Who is Ideaca?
Ideaca, listed as one of the Best Workplaces in Canada by the Great Place to Work® Institute Canada, prides itself on the philosophy of ‘good people, doing good work’. We employ entrepreneurial people with the creativity, drive and focus to get the job done. The Ideaca team consists of enthusiastic individuals who are open to new ideas, respectful of others and hard working – but most of all, like to have fun. We have a culture built on respect and many of our customers comment on how friendly, professional and ‘can-do’ Ideaca team members are. Ideaca’s environment allows you to grow personally and professionally at the same time.
Vancouver Opportunities
- Business Intelligence Project Manager / Business Analyst Consultant
- Data Integration Architecht / Lead Consultant
- SAP Business Objects Analyst / Developer
- Senior Data / BI Architect / Lead Consultant
- SAP Pre-Sales Consultant
- Dynamics AX Financial Consultant
- New Grad - Consultant, Application Development
- New Grad - Consultant, Business Applications
- New Grad - Data Developer, Consultant
Ideaca thanks all applicants for their interest, but we will only contact you if we are interested in discussing your candidacy further. No phone calls or Agencies please.
Business Intelligence Project Manager / Business Analyst Consultant
Responsibilities:
As an Ideaca Business Intelligence / Data Warehouse savvy Project Manager / Business Analyst Consultant based in our Vancouver office, you will be responsible for helping customers strategize, design and implement effective business intelligence / data warehouse solutions that add value for our clients. You will sometimes operate in a full-time Project Manager capacity and at other times will act in a Senior Business Analyst / Project Manager capacity. Your role will include business requirements definition, designing and developing the business intelligence solution, and training customer resources to successfully adopt and leverage the business solution in supporting their business operations. You will also participate in the sales cycle, specifically assisting in the preparation of demos and writing proposals. Hence, you will be involved in leading projects from initiation through to project close-out.
Required qualifications include:
- Successful completion of at least 3 Bi / Data Warehouse projects from initiation through to closeout
- Strong desire for varying project experiences and to leverage your skills and to learn from each new project
- Ability to communicate effectively with senior management (including business and IT director level personnel) and customers/vendors
- A balance of business experience and people management skills with strong technology knowledge
- Proven ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment and to quickly respond to new project challenges and positively adjust resource and project plans to ensure success
- Capable of proactively identifying conflicts or issues and working with the appropriate people to analyze and resolve the issues
- Have the ability to plan, delegate and manage tasks, issues, their priorities and interdependencies
- Minimum 5 to 10 years of experience as a business/systems analyst successfully leading full life-cycle business process and /or business intelligence / information delivery teams to the client's satisfaction
- Detailed orientation and attention to delivering comprehensive solutions aligned with business objectives
- Successful completion of a post-secondary degree/diploma in Business, Computer Science or a related discipline
- Applied experience and willingness to work in a spectrum of business analysis / project implementation models – ranging from Iterative to Waterfall to hybrid approaches
- Applied experience with a spectrum of project management principles, practices and methodologies e.g. RUP, Agile, PMI PMBOK, etc.
- Strong understanding of the Kimball and Inmon approaches and how to engage clients well with adapting and applying the most appropriate approach to each client’s project
As our ideal candidate, you are:
- Highly sought after as a “:go to” delivery person to ensure successfully delivery of business savvy business intelligence solutions
- Proven at cementing creative partnerships with all levels of project stakeholders
- A proven leader with the ability to lead BI / Data Warehouse projects in a project manager role with teams of 5, or more, full-time members including client, consulting and third-party project staff
- Able to travel domestically (especially within B.C. and Alberta) and internationally as required
To apply, please click here and upload an updated copy of your resume to the position that you would like to be considered for. We thank you for your interest in Ideaca; however, only applicants being considered will be contacted
Data Integration Architecht / Lead Consultant
As an Ideaca Data Integration Architect / Lead Consultant based in our Vancouver office, you will be responsible for helping our clients strategize, design and implement effective enterprise data integration solutions. You will actively lead or participate in all phases of the project life cycle, including: analyzing, designing, modeling, testing and deploying suitable and appropriate business oriented solutions.
Required Skills:
- Excellent communication skills including effective listening skills.
- Proven ability to build and maintain strong and positive client and peer relationships.
- Confident presence and ability to interact with client executives.
- Excellent analytical skills and problem resolution skills.
- A minimum of 5 years of proven experience leading Data Integration technical project implementation teams including demonstration of strong team work and leadership abilities.
- Defining data standards and data models for data integration architectures.
- Data analysis concentrating on the understanding of business requirements with respect to data and information.
- Data integration to deliver cohesive business information flow. Integration includes all of the activities necessary to acquire data from sources, and to transform and cleanse the data. Data integration includes concepts and skills for source data analysis and source qualification, data profiling, source/target mapping, data cleansing and transformation, and ETL development.
