Calgary Opportunities

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 please.

ERP Finance Consultant

As a member of an implementation project team, you will be responsible for leading design activities around finance and accounting processes, following industry, product and compliance best-practices. Your focus on driving business benefits and value coupled with your expertise in the Microsoft Dynamics AX (Axapta) application will allow you to recommend process and system designs that optimally leverage our customer’s investment in achieving their business goals. With your full-life-cycle implementation experience, youwill produce quality results from the inception phase, through design, implementation, rollout and support. Your activities will include leading requirements workshops, producing design deliverables, test plans, and training materials. Your focus on customer success will ensure an approach that includes successful training and knowledge transfer, and ultimately, long-term customer self-sufficiency and satisfaction. You may also participate in the sales cycle, specifically assisting in the preparation of demos and writing proposals.

Required qualifications include:

  • Knowledge of Accounting and/or Finance processes;
  • Consulting experience preferably with the “Big Five” experience;
  • A minimum of 3 years experience with full life-cycle implementation of ERP solutions such as SAP, Dynamics AX (Axapta), JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Oracle, and Dynamics NAV (Navision);
  • Proven experience and strong working knowledge with a financial suite of applications;
  • Demonstrated knowledge and experience in ERP implementation principles, practices and methodologies;
  • Demonstrated capabilities in evaluating business process and recommending improvements;
  • Demonstrated strong communication skills (written and verbal) including establishing and maintaining positive client and peer relationships;
  • Demonstrated experience in working with multiple stakeholders, including the c-level execuvitve.

As our ideal candidate, you will have:

  • Successfully achieved a professional account or finance designation (i.e. CMA, CGA, CA);
  • 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;
  • The ability to travel domestically and internationally as required.

Please ensure "ERP Finance Consultant - Calgary" is in the subject heading of your email.

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Business Analyst, Portals and Collaboration Consultant

As an Ideaca Business Analyst working in our Portals and Collaboration group, you will be responsible for defining, documenting and implementing processes within the Microsoft suite of products including Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, SharePoint 2003, and Window SharePoint Services 2.0/3.0. This will include installation and configuration of SharePoint Portal and SharePoint Services. Knowledge of document and records management, workflow, development of custom web parts and other advanced functionality in MOSS 2007 would be an asset. Additionally, you will conduct acceptance testing and train customer resources to successfully administer and maintain implemented software. You will also participate in the sales cycle, specifically assisting in the preparation and execution of demos and writing proposals.

Required qualifications include:

  • Successful completion of a post-secondary degree/diploma in Business, Computer Science or a related discipline
  • Demonstrate knowledge and experience in implementation principles, practices and methodologies
  • Ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial environment

To be successful, you:

  • Have 1 to 3 years experience preferably with Microsoft tools including Office suite, and SPS/WSS
  • Demonstrate capabilities in evaluating business process and recommending improvements
  • Demonstrate capabilities in evaluating new technologies and utilizing the appropriate elements to achieve client results
  • Understand how to build and maintain positive client and peer relationships
  • Establish confidence in your ability to manage tasks, issues, their priorities and interdependencies
  • Demonstrate strong communication skills (written and verbal)
  • Are prepared for some domestic and international travel as required

Please ensure "Business Analyst, Portals and Collaboration Consultant - Calgary" is in the subject heading of your email.

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Sales Director

If you are a seasoned sales executive with drive and energy who is looking to join a nimble firm with a great entrepreneurial spirit, then Ideaca is the place for you.

At Ideaca, you’ll have the opportunity to work with a market leader who has an award-winning track record. You’ll dominate your market with the chance to sell world-class Microsoft products along with top-notch business consulting and delivery expertise. The list of customers you will be able to refer to include some of Canada’s largest and most successful companies.

We hire people who 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 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.

Our compensation, benefits and vacation schedule are competitive.

As an Ideaca Sales Director working in our Calgary office, you will be responsible to grow the Calgary market by participating in all phases of the sales life cycle. The successful candidate will be a self-motivated individual, who can work under dynamic conditions and can foster productive relationships with a diverse customer and partner group.

