Agile Product Owner

ENGINEERING (Montreal, QC)

Overview: 

Are you an experienced Product Owner looking for a new challenge and an opportunity to further advance your skills and career in a great working environment? Are you a highly motivated individual with a genuine interest in technology with a passion to deliver cutting-edge products? Are you enthusiastic working with others in the organization to distill and prioritize product requirements into a deliverable that is simple, intuitive and gets the job done with high value? We have the perfect job for you!

We are seeking a strong Product Owner to work with multiple development teams to deliver best software solutions that are innovative and industry leading.

Primary Qualifications:

•  You have the experience to lead software teams following Agile best practices.  
•  You value customers and users -- and know how to manage and motivate your team so that they are inspired to champion customer experience the way you do.  
•  You can empower team-members to maximize their ability to deliver working software.
•  You see beauty in simplicity, and strive to simplify process, status, and communication needs between the delivery team and project stakeholders.  
•  You oversee the development stages and evaluate product progress at each iteration while communicating to stakeholders when problems arise.
•  You can work with the Product Manager, agile team and other Stakeholders to ensure the backlog reflects the business and technical requirements and priorities required to support the product roadmap and company vision.
•  You can Represent the teams in front of stakeholders, clients or users
•  You can interpret and translate the high level Product Roadmap articulately and concisely into Epics, Stories and Acceptance Criteria the development team can digest and move forward with.
•  You act as an ambassador for the product internally and externally and as a contact for questions related to the product
•  You are an active participant in backlog refinements, sprint planning, reviews and retrospectives.
•  Participates as needed in various customer meetings regarding the product and/or feedback

Requirements:

•  Experience in Agile Scrum either as a Product Owner, Scrum Master or have Agile training, so the role is known.
•  Self-starter and highly motivated with attention to detail
•  Able to identify risks / gaps, create mitigation plans for each, and escalate to the client and project leadership based on impact and priority
•  Can confidently hold team members accountable to their commitments
•  Able to manage remote / virtual project teams in a fast-paced development environment
•  Able to adapt quickly to changing customer priorities
•  Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
•  Organizational and time management skills
•  Creative thinker
•  Outstanding communication, presentation and leadership skills
•  Management of stakeholders and their expectation

Nice to Have:

•  Experience with Jira and Confluence
•  Cloud technology experience, AWS would be great!
•  Experience with SaaS applications
•  Leadership responsibility for Enterprise on-prem client/server applications

If this is you, contact us now via https://www.newforma.com/company/careers/. At Newforma we value teamwork, positive energy and making great memories together. We offer benefit and compensation packages where we do business. Only qualified candidates will be contacted. We look forward to working with you!

Who We Are:

Newforma’s intuitive project information management (PIM) technology promotes collaboration between individuals, project teams and across the enterprise in the AECO industry. By building a more connected project environment, Newforma optimizes the processes by which critical information is captured, shared and managed, and delivers a more intelligent and profoundly productive experience for architects, designers, builders, owners, and the full construction team. 

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regarding to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, disability, or national origin. Must be eligible to work the United Stated or Canada and pass a background check.

DevOps Enabler

ENGINEERING (Montreal, QC)

As an Engineer at Newforma, you will work to build and deliver Project Information management solutions to the AEC industry. All Newforma Engineers strive to uphold a universal Definition of Done, making metrics-reinforced decisions, and promoting a culture of continuous improvement.

As a member of the DevOps Enablement team, you will be a champion of continuous delivery and integration. The DevOps Enablement Team at Newforma is responsible for building and supporting self-service tooling for the rest of the Engineering team. Each member works closely with members of various Newforma organizations to understand the requirements that drive analysis and design of quality technical solutions – creating the best overall experience for our customers. The DevOps Enablement team is a lynchpin of the organization and requires involvement in every step from architectural decision making to end-user incident management.

As a DevOps Enabler, you accept responsibility to work with the Team and members of other Newforma Teams and Organizations, in the effort to promote continuous delivery throughout the company. This involves planning, developing, and maintaining self-service tools (e.g. build/deployment pipelines, infrastructure management tools, and security/customer incident tools). It extends to documenting those solutions and communicating impact to all of Engineering, mentoring teammates, and reviewing the real-world results of those tools to ensure that the cause of pain points is being solved. 

