Technical Lead - Applicant Tracking System (ATS)/ Candidate Relationship Management (CRM) Implementation & Transition
Role Overview
Serve as technical lead for implementation and transition to a new ATS/CRM platform.
Lead data migration, integrations, configuration, privacy compliance, go-live readiness, and legacy system decommissioning.
Act as the primary technical liaison among business stakeholders, internal IT, privacy and security teams, and implementation vendors.
Key Skills for This Role
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About Calian
Calian provides solutions across defence, space, health, nuclear energy, public safety, and government.
Position overview
Serve as technical lead for implementation and transition to a new ATS/CRM platform.
Lead data migration, integrations, configuration, privacy compliance, go-live readiness, and legacy system decommissioning.
Act as the primary technical liaison among business stakeholders, internal IT, privacy and security teams, and implementation vendors.
Responsibilities
- Lead workstreams from requirements definition through configuration, testing, cutover, go-live, and hypercare.
- Set cutover and deployment strategies, including readiness assessments, rollback plans, production validation, and post-go-live support.
- Oversee data mapping, cleansing, migration, transformation, validation, reconciliation, and business sign-off.
- Validate requirements for configuration, integrations, reporting, operational support, and downstream processes.
- Support integration readiness across SAP, SuccessFactors, UKG, APIs, and BTP Middleware.
- Drive privacy, security, retention, and compliance work, including Privacy Impact Assessment inputs.
- Plan legacy system retirement, archival, transition, and decommissioning activities.
- Manage implementation risks, dependencies, issues, and decisions.
- Prepare cutover runbooks, readiness assessments, migration plans, archival frameworks, risk logs, and transition and support documentation.
Qualifications
- Senior technical leadership delivering enterprise ATS, CRM, ERP, HRIS, or workforce management implementations.
- Strong expertise in integrations, APIs, middleware, migration, transformation, and platform configuration.
- Experience translating business requirements into technical solutions and implementation plans.
- Proven experience leading go-live, cutover, deployment readiness, and hypercare.
- Deep understanding of enterprise privacy, security, compliance, and data governance.
- Strong stakeholder, vendor, and cross-functional leadership, issue resolution, and technical decision-making.
Compensation
- CAD 110–130 per hour; final compensation depends on skills, experience, qualifications, and contract conditions.
Job type and duration
- Full-time contract for 6 months.
Available position
- One position is available.
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