Job Description

Competition # : 39845

Department: Service Nova Scotia and Internal Services

Location: HALIFAX

Type of Employment: Permanent

Union Status: NSGEU - NSPG

Closing Date: 27-Jul-23 (Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time)

About Us

The Department of Cyber Security and Digital Solutions* (CSDS), as part of the Government of Nova Scotia, puts people first. CSDS is large, diverse, and passionate about making a difference in peoples\' lives. We believe in user-centered iterative digital service design, and practice Internet-era ways of working. Working at CSDS means you will be a part of a team of caring, compassionate, and highly skilled people whose work makes a difference through designing, continuously improving and delivering the programs and services that people need.

At CSDS, we don\'t just accept difference - we celebrate a supportive culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging!

The people who use government programs and services come from all walks of life. It is important that the CSDS reflects the people that we serve - so we can deliver better, and more accessible, and inclusive public services. We work hard to create an environment where different perspectives and experiences are valued. We are committed to helping diverse talent thrive.

*Formerly known as the Nova Scotia Digital Service (NSDS) group, a part of the previously named Department of Service Nova Scotia and Internal Services.

Who You Are

You are passionate about people's experiences and want to make people's lives better. You're curious, and your humbleness helps you learn and grow. You love to collaborate across roles and organizations, and you can create a path forward from uncertainty. You are comfortable inspiring others with your communication skills whether they be senior leaders or technical teams.

You share our values of Respect, Integrity, Diversity, Accountability & The Public Good, have a passion for service excellence and actively promote and encourage the importance of people, teams, diversity, and culture.

About Our Opportunity

As the AMANDA Technical Architect, you will be part of a multi-disciplinary team working alongside business analysts, vendors, project managers, software developers, and development operations to ensure the functionality, stability, and security of the AMANDA platform for the province.

The technical architect is responsible for managing the risk catalogue, vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, threat risk assessments, vendor security obligations, and the overall health and stability of the AMANDA environment.

The technical architect will be responsible for engaging with the firewall team, integration team, database team, digital identity team, third party vendors, and all other groups that have a direct or indirect technical relation to the AMANDA platform. The technical architect will ensure that all planned initiatives align with the roadmap of the supporting systems.

The technical architect will be the custodian of the architecture diagrams and be the source of knowledge for all software and supporting systems including versions, patch releases, and support lifecycle. The technical architect will be responsible for liaising with technical resources and counterparts from the third-party support supplier and the AMANDA vendor to stay up to date with security issues, available releases, new features, patches, and technical roadmap.

The technical architect will work closely with the AMANDA Product Manger to ensure initiatives remain aligned with the overall AMANDA roadmap and vision. The technical architect will attend AMANDA project meetings and represent the AMANDA platform from a technical perspective.

Primary Accountabilities

The AMANDA Technical Architect's responsibilities include:

• Manage Threat Risk Assessments, Vulnerability Assessments, and Penetration testing and the subsequent responses, actions, and remediations.
• Represent the AMANDA solution as the platform stability and security stakeholder in projects and CSDS initiatives that impact the platform.
• Help set AMANDA strategy and roadmap for the future.
• Help ensure AMANDA software and supporting software and hardware are up to date and secure.
• Manage software version updates and patch release schedule.
• Maintain current and detailed architecture diagrams for all AMANDA instances and related systems and environments.
• Be the source of knowledge for all required technical input to Privacy Impact Assessments.
• Maintain catalogue of user permissions and access for the AMANDA platform.
• Work with support supplier to solve technical challenges that arise from AMANDA initiatives.
• Keep disaster recovery plan current and work with other teams to ensure consistency across the environment.
• Help ensure all security and technical requirements and obligations in the support supplier vendor contract are met.
• Keep up to date on latest announcements, offerings, and initiatives from AMANDA vendors and Support Suppliers and how they impact the province's platform.

Qualifications and Experience

To be successful in this role, you will have a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science plus a minimum of 5 years of experience, or graduation from a recognized Information Technology program, plus 5 years and 6 months experience or an acceptable equivalent combination of training and experience.

You have a demonstrable depth of experience in the following areas:

• Supporting a large multi-client software platform.
• Creating and updating architectural documents, standard operating procedures and processes.
• Working within a multi-disciplinary team including third party vendors.
• Ability to maintain a high level of data accuracy and attention to detail.
• Deliver results and meet timelines.
• Articulating decision-making criteria, approaches, impacts, risks and risk mitigation.
• Ability to work within a self-directed culture and navigate ambiguity.
• Experience in at least one of the following: Threat Risk Assessments, Vulnerability Assessments, and Penetration testing.
• Creating and updating Disaster Recovery procedures.

The following would be considered assets:

• Experience working in a health care or public sector environment.
• Existing knowledge of and experience working in an agile manner within a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience with the AMANDA platform.
• Experience with public-facing portals.

Equivalency

An equivalent combination of related training and experience may be accepted in place of education requirements. 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 17

Salary Range: $3,091.70 - $3,631.17 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