Manager & Senior Advisor

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Assessment accommodation

STREAM 1 – Manager, Application Development
STREAM 2 – Senior Advisor Enterprise Architect

In order to have your application considered, all screening questions must be answered. Candidates must provide CONCRETE EXAMPLES WHICH DEMONSTRATE, how they meet the education requirement and the experience factors listed in the essential qualifications and asset qualifications. Please note that it is not sufficient to only state that the requirement is met or to provide a listing of current responsibilities.

FOR EACH EXPERIENCE CRITERIA, please provide the following MANDATORY information:
1 - Name of the department or organization where the experience was acquired;
2 - Title of the position occupied and duration for which you exercised the functions; and
3 - Specific details of tasks or projects demonstrating how the experience was acquired and concrete examples.

Résumés will be used as a secondary source to validate the education and/or experience described in the screening questions.

Intent of the process

This process may be used to establish a pool of candidates that may be used to staff similar positions at an identical or equivalent group and level with various official language proficiencies (English Essential, Bilingual Imperative BBB/BBB, Bilingual Imperative CBC/CBC), various security profiles, various tenures (Indeterminate, Temporary) using various staffing mechanisms (Indeterminate appointment, Acting appointment, Deployment, Assignment, Secondment) at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.

Positions to be filled: 6

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

In order to be considered, your application must clearly explain how you meet the following (essential qualifications)

EDUCATION
Successful completion of two years of an acceptable post-secondary educational program in computer science, information technology, information management or another specialty relevant to the position to be staffed.

NOTE:
Indeterminate period incumbents of positions in the CS group on May 10, 1999, who do not possess the education prescribed above, are deemed to meet the minimum education standards based on their education, training and/or experience. They must be accepted as having met the minimum education standard whenever this standard is called for when staffing positions in the CS group.

Degree equivalency

EXPERIENCE
COMMON TO ALL STREAMS
EX1- *Significant and **recent experience in providing strategic and tactical advice and recommendations, both in writing and orally, to senior management on IM/IT matters.

EX2- *Significant and **recent experience with the development and maintenance of IT solutions, which includes business analysis and application development.

EX3- Experience in participating in a major project as a stakeholder, subject matter expert (SME), project manager, developer or other key role.

STREAM 1 ONLY – Manager, Application Development
EX4-S1- *Significant and **recent experience in supervision and day-to-day management of a diverse technical team (includes employees or contractors).

EX5-S1- Experience in developing human resource and financial plans, executing, controlling and monitoring on those plans.

STREAM 2 ONLY – Senior Advisor Enterprise Architect
EX6-S2-*Significant and **recent experience in application development and infrastructure development.

EX7-S2- **Recent experience in developing enterprise architectures including the IT Security Architecture domain.

EX8-S2- *Significant and **recent experience in at least one of the following technology domains: application integration, cloud solution development, business process automation, hybrid cloud deployments, enterprise systems design.

EX9-S2- Experience writing business cases for IT solutions.

EX10-S2- Experience overseeing the alignment of the implementation of the technical infrastructure against the architectural design.

DEFINITIONS:
*Significant experience is defined as being one in which the person’s primary responsibilities include these duties and refers to the breadth and depth as well as complexity of tasks that could be expected to have been obtained by carrying out the functions listed above for a minimum period of approximately three (3) years.

**Recent is defined as the experience normally acquired within the last five (5) years.

The following will be applied / assessed at a later date (essential for the job)

Various language requirements
STREAM 1 – Manager, Application Development
Bilingual Imperative CBC/CBC

STREAM 2 – Senior Advisor Enterprise Architect
English Essential
Bilingual Imperative BBB/BBB

Information on language requirements

KNOWLEDGE
COMMON TO ALL STREAMS
K1- Knowledge of legislation, policies, standards and/or guidelines governing IM/IT in the Canadian Public Service.

K2- Knowledge of current IM/IT trends as they relate to the Government of Canada’s agenda.

COMPENTENCIES
COMMON TO ALL STREAMS
C1- Effective Interactive Communications
C2- Written Communication Skills
C3- Action Management
C4- Partnership, Network and Relationship Building
C5- Leadership
C6- Judgement / Analytical Thinking
C7- Values and Ethics

STREAM 1 ONLY
C8-S1-Developing Others

ABILITIES
COMMON TO ALL STREAMS
A1- Ability to lead, plan and control IM/IT complex project activities.

