Vacancies: 1

At HALIGHT, the Product Owner is responsible for the coordination, prioritization and acceptance of features generated by product teams to maximize the value of work.

As Product Owner, you will collaborate with clients, internal business stakeholders and development teams to ideate creative solutions that meet both client and market needs. You should be able to elicit the customer’s root problems, help customers understand a business value and work with cross-functional teams to manage product releases. Your effort is important for the company as you will need to deliver product not just according to users, but the product that helps make our company vision reality. The Product Owner reports to the Portfolio Manager.

What You’ll Do:

• Serve as the voice of the client; owns the product backlog
• Work with internal stakeholders to analyze the needs and align product backlog to strategic goals
• Develop and work with product teams to refine and estimate backlog items (initiatives/epic/user stories) that guide agile product teams
• Solve product related problems, make decisions, complete trade-off analysis to stay on track towards business deliverable commitments
• Draft key objectives and results, strategies and apply the data for the product to make business decisions
• Possess a fundamental understanding of end-to-end customer experience integration and dependencies
• Collaborate with stakeholders during the visioning and concept development of a product
• Accountable for the created product(s), delivering in the product model and communicating the product needs with business partners
• Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with a maximum value that are aligned with product strategy
• Identifies and help the client understand the business model, value and value proposition
• Develop and maintain an appropriately prioritized backlog of user stories for implementation
• Act as an ambassador for the product internally and externally and as the primary contact for queries related to the product
• Develop appropriately detailed specifications for the product features so they are clearly understood by the development teams
• Represents team in front of stakeholders, clients or users
• Work closely with portfolio manager to create a product that fits the company portfolio

What You Bring:

• Post-secondary education in Computer Science, or similar Post-secondary education in Computer Science, or similar
• Strategic and creative thinker
• Experience managing stakeholders and their expectations
• Understanding and experience with Agile methodologies is an asset
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams to deliver on a common goal
• Interpersonal skills and developing relationships with team members and clients
• Experience with a definition of minimum marketable features and minimum viable products; knows how to define and articulate key milestones within a product backlog
• Outstanding communication, and presentation skills
• Organizational and time management skills
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Highly disciplined with attention to detail
• Overall understanding of technologies used in the product

Vacancies: 1

At HALIGHT, the Product Owner is responsible for the coordination, prioritization and acceptance of features generated by product teams to maximize the value of work.

As Product Owner, you will collaborate with clients, internal business stakeholders and development teams to ideate creative solutions that meet both client and market needs. You should be able to elicit the customer’s root problems, help customers understand a business value and work with cross-functional teams to manage product releases. Your effort is important for the company as you will need to deliver product not just according to users, but the product that helps make our company vision reality. The Product Owner reports to the Portfolio Manager.

*Please note that this is a 12 month contract position with the possibility for a contract extension*

What You’ll Do:

• Serve as the voice of the client; owns the product backlog
• Work with internal stakeholders to analyze the needs and align product backlog to strategic goals
• Develop and work with product teams to refine and estimate backlog items (initiatives/epic/user stories) that guide agile product teams
• Solve product related problems, make decisions, complete trade-off analysis to stay on track towards business deliverable commitments
• Draft key objectives and results, strategies and apply the data for the product to make business decisions
• Possess a fundamental understanding of end-to-end customer experience integration and dependencies
• Collaborate with stakeholders during the visioning and concept development of a product
• Accountable for the created product(s), delivering in the product model and communicating the product needs with business partners
• Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with a maximum value that are aligned with product strategy
• Identifies and help the client understand the business model, value and value proposition
• Develop and maintain an appropriately prioritized backlog of user stories for implementation
• Act as an ambassador for the product internally and externally and as the primary contact for queries related to the product
• Develop appropriately detailed specifications for the product features so they are clearly understood by the development teams
• Represents team in front of stakeholders, clients or users
• Work closely with portfolio manager to create a product that fits the company portfolio