 Primary Responsibilities:  

• Participate in planning sessions and reviews.
• See a project through completely from creation to completion.
• Working with Development teams, as a consultant, as they design, build, deploy and support services.
• Creation and maintenance of tools and services, to aid in monitoring, governance, and deployments across our global infrastructure.
• Monitoring the health and proficiency of our cloud services.
• Provide fast and thoughtful issue resolution, and proactively identifying and solving potential problems.
• Proactively look for ways to enhance the process, functionality, reliability, and operation of the platform and self-service tools (i.e. Continuous Improvements).
• Working to help ensure the security of our cloud platform and services.
• Contribute to the creation of system support documents, and processes.
• Help run and participate in Game Day events.
• Help run and participate in DevOps workshops and learning sessions
• Participate in 24/7 on-call rotation.
• Working with other teams, throughout the organization, to help ensure a safe, sustainable and high-quality platform and product.

Required experience and knowledge:

• Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience
• Experience working in a cross-discipline environment (development and operations)
• Strong curiosity gene! Must want to ask Why and How
• Strong problem-solving skills, be thorough and detail oriented
• Ability to work in a cross team and cross-discipline environment, even when team goals are at odds.
• Excellent verbal/written/communication skills
• Highly self-motivated and able to work independently
• History of troubleshooting complex systems (multiple systems interacting with each other)
• Understanding of data analysis, centralized logging, security engineering and operations
• History with various database technologies (MySQL, DynamoDB, key-value store)
• Experience with Amazon Web Services
• Experience with Linux/Unix operating systems
• Experience with Building highly available, distributed architectures in the Cloud
• Experience with scripting languages such as JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Bash, etc.
• Experience with Continuous Delivery and Integration pipeline (Jenkins), Version Control (Git), and Package Managers (npm, pip, apt, etc…)
• Experience with Orchestration and Configuration Tools (Ansible, Chef, CloudFormation).
• Experience in automation workflows and pipelines

  Additional experience a plus:

•  Experience with Serverless technologies, such as AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway.
•  Experience with Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
•  Experience with building, maintaining and supporting a SaaS product.
•  History of writing scripted build pipelines
•  Amazon Web Services certifications
•  Cloudbees Jenkins certifications

QA Engineer

ENGINEERING (Montreal, QC)

Newforma, a leading provider of software for design and construction firms worldwide, is growing! Creating software that makes a difference in the AEC (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction) industry is what drives our company. We are in need of an exceptionally experienced and talented QA Engineer based in our Montreal QC office.

Do you like to know how a feature or product ticks? Or better still, how to cause it to fail? Do you look through a lens for perfection and how to provide our customers with the best application user experience?   Are you methodical, but have a curiosity sense about you to ‘go off the beaten path’?   Newforma is looking for a Quality Engineer that has that unique personality and job skill.   The QA Engineer is part of the Newforma team that could be responsible for performing both manual and automated testing on our applications, including our mobile, Cloud and enterprise product suites. You will work closely within an Agile Team to test enhancements to existing products, new products, and to resolve associated technical issues. You will work closely with your team to write and implement test plans, create test cases and perform regression testing to ensure our product offerings meet Newforma standards prior to product release dates. You will be an integral part of the team, using your quality expertise to be fully engaged in an Agile process.

In this position you will:

• Work with the team to design and execute test approach to support the work for software applications.
• Work closely with the team to ensure quality is built into the product early and is testable.
• Attend and be a productive member of daily standups, retrospective and planning meetings.
• You will help test application through backend functions as well as through UI.
• Qualify all new features by testing on supported platforms and configurations.
• Responsible for helping to implement, execute and troubleshoot automated tests.
• Verify builds with acceptance tests, track bugs, story analysis, and participate in development meetings.
•  Ensure highest quality for the application by using your curiosity and experience to thoroughly test the feature and ensure stability of impacted areas.
•  Be clear, thorough and concise in defect documentation to help make it efficient for the team to identify and fix.
•  Have a passion to become feature expert to socialize new functionality across the teams.
•  Use virtualization software to increase productivity.

