Salary Range: $74,618-$107,264/year. The starting salary for this position would be determined with consideration of the successful candidate’s relevant education and experience, and would be in alignment with the provincial compensation reference plan. Salary will be prorated accordingly for part time roles.
Job Summary:
In accordance with the Mission, Vision and Values, and strategic directions of PHSA safety, including both patient and employee safety, is a priority and a responsibility shared by everyone at PHSA’s Agencies/Divisions/Services, and as such, the requirement to continuously improve quality and safety is inherent in all aspects of this position.
The Senior Developer/Application Architect (SD/AA) reports to the Manager or designate and is responsible for providing leadership and direction on the support and development of new and existing systems within Provincial Digital Health and Information Services (PDHIS) that provides services to Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA), Vancouver Coastal Health and Providence Health Care. Applying a broad range of information technology experience and knowledge, the SD/AA manages a variety of projects that range from building/supporting PDHIS systems/solutions to evaluating products for their technical and architectural fit within the application environment. This position draws on a high level of expertise in the management of a medium to large scale development environment, providing both architectural and technical direction to help translate business needs into requirement specifications. In addition to the preparation of white papers, project plans, and product roadmaps, the SD/AA plays a key role within the team, overseeing product assessments, defining and implementing standards, performing security reviews, and providing the framework for systems development.
Duties/Accountabilities:
• Designs and plans the architecture for the application environment, including business and clinical systems, and database environments. Conducts research, performs analysis and product reviews, identifies technical specifications, develops technical whitepapers and business cases, and makes recommendations. Carries out quality assurance (QA) testing and user acceptance testing (UAT) as required.
• Provides consulting related to the acquisition of new systems and standards or the implementation of new applications on existing systems. Provides leadership on backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies and activities for all application environments. Ensures these processes are maintained and followed in the case of an emergency.
• Provides system administration and troubleshoots Web, client server and n-tier database issues including performance tuning and security. Assesses and implements database updates and upgrades that affect the application environment. Provides change leadership through the upgrade of applications and incorporates new trends in development methodologies. Installs, configures, tests and maintains software.
• Drafts policies, procedures and best practices for application deployment and change control. Participates in project teams to ensure development activities adhere to implementation standards and practices. Recommends new procedures and tools, including capacity and trend reporting, issue management and prevention. Develops and maintains the System Development Life Cycle processes and methodologies.
• Designs, develops and implements a development framework including development standards, tools, reports, interfaces and documentation requirements for new and existing application. Implements and follows processes and procedures relative to change control.
• Participates in projects including the evaluation and implementation of improvements to the overall environment, assisting with the development and monitoring of project budgets, preparing reports and conducting briefings. In conjunction with senior staff or manager, participates in contract negotiations with vendors.
• Coaches, mentors and provides technical guidance to junior staff such as assistance with developing work plans, complicated scripts, and code reviews.
Qualifications:
A level of education, training and experience equivalent to a Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science or related discipline, plus a minimum of five to seven (5-7) years’ recent related experience in architecture planning, design, development, and delivery of highly available enterprise applications. Coding and designing solutions using Microsoft stack.
Extensive knowledge of application architecture practices and procedures, understanding of the concepts of reuse around applications and SOA services when to apply, and ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with business groups, projects managers, architects and developers both internal and external. Proven hands-on experience with MS SQL and Oracle Server, web frontend development frameworks, JSON/XML, .NET framework. Broad understanding of change control practices including ITIL. Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills with the ability to communicate complex ideas in simple terminology. Ability to understand and clearly relate technical information and principals of operation to other members of the organization. Ability to analyze operational problems and recommend innovative solutions, demonstrating time management skills. Proven ability to plan and execute complex projects with stringent budgets and timelines. Demonstrated organizational, analytical, and decision making skills. Participation in a 24x7 on-call rotation may be required.
