Job Description

Title: Software Developer - Senior
Location: Toronto, ON (Onsite)
Duration: 9 months + Possible Extension
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 3.1.x upgrades, PHU merge and more)
• 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
• Ensure availability of the DHIR extensions/tools for use by all Ontarians.

Technical Skills:
10+ years of experience with:

• Client Focused user interface design, technical specifications and documentation for design development, installation, testing and enhanced performance of integrated, multi-services systems
• Ability to adopt and accept changes to meet continuous improvement of multi-services systems. Proactive initiation and planning of technical improvements to keep applications upgraded with latest technology and latest versions
• Java programming on Sun Solaris and RED-HAT/Linux, WebSphere Liberty Profile/WebSphere Application server, WebSphere Studio Application Developer, web services, API connect
• Experience with NODE.JS, Nginx, OAuth2, Secure Key Concierge
• Knowledge and experience with - Postgres, RabbitMQ, Kafka
• Java, Java EE, Java Frameworks, Java Scheduling/Threading, JavaScript, Angular and eclipses RESTFUL web services, Red hat/Linux scripting
• Oracle RDBMs, SQL, PL/SQL, JSON, XML, ETL, stored procedure, optimized database queries, data architecture, data design and modelling, data mapping and database query performance tuning
• Front end programming skills including HTML5, JSF, Prime Faces, CSS and JavaScript
• Experience with version control system SVN or GitLab.
• Working knowledge of issue tracking system Jira.
• Experience in developing accessible UI components.
• Knowledge and experience with API testing and management tools such as Postman, SOAPUI,
• UI Frameworks (JavaFX, Spring, jQuery) or similar frameworks for web and mobile applications
• Knowledge and experience with Informatica, Elastic/Logstash/Kibana
• Experience using HL7-FHIR protocols such as FHIR v1.4 (public APIs) and RESTFUL messaging, Middleware and gateways
• Experience in Platform as a service (PaaS), Docker, Kubernetes and API Gateway an asset
• Knowledge and experience with Cloud technologies AWS and Azure would be an asset.

Core Skills and Experience
10+ years of experience with:

• Proven technical leadership skills with ability to identify areas for improvement, and recommend solutions
• 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 sustainment and upgrades
• Work with Quality Assurance (QA) to code, test, and debug extensions/tools integration services
• Analysis, design and development work on complex, multi-tier web-based applications, micro-services architecture, mobile, and off-the-shelf 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
• Conducting technical analysis, program code, detailed programming reports and specifications, program design, writing and/or generating code, and conducting tests
• Developing and maintaining system design models, technical documentation, and specifications
• Maintaining development environments and adopt continuous Integration (CI) practice
• 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
• Providing impact analysis, effort estimate and solution design/development for solution/software upgrades or based on any new business requirements
• Undertaking proof of technology with test data to simulate application load and performance tuning related applications
• Providing software expertise in various computing platforms, operating systems, database technology, communication protocols, middleware, and gateways
• Providing application programming support for incident management, application functionality sustainment, performance tuning and technical documentation
• Developing and maintaining system design models, technical documentation, and specifications
• Developing medical and clinical based systems
• Web performance optimization
• Various computing platforms, operating systems, database technology, communication protocols, middleware, and gateways
• Conducting technical analysis, troubleshooting, 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 (Test first approach, stand up calls etc.)
• 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) (waterfall, agile and hybrid)
• Continuous Integration (CI) and deployment practice and enhanced CI/CD experience and DevOps methodologies and technologies an asset
• Knowledge and experience with leading-edge technologies, design criteria including usability, security, and privacy for web and mobile applications.

MUST HAVES:

• Java, Java EE, Java Frameworks, Java Scheduling/Threading, JavaScript, Angular and eclipses RESTFUL web services, Redhat/Linux scripting
• Oracle RDBMs, SQL, PL/SQL, JSON, XML, ETL, stored procedure, optimized database queries, data architecture, data design and modelling, data mapping and database query performance tuning
• Front end programming skills including HTML5, JSF, Prime Faces, CSS and JavaScript
• UI Frameworks (JavaFX, Spring, jQuery) or similar frameworks for web and mobile applications
• Knowledge and experience with Cloud technologies AWS and Azure