Senior Application Developer

Title:
Application Developer - Senior

Duration:
11+ Months

Location:
Edmonton, Alberta

This resource will primarily work remotely;
however, the resource may be required to attend meetings or work sessions in office on reasonable notice from the Province.

At the time of providing such notice, the Province will advise of the expected duration of any such meetings or work sessions. However, time to travel and any associated expenses to and from Edmonton and/or travel within Alberta will be at no cost to the Province.

Working Hours:

• Standard Hours of work are 08:15 – 16:30 Alberta time, Monday through Friday excluding holidays observed by the Province

• Work must be done from within Alberta, due to network and data security issues.

Scope:

The Application Developer is responsible to lead and assist in the design, development, testing and planning of the Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) phases for the data migration activities within the client modernization project. Additionally, the role is expected to make sense of the large amount of legacy data through analysis and insight to tell a cohesive story necessary for key executive strategic decision-making. The success of this part of the project is critical to the overall project success for the OPGT business and the client.

The current legacy system contains data that includes the finances of 19,000 client accounts and manages over $600 million dollars. Due to the antiquated design and excessive system age (30+ years), the existing data is unstructured, fragmented, duplicated and contains special characters that will result in data loss or corruption during migration. This data needs to be extracted from its current source(s) and transformed prior to loading it to its target destination in the new solution.

Deliver applications programming and analysis tasks as part of a system development process as well as provide application support, maintenance and enhancements. An Application Developer applies a broad knowledge of various technical areas to foresee and rectify certain problem areas within technology or with a mix of technologies, but the focus is to ensure a certain business/functional use case is solved with the help of technology.

• 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 application to ease the development.

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

• Seek for 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

Equipment Requirements:

• Resource will require own equipment