Intellex Systems Group - Premier IT Contract/Permanent Recruiting & Placement Services

	COTS Project Manager – Our client is looking for a senior consultant to perform an evaluation of existing custom off the shelf (COTS) applications to an existing enterprise system which was developed in the 90's. The COTS products to be evaluated are known and the Consultant will be expected to compare cost of ownership including expected maintenance costs, licensing costs, scalability etc. The prime deliverable in this exercise will be a written report outlining all findings in detail. An evaluation of other custom built applications in other jurisdictions may also form a part of this role. Requirements: · At least 15 years in information technology with proven experience performing software evaluations, writing summary reports, interviewing business users and reporting at an executive level; · Professional experience working with large, enterprise applications such as financial, accounting or ERP systems; · Must have exceptional written and spoken communication skills; · Able to work independently and manage timelines and stakeholder expectations. · Knowledge of assessment and/or taxation packages, terminology or concepts would be considered an asset. Start Date: Mid July, 2008 Duration: Up to 6 months Location: Edmonton, AB Posting #: EC8627ADCOTSPM Rate: 80 – 83 / hr
	Technical Integration and Deployment Coordinator The Technical Integration and Deployment Coordinators maintain proper configuration management processes and standards. They automate and supports the daily application builds (compile and deploy .Net code) and assists in problem resolution. Technical Integration and Deployment Coordinators at the Program level work with the Enterprise Deployment Team to coordinate migrations to the enterprise managed environments. Responsibilities include: ¨ Coordinate software and hardware integration for projects. ¨ Coordinate software and hardware deployment for projects. ¨ Support / assist the enterprise and project teams in troubleshooting integrated services issues. ¨ Support / assist the enterprise and project teams in troubleshooting software compatibility issues. ¨ Support / assist the enterprise and project teams in resolving hardware / software compatibility dependencies. ¨ Support / assist the enterprise and project teams in defining integration procedures and standards. ¨ Daily monitoring of all server software for proper operation; ¨ Software assembly and compilation (Build process) including automation and configuration management; ¨ Maintaining and reporting on the Build Schedule to development teams, test teams and project management teams; ¨ Participation as part of the implementation team; ¨ Resolution of configuration and deployment issues. Mandatory Experience/Skill Criteria: ¨ Experience working in a data processing environment - six (6) years. ¨ Experience working in a SQL Server 2000/2005 environment - two (2) years. ¨ Experience working in an N-tier environment – two (2) years. ¨ Experience working in a distributed environment and basic knowledge of networking – one (1) year. Desirable Experience/Skill Criteria: ¨ Experience working as an Integration and Deployment coordinator. ¨ Experience using VB.Net ¨ Experience using .NET framework ¨ Experience using COM+, COM, DCOM ¨ Experience working in an Oracle environment. ¨ Experience solving technical problems through intense research. ¨ Experience working on enterprise integrated solutions in an enterprise architecture ¨ Experience working with Web Services ¨ Experience configuring servers and common Microsoft server components Start Date: Various Duration: Various (up till June, 2011) Location: Edmonton, Alberta Posting #: EC8714MDTECHDEPLOY
	Technical Team Leader Technical Team Leaders are responsible for managing business analysts, solution testers, trainers and/or application maintenance teams; coordinating the delivery of these services across multiple projects and/or programs. Under the leadership of the Technical Team Leader the technical resources they are leading will perform activities necessary to provide solutions that meet client needs. These activities include documenting business requirements, documenting business processes and user to system interactions, acquiring approvals, testing developed solutions, performing quality assurance, testing deployments, and developing and delivering training materials. Technical Team Leaders may be assigned application maintenance responsibilities; providing leadership to a team of technical resources responsible for application changes, enhancements and production control. Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to the following, depending on project assignment: ¨ Establishing and utilizing control processes including schedule management, status reporting, issues, risk, and change management. ¨ Assigning and managing team resources across multiple projects. ¨ Ensuring requirements have been gathered and clearly communicated. ¨ Preparing and executing project plans. ¨ Monitoring project activities and taking corrective action to ensure project schedules are being met. ¨ Assigning tasks and managing project team members, mentoring and providing direction as required. ¨ Obtain approval for all work assignments and notifying project and program managers or designates of issues, risks and non-compliance with completion criteria or timelines, as appropriate. ¨ Ensuring appropriate testing and other quality assurance measures are being pursued. ¨ Ensuring appropriate training materials are being produced and delivering effective training. ¨ Producing deliverables within specified quality standards. ¨ Managing changes within a release management framework. ¨ Tracking and providing monthly reporting of time expended