Solutions Designer - Toronto, Canada - GTT, LLC

Description

• An advanced (Level 3) Programmer/Developer is required to develop BI solutions using both Cognos and Microsoft Power BI for varying business needs, following all applicable GO-ITS standards and industry best practices while adhering to the existing technological solution framework.
• The successful candidate will work with various technology teams to translate business needs work through the analysis and lead the development phases.
• The Solution Development/Programmer/Developer will work under the direction of the Project Manager and the Senior Technical Manager and will engage directly with business clients. This resource undertakes the design of hosting technology solutions based on the client's service specifications, standards, policies, best practices, and cost models, in order to meet client application business requirements and project/initiative deliverables.

• Microsoft BI stack including Power BI for analytic reporting solution experience including ETL experience and experience migrating solutions from Oracle/Cognos/Informatica BI
• Leading technical team including BI dashboard developers, and assisting architects with documentation
• Experience with R-scripts and converting requirements from R Scripts into ETL Scripts.
• 10+ years of hands-on experience ETL development experience using SSIS / ADF in a data warehousing environment or large data migration;
• Working experience in debugging mappings, transformations, and source qualifier files and Unit testing the newly developed ETL components.
• Experience working with Oracle and MSSQL databases.

Technical Experience

• Experience with data architecture designs and technologies for BI solutions, for both on-premise and cloud solutions
• Experience leading projects that involve technology upgrade/migration to Microsoft BI Suite; determine which part of the existing solution needs to be migrated or rebuilt
• 10+ years of hands-on experience ETL development experience using SSIS / ADF in a data warehousing environment or large data migration; Working experience in debugging mappings, transformations, and source qualifier files and Unit testing the newly developed ETL components
• Demonstrated knowledge and deep MS stack experience (10 Years) with at least 4 years of Microsoft Azure Data Factory experience
• Experience with: Microsoft Azure Data Factory Services, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, Power BI, DataStage, Quality Stage, Visual Studio, Team Foundation Services, SQL Server Management Studio
• An asset if the resource can demonstrate direct experience with Erwin Data Modeler, Power Designer (Hands-on Development Role)
• Experience with role-based access control implementation, such as with AzureAD
• Experience working with Oracle and MSSQL databases
• Extensive experience with source control and environment management
• Experience with creating documentation such as data dictionary and data source to target mapping; provide feedback/direction to team on how existing documentation s can be improved
• Experience using PowerDesigner to review data models, as well as make changes and generate DDL's
• Experience with data ingestion from multiple sources, staging, and data cleansing, including dimensional modeling and data model architecture and design aligned with data standards and analytics needs of various stakeholders. Includes creation of data warehouses, views, cubes, and other data services products.
• Experience in developing the Application Code package using tools such as Azure DevOps. Build automation experience is an asset

Core Skills

• Long-term vision: be able to work with stakeholders to define a technical roadmap for current applications, and provide recommendation
• Working knowledge of systems design and development, and related methods, techniques, practices, and standards enable you to analyze and define clients' business and information technology requirements about data flow and data integration; provide recommendations to business
• Demonstrates Analytical and problem-solving skills to assess clients' business priorities and needs; to evaluate business and technical design alternatives
• Demonstrates ability to guide the architecture leveraging Azure cloud services, including effective standard use of Microsoft Stack tools and services critical for the integrity, quality, and pace of delivery.
• Working knowledge of technology, data, databases, applications, and networking techniques, tools, and practices enables you to lead the design and development of infrastructure-related projects.

Project Experience and Techniques

• Demonstrates lead design experience with technology upgrade/migration projects, and shows acumen in being able to evaluate and determine the best path going forward
• Demonstrates experience leading discussions with stakeholders to elicit requirements, developing/consulting on options and solutions, and facilitating the resolution of I&IT and Business issues. Ability to drill down on business pain points and determine the right solution, rather than delivering only the item that's being requested by stakeholders
• Demonstrates development and design experience with SDLC processes, Agile and Waterfall methodologies

Public Sector Experience:

• Previous public sector experience in an organization of equivalent size or complexity in Public Service
• Demonstrates experience designing and developing applications that comply with GOITS standards and general processes would be an asset;

Notes:

• This is a Hybrid position - Typically 3 days on-site and 2 remotes per week