Requirements

•  Computer Science degree or relevant work experience 
•  Must have strong problem-solving skills, thorough in completion of tests and detail oriented
•  Must be able to work in a team environment and handle multiple tasks
•  Must have excellent verbal/written/communication skills
  • Keen attention to detail and adherence to deadlines
  •  Must be highly self-motivated and able to work independently
  •  Experience in database technology such as MySql.

• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills

• Position is based in Montreal, QC with occasional travel to the US

If this is you, contact us now via https://www.newforma.com/company/careers/. At Newforma we value teamwork, positive energy and making great memories together. We offer benefit and compensation packages where we do business. Only qualified candidates will be contacted. We look forward to working with you!

Who We Are:

Newforma’s intuitive project information management (PIM) technology promotes collaboration between individuals, project teams and across the enterprise in the AECO industry. By building a more connected project environment, Newforma optimizes the processes by which critical information is captured, shared and managed, and delivers a more intelligent and profoundly productive experience for architects, designers, builders, owners, and the full construction team. 

Release and Build Engineer

ENGINEERING (Montreal, QC)

Newforma, a leading provider of software for design and construction firms worldwide, is growing! Creating software that makes a difference in the AEC (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction) industry is what drives our company. We are in need of an exceptionally experienced and talented Release Engineer based in our Montreal QC office.

Newforma is looking for a Release and Build Engineer that will work closely with our Enterprise Application teams. You will be responsible for building, managing and maintaining our Continuous Integration platform for our Enterprise Client/Server and Mobile applications.   This is a great opportunity if you are interested in helping to improve efficiency in the day to day engineering activity as it relates to code, finding ways to get away from manual tasks and automate, and create/maintain build systems that are stable, high quality and fast. The release and build platform for an organization is at the core of engineering day to day.   We’d love to have you join us.

In this position you will:

•  Take ownership of the Enterprise Jenkins infrastructure and main build functionality
  • VM backups, upgrades
  • Jenkins version updates
  • Jenkins integrations with other tools we use
  • Build success/failure notifications, Logging so developers can easily troubleshoot build problems
  • Responsibility for the build pipeline
  • Automation
  •  Manage our Enterprise Git Integrations
    • Integrations with other tools we use
    • Monitoring security vulnerabilities
    • Code Security
    • Branch maintenance
    • Code standards enforcement
    • Automation
    •  Be responsible for Release information
      • Documentation
      • Managing Enterprise release branches
      •  Maintain our enterprise app installers using InstallShield
      •  Migrate and maintain our Enterprise Mobile App source from Subversion to Git
      •  Build and maintain new Enterprise Mobile App Jenkins pipeline
      •  Ensure highest quality for our release and branching infrastructure
      •  Be clear, thorough and concise in documentation and communication
      •  Have a passion to become the expert

 Requirements

•  Computer Science degree or relevant work experience
•  Must have strong problem-solving skills
•  Must be able to work in a team environment and handle multiple tasks
•  Must have excellent verbal/written/communication skills
•  Must be highly self-motivated and able to work independently
•  Must have Jenkins experience
•  Experience in working in Virtual Environments
•  Have a strong sense of curiosity. Must often ask “Why”, “What-if” or “How does this work”?
•  Comfortable working with Remote team members.
•  Position is based in our Montreal, QC office with occasional travel to the US

Nice to have:

•  InstallShield experience
•  Subversion and Cornerstone Subversion client experience
•  iOS and macOS experience
•  Publishing to the iOS and Android app store 
•  Experience with Jira, Confluence

If this is you, contact us now via https://www.newforma.com/company/careers/. At Newforma we value teamwork, positive energy and making great memories together. We offer benefit and compensation packages where we do business. Only qualified candidates will be contacted. We look forward to working with you!

Who We Are:

Newforma’s intuitive project information management (PIM) technology promotes collaboration between individuals, project teams and across the enterprise in the AECO industry. By building a more connected project environment, Newforma optimizes the processes by which critical information is captured, shared and managed, and delivers a more intelligent and profoundly productive experience for architects, designers, builders, owners, and the full construction team.