CAREERS

This role is responsible for identifying, gathering, analyzing, specifying, and validating the business needs of end-users in a particular area of the business, and for IT projects or initiatives. These include interviewing stakeholders, capturing the “to-be” state, process improvements, and identifying the associated business requirements. These results convey to the Architecture, Change Management and Quality Assurance teams the breadth and nature of the end users’ needs and environment, thereby driving their solution design, change management and testing efforts. 

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Your Responsibilities and Deliverables: 

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• Facilitate requirements gathering and validation workshops 
• Develop and document project visions and approach 
• Analyze and define business requirements for determining roles relationships and data structures to meet business security privacy and operational requirements 
• Analyze and define data and information requirements needed to address business requirements used by data modelers and architects responsible for developing logical and physical data models and/or analyzing and designing class models to meet business requirements 
• Work with business clients and technical teams on the design development and implementation of business applications 
• Document, analyze, and manage business requirements 
• Develop business cases 
• Produce deliverables within specified quality standards 
• Escalate issues and risks as appropriate 
• Prepare and execute tasks in accordance with a defined project plan 
• Review and provide input on test strategies plans and test cases to ensure they adequately cover the defined business requirements 
• Execute tasks in accordance with control processes, including schedule management, status-reporting issues, risk and change management at the project and or program level 
• Attend necessary meetings to review schedule, status, issues, risk, and change management 
• Support project team members in the analysis of issues 
• Prepare status reports, meeting minutes, change requests, and other documents 
• Undertake management detailing tasks and review the timelines associated with the execution of those tasks

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Data Analytics Specialist

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The Data Analytics Specialist will research and develop an operational forecasting model in support of Government registries transformation. The Specialist must be a self-starter and work with minimal supervision to identify and develop data science models related to enterprise-level transformational change on business area operational models. The Specialist is a specialized and advanced role that combines theoretical and senior professional economic and operational forecasting knowledge and experience. This role will regularly apply advanced knowledge in order to produce detailed operational forecasts resultant from registries transformational changes.
The role will work with Registries Evolution branch leadership and registry area key stakeholders to forecast short, medium, and long-term impacts to business operations, including but not limited to; resourcing levels and capacity, budgeting models, revenue generation, organizational structure and roles, and service delivery models.

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Your Responsibilities and Deliverables:

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• Leads or is part of a team responsible for the generalizable extraction of knowledge from data by applying various techniques and theories including signal processing, mathematics, probability models, machine learning, computer programming, statistics, data engineering, pattern recognition and learning, visualization, uncertainty modeling, data warehousing, and high performance computing. 
• Experience in Data Analytics or as a Data Scientist. 
• Must be able to apply their skills to provide insights, support decision making and facilitate strategic business planning across the ministry. 
• Requires a focus on understanding predictive analytics, lifetime value and needs-based analytics strategies to simplify, consistently produce and re-use analytical models and assets to drive measurable value. 
• Provide executives and decision makers a deeper understanding of their operations, transactions, services and information required for them to identify new opportunities that can only be uncovered through analytics. 
• Provide depth and insight to data produced by the various teams and transform them into meaningful analytics for decision making. 
• Ensuring delivery processes are robust, of high quality and repeatable 
• Bringing knowledge of statistical classification techniques such as k-means and hierarchical clustering, partition trees, and logistic regression. 
• Developing and measuring success metrics for key projects. 
• Providing strategic agility and the ability to make sense of large amounts of disparate data to tell a cohesive story focused on key strategic decision-making for executives. 
• Integration of both quantitative and qualitative data to create business insights. 
• Design and create dashboards and custom reporting with various data sources and inputs. 
• Analyzing data and preparing information results 
• Gathering and documenting client requirements 
• Designing and constructing information products 
• Capturing business and technical metadata for information products 
• Establish and operate control processes including schedule management, status reporting, issues, risk, and change management at the program level. 
• Escalating issues and risks, as appropriate. 
• Working within a multi-vendor/staff environment.

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Mandatory Requirements

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• Minimum combined years of relevant education and work experience in similar roles. Resource must have experience in Data Analytics or Data Scientist roles.