You will focus on:

  • Developing and managing sales cycles from lead capture to sales closure;
  • Leading introductory meetings with potential customers including positioning Ideaca’s value proposition;
  • Making cold calls when appropriate and following-up on leads generated from marketing and networking;
  • Developing strategic account and opportunity plans;
  • Qualifying sales opportunities to ensure optimal use of time and Ideaca and partner resources;
  • Utilizing Ideaca pre-sales and consulting resources effectively during the sales cycle and demonstrating leadership throughout;
  • Working with marketing to help develop lead generation programs and targeting marketing to specific verticals;
  • Working with Microsoft Solution Sales Account Managers and Solution Specialists to Develop Account Strategies and partner on closing deals;

To be successful, you will have the following:

  • Post-secondary degree/diploma in Business, Computer Science or a related discipline;
  • 5 years experience in selling strategic technology business applications and solutions;
  • Strong and established client base in Calgary;
  • Experience working with third-party vendors;
  • Ability to thrive in a dynamic and entrepreneurial environment and to work with a team;

Please ensure "Sales Director - Calgary" is in the subject heading of your email.

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Senior/Intermediate Technical Infrastructure

As an Ideaca Technical Infrastructure team member, you will be responsible for the implementation and management of complex server deployments. The successful candidate will be a self-motivated individual, who can work under dynamic conditions and within deadlines. This role is predominantly focused on customer facing project initiatives, but may include internal operational support responsibilities on an as needed basis.

To be successful, you:

  • Will have successful completion of a post-secondary degree/diploma in Business, Computer Science or a related discipline
  • Will have 5 or more years of server implementation and deployment experience, including the majority of the following: Windows and Linux Clusters, Exchange Server, SQL Server, SharePoint 2003 and 2007, IIS, JBoss/Apache, Oracle, BizTalk, Dynamics AX, Microsoft CRM and Solaris
  • Will have experience working with network implementation of Cisco routers, switches and PIX firewalls
  • Will have experience in administering/tracking patches, back-ups, user IDs and system security, as well as other server administration
  • Will have high proficiency as both a Windows server and UNIX/Linux administrator
  • Will have the ability to create enterprise quality installation and Run Book documentation
  • Will have some experience and/or understanding of software development as this role includes the support of Ideaca development project teams
  • Will have excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills
  • Can clearly communicate with peers and customers
  • Will learn new concepts and technologies quickly
  • Will have experience with packages such as HP Open View, Remedy and Load Runner
  • Will understand how to build and maintain positive client and peer relationships
  • Will demonstrate capabilities in evaluating new techniques and utilizing the key elements
  • Will establish confidence in your ability to manage tasks, issues, their priorities and interdependencies

Will have experience in some or all of the following:

  • Design, installation and operational support of heterogeneous computer and network environments
  • General development practices such as writing unit tests, using source control, writing documentation, following standards guidelines, etc....
  • Ability to write scripts for Windows and Unix task automation
  • Successful work in a systems administration role
  • Will be prepared for some domestic and international travel as required

Please ensure "Technical Infrastructure Consultant - Calgary" is in the subject heading of your email.

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New Grad - Consultant, Business Applications

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

Your responsibilities as a Consultant will include:

  • 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
  • Travel (domestic and international), when required
  • Thriving in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

If you want the opportunity to jump-start your career as a business and technology consultant in a fast-growing firm with a great working environment, email your resume, cover letter, and transcript to:

Also, please indicate in your cover letter the cities where you would be open to being hired.

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New Grad - Consultant, Application Development

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

Your responsibilities as a Consultant will include:

  • 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, 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

If you want the opportunity to jump-start your career as a business and technology consultant in a fast-growing firm with a great working environment, email your resume, cover letter, and transcript to:

Also, please indicate in your cover letter the cities where you would be open to being hired.

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CRM Consultant Position

As an Ideaca CRM Consultant, you will be responsible for configuring and customizing the Microsoft CRM application using the administrative and customization tools included with the product. Additionally, you will conduct acceptance testing and train customer resources to successfully administer and maintain Microsoft CRM. You will also participate in the sales cycle, specifically assisting in the preparation of demos and writing proposals.

