Job Description

Competition # : 38121

Department: Service Nova Scotia and Internal Services

Location: HALIFAX

Type of Employment: Permanent

Union Status: NSGEU - NSPG

Closing Date: \xe2\x80\x8b3/2/2023\xe2\x80\x8b (Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time)

About Us

Service Nova Scotia and Internal Services (SNSIS) has a team of 1700+ employees working from offices throughout Nova Scotia. Together, we build relationships with every citizen, business, and municipality in Nova Scotia by understanding evolving client needs and balancing these needs with the public good. Service excellence is at the heart of everything we do. As part of our core business, we provide a vast array of services to the citizens and businesses of Nova Scotia. We also provide the services, tools, and supports that enable other government departments and public sector entities to focus on providing quality services.

About Our Opportunity

As a member of the Service Design and Delivery (SDD) Education and Social Services team, and reporting to the Manager Education Solutions, the Senior Systems Analyst (CSO3) delivers service excellence through their programming skills and strong business analysis. As part of the team supporting the Departments of Education and Early Childhood Education you will work on custom developed applications, COTS, SaaS and vendor supported systems used by government and within the public school system.

Primary Accountabilities

Responsibilities include:

• Writing code, maintaining software and providing guidance and direction to junior resources.
• Providing technical support to business users through consulting, troubleshooting, problem identification, options analysis, data requests, database design, and training.
• The preparation of requirements, business process definitions, workflow process, and change requests.
• Proactively managing relationships with partners at all levels of the organization and with external groups such as the Regional Centres for Education and CSAP.
• Working in both waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Participating in workshops with internal and external participants and partners.
• Ensuring effective communication where agreement or cooperation is required or where there are barriers to understanding.
• Managing competing priorities.

Qualifications and Experience

To be considered for this position, you must have a bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree in Business, Information Technology, or Computer Science and 3 years related experience or graduation from a recognized Information Technology Program and 3.5 years of related experience; or an equivalent combination of training and experience may be acceptable. Related experience must include recent programming (within the last 3 years), business analysis and production development and support experience.

In addition, as the successful candidate, you have the following skills, training, and work experience:

• A high degree of analytical and logical problem-solving capabilities.
• Experience working as part of a team in an application support organization.
• Strong organizational skills that facilitate managing multiple tasks simultaneously under tight deadlines
• Experience producing business requirements, functional specification documents, and options analysis materials.
• Excellent interpersonal and English communication skills (written and verbal).
• Able to work well independently and as part of a cross-functional team.
• A meticulous eye for detail and take pride in your work.
• Ability to quickly adapt and learn new technologies.
• Able to work remotely using tools like Microsoft 365, Teams, Zoom, etc.

Qualifications and Experience Cont\'d

As well as:

• Experience in .NET, Json/Javascript, Drupal, and HTML5.
• Proficiency in SQL (Microsoft/Oracle etc.) and its extensions (TSQL/PL/SQL etc.) script writing.
• Knowledgeable with database design (SQL and/or ORACLE) and information/data security.
• Experience with PowerSchool and knowledge of Departmental and Provincial Education initiatives would also be an asset.

Please provide details in a cover letter how you clearly meet the requirements outlined above.

We will assess the above qualifications and competencies using one or more of the following tools: written examination, standardized tests, oral presentations, interview(s), and reference checks.

Equivalency

Applicants relying on education and experience equivalencies must demonstrate such equivalencies in their application.

Benefits

Based on the employment status and Union agreement, the Government of Nova Scotia offers its employees a wide range of benefits such as Health, Dental, Life Insurance, Pension, General Illness (Short and Long Term), Vacation and Employee and Family Assistance Programs. Click to learn more about our various benefits offering and eligibility criteria.

What We Offer

• Career Development where you have access to career guidance, tools, resources, and ongoing training for every stage of your career
• Engaging workplace: our Employees feel valued, respected, connected, and tuned in, we have forward-thinking policies and strategies
• Countless career paths
• Department specific flexible working schedules

Pay Grade: PR 14

Salary Range: $2,563.74 - $3,121.84 Bi-Weekly

Employment Equity Statement:

Our goal is to be a diverse workforce that is representative, at all job levels, of the citizens we serve. The Government of Nova Scotia has an Employment Equity Policy, and we welcome applications from Indigenous People, African Nova Scotians and Other Racially Visible Persons, Persons with Disabilities and Women in occupations or positions where they are under-represented. If you are a member of one of these equity groups, you are encouraged to self-identify on your electronic application.

This is a bargaining unit position initially restricted to current civil service employees represented by the Nova Scotia Government Employees Union (NSGEU). If applying from outside a government office, employees must apply correctly via this link:

Failure to apply correctly means that your application will not be given first consideration as a bargaining unit applicant, and will only be included if external applications are pursued.

External applicants and current casual employees will only be considered if there are no qualified civil service bargaining unit candidates. PLEASE NOTE: Candidates will not be considered for an interview if applications are incomplete or are missing information.

Offer of employment is conditional upon the completion of all applicable background checks and confirmation of credentials, the results of which must be satisfactory to the employer. We thank all applicants for the interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. All questions and concerns may be directed to Competitions@novascotia.ca.

Government of Nova Scotia