Solution Designer

ThoughtStorm; Toronto; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

ThoughtStorm in Toronto, Ontario, seeks a Solutions Designer to lead the design of hosting technology solutions based on client service specifications and cost models. You will gather business requirements, craft technical designs, and prepare installation and performance specifications for complex, mission-critical systems.

The role requires extensive experience in J2EE integration, CRM/COTS platforms, and enterprise architecture, with strong analytical and communication skills to drive

Qualifications

• 10+ years in design, development, and maintenance of large CRM/COTS systems.
• 10+ years in J2EE integration with Siebel/Curam/other COTS systems.
• Experience in J2EE architecture and transformation tasks (XSLT/XQuery/XPath).
• Ability to gather and document functional/technical requirements.
• Experience designing complex, highly available enterprise server applications.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design hosting technology solutions based on client service specs, standards and cost models.
• Gather client business requirements and translate into technical designs.
• Produce technical specifications for installation, testing and performance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Develop technical documentation and ensure security/recovery procedures.
• Lead by example to meet project deadlines.

Skills

REST Web Services

JPA / Hibernate

Spring Framework

Integration architecture

Oracle / SQL Server

JMS / AMQP

Azure Integration

Team collaboration

Tools

Oxygen XML Editor

IBM App Connect Enterprise

MuleSoft

ESB tooling

Job description

At least 10 years of experience in design, development, implementation and maintenance of large complex Oracle Siebel, IBM Curam, Dynamics or other COTS CRM systems.

At least 10 years of experience in J2EE integration with other systems such as Oracle Siebel, IBM Curam, or other COTS systems.

Demonstrated experience in and understanding of J2EE architecture

Execute tasks on XSLT/XQuery/XPATH and transformation capabilities, hands on experience with Oxygen XSLT IDE or any XSLT IDE for creating and debugging XSL

Experience designing detailed functional and technical requirements for new and existing business solutions.

Title

Solutions Designer

Description

Responsibilities: 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 requirement and project/initiative deliverables. General Skills: Knowledge of integrated networking technologies, mainframe, midrange server, enterprise storage and SAN, and personal computer system technologies Knowledge of related best practices, OPS directory/messaging standards, standard facilities infrastructure/architecture management, facility service delivery processes, infrastructures policies, procedures and direction, cost models and procurement processes, Ability to gather client business requirements; corporate I&IT information mandates, client information technology strategic plans, environment and standards Ability to participate in the development of solutions and provide advice on short/long term solution service development activities. Knowledge of leading edge technologies design criteria, security and recovery procedures, preparation of technical specifications for installation, testing and performance of integrated, multi-services systems; assess performance and capacity of existing system making recommendations for improving performance and develop technical documentation. Experience planning, migrating, implementing and sustaining large complex system development projects Knowledge of technology developments, trends and new products to evaluated application to client short and long term technology requirements. Basic knowledge of project management methodology (e.g. PMBOK), analytical tools and processes. Conceptual and analytical skills to assess and evaluate client needs and conduct cost/benefit analyses for new technology requirements in planning and designing solutions. Experience designing and developing large, complex, highly available, mission critical server applications Experience with systems evaluation to assess conditions, technical performance and capacity of existing systems and determine need and feasibility of expansion, renovation or replacement Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills, verbal and written communication skills, interpersonal skills and negotiation skills, team work skills A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines

Skills

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Technical Skills (30%)

• 10+ years of experience on backend design and development using REST Web Services, JPA, hibernates, database, SQL, PL/SQL.
• Strong expertise in enterprise integration design, including experience with integration patterns, technologies, design principle and best practices.
• In-depth knowledge of Spring Framework, especially Spring Integration, and experience designing and building integration solutions using it.
• Strong knowledge of message-oriented middleware and enterprise service buses as IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACEs) or MuleSoft and experience designing and building solutions using them.
• Experience with integration technologies, such as JMS, AMQP, or REST, and an understanding of how to use them in Azure context
• Hands-on experience with integration technologies, such as JMS, AMQP, or REST, and an understanding of how to use them in Azure Integration context.
• Experience with data model, database such as Oracle, SQL server.
• Experience with cloud-based integration solutions

Development Skills (25%)

• 10+ years of experience on backend design and development using REST Web Services, JPA, hibernates, database, SQL, PL/SQL.
• Hands-on experience with integration technologies, such as APIs, Message Queues and Middleware, Enterprise Service Bus (ESB):
• Experience in designing solutions from business requirements, especially using UML, JEE, Service Bus, and ETL.

System Analysis (20%)

• Experience in System Analysis, requirements gathering and designing use cases
• Experience with prototyping solution for presentation to the client or Sr. management

Communication Skills (15%)

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Experience with facilitating and leading discussions with technical teams as well as business
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines

Public sector exp( 10%)

• Experience in working with Enterprise Architecture within OPS, following standarards and documentation artifacts and template