RQ08951 - Software Developer - Senior

Responsibilities:

Software Developer (BO)

• Develop, test, support and maintain Panorama Business Object (BO) reports. This includes modifying the underlying components to conform to vendor upgrade releases of the Panorama product, business requirement changes, as well as support for Panorama reports.
  
• Supporting Panorama Immunization, Inventory and Audit reports, including 29 critical reports for Immunization and 44 reports for Inventory using Business Objects tools.
  
• Provide subject matter expertise to develop and maintain BO tools for development and unit testing.
  
• Provide Business Objects and Crystal Reports.
  
• SQL query creation and tuning.
  
• Provide Business intelligence and data analytics, data warehouse design, development and support.
  
• Conducting technical analysis, troubleshooting, and issuing resolutions for production operational support of Panorama reports and other components and utilities.
  
• Develop reports using relational and hierarchical database technologies.
  
• Provide information retrieval packages using query languages.
  
• Support BO administration and package creation.
  
• Provide and support BO upgrades.
  
• Conduct research and assessment of options for technical design issues.
  
• Provide impact analysis, effort estimate and solution design/development for supported solutions due to IR solution upgrades, software upgrades or any new requirements (e.g. Panorama 4.4.x upgrades, PHU merge and more).
  
• Assess and analyze impact of upgrades to BO reports for Panorama updates, as well as developing the changes/improvements needed as per change requests already approved.
  
• Resolving and implementing critical fixes and changes as per defects found by business and as per Panorama critical changes.
  
• Conduct routine and incident management.
  
• Perform performance tuning as well as audit and ad hoc reporting per business requests.
  
• Meeting the service level agreements by troubleshooting and solving incidents opened for business objects reports via service desk.
  
• Maintain Development environments and continue continuous Integration (CI) practice.
  
• Translate technical systems specifications into working, tested applications.
  
• Conduct technical analysis, preparation of detailed programming specifications, program design, writing and/or generating code, and conduct unit tests.
  
• Provide software expertise in various computing platforms, operating systems, database technology, communication protocols, middleware and gateways.
  

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

10+ years of experience in the following:

• SAP BusinessObjects (BOBJ) Server, Crystal Reports, WEBI Reports.
  
• Oracle (19c), SQL, PL/SQL, JSON, XML, optimized database queries, data architecture, data design, modeling and mapping Business intelligence and data analytics, data warehouse design, development and support.
  
• Database management such as data normalization, relational database structures, table joins, database constraints.
  
• BO scripting, Unix/Linux shell scripting and tuning.
  
• BO administration and package creation.
  

Nice To Have:

• Other Reporting tools, particularly Cognos and PowerBI would be an asset.
  

Skill Set Requirements:

Public Sector Experience:

• Knowledge of the provincial immunization system and Public Sector large complex IT Health related projects or equivalent.
  
• Experience with integration of Clinical IT Systems such as Client and Provider Registries.
  
• Knowledge of Public Sector Enterprise Architecture artifacts (or similar), processes and practices, and ability to produce technical documentation that comply with industry standard practices.
  
• Knowledge of industry standard such as Project Management Institute (PMI).
  
• Experience adopting and adhering to Public Sector Unified I&IT Project Methodology, Public Sector Enterprise Architecture and Public Sector Gating process, and Public Sector Standard Systems Development Methodologies.
  

Technical Skills:

10+ years of experience with:

• SAP BusinessObject (BOBJ) and Crystal Report.
  
• Other Reporting tools, particularly Cognos and PowerBI would be an asset.
  
• Database management such as data normalization, relational database structures, table joins, database constraints.
  
• BO scripting, Unix/Linux shell scripting and tuning.
  
• BO administration and package creation.
  
• Informatica or other ETL experience.
  
• Oracle (19c), SQL, PL/SQL, JSON, XML, optimized database queries, data architecture, data design, modeling and mapping Business intelligence and data analytics, data warehouse design, development and support.
  
• Database and BO Performance tuning, automation.
  
• Enhanced CI/CD experience and DevOps methodologies and technologies an asset.
  
• BO/Crystal report AODA.
  
• Develop and support application monitoring using Elastic/Logstash/Kibana or Sematext.
  
• Knowledge of Java, JSON, XML, API calls, HL7/FHIR, Restful web services.
  
• Knowledge of the provincial immunization systems.
  

Core Skills, Knowledge and Experience:

10+ years of experience with:

• Creating new database objects, develop indexes, trigger procedures or manipulating the tables to create materialized views.
  
• Working with business analysts to translate the business requirements and functional specifications into an application design appropriate to meet the business and operational/IT needs.
  
• Working with technical systems specifications and translating them into working, tested applications for large, complex, mission critical applications sustainment and upgrades.
  
• Work with Quality Assurance (QA) to code, test, and debug extensions/tools integration services.
  
• Analysis, design and development work on complex, multi-tier web-based applications, micro-services architecture, mobile, and off-the-shelf solutions.
  
• Proven technical leadership skills with ability to identify areas for improvement, and recommend solutions.
  
• Designing, developing and implementing applications that work across modern browsers and various platforms, and mobile devices.
  
• Using and applying extensive knowledge of User Interface (UI) design principles across a variety of applications, platforms and devices.
  
• Conducting technical analysis, program code, detailed programming reports and specifications, program design, writing and/or generating code, and conducting tests.
  
• Developing and maintaining system design models, technical documentation and specifications.
  
• Maintaining development environments and adopt continuous Integration (CI) practice.
  
• Conducting technical evaluation and assessment of options for technical design issues, application configuration aspects and integration capabilities, related tools and utilities, gap analysis of integration components to technical requirements/specifications/documentation.
  
• Providing impact analysis, effort estimate and solution design/development for solution/software upgrades or based on any new business requirements.
  
• Undertaking proof of technology with test data to simulate application load and performance tuning related applications.
  
• Providing software expertise in various computing platforms, operating systems, database technology, communication protocols, middleware and gateways.
  
• Providing application programming support for incident management, application functionality sustainment, performance tuning and technical documentation.
  
• Developing and maintaining system design models, technical documentation and specifications.
  
• Developing medical and clinical based systems.
  
• Various computing platforms, operating systems, database technology, communication protocols, middleware and gateways.
  
• Conducting technical analysis, troubleshooting, and issue resolutions for production operational support of reports, and other components and utilities.
  
• Knowledge of recognized accessibility laws, regulations, and standards (e.g., W3C, WCAG) or other specific accessibility standards, and experience in usability, accessibility and compliance testing.
  
• Ensuring compliance with architecture framework and system standards, and Agile Development Methodology.
  
• Project management practices, and ability to contribute to design/development project plans, including work breakdown, resource estimates, and status reports.
  
• Experience with Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
  
• Continuous Integration (CI) practice and enhanced Ci/CD experience and DevOps methodologies and technologies an asset.
  
• Knowledge and experience with leading-edge technologies, design criteria including usability, security, and privacy for web and mobile applications.
  

General Skills:

• Demonstrated strong leadership and people management skills.
  
• Exceptional analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills.
  
• Demonstrated strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication, and presentation skills.
  
• Proven troubleshooting and critical thinking experience.
  
• Demonstrated ability to apply strong listening skills to facilitate issue resolution.
  
• Effective consulting skills to engage with all stakeholders with proven track record for building strong working relationships.
  
• Excellent customer service skills, including tact and diplomacy to ensure client needs are managed effectively.
  
• A motivated, flexible, detail-oriented and creative team player with perseverance, excellent organization and multi-tasking abilities, and a proven track record for meeting strict deadlines.