SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST

SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST

SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST
Job ID: 46136
Job Category: Information & Technology
Division & Section: Technology Services, Technology Standardization Delivery
Work Location: Metro Hall, 55 John Street
Job Type & Duration: Full-time, Temporary (12 months) Vacancy
Hourly Rate: $51.19 - $56.07
Shift Information: Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week
Affiliation: L79 Full-time
Number of Positions Open: 1
Posting Period: 17-OCT-2024 to 31-OCT-2024
Job Summary:
To provide expertise in the initiation, analysis, design, development, implementation, and maintenance of enterprise solutions and contribute to the development of corporate system architecture, methodologies, standards, policies, and guidelines.
Responsibilities:






- Performs analysis and design duties as well as programming, modelling and scripting, testing, documentation and deployment preparation.
- Coordinates and prepares requirement 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 in-house developed/custom/packaged systems and systems changes.
- Tests integrated systems to ensure system compatibility and proper functional integration.
- Provides application maintenance and enhancement including implementation of vendor systems fixes and patches.
- Conducts quality assurance on departmental and external developments.
- Develops systems interfaces between enterprise and departmental systems.
- Performs information and application data conversions.
- Provides development support to users by providing technical assistance and troubleshooting.
- Provides documentation and instruction/training to users of the system.






- Designs and develops application security interfaces to enable clients in controlling and administering access to their systems.
- Provides expertise, advice and technical skills for information and application service delivery.
- 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 walk-throughs 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.
- Contributes to project charters, statements of work and project plans, project status reports and variance explanations,





risk identification and mitigation planning.
- Conducts research, investigates and recommends best practices for information and application services.
- Contributes to post-implementation project reviews.
- Recommends improvements to current methodologies, processes, standards, policies and guidelines.
- Contributes to planning of future system growth and provides detailed work plans.
- Participates in enterprise projects.
- Determines user training needs.
Key Qualifications:
Your application for the role of System Development Specialist should describe your qualifications as they relate to:
- Extensive experience in business system analysis, rapid application development and programming in a large, diverse computing environment.
- Extensive experience in Java,





JEE web application, object-oriented methodology and design.
- 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, entity relationship diagrams, class and component models
- Experience in developing and/or maintaining large scale information technology applications






- Post secondary education in computer science or a related discipline, or the approved equivalent combination of education and/or experience
You must also have:
- Experience in the following is an asset: Apache Camel, OData, Kafka, Flink, SAP S/4 Hana and NoSQL databases.
- Experience in working effectively with a group of multidisciplinary staff in a project team setting.
- Ability to effectively communicate orally and in writing.
- Possess strong inter-personal skills with history of working effectively with peers.
- Ability to be self-motivated and work with minimal 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 and maintain an effective consulting relationship with corporate clients and vendors, with a strong customer service orientation.
- Ability to work with competing demands, prioritize and meet deadlines.
- Knowledge of current and emerging technologies relating to data warehousing, e-service, quality assurance tools, data retention and document management/imaging.
- Ability to be on call for support of production systems
- Ability to work under time constraints and to meet deadlines
- Willing to work flexible hours including days, afternoons, nights and weekends, as required






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