Hypercare & Incident Management Consultant

Location: Toronto, ON

Onsite Flexibility: Hybrid

• Position Type: Contract
• Contract Duration: 12 months
• Pay Rate: C$75.00–C$80.00 / Hour (CAD)
• Shift / Schedule: Days

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Our client is seeking an experienced Hypercare & Incident Management Consultant to support a major core banking modernization program. This is a senior-level consulting role focused on improving the rigor, coordination, and resolution of production issues following release. The successful candidate will bring strong experience in incident management, post-release validation, QA/testing leadership, and cross-functional issue resolution. The role requires someone who can quickly assess production issues, coordinate the appropriate technical and business teams, drive root-cause analysis, and ensure incidents are resolved efficiently with clear ownership and communication.

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• Lead and coordinate incident management and hypercare activities following production releases.
• Establish clear ownership, triage, escalation, and resolution processes for production issues.
• Coordinate across engineering, QA, product, operations, infrastructure, architecture, and other teams to resolve incidents.
• Drive post-release validation and testing to confirm fixes and ensure production stability.
• Facilitate incident triage meetings and maintain clear action plans, owners, timelines, and status updates.
• Ensure production issues are documented, prioritized, and tracked through resolution.
• Support root-cause analysis and ensure appropriate corrective and preventative actions are identified.
• Improve consistency and rigor across hypercare and production-support processes.
• Provide clear communication to senior stakeholders on incident status, business impact, risks, and resolution progress.
• Maintain documentation, issue tracking, and knowledge-sharing through Jira and Confluence.

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• Strong background in software testing, QA management, or post-release validation.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating resolution of complex production incidents across multiple technical teams.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, software delivery, testing, release, and production-support processes.
• Experience leading incident triage, escalation, root-cause analysis, and resolution activities.
• Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills.
• Ability to operate effectively in high-pressure production environments and drive accountability across teams.
• Hands-on experience with Jira and Confluence.

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• Experience supporting large-scale digital platform or core-system transformation programs.
• Experience in financial services, banking, or other regulated environments.
• Familiarity with ITIL incident, problem, and change-management practices.
• Previous consulting or enterprise transformation experience.

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• 7 years of experience in incident management, QA/testing leadership, production support, or technical delivery.

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This client is a digital-first Canadian bank focused on delivering simple, no-fee everyday banking experiences to customers. As a digitally native institution, the organization employs technology professionals including software engineers, QA and testing specialists, incident management consultants, and digital transformation leaders who work together to modernize core banking platforms and operations.

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GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, a Native American-owned company in Alaska. We highly value diverse and inclusive workplaces and support Fortune 500 organizations across banking, financial services, technology, life sciences, biotech, utilities, and retail sectors throughout the U.S. and Canada.

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Job Number: 26-18344 Industry: Information Technology