Job Description

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Responsibilities:

• Develop coding, testing, and debugging to support existing extensions/tools such as IRT, De-Dup, OIA, Immunization Forecaster and PR Upload.
• Conduct technical analysis, preparation of detailed programming specifications, program design, writing and/or generating code, and conduct unit tests.
• Translate technical specifications for sustainment and upgrade into working, tested applications.
• Undertake proof of technology with test data to simulate application load and performance tuning related applications.
• Provide software expertise in various computing platforms, operating systems, database technology, communication protocols, middleware and gateways.
• Provide impact analysis, effort estimate and solution design/development for supported solutions due to DHIR solution upgrades, software upgrades or any new requirements (e.g. Panorama 4.4 upgrades, PHU merge and plus).
• Provide application programming support for incident management, application functionality sustainment, performance tuning and technical documentation.
• Work with Quality Assurance (QA) to code, test, and debug extensions/tools integration services.
• Maintain Development environments and continue continuous Integration (CI) practice.
• Improve the quality and accuracy of the data collected for the approximately 34 PHUs and 2282 PHU users.

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:
Public Sector Experience - 5 points:

• Experience working with federal/provincial/broader public-sector healthcare providers.
• Knowledge of the provincial immunization system and Public Sector large complex IT Candidatealth related projects or equivalent.
• Experience with integration of Clinical IT Systems such as Client and Provider Registries.
• Knowledge of Public Sector Enterprise Architecture artifacts (or similar), processes and practices, and ability to produce technical documentation that comply with industry standard practices.
• Knowledge of industry standard such as Project Candidateagement Institute (PMI).
• Experience adopting and adhering to Public Sector Unified I&IT Project Methodology, Public Sector Enterprise Architecture and Public Sector Gating process, and Public Sector Standard Systems Development Methodologies.

Technical Skills - 45 points:

• XXgn and development of Oracle(12c) for OLAP and OLTP applications, including PL/SQL, Oracle stored procedure, packages, functions, triggers, ref cursors, dynamic SQLs, DBMS packages, etc.
• DemonstXXd ability to create normalized database schemas utilizing data modeling discipline.
• Understanding of normalization, de-normalization, and the difference between the two.
• Ability to create schemas for both OLTP and OLAP databases.
• Advanced SQL skills, optimized database queries, and data architecture, database design, database modeling.
• Data Warehouse design and development, Database performance tuning, Automation.
• Unix/Linux Candidatell Scripting.
• Informatica for data extraction, transformation, and loading, initial setup and other data management purposes.
• Cognos report design and development, Framework manager, Query Studio, Reports Studio, creation of dashboards, etc. Other reporting tools would also be an asset, particularly Crystal Reports and Business Objects.
• Knowledge of Java, JSON, XML, API calls, HL7/FHIR, Restful web services.
• Knowledge of the provincial immunization system.

Core Skills and Experience - 20 points:

• Working with business analysts to translate the business requirements and functional specifications into an application design appropriate to meet the business and operational/IT needs.
• Working with technical systems specifications and translating them into working, tested applications for large, complex, mission critical applications.
• Analysis, design and development work on complex, multi-tier web-based applications, micro-services architecture, mobile, and off-the-shelf solutions.
• Proven technical leadership skills with ability to identify areas for improvement, and recommend solutions.
• Designing, developing and implementing applications that work across modern browsers and various platforms, and mobile devices.
• Using and applying extensive knowledge of User Interface (UI) design principles across a variety of applications, platforms and devices.
• Technical analysis, program code, detailed programming and reports specifications, program design, writing and/or generating code, and conducting tests.
• Developing and maintaining system design models, technical documentation and specifications.
• Conducting technical evaluation and assessment of options for technical design issues, application figuration aspects and integration capabilities, related tools and utilities, gap analysis of integration components to technical requirements/specifications/documentation.
• Developing medical and clinical based systems.
• Web performance optimization.
• Various computing platforms, operating systems, database technology, communication protocols, middleware and gateways.
• Conducting technical analysis, trouble-shooting, and issue resolutions for production operational support of reports, and other components and utilities.
• Knowledge of recognized accessibility laws, regulations, and standards (e.g., W3C, WCAG) or other specific accessibility standards, and experience in usability, accessibility and compliance testing.
• Ensuring compliance with architecture framework and system standards, and Agile Development Methodology.
• Project management practices, and ability to contribute to design/development project plans, including work breakdown, resource estimates, and status reports.
• Experience with Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Continuous Integration (CI) practice and DEVOPS methodologies and technologies.
• Knowledge and experience with leading-edge technologies, design criteria including usability, security, and privacy for web and mobile applications.

General Skills - 30 points:

• Demonstrated strong leadership and people management skills.
• Exceptional analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Demonstrated strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication, and presentation skills.
• Proven troubleshooting and critical thinking experience.
• Demonstrated ability to apply strong listening skills to facilitate issue resolution.
• Effective consulting skills to engage with all stakeholders with proven track record for building strong working relationships.
• Excellent customer service skills, including tact and diplomacy to ensure client needs are managed effectively.
• A motivated, flexible, detail-oriented and creative team player with perseverance, excellent organization and multi-tasking abilities, and a proven track record for meeting strict deadlines.