Solutions Designer

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About the Job

Our client has a requirement for a Solution Designer for a 6 Month Contract opportunity. The position is located in London, ON.

 

What makes this Special

Our client is one of the largest Banks in North America. With exponential growth and millions of customers and clients who are served through our various businesses: Canadian Personal and Commercial Banking, Wealth Management, U.S. Personal and Commercial Banking, and Wholesale Banking. Being part of this company is being part of a better Canadian service.

Role

Our client is looking for a Solution Designer to work out of London, ON. This individual will be responsible for the application, analysis, design and development across multiple client server platforms. He/she will also be responsible for overseeing deployments. Candidates must have strong background in data warehousing development. Individuals with previous developer background would be ideal candidates.

 Responsibilities

• This individual will be responsible for application analysis, design and development across multiple client servers.
• Work closely with business units to review business requirements and feasibility from the technical perspective and to finalize requirement.
• Code review developers created in UNIX, DB2, SQL and SAS and mainframe COBOL, to ensure they are up to standards.
• Perform unit testing.
• Responsible for overseeing deployment and to develop detailed design specifications, review code and assess impact on other applications. Role will work closely with other team members to ensure consistency in coding standards and approaches and to optimize any synergy and re-use opportunities.
• Responsible for leading technical aspects of project from inception through to deployment. Participate in analysis and system design specification sessions. Documentation of design options and solutions according to System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology.
• Ensure that solutions adhere to development best practices and architectural principles.
• Apply analytical skills to resolve problems and deliver viable solutions. Anticipate obstacles and execute proactive approaches to issues. Active participation in issue resolution.
• Provide detailed development estimates to Project Manager for development effort as well as weekly status reporting and budget forecasting.
• Configuration management for the sub projects within the release.
• Responsible for responsible for overseeing deployment and support of builds as code is promoted from development, system, acceptance and production environments. May lead code reviews.
• Work closely with System Test Environment Management Team (STEMT) to ensure that environments are fully functional and that builds are properly deployed.
• Participate in development of test strategy, test plans, test cases and testing efforts (unit testing and integration testing of code).
• Provide technical support to business and testing team during testing phases. Track defects, defect triage and resolution.
• Data set up and environment shake down.
• Knowledge transfer within group.
• Ensure required documentation is housed in the project repository and that knowledge transfer has occurred to full time staff upon completion of contract term.

 

Requirements or Qualifications

• Solution Designer experience
• Distributed experience: DB2, SQL, Unix Scripting, SAS
• HOST experience: mainframe Cobol
• Advanced knowledge of business / organization, standards, SDLC, applications, architecture & technology
• Application development
• Banking / Financial Industry Experience
• COBOL
• Database/SQL skills in one or more popular database technologies, preferably DB2, SQL Server, Oracle
• Expertise in SDLC & PMLC processes
• Shell scripting in Unix/AIX environment
• Solid verbal and written communication skills
• Strong background in data warehousing development and support
• Strong SAS programming skills with experience in handling large dataset
• UNIX (AIX Preferred) experience

 

Keywords: mainframe, cobol, unix, AIX, sql, developer and datawarehousing

 

How to Apply

Online:To apply for this and other suitable exciting opportunities with Zylog Systems (Canada) Ltd., you can register and apply online at www.ZylogCanada.com