System Development Specialist - Toronto, Canada - City of Toronto

City of Toronto

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

4 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Job ID: 41708

Job Category:
Information & Technology

Division & Section:
Technology Services, Technology Standardization Delivery

Work Location:
Metro Hall, 55 John Street, Toronto

Job Type & Duration:
Full-time, Temporary Vacancy

Hourly Rate and Wage Grade:
$ $55.11, Wage grade 16

Shift Information:
Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week

Affiliation:
L79 Full-time

Number of Positions Open: 1

Posting Period: 10-Nov-2023 to 28-Nov-2023

Job Summary:

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.

Job Functions:

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 inhouse developed/custom/packaged systems and systems changes.
Tests integrated systems to ensure system compatibility and proper functional integration.
Conducts quality assurance on departmental and external developments.
Develops systems interfaces between enterprise and departmental systems.
Provides development support to users by providing technical assistance and troubleshooting.
Provides documentation and instruction/training to users of the system.
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 walkthroughs 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.
Contributes to postimplementation 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:

Post secondary education in computer science or a related discipline, or the approved equivalent combination of education and/or experience.
Extensive experience in developing and using REST and JSON APIs
Extensive experience in JavaScript development
Experience in Scrum rapid software product development methodology
Considerable experience in developing integrations between large enterprise systems, using synchronous interfaces and asynchronous messaging techniques
Considerable experience in RDBMS development using Oracle, and PL/SQL
Experience creating program specifications and code documents including use cases, business process models, swimlane process, entity relationship diagrams, class and component models
Experience in the following is an asset: Apache Camel, HTML5, CSS3, JQuery, Bootstrap, OData, Avro, Cordova, Spark, Hive, SAP PI/PO, SAP Hana, SAP HCI, SAP BW, SAP Dataservices, SAP Lumira, Software AG WebMethods, NoSQL databases.

You must also have:

Ability to effectively communicate orally and in writing.
Possess strong interpersonal skills with history of working effectively with peers.
Ability to work effectively with a group of multidisciplinary staff in a project team setting.
Ability to be selfmotivated and work with mínimal supervision.
Proven skills to negotiate effective resolution of conflicting business priorities with corporate business clients.
Strong analytical and problem solving skills, listening and interacting skills are essential.
Demonstrated business acumen to establish