Senior Solutions Designer in Toronto

About the job RQ08568 - Solutions Designer - Senior

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 requirements 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 evaluate 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, teamwork skills.
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines.

Skills Experience and Skill Set Requirements

• Hybrid Work Arrangement: FFS will need to work at 5700 Yonge for 2-3 days per week.
• Curam knowledge and experience (8 years).
• Technical solutioning and support for project/tech leads and architects.
• CI/CD DevOps and Infrastructure.
• Experience with Azure DevOps pipelines - 10%.
• Technical experience with infrastructure and operational needs for development teams i.e. (WebSphere, Oracle, Solaris, Cloud support) - 10%.

Must haves

• Curam knowledge and experience (8 years).
• Technical solutioning and support for project/tech leads and architects.