Responsibilities:
- Provide senior technical expertise, project leadership, and coordination of activities in the development, implementation, and maintenance of a diverse range of cost-effective I&IT solutions.
- Provide technical advice to clients and leverage OPS I&IT solutions and applications to meet program/service goals and objectives ensuring efficiency.
- Provides specialized technical expertise in the overall analysis of the design and architecture of systems solutions.
- Ability to evaluate recommendations and ensure all recommended solutions for improvement are congruent with the project goals and objectives.
- Identifies short and long-term project goals/objectives, and as a senior technical expert, defines and identifies program and service delivery requirements in support of the development and/or acquisition of client applications.
- Leads the analysis, development, and documentation of design and architecture of systems solutions.
- Leads the development of testing, integration, and implementation of systems solutions into the clients applications.
- Guides the feasibility studies and cost-effective analyses of proposed client I&IT initiatives, ensures all studies and analyses are documented.
- Leads the technical aspects of projects related to the development and/or acquisition of a diverse range of client applications through all stages of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
- This includes planning, scheduling, and estimating resources, providing technical expertise, co-ordination, monitoring progress, and providing management with project status updates.
- Demonstrated experience gathering requirements, translating business documents into technical specifications.
- Experience leading development/support teams supporting multi-dimensional and relational databases and their applications for effective planning, budgeting, strategizing, and forecasting procedures.
- Demonstrated experience designing and developing complex applications utilizing relational and multi-dimensional databases.
- Ability to provide implementation and post-implementation support as required.
- Oversees the research and evaluation of the technical components in the acquisition of software, hardware, technology, systems, and products.
- Recommends and directs the measurement and improvement of tools, techniques, standards, and performance criteria to control the quality of application development initiatives.
- Provides coaching and direction to junior analysts throughout the project, related to the development and/or acquisition of a diverse range of client applications through all stages of the Systems Development Life Cycle.
- Knowledge and experience in rapid application development (RAD) methodologies.
- Knowledge and experience with middleware and gateways.
- Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies, and practices.
- Experience with development/maintenance of documentation as per Methodology.
- Good working knowledge of Dimensions and Facts.
- Knowledge of multidimensional structures (cubes).
- Ability to gather, review, and provide feedback to business requirements.
Technical Skills: 50%
- Experience with SOA applications in a J2EE, Java environment and integrations: APIs, Oracle database (must have).
- Extensive experience with managing Wireframes based on BRD (must have).
- Intensive experience with troubleshooting and technical assessment (must have).
- Experience with setup Development, Staging, and User Acceptance Testing Environments.
- Experience in preparing and carrying out deployments into test environments (must have).
- Database management systems and application database administration.
- Hands-on experience in preparing detailed analysis and recommendations to ensure compliance with appropriate OPS standards on security, privacy, and accessibility (must have).
- Experience carrying out Quality Assurance Testing (must have).
- Walkthrough, Documentation, and Knowledge Transfer.
- Conduct Design Walkthrough sessions with the project team (must have).
- Conduct Code-level Walkthrough sessions.
- Produce Technical and Application Design Documents (must have).
- Understanding of systems environments, business analysis, and change management in projects or programs related to integrated multi-ministries government services (must have).
- Experience in producing business and technical documentation and agreements.
- Produce step-by-step Installation and Back-out Procedures.
- Post-Implementation support (must have).
- Knowledge of theory and principles of systems design and development, programming concepts and languages, and related methods, techniques, practices, and standards (must have).
- Knowledge and experience with Government Payment Gateway (must have).
- Previous Public Sector experience with Secure messaging gateway system (must have).