ANTICIPATORY - Team Leader, Applications Development / Database and Data Administration

Important messages

We are committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free work environment, starting with the hiring process. If you need to be accommodated during any phase of the evaluation process, please use the Contact information below to request specialized accommodation. All information received in relation to accommodation will be kept confidential.

Assessment accommodation

Interested persons must meet each essential qualification and the conditions of employment to be considered for appointment to a vacant position. Meeting asset qualifications may not necessarily be required for appointments to a vacant position however; these qualifications are desirable and may be a determining factor for an appointment.

When answering the screening questions, remember that the assessment board cannot make assumptions about your experience. It is insufficient to say that you have the required qualifications or to list your current or past duties. Rather, using this tool, candidates must demonstrate how they meet the education and experience criteria listed in the job opportunity advertisement by providing clear and concrete examples.

Clear and concrete examples are defined as illustrations in which you fully explain the actions, considerations and steps you completed in order to gain the experience you are describing. This detailed contextual information will be used by the board members reviewing your submission to assess whether you have sufficient experience in a relevant field to complete the tasks which will be assigned to you should you be considered for this position. This is similar to what would be expected of you when asked to provide a concrete example of a particular situation in the context of an interview. Such examples usually require a minimum of ½ page to describe and a maximum of 2 pages. In order to facilitate this process, you may wish to start your submissions with a sentence similar to: “A clear and concrete example of a situation where I did X is a situation which occurred on Y date and my role in this activity was to...”.

Resumes will be used as a secondary source of information and strictly to validate the concrete examples you will have described in this tool.

Also, when reading the experience criteria for staffing processes, please pay close attention to action words contained within and ensure the examples you chose to include speak to all of them. Similar attention should be given to punctuation and connector words such as “commas”, “and” and “or” as these have a different function when used to describe an experience criteria. As such, action words or activities separated with a “,” and connected with an “and” must all be demonstrated with concrete examples as in this case, they are all deemed essential by the hiring manager. Conversely, when action words or activities are separated with a “,” and connected with an “or”, candidates may provide concrete examples for only one of the activities listed in the criterion as in this case, the hiring manager is looking for someone who has experience in at least one of the activities but not necessarily all of them.

For example, when responding to a criterion which reads: “Experience reading, writing and publishing instructions for a competitive process.” you must provide concrete examples of situations where you read instructions, concrete examples of situations where you wrote instructions as well as concrete examples of situations where you published instructions for a competitive process. These may be part of the same example however, you must ensure to provide sufficient details to cover the three actions as they are all critical.

On the other hand, when responding to an experience criterion which reads: “Experience reading, writing or publishing instructions for a competitive process” you must provide concrete examples for a minimum of one situation where you either read, wrote or published instructions for a competitive process as experience in a minimum of one activity is critical. This being said, when this structure is used, you may also provide concrete examples for all action words or activities as this approach will provide board members with additional information to assess the breath of your experience.

Finally, if the examples you provide speak of experience that was acquired in a team setting, please be specific as to your exact role within this team as it is your experience the board will be looking to assess and not that of your team.

Work environment

The 2nd Canadian Division Support Group IT Service offers a dynamic work environment in terms of work, opportunities for advancement and workplace well-being.

There is a diversity of positions at the IT Service involving various facets of IT, such as:
• Distributed computing
• Cloud computing
• Application development
• IT security
• Audiovisual
• Building control systems
• Communication systems
• Computer-assisted manufacturing.

Work-family balance is also very important in our organization. Telework and flexible work hours have been part of our everyday reality for years. You will also have access to sports activities at the various garrisons at highly competitive prices as well as training programs.

Intent of the process

This process will be used to establish a pool of qualified candidates to staff positions with different tenures (casual, acting, assignment, secondment, term, indeterminate, deployment).This pool could be used to fill similar positions within the Department of National Defense with various tenures, language proficiencies and security profiles.

Positions to be filled: Number to be determined

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 2 years of an acceptable post-secondary program in computer science, information technology, information management or another field related to the position to be staffed.

Notes:

1) It is a recognized educational institution (e.g., community college, CEGEP or university) that determines if the courses taken by a candidate correspond to two years of a post-secondary program at the institution.

2) At the manager’s discretion, an acceptable combination of education, training and/or experience may be used as an alternative to the minimum post-secondary education requirement above. Whenever this minimum education requirement is met through this alternative, it is met only for the position being staffed, and candidates must be reassessed for future appointments where the manager has decided to allow the use of this alternative.

Degree equivalency

EXPERIENCES :

EX1- Minimum 2 years recent* and significant** experience in application development lifecycle management.

EX2- Minimum 1 year recent* and significant** experience in process/activity modelling.

*Recent experience is defined as experience acquired over the last ten years.

**Significant experience is defined as the degree and diversity normally acquired by regularly carrying out the duties in question over the minimum period specified.

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

Various language requirements
The anticipatory position to be staffed is bilingual imperative BBB/BBB, but the qualified pool of candidates could be used to staff similar positions with various linguistic profiles.