What You Bring:

• Post-secondary education in Computer Science, or similar Post-secondary education in Computer Science, or similar
• Strategic and creative thinker
• Experience managing stakeholders and their expectations
• Understanding and experience with Agile methodologies is an asset
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams to deliver on a common goal
• Interpersonal skills and developing relationships with team members and clients
• Experience with a definition of minimum marketable features and minimum viable products; knows how to define and articulate key milestones within a product backlog
• Outstanding communication, and presentation skills
• Organizational and time management skills
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Highly disciplined with attention to detail
• Overall understanding of technologies used in the product

Vacancies: 1

The Application Security Engineer is responsible for securing HALIGHT’s data, systems, and applications. They ensure that the organization’s applications and services are implemented with high standards and are secure. The Application Security Engineer leads efforts for securing code, including code reviews, project security reviews, penetration testing support, and application scanning processes throughout the stages of the software development lifecycle.

The Application Security Engineer works as a part of the Security Engineering Team and helps to guarantee that all HALIGHT’s software and infrastructure is designed and implemented with best security practices in mind. They collaborate with other IT professionals to harden its systems and applications to better protect user data. The Application Security Engineer works closely with developers to help improve the security of their products and services, as well as designing technical solutions to address security weaknesses, and working with the relevant stakeholders to implement them. The Application Security Engineer is also responsible for building systems at scale to prevent classes of vulnerabilities and rendering support with security incident response as required.

What You’ll Do:

• Assist in evolving HALIGHT’s application security functions and services
• Set up security tools, Sonar Cube, etc.
• Consistently uphold code reviews across all code platforms
• Take charge of bug intake and remediation process
• Provide leadership for application vulnerability scanning and penetration testing remediation
• Manage integration with vulnerability check tools such as Static Code Analysis and Dynamic Code Analysis tools
• Discover security exposures and develop mitigation plans, and report and fix the technical debt
• Responsible for application security activities
• Represent HALIGHT in Information Security programs
• Actively participate in security initiatives with minimum supervision
• Function as a SME for security solutions within the organization’s platform
• Provide guidance to Technical Leads and Software Developers
• Responsible for troubleshooting production issues and performance bottlenecks
• Follow security best practices while performing tasks
• Work closely with cross-functional teams (Architecture, Development, Solutions) while carrying out daily tasks
• Contribute to requirement gathering with product teams
• Work together with cross-business unit teams on executing standardized security solutions and integrations
• Partake in inner sourcing initiatives within the organization

What You Bring:

• Post-secondary education in Engineering or Computer Science. Specialization in information security, telecom, information systems and network security, security, information encryption or coding is considered an asset
• 3-5 years of proven work experience as a Application Security Engineer, or similar
• Familiarity with current industry security scanning tools
• Extensive knowledge of how application security risks can be detected, exploited, and mitigated
• A self-starter with the ability to work independently and cross-functionally
• In-depth understanding of internet and application protocols, network architectures, and security technologies
• Mobile application and device security knowledge
• Experience communicating with multiple levels of stakeholders
• Proven track record of institutionalizing leading practice methodologies and processes

Vacancies:1

At HALIGHT, the DevOps Release Engineer will create and maintain our build system to ensure the frameworks have tools to make software deployment easier. The DevOps release engineer will design scripts and tools used for software development. The DevOps Release Engineer is a member of the shared services team who will seamlessly integrate updates of the software using continuous delivery pipelines, making our updates faster

What You’ll Do:

• Utilizing the Linux or Unix operating system throughout the build process
• Reviewing code for the software build architecture
• Creating plugins that will improve the automation process
• Researching solutions to automation issues and integrating these into the system
• Deploying code to servers
• Deploying configuration changes
• Supporting test teams with issues
• Operations support team as required
• Maintaining deployment scripts and tools
• Help with cadence on release and deployment

What You Bring:

• B.Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent
• 1-3 years experience with PHP
• Experience working with Linux
• Experience with Jenkins, Ansible, and Apache web server
• Familiarity and understanding of AWS would be an asset
• Familiarity with Agile development would be an asset
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to work well independently as well as in a team

Vacancies: 4

At HALIGHT, The Senior Software Developer is responsible for supporting the development of quality e-Learning solutions across our SAAS products. The Senior Software Developer works in agile teams alongside Front and Back End Developers, Technical Leads, Graphic Designers, Product Owners and User Experience Designers to ensure all elements of product creation are consistent.

