Job Description

Title: Specialized IT Consultant - Senior
Location: Toronto, ON
Duration: 12 Months
Description
Note: This contract will require the consultant to work from the office location 3 days per week with the remaining 2 days being worked remotely.
Responsibilities
Works in partnership with clients, advising them on information technology in order to meet their business objectives or overcome problems, work to improve structure and efficiency of an organization's I&IT systems. The I&IT Consultant may be used to provide strategic guidance to organizations with regard to Information Management & IT technology, IT infrastructures and the enablement of major business processes through enhancements to IT. Provides subject matter expertise in their field and highly expert technical assistance.
General Skills:
Acts as the technical advisor/expert on all aspects of a specific deliverable Provide the quality assurance/quality control of specific deliverables Anticipates and resolves problems to ensure that the deliverables are completed within budget, to the highest quality, meeting or exceeding expectations Develops processes and procedures for implementing deliverables Prepares reports and presentations including options, recommendations, implementation plans, etc. Works with clients to define the scope of a project and to determine requirements Defines software, hardware and network requirements Analyzes I&IT requirements giving independent and objective advice on the use of I&IT Designs, tests, installs and monitors new systems and develops solutions and implementation of new systems Familiar with change-management principles and methodology Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
Oracle Database Administrator/Operational Support - 50%

• Demonstrated expertise with Oracle Database Enterprise Edition
• Demonstrated experience with Linux OS
• Demonstrated expertise with Oracle RAC, Data Guard, DB Vault
• Demonstrated experience with Oracle Enterprise Monitoring (OEM) and performance monitoring
• Demonstrated experience installing and testing new versions of Oracle DB EE
• Demonstrated experience developing, managing and testing back-up and recovery plans; ensuring that storage, archiving, back-up and recovery procedures are functioning correctly;
• Demonstrated experience with capacity planning;
• Provision for data security and recovery control (all data is retrievable in an emergency)
• Establishing the needs of users and monitoring user access and security;
• Monitoring performance and managing parameters to provide fast query responses to front-end users;
• Controlling access permissions and privileges;
• Liaising with IT specialists and unit leads and working closely with support team members and relevant stakeholders;
• Communicating regularly with technical, applications and operational staff to ensure database integrity and security;
• Decommissioning and installing new applications and customizing existing applications in order to make them fit for purpose;
• Assisting with scheduled operational data store loads as well as performing database backups and restores

Database Modelling and Design - 50%

• Demonstrates advanced knowledge of BI, data warehousing, data modeling techniques, tools and approaches;
• Participates in the analysis, design, development, and unit testing of all the project's database components;
• Designs RDBMS, DML and DDL components for Oracle database systems
• Maps out the conceptual design for a planned database in outline; considers both back-end organization of data and front-end accessibility for end-users;
• Refines the logical design so that it can be translated into a specific data model; further refining the physical design to meet system storage requirements;
• Develops and maintains data models using Power Designer as per GO-ITS standards;
• Writes technical specifications, including data standards, procedures and definitions for the data dictionary (metadata);
• Participating in the design of the overall solution to ensure business needs are met;
• Leads and conducts data modelling (conceptual, logical and physical) and data flow modeling sessions with project team members

Nice to have

• Public Sector experience preferred

MUST HAVES:

• Demonstrated expertise with Oracle Database Enterprise Edition
• Demonstrated experience with Linux OS
• Demonstrated expertise with Oracle RAC, Data Guard, DB Vault
• Demonstrated experience with Oracle Enterprise Monitoring (OEM) and performance monitoring
• Demonstrated experience developing, managing and testing back-up and recovery plans; ensuring that storage, archiving, back-up and recovery procedures are functioning correctly;
• Demonstrates advanced knowledge of BI, data warehousing, data modeling techniques, tools and approaches;
• Participates in the analysis, design, development, and unit testing of all the project's database components;

Nice to have

• Public Sector experience preferred

Skills Required