Technical Consultant, ZIP

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Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal (administrative region), Toronto

Hybrid

CAD 120,000 - 160,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Bonus structure

Health benefits

Wellness days

Parental leave

Work-life balance

Job summary

Optis seeks a Technical Consultant to join our Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Montreal or New York teams. You will map business requirements to technical solutions, focusing on integration across ERP and SaaS systems with ZIP, SAP Ariba or Coupa.

You’ll drive architecture, design, development, testing and deployment, collaborating across teams in North America and beyond.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent preferred.
Experience building integrations with REST API, SOAP, JSON, XML.
Experience facilitating integration architecture discussions and workshops.
Proven experience with REST API, SOAP and other integration architectures.
Experience with procurement solutions like SAP Ariba, Coupa, GEP or Ivalua.

Responsibilities

Develop integration solutions for clients using SOA patterns.
Lead API integration projects connecting data with APIs.
Gather requirements and design sessions for technical solutions.
Own end-to-end delivery across architecture, design, development, and testing.
Document integration architecture and non-functional requirements.
Estimate tasks, build, test code and ensure reliability.
Maintain system reliability and handle upstream/downstream failures.
Provide expertise in integration architecture and security.

Skills

REST API

SOAP Web Services

ETL tools

Agile environment

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

ZIP integration

SAP Ariba

Coupa

GEP

Ivalua

Job description

About Us

About Optis

Since 2011, Optis has been on a mission to make Source-to-Pay projects more efficient, valuable, and enjoyable for the high-growth through Fortune-level companies we serve.

We partner with ambitious leaders across North America to take Source-to-Pay initiatives from inception to accolades, using our proprietary Frame™ process. To date, Optis has successfully deployed solutions across both public and private sector organizations in Canada and the United States, supported by a team of functional and technical specialists.

Headquartered in Vancouver, BC, with offices in Calgary, AB, Toronto, ON, Montreal, QC, and New York City, NY, Optis is a consulting firm solely focused on Source-to-Pay. We create value by supporting the full investment lifecycle—including strategy, implementation, and adoption.

Working at Optis

We pride ourselves on being different from larger consulting firms by offering meaningful opportunities to make an impact and accelerate your career growth.

Our employees benefit from:

Competitive compensation

A transparent and predictable bonus structure

A better-than-industry work-life balance

This approach has contributed to a team culture with over 90% employee retention.

Optis provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics.

We comply with all applicable federal, provincial, state, and local laws governing nondiscrimination in every location where we operate. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Optis is committed to providing accommodations for individuals with disabilities throughout the recruitment process and employment lifecycle. If you require accommodation during the application or interview process, please contact Human Resources at careers@optisconsulting.com .

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions. The noise level in the work environment is typically moderate.

Optis provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics.

Job Description

Ready to help procurement leaders unlock value at every stage of their transformation? At Optis, you'll deliver high-end procurement advisory and precision implementation to clients across the US and Canada, and see the results of your work in every engagement.

We are growing at Optis! We are looking for a Technical Consultant to join our Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Montreal or New York teams. Working closely with the Project Manager, the Technical Consultant will serve as the first point of contact between technical clients integrating our partners' solutions (ZIP, SAP Ariba, or Coupa) with their ERP and/or other internal and 3rd party systems. The Technical Consultant will be responsible for developing technology solutions and mapping Optis customers' business requirements to systems/technical requirements to ensure they are in line with the enterprise architectural plan. As a Technical Consultant, you will provide input to the strategic direction of technology investments to assist Optis customers in the development of the enterprise architecture and maximize their return on technology investment.

We need our Technical Consultants to be confident, versatile and passionate, with an ability to tackle new problems as we continue to help our customers to improve. They must be logical thinkers, have a strong ability to collaborate as part of a team and manage ambiguous or uncertain situations. They must have exceptional communication skills, be adaptable, proactive and willing to take ownership.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Develop solutions for clients using service-oriented architecture patterns.
Manage and implement an API-led strategy to connect data and applications with APIs.
Define and gather requirements and conduct design sessions for technical solutions.
Own the complete lifecycle of delivery, including architecture, design, development, test, and documentation of integration, custom development, and data migration solutions for business applications in SaaS and other ERP systems.
Define and document integration architecture, capture and document non-functional (architectural) requirements, prepare estimates, and define technical solutions.
Estimate the tasks and resources required to design, build, and test the code.
Develop new code or enhance existing code for solution development.
Maintain a sharp focus on system reliability and ensure the overall solution architecture can gracefully handle upstream and downstream system failures.
Provide in-depth expertise in the discipline of integration architecture, data sources, security, technical design, programming, testing, and deployment.

Requirements

REQUIREMENTS

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent preferred.
Intermediate skills in developing integrations with Web Services, XML, JSON, SQL and/or other integration technologies are mandatory.
Experience facilitating application integration architecture discussions and workshops.
Proven experience developing integrations using REST API, SOAP Web Services and other integration architectures.
Experience with ZIP is highly preferred or SAP Ariba, Coupa, GEP, and/or Ivalua Procurement solutions.
Additional experience using other ETL tools is preferred.
3+ years of experience in an Integration Architect or Lead Technical Architect capacity in an Agile/Hybrid development environment for transformational Source-to-Pay programs or equivalent.
Proven skills as a team member, team lead or project manager on at least three full lifecycle implementations.
Functional knowledge of Procurement business processes is preferred.
Technical aptitude and comfort in understanding web-based applications, SaaS, PaaS and IaaS cloud models, and integration concepts, as well as the application of these technologies in the enterprise environment.
Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Experience presenting a clear and concise technical narrative.
ERP knowledge (SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle or others) is preferred.

SPECIAL DEMANDS

Ability to travel within Canada and the United States.
Ability to travel up to 35% of the time.

WORKING AT OPTIS

We pride ourselves on being different from larger consulting firms by offering meaningful opportunities to make an impact and accelerate your career growth.

Our employees benefit from: