Job Description

• Job ID: 39292
• Job Category: Information & Technology
• Division & Section: Technology Services, Technology Standardization Delivery
• Work Location: Metro Hall, 55 John Street
• Job Type & Duration: Full-time, Temporary (12 months) vacancy
• Hourly Rate and Wage Grade: $50.31 - $55.11
• Shift Information: Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week
• Affiliation: L79 Full-time
• Number of Positions Open: 1
• Posting Period: 10-Jul-2023 to 24-Jul-2023

To provide expertise and advice in the areas of: initiation, analysis, design, development, implementation and sustainment of enterprise solutions. To contribute in the development of corporate system architecture, methodologies, standards, policies, procedures and guidelines.

Major Responsibilities:

The primary responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:

• Performs analysis and design duties as well as programming, modelling and scripting, testing, documentation and deployment preparation.
• Coordinates and prepares needs analysis and detailed systems design.
• Conducts user interviews to determine detailed systems requirements.
• Completes preliminary analysis, system and functional design, workflow diagrams for quality systems development.
• Designs, codes, tests, implements and maintains enterprise systems.
• Designs and develops systems that comply with access and privacy legislation.
• Coordinates and develops program specifications and documentation.
• Designs and conducts all levels of testing i.e. unit, system, integration, regression, performance, security, usability, optimization/configuration and coordinates user acceptance testing.
• Liaises and coordinates with internal and external consultants in detailed systems deliverables and technical problem resolution.
• Implements enterprise in-house developed/custom/packaged systems and systems changes.
• Tests integrated systems to ensure system compatibility and proper functional integration.
• Provides application maintenance and enhancement including implementation of vendor systems fixes and patches.
• Conducts quality assurance on departmental and external developments.
• Develops systems interfaces between enterprise and departmental systems.
• Performs information and application data conversions.
• Provides development support to users by providing technical assistance and troubleshooting.
• Provides documentation and instruction/training to users of the system.
• Designs and develops application security interfaces to enable clients in controlling and administering access to their systems.
• Provides expertise, advice and technical skills for information and application service delivery.
• Conducts research and evaluation of hardware/software/framework and makes recommendations.
• Recommends, presents and demonstrates system solutions to City management and corporate business clients.
• Conducts presentations, system demonstrations and system walk-throughs at project review meetings.
• Participates as a team member in the execution of project plans providing technical expertise and advice re: architecture, development tools, work effort estimates.
• Directs the activities of staff, mentors, and recommends training.
• Contributes to project charters, statements of work and project plans, project status reports and variance explanations, risk identification and mitigation planning.
• Conducts research, investigates and recommends best practices for information and application services.
• Contributes to post-implementation project reviews.
• Recommends improvements to current methodologies, processes, standards, policies and guidelines.
• Contributes in planning of future system growth and provides detailed work plans.
• Participates in enterprise projects.
• Conducts feasibility studies, business cases, RFI/P/Q\'s, technical reports by researching and participating in evaluations and recommending solutions.
• Determines user training needs.

Key Qualifications:

Your application must describe your qualifications as they relate to:

• Post-secondary education in computer science or a related discipline, or the approved equivalent combination of education and/or experience.
• Extensive experience in business system analysis, automated testing, rapid application development and programming in a large, diverse computing environment.
• Extensive experience in developing REST based JSON APIs in Java, and enterprise integration design.
• Extensive experience in scripting infrastructure, including using Ansible, Terraform and AWS CloudFormation
• Extensive experience in test automation, including testing Non-functional, functional Testing, TDD and BDD, API testing and DevSecOps integration, and using Jenkins, TestNg, Maven, JUnit 5, and Gherkin
• Considerable experience in developing integrations between large enterprise systems using agile and scrum methodologies, and Jira
• Experience in the following is an asset: Spring Boot, Apache Camel, Junit, HTML5, OData, Spark, Hive, Jupyter, Tensorflow, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Katalon, Gherkin, Jira, Confluence, NoSQL databases

You must also have:

• understanding of RDBMS development using Oracle, and PL/SQL
• Ability to create program specifications and code documents including use cases, business process models, swimlane process, entity relationship diagrams, class and component models
• Ability to develop and/or maintain large scale information technology applications
• Ability to work effectively in a group of multidisciplinary staff in a project team setting.
• Ability to effectively communicate orally and in writing.
• Possess strong inter-personal skills with history of working effectively with peers.
• Ability to be self-motivated and work with minimal supervision.
• Proven skills to negotiate effective resolution of conflicting business priorities with corporate business clients.
• Strong analytical, problem solving and effective listening and interacting skills are essential.
• Demonstrated business acumen to establish and maintain an effective consulting relationship with corporate clients and vendors, with a strong customer service orientation.
• Ability to work with competing demands, prioritize and meet deadlines.
• Knowledge of current and emerging technologies relating to data warehousing, e-service, quality assurance tools, data retention and document management/imaging.
• Ability to be on call for support of production systems
• Ability to work flexible hours including days, afternoons, nights and weekends, as required

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