Job Title: Application Analyst – C / PowerBuilder / Sybase
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Work Arrangement: Hybrid – 3 days onsite per week
Contract Duration: 8 months
Work Schedule: 36.25 hours per week | 1,210 approved contract hours
About the Role
Our client is seeking an experienced Application Analyst to support the program and application maintenance initiatives for a provincial government environment.
The successful candidate will have strong hands-on experience with C programming, PowerBuilder, InfoMaker, Sybase SQL, and Solaris/Red Hat platforms. The role combines application development, system analysis, database design, requirements gathering, testing, troubleshooting, and production support.
Experience with oil and gas regulations is preferred.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyze business requirements and translate them into technical designs and application solutions.
- Develop, maintain, and enhance applications using C, PowerBuilder, InfoMaker, and Sybase SQL.
- Support applications running on Solaris 11 and Red Hat platforms, including desktop and web-based interfaces.
- Design and implement SQL databases, data models, stored procedures, and embedded SQL functionality.
- Collaborate with business users, analysts, development teams, and interfaced system stakeholders to validate requirements and resolve issues.
- Prepare technical designs, application architecture documents, database structures, system design manuals, and technical reference documentation.
- Conduct unit, system, integration, performance, and other required testing.
- Troubleshoot application and system-level issues, identify root causes, and recommend solutions.
- Review technical designs and recommend improvements to application performance, maintainability, and reuse of existing components.
- Support controlled software releases, coordinate release schedules, and track project progress.
- Contribute to application lifecycle planning, service request prioritization, and production support.
- Help ensure application changes are developed, tested, documented, and implemented in accordance with established release procedures.
Required Qualifications
Education and Experience
Candidates must meet at least one of the following pathways:
- University degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline, plus 4 years of related experience.
- Two-year diploma in a related discipline, plus 6 years of related experience.
- One-year certificate in a related discipline, plus 7 years of related experience.
- Current active professional certification or accreditation in a related discipline from a recognized issuing body, plus 7 years of related experience.
Technical Experience
- 15+ years of experience with software development processes, methods, standards, tools, and policies.
- 15+ years working as an Application Developer in a large enterprise IT environment using Sybase, C, and Solaris 11/Red Hat.
- 15+ years of C development on Solaris/Red Hat platforms.
- 5+ years working with Sybase, embedded SQL, stored procedures, data modelling, and reporting services.
- 15+ years working directly with end users to confirm requirements, support testing, and maintain documentation.
- 13+ years analyzing, developing, and integrating complex IT systems involving multiple data sources, web services, and legacy applications.
- 3+ years of experience with unit testing and test-driven development tools.
- 3+ years using C# and Visual Studio.
- 3+ years developing and using PowerBuilder and InfoMaker.
- 3+ years with enterprise job automation tools such as AutoSys.
- 13+ years developing and maintaining utilities using KornShell and Perl scripts.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with oil and gas regulations or related energy-sector applications.
- Experience supporting royalty, regulatory, or government business applications.
- Strong business analysis, technical documentation, and stakeholder communication skills.
About NetworkPedia
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