We are looking for a Solutions Designer for a Hybrid role:
 

Responsibilities:

• Undertakes the design of BI 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 related best practices, OPS directory/messaging standards, standard infrastructure/architecture management, service delivery processes, infrastructure 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-service systems; assess performance and capacity of existing system making recommendations for improving performance and developing technical documentation.
• Experience planning, migrating, implementing, and sustaining large complex system development projects.
• Knowledge of technology developments, trends, and new products to evaluate client applications’ 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 applications.
• Experience with systems evaluation to assess conditions, technical performance, and capacity of existing systems and determine the 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, and teamwork skills
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines

 

Key deliverables to be performed by the Solution Designer include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Complete work and achieve milestones within the assigned deadlines.
• Work on the conversion of older reporting solutions involving R scripting to ETL for use in the Microsoft BI reporting stack.
• Consult with clients and manage business analysis in order to assess clients' business problems/opportunities and to identify business and technology solutions suited to client needs.
• Develop a realistic backlog management process and contribute to preparing the overall project schedule.
• Ensure a defined Change Management Process is followed for any change from the agreed scope, schedule, or quality.
• Liaise with IT specialists and unit leads and work closely with support team members and relevant stakeholders.
• Notify the cluster/ministry project manager in writing of any issues or other material concerns related to the assignment deliverables, as soon as becomes aware of them.
• Participate in discussions with Infrastructure Technology Services (ITS), Cyber Security Branch (CSB), Centre of Excellence for Accessibility and Information Privacy and Archives (IPA) Office to ensure the application remains compliant with all applicable GO-ITS Standards.
• Participate in discussions with the business regarding any changes required to business and system requirements.
• Participate in working groups and client interviews to define and document needs, processes, and problem resolution.
• Perform daily tracking, reporting, and facilitating resolution of issues and risks for all project activities.
• Provide analysis covering systems requirements, screen design, workflow design, gap analysis, testing, and change management in support of any application changes.
• Provide clarification to designers, developers, and testers at various stages of SDLC to ensure that any changes or enhancements are fully regression tested and validated.
• Provide input in creation of change requests.
• Provide knowledge and skill transfer to a designated cluster/ministry staff.
• Provides expertise and assistance to cluster functional areas and external service providers in delivering effective technology solutions to clients.
• Submit deliverables for the cluster/ministry approval.
• Support the analysis of existing business processes, design and recommend process improvements to effectively harness the benefits of using the application(s).
• Work closely with the director, managers, and staff on issues and business needs.
• Work collaboratively with other groups to ensure optimal integration.
• Comply with the Ontario government and the cluster/ministry’s guidelines, standards, and procedures such as:
• Architecture/technology standards and best practices
• Conflict of interest and confidentiality guidelines
• Security procedures and practices
• Ontario Government I&IT Directive, operational policy on the I&IT project gateway process; and
•  Other applicable guidelines, standards, and procedures.

 

Skills:

• A team player with the ability to coordinate multiple projects with competing priorities and strict deadlines.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• Long term vision by being able to work with stakeholders to define the technical roadmap for current applications and provide recommendation.
• Knowledge and experience in working in accordance with policies and procedures of the Ontario Public Service.
• Proven ability to lead technical team to the successful completion of an assignment of this nature, magnitude, and complexity, and demonstrated ability to help them achieve the desired business benefits on schedule and within budget.
• Proven experience facilitating the resolution of I&IT and Business issues.

 

Experience:

• The candidate should have 10+ years of experience in the following:
  • Demonstrated experience in performing gap fit analysis and impact analysis.
  • Demonstrated development and solution design experience in an environment where SQL Server, Oracle, SSIS/ADF, SSAS, and Power BI are used together.
• Experience leading projects that involve technology upgrade/migration to Microsoft BI Suite; determine which part of the existing solution needs to be migrated or rebuilt.
• Experience with data architecture designs and technologies for BI solutions, for both on-premises and cloud solutions
• Experience with role-based access control implementation, such as with Azure AD.
• Extensive experience with source control and environment management.
• Demonstrated experience designing and developing for WCAG AA (AODA) compliance in web applications.
• Demonstrates development and solution design experience with technology, data, databases, statistics, applications, and networking techniques, tools, and practices that enables the candidate to lead the design and development of business intelligence projects.
• Demonstrates experience in working with and analyzing large and diverse data sets, data visualization, KPI development and data profiling to identify relationships and themes.
• Experience Designing Data warehouse components and ETL Scripts
• Experience with R scripts and converting requirements from R Scripts into ETL Scripts would be a strong asset.
• Working experience in debugging mappings, transformations and source qualifier files and Unit testing the newly developed ETL components
• Demonstrate experience in the analysis and planning for the modernization of large, complex multi-platform, multi-tier information technology systems.
• Demonstrate skills and experience with documenting deliverables outlined in the deliverables section.
• Experience supporting business users working on projects or programs involving multiple highly inter-dependent applications and/or data sources.
• Experience with requirement management, quality assurance, and change management tools.
• Experience working with both the business users and IT development teams to ensure business requirements are properly reflected in the system design and technical specifications.
• Extensive experience with GO-ITS standards.
• Knowledge and experience with OPS corporate gating and enterprise architecture checkpoints processes; and
• Experience developing solutions involving technologies such as Informatica, SSIS, Oracle DBMS, MSSQL, Cognos, Microsoft BI, GO-Secure, PKI, and data encryption.



Knowledge Transfer

Transfer From Solution Development /Solutions Designer / Senior to Project Manager

When Knowledge Will Be Transferred:

• Knowledge transfer must be completed one week prior to the end of the project or one week prior to the consultant leaving the ministry.

What Knowledge Will Be Transferred:

• All deliverables, including design/supporting/release/training documents must be checked into designated version control repositories (for example, SharePoint). All final documents and working drafts related to project requirements or solution design must be stored on designated project repositories (for example, SharePoint site, HPQC, TFS)
• Project manager and designated ministry staff must be regularly informed in writing (by email) of where documentation has been stored and must be provided a minimum of one walk-through of all documentation as part of the final knowledge transfer activities.