- Experience in applying database methodologies and best practices in a client environment.
- Strong understanding of, and adherence to, iterative system development processes.
- Successful completion of a post-secondary degree or diploma in Computer Science or a related discipline.
As our ideal candidate, you have:
- Minimum 5 - 10 years of proven data integration experience involving transactional systems and/or data warehousing.
- Experience using data integration middleware such as Microsoft BizTalk Server, TIBCO, or WebSphere.
- An openness for domestic and/or international travel as required (primarily within British Columbia and Alberta).
To apply, please click here and upload an updated copy of your resume to the position that you would like to be considered for. We thank you for your interest in Ideaca; however, only applicants being considered will be contacted
SAP Business Objects Analyst / Developer
As an Ideaca SAP Business Objects Consultant based in our Vancouver office, you will be responsible for helping customers strategize, design and implement effective business intelligence / data warehouse solutions. In your role, you will leverage your talents to help position and architect BI solutions using the SAP Business Objects product suite. You will actively lead or participate in all phases of the project life cycle, including: analyzing, designing, modeling, testing and deploying suitable and appropriate business oriented solutions.
Required Skills:
- Strong communication skills including effective listening skills.
- Defining data standards and data models for warehouse architectures.
- Business analytics focusing on the effective use of data and information to drive positive business actions. This area includes both business and technical topics, including concepts of performance management, definition and delivery of business metrics, data visualization, and deployment and use of technology solutions such as OLAP, dashboards, scorecards and analytic applications.
- Data analysis concentrating on the understanding of business requirements with respect to data and information.
- Data design focusing on translating business information into data structures with core skills to include information needs analysis, specification of business metrics, and data modeling.
- Solid understanding of data warehousing concepts, architectures, and processes – minimum 5 years of experience.
- Data integration to deliver business intelligence solutions. Integration includes all of the activities necessary to acquire data from sources, and to transform and cleanse the data. Data integration includes concepts and skills for source data analysis and source qualification, data profiling, source/target mapping, data cleansing and transformation, and ETL development.
- Minimum 2 years of proven experience analyzing, designing, constructing and automating ETL processes using tools such as Business Objects Data Services, Informatica or Microsoft SSIS.
- Experience with OLAP implementations using SAP Business Objects and/or Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services.
- Minimum of 3 years of analytics and reporting experience with Crystal Reports and/or SAP Business Objects reporting tools.
- Experience in applying database methodologies and best practices in a client environment.
- Strong understanding of, and adherence to, iterative system development processes.
- Proven ability to build and maintain strong and positive client and peer relationships.
- Successful completion of a post-secondary degree or diploma in Computer Science or a related discipline.
- SAP Business Objects training and certification.
As our ideal candidate, you have:
- Experience with designing, developing and implementing Business Objects Enterprise or Edge solutions sourced from custom solutions or ERP packages (including but not limited to SAP, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Oracle, Lawson, Great Plains, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft Dynamics AX).
- Analytics and reporting experience using Crystal Interactive, Business Objects Web Intelligence and Analysis.
- Experience designing and implementing dashboards and presentation layers using tools such as Xcelsius or PerformancePoint.
- Some experience working on ASP.NET enterprise applications, working with ADO.NET against a SQL server or Oracle databases.
- Proven capabilities in evaluating new techniques and utilizing the appropriate elements.
- Proven confidence in your ability to manage tasks, issues, their priorities and interdependencies.
- An openness for domestic and/or international travel as required (primarily within British Columbia and Alberta).
To apply, please click here and upload an updated copy of your resume to the position that you would like to be considered for. We thank you for your interest in Ideaca; however, only applicants being considered will be contacted
Senior Data / BI Architect / Lead Consultant
As a senior Ideaca Data / Business Intelligence Solution Architect Consultant based in our Vancouver office, you will be responsible for helping our clients strategize, design and implement effective business intelligence / data warehouse solutions. You will actively lead or participate in all phases of the project life cycle, including: analyzing, designing, modeling, testing and deploying suitable and appropriate business oriented solutions.
Required Skills:
- Excellent communication skills including effective listening skills.
- Proven ability to build and maintain strong and positive client and peer relationships.
- Confident presence and ability to interact with client executives.
- Excellent analytical skills and problem resolution skills.
- A minimum of 5 years of proven experience leading Data / BI technical project implementation teams including demonstration of strong team work and leadership abilities.
- Defining data standards and data models for warehouse architectures.
- Business analytics focusing on the effective use of data and information to drive positive business actions. This area includes both business and technical topics, including concepts of performance management, definition and delivery of business metrics, data visualization, and deployment and use of technology solutions such as OLAP, dashboards, scorecards and analytic applications.
