Job Description

Adecco is currently recruiting for a Data Specialist for a full-time permanent role with our Crown Corporation client in Ottawa, ON. This role will be hybrid set up. The ideal candidate can be based in Ottawa, Montreal, Vancouver or GTA.

- Technical resource to support & maintain a very stable but ageing application that was built in-house in 2010. This application is mission critical for operations.

- This person would share on-call duties with other team members to deal with any production incidents as needed.

- This person would need a programming background in order to do in-depth troubleshooting of the application code and minor bug fixes when needed.

The Data Specialist will have the following responsibilities:

- Acts as an internal subject matter expert (SME) providing technical and operational expertise to support the maintenance of custom developed data exchange applications both legacy and current.

- Contributes to creating and maintaining technical documentation, such as interface specifications.

- Participates as a member of the support and development team specializing in plant data exchange (PDX) solutions consisting of various components including, reading of equipment log files, web reporting of statistics, and file preparation / distribution.

- Provides software development life cycle support, including technical requirements gathering, design, development, testing, deployment, change management, and stabilization to the Engineering and Maintenance departments.

- Monitors the ongoing technical performance of data exchange systems and shares weekly on-call support duties.

- Works with Regional Maintenance, Engineering and Operations Excellence teams to troubleshoot and resolve system and operational issues and to implement system improvements.

- Implements and maintains production and development servers, including testing environments along with source code repository. Acts as the lead technical subject matter expert responsible for the compile, test, and release processes.

The Data Specialist must meet the following mandatory requirements:

- A University degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field.

- A minimum of 3-5 years of related work experience is required.

- Must have programming experience required in the .Net environment using Visual Studio with C# and ASP.NET MVC

- Must have experience working with Microsoft server, Microsoft SQL server installations.

- Must have experience/ knowledge of operating systems.

- Must have Microsoft SQL or Oracle database experience.

- Must have experience with software testing and deployments.

- Must have experience with Microsoft Visual Studio.

- Must have experience with Microsoft SQL server.

- Must have demonstrated testing and quality assurance competency.

Nice to have:

- Experience with data driven applications.

- Must have experience working with Microsoft workstation installations.

- Experience with Microsoft PowerShell.

- Linux/Unix Shell Scripting and Microsoft PowerShell experience.

- Proficiency in automating regression testing.

- Knowledge of modifying SQL scripts and stored procedures.

- Android development experience.

- Proficiency in server/workstation backup and restore procedures along with disaster recovery.

- Proficiency in building Kiosk workstations.

- Knowledge in Microsoft Visual Basic.

- Mercurial source control experience.

- Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical clients.

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