Senior Application Developer

Department/Account: HIBC Services Job Code: 90000665

Application Development Information Systems Officer

Work Unit: & Support Job Title: N27-w40

Director, Application

Manager Title: Development & Support Last Updated: January 29, 2025

ACCOUNT OVERVIEW

As a part of the consortium team which consists of PBC Solutions, Advanced Solutions provides IMIT

services to support the Ministry of Health’s Health Insurance BC (HIBC) Services. Together, we are

committed to the vision: “We empower British Columbians to achieve optimal health and wellness through

effective, innovative and inclusive health benefits services.”

All members of the team are required to deliver to the shared vision, guiding principles and intended

behaviors. The Shared Vision guides the work we do and our Guiding Principles of honesty, integrity,

reciprocity, autonomy, loyalty and equity, and our Intended Behaviors inform our relationships and sets the

tone for how we work together.

DESCRIPTION

The Senior Application Developer supports a variety of applications and systems including creating new

applications and adapting existing ones to expand functionality as well as providing application support and

maintenance. This position will be involved in multiple concurrent projects that require deep technical skills

and will be required to provide after hours on call support.

The Senior Developer will be assigned development tasks ranging from simple to complex activities with

more focus on the more complex tasks. As well as they readily work with other areas of Advanced

Solutions, or with clients, as appropriate.

ACCOUNTABILITIES/DELIVERABLES

• Collaborates with architects, business system analysts and testing specialists to deliver high quality

solutions.

• Participate in all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC) to deliver applications that

address business requirements and provide feedback and progress report to internal and external

customers. Provides 24x7 incident and problem management support to ensure applications meet the

Service Level Agreements. This position requires developer to be available after hours based on call

support schedule.

• Maintains technical system knowledge of existing applications and practices while keeping abreast of

corporate direction in expanding new technology solutions

• Utilizes design methodologies to ensure effective collaboration with stakeholders that provide

pragmatic solutions to business requirements based on data quality principles, industry standards and

best practices.

• Provide application maintenance and production systems support, design and develop solutions using

application development tools. This will also include assisting testers in defining test plans and test

cases, product releases and deployments.

• Monitor the applications and recommend options to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the

application.

• Coordinates with vendors and service providers when needed to enhance the functionality and,

capabilities, resolve critical incidents and problems.

• Actively mentors team members, shares knowledge, and continuously captures knowledge.

• Assist in the proof-of-concept initiatives, community of practice exercises and document the outcomes,

provide feedback and recommendations.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

Type of Report # Type of Report #

Indirect reports (supervises through

0 0

Direct (directly supervises assigned staff)subordinate supervisors)

PROJECT/TEAM LEAD OR TRAINING RESPONSIBILITY

Role Y/N Role Y/N

Y N

Supervises students or volunteersProvides formal training to other staff

Assigns, monitors, and examines work of

N N

Leads project teamsstaff

FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Support project estimate processes by providing expertise and data, also contributes cost analysis of

COTS products and tools.

SELECTION CRITERIA

Education and Experience

• Degree from an accredited college or university with structured training in relevant software

engineering, computer science or equivalent field; and

• 10+ years’ experience working in an application development role or an equivalent combination of

education and experience.

• Experience working in an application development environment that deliver solutions to meet business

requirements, progressive enhancements, vulnerability assessment and mitigation.

• Experience in supporting mission critical applications, responding to incidents and problems during the

normal operation of the application.

• Experience in application security principles, complying information security, privacy, compliance and

regulatory requirements and standards

• Experience in designing and developing application in an Agile or waterfall processes, tools and

standards adopted by Advanced Solutions and our clients.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• See essential and preferred skill requirements below for specific position applied.

• Ability to perform comfortably in a fast-paced, team-based system support and deliverables-oriented

work environment.

• Ability to make commitments, manage work, and modify expectations, when necessary, in a delivery-

oriented work environment with meeting deadlines.

• Good organizational, interpersonal and communication skills.

• Ability to elicit and effectively capture requirements and create design specifications.

• Ability to work on multiple projects/assignments simultaneously.

• Leading and working with business systems analysts and cross functional teams to scope

requirements and assuring software is reliable, secure, and efficient.

• Knowledge of frameworks, methods and tools (i.e., ITIL, SAFe, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, XP,

ServiceNow, JIRA, Confluence, LeanIX), and understanding of software development life cycle models

as well as project management principles and practices.

• Understanding of DevSecOps, Testing and Quality Assurance principles.

Advanced level working knowledge in 5 or more, is a subject matter expert (SME) in one or more,

with hands-on experience in several of the following: Programming Languages (Java, JSP, JavaScript, C#, .NET, VBA, etc.).

• Very good knowledge of JavaEE development including Servlet, JDBC & JNDI.

• Experience with Node / Express, React, vue.Js, Angular or similar frontend technologies.

• Expertise in developing, testing, investigating, refactoring and consuming custom RESTful APIs and

Webservices.

• Exposure to application deployment automation using GitHub Actions, DevSecOps, continues

integration/delivery practices.

• Knowledge of container technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker & Podman.

• Exposure to Databases such as Postgres, MySQL, Oracle, Redis.

• In-depth knowledge of common web and communication protocols such as http, ssh, smtp, sftp.

• Knowledge of messaging, API standards such as JSON, XML, HL7, FHIR.

• Experience with Oracle SOA/ESB/BPEL middleware technologies.

• Exposure to Oracle products such as APEX, ORDS, BIP, ODI, OID, OEM.

• Experience in relational database design, and query optimization, experience with SQL & PL/SQL.

• Hands-on experience with document management platforms (such as Kofax, RightFax) including

document scanning, processing, workflow automation, OCR technologies and printing operations.

• Experience with application authentication, authorization, access control and administration

practices and technologies such as Keycloak, OID, OpenLDAP, SSO, etc.

Experience with these is desired but not essential:

• OpenShift experience.

• Competent with some of testing frameworks such as Selenium, SOAPUI, JMeter, Test Complete,

Postman, Junit, Mocha, Jest, ReadyAPI, Xray, Cypress or similar testing tools.

• Experience with basic admin level functions of the Unix/Linux/Windows operating systems.

• Experience using WSL2 as a development environment.

• Experience with few scripting languages (ie. Perl, Python, Linux shell, Powershell).

• Understanding of Telephony technologies like Asterisk, SIP.

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES

All Advanced Solutions employees are required to display the following competencies:

• Customer Focus

• Building Effective Teams

• Integrity and Trust

• Priority Setting

• Ethics and Values

• Decision Quality

• Motivating Others

• Business Acumen

• Drive for Results

• Organizing

WHAT WE OFFER

All Advanced Solutions employees are required to display the following competencies:

Salary Package

• Employment Type: Full Time, Regular

• Union/Non-Union: Union - BCGEU

• Salary Grid Level: Level 27, Schedule 2

• Annual Salary: $104,977.76 - $119,895.91

• Office Location: Victoria, BC - Hybrid

Benefit Package

• 15 Vacation days, with entitlement increases with service

• Maternity, Parental and Pre-Adoption Leave with option for top up

• Employee Assisted Program including paid counselling services for you and your family

• Paid sick leave for when life happens

• Extended health and dental

• Public Service Pension plan, matched by Advanced Solutions

• Excellent Rewards and Recognition Program

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