- Data analysis concentrating on the understanding of business requirements with respect to data and information.
- Data design focusing on translating business information into data structures with core skills to include information needs analysis, specification of business metrics, and data modeling.
- Solid understanding of data warehousing concepts, architectures, and processes – minimum 5 years of experience.
- Data integration to deliver business intelligence solutions. Integration includes all of the activities necessary to acquire data from sources, and to transform and cleanse the data. Data integration includes concepts and skills for source data analysis and source qualification, data profiling, source/target mapping, data cleansing and transformation, and ETL development.
- Experience in applying database methodologies and best practices in a client environment.
- Strong understanding of, and adherence to, iterative system development processes.
- Successful completion of a post-secondary degree or diploma in Computer Science or a related discipline.
As our ideal candidate, you have:
- Experience with designing, developing and implementing extract, load and transform (ETL) routines to populate data warehouses from custom solutions or ERP packages (including but not limited to SAP, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Oracle, Lawson, Great Plains, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft Dynamics AX).
- Experience with OLAP implementations using SAP Business Objects, Cognos or Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services.
- Minimum of 5 years of analytics and reporting experience with widely known tools such as Crystal Reports, SAP Business Objects, SQL Server Reporting Services.
- Minimum 2 years of proven experience analyzing, designing, constructing and automating ETL processes.
- Minimum 2 years of proven data integration experience involving transactional systems and/or data warehousing.
- Experience using data integration middleware such as Microsoft BizTalk Server, TIBCO, or WebSphere.
- An openness for domestic and/or international travel as required (primarily within British Columbia and Alberta).
To apply, please click here and upload an updated copy of your resume to the position that you would like to be considered for. We thank you for your interest in Ideaca; however, only applicants being considered will be contacted
SAP Pre-Sales Consultant
Ideaca is a Canadian based consulting firm with locations in Toronto, Kitchener, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver and USA. We help customers from strategy to solution through a portfolio of management consulting, advisory, implementation and support services. We have 11 years of experience doing business and in that time, have accumulated a growing list of over 350 satisfied, repeat customers. Our family of over 220 employees across the country work on delivering innovative solutions around Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Business Intelligence, Portals and Collaboration, Cloud Computing, Custom Application Development, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Application Infrastructure, Support Services.
Our people are creative and can get the job done. Ideaca has experienced phenomenal growth and has maintained a relaxed and open culture, with an emphasis on diversity and the development of our people. We aim to be the best management and IT consulting company in Canada and will do so by continuing to invest in talented and motivated people, building long term relationships with our customers and by focusing nationally.
Responsibilities:
- Identify customers’ needs and design innovative solutions in view of addressing those needs
- Lead and participate in product demonstrations
- Cooperate and collaborate with sales team to identify and nurture sales opportunities
- Contribute to business intelligence within the SAP group
- Continuously keep informed of pertinent business, IT industry and account related news to maximize effectiveness
- Obtain and maintain required technical certifications, current industry knowledge of emerging IT technologies
To be successful, you will have the following:
- Solid understanding and experience with SAP core technologies including
- Specialization and/or certifications within SAP
- Understanding of SAP Licensing models and practices
- Minimum of 5-7 years of experience within a pre-sales and/or technical services environment, demonstrating progressively more responsibilities, with history of significant accomplishments
- Strong PC-based skills, including MS Project, Visio, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint, Word
- Exceptional presentation skills
- Strong business acumen with the ability to apply that knowledge to a variety of industries
- Understanding of existing and emerging trends
- Effective interpersonal skills, with emphasis on listening, verbal and written communication capabilities
- Effective planning, organizational and project management skills
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
- Strong initiative and outstanding work ethic
- Common sense and good judgment
- Uncompromising integrity
To apply, please click here and upload an updated copy of your resume to the position that you would like to be considered for. We thank you for your interest in Ideaca; however, only applicants being considered will be contacted
Dynamics AX Financials Consultant
Responsibilities:
As an Ideaca consultant based in the Vancouver Ideaca office you will work with an exciting and diverse group of IT professionals who are truly taking advantage of new approaches to building applications. You will be responsible for gathering business requirements, working collaboratively with clients to redesign business processes to leverage the features of Dynamics AX, and to help prepare business stakeholders for the new solution. You will be responsible for configuring and customizing the Microsoft Dynamics AX (Axapta) application using the administrative and customization tools included with the product. Additionally, you will conduct acceptance testing and train client resources to successfully use Microsoft Dynamics AX. You may also participate in the sales cycle, specifically assisting in the preparation of demos and writing proposals.
