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.

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.

Senior .NET Software Developer

ENGINEERING (Montreal, QC)

Newforma, the leading provider of Project Information Management software for architecture, engineering, and construction firms worldwide is growing! Creating software that makes a difference in the AEC industry is what drives our company. We are enhancing our flagship enterprise product to connect with various backend, and cloud systems in the AEC space. If you have the drive, confidence, thirst for knowledge, desire to be challenged and technical expertise required, we’d like to see your resume.

Responsibilities:

· Work in a Microsoft development environment with C#, C++, ASP.NET, Win32, MySQL, NUnit, Moq, document management systems, and Microsoft Office APIs in a client-server environment deployed across a global customer base.

· Work closely with our support staff to diagnose and fix customer support issues

· Design, code, test, debug, and document software solutions using appropriate processes, tools, frameworks, libraries, patterns, best practices and standards.

· Optimize software for speed and compatibility; add features that contribute to the product with a focus on quality.

· Ensure code and features are developed to meet requirements and standards.

· Work in an agile environment as a member of a closely-knit Scrum or Kanban team.

· Willingness to work outside of normal business hours, as necessary, to accommodate support incidents.

Requirements:

· BS / MS in Computer Science, or similar engineering program with 5 years of experience delivering software to customers.

· Experience in an API-driven ecosystem, with a background in RESTful API development and .NET-based application plugins.

· Passion for building great software applications released on a regular cadence.

· Strong OOD/OOP skills.

· Strong problem solving skills.

· Experience with Agile lifecycle development.

· Good written and oral communication skills in English, and able to work independently.

· Proven ability to work in an established multi-million line application.

· Experience with C#, Visual Studio .NET, and Microsoft Windows-based development technologies.

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.

Role to work in our Montreal QC office with possible travel to US for training.