Cleo Consulting
Location
Ontario, CA | United States
Job description
Assignment: RQ06197 - Solutions Designer - Senior & RQ06198 - Solutions Designer - Senior
Start Date: 2024-04-02
End Date: 2025-03-31
Office Location: 777 Bay Street, Toronto
Organization: Community Services Cluster
Ministry: Ministry of Education
# Business Days: 251.00
Title: Solutions Designer
Hybrid - 3 days on site and 2 remote
MUST
Description
Responsibilities:
Undertakes the design of hosting technology solutions based on the client's service specifications, standards, policies, best practices and cost models, in order to meet client application business requirement and project/initiative deliverables.
General Skills:
Knowledge of integrated networking technologies, mainframe, midrange server, enterprise storage and SAN, and personal computer system technologies
Knowledge of related best practices, OPS directory/messaging standards, standard facilities infrastructure/architecture management, facility service delivery processes, infrastructures policies, procedures and direction, cost models and procurement processes,
Ability to gather client business requirements; corporate I&IT information mandates, client information technology strategic plans, environment and standards
Ability to participate in the development of solutions and provide advice on short/long term solution service development activities.
Knowledge of leading edge technologies design criteria, security and recovery procedures, preparation of technical specifications for installation, testing and performance of integrated, multi-services systems; assess performance and capacity of existing system making recommendations for improving performance and develop technical documentation.
Experience planning, migrating, implementing and sustaining large complex system development projects
Knowledge of technology developments, trends and new products to evaluated application to client short and long term technology requirements.
Basic knowledge of project management methodology (e.g. PMBOK), analytical tools and processes.
Conceptual and analytical skills to assess and evaluate client needs and conduct cost/benefit analyses for new technology requirements in planning and designing solutions.
Experience designing and developing large, complex, highly available, mission critical server applications
Experience with systems evaluation to assess conditions, technical performance and capacity of existing systems and determine need and feasibility of expansion, renovation or replacement
Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills, verbal and written communication skills, interpersonal skills and negotiation skills, team work skills
A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines
Specific Skills:
Proven experience of working with data as well as the related functional applications
Conversant with Power BI Design / Accessibility Standards, works with business to drive out KPIs and assists with visualization and impactful insights leveraging knowledge of business domain data to drive out business needs using Power BI Proof of Concepts/mock-ups.
Demonstrated experience with capturing source to target requirements, supporting business rules and dataflow requirements, comfortable navigating databases using SQL to conduct analysis in support of feasibility and documentation.
Demonstrated experience with: Microsoft Azure Data Factory Services, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, Power BI, DataStage, Quality Stage, Visual Studio, Team Foundation Services, SQL Server Management Studio
An asset if the resource also has Erwin Data Modeler, Power Designer (Hands-on Development Role)
Proven ability to guide the architecture leveraging Azure cloud services, including effective standard use of Microsoft Stack tools and services critical for the integrity, quality and pace of delivery.
Demonstrated knowledge and deep MS stack experience (10 Years) with at least 4 years with Microsoft Azure Data Factory experience
Demonstrated experience with data ingestion from multiple sources, staging and data cleansing, including dimensional modeling and data model architecture and design aligned with data standards and analytics needs of various stakeholders. Includes creation of data warehouses, views, cubes, and other data services products.
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
Technical Experience - 35%
Experience with data architecture designs and technologies for BI solutions, for both on-premise and cloud solutions
Experience leading projects that involve technology upgrade/migration to Microsoft BI Suite; determine which part of existing solution needs to be migrated or rebuilt
10+ years of hands on experience ETL development experience using SSIS / ADF in a data warehousing environment or large data migration; Working experience in debugging mappings, transformations and source qualifier files and Unit testing the newly developed ETL components
Demonstrated knowledge and deep MS stack experience (10 Years) with at least 4 years with Microsoft Azure Data Factory experience
Experience with: Microsoft Azure Data Factory Services, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, Power BI, DataStage, Quality Stage, Visual Studio, Team Foundation Services, SQL Server Management Studio
An asset if the resource can demonstrate direct experience with Erwin Data Modeler, Power Designer (Hands-on Development Role)
Experience with role-based access control implementation, such as with AzureAD
Experience working with Oracle and MSSQL databases
Extensive experience with source control and environment management
Experience with creating documentations such as data dictionary and data source to target mapping; provide feedback/direction to team on how existing documentations can be improved
Experience using PowerDesigner to review data models, as well as make changes and generate DDL's
Experience with data ingestion from multiple sources, staging and data cleansing, including dimensional modeling and data model architecture and design aligned with data standards and analytics needs of various stakeholders. Includes creation of data warehouses, views, cubes, and other data services products.
Experience in developing the Application Code package using tools such as Azure DevOps. Build automation experience is an asset
Core Skills - 35%
Long term vision: be able to work with stakeholders to define technical roadmap for current applications, and provide recommendation
Working knowledge of systems design and development, and related methods, techniques, practices and standards enable you to analyze and define clients' business and information technology requirements pertaining to data flow and data integration; provide recommendation to business
Demonstrates Analytical and problem-solving skills to assess clients' business priorities and needs; to evaluate business and technical design alternatives
Demonstrates ability to guide the architecture leveraging Azure cloud services, including effective standard use of Microsoft Stack tools and services critical for the integrity, quality and pace of delivery.
Working knowledge of technology, data, databases, applications, and networking techniques, tools and practices enable you to lead the design and development of infrastructure related projects.
Project Experience and Techniques - 20%
Demonstrates lead design experience with technology upgrade / migration projects, and show acumen in being able to evaluate and determine best path going forward
Demonstrates experience leading discussions with stakeholders to elicit requirements, developing/consulting on options and solutions, facilitating the resolution of I&IT and Business issues. Ability to drill down on business pain points and determine the right solution, rather than delivering only the item that's being requested by stakeholders
Demonstrates development and design experience with SDLC processes, Agile and Waterfall methodologies
Public Sector Experience: 10%
Previous public sector experience in an organization of equivalent size or complexity in Public Service
Demonstrates experience designing and developing applications that comply with GOITS standards and general processes would be an asset;
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