Systems Engineer

at  BCLC

JOB SUMMARY:

As a member of Digital Enablement the Systems Engineer – Development acts as a senior technical resource in the area of software development, systems architecture, design, and translating business and technical requirements into services and solutions. They fill a role as a technical and cultural leader on the team and consistently demonstrates the required behaviors on the team.
This role partners with diverse stakeholders including Product Owners, Agile Coaches, Project Managers, Enterprise Architects, Capability Managers and business stakeholders, as well as a broad range of technical and business subject matter experts including external vendors and consultants.
The Systems Engineer – Development facilitates delivery by collaborating with team members to develop and adopt technology and processes to increase operational agility throughout the solution lifecycle. They proactively develop and implement best practices to address emerging trends in the industry and the evolving needs of our business partners. The role drives delivery of services and solutions used by internal and external customers.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• As a senior technical persona, the role will take on technical leadership duties. The role will collaborate with business and technical leadership to ensure the successful delivery of enterprise solutions by removing blocking issues and providing direction to technical members of the product team.
• Partners with the Product Owner and business stakeholders to understand the customer need, build and support customized demos, and to assist in the development of the long-term product roadmap.
• Aligns business strategy and technology to create solutions that are cost effective to implement and relevant to our business and customer needs
• Collaborates with the Capability Manager, Product Owner, and Product Team to define functional and non-functional requirements to a sufficient level of detail to ensure services are secure, flexible, open, scalable, available, testable and maintainable within a high-volume, mission-critical production environment.
• Ensures the successful development, quality assurance, implementation, and ongoing support requirements of the designed solutions.
• Collaborates with Enterprise Communities of Excellence (COE) to provide significant input and recommendations on Architecture Strategy, Enterprise Domain Roadmaps, Principles, Standards, and Reference Architectures throughout the organization.
• Will lead and participate in other technology COE’s or Communities of Practice (COP) and develop Proof of Concepts (POC) as required to progress technology roadmaps and adoption, ensuring alignment with industry methodologies, technology trends, and innovation.
• Coordinates vendors, B2B partners, and internal and product teams to map, design, document, deploy and launch technical solutions
• Creates, documents and communicates technical solutions using agreed upon standard documentation processes and ensuring adherence to technical guidelines and standards.
• Proactively resolves complex issues and demonstrates innovative thinking by regularly making recommendations for new approaches to technical work and broader issues resolution.
• Researches technology providers and emerging technology to provide advice and recommend solutions and opportunities to business and technology stakeholders.
• Ensures the implementation of technical solutions in adherence with the Enterprise Architecture Principles, Security Standards, Corporate Strategy, and Technology Roadmaps.
• Contributes to the development and delivery of Business Cases and other financial documents.
• Completes analysis as required to ensure BCLC is managing financial risk by making sound technology decisions.
• Participate in major Procurement competitions as a Subject Matter Expert to complete technology and vendor analysis and contribute to product/vendor selection.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• University Degree, College Diploma in Information Technology supplemented by industry recognized professional courses;
• 4-6 years progressively responsible technical experience with at least three years at a senior level in Information Technology in medium to large sized environments
• Scrum Master, TOGAF, and other professional certifications would be an asset;
• An equivalent combination of education and/or experience may be considered.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent problem solving and analytical thinking/innovation
• Exceptional time management and multi-tasking skills
• Software integration experience
• Vendor management experience
• Demonstrated experience in business and process analysis and improvement
• Understanding of object-oriented programming methodologies
• Understanding of B.C. gaming industry is an asset
• Demonstrated team leadership skills including the ability to act as a change agent to champion continuous change and improvement.
• Good understanding of technology life cycle financial requirements, from procurement through to evergreen.
• Software integration experience, experience in analysis, design, development and deployment of complex technology solutions involving highly secure and scalable on-line transaction processing, client/server, web and native applications in both on premise and cloud based environments.
• Knowledge of best practices of IT solutions life cycle and operations in an always up, always-available service including solution performance development, monitoring and auditing tools.
• Experience with containerization platforms such as Docker and OpenShift.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD toolsets (strong knowledge of Jenkins a bonus)
• Strong understanding of source code and artifact management and repositories
• Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services (AWS and Azure a bonus)
• General knowledge of cloud organizations and services (AWS and Azure) preferred
• Understanding of Agile methodologies an asset
• Strong understanding of SDLC and release management

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