Specialized IT Consultant – Intermediate; RQMinistry of Public and Business Service Deli

Note:
This contract will require the consultant to work from the office location 5 days per week.

Responsibilities:

• Works in partnership with clients, advising them on information technology in order to meet their business objectives or overcome problems, work to improve structure and efficiency of an organization’s I&IT systems.
• The I&IT Consultant may be used to provide strategic guidance to organizations with regard to Information Management & IT technology, IT infrastructures and the enablement of major business processes through enhancements to IT.
• Provides subject matter expertise in their field and highly expert technical assistance.
• The resource will also support CSC release and infrastructure solutions support sustainment activities, urgent priorities, changing needs, or time‑sensitive infrastructure upgrades, or other sustainment activities supporting any CSC platforms overseen by the Cluster where annual work is required.

General

Skills:

• Acts as the technical advisor/expert on all aspects of a specific deliverable
• Provide the quality assurance/quality control of specific deliverables
• Anticipates and resolves problems to ensure that the deliverables are completed within budget, to the highest quality, meeting or exceeding expectations
• Develops processes and procedures for implementing deliverables
• Prepares reports and presentations including options, recommendations, implementation plans, etc.
• Works with clients to define the scope of a project and to determine requirements
• Defines software, hardware and network requirements
• Analyzes I&IT requirements giving independent and objective advice on the use of I&IT
• Designs, tests, installs and monitors new systems and develops solutions and implementation of new systems
• Familiar with change‑management principles and methodology
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices

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

• Participating in the analysis, design, development and testing on assigned projects;
• Participating in project design and codewalkthroughs;
• Perform knowledge transfer to designated Ministry staff, providing expertise and training to business users;
• Establishing relationships with client management and client subject matter experts and staff of the ministries to build knowledge of business directions, issues and operations;
• Participating in the creation of detailed plans and accurate estimates towards development, testing, and implementation of the project or program;
• Participating in and/or leading Joint Application Design sessions with the business and IT teams;
• Contributing to successful project completion by identifying risks and developing/recommending mitigation strategies;
• Liaising with IT specialists and unit leads and working closely with support team members and relevant stakeholders;
• Facilitating defect, issue and risk resolution by following up with the business to confirm design decisions as required;
• Participating in discussions with the business analyst regarding any changes required to business and/or system requirements, as well as requirement gathering sessions;
• Working closely with the subject matter experts, managers, and staff of the ministries on issues and business needs;
• Creating and/or updating data processing overview, technical design, source to target mapping, operation manual and other technical documentation;
• Providing input into and/or completing required architectural/development artifacts;
  Consulting with clients, analyzing their business needs and assessing their problems/opportunities, promoting I&IT services, solutions and approaches and ensuring the cluster adds value in supporting business needs
• Systems and Quality Assurance Testing
• Analyzing requirements;
• Creating test strategy test plan, test case documentation and test scripts;
• Documenting expected testing results;
• Creating and modifying complex data‑sets for testing purposes;
• Executing functional, regression and performance testing based on the test cases and scripts developed;
• Reporting on the status of test execution and testing results, documenting defects;
• Prepar…