on assigned tasks. ¨ Communicating project status. ¨ Participation in meetings and workshops. Mandatory Experience/Skill Criteria: ¨ Experience working in a data processing environment – Eight (8) years ¨ Experience working in technical management or technical delivery management role – Five (5) years ¨ Experience leading projects spanning the full systems development life cycle– Two (2) years Desirable Experience/Skill Criteria: ¨ Experience delivering solutions within an enterprise architecture environment. ¨ Experience with leading a team that delivers solutions across multiple technical environments. ¨ Experience facilitating requirements or design work sessions ¨ Experience leading a team of Business Analysts ¨ Experience leading a team of Solution Testers ¨ Experience leading a team of Trainers ¨ Experience leading an application maintenance team 8. Experience as a Business Analyst ¨ Experience as a Solution Tester ¨ Experience as a Trainer ¨ Experience with N-Tier and COM/COM+ solutions ¨ Experience with ASP.NET solutions ¨ Experience with WinForm solutions ¨ Experience with MS-SQL database solutions ¨ Experience with Oracle database solutions ¨ Experience with Powerhouse solutions ¨ Experience using MS-Project or other project management tools ¨ Experience with Rational tools suite (identify specific tools used) ¨ Experience with Agile methodology ¨ Experience with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Edition Start Date: Various Duration: Various (up till June, 2011) Location: Edmonton, Alberta Posting #: EC8714MDTEAMLEAD
	Technical Delivery Manager Under the leadership of the Technical Delivery Manager; project teams will perform project activities necessary to document business requirements, model and design information technology and management solutions to address the business requirements, transform designs into completed components that meet client requirements and integrate and test the completed components to ensure suitability and usability. The Technical Delivery Manager determines appropriate technical approaches that align with the enterprise architecture, communicates the approved approaches to the developers and provides guidance on the designs and construction to ensure solutions address business requirements through the effective and appropriate use of technology, methods and processes. The Technical Delivery Manager will have the following responsibilities: ¨ Management and administration: project plans, resource plans, timelines, status reports, progress reports, release planning. ¨ Establishing and operating control processes including schedule management, status reporting, issues, risk, and change management ¨ Project coordination of project plans with other Client projects and/or enterprise components for integration purposes. ¨ Closely monitoring development activities and taking corrective action to ensure project schedules are being met. ¨ Resolution of issues, including: ¨ Investigation of technical issues ¨ Raising Change Requests, Decision Requests and Information Requests ¨ Participation in Client SWAT teams as required ¨ Ensure escalation and/or resolution in a timely manner. ¨ Management and coordination of approvals and sign-off of deliverables by clients. ¨ Management recommendations and directions for modifications and changes to the solution identified through requested enhancements, change requests, defects, new initiatives or enterprise architecture direction. ¨ Management, coordination and monitoring of team resources ensuring work assignments are completed to approved criteria ¨ Assigning work and managing development team members, mentoring and providing direction as required. ¨ Delivering project deliverables within specified quality standards ¨ Developing the technical project plan and monitoring execution of delivery ¨ Input into the development of the deployment plan ¨ In consultation with Client staff, participate in resource acquisition and allocation as required to meet delivery solution timelines or requirements. ¨ Reviewing team deliverables to ensure technical component meet Client standards and practices. ¨ Escalating issues and risks, as appropriate. ¨ Communicating project status and issues, as appropriate. ¨ Working within a multi-vendor/staff environment. ¨ Working within PMO governance structure and communicating with many types of audiences including other project managers, program managers, technical and business staff, management and steering committees. ¨ Delivering tested components that meet business requirements, functional and non-functional test cases. ¨ Delivering technical and user documentation of the completed components ¨ Support of solution components through User Acceptance Testing dealing with defects or client inquires. ¨ Support implementation and integration of solution into production environment ¨ Identification of obstacles and required decisions identified early to ensure that minimal impact to overall delivery of solution. Mandatory Experience/Skill Criteria: ¨ Experience working in a data processing environment – 5 years ¨ Experience working in technical management or technical delivery role – 5 years Desirable Experience/Skill Criteria: ¨ Experience leading projects spanning the full systems development life cycle ¨ Experience delivering solutions within an Enterprise Architecture Environment. ¨ Experience leading a team that delivers solutions across multiple technical environments. ¨ Experience facilitating requirements or design work sessions. ¨ Experience in Software application development ¨ Experience in data migrations/conversion ¨ Experience in creating reusable, scalable components/services. ¨ Experience in creating data warehouse, data mining or management reporting solutions ¨ Experience in reporting data store (RDS) Solutions ¨ Experience in creating business intelligence solutions using Cognos business intelligence technologies ¨ Experience in creating business intelligence solutions with Microsoft business intelligence technologies. ¨ Experience in creating DataStage or equivalent ETL tool solutions. ¨ Experience in creating N-Tier and COM/COM+ solutions. ¨ Experience in creating ASP. Net Solutions. ¨ Experience in creating WinForm Solutions. ¨ Experience in creating MS-SQL database solutions. ¨ Experience with Agile methodology. ¨ Experience with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Edition. ¨ Experience in creating Oracle database solutions. ¨ Experience using MS-Project or other project Management tools. ¨ Experience with Rational tools suite (identify specific tools used) ¨ Experience in delivering large scale visible distributed systems on time ¨ Experience in architecting large scale distributed Enterprise systems ¨ Experience with application architecture & design ¨ Experience working on large finance systems ¨ Experience in creating data models ¨ Experience supervising various levels of team members ¨ Experience utilizing and enforcing source control ¨ Experience with an automated document management tool Start Date: Various Duration: Various (up till June, 2011) Location: Edmonton, Alberta Posting #: EC8714MDTECHDELMGR
	Senior Management Advisor, Strategist and Planner The Senior Management Consultant will work with Senior and Executive Management to: ¨ Identify and advance information and communications technology strategies that advance and/or support our core business in strategic areas ¨ Facilitate collaboration of public sector, private industry, post-secondary providers and the research community to identify and advance opportunities to improve existing services and/or identify, develop and advance opportunities for new and innovative information and technology related services. ¨ Facilitate and manage the challenges associated with innovation and change. ¨ The breadth of responsibilities associated with the Senior Management Consultant role span strategic planning, project definition, Program communication, providing leadership to project teams, facilitating strategic partnerships with external stakeholders, conducting business process reengineering activities, and facilitating executive discussions on strategic matters. Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to the following: ¨ Leading the development of new strategies ¨ Conducting SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analysis and defining strategies accordingly ¨ Identifying benefits and conducting risk analysis for each identified opportunity ¨ Identifying and investigating problems related to strategy, policy, markets, organization and processes ¨ Consulting with both internal and external stakeholders at all levels including Senior Executives, industry leaders, researchers and advanced education providers ¨ Developing business plans, program plans, strategic plans, tactical plans, operational plans, communication plans, and road-maps that will guide the Client, researchers and industry partners. ¨ Establishing and operating/implementing control processes throughout the business process ¨ Providing expertise in change management at the enterprise level from the top down ¨ Developing business architecture that shows how components, stakeholders and processes interrelate ¨ Developing executive presentations and presenting to senior executives ¨ Developing executive summaries and briefings ¨ Facilitating workshops with senior executives in government, industry, the post-secondary system and research community ¨ Facilitating negotiations for strategic partnerships ¨ Defining and implementing new technologies and related services ¨ Developing and executing marketing strategies ¨ Developing and executing communication plans ¨ Escalating issues and risks, as appropriate ¨ Communicating project status and issues, as appropriate ¨ Assembling and analyzing all available data, followed by presentations to executives at all levels ¨ Interviewing the client's employees, management team and other stakeholders ¨ Ensuring the client receives the assistance needed to implement the recommendations Mandatory Experience/Skill Criteria: ¨ Experience developing information and communications technology strategies - 8 years ¨ Experience implementing information and communications technology strategies –8 years ¨ Written and oral communication and presentation skills in an executive business environment using the English language. – 3 years Desirable Experience/Skill Criteria: ¨ Experience facilitating collaboration of public sector, private industry and the research community to identify and advance opportunities to improve existing services and/or to identify, develop and advance opportunities for new and innovative information and technology related services. ¨ Experience in conducting SWOT Analysis (Strengths, Weakness, Opportunity and Threats), and formulating strategies based on the analysis. ¨ Experience developing business plans, program plans, strategic plans, tactical plans, operational plans, communication plans, and road-maps. ¨ Experience in business process management activities. ¨ Experience working in a project management role. ¨ Experience in business process reengineering. ¨ Experience working on multiple projects at one time. ¨ Experience in utilizing Balanced Scorecard. ¨ Experience in assisting senior management in deriving vision and mission statements. ¨ Experience in performing cost-benefit analysis. ¨ Experience in establishing and/or operating the following project control processes on multiple projects: schedule management, issue management, risk management, status reporting, change control, budget/effort management. ¨