Senior Software Engineer (D365)

The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) is the statutory body responsible for regulating Ontario’s capital markets in accordance with the mandate established in the provincial Securities Act and the Commodity Futures Act. The mandate of the OSC is to provide protection to investors from unfair, improper or fraudulent practices, to foster fair, efficient and competitive capital markets and confidence in the capital markets, to foster capital formation, and to contribute to the stability of the financial system and the reduction of systemic risk. This mandate is performed through policy, operational, and enforcement activities. The OSC also contributes to national and global securities regulation development.

We offer a diverse, fair, and flexible work environment and take pride in our challenging and rewarding work.

Summary

Reporting to the Technical Manager, Regulatory Applications, the Sr. Software Engineer is responsible for building and customizing Dynamics 365 solutions and providing technical leadership and expert advice in the development and execution of applications and technical business solutions to support OSC business area operations. The Senior Software Engineer will handle highly complex issues in alignment with the Manager, providing guidance to junior and intermediate level Developers.
 

This opportunity is considered to be a business critical role supporting the Information Services and Digital Solutions department.
 

Key Duties and Responsibilities

Leads business analysis and application design and development activities for all OSC business areas of operation, ensuring client business processes and underlying rules and legislation are clearly understood.

• Facilitates business case, project proposal and request for information/services preparation, ensuring client requirements are clearly communicated, appropriate documentation is prepared and OSC policies, procedures are followed.

• Engages with Platform Manager and business to identify and define business/technical requirements, identifying issues and challenges, determining solution delivery objectives, validating desired outcomes and expectations, identifying critical design elements and translating business process requirements into workable technology solutions

• Prepares solution parameters, defining required internal/external resources, cost estimates, timelines, consulting with IT colleagues and external resources to collaborate on design strategies as appropriate

• Leads the assessment and troubleshooting of escalated complex cases, developing and driving solutions that meet the needs of the OSC and the end-users

• Provides advice and learning opportunities to mentor and train junior staff

Leads business solution/application development projects to support client business activities, managing full project life-cycle activities and ensuring solutions are developed and implemented according to project requirements.

• Works with project stakeholders to develop project specifications and create project plans and schedules based on business requirements, defining deliverables and key milestones, determining resource requirements, cost estimates and delivery schedules, and monitoring project progress against milestones and deadlines to ensure deliverables are effectively managed. 

• Reviews the work completed by Developers to ensure the function’s metrics are met and aligned with the overall initiatives of the OSC, providing advice and guidance on how to improve the code quality, finding balance between velocity and perfection of code

• Provides updates and reports on delivery achievements for Manager review, identifying issues, modifying workplans and schedules as required, preparing and delivering status updates and reports and managing expectations of project team and sponsors.

• Acts as the technical lead in the absence of the supporting Manager

• Develops workflow processes and recommends appropriate changes to business procedures to complement developed systems, adjusting best practices and standards to adapt to specific project requirements

• Follows the full software development life-cycle (SDLC) process to develop and implement complex solutions.

• Creates detailed design and operational documentation for the solutions developed and implemented

Supports and maintains applications and software, troubleshooting issues, resolving problems, identifying opportunities for improvements, designing and implementing enhancements to existing applications and managing vendor interfaces.

• Ensures applications continue to meet business needs, monitoring systems for continued compliance with regulations, identifying impacts of changing regulations/rules to systems in place and facilitating enhancement developments and currency, vulnerability upgrades.

• Develops, tests and implements new applications and systems enhancements, liaising between client and external developer/vendor to manage activities and translate specification requirements, testing applications prior to implementation, conducting quality reviews and ensuring new applications are up and running.

• Ensures systems conversions from one platform to another are efficiently managed and data integrity is preserved.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or equivalent.

• A minimum 7+ years of overall professional experience in programming.

• Strong experience with .NET version 4.6 and higher, C#, Rest API's, Micro Services, Data Structures

• Minimum 7 years experience with Dynamics 365/CE, Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Portal), Azure Function/WebApp, SharePoint/Office 365, SQL, SSIS, SSRS, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Angular JS.

• Must have experience in Azure KeyVaults and Configuration Services

• Significant experience with Microsoft Devops or other CI/CD Practices

• Thorough system and coding documentation skills

• Clear and concise communication skills, both verbal and written.

• Excellent analytical, problem solving and troubleshooting skills

• Experience in large complex systems implementations

• Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to work effectively in a team environment

• Action oriented, outcome focused and collaborative team player constantly seeking continuous improvement in what we do

• Ability to rapidly acquire new knowledge, learn new skills, and apply creative thinking to solve problems while understanding the organization’s vision, purpose and values

• Be curious and fundamentally interested in the application of technology, embrace change and be comfortable helping others through the change journey

• Ability to provide expert guidance to junior staff who are learning Dynamics 365 platform

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