Application Developer

Job Title: Application Developer - Senior

Location: Edmonton Alberta T5J 3W7 (The resource will primarily work remotely)

Duration: 12-month contract + 12 possible extensions

Job Description:

Responsibilities will include:

· Liaise with business units and program areas to ensure solutions meet current and strategic ministry needs.

· Align development team to follow Application Architecture.

· Write code for the most complex Functional and Technical Designs with minimal defects.

· Define non-functional requirements (Performance, Availability, Portability, Recovery / Recoverability etc.).

· Assess technical impacts up front and recommend better ways of designing applications to ease the development.

· Produce Technical Design, Database structure and Application Architecture for a new average to high complex application.

· Seek the best technical design solution that respects budget and timeline. Advocate the re-use of existing components/frameworks.

· Innovate in providing better efficient ways to design application.

· Review Technical Designs from other developers and recommend optimization if necessary.

· Evaluate, with assistance, the quality of the product being delivered, and take action to improve situations.

· Assist/Execute performance/penetration tests and troubleshoot issues at the system level.

· Isolate root cause of issues and provide solution options/recommendations.

· Provide tracking and reporting of time and status on all work, as required.

· Contribute to the creation of the Application Lifecycle Planning.

· Identify and coordinate release schedules.

· Identify service requests and priorities with customers.

· Ensure planned releases remain on schedule

Qualification/Must Have:

The proposed resource must meet or exceed one of the following:

a. University graduation in computer science or a related discipline and 5-yr Application Developer (AD) experience; OR b. 2-yr diploma in computer science or a related discipline and 7-yr AD experience; OR c. 1-yr certificate in computer science or a related discipline and 8-yr AD experience; OR d. 9-yr AD experience.

Other

Proposed resource has agreed to a Criminal Records Check and Enhanced Security Clearance including a credit check prior to commencement.

Work Experience

· Experience building Business Intelligence solutions in a collaborative, agile development environment.

· Experience delivering Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) solutions utilizing Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) in data migration projects.

· Experience in facilitating meetings and communicating with senior management and project stakeholders.

· Experience with data modelling, SQL programming, stored procedures, triggers and user defined functions.

· Experience with written and verbal communications including specific experience in drafting strategic business and technical documentation.

· Experience working with a Public Trustee Office and trust accounting with the following: case management, records management, finance, trust accounting, taxes, disbursements, receipts, vendors, batch processing / frequencies etc.

· Experience working with or testing Microsoft Dynamics 365 solutions (CRM, Finance) or similar platforms.

· Experience working with Rocket Universe software and multi-valued databases. Experience with Multivalued databases is a type of NoSQL and multidimensional database, that support the use of attributes having a list of values, rather than a single value. Often referred to as a Pick database

· Experience with .Net frameworks and C# application development using object-oriented techniques.

Nice to Have

Work Experience

· Experience doing SQL Server development including procedures, indexes, foreign key relationships, table creation, and entity model diagrams

· Experience developing and maintaining positive relationships across the organization, from front line staff to executives.

· Experience integrating DevOps practices to the development workflow using CI/CD best practices

· Experience in the design, development, and implementation of complex IT solutions.

· Experience with User Acceptance Testing processes on large, complex, multi-stakeholder environment.

· Experience with various software development methodologies (i.e. agile, waterfall, scrum, Kanban, etc.).

· Experience working in or for the public sector.

Job Type: Fixed term contract

Contract length: 12 months

Pay: $75.01-$87.52 per hour

Application question(s):

• Experience working with or testing Microsoft Dynamics 365 solutions (CRM, Finance) or similar platforms
• Experience working with Rocket Universe software and multi-valued databases. Experience with MultiValue database is a type of NoSQL and multidimensional database, that support the use of attributes having a list of values, rather than a single value. Often referred to as a Pick database