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We are looking for Senior Application Developer - Remote / Telecommute for our client in Edmonton, AB
Job Title: Senior Application Developer - Remote / Telecommute
Job Location: Edmonton, AB
Job Type: Contract
Job Description:
- Deliver applications programming and analysis tasks as part of a system development process as well as provide application support, maintenance and enhancements.
- An Application Developer applies a broad knowledge of various technical areas to foresee and rectify certain problem areas within technology or with a mix of technologies, but the focus is to ensure a certain business/functional use case is solved with the help of technology.
- Liaise with business units and program areas to ensure solutions meet current and strategic ministry needs.
- Align development team to follow Application and Data Architecture.
- Write code for the most complex Functional and Technical Designs with minimal defects.
- Hands on experience with building and managing data solutions using SQL and/or Python.
- Experience in data modelling (star or snowflake schema), including designing and developing data models to support business requirements.
- Develop and implement data warehouse solutions to support business intelligence and analytical needs.
- Demonstrate strong commitment to Data Security and Compliance to protect sensitive information and enforce data governance in enterprise platforms (access control, security policies across platforms etc.).
- Conduct data profiling to identify data trends, patterns and data quality issues.
- Experience with software development best practices including code reviews, unit testing and documentation.
- Define non-functional requirements (Performance, Availability, Portability, Recovery / Recoverability etc.).
- Assess technical impacts up front and recommend better ways of designing application to ease the development.
- Produce Technical Design, Database structure and Application Architecture for a new average to high complex application.
- Seek for the best technical design solution that respects budget and timeline. Advocate the re-use of existing components/frameworks.
- Innovate in providing better efficient ways to design applications.
- Review Technical Designs from other developers and recommend optimization if necessary.
- Evaluate, with assistance, the quality of the product being delivered, and take action to improve situations.
- Assist/Execute performance/penetration tests and troubleshoot issues at the system level.
- Isolate the root cause of issues and provide solution options/recommendations.
- Provide tracking and reporting of time and status on all work, as required.
- Contribute to the creation of the Application Lifecycle Planning.
- Identify and coordinate release schedules.
- Identify service requests and priorities with customers.
- Ensure planned releases remain on schedule.
- Financial/Pricing: 10%.
- Resource Qualifications: 20%.
- Interview Process: 70%.
- The proposed resource must meet or exceed one of the following: University graduation in computer science or a related discipline and 4-year relevant experience.
- 2-year diploma in computer science or a related discipline and 6-year relevant experience.
- 1-year certificate in computer science or a related discipline and 7-year relevant experience.
- A currently active professional certification or accreditation and 8-year relevant experience. Yes or No
- Experience in designing, building, testing, deploying, and supporting applications in an enterprise IT environment equivalent in size and complexity to the Government. 8 years
- Experience using Microsoft SQL. 3 years
- Experience with Python development. 3 years
- Experience with software development processes, and all associated best practices, methods, standards, tools, and policies. 8 years
- Experience working with various software development methodologies (i.e. agile, waterfall, scrum, Kanban, etc.). 8 years
- Experience working in a data warehouse / datalake / business intelligence or relevant data environment in a development role. 8 years
- Knowledge of ETL processes and tools, with hands-on experience designing and implementing data pipelines for transforming and loading data from multiple sources into data warehouses. 8 years
- Experience assisting in overall project planning and providing advice on system development opportunities. 5 years
- Experience making decisions and recommendations on highly technical or complex issues without formal guidelines or precedents and exercises resourcefulness and ingenuity. 5 years
- Experience translating data from multiple sources to a single solution, including planning for historical, current, and future data needs. 5 years
- Experience with cloud computing or big data platforms and infrastructure. 5 years
- Experience working in the public sector. 2 years
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