management
- Manage the relationships with the client and all stakeholders
- Initiate design meetings to draw out and clearly define development and implementation options
- Creating SOW for Discovery Process, then Project with Scope and Objectives
- Determine project budget
- Manage technical resources, and address any resource challenges, who are responsible for the project’s deliverables, within budget and schedule
- Keep apprised of the status of development and serve as liaison between development staff and client
- Facilitates team and client meetings
- Perform risk management to minimize project risks
- Create and manage the plan for moving technical solutions to final client hand-off
- Own the communication and execution of solution hand-over to client services, service delivery, technology and other team members at designated milestones
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 in enterprise project management with Software Solutions build and deployments, ideally rollouts to Cloud environment
- Excel in problem solving with teams to meet clients’ goals and move project forward
- Excellent communication skills – verbal, written, presentation. Facilitating interdepartmental communication
- Managing client expectations
- Managing internal resources
- Creating Statement of Work documents
- 5-years experience with Agile development methodologies
- Understands Microservices concepts
- Understands complex database concepts
- Understands object-oriented concepts
- Understands the benefits of the various programming languages
- Experience with our stack: Oracle/MSSQL/MYSQL/PostgreSQL, Java, JavaScript, XML, SQL Server, Microservices architecture, Containerization (K8s, Docker), SOAP / RESTful services, AWS, Azure, Bluemix, JIRA
- Technical degree in Computer Science or Engineering at University or College level
Connect with Us!
To learn more about this opportunity, the client, their culture, we invite you to share your resume with us via this job board or to Rick @ SearchVelocity.ca, Subject: Project Manager
Have a canned cover letter? Delete it. Tell us why you’re perfect for this opportunity and you’re virtually guaranteed an interview.
About the Company
Our client is a software product company, custom software development and IT professional services firm, based in Oakville and offices in New York and Waterloo. They are on the Branham300 List of Top Canadian ICT Companies four years in a row since 2016. Recently they have also ranked in the Growth500, Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies for two years.
Expect up to <5% travel into the USA.
Please include your resume. We’re searching for local permanent resources only.
by Rick Stomphorst
Sr. JAVA Developer for SaaS Product Company
About the Job
The purpose of this role and why this role exists
We are growing our team again. We have continual growth across each of our business units, which is why we’re always looking for new additions to our vibrant and diverse team.
Projects revolve around our BI and DevOps products and custom software development.
Perks
Why we’re a cool company
- Recent recipient of Employee Recommended Workplace Awards
- Flex time, partial work-from-home
- Full benefit package from Day 1
- Monthly Social events
- Headquarters in NE Oakville
- Less than 1km from the QEW, walking distance to cafes and eateries.
If people only knew the great stuff we do here. – Unsolicited quote from team member
Top Responsibilities
The part that you play in this organization, and specific duties you are measured against
- Work with business analysts to translate user requirements and technical specifications into design solutions
- Peer review programming code and participate in code reviews
- Provide support and guidance to intermediate and junior developers covering development and implementation approach
- Lead implementation and adherence to development and process standards, while refining, defining and establishing processes, templates, and software development
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
- JAVA – 5 years
- Full-stack experience
- Experience leading 5+ developers in a software development team
- Experience with modern JS frameworks like React, Vue, Angular and responsive design
- Experience building cloud native applications
- Experience with design, implementation and integration with common enterprise application storage mechanisms including in-memory, object storage, RDBMS and NoSQL
- Computer Science related degree or diploma ideally with coop terms
Connect with Us!
To learn more about this opportunity, the client, their culture, we invite you to share your resume with us via this job board or to Rick @ SearchVelocity.ca, Subject: JAVA Developer
Have a canned cover letter? Delete it. Tell us why you’re perfect for this opportunity and you’re virtually guaranteed an interview.
About the Company
Our client is a software product company, custom software development and IT professional services firm, based in Oakville and offices in New York and Waterloo. They are on the Branham300 List of Top Canadian ICT Companies, three years in a row. Recently they have also ranked in the Growth500, Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies for two years.
