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.

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.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.