SYSTEMS INTEGRATION SPECIALIST

• Job ID: 56261
• Job Category: Information & Technology
• Division & Section: Public Health, Operation and Business Services
• Work Location: Union Station
• Job Type & Duration: Full-time, Temporary (14 month) vacancy
• Hourly Rate: $53.98 - $59.17
• Shift Information: Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week 
• Affiliation: L79 Full-time
• Number of Positions Open: 1 
• Posting Period: 25-Jul-2025 to 11-Aug -2025
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Major Responsibilities:

Provides expertise and advice in the areas of initiation, analysis, design, development, implementation and sustainment of enterprise solutions.  Contributes to the development of system architecture, methodologies, standards, policies, procedures and guidelines.

• 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 systems
• Designs and develops systems that comply with access and privacy legislation. and/or provincial standards
• 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
• Provides direction to programmers in implementing details of new/revised systems, as the senior technical authority on system projects
• Leads teams of intermediate/junior-level development staff in implementing software components and interfaces, in accordance with the Division's software standards and methodologies
• Liaises and coordinates with staff in detailed systems deliverables and technical problem resolution
• Implements in-house developed/custom/packaged systems and systems changes
• Tests integrated systems to ensure system compatibility and proper functional integration with Corporate
• Provides application maintenance and enhancement including implementation of vendor systems fixes and patches
• Conducts quality assurance on divisional and external developments
• 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
• Provides expertise, advice and technical skills for information and application service delivery
• Conducts research and evaluation of software/framework and makes recommendations
• Recommends, presents, and demonstrates system solutions to Divisional and business/community 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 plans and project status reports
• 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
• Conducts feasibility studies, business cases, Request For Information proposals & quotations, technical reports by researching and participating in evaluations and recommending solutions
• Determines user training needs. Develops and prepares user training guides and manuals
• Designs security roles and ensures security design for the Applications meet the needs of the business
• Ensures the day-to-day system security of the production application environment
• Develops and maintains disaster recover procedures and sustain technology solutions to meet business requirements
• Participates in sustaining and improving infrastructures, methodologies, tools, techniques and standards, ensuring their conformance and adherence in daily practice among business and technical teams
• Leads and directs appropriate system staff through the application development life cycle to produce business need solutions in conformance with the current System Architecture
• Leads various stages of projects, directs project team members and resources and reports progress to Project Managers, Stakeholders and Business Units, ensuring successful delivery of solutions through proper coordination, change management, resource management, budget control, quality assurance, contingency measures and risk solutions
• Assists in preparing RFP, RFQ's and participates in evaluating, selecting, recommending technical solutions and in managing vendors and contracts

Key Qualifications:

Your application for this role should describe your qualifications as they relate to:

1. University degree in computer science, computer engineering, information systems, or the approved equivalent combination of education and/or experience. 
2. Extensive experience in large scale application development projects, with specific experience as an application developer, utilizing the following concepts and technologies: Java, Websphere Application Server, Oracle 19c, MS SQL Server.
3. Extensive experience in developing technical design and support documentation aligned with business requirements, including high-level data models, application architectures, UML diagrams, semantic models, and application mock-ups.
4. Considerable experience in creating user interfaces and reports, including writing code for data validation and report layouts.
5. Experience developing scripts to extract and integrate data across multiple application databases. Strong understanding of data modeling, data mapping, and relational database design principles.
6. Experience using scripting languages such as Python and PL/SQL, with the ability to output data in various formats to support reporting, analytics, and system integration.
7. Experience administering enterprise-level platforms in support of roles, permissions, and security configurations, as well as managing systems support requests, troubleshoot technical issues, and improving workflow optimization.

You must also have:

• Ability to effectively communicate orally and in writing.
• Strong inter-personal skills with the ability to work effectively as a member of a team, collaboratively with others in multidisciplinary team environment and work independently, as required.
• Ability to be self-motivated and work with minimal supervision.
• Ability to negotiate effective resolution of conflicting business priorities with corporate business.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, listening, and interacting skills.
• Business acumen to establish and maintain effective consulting relationships with corporate clients and vendors, using a strong customer service orientation.
• Ability to work with competing demands, prioritize and meet deadlines.
• Knowledge of LaTeX, Typst and similar tools is considered an asset.
• Knowledge of Public Health programs, processes, workflows, and Electronic Medical Record systems are considered an asset.

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