What You’ll Do:

• Design and maintain a high-performance SPA with a thin server architecture
• Partner closely with cross-functional teams to deliver a consistently great user experience and product
• Produce written technical documentation as an effective means of communication with internal and external stakeholders
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners, UI/UX Designers and other cross-functional teams, owning a large part of the development process from problem solving
• to deployment
• Maintain HALIGHT standards and best practices to bring consistency to our codebase
• Deploy high quality, scalable and robust solutions within sprint cadences
• Gather requirements and design new software features
• Use standard computer science algorithms and data structures to solve technical problems
• Act as a mentor to junior Software Developers
• Coordinate between Development and other internal teams to increase product stability
• Maintain and refactor existing automation approaches to reduce errors and toil
• Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines
• Deploy product updates to production environments
• Investigate production issues

What You Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of relevant software development experience
• Deep understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and related web technologies (including node.js on AWS Lambda)
• Familiarity with mobile and desktop UI/UX design patterns and accessibility standards
• Deep understanding of React.js component architecture, data binding and virtual DOM
• Experience creating responsive, intuitive interfaces
• Self-starter committed to disciplined and top-quality software development
• Exceptional attention to details and ability to logically approach a problem and break it down into manageable tasks
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work cross-functionally
• Advocate for innovation and continuous improvement of software
• Excited by constantly learning new technologies & skillsets
• Strong knowledge of the modern JavaScript ecosystem and best practices
• Ability to work quickly to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment

Vacancies: 1

At HALIGHT, the Senior Data Analyst extracts, examines, redirects, and breaks down complex data sets to draw conclusions from them. The Senior Data Analyst supports clients and internal teams by extracting data in such a way that tells a story and presents this data to both internal and external teams. The Senior Data Analyst will draw conclusions from analysis that will paint a holistic picture of the problems we are solving.

The Senior Data Analyst is curious by nature and has a drive for innovation, a keen eye for detail and a complex understanding of data analysis tools and databases. The Senior Data Analyst must have exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to think outside the box to support data-driven business decisions. The Senior Data Analyst reports to the Data Architect.

What You’ll Do:

• Generate impactful visuals to present to stakeholders that will aid the team to make data-driven decisions
• Provide technical assistance, guidance, and direction in terms of data analysis and modeling for internal and external stakeholders
• Organize data in safe, secure, and accessible locations
• Abide by HALIGHT security and confidentiality best practices
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to interpret the client’s needs and work with the Data team on the data analytics package
• Involvement in post-mortems and QBR’s
• Analyze data and recommend alternatives and options for solutions
• Determine how data is being accessed and utilized to advocate use cases on behalf of the client
• Perform proactive ad hoc analysis and present findings
• Identify existing gaps in data analysis and improve data extraction methods
• Optimize and leverage internal tools (QuickSight and Power BI)
• Develop and author new BI Dashboards

What You Bring:

• Post secondary education in Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics, Information Management, or another related field
• 5-8 years experience as a Data Analyst at an intermediate or senior level
• Intermediate SQL development skills
• Ability to leverage data analysis tools such as QuickSight and Power BI
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, interpret, and disseminate information with attention to detail and accuracy
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
• Innovative mindset with a passion for data and technology
• Ability to translate business requirements to non-technical terms
• Excellent time management; ability to respond to stakeholder requests in timely manner
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally in an agile environment