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Job Summary

UBC has embarked on a multi-year journey to transform its academic and administrative support processes and system environments for the entire UBC community. In November 2020, UBC successfully went live with its new HR and Finance implementation of Workday. The Integrated Renewal Program (IRP) is now focused on the journey to renew the Student information ecosystem, anchored by the implementation of Workday Student.

The Integrated Renewal Program—Student (IRP Student) vision is to transform the way UBC supports learning and research, and how UBC works, to create a cohesive, integrated, and enriched experience for students, staff, and faculty. This implementation will result in superior support for UBC students, a better user experience, a new set of tools, a new way of working, and improved reporting for informed decision-making. IRP Student will leverage the industry-leading cloud enterprise solution Workday to replace our current core Student administration systems with a new integrated, user friendly, mobile-enabled platform.

For more information on the IRP Student, please visit www.integrated-renewal.ubc.ca

The Senior Developer leads the analysis, design and review of existing or proposed system features and requirements and devises computer programs, systems and related procedures.

The incumbent plays an important role in all aspects of the planning, implementation and operation of an enterprise-scale data integration solution for the University of British Columbia that transforms the processes and systems by which data is exchanged between major and minor systems at the university.

Working closely with analysts, technical leads, managers and developers from IRP – Student and UBC IT, from the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) program and sustainment teams, and from the broader IT community, the incumbent, working in concert with the Senior Programmer Analysts, will develop technical solutions, including aspects of the complete development stack including front end development, database, API’s, as necessary, to satisfy the ongoing solution needs of the University and of the University's major ERP programs.

This is a hands-on delivery role within a multi-disciplinary technical and business team.

Organizational Status

The Solution Delivery Center (SDC) is a unit within the Integrated Renewal Program – Student responsible for developing technical solutions at UBC to enable the University, faculty, staff, students and partners to have business solutions developed with appropriate toolsets.

The SDC is responsible for the selection, acquisition or development, deployment, and operation of the suite of applications related to enterprise integrations. The SDC works closely with core UBC IT and IT Enabled project teams to ensure that all releases to production of solutions and supporting toolsets are of the required quality.

Services are delivered through the use of Information Technology best practices and customer focused processes to enable stakeholders to achieve UBC objectives. The Senior Developer will report to a Technical Project Manager within the SDC.

Work Performed

Specific Duties:

• Work with development teams and management to create software solutions

• Manage the complete software development process from conception to deployment

• Maintain and upgrade the software following deployment

• Manage the end-to-end life cycle for the production of software and applications

• Oversee and guide the analysis, writing, building, and deployment of software

• Oversee automated testing and provide feedback to management during the development process

• Modify and test changes to previously developed programs

• Develop visually appealing solutions including architecture, designer mock-ups and wireframes into front-end code

• Design user interactions for solutions

• Develop functional databases, applications, and servers to support solutions on the back end

• Ensure cross-platform optimization for mobile if required

• Develop and design RESTful services and APIs

• Stay abreast of developments in web applications, 4GL BPME, rule engines and programming languages

• Strategize organizational direction on emerging technology platforms and communicate the effectiveness to executive stakeholders

• Stay current and provide insight on cutting edge software approaches, architectures, and vendors

• Manage and write technical documentation.

• Ensure that non-functional requirements such as security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability are being considered when architecting solutions.

• Keep job knowledge up-to-date by studying new development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal and professional networks; participating in professional organizations.

Core Duties:

• Provides technical leadership in the analysis and review of existing or proposed system features and integration, security, scalability and performance requirements with users, business analysts, architects and team members.

• Leads the evaluation and selection process for application packages, and advises on options, risk, cost vs. benefits, and impacts on business processes and goals.

• Develops system test plans, oversees testing of new or modified applications and ensures applications meet specifications.

• Develops integration plans and ensures for the incorporation of plans into integration testing process.

• Ensures documentation of functions and changes to new or modified modules, tests activities/results, error handling and backup/recovery procedures.

• Designs, develops and programs specialized custom software, prepares functional specifications, and builds prototypes.

• Provides expert advice on complex system design issues and contributes to ongoing planning and development of systems enhancements.

• Packages in house developed applications for production or integrates vendor supplied applications.

• May manage small to medium sized projects.

• Provides technical expertise, training, and consultation to other staff.

• Provides ongoing maintenance and operational support for applications.

• Supports software development lifecycle and applies and follows appropriate programming/development methodologies and best practices as instructed.

• Maintains appropriate professional designations and up-to-date knowledge of current information technology techniques and tools.

• Performs other related duties as required.

Consequence of Error/Judgement

Effective coding within the SDC is essential for the delivery of UBC IT services to the departments and faculties. Decisions and actions taken by the Senior Developer will have a direct impact on how efficiently and effectively UBC Applications will perform and function.

The incumbent takes an active, participatory role in ensuring the reliability and availability of UBC mission critical 24x7x365 systems including application monitoring, tier 2 support, problem analysis and resolution, and ensuring services meet or exceed customer service levels at all times. Errors in judgment, poor planning, or failure to act decisively could have a detrimental effect on these systems. Unreliable systems and code errors that disrupt the reliable operations of these system will damage the reputation of the University.

