Senior Application
Position Title: Developer Classification: IS27
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.
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• 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 volunteers Provides formal training to other staff
Assigns, monitors, and examines work of
N N
Leads project teams staff
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.
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• 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
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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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Advanced Solutions promotes a diverse, equitable work environment and welcomes employment applications from individuals of all backgrounds.
Positions are open to all applicants eligible to work in Canada.
Please ensure your application clearly identifies how you meet each of the stated qualifications, with particular emphasis on the education, training, and experience requirements. Please let us know how you heard about us (i.e. Job Boards, Career Fairs). This information will be used in screening your application and determining whether you will be considered for the next stage of the recruitment process.
Please review our application procedures prior to submitting your application.
Note:
By submitting an application or resume, you are confirming that you are aware of and consent to the following conditions:
- The information provided in your application, resume and attachments is true and complete. Background checks may be conducted to verify the information you have provided. If any information in your application, resume or attachments is found to be untrue or incomplete, your application may be rejected.
- References regarding your past work performance may be obtained from your current and previous employers. Applicants who are not Advanced Solutions Employees will be contacted prior to contacting references.
- Criminal record checks are required for ALL positions
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