The Technical Specialist team is a highly technical group that supports the delivery of the most technically challenging projects our organization implements, including new technology and solutions proofs of concept, integration in to existing systems and assisting with support across multiple delivery domains. Involved in every cycle of project delivery, The Senior Specialist Application architecture is the design authority in term of hardware/software selection, application architecture, security & network requirements, specifications and design review and implementation.

Key Responsibilities: 

Working within our team on various projects, the Senior Specialist Application architecture will be responsible to ensure to address all technical aspects. This includes but is not limited to:

• Participate in the planning and early design sessions of new project and technology functionality
• Perform impact analysis related to the implementation/introduction of a given technology
• Lead the technical solutions development, implementation and monitoring.
• Document, deliver and implement technical user stories
• Perform Code Reviews with vendors and other technical specialists
• Actively participate in the design and the implementation phases (including design reviews, environment setup), quantitative analysis (validation of algorithm/solution)
• Capacity planning and definition of the performance testing plan and oversee the execution of the performance testing
• Develop, implement and review non functional, performance related requirements and tracking to produce system performance metrics
• Evaluate the current utilization of the systems within the user community and propose improvements to meet business needs
• Develop and document new system interface agreements with new internal and external interfaces

Preferred Qualifications/Competencies:

• Training/Education
  • Bachelor or Master of computer engineering or computer science (preferred)
  • Bachelor or Master in telecommunications/network engineering
  • Equivalent experience and / or education
• Skills
  • Ability to independently investigate and learn about new technology
  • Strong analytical and communication skills
  • Strong technical writing skills (ability to write clearly and concisely)
  • Strong troubleshooting skills (ability to uncover trouble rapidly and provide resolution)
  • Proven leadership and organization skills
  • Excellent ability to articulate and document technical concepts to non-technical audience
  • Autonomous, resourceful, strong tolerance to ambiguity, excellent capacity for applied learning
  • Bilingualism is an asset (English / French)
• Technical Knowledge(Mandatory)    
  • Infrastructure/Software
    • CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins, Artifactory, uDeploy, uRelease & GitHub)
    • SSH, AWK, SED, etc.
    • SOAP, REST
    • Clustering, high-availability & DRP (planning and execution)
    • Administration of multi-tier & complex environments
    • Java/JEE Application servers (Weblogic, JBoss mainly),
    • OS (UNIX –Solaris/HPUX/Linux (mainly), Windows (optional))
    • TCP Protocols, Networking and Firewall Knowledge
    • Apache / Confluent Kafka
    • Kubernetes
    • OpenShift
    • Docker
    • Elastic Stack (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana)
    • Unix/Linux/Solaris shell scripting a definite asset
    • Web Services systems integration and performance bench-marking
• Databases (Asset)
  • Any RDBMS (Oracle - primarily, MySQL, SQL Server, Teradata, etc)
  • Any Hadoop NoSQL knowledge/experience
  • Experience building/executing procedures using SQL, PL/SQL, ETL
  • Experience in large scale database solutions
• Programming/Markup Languages (Mandatory)
  • Web Services / SOA, N-Tier Architectures
  • Any procedural language (C, Perl, Shell, AWK, Expect, TK, etc)
  • Enterprise application frameworks (Java EE, ESB, .NET, etc)Any OO language (Java- mainly, C/C++ an asset, Javascript, Python, etc)
  • Any markup language (HTML + CSS, XML, SGML, etc)
• General Understanding of:
  • Agile/SAFe methodologies and related tools (Jira, Confluence etc.)
  • CI/CD pipeline
  • industry standards of IT, such as TOGAF, ETOM and TMF models (preferred)
  • IP stacks (OSS/BSS)
  • Network architecture concepts such as NML, MPLS, ICN, DMZ (definite asset)
  • Hardware - Sun, HP, IBM, 
  • Virtual Servers, VMWare and Docker (OpenShift)

Bilingualism is an asset (English and French); adequate knowledge of French is required for positions in Quebec.