Avalon Works is currently looking for candidates who meet the requirements listed below. Should you wish to apply for any of these positions, please send your updated resumé immediately to hr@avalonworks.com. You will then receive the matrix which should be completed and returned to hr@avalonworks.com.

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Avalon Works has an immediate need for the following skills:

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER (IT). Following are the mandatory requirements to be successful:

  • must have a minimum of three (3) years of experience in the last five (5) years in the implementation of government web services, for each of the following:
• Development and execution of User Acceptance Testing (UAT) plans.

• Development and execution of detailed Functional Acceptance Test procedures for tractability of system requirements.

• Development and execution of an end-to-end Performance Test Plan in support of a service level agreement.
  • must have technical and project management experience working on a minimum of two (2) large government projects (exceeding $100M) including the implementation of network infrastructure and services
  • must have a minimum of four (4) years experience, within the last six (6) years, developing and implementing common infrastructure for Government Online (GOL) web services.
  • must have a minimum of three (3) years experience, with in the last five (5) years, in providing government related testing oversight of a third party security service provider.
  • must have a minimum of four (4) years experience, within the last six (6) years as a project manager delivering major projects in a multi-departmental and multi-vendor environment.
  • must have a minimum of three (3) years experience, within the last five (5) years, in providing government related testing for each of the following:
a. Java scripts;

b. Java applets;

c. Java servlets;

d. HTML pages;

e. Government privacy policy compliant Web services;

f. Government common look and feel policy compliant web services;

g. Government IT security policy compliant web services; and

h. Government PKI Policy compliant web services.
  • experience working on one or more large web services IT projects. the experience should include requirements analysis, testing and quality assurance. Identify the candidate’s experience with the following:
a) Service Brokerage;

b) Payment Services;

c) Build 3 Local Channel Footprint;

d) Build 5 Local Channel Footprint;

e) Common Registration Services (CRS) release 6.0;

f) CRS Release 6.1;

g) CRS 6.0 Infrastructure Performance;

h) CRS 6.1 Infrastructure Performance;

i) Electronic Post Mark (EPM);

j) Entrust Certification Authority Services;

k) Out-of-band (OOB);

l) Service Point Test Environment (SPTE)1;

m) SPTE 2;

n) SPTE 3;

o) Staging Environment;

p) Emulator;

q) Help Desk;

r) Secure Channel (SC) Network;

s) Directory Services (X.500);

t) Session Encryption with Automated Login (SEAL);

u) Mapping Database;

v) Baseline Model Application (BMA);

w) Service-2-Service (S2S).
  • experience working on large-scale multi-departmental web common services infrastructure.
  • experience within the last six (6) years as a Project Manager on a project that follows the Service Life cycle Management Framework (SLMF) approved engineering methodology; or an equivalent methodology, such as IEEE, with comparable elements
  • experience within the last seven (7) years as a Project Manger on at least two (2) federal/provincial web-based Electronic Commerce (EC) projects.
  • experience in Information Technology System (ITS) projects in a government environment.
  • experience in providing GOL related testing oversight of a third party service provider
  • experience in reviewing and analyzing web-based application development project deliverables, produced by contractors, to ensure compliance with the project specifications.
  • experience as a Project Manager on a project that adheres to Treasury Board Secretariat's (TBS) Enhanced Management Framework (EMF) reporting methodology, or an equivalent methodology with comparable elements.
  • experience in developing time, cost and quality control criteria.
  • experience in developing recommendations to management on proposed architectural enhancements, acceptability of new technology, compliance with organizational objectives, financial implications, etc.
  • experience in working with product managers in the development of telecom-based security services. This includes providing assistance with the following engineering process:
a) Definition of the service;

b) Developing the business case;

c) Requirements;

d) Design;

e) Testing; and

f) Deployment of the services.
  • experience in preparing engineering project status reports and results/conclusions to senior managers and clients.

APPLICATION ARCHITECT
  • At least 10 years experience working in the Information Technology (IT) field.
  • Minimum of five (5) years experience as an Application Architect.
  • At least 5 years of experience working in an IT environment that required
• strong verbal and written skills to discuss, explain and document problems, strategies, plans and solutions; and

• to work within a team and communicate with clients.
  • Experience in working in a ‘Granting’ environment
  • Experience in Web-based service design;
  • Experience in Web-based development;
  • Experience in leading (knowledge transfer) and assisting in the development of web-based services;
  • Experience in .NET, XML;
  • Experience with multiple disciplines specific to various tiers of an n-tier architecture and the interfaces for communicating between these tiers
• Web-tier: HTTP protocol, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, server side rendering of dynamic content

• Business tier: IIOP/CORBA and IIOP/RMI protocols, naming services, design and deployment of component based architectures

• Data tier: transaction management, SQL performance tuning
  • Experience with analytical methodologies, techniques and practices to identify and resolve complex problems (research & resolution);
  • Strong knowledge of computer science and engineering theories and principles to design, develop, implement, and maintain reliable, responsive and adaptive web-based systems

SENIOR WEB APPLICATION DEVELOPER
  • At least 6 years experience working in the Information Technology Field.
  • At least 3 years working experience as a Senior Web Application Developer.
  • Experience in working in a ‘Granting’ environment;
  • Experience with the N-Tier applications/web-services;
  • Experience with VB.Net, C#, .NET;
  • Experience with JAVA, JSP, JavaScript, JavaBeans, HTML, XML;
  • Experience with PowerBuilder 8+ and EAServer 4;
  • Experience in development using Object Oriented principles;
  • Experience in systems integration and testing/validation;
  • Knowledge of Systems hardware and software;
  • Knowledge of Architectural principles (model view controller);
  • Knowledge of Security systems including Encryption concepts and standards, Secure applications, (Personnel identification and authentication concepts and technology;
  • Knowledge of Internet service delivery through the Government On-Line (GOL) Initiative, the World Wide Web, Internet, Intranets and Extranets