Required Qualifications:
- Education in business commerce / administration and/or working towards a professional accounting designation (e.g., CMA, CGA, CA)
- Minimum 3 years experience with full life-cycle implementation of ERP solutions such as SAP, Dynamics AX, Dynamics NAV, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft or Oracle Financials
- Proven experience and strong working knowledge with a Financial suite of application systems in a business analyst role and/or business end user role
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience in ERP implementation principles, practices and methodologies
- Demonstrated capabilities in evaluating business processes and recommending improvements leveraging business application systems
- Demonstrated strong communication skills (written and verbal) including establishing and maintaining positive client and peer relationships
Ideal Candidate:
- Have a professional accounting designation (e.g., CMA, CGA, CA) or a MBA
- Proven financial process design, configuration expertise coupled with a thorough understanding of GAAP and SOX process compliance procedures
- Demonstrated capabilities in evaluating new techniques and utilizing the key elements
- Established confidence in your ability to manage tasks, issues, their priorities and interdependencies
- Are prepared for some domestic and international travel as required
To apply, please click here and upload an updated copy of your resume to the position that you would like to be considered for. We thank you for your interest in Ideaca; however, only applicants being considered will be contacted
New Grad - Consultant, Application Developer
Responsibilities:
The successful candidate will be a self-motivated individual, who can work under dynamic conditions and within deadlines. Working in a fast-paced, project-based environment, Ideaca Project Teams engage with our customers to:
- Understand their strategic objectives and business requirements
- Design solutions based on best-of-breed business applications
- Develop the solutions
- Manage the solution end-to-end from inception to end-user training and support
Required qualifications:
- Applying your understanding of software development processes to obtain and manage business and system requirements
- Using your knowledge and experience in software development and programming, to bring value to our customers by designing and developing solutions that meet their needs
- Following Ideaca’s methodi - our software implementation best practices - to achieve results for our customers
- Working closely with key customer personnel throughout the project lifecycle
- Building and maintaining positive customer and peer relationships
- Travel (domestic and international), when required
- Thriving in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
Ideal Candidate:
- Successfully completed a post-secondary degree/diploma in Business, Computer Science or a related discipline
- Prior experience with software implementation (ERP, CRM, Sharepoint)
- Hands-on experience with .net 3.5, C#, asp.net, and/or Java, PHP
To apply, please click here and upload an updated copy of your resume to the position that you would like to be considered for. We thank you for your interest in Ideaca; however, only applicants being considered will be contacted
New Grad - Business Applications, Consultant
Responsibilities:
The successful candidate will be a self-motivated individual, who can work under dynamic conditions and within deadlines. Working in a fast-paced, project-based environment, Ideaca Project Teams engage with our customers to: Understand their strategic objectives and business requirements
- Design solutions based on best-of-breed business applications
- Implement the solutions
- Manage the solution end-to-end from inception to end-user training and support
Required Qualifications:
- Applying your understanding of software implementation processes to obtain and manage business and system requirements
- Using your knowledge and experience of business process and software, bring value to our customers by designing and implementing solutions that meet their needs
- Following Ideaca’s methodi - our software implementation best practices - to achieve results for our customers
- Working closely with key customer personnel throughout the project lifecycle
- Building and maintaining positive customer and peer relationships
- Thriving in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
As our ideal candidate, you have:
- Successfully completed a post-secondary degree/diploma in Business, Computer Science or a related discipline
- Prior experience with software implementation (ERP, CRM, Sharepoint)
- Hands-on experience with .net 3.5, C#, asp.net, and/or Java, PHP
- Prepared for some domestic and international travel as required
To apply, please click here and upload an updated copy of your resume to the position that you would like to be considered for. We thank you for your interest in Ideaca; however, only applicants being considered will be contacted
New Grad - Data Developer, Consultant
Required skills:
- Desire to work with and analyze data
- Passion to learn and work with new business areas and leading technology
- Reporting experience – ideally with Crystal Reports, Business Objects, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), or SAS
- Understanding of data warehousing concepts, architectures, and processes
- Education in database methodologies
- Good understanding of, and adherence to, iterative system development processes.
- Understand how to build and maintain positive peer relationships and enjoy team work
- Successful completion of a post-secondary degree or diploma in Computer Science or a related discipline with a management information systems component
As our ideal candidate, you have:
- Experience with business application data assessments, business data migrations and ETL implementations using Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services or other data analysis and mapping tools
- Experience with data quality assessments, data mapping, or data conversion
- Experience with designing, developing and implementing extract, load and transform (ETL) routines to transform business application data from enterprise applications including but not limited to SAP, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Oracle, Lawson, Great Plains, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, and Microsoft Dynamics AX
- Proven confidence in your ability to manage tasks, issues, their priorities and interdependencies.
- An openness for domestic and/or international travel as required (primarily within British Columbia and Alberta)
To apply, please click here and upload an updated copy of your resume to the position that you would like to be considered for. We thank you for your interest in Ideaca; however, only applicants being considered will be contacted
