Responsibilities:

• Provide senior technical expertise, project leadership and coordination of activities in the development, implementation and maintenance of a diverse range of cost effective I&IT solutions.
  
• Provide technical advice to clients and leverage OPS I&IT solutions and applications to meet program/service goals and objectives ensuring efficiency.
  

General Skills:

• Provides specialized technical expertise in the overall analysis of the design and architecture of systems solutions.
  
• Ability to evaluate recommendations and ensures all recommended solutions for improvement are congruent with the project goals and objectives Identifies short and long-term project goals/objectives, and as a senior technical expert, defines and identifies program and service delivery requirements in support of the development and/or acquisition of client applications
  
• Leads the analysis, development and documentation of design and architecture of systems solutions.
  
• Leads the development of testing, integration and implementation of systems solutions into the clients' applications
  
• Guides the feasibility studies and cost effective analyses of proposed client I&IT initiatives, ensures all studies and analyses are documented Leads the technical aspects of projects related to the development and/or acquisition of a diverse range of client applications through all stages of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
  
• This includes planning, scheduling and estimating resources, providing technical expertise, co-ordination, monitoring progress and providing management with project status updates
  
• Demonstrated experience gathering requirements, translating business documents into technical specifications
  
• Experience leading development/support teams supporting multi-dimensional and relational databases and their applications for effective planning, budgeting, strategizing and forecasting procedures
  
• Demonstrated experience designing and developing complex applications utilizing relational and multi-dimensional databases
  
• Ability to provide implementation and post implementation support as required
  
• Oversees the research and evaluation of the technical components in the acquisition of software, hardware, technology, systems and products
  
• Recommends and directs the measurement and improvement of tools, techniques, standards and performance criteria to control the quality of application development initiatives
  
• Provides coaching and direction to junior analysts throughout the project, related to the development and/or acquisition of a diverse range of client applications through all stages of the Systems Development Life Cycle.
  

Desirable Skills:

• Knowledge and experience in rapid application development (RAD) methodologies
  
• Knowledge and experience with middleware and gateways Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices
  
• Experience with development/maintenance of documentation as per Methodology Good working knowledge of Dimensions and Facts Knowledge of multidimensional structures (cubes)
  
• Ability to gather, review and provide feedback to business requirements
  

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• 10+ years of System Analysis and Design experience, preferably in a large, complex business environment
  
• Expert knowledge in reverse engineering Physical Data Models creating Entity Relationship Models (ERD) and Metadata Reports
  
• Demonstrated experience within all project cycles from Analysis, Design to Development, Testing and Implementation
  

Skill Set Requirements:

Systems Analysis Experience:

• 10+ years of System Analysis and Design experience, preferably in a large, complex business environment
  
• Expert knowledge in reverse engineering Physical Data Models creating Entity Relationship Models (ERD) and Metadata Reports
  
• Demonstrated experience within all project cycles from Analysis, Design to Development, Testing and Implementation
  
• Knowledge and experience related to TRA (Threat, Risk, Assessment) process and prepare appropriate documents
  
• Experience preparing architecture artifacts, including TRA artifacts
  

Business, Testing & Integration Experience:

• 10+ years of Business Analysis experience including running JAD sessions, UAT and gathering requirements
  
• 10+ years of system testing, integration testing experience
  
• Demonstrated experience with system Integration experience including ability to understand different systems and pick up new technologies quickly
  
• Extensive experience in Quality Assurance preparing Test Plans, Test Cases and executing and monitoring unit, integration and UAT testing while working directly with clients
  
• Proven experience with requirement elicitation technics such as User interviews, Workshops, JAD facilitation and interpretation of business needs into system design requirements.
  
• Manual system testing and integration testing experience including creating test cases and test plans
  

Public Sector experience:

• Knowledge of GO-IT Standards(GO-ITS) and Enterprise Architecture within the RGDMS system
  

AODA Experience:

• Hands on experience with AODA and knowledge of accessibility compliance principles as presented in WCAG 2.0, level AA
  
• OPS quality assurance standard and practices.