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Posting Reason: Recent Position

Job Type: Employee

Anticipated Duration in Months (for contracts and temporary assignments): 18

Job Family: Application Development

# of Open Positions: 1

Faculty/Service - Department: ITS - Engagement and Marketing

Campus: Main Campus

Union Affiliation: UOITP

Date Posted (YYYY/MM/DD): 2026/10/15

Applications must be received BEFORE (YYYY/MM/DD): 2026/10/26

Hours per week: 35

Salary Grade: UOITP Grade 10

Salary Range: $82450,00 - $102514,00

Position Purpose:

Evaluates user business and software requirements and develops new or enhance existing and off-the-shelf computer applications. Is assigned small projects of limited duration or may participate in a designated portion of a larger project under supervision. Is focused on meeting user needs and improving the efficiency of the University’s operations through system and software solutions.

In this role, your responsibilities will include:

- Analysis: Evaluates client’s business and functional requirements in order to fully explore their needs. Recommends solutions to improve systems and automation.
- Design: Creates technical designs, specifications or plans in order to translate requirements into technical specification documents. Designs, plans and coordinates effective software using appropriate tools and operating systems facilitating the function of the various departments, to increase their efficiency and productivity, and to reduce costs.
- Development, Testing and Documentation: Develops effective program code, tests and provides documentation for new releases or application upgrades. Translates specifications document into effective program code.



Assists in the provision of user documentation. Creates technical specification, project plans and other documentation for review.
- Deployment: Installs or releases new software in alignment with established procedures and processes. Integrates the final product to existing software.
- Maintenance: Reviews and identifies the requirement to repair and maintain current systems and software to ensure they continue to perform in keeping with client expectations. Ensures that all issues concerning data integrity, security, and confidentiality and user secrecy are dealt with. Ensures daily that the systems in production are functional and performing, and that backup and recovery processes and procedures are completed properly.
- Project Management: Develops and maintains plans outlining steps and timetables for small development projects, including analyzing and estimating feasibility, costs, time and compatibility with hardware and other programs, in order to ensure development projects are completed within an acceptable timeframe and budget and meet client expectations.
- Training and Advice: Provides specialized advice and training to users on the optimal use of the programs to raise the proficiency of users. Develops and maintains instructional materials for users.
- Purchasing Advice:



Evaluates software options (custom versus off-the-shelf) and measure these against client requirements to offer sound recommendations ensuring the most cