Title Software Developer - Senior
location Toronto, ON
CRJMC Required
Submission Last Date 22nd April, 2025, 9:15am
Rate - $85/HR

Responsibilities:

Full-Stack Software Developer (ICON, PHIX and STIX)

• Maintain integration components and code between ICON and PHIX
• Provide programming technical support for ICON/PHIX integration for incident management, application functionality sustainment, Application Programing Interface (API) management, performance tuning and technical documentation
• Develop and sustain components that ensure secure integration of the provincial digital health immunization asset with third-party consumer application
• Provide ongoing support for ICON for Public with PIN Tool, including ongoing migration of ICON application to On-Premised DHDP Docker EE with Kubernetes
• Support ICON immunization data validation submitted by clients
• Fix issues on ICON APIs to update immunization information in Panorama
• Implement new features and enhancements in STIX
• Conduct performance tuning to make sure PHIX and STIX application handle a big volume of data from the external sources
• Develop, test, support and maintain components of the PHIX and STIX application
• Design data-driven logic and conducting unit tests for DHIR Integration Hub and its connected integration services and common APIs, including the PHIX tool
• Ensure alignment with Panorama updates and patches
• Provide programming support for incident management, application functionality sustainment, performance tuning and technical documentation
• Perform technical analysis, prepare detailed programming specifications, program design, write and/or generate code, and conduct unit tests
• Translate technical specifications for integration/sustainment into working, tested application code
• Develop detailed application programming specifications, writing code and scripts, design data-driven logic and conducting unit test
• Provide impact analysis, effort estimate and solution design/development due to solution/software upgrades or any new requirements (e.g. Panorama 4.4.x upgrades, PHU merge and more)
• Maintain Development environments and adopt continuous Integration (CI) practice
• Support approximately 344,600 immunizations and around 83,700 clients via ICON, and an estimated 120,200 Yellow Card retrievals
• Work with Quality Assurance Specialist (QA) and Solutions Designer to design, code, test, debug and document DHIR application integration services to ensure alignment with Panorama 4.4.x upgrade
• Modify the underlying components to conform to vendor upgrade releases of the Panorama product, business requirement changes, as well as specialized support for the overall DHIR solution
• Provide software expertise in various computing platforms, operating systems, database technology, communication protocols, middleware and gateways.

Skills

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Public Sector Experience

Experience working with federal/provincial/broader public-sector healthcare providers

Knowledge of the provincial immunization system and Public Sector large complex IT Health related projects or equivalent

Experience with integration of Clinical IT Systems such as Client and Provider Registries

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

Knowledge of industry standard such as Project Management Institute (PMI)

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.

5 points

Technical Skills

10+ years of experience with:

Preparing user interface design, technical specifications and documentation for design, development, installation, testing and performance of integrated, multi-services systems

UI Frameworks (JavaFX, Spring, jQuery) or similar frameworks for web and mobile applications

Java programming on Sun Solaris and RED-HAT/Linux, WebSphere Liberty Profile/WebSphere Application server, WebSphere Studio Application Developer, web services

Experience with NODE.JS,Nginx, OAuth2, SecureKey Concierge

Knowledge and experience with Postgres, RabbitMQ , Kafka

Java, Java EE, Java Frameworks (Hibernate), Java Scheduling/Threading, JavaScript, Angular and eclipses RESTFUL web services, Redhat/Linux scripting

Oracle RDBMs(19c), SQL, PL/SQL, JSON, XML, ETL, stored procedure, optimized database queries, data architecture, data design and modelling, data mapping and database query performance tuning

Front end programming skills including HTML5, JSF, PrimeFaces, CSS and JavaScript

Knowledge and experience with API testing and management tools such as Postman, SOAPUI, Swing

Experience with version control system SVN or GitLab.

Working knowledge of issue tracking sysem Jira.

Experience in developing accessible UI components.

