City : Toronto

Category : Other

Industry : Professional Services

Employer : BGIS

Who We Are

BGIS is a leading provider of customized facility management and real estate services. With our combined team of over 6,500 globally, we relentlessly focus on enabling innovation through the services we deliver, while actively looking for new opportunities that will enable innovation for our clients’ businesses. Globally, we manage over 320 million square feet of client portfolios across 30,000+ locations in North America, Europe, Middle East, Australia and Asia. Further information is available at www.bgis.com

SUMMARY 

The Team

The Corporate IT Development & Delivery department is a software development, support and information delivery department within BGIS’ IT Solution Support area.  The team provides hosted and cloud Oracle ERP technical solutions for Finance, HR, Project Accounting and Procurement. Also develops other departmental software to support corporate business processes. 

This is a dynamic team working in a fast-paced environment.  Based on our company values of Unwavering Integrity, Passion for Innovation, Living Sustainability, Customer Experience and team member engagement, we believe in engineering effective business processes first before delivering solutions.  We believe in team transparency and promote healthy technical discussion and debate. We promote self-learning alongside corporate funded training and personal career growth.

The Position

Reporting to Director, Corporate IT Development and Delivery, the Senior Systems Analyst / Developer works in the Corporate IT Development & Delivery department as a technical leader with one other peer.  This position identifies, analyzes and implements user requirements. This position also assists in establishing corporate IT technical directions and standards; researches to decide corporate departmental IT software needs, and mentors other team members.

With respect to Enterprise Corporate Software, this position analyzes user requirements and documents the technical system design in a highly complex, tightly integrated environment, which includes a few cloud-based SaaS applications, internal operational application data integration, external banks, Taxation Services and client data delivery integrations.  This position prepares technical design documents, provides solutions for new functionality or modifications to existing functionality, designs reports and extensions for Corporate Software including Oracle HRMS, OTL, G/L, A/P, A/R, P/O and Project Accounting modules and provides data integration services for all related interfaces.  This position maintains and supports the existing customizations / extensions and changes within the production environment.  In addition to excellent technical skills, strong functional knowledge is an advantage; especially for human resource, finance, procurement, project accounting, etc. and corporate related processes.

For corporate departmental related software, this position will also deliver full development cycle tasks to support corporate departmental software needs.

For integration services, this position also uses Snaplogic service to build, deploy and support required integration services.  Provide code enhancements and bug fixes according to the RFC management process.

 This position also performs research of new technologies under the direction of IT management.

KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES 

• New Technology and Process: Actively maintains knowledge and keeps current on a wide range of technical platforms, approaches and processes in the market.  Recommends applicable technical platforms, approaches and processes to management to ensure BGIS retains IT technical leadership.
• Business Solution: Analyze, engineer and document highly complex technical solutions to meet the needs of an assigned project.  Documents the design; performs programming and unit tests solutions according to relevant development standards. Business solution needs tend to arise from acquisitions, mergers, client process integrations, expansion of our services within existing clients and new client transitions within a global geographical perspective.
• Program Modules, Data Interfaces and System Integration: Analyze, engineer and document complex technical program units to meet the needs of IT’s internal clients (e.g., Corporate Accounting, Client Accounting, Procurement and HR).  Develop the program units according to Oracle EBS development standards.
• System Support: Supports production environment (including all existing extensions, interfaces, modifications and reports) analyze urgent problems that occur at a module level.  Deal with one-time data requests.  Be able to occasionally work out-of-office hours for urgent support needs.
• Upgraded Functions: Evaluate new technical functions available from upgrades, patches, or new software.  Determine the applicability of new functionality to BGIS business and the impact to existing customizations, extensions and reports.
• Provide technical and functional knowledge, direction and support to other Systems Analysts and Programmers.
• Able to manage software development project, perform as IT prime member independently in Enterprise critical projects.
• Acting department leader if required.

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

General

• Self-driven, with both a deep and broad focus on IT current approaches.  Provide active leadership to drive a team of developers to excel in both technique knowledge and skills.
• Relevant University Degree.  Industry certification and General Enterprise Finance, HR, Project Accounting and Procurement Management process design experience are required.
• Theory driven issue management approaches for information process management and data storage management. Information engineering approach for different types of business process.  Not restricted to structured data management. 
• Be able to raise applicable, relevant technical and process questions in abiguous situations.  We need a person with capability to raise questions that could result-in process improvement. 
• Progressive experience and expertise that demonstrates mastery in knowledge and capability which typically comes with up to 10 years hands-on experience.
• Demonstrated ability to work under pressure; manage client expectations well and be able to work on several projects simultaneously.
• Able to work independently and have mentoring/staff management skills.
• Able to learn new technology and solution methodology efficiently.

Technical Knowledge and Skills

• In-depth Hands on experience with the current versions of Oracle SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle APEX, Tagged-Text(HTML, XML, SOAP CSS Etc.) and JavaScript.
• In-depth Knowledge of data architecture, data modeling and information system design and development methodologies. Knowledge of Formal Information Engineering methods and approaches is an asset.
• Working knowledge of Oracle EBS Middle tier architecture.
• Working knowledge of some of the following Global Enterprise Management processes HR, Payroll; Finance and others like GL, AP, PA, AR, PO, and Banking/Cash Management.
• Working Knowledge with middleware-based cloud integration technology (E.g.: SOA Suite, SOAP, RESTful services, etc.) and its applications in the market (E.G. cloud integration platforms by different vendors).  Hands on experience with Cloud to local bi-directional full cycle data integration and application integration.  Knowledge of Snaplogic is an advantage.
• Working Knowledge of BI Publisher Reports, Oracle ERP database table/structures, Linux and Microsoft operating system commands.
• Knowledge of handheld device development and Oracle Mobile Application Framework (Oracle MAF) is an asset.
• Exposure to .Net technology is an asset.

BGIS we believe that diversity and inclusion is a key business driver, such that we never lose sight of its importance as it is woven into the fabric of our organization. We are committed to maintaining a barrier-free recruitment process by providing equal employment opportunities through recruiting and retention of individuals of all backgrounds. We recognize that promoting diversity is an essential component of our continuing pursuit for organizational success!