Burnaby, Canada

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Information Technology

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204302E

Date posted

09/23/2026

Job Summary In accordance with the Purpose, Vision, Values and Coast Salish Teachings, and strategic directions of PHSA, safety, including both patient and employee safety, is a priority and a responsibility shared by everyone at PHSA. As such, the requirement to continuously improve quality and safety is inherent in all aspects of this position.

The Senior Developer/Application Architect (SD/AA) reports to the Director or designate and is responsible for providing leadership and direction on the support and development of HSPnet that provides services to Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) and all of Canada. Applying a broad range of information technology experience and knowledge, the SD/AA manages a variety of projects that range from building/supporting system solutions to evaluating products for their technical and architectural fit with the application. This position draws on a high level of expertise in the management of a medium to large scale development environment, providing both architectural and technical direction to help translate business needs into requirement specifications.

In addition to the preparation of white papers, project plans, and product roadmaps, the SD/AA plays a key role within the team, overseeing product assessments, defining and implementing standards, performing security reviews, and providing the framework for systems development.

Duties/Accountabilities

- Designs, plans, and documents the architecture for the application, database, and other environments. Conducts research, performs analysis and product reviews, identifies technical specifications, develops technical white papers and business cases, and makes recommendations. Carries out and/or oversees quality assurance (QA) testing and user acceptance testing (UAT) as required.
- Provides consulting related to the acquisition of new solutions and standards or the implementation of recent applications. Provides leadership on backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies and activities for all application environments. Ensures these processes are maintained and followed in the case of an emergency.

- Provides system administration and troubleshoots Web, client server and n-tier database issues including performance tuning and security. Assesses and implements database updates and upgrades that affect the application environment. Provides change leadership through the upgrade of applications and incorporates new trends in development methodologies. Installs, configures, tests and maintains software.

- Drafts policies, procedures and best practices for application deployment and change control. Participates in project teams to ensure development activities adhere to implementation standards and practices. Recommends new procedures and tools, including capacity and trend reporting, issue management and prevention. Develops and maintains the System Development Life Cycle processes and methodologies.

- Designs, develops and implements a development framework including development standards, tools, reports, interfaces and documentation requirements for new and existing applications. Implements and follows processes and procedures relative to change control, including thorough documentation.
- Participates in projects including the evaluation and implementation of improvements to the overall environment,



assisting with the development and monitoring of project budgets, preparing reports and conducting briefings. In conjunction with senior staff or manager, participates in contract negotiations with vendors.

- Coaches, mentors and provides technical guidance to junior staff such as assistance with developing work plans, complicated scripts, and code reviews.

Qualifications A level of education, training and experience equivalent to a Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science or related discipline, plus a minimum of five to seven (5-7) years’ recent related experience in architecture planning, design, development, and delivery of highly available enterprise applications. Demonstrated knowledge of best practice application architecture practices and procedures, understanding of the concepts of reuse around applications and Service-Oriented Architecture services when to apply, and ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with business groups, project managers, architects and all pertinent developers, whether internal or external.

Demonstrated ability in coding and designing solutions using Microsoft Stack. Proven hands-on experience with MS SQL and Oracle Server, web frontend development frameworks, JSON/XML, .NET framework.

Broad understanding of change control practices including ITIL. Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills with the ability to communicate complex ideas in simple terminology. Ability to understand and clearly relate technical information and principals of operation to other members of the organization.

Ability to analyze operational problems and recommend innovative solutions,

demonstrating time management skills. Proven ability to plan and execute complex projects with stringent budgets and timelines. Demonstrated organizational, analytical, and decision-making skills.

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