Job Description

Come and showcase your leadership, programming and I&IT expertise at the Ministry of the Solicitor General, Justice Technology Services (JTS), where you will provide advanced technical expertise and ensure smooth implementation of seamless integrated state-of-the-art service-oriented solutions for a full range of IT project/program requirements, including complex business solutions.

Note: This position can be located at the Toronto or North Bay office. Location determination will be made based on closest office to home address.

OPS Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion, Accessibility, and Anti-Racism:

We are committed to build a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and to promote a diverse, anti-racist, inclusive, accessible, merit-based, respectful and equitable workplace.

We invite all interested individuals to apply and encourage applications from people with disabilities, Indigenous, Black, and racialized individuals, as well as people from a diversity of ethnic and cultural origins, sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions.

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What can I expect to do in this role?

In this role, you will::

• Provide team leadership in the design, development, testing, implementation, maintenance and enhancements of system architectures (technical, data, application, network) for both acquired and developed application solutions
• Lead and implement system integration, including designing appropriate architectures and selecting cost-effective and high-performance tools and middleware
• Provide technical expertise for the development or implementation of IT solutions to support end users, project teams, and peer technical staff
• Handle implementation of IT solutions, and co-ordinate the research and evaluation of technology
• Recommend and direct the measurement and improvement of tools, techniques, standards and performance criteria to control the quality of system development initiatives
• Implement web-based responsive applications based upon modern web frameworks and integration with backend solutions
• Ensure adherence to standards of all IT components of business solutions for cost effectiveness, support strategies and performance issues
• Implement and manage APIs for backend systems
• Lead the analysis of existing technology to recommend areas of improvement and/or new developments
• Be available for on call production support

How do I qualify?

I&IT Technical Experience:

You have:

• Advanced knowledge of current information technology principles, current development platforms, and leading-edge client/server application development technologies (web based, n-tier)
• Knowledge of programming techniques, with experience in Java, JavaScript, HTML 5, Python, and Object-Oriented development
• Knowledge of data extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) techniques, familiarity with SQL and hands-on experience with a range of industry and government standard database management systems, including Oracle and MS SQL
• Understanding and skills for implementing event driven application, event driven microservice, real-time and batch processing
• Knowledge of programming techniques, including experience working with complex solutions involving common functionalities such as workflow, routing rules, queuing and programming of business logic in procedures and notification modules

Development Knowledge:

You have:

• Advanced knowledge of development tools/languages/technologies such as Spring Boot, Angular, Memory Caching, Docker, Nginx, Kubernetes, etc.
• Development experience of implementing APIs using REST/JSON/Swagger
• Knowledge of Git version control using command line and via Gitlab Git repository manager, and familiarity with Azure DevOps CI/CD
• Knowledge of all aspects of the system development life cycle (SDLC) and ability to design, develop and implement information management systems and manage system development using traditional Waterfall as well as various iterative and Agile Methodologies (familiarity with SCRUM will be highly beneficial)
• Practical and hands-on experience with website accessibility compliance as per WCAG 2.0 guidelines

Reasoning, Analytical and Problem Solving Skills:

• You can assess and recommend architectural strategies for acquisition, development, integration and implementation of complex technical solutions
• You can assess technical design problems and develop computerized solutions to information problems in support of end users
• You can diagnose and resolve problems impacting the information technology infrastructure and resolve operational problems with software
• You can lead and conduct feasibility studies and cost/benefit analyses for proposed client I&IT initiatives

Communication and Interpersonal Skills:

• You possess strong oral communication and listening skills
• You have demonstrated written communication skills to prepare project reports, write and present business analyses and recommendations, and design/develop documentation, manuals, senior- level briefing materials, cost benefits analyses, etc.
• You have experience leading/facilitating technical discussions with vendors, clients and other technical staff to promote technology application and encourage user cooperation