Knowledge and experience with Informatica, Elastic/Logstash/Kibana

Experience using HL7-FHIR protocols and RESTFUL messaging, Middleware and gateways

Experience with IBM DataPower applications an asset

Experience in Platform as a service (PaaS), Docker, Kubernetes and API Gateway an asset

Knowledge and experience with Prolog, Haskell, LISP, and Cloud technologies using Cloud Foundry would be an asset.

50 points

Core Skills, Knowledge and Experience

10+ years of experience with:

Working with business analysts to translate the business requirements and functional specifications into an application design appropriate to meet the business and operational/IT needs

Working with technical systems specifications and translating them into working, tested applications for large, complex, mission critical applications sustainment and upgrades

Work with Quality Assurance (QA) to code, test, and debug extensions/tools integration services

Analysis, design and development work on complex, multi-tier web-based applications, micro-services architecture, mobile, and off-the-shelf solutions

Proven technical leadership skills with ability to identify areas for improvement, and recommend solutions

Designing, developing and implementing applications that work across modern browsers and various platforms, and mobile devices

Using and applying extensive knowledge of User Interface (UI) design principles across a variety of applications, platforms and devices

Conducting technical analysis, program code, detailed programming reports and specifications, program design, writing and/or generating code, and conducting tests

Developing and maintaining system design models, technical documentation and specifications

Maintaining development environments and adopt continuous Integration (CI) practice

Conducting technical evaluation and assessment of options for technical design issues, application figuration aspects and integration capabilities, related tools and utilities, gap analysis of integration components to technical requirements/specifications/documentation

Providing impact analysis, effort estimate and solution design/development for solution/software upgrades or based on any new business requirements

Undertaking proof of technology with test data to simulate application load and performance tuning related applications

Providing software expertise in various computing platforms, operating systems, database technology, communication protocols, middleware and gateways

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

Developing and maintaining system design models, technical documentation and specifications

Developing medical and clinical based systems

Web performance optimization

Various computing platforms, operating systems, database technology, communication protocols, middleware and gateways

Conducting technical analysis, trouble-shooting, and issue resolutions for production operational support of reports, and other components and utilities

Knowledge of recognized accessibility laws, regulations, and standards (e.g., W3C, WCAG) or other specific accessibility standards, and experience in usability, accessibility and compliance testing

Ensuring compliance with architecture framework and system standards, and Agile Development Methodology

Project management practices, and ability to contribute to design/development project plans, including work breakdown, resource estimates, and status reports

Experience with Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

Continuous Integration (CI) practice and enhanced Ci/CD experience and DevOps methodologies and technologies an asset

Knowledge and experience with leading-edge technologies, design criteria including usability, security, and privacy for web and mobile applications.

30 points

General Skills

Demonstrated strong leadership and people management skills

Exceptional analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills

Demonstrated strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication, and presentation skills

Proven troubleshooting and critical thinking experience

Demonstrated ability to apply strong listening skills to facilitate issue resolution

Effective consulting skills to engage with all stakeholders with proven track record for building strong working relationships

Excellent customer service skills, including tact and diplomacy to ensure client needs are managed effectively

A motivated, flexible, detail-oriented and creative team player with perseverance, excellent organization and multi-tasking abilities, and a proven track record for meeting strict deadlines.

15 points

MUST HAVES:

• Java programming on Sun Solaris and RED-HAT/Linux, WebSphere Liberty Profile/WebSphere Application server, WebSphere Studio Application Developer, web services
• Experience with NODE.JS,Nginx, OAuth2, SecureKey Concierge
• Java, Java EE, Java Frameworks (Hibernate), Java Scheduling/Threading, JavaScript, Angular and eclipses RESTFUL web services, Redhat/Linux scripting
• Oracle RDBMs(19c), SQL, PL/SQL, JSON, XML, ETL, stored procedure, optimized database queries, data architecture, data design and modelling, data mapping and database query performance tuning
• Front end programming skills including HTML5, JSF, PrimeFaces, CSS and JavaScript