Required qualifications include:

  • Successful completion of a post-secondary degree/diploma in Business, Computer Science or a related discipline
  • Minimum of 2 years of Enterprise CRM Package Implementation consulting experience
  • Demonstrated knowledge and experience in CRM implementation principles, practices and methodologies
  • Ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial environment

As our ideal candidate you have:

  • Have 1 to 3 years development experience preferably with Microsoft tools
  • Demonstrate capabilities in evaluating business process and recommending improvements
  • Ability to present and demo the CRM software
  • Understand how to build and maintain positive client and peer relationships
  • Establish confidence in your ability to manage tasks, issues, their priorities and interdependencies
  • Demonstrate strong communication skills (written and verbal)
  • Are prepared for some domestic and international travel as required

Please ensure "CRM Consultant Position - Calgary " is in the subject heading of your email.

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Developer Consultant Position

As an Ideaca Developer you will be responsible for participating at all phases of the project life cycle including: analyzing, designing, modeling, testing and deploying suitable and appropriate solutions.

Required qualifications include:

  • Successful completion of a post-secondary degree/diploma in Business, Computer Science or a related discipline
  • 3 to 5 years of programming experience using development languages that include: Microsoft based technologies such as ASP, VB and .NET; Java J2EE platform and; open source technologies such as PERL and PHP
  • Experience working on ASP.NET enterprise applications, working with ADO.NET against a SQL server or Oracle databases
  • Experience with general development practices such as writing unit tests, using source control, writing basic API documentation, following standards guidelines, etc.
  • Experience in applying these development methodologies and best-practices in a client environment
  • Experience in coding or integrating with manufacturing, inventory management, production scheduling and/or, financial applications and systems e.g. ERP

As our ideal candidate you:

  • Understand how to build and maintain positive client and peer relationships
  • Demonstrate capabilities in evaluating new techniques and utilizing the key elements
  • Establish confidence in your ability to manage tasks, issues, their priorities and interdependencies

Have experience in some or all of the following:

  • Working with an Object Role Modelling (ORM) package
  • WinForms applications development, traditional or smart-client
  • Have experience with writing Web Services, specifically knowledge of SOAP, WSDL, and WS-* specifications
  • Working knowledge of design patterns
  • Advanced development techniques such as design refactoring, test first programming, continuous integration, etc.
  • Experience in integrating with manufacturing, inventory management, production scheduling and/or, financial applications and systems (including but not limited to SAP, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Oracle, Baan, MS/Navision Attain, MS/Navision Axapta)
  • Will be prepared for some domestic and international travel as required

Please ensure "Developer Consultant Position - Calgary" is in the subject heading of your email.

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Senior Project Managers/Business Analysts

As an Ideaca Project Manager/Business Analyst, you will be responsible for:

  • Developing strategy and producing project plans (scope, risk, quality, cost, change management, communications, procurement, work breakdown structure, and schedule) to deliver against it Working with the project sponsor to develop project charter, goals and priorities
  • Facilitating risk assessment/mitigation sessions and follow-through risk management with a balanced and business priority driven approach
  • Leveraging your solid understanding of the project management life cycle and related principles, methodologies and best practices and improves such processes and execution

Required qualifications include:

  • Minimum 3 to 5 years experience as a project manager successfully leading full life-cycle business process and /or information technology projects, on time, on budget to the client's satisfaction.
  • 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
  • Ability to develop project proposals, comprehensive project budgets and plans and to contribute extensively through the entire engagement lifecycle from sales to delivery.
  • Applied experience with Project Management principles, practices and methodologies e.g. RUP, EUP, Agile, PMI, CMM etc.

As our ideal candidate you will:

  • Have the ability to plan, delegate and manage tasks, issues, their priorities and interdependencies
  • Have the ability to spot, explain, and correct incomplete/inaccurate plans/budgets
  • Established the credibility to cement creative partnerships with project stakeholders
  • Be capable of identifying project conflicts or issues and work with appropriate people to resolve them
  • Has successfully delivered a range of projects and at least 2-3 intermediate projects with a minimum of all of the following:
    • Team size > 10 FTE
    • Project Budget (overall) > $1.5M (Ideaca budget > $750k)
    • Project duration > six months full-time
  • Is able to travel domestically and internationally as required

Please ensure "Senior Project Manager/Business Analyst - Calgary" is in the subject heading of your email.

