Java Developer

Who we are

We are an organization comprised of industry thought leaders who are passionate about health data and want to make a difference in the health care field.
We are an independent, not-for-profit organization and together with our partners we provide essential information on Canada's health systems, enabling decisions that lead to healthier Canadians.
As a valued member of the CIHI team, you and your work will have a pivotal role in the evolution of Canada's health care systems.

CIHI is recognized as an exceptional place to work that embraces diversity, respect, integrity, collaboration and innovation.

At CIHI, we recognize what matters to our employees.
Some of the benefits of working at CIHI include

• Generous vacation days
• Flexible benefits program from your first day on the job
• HOOPP Pension Plan (Defined Pension)
• Retirement Planning Program
• Work-life balance
• Career Planning Program
• Learning and Professional Development Program

Why is this role important?

As a Senior Developer in the ITS Product Delivery branch, you will be working on defining system solutions to acquire and share data and develop information and analyses to CIHI's clients and stakeholders.
CIHI is embarking on a few exciting initiatives like migration to Cloud, defining a new set of tools to support development of system solutions, implementing Agile delivery approach, implementing a Data Science environment to support advance analytics, and others.
The Senior Developer role in ITS is instrumental in operating, maintaining and developing system solutions in current technologies as well as supporting and enabling initiatives on new platforms, technologies and services as opportunities arise.

What you'll do

• Work as part of technical teams, to develop information systems, which may include the full range of requirements and feasibility analysis, design, coding, testing, quality assurance, implementation and documentation, as well as day-to-day application operation and end-user support.

• Work closely with business partners, develop business processes knowledge and maintain ongoing contact, to ensure satisfaction by meeting their needs through information systems development, enhancements and integrations.

• On a rotation mode, execute the operational tasks related to incident troubleshooting and correction and scheduled product releases, and work on optimizing and automating these tasks to reduce operational effort.

• Analyze software deficiencies/problems and change requests, implementing the changes within the production systems.
May be required to oversee and ensure timely implementation of the changes for the technical team.

• Develop, modify and execute test plans, using automation to improve testing coverage and reduce effort.

• Ensure the correct testing and sign-off procedures as part of CIHI's quality assurance review.

• Ensure the promotion and implementation of applications in accordance with departmental change management processes.

• Participate in the planning, development and delivery of end user training.

What you'll bring to the table

• University Degree or equivalent education/experience in Computer Science, Mathematics or related discipline.

• Proven experience with Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Maven, REST, XML, HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, SQL, RDBMS (Oracle), Python, JBOSS, Linux/Windows, and Git.

• Experience as a Java Developer, developing technical solutions for a web based environment.

• Knowledge and experience with CICD and AWS environment, tools and services are definite assets.

• Knowledge and experience with automated testing and DevOps are definite assets.

• Ability to understand and prioritize user and business requirements, and to conceptualize information processing solutions in response to them.

• Ability to plan and coordinate workload effectively, including managing and prioritizing multiple tasks.

• Strong team player with a client/user orientation.