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OLGC – Lead Designer – Internet Technologies

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Position Summary

The Lead Designer is responsible for guiding development activities and reviewing product deliverables for functional performance and architectural conformance; Specifying and implementing the development platform, methodology and toolset; Advising, participating in and supporting projects and teams in the technical analysis of all critical systems in defining systems and software architecture; and leading and mentoring team members in key technical and domain principles.

Major Responsibility Areas

  • Develop the macro design for applications based on business requirements.
  • Review and approve micro designs for conformance to macro design and conformance to standards.
  • Approve and participate in evaluation of change requests that affect design.
  • Ensure the effective integration of application components with one another, with the targeted hardware and software environments and with OLGC strategic EWTA standards.
  • Participate in the development of proposals/contracts and work estimates for new technologies.
  • Ensures that technical processes and methodologies are being used for the design and development phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) on projects.
  • Work closely with Relationship Managers, Team Leaders, Project Managers, Technical Specialists and Architects to ensure the alignment of technical solutions to the business problem.
  • Ensure application designs are consistent, complete, appropriate and cost effective.
  • Perform technical-related mentoring on design to project team members. Understand the OLGC technology and application architectural direction and ensures that the design is in line with it.
  • Investigate and recommend solutions by providing analysis and application development expertise to the Preliminary Evaluation and Solutions Assessment process for all technologies.
  • Maintain knowledge of current industry trends and new technologies.
  • Participate on various domain teams and provide feedback to domain on changes and enhancements.
  • Third-tier support. The individual will bring breadth of knowledge to solve problems.
  • Provide feedback on Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) on the design, build and implement activities and documentation standards.
  • Provide feedback on departmental initiatives to improve our Solution Delivery processes and methods.

Minimum Qualifications

This position requires:

  • a minimum education level of a University Degree, College Diploma or equivalent with more than 10 years progressive experience in Information Technology in a medium to large computer installation, with 7 years experience design

Design experience

  • Proven system design skills, in a web-based J2EE environment, using OO principals.
  • Leading joint applications design sessions/workshops with the participation of key stakeholders.
  • Ability to understand and translate business needs into scalable, extensible, reliable and high-performance solutions.
  • Experience with documenting solutions following RUP methodology and/or UML standard.
  • Able to prototype a solution and mentor developers on the team.
  • Experience in the development of large scale HTML based java applications
  • Experience in tuning large multi user applications
  • Software development experience in the majority of the following areas is required:
    • Data warehousing
    • Database development
    • Object and Data Modeling
    • Business system development
    • N Tier development
    • Real time application transaction processing
    • Unified Modeling Language (UML)
    • RUP
    • User Interface Design
    • Application Integration Design
    • Creating and enforcing standards
    • Business analysis
  • Superior ability to deliver results
  • Excellent interpersonal and organization skills
  • Strong written/oral communication, presentation/facilitation skills
  • Strong leadership, problem solving and negotiation skills
  • Proven ability to work well in a team-based, project environment

Licenses, Certifications, Registrations

The successful candidate will need to obtain and maintain an AGCO gaming employee registration (within 2 months of start date). OLGC will assist with this process.

The salary range for this position is $69,390 – $92,913 per annum.

Our preferred method of resume collection is on-line at olgc.ca , however, applicants can also send their resume, quoting file #HR04-414, to:

Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation
Attn: Human Resources Department
4120 Yonge Street, Suite 420
Toronto, Ontario
M2P 2B8
Or fax: (416) 224-7077

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We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those being considered for an interview will be contacted.

The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Posted on February 27, 2006 Filed Under: Jobs

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