A2- Ability to provide option analysis on complex IM/IT technology subjects and make recommendations.

The following may be applied / assessed at a later date (may be needed for the job)

ASSET EDUCATION
AEDU1- Graduation with a degree from a recognized university with a specialization in computer science, computer engineering, information sciences or other discipline related to the position.

Degree equivalency

Various IM/IT Certifications, related to the position to be staffed.

ASSETS EXPERIENCE
AEX1- Experience as part of the Information Technology (IT) management team of a ***complex software development project using an Oracle Siebel Commercial off-the-shelf software product.

AEX2- Experience as part of the Information Technology (IT) management team of a software development project for a ****high traffic online service for the general public.

AEX3- Experience in leading and executing major technology releases outside of core business hours while continuing to maintain and monitor mission critical services.

AEX4- Experience in leading the operational support and maintenance of a government Department or Agency’s mission critical application infrastructure for:
1) A ***complex application, OR
2) A ****high traffic online service for the general public.

AEX5- Experience, 6 months or longer, in leading the implementation of DevOps, container automation, and automated monitoring mechanisms, including alerts at the infrastructure or application transaction level.

AEX6- Experience designing and documenting two or more architecture domains such as: application architecture, technology architecture, security architecture, business architecture, information architecture, cloud architecture or enterprise architecture.

AEX7- Experience in cloud computing solution design using Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, IBM Bluemix, DevOps or other equivalent commercial platforms.

AEX8-Experience as part of the IT management of an application development responsible for the enhancement and maintenance of PeopleSoft, SAP or MS Dynamics.

AEX9- Experience managing relationships and communications with different stakeholders, partners and clients.

AEX10- Experience in developing and implementing IM/IT strategic and operational plans.

AEX11- Experience in leading development initiatives using Angular, JavaScript, Java, .Net, Python.

AEX12- Experience defining strategy and processes in support of transformation and change management activities.

DEFINITIONS:
***Complex is defined as:
a) Geographically distributed across more than one province and/or country
b) Large (2000+) user base;
c) A requirement for high availability and high reliability (24/7 system and 98% availability);
d) A diverse set of technologies that includes real-time data exchanges across multiple heterogeneous systems;

****High traffic is defined as:
a) Over 250,000 named users who have at one time or another accessed the online service(s), and
b) Accessed by 5,000 or more users within a 24 hour period

ASSETS KNOWLEDGE
STREAM 2 ONLY – Senior Advisor Enterprise Architect
AK1-S2- Knowledge of integration architectural frameworks including service based and enterprise integration.

AK2-S2- Knowledge of enterprise architecture.

AK3-S2- Knowledge of software development methodology.

AK4-S2- Knowledge of one or more of the following technology approaches: Structured Query Language (SQL), eXtensible Markup Language (XML), JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), Java Database Connectivity (JDBC), and Application Programming Interface (API), Git.

OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
• Ability and willingness to work overtime.
• Ability and willingness to work flexible hours.
• Ability and willingness to travel.

Other information

The Public Service of Canada is committed to building a skilled and diverse workforce that reflects the Canadians we serve. We promote employment equity and encourage you to indicate if you belong to one of the designated groups when you apply.

Information on employment equity

Receipt of applications will not be sent; only candidates successful in the screening process will be contacted.

A valid e-mail address must be provided. The Selection Board will communicate with candidates by e-mail to provide/request information and to invite candidates to attend any portion of the assessment. Please include a valid e-mail address that you check frequently. Please ensure that your email settings are set appropriately. If your email settings are too restrictive, emails from the hiring department may be detected as spam and automatically deleted.

Candidates whose applications are retained for further consideration may be required to travel to attend an interview or for the administration of a test. If you are asked to travel in relation to this appointment process, you should direct any questions you have about travel entitlements to the hiring organization, when contacted, and they will provide you with the necessary information.

Candidates from outside the federal public service may be required to pay for their own travel and relocation expenses.

Candidates will need to provide proof of their education credentials at a later time in the process. Candidates with foreign credentials must provide proof of Canadian equivalency. Consult the Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials for further information at http://www.cicic.ca/indexe.stm

Persons with disabilities preventing them from applying on-line are asked to contact
1-800-645-5605.

Preference

Preference will be given to veterans and to Canadian citizens, in that order, with the exception of a job located in Nunavut, where Nunavut Inuit will be appointed first.

Information on the preference to veterans

We thank all those who apply. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.