Position Description :
At CGI, we offer the opportunity to work with Canada’s largest Information Technology Outsourcing and Management Consulting Company with a true global presence in a fast-paced and energetic atmosphere where your personal and professional growth is accelerated by your desire and sense of commitment.
All CGI employees are called members because they feel a powerful sense of ownership and accountability.
Members at CGI are building their own company – in + offices worldwide. CGI has the global resources, expertise, stability and dedicated professionals needed to achieve results for clients – and for members; that’s why an astounding 90 percent of them are CGI shareholders.
Position Summary
We are looking for someone to provide expert advice and lead in system and applications planning, performance, availability, integration, operations, and / or release and deployment management.
Your future duties and responsibilities :
Responsibilities :
- Apply industry best practices to put a standard support model and processes into practice.
- Work with business and technology teams on ongoing projects to understand their requirements, design and solution and implement it.
- Promote fresh ways of thinking, provide insight and recommendations based on industry practices and emerging technology trends.
- Define, deploy and lead systems and applications activities.
- Identify, recommend, source, negotiate, implement improvements and solutions (buy / build / reuse) to improve customer experience, availability and cost reduction.
- Influence product direction, foresee issues, identify solutions, work with leading-edge products untested and unproven in the market.
- Manage complex deployment in load-balanced, service-oriented environment.
- Potentially test, debug, and performance analyze and document environment components.
- Troubleshoot initial failures, work to resolve them, communicate!
- Huddle with business leaders, technology professionals, vendors and outsourced partners to assess project viability, priority and communications effectiveness.
- Integrate technical solutions with the business environment, be aware of systems interdependencies and reusability, focus on seamless delivery.
- Ensure appropriate security levels are established and maintained for processes, information exchange and system implementations.
- Review, define, enforce and influence standards and quality metrics.
- Ensure systems and operational availability meet or (even better) exceed negotiated service levels, report results.
- Comply with both disaster and business recovery plans (and help define, review and test them).
- Respect technology delivery practices, standards, project management disciplines.
- Help develop and maintain issue prevention processes, participate in promptly determining and resolving incidents.
- Identify opportunities and put forward ideas to support cost effectiveness.
- May develop and contribute to third-party contract negotiations.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role :
Required Level of Education :
Undergraduate Degree or Technical Certificate.Required Experience :
Minimum of 4 years (3 with a MS in Computer Science) experience in Java developmentMinimum of 3 years' experience in J2EE (e.g. EJB, JSP, hibernate / JPA, Servlets, Portlets)Minimum of 3 years' experience in FileNet (preferably 4.X or higher)Experience with database access technologies (e.g., SQL) including DB2 and OracleFamiliarity with client side UI technologies (e.g., HTML,CSS, Ajax / Dojo, JavaScript)Ability to work independently or as part of a teamExperience with the SDLC (Plan, Define, Design, etc.) in order to work outside of Agile where necessary. This will help at times when capturing / translating business needs (into technical capabilities and requirements, etc.)Nice to Have :
Familiarity with UML (unified modeling language)Familiarity with software management methodologies (e.g., RUP, Agile Development-Scrum, Kanban)Familiarity with software engineering design patterns and best practicesFamiliarity with community frameworks (e.g., Spring, Struts, Hibernate)Familiarity with software configuration management toolsSkills :
FileNetJava Enterprise Editions JEEWebLogicHibernate