• Acceptable education includes degrees are bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, or a related field. Masters degree is preferred

• Must have demonstrated experience working in a data warehouse/Business Intelligence or relevant data environment; in either a development or support role.

• Must have demonstrated experience with relational database modelling techniques.

• Must have demonstrated experience dealing with clients and explaining complex data principles in a thoughtful manner.

• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group.

 

 

​Application Security Specialist/Engineer

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Your Responsibilities and Deliverables:

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• Assist Departments in assessing, selecting, implementing and verifying the effectiveness of security controls. 
• Developing or reviewing application architecture for information technology systems from a security perspective.  
• May also conduct vulnerability and penetration testing activities and provide a hands-on assessment of applications to identify potential weaknesses. 
• Perform a thorough examination of the IT application and identify the weak points. 
• Vulnerability assessment interprets and compares results against the various business processes to determine whether the perceived vulnerability is indeed valid, is a false positive or whether other security controls address the perceived vulnerability. 
• Determine if the protective controls of a given IT system can be bypassed by actively exploiting identified weaknesses. 
• Provides evidence (sometimes to an unbelieving audience) that vulnerabilities can be exploitable.  
Some activities inlude: 
• Application vulnerability scanning to identify potential vulnerabilities in web and application services. 
• Web application penetration services to simulate real attacks on web and application services.

• Lead the security conceptual, logical, and physical architecture for the SAP cloud platform products, including S/4HANA, SuccessFactors, etc.

• Security architecture includes but is not limited to Identity and Access Management, Directory Services, Security Integrity Services, Encryption Services, Perimeter Flow Control, Managed Detection and Response.
• Align the Security Architecture in alignment to the security standards and specifications
• Support the System Integration Partner in their implementation in alignment to the security architecture
• Translate business, technology, risk, and security requirements into technical controls and solutions in the future state architecture
• Develop security risk mitigation controls to be included in the security architecture design
• Define the scope of security components within the project including plans for costs, efforts, and timelines

 

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Mandatory Requirements:

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• Must have demonstrated experience with SAP GRC (governance, risk, and compliance)

• Must have demonstrated years of experience in an Information Security Environment

• Must have demonstrated experience with full cycle cloud system implementation(s)

 

 

Senior Business Consultant

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Your Responsibilities and Deliverables:

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• Lead, facilitate and document strategic plans and priorities, aligning to Department vision; 
• Identify projects to achieve this vision; 
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops and focus groups; 
• Prepare and present strategies and information to steering committees and project groups; 
• Prepare and deliver presentations about initiatives or issues to executives and staff, steering committees, project groups and Service Alberta personnel and other stakeholders; 
• Assist with risk management and issues management 
• Develop and execute change management plans and communication plans 
• Develop business cases through a consultative approach with business sponsors and key stakeholders, identifying benefits and performance measure indicators; 
• Document initiative/project backgrounds, descriptions, environmental analyses, financial modeling, alternatives, impacts, risks, cost-benefit analyses, recommendations, implementation strategies, and approval processes; 
• Provide quality assurance services throughout the business case development to ensure completeness and consistency of documentation, which could include content review; 
• Identify risks associated with business cases and their implementation; 
• Integrate and align multiple business cases; understand and document dependencies

 

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Mandatory Requirements:

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• University graduation in business, management or a related discipline and 5-yr related experience; OR  2-yr diploma in business, management or a related discipline and 7-yr related experience; OR  1-yr certificate in business, management or a related discipline and 8-yr related experience; OR  9-yr related experience

• Experience working on business case development, funding request submissions, jurisdictional scans, cost-benefit analysis and strategy for large government or industry programs.

• Experience in a leadership and/or facilitation role.

• Experience in managing projects in an organization of comparable size and complexity to the GoA.

• Experience with information management concepts, privacy, and security issues relating to FOIP.

• Experience with the development of information management or related types of policies, standards and practices

• Experience working with system stakeholders in the development and maintenance of IT applications.

• Experience with systems development methodologies and life cycles for application development.

• Must have own computer equipment and be comfortable using it for completion of work required by this contract.

• Must work within Canada

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