City : Toronto

Category :

Industry : Government

Employer : City of Toronto

Job ID: 34824

• Job Category: Information & Technology 
• Division & Section: Technology Services, Technology Services Delivery
• Work Location: Metro Hall, 55 John St.
• Job Type & Duration: Temporary (12 months) Full-time
• Hourly Rate and Wage Grade: $50.18-$54.97,Wage grade 16
  Shift Information: Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week
• Affiliation: L79 Full-time
• Number of Positions Open: 1
• Posting Period: 18-May-23 to 02-Jun-2023
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Job Summary:

In this role you will provide expertise in the areas of PowerBuilder development, application implementation and sustainment of enterprise solution. To contribute in development of application architecture, business and technical documentation, and testing.

Major Responsibilities:

• 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 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.
• 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.
• 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 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:

Your application must describe your qualifications as they relate to:

1. Post-secondary education in Computer Science or a related discipline with extensive system development life-cycle experience in large-scale IT solutions (or the approved equivalent combination of education and experience)
2. Extensive experience in designing, coding, and maintenance of PowerBuilder applications including creation of PowerBuilder reports
3. Extensive experience in database development including writing scripts for data conversion, creating DDL scripts for database objects, SQL programming, ETL processes using Oracle (Oracle 19c preferred) and PL/SQL
4. Experience in performing information and application data conversions
5. Experience and ability to perform requirements gathering, documenting business workflows, documenting "as-is" and designing "to-be" business processes
6. Considerable experience in writing technical documentation (such as Technical Design Specification), using structured systems analysis and design techniques, systems development methodologies and templates
7. Experience with testing (unit, system, integration, regression, etc.) and writing testing documentation such as Master Test Plan and Test Completion Report

You must also have:

• Excellent communication, problem-solving, leadership, facilitation and interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of .NET, C#, Visual Basic for Applications, MS SQL programming is an asset.
• Knowledge of SAP product suite, such as S4/Hana is nice to have.
• Strong customer service orientation along with a demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective stakeholder relationships.
• Ability to work effectively as a team member, collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team environment and independently, as required.
• Advanced time management and estimation capabilities and ability to perform several tasks and projects concurrently.
• Ability to develop and/or maintain large scale information technology applications, using a variety of software development methodologies, such as waterfall, iterative, and agile.
•  Knowledge and/or ability to learn current and emerging technologies and skills to evaluate and recommend new technology for introduction into a complex technical environment.
• Ability to develop project plans, projections and cost/benefit analysis of proposed solutions.
• Ability to develop, maintain and execute both test plans and disaster recovery plans.
•  Willingness to work flexible hours, including days, afternoons, nights and weekends, as required.
• Ability to be on-call to support production systems.
•  Ability to travel across various office locations within the City of Toronto, as required.

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