Supervision Received
The Senior Developer, works under the general direction of the Associate Director, IRP Student – Technical Lead, but will report to a Technical Project Manager within the SDC.

Supervision Given

Provides guidance, coaching and technical leadership to less experienced Programmer Analysts. Conducts peer reviews of the designs and implementations of colleagues. Provides feedback to Managers on other Programmer Analysts' performance and makes recommendations for facilitating improvements.

Directs and coordinates the work of other Programmer Analysts, Integration Analysts, Business Analysts, QA Analysts, users and other staff assigned to projects.

Provides input/recommendations into the hiring and evaluation of staff.

A degree in Computer Science is preferred. Demonstrates ongoing career development through active and self-motivated professional development. Experience in designing, developing and implementing medium to large scale software applications and integrations primarily using Java or Java-based tools to implement SOAP-based web services or RESTful APIs an asset.

Ability to keep current with developments and trends in information technology.

Technical qualifications include:

• Demonstrated knowledge of and experience working with Enterprise Application Development tools Java, 4GL, business process engines, etc. implementing Enterprise Application Development Patterns.

• Demonstrated knowledge of and experience working with Enterprise Application Integration tools ETLs, ESBs, etc. implementing Enterprise Integration Patterns.

• General knowledge and/or experience of standard industry methodologies for large COTS implementation programs.

• Very good oral and technical written communication skills.

• Very good working knowledge of programming/scripting/markup languages such as Java, Groovy, Python, Perl, HTML, XML, JSON, etc.

• Strong working knowledge of SOAP/REST concepts and technologies: XSD, XSLT, XPATH, WSDL, SOAP APIs, WS-\*, JSON Schema, RAML/Swagger, RESTful APIs, and OAuth2, both using and implementing.

• Strong working knowledge of enterprise application and integration patterns include message-oriented integrations that leverage technologies such as ActiveMQ, JMS and STOMP.

• Good understanding and experience with front end and backend development methodologies.as well as data modeling, data mapping, data structures, and data integration including the following concepts and technologies: SOA, ETLs, ESBs, MOMs, EAI, enterprise integration patterns, SQL/DDL/DML.

• Experience using standard 3GL and 4GL IDE’s for development.

• Good understanding and practical experience with many of the following: Object Oriented Analysis and Design concepts, design techniques and patterns; UML concepts; ORM frameworks; web application frameworks; software development methodologies and tools e.g. build management, code repositories, version control, continuous integration and continuous deployment; test-driven design; behavior-driven design.

• Good project management skills including a working knowledge of SDLC methodologies, preferably Agile methodologies e.g. Lean, XP or Scrum.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills demonstrated through troubleshooting complex technical problems.

Top Skills

• Experience in designing, developing and implementing medium to large scale software applications and integrations, primarily using Java or Java-based tools to implement SOAP-based web services or RESTful API's.
• Good understanding and experience with front end and backend development methodologies.as well as data modeling, data mapping, data structures, and data integration including the following concepts and technologies: SOA, ETLs, ESBs, MOMs, EAI, enterprise integration patterns, SQL/DDL/DML.
• Strong working knowledge of enterprise application and integration patterns include message-oriented integrations that leverage technologies such as ActiveMQ, JMS and STOMP.

Core Competencies

Collaboration Advanced - A: Consistently fosters collaboration and respect among team members by addressing elements of the group process that impedes, or could impede, the group from reaching its goal. Engages the “right people,” within and beyond organizational boundaries, by matching individual capabilities and skills to the team’s goals. Works with a wide range of teams and readily shares lessons learned and credit for team accomplishments.

Communicating for Results Advanced - A: Converses with, writes reports for, and creates/delivers presentations to all levels of colleagues and peer groups in ways that support problem solving and planning. Seeks a consensus with business partners. Debates opinions, tests understanding, and clarifies judgments. Brings conflict into the open empathetically. Explains the context of multiple interrelated situations, asks searching, probing questions, and solicits expert advice prior to taking action and making recommendations.

Problem Solving Advanced - A: Diagnoses problems using formal problem-solving tools and techniques from multiple angles and probes underlying issues to generate multiple potential solutions. Proactively anticipates and prevents problems. Devises, facilitates buy-in, makes recommendations, and guides implementation of corrective and/or preventive actions for complex issues that cross organizational boundaries and are unclear in nature. Identifies potential consequences and risk levels. Seeks support and buy-in for problem definition, methods of resolution, and accountability.

Role Based Competencies

Accountability Advanced - A: Sets enhanced objectives for self and others. Monitors performance trends and identifies opportunities to improve standards. Provides regular feedback and suggests alternative approaches necessary to ensure that organizational objectives and superior standards are achieved. Delegates responsibility and reallocates resources as needed to ensure that priorities are met for initiatives within area of responsibility.

Business Process Knowledge Advanced - A: Describes and documents critical cross-functional business process flows. Applies business process reengineering techniques and methods in analyzing process flow and accountability charts. Recommends and advocates substantive process enhancements and assesses both internal and external implications.

Information Systems Knowledge Advanced - A: Identifies means of integrating technical support requirements with enterprise processes and strategies. Identifies technological opportunities to meet client needs. Creates information system solutions to meet the needs of business stakeholders. Partners with appropriate technical consultants, experts, and managers to resolves complex problems across all IT solutions.

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