Please include your resume. We’re searching for local permanent resources only.
by Rick Stomphorst
About the Job
The purpose of this role and why this role exists
We are growing our team again.
The consistent high quality of our products and services is resulting in continued healthy growth. Resultingly, we are searching for professional to lead, nurture, and grow client engagements within our Software and Data Services portfolio.
You will have ultimate accountability for strategic client relationship management for assigned clients, becoming their trusted advisor in problem solving, managing their expectations, and developing new opportunities for future business.
Depending on the project, you will either be accountable or responsible for delivering the project and managing the teams delivering these projects.
The right candidate will also be involved in refining business strategy and influencing the roadmap of the company’s services.
Perks
Why we’re a cool company
- Recent recipient of Employee Recommended Workplace Awards
- Flex time, partial work-from-home
- Full benefit package from Day 1
- Headquarters in NE Oakville. Less than 1km from the QEW, walking distance to cafes and eateries.
- Less than 1km from the QEW, walking distance to cafes and eateries.
If people only knew the great stuff we do here. – Unsolicited quote from team member
Top Responsibilities
The part that you play in this organization, and specific duties you are measured against
- Develop strong relationships with assigned clients, understanding their challenges, while mapping our solutions to these challenges
- Ensure high quality delivery of service solutions to assigned clients
- Elicit and document high-to-mid-level tangible business objectives that can be mapped to solutions
- Initiate solution discussions with assigned clients with an objective of being awarded additional engagements
- Develop strong relationships with prospective clients to land new engagements
- Actively promote the company, its products and services
- Project Management
Client Management | Develop and maintain a strong client relationship that aligns with the company’s objectives and client centric approach
Technical and Business Skills | Maintain and acquire fundamental skills on technologies being leveraged in solution delivery to understand limitations, benefits and purpose, in order to contribute to solutioning and communication with client
Leadership | Developing others, mentors, and serves as a role model
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
- 5 years experience in enterprise project management
- Experience developing new or improved processes and methodologies
- Understands complex database concepts
- Possesses demonstrated work experience with more than one relational database management system
- Understands object-oriented concepts
- Understands the benefits of the various programming languages
- Excellent communicator both when writing, speaking, and presenting solutions
- Experience with our stack: databases TBD, Java, JavaScript, XML, SQL Server, Microservices architecture, Containerization (K8s, Docker), SOAP / RESTful services, AWS, Azure, Bluemix
- Technical degree in Computer Science or Engineering at University or College level
Please include your resume. We’re searching for local resources only.
Send your resume to Rick @ SearchVelocity.ca
Disclaimer: While measures were taken to ensure the accuracy of this document, SearchVelocity or our Client cannot warrant 100% accuracy or completeness.
by Rick Stomphorst
Imagine crafting content for a rapidly growing Oakville software product company.
Top Responsibilities
The part that you play in this organization, and specific duties you are measured against
- Content creation: blogs, whitepapers, testimonials, case studies, New Feature Releases
- Working with developers and SME to create content
- Within the content, utilize your knowledge of SEO/SEM and adwords to drive traffic (nice to have)
- Designing and building web pages
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) or Technology
- 3-years experience creating long-form content for technology companies, for a very technical audience
- HTML/CSS
- An exceptional attention to detail
- A willingness to take the initiative
- Excellent verbal, written, copy-writing, and presentation skills
Nice to haves
Experience developing value propositions for pragmatic and conservative enterprise-sized buyers
- SEO/SEM
- PPC, backlinks, Shopping carts, web analytics, CMSs
- A successful candidate will bring a technical background with an understanding of B2B business workflows
- Social Media tools and strategies
- Adobe Creative Cloud or ability to edit or create imagery
Sound like you? Sent your resume to rick@searchvelocity.ca now!
Please include your resume. We’re searching for local permanent resources only.
About the Company
Our client is a growing 6-year old company which has already attracted thousands 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.