Information on language requirements

Second Language Writing Skills Self-Assessment
In order to help you decide if you should apply to a bilingual position, an optional self-assessment of your writing skills in your second official language is available for you to take before completing your application.

For more information, please consult:
Unsupervised Internet Test of Second Language Writing Skills

COMPETENCIES :

C1- IT Project Management (Level 3)
Knowledge and ability to apply formal project management principles and practices during the planning, implementation, monitoring and completion of projects, ensuring effective management of scope, resources, time, cost, quality, risk and communications.

C2- Communication (Level 3)
Listening to others and communicating in an effective manner that fosters open communication.

C3- Business Analysis (Level 2)
Knowledge and ability to apply the principles of business analysis in the planning, reengineering and requirement gathering for government business environments, operations, processes and practices.

C4- Information and Application Security (Level 3)
Knowledge and ability to ensure there are adequate technical and organizational safeguards to protect the continuity of IT infrastructure services by the implementation of IT security principles, methods, practices, policies and tools that are used in securing IT resources including information and operations security, physical security, business continuity/disaster recovery planning, methods to deal with security breaches and security assessment in a technical environment.

C5- Applications Development and Maintenance (Level 3)
Knowledge and ability to design, define, construct, enhance, support and maintain application software on one or more platforms.

C6- Database Design and Management (Level 3)
Knowledge and ability to apply the methods, practices and policies that are used in the design and the management of databases.

ABILITIES :

A1- Problem-solving
A2- Ability to Mobilize
A3- Ability to Organize / Orchestrate
A4- Ability to Control
A5- Ability to Develop Others
A6- Client-oriented
A7- Results-oriented

PERSONAL SUITABILITIES :

PS1- Working effectively with others
PS2- Thinking things through
PS3- Showing initiative and being action-oriented
PS4- Demonstrating integrity and respect

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

EDUCATION :

AEd1- Certification complete or in progress in a field related to the position to be filled (ITIL, Microsoft, Cisco, PMP, IIBA, HDI, CISSP, etc).

Degree equivalency

EXPERIENCE :

AEx1- Minimum 2 years recent* and significant** experience in services management process implementation and enhancement.

*Recent experience is defined as experience acquired over the last ten years.

**Significant experience is defined as the degree and diversity normally acquired by regularly carrying out the duties in question over the minimum period specified.

Selection may be limited to members of the following Employment Equity groups: Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, visible minorities, women

Information on employment equity

In support of Strong, Secure, Engaged (SSE) initiative #24, consideration may be given to the spouses or common-law partners of Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) members.

Conditions of employment

Secret security clearance

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT :

1- Valid driver’s licence and SAAQ driving record

2- Candidates must be prepared to travel often and on short notice, specifically between Montreal, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu and Quebec City (Valcartier), as well as in the National Capital Region.

3- Candidates must be prepared to work overtime on short notice.

4-The individual may be called upon to work according to the rules in the operations annex for the position during an exercise or domestic operation (day/evening/night schedule, 24/7, extended hours, austere conditions, etc).

5- Candidates must have or in the process of obtaining the military driver's license DND 404.

Candidates must meet and maintain the above conditions throughout their employment.

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

Reference checks may be sought.

An interview may be administered.

A test may be administered.

Candidates invited to an interview will be required to bring proof of their education credentials, in the form of a diploma or official transcript (original documents only).

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/

Please note that the information provided may be considered in the assessment of any of the essential or other qualifications considered to be an asset, including the ability to communicate effectively in writing.

Persons are entitled to participate in the appointment process in the official language of their choice.

A random and/or top down selection of candidates may be used in the determination of those to be given further consideration in the assessment process.

Please note that achieving the pass mark on any of the assessments used does not mean you will move forward in the selection process. Management may decide to use a score that is higher than the pass mark on any of the evaluations used throughout the selection process.

Depending on the requirements of the position(s) being staffed from this process, for current or future vacancies, any or all of the other qualifications considered to be an asset and organizational needs may be applied at the time of staffing. The asset qualifications may also be used at any stage of the process.

Our intention is to communicate with candidates via email. Candidates who apply on this selection process must include in their application a valid email address and to make sure that this address is functional at all times and accepts messages from unknown users (some email systems block these types of email). It is the candidate’s responsibility to provide any changes to their personal information to the contact indicated on this job advertisement. Failure to respond to key messages may result in your being eliminated from this process.

The Public Service of Canada is committed to building a skilled, diverse workforce reflective of Canadian society. As a result, it promotes employment equity and encourages candidates to indicate voluntarily on their application if they are a woman, an Aboriginal person, a person with a disability or a member of a visible minority group.

The Public Service of Canada is also committed to developing inclusive, barrier-free selection processes and work environments. If contacted in relation to a job opportunity or testing, you should advise the Public Service Commission or the departmental official in a timely fashion of the accommodation measures which must be taken to enable you to be assessed in a fair and equitable manner. Information received relating to accommodation measures will be addressed confidentially.

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.