Systems Engineer (Member Financials) - ITD

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Job Summary

IT Lending, Finance and Corporate Platforms (ITDAI FP) Unit of the IT Department is seeking a System Engineer who will serve as a liaison between the ITD Platform families and the business. The candidate will need to understand business requirements and lead the effort of delivering the software solution from concept, through solutioning to deployment. The Unit is responsible for providing platform support and software delivery for the Fund’s Lending business capabilities, and the selected candidate will have the opportunity to work in all these areas associated with this capability.

The ideal candidate also:

  • Translates business strategies, opportunities, threats and needs into ITD platform requirements that can be delivered incrementally to ITD and business consumers as rapidly as possible.
  • Advises on a standard platform family and the integration of several platform families.
  • Identifies platform requirements and works with Enterprise Architects, Business Analysts, Solution Architects, Platform Architects and Platform Owners to develop solutions that satisfy business needs.
  • Delivers projects and application enhancements and works with managed service providers
  • Oversees the sustained support for the assigned platform and works with managed service providers

Major Duties and Responsibilities

1. Facilitates development of product and platform solutions that combines knowledge of business processes, platforms, and general technologies.

2. Works collaboratively with architects, subject matter experts and platform family owners to facilitate the construction of system/platform models.

3. Analyzes, documents, and tests platform development, logic, process flows and specifications.

4. Shares knowledge with colleagues in various organizations (business and ITD) to drive understanding of business and platform needs and identifies solutions that align with customer objectives and IT strategy.

5. Collaborates with stakeholders involved in strategy and innovation to develop an ITD platform investment roadmap.

6. Engages key business stakeholders to facilitate both strategy and innovation planning.

7. Partners with business and technology colleagues to elicit, analyze, translate, and document technical requirements, pain points or opportunities into ITD requirements.

8. Partners with Business Analysts, Product Owners and Technical Architects to conduct paper-based design, solutioning sessions, and MVP testing throughout the project lifecycle.

9. Compiles swim lane diagrams, data flow diagrams. Helps with developing logical and physical data models and system/platform integration diagrams.

10. Assesses near-term needs, using structured interview processes and consumer research methods to understand opportunities and help establish business priorities. Consults with Product teams and proposes alternative solutions. Advises on options, risks, costs versus benefits, and impacts on business processes and product priorities.

11. Collaborates with Platform Family Owners to remain apprised of technical strategy, status, and progress. Conversely, keeps platform owners aware of key platform-relevant customer issues and helps identify and resolve potential problems and conflicts.

12. Consults with product-facing program teams and maintains knowledge of their progress.

13. Oversees the technical implementation of new systems and platforms to ensure conformance to specifications.

14. Helps solve technical problems during system and platform implementation.

15. Documents user manuals.

Minimum Qualifications

Educational development, typically acquired through the completion of an advanced university degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related field of study or equivalent, plus a minimum of four years of relevant professional experience; or, a bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field of study plus a minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience, is required.

  • Comprehensive understanding of information technology and systems engineering concepts

  • Expertise in Banking Domain and managing banking systems (such as Oracle Flexcube)

  • Expertise on Data warehousing and reporting systems.
  • Expertise in enhancing and maintaining applications for financial services.
  • Experience in building and supporting applications in a PaaS and SaaS model.

This vacancy shall be filled by a 3-year Term appointment in accordance with the Fund’s new employment rules that took effect on May 1, 2015.

A regular staff member who is selected to fill the vacancy will maintain their open-ended status. If the selected candidate is a contractual employee, they will be offered a Term staff appointment. Staff members already on a term appointment will continue their current term but may receive an extension provided that their current term appointment has not already been extended.

Department:

ITDAI LC Information Technology Department Immediate Office Digital Lending and Corporate UnitHiring For:

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