RQ- Solutions Designer - Senior

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 optimize and 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 optimization of the Digital Health Immunization Repository (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:

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