Solution Designer

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Job Description

Our client has a requirement for a Solution Designer for a permanent opportunity.  The position is located in Toronto.

What makes this Special

Our client has a prestigious reputation and excellent work environment. This position offers an opportunity for personal learning and to contribute to important initiatives that make a difference. Our client is actively screening resumes and scheduling interviews to fill this position, so let one our professional resource managers represent you to the client, promote your skills, and help you prepare.

Role

Our client a major Canadian bank is looking for a full time person.  The Enterprise Customer Solutions (ECS) team, within Corporate Segment Technology Solutions (CSTS), provides Corporate technology support and project delivery for the ICDS-MDM program. Integrated Customer Data Strategy (ICDS) is a multi-year enterprise initiative responsible for the development of a robust enterprise customer Master Data Management (MDM) strategy and approach that will evolve to provide a holistic enterprise 360 degree view of customer across products and services.

Job Description

The ECS team has an immediate need for a Solutions Designer; this designer will act as a lead, oversee and deliver ETL design within MDM portfolio of projects.

• Overall accountability for the delivery of the System Design Specification (SDS), and responsible for developing the Component Design section and the detailed design
• In conjunction with the Solution Architect, assist the Application Owner and Application Manager by providing effort estimates for new projects and initiatives
• Consult on development of the System Requirements Specification (SRS)
• Work with Developers to ensure that the detailed technical design is fully understood and the development initiatives are in line with the intended design and standards
• Conduct code reviews to ensure quality, standards compliance, reusability and ease of maintenance
• Ensure design leverages existing reusable components and has traceability to business requirements and ensure new modules are designed with reusability as a key requirement
• Support production enhancements and implementations
• Strong understanding of the capabilities and limitations of the technical environments
• Deliver effective and efficient solutions by meeting key project milestones and ensure that the project deliverables are on time, within budget, and adhere to the corporate quality and security standards
• Communicate project status and provide timely escalation of issues to overall lead Designer to ensure project objectives are met
• Design, review, and integrate all application requirements, including functional, security, integration, performance, quality, and operations requirements
• Identify and address application and data issues and cross-capability and cross-release issues that affect application integrity
• Provide technical support for escalated incidents/outages to ensure that they are resolved efficiently with minimal impact to stakeholders
• Work with the Technology Project Manager, Technology Business Analysts, and other team members to define metrics and performance goals for the application
• Provide input into the Application Deployment Plan
• Monitor product lifecycles, ensuring specifications and functionality support business objectives and architecture decisions, undertaking re-design, as required
• Follow defined standards, policies and procedures to ensure compliance with the Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) and applicable Business Recovery Plans (BRP)
• Support obtaining stakeholder buy-in for application and technical designs
• Prioritize and manage own workload in order to deliver quality results and meet timelines
• Support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues/ points of interest
• Identify and recommend opportunities to enhance productivity, effectiveness and operational efficiency of the business unit and/or team
• Participate in knowledge transfer within the team and business units
• Establish effective relationships across multiple business and technology partners, program and project managers

Requirements or Qualifications

Key technical skills

• Excellent ETL designing skills
• Data Stage and Quality Stage hands on coding experience
• Experienced with DataStage XML and Web services packs
• Proven problem solving and debugging skills
• Knowledge of ETL integration patterns with MDM Server
• Experience with host and Unix systems
• Knowledge of security concepts and mechanisms (authentication, authorization, encryption)
• Familiar with
  • shared services and infrastructure (EBX, ESB, CA7, Cognos, etc)
  • customer data, master data concepts and reference data

Assets

• Knowledge of  MQ
• Knowledge of DB2 for zOS

Education /Accreditations

• University degree or equivalent work experience

Keywords:   ETL, DataStage, XML, MDM, Solution Designer

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