Job Description
Job Title: Sr. Software Developer
Location: Jarvis Street, Toronto, ON (Onsite)
Contract
Security Level: CRJMC
Requisition (SS): RQ10984
Client: Health Services Cluster
Ministry: Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement
Description
- Analysis of business requirement documents and liaison with clients.
- Facilitating IT development, design, construction, testing, promotion, implementation of web-based/n-tier, cloud-based and mainframe applications
- Define standards for the integration and governance of enterprise data
- Design metadata management programs and scripts
- Define and evaluate conceptual, logical, and physical BI solution architectures
- Design healthcare business information structures (cubes, dimensions, facts, tables, etc.)
- Perform data quality assessments, data transformation, and data cleansing
- Develop test scripts and perform testing of BI solutions
- Responsible for Java based development utilizing a combination of WebSphere, JDBC, Oracle, DB2, DataPower and associated Web technologies including JavaScript and JSP
- Responsible for integration of Open Source Software (OSS) products into new and existing systems
- Creation and walk-through of Systems Response documents, Technical Specifications, Application Inventory, and Implementation Plans.
- Preparation of test plans, test data, and unit-testing of programs.
- Preparation of implementation plans and promotion of programs.
- System Support/Documentation
- As assigned, response to client queries and troubleshooting of production incidents.
- Conduct/participate in design walkthroughs as well as test case and test results walkthroughs.
- Support testing of the changes by other team members.
- Provide recommendations to the Project Manager as to the acceptance or rejection of any changed system components.
- Weekly reporting on status, progress, and key issue/concerns as directed by the Project Lead or Sr. Project Manager.
- Transfer skills and knowledge to selected OPS staff.
- The resource may be required to do similar work related to the role, for other initiatives within PRS, as directed by the manager.
Qualifications
Skills
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
- Public Sector Experience
- Experience working in the public sector on a mid-tier cloud and/or legacy platform.
Technical Skills
- 5 + more years of business intelligence experience
- 5 + years of Cognos experience
- 5+ years – Framework Manager and Report Studio
- 5+ years – Active Reports, Transformer and dashboarding
- 5+ years – Report Studio (including being a trainer/mentor)
- 3+ years – Metrics Studio
- 5 years data analysis experience
- IBM Certified Designer – Cognos 11.2.1 BI Reports
- IBM Certified Developer – Cognos 11.2.1 BI Metadata Models
- IBM Certified Administrator – Cognos 11.2.1 BI
- Experience in facilitating workshops with diverse groups of stakeholders (e.g. technical, clinical, executive)
- Experience evaluating design options to support the implementation of a system.
- Preparation of automated deployment builds (Jenkins)
- Experience in structured, agile and DevOps methodologies for the development, design, implementation, and maintenance of applications.
- Experience with one or more platforms, including the operating system, database technology, communication protocols, middleware, and gateways
- Experience developing or maintaining large scale IT systems, including high-volume public facing programs
- Development and design of new programs or enhancements to existing ones
- Integration of service API’s and micro-services to existing or new web services.
- Ability to understand and analyze business requirements, and to design structured programs that efficiently satisfy these requirements
- Ability to write programs that are modular, well-structured, and easy to maintain
- Demonstrated success writing system design and implementation documents
- Experience with, and understanding of, relational databases (DB2, Oracle, MS-SQL)
- Preparation of test plans, test data, and unit-testing of programs
- Preparation of implementation plans and promotion of modules
- Participate in business requirements walkthroughs
- Conduct/participate in design walkthroughs
- Conduct/participate in testing walkthroughs
Analytical Skills
- Analysis of business requirement documents and liaison with clients
- Experience adopting and adhering to unified I&IT project management methodologies (waterfall, agile and DevOps) enterprise architecture and gating frameworks, and standard systems development methodologies.
- Respond to client queries and troubleshooting of production incidents with proven and demonstrable troubleshooting and analytical experience
Communications Skills
- Strong verbal and written communications skills.
- Strong Interpersonal and negotiation skills.
- Strong consulting skills to engage with all stakeholders.
- A demonstrated team player with a track record for meeting deadlines.
- Demonstrated success in working productively with business clients, developers, and technical specialists such as DBAs, web administrators, etc.
- Demonstrated experience reporting status, progress, and key issue/concerns to project managers and leads.
Assignment Type - Assignment Type: This position is listed as Onsite; the resource is expected to work 7.25 hours per calendar day between the standard working hours of 8:00-5:00 PM (excluding lunch breaks) every Monday to Friday inclusive at the identified OPS office location.
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
