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Solutions Designer - Senior

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Assignment Type: This position is currently listed as "Hybrid" and consultants will be required to work onsite at the work location 3 days a week and 2 days from home, or as per schedule agreed to with the Hiring Manager.

 

Extension/Amendment Attestation: Extension(s) only allowed using unused days/funds left on contract. No additional funds will be added beyond the maximum contract value and any extension options included in the original SOW. The Statement of Work (SOW) shall expire on March 31, 2026. HSC may exercise its option(s) to extend an SOW beyond March 31, 2026. Such extension(s) will be allowable only if the Master Service Agreement is extended beyond April 5, 2026 and be upon the same terms, conditions and covenants contained in the SOW.

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Responsibilities:

  • Design, develop and enhance large scale software systems using RESTful & Micro Services based architecture and design
  • Design containerized based solutions/architecture
  • Prepare & continuously improve solution design to integrate in house developed applications (such as PHIX, ICON for Public, and m-IMMS through APIs with Panorama) and external applications via APIs.
  • Conduct performance tuning and recommend performance improvement solution
  • Work autonomously as a design specialist on high profile, complex and high-risk technology solutions with significant organizational impact
  • Lead design and development of an architecture for the entire DHIR/Public Health solutions ecosystem, shared frameworks and applications
  • Oversee development team as required, make sure developers implement good quality code and enforce regular code reviews
  • Automate build process in development environment through CI/CD
  • Provide technical guidance, quality assurance/control and support the build, test and deploy environments, overseeing junior staff members
  • Work with Business Analysts to translate integration and sustainment requirements and specifications into appropriate design that meets ongoing business, operational and IT needs
  • Update and/or create new architectural artifacts that detail solution design needed to improve current authentication mechanism by leveraging a future provincial mechanism for using 2/multi factor authentication for end users
  • Improve performance and integration of the extensions/tools
  • Provide technical guidance, and overseeing junior staff members
  • Work with relevant architects to ensure a consistent object model, data model, interface model and application model is maintained
  • Work with infrastructure, operational and deployment and technical teams to define the physical deployment of the application
  • Work with security architects and privacy SMEs to ensure that the application design and physical deployment are ensuring the required level of security and adhere to data privacy standards
  • Oversee and define development specifications, technical requirements, system performance objectives, identify necessary system modifications
  • Participate in the creation of key architecture artifacts such as Blueprints, Assessment of Options and Functional/Non-Functional Requirements
  • Produce low level design/development artefacts, design documentation that displays enough details to allow developers to code and test
  • Provide overall technical support for incident management, application functionality sustainment, performance tuning and technical documentation
  • Define software, hardware and network requirements, including but not limited to refining Health Level International 7 (HL7) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) specification/requirements for DHIR
  • Ensure understanding by the data contribution and the data consumption partners of the HL7 FHIR specifications
  • Work to ensure a consistent object, data, interface and application model is maintained
  • Apply the best practices in design, build, development and deployment to meet the functional and non-functional requirements of the extensions/tools, and adhering to GO-ITS standards and internal branch standards
  • Participate in third-party/vendor product assessments and integrations
  • Provide recommendations on value-added architectural improvements/ enhancements
  • Ensure timely delivery of quality products
  • Analyze and solve problems, identify issues and apply or implement solutions
  • Work collaboratively with architecture team to create required architectural artifacts
  • Manage the development teams, provide and support the development build, test and deploy environments
  • Participate and lead in solution intake requests, for solutions options analysis, recommendation, estimates and proposals.
Skills
 
Experience and Skill Set Requirements

 

 

Public Sector Experience

·5+ years of experience working with federal/provincial/broader public-sector healthcare providers

·Knowledge of Public Sector Enterprise Architecture artifacts (or similar), processes and practices, and ability to produce technical documentation that comply with industry standard practices

·In-depth knowledge of industry standard such as Project Management Institute (PMI) and Public Sector I&IT project management methodologies.

