Job Description

Job Title: Application Developer - Senior

Location: Edmonton Alberta T5J 3W7 (The resource will primarily work remotely)

Duration: 12-month contract + 12 possible extensions

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Responsibilities will include:

Liaise with business units and program areas to ensure solutions meet current and strategic ministry needs.

Align development team to follow Application Architecture.

Write code for the most complex Functional and Technical Designs with minimal defects.

Define non-functional requirements (Performance, Availability, Portability, Recovery / Recoverability etc.).

Assess technical impacts up front and recommend better ways of designing applications to ease the development.

Produce Technical Design, Database structure and Application Architecture for a new average to high complex application.

Seek the best technical design solution that respects budget and timeline. Advocate the re-use of existing components/frameworks.

Innovate in providing better efficient ways to design application.

Review Technical Designs from other developers and recommend optimization if necessary.

Evaluate, with assistance, the quality of the product being delivered, and take action to improve situations.

Assist/Execute performance/penetration tests and troubleshoot issues at the system level.

Isolate root cause of issues and provide solution options/recommendations.

Provide tracking and reporting of time and status on all work, as required.

Contribute to the creation of the Application Lifecycle Planning.

Identify and coordinate release schedules.

Identify service requests and priorities with customers.

Ensure planned releases remain on schedule

Qualification/Must Have:

The proposed resource must meet or exceed one of the following:

a. University graduation in computer science or a related discipline and 5-yr Application Developer (AD) experience; OR b. 2-yr diploma in computer science or a related discipline and 7-yr AD experience; OR c. 1-yr certificate in computer science or a related discipline and 8-yr AD experience; OR d. 9-yr AD experience.

Other

Proposed resource has agreed to a Criminal Records Check and Enhanced Security Clearance including a credit check prior to commencement.

Work Experience

Experience building Business Intelligence solutions in a collaborative, agile development environment.

Experience delivering Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) solutions utilizing Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) in data migration projects.

Experience in facilitating meetings and communicating with senior management and project stakeholders.

Experience with data modelling, SQL programming, stored procedures, triggers and user defined functions.

Experience with written and verbal communications including specific experience in drafting strategic business and technical documentation.

Experience working with a Public Trustee Office and trust accounting with the following: case management, records management, finance, trust accounting, taxes, disbursements, receipts, vendors, batch processing / frequencies etc.

Experience working with or testing Microsoft Dynamics 365 solutions (CRM, Finance) or similar platforms.

Experience working with Rocket Universe software and multi-valued databases. Experience with Multivalued databases is a type of NoSQL and multidimensional database, that support the use of attributes having a list of values, rather than a single value. Often referred to as a Pick database

Experience with .Net frameworks and C# application development using object-oriented techniques.

Nice to Have

Work Experience

Experience doing SQL Server development including procedures, indexes, foreign key relationships, table creation, and entity model diagrams

Experience developing and maintaining positive relationships across the organization, from front line staff to executives.

Experience integrating DevOps practices to the development workflow using CI/CD best practices

Experience in the design, development, and implementation of complex IT solutions.

Experience with User Acceptance Testing processes on large, complex, multi-stakeholder environment.

Experience with various software development methodologies (i.e. agile, waterfall, scrum, Kanban, etc.).

Experience working in or for the public sector.

Job Type: Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months

Pay: $75.01-$87.52 per hour

Application question(s):

Experience working with or testing Microsoft Dynamics 365 solutions (CRM, Finance) or similar platforms * Experience working with Rocket Universe software and multi-valued databases. Experience with MultiValue database is a type of NoSQL and multidimensional database, that support the use of attributes having a list of values, rather than a single value. Often referred to as a Pick database