Sent your resume to Rick @ SearchVelocity.ca
by Rick Stomphorst
PHP developer for an established FinTech company in Oakville. We have created a digital platform for wealth management for Canadians. Our mission is to simplify investing for Canadians to help them reach their financial dreams sooner.
We are growing. We’re building new products and have other new products in the pipeline including eventually migrating to a native cloud serverless solution. We need an additional Sr. PHP Developer (full-stack) to join our team to help us build and continue to grow.
Our goal is to find a self-starter, seasoned developer, with very good communications skills who can contribute to our best practices. Someone with a successful track record of developing and delivering scalable, responsive, secure, multi-tenant SaaS projects, both individually and as a team member (hint: showcase your past projects at the interview – bring them with you!).
Perks
- Free financial advice and no fees on your investments – a benefit that will pay off for decades
- Benefits and RSP matching start on day-one
- Flex hours outside of core 10-3
- Perkopolis subscription
- … and more
Key Responsibilities
The part that you play in this organization, and specific duties you are measured against
- Full-stack development including research and analysis, requirements review and gathering, design, impact analysis, estimating, unit testing, internal documentation and maintenance
- Planning out sprints while identifying and assisting in mitigating technical, schedule, and other project risks
- Consuming APIs. API development (potentially if this is something that interests you)
- Occasional Level-3 support, defect investigation and resolution
- Integration with backend Financial Systems
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
- PHP experience – 5+ years
- GUI – Expert level – Must have
- .NET / C# – 3 years – Very nice to have
- 5+ years MySQL or MSSQL
- CMS experience, preferably with WordPress
- HTML/CSS, Bootstrap, Restful APIs, Selenium
- Strong in security for web applications
- Git, or similar open source code control systems
- Agile Scrum environment
- Windows OS
- 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
Nice to Have
- Fintech experience
- AngularJS or other JavaScript-based front-end web frameworks
- AWS or Azure Cloud experience
- Slack & Jira
- Sharepoint and Sharepoint API
- Devops experience
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
An established and growing FinTech company in Oakville. We have created a digital platform for wealth management for Canadians. Our mission is to simplify investing for Canadians to help them reach their financial dreams sooner.
by Rick Stomphorst
About the Job
The purpose of this role and why this role exists.
- We continue to grow and are adding a Visual Designer to our team. We’re searching for a self-starter who has a passion for visual brand development coupled with UX/UI design
- You will be leading visual branding exercises (logo design, theme design, etc.) AND designing engaging user experiences for our client’s products
- We need a client-facing professional who factors in the “big picture” view rather than work based on tickets. We need someone who brings highly creative ideas to visual design engagements with our clients and has a thorough understanding of user-centered design methodologies
- You will have the freedom to try new things, get creative, and leverage your highly effective, results-driven approach to visual branding, logo design, theme design, colour palette selection and UX/UI design
Perks
Our work environment
- Partial work from home
- Flex hours
- Casual, yet professional environment
Top Responsibilities
The part that you play in this organization, and specific duties you are measured against
- Visual branding: logo design, theme design, colour palette selection, application layout
- Own the UX design for every project assigned to you. New projects appear regularly
- Interview clients and stakeholders during discovery sessions and extract their ideas and vision for visual branding, and web/mobile digital products to create the best user experience possible
- Present digital creatives to client and iterate on them as feedback dictates
- Create web/mobile style guides including but not limited to color palettes, typography, component (e.g. form elements) look & feel
- Design wireframes, visual design, mockups, user workflows and experiences
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 visual design experience
- 3-years relevant experience designing SaaS software applications (web and mobile)
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (verbal, written, presentation)
- Strong visual eye for typography and visual layout
- Proficiency with design and prototyping tools such as Sketch, InVision and/or other software that could be adopted into existing processes
Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline (Visual design, UX design, psychology)
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 @ SearchVelocity.ca, Subject: UX/Graphic Designer
Have a canned cover letter? Delete it. Tell us why you’re perfect for this opportunity and you’re virtually guaranteed an interview.