·Knowledge and experience with Broader Public-Sector health related projects

·Knowledge and understanding of Ministry policy and IT project approval processes and requirements

·Experience adopting and adhering to Public Sector Unified I&IT Project Methodology, Public Sector Enterprise Architecture and Public Sector Gating process, and Public Sector Standard Systems Development Methodologies

·Experience with large complex IT Health-related projects

·Demonstrated experience with GO-ITS Digital Health standards, and internal branch standards.

 

5 points

Technical Skills

10+ years of experience in the following:

·Design, develop and enhance large scale software systems using RESTful & Micro Services based architecture and design

·Design containerized based solutions/architecture

·Prepare & continuously improve solution design to integrate with in house developed applications

·Conduct performance tuning and recommend performance improvement solution.

·Work autonomously as a design specialist on high profile, complex and high risk technology solutions with significant organizational impact.

·Lead design and development of an architecture for an entire Health solutions ecosystem, shared frameworks and applications

·Oversee development team as required, make sure developers implement good quality code and enforce regular code reviews.

·Automate build process in development environment through CI/CD.

·Provide technical guidance, quality assurance/control and support the build, test and deploy environments, overseeing junior staff members

·Improve performance and integration of extensions/tools through APIs and Oracle advanced queue

·Provide technical guidance, quality assurance/control and support the build, test and deploy environments, overseeing junior staff members

·Designing, developing and implementing highly available mission critical JEE server applications, web-based applications based on Progressive Web Apps (PWA), JSF, JavaScript, Node.js, and mobile technologies based for IOS and Android (Native and Hybrid Development)

·Setting up development environments and mechanism using tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Maven, Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes

·Extensive experience with JEE environments such as WebSphere Application Server, Oracle 12C Database platforms, as well as languages such as Java 1.7 or higher, JavaScript 6 or higher, Python 2.7 or higher

·Experience with digital identity tools, including oAuth2 and SAML Security Specifications

·Experience with Cloud and API Management Frameworks

·HL7 FHIR Experience with RESTFUL web services JSON and XML

·Experience using HL7 related standards such as HL7 FHIR and knowledge of terminology standards such as SNOMED-CT and LOINC

·Experience in Continuous Improvement/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) methods and procedures

·Experience in agile methodologies for the analysis, design, development and implementation of applications in large complex environments.

 

50 points

Core Skills and Experience

10+ years of experience in the following:

·Working autonomously as a design specialist on high profile, complex and high-risk technology solutions with significant organizational impact

·Automating build process in development environment through CI/CD

·Experience leading a team of developers, assigning tasks, mentoring junior developers, coordinating components for successful delivery, making sure developers implement good quality code and enforcing regular code reviews

·Overseeing and defining development specifications, technical requirements, system performance objectives, identify necessary system modifications

·Leading design and development of architecture for entire ecosystem, shared frameworks and applications

·Overseeing development team to ensure implementation of good quality code and enforcing regular code reviews

·Participating in the creation of key architecture artifacts such as Blueprints, Assessment of Options and Functional/Non-Functional Requirements

·Conceptual and analytical skills to assess and evaluate client needs and cost/benefit analyses for new technology requirements in planning and designing solutions

·Providing technical guidance, quality assurance/control and supporting the build, test and deploy environments

·Working with business analysts to translate integration and sustainment requirements and specifications into appropriate design that meets ongoing business, operational and IT needs

·Working with relevant architects to ensure a consistent object model, data model, interface model and application model is maintained

·Working with infrastructure, operational and deployment and technical teams to define the physical deployment of the application

·Working with security architects and privacy SMEs to ensure that the application design and physical deployment are ensuring the required level of security and adhere to data privacy standards

·Producing low level design/development artefacts, design documentation that displays enough details to allow developers to code and test

·Providing overall technical support for incident management, application functionality sustainment, performance tuning and technical documentation

·Defining software, hardware and network requirements, including but not limited to refining Health Level International 7 (HL7) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) specification/requirements for solutions

·Ensuring understanding by the data contribution and the data consumption partners of the HL7 FHIR specifications

·Participating in third-party/vendor product assessments and integrations

·Providing recommendations on value-added architectural improvements/ enhancements

·Participating in and leading solution intake requests, for solutions options analysis, recommendation, estimates and proposals

·Experience with health care IT systems and standards