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Business Intelligence Consultant

As an Ideaca Business Intelligence Consultant you will be responsible for participating at all phases of the project life cycle including: analyzing, designing, modeling, testing and deploying suitable and appropriate solutions.

Required qualifications include:

Business Intelligence skills (Primary focus)

  • Have experience with Microsoft Reporting Services and/or Microsoft Analysis Services
  • 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
  • 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
  • Managing the infrastructure and ensuring continuous operation of data warehousing and business intelligence solutions

Database skills (Secondary focus)

  • In-depth knowledge in the administration of Oracle and SQL Server databases including installation, configuration and support
  • Experience in applying database methodologies and best-practices in a client environment
  • Experience in the development of SQL and PL/SQL code objects including stored procedures, functions, triggers and views
  • Planning, design, and implementation of database related architecture and services
  • Performing data migrations including testing fixes and upgrades
  • Experience with space planning
  • Database backup and recovery
  • Performance tuning and problem diagnosis and resolution; working with Application developers
  • Strong understanding of application development processes
  • Database security administration
  • Release management and documentation

As our ideal candidate you have:

  • Experience with database configuration and administration of ERP packages (including but not limited to SAP, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Oracle, Baan, MS/Navision Attain, MS/Navision Axapta)
  • Successful completion of a post-secondary degree/diploma in Business Computer Science or a related discipline
  • Understand how to build and maintain positive client and peer relationships
  • Experience working on ASP.NET enterprise applications, working with ADO.NET against a SQL server or Oracle databases
  • Demonstrate capabilities in evaluating new techniques and utilizing the appropriate elements
  • Establish confidence in your ability to manage tasks, issues, their priorities and interdependencies
  • Will be prepared for some domestic and international travel as required

Please ensure "BI Consultant Position - Calgary" is in the subject heading of your email.

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Senior BI/Data ETL Analyst / Developer

As an Ideaca Business Intelligence consultant, you will be responsible for participating at all phases of the project life cycle including analyzing, designing, modeling, testing and deploying suitable and appropriate solutions.

Required skills:

  • Proven successful experience analyzing, designing, constructing and automating ETL processes working closely with a data architect or business analyst. Experience with performing data migrations including testing, fixes and upgrades.
  • Minimum 2 years of deep ETL toolset experience – ideally with tools such as Informatica or SQL Server 2005 Integration Services.
  • Understanding of data warehousing concepts, architectures, and processes – minimum 2 years relevant experience.
  • Experience in applying database methodologies and best practices in a client environment.
  • Strong understanding of iterative system development processes. Minimum 3 years experience in information systems and integration development.

Desired skills :

  • End-to-end data design focusing on translating business information into data structures with core skills including information needs analysis, specification of business metrics, and data modeling.
  • Experience with SQL Server – ideally with SQL Server 2005
  • Experience with Microsoft Analysis Services – ideally with SQL Server 2005.
  • Experience with Microsoft Reporting Services – ideally with SQL Server 2005.
  • Experience in the development of SQL and T-SQL or PL/SQL code objects including stored procedures, functions, triggers and views.
  • Strong modular system design skills.
  • Release management and documentation.
  • Experience with RDMS tuning.

As our ideal candidate, you have

  • Experience with developing and implementing extract, load and transform (ETL) routines using higher-end tools such as SSIS 2005 or Informatica to populate data warehouses from custom solutions or ERP packages (including but not limited to SAP, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Oracle, Lawson, Microsoft Dynamics Navision, Microsoft Dynamics Axapta).
  • Minimum of 5 years experience and deep understanding of data warehousing concepts, architectures, and processes.
  • Successful completion of a post-secondary degree/diploma in Computer Science or a related discipline.
  • Understand how to build and maintain positive client and peer relationships.
  • 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.
  • Are prepared for some domestic and/or international travel as required.

Please ensure "Senior Data Analyst Consultant Position - Calgary" is in the subject heading of your email.

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