Senior Systems Analyst in Toronto

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.

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.
• 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.

Must Haves

• 10+ years of System Analysis and Design experience, preferably in a large, complex business environment.
• Experience in database modeling - logical, physical and conceptual modeling.
• Experience with SQL scripting.
• Experience in programming with object-oriented programming.
• Experience preparing architecture artifacts, including TRA artifacts.
• 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 techniques 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 - 5%

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

AODA Experience - 5%

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

Systems Analysis Experience - 40%

• 10+ years of System Analysis and Design experience.