RQ09037 - Specialized IT Consultant - Senior

Requirements

Mandatory Requirements

• At least 6 years of experience with process design business analysis and project management of applications/systems
  

Desired Skills and Experience

• Project planning and management related to all phases of largescale transformation initiatives impacting public and justice stakeholders; I&IT projects including medium to large scale technically complex projects across a range of enterprise technologies
  
• Understanding the optimal practices for providing Information and Information Technology (I&IT) support to users utilizing digital technology and assistance during a large transformation
  
• Change management principles to facilitate business process change and manage the human factors associated with change
  
• Leadership skills to guide the work of project staff and teams
  
• You can develop project plans and manage resources to ensure efficient progress
  
• You have a proven track record delivering system development and/or implementation projects on time and on budget
  
• You can proactively and strategically manage the human factors associated with change
  
• You have change management principles and techniques to facilitate business process change
  
• You possess team building and leadership skills to engage the project team and ensure collaboration and focus on achieving project deliverables
  
• You have demonstrated interpersonal and consultation skills to communicate project deliverables and build strong project teams and client relationships
  
• You have demonstrated written and verbal communication skills to resolve problems and design/deliver presentations proposals and business cases
  
• You can determine client requirements make presentations prepare proposals business cases and tenders and write procedures resolve conflicts develop and sustain effective working relationships
  
• You can discuss and resolve issues with stakeholders and address risks and benefits of specific solutions and recommend specific courses of action
  
• You can identify optimal solutions to meet client needs and provide submissions to facilitate senior level decisionmaking
  
• You can evaluate and define project management requirements
  
• Excellent analytical problemsolving and decisionmaking skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills; excellent facilitation and presentation skills
  
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines
  
• Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
  
• Knowledge of operations management and security and emerging technologies to assess client needs lead projects and provide expertise
  
• Knowledge of technical standards principles and best practices to ensure client needs are optimally met by the solutions and services being implemented and to validate vendor advice at all stages of a project
  
• Knowledge of software development platforms development methodologies technical standards with respect to software architecture and design (multitier models) technical infrastructure requirements cloud technologies etc.
  
• Knowledge of IT security requirements and best practices in implementing high availability solutions with requirement of hosting solutions with high sensitivity and confidentiality ratings
  
• Knowledge of resource management approaches and financial management to develop and manage budgets
  
• Working knowledge of I&IT and computer protocols and frameworks specific to the program system(s) currently in use
  
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office (MS Word Excel Outlook) and Microsoft Project software packages
  

Resumes Evaluation/Criteria:

Criteria 1: Project Management Skills 45 Points

• 8 years experience in business analysis and project management (combined)
  
• Experience leading and managing crossfunctional teams (e.g. UX designer web developer contact center staff) to deploy publicfacing content for support Open Data
  
• Experience operating in an agile and productbased methodology to iterate on deployments rapidly
  
• Successful resolution skills to resolve issues with stakeholders and address risks and benefits of specific solutions and recommend specific courses of action
  
• Liaison as the technical and business advisor/expert on all aspects of project deliverables
  
• Strategic ability to identify optimal solutions to meet client needs and provide submissions to facilitate senior level decisionmaking
  
• Proven success in creating and maintaining a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.
  
• Knowledge of appropriate strategies related to change management during all stages of projects concept definition planning implementation and closeout
  
• Experience in managing the implementation activities associated with large projects in an I&IT environment
  

Criteria 2: Business Analysis and Technical Skills 40 Points

• Knowledge of BABOK (Business Analysis Body of Knowledge) certification and/or demonstrated knowledge with the key BABOK concepts tasks techniques and skills; knowledge of LEAN principles and applying LEAN to processes
  
• Demonstrated experience in creating Business Cases Business Requirements Document other Business requirements artefacts and testing documentation
  
• Documentation skills for business requirements and validate with business clients
  
• Ability to design and create technical specifications of the reports and validate with stake holders
  
• Working experience in defining and validating test cases to ensure the requirements are met
  
• Demonstrated experienced in unit testing system testing and acceptance testing
  
• Demonstrated experience in solution design and architecture
  

• Hands on experience in various project and product delivery methodologies such as:
  • Agile
    
  • Waterfall
    
  • Iterative Agile
    
  • Product management
    

Criteria 3: Communication Skills 10 Points

• Demonstrated excellent oral and written communication skills Interpersonal and consultative skills Facilitation skills
  
• Experience crafting executivelevel presentation to brief leadership
  
• Demonstrated experience in negotiating with business stakeholders on functional design issues and detailed solution design sessions negotiating on issues for production
  
• Presentation skills writing skills Negotiating skills
  
• Demonstrated experience in negotiating with business stakeholders
  
• Experience in documenting project status reports project tracking for resources finances progress issues and risks
  

Criteria 4: Public Sector Experience 5 Points

• Has experience in public sector organizations
  

Knowledge Transfer

What needs to be KT

• All project documentation / communications
  

To whom

• Project Manager/Team Members
  

When

• 1:1 meetings / team meetings / documentation on SharePoint site throughout the duration of the project life cycle etc.
  

Must haves:

• At least 6 years of experience with process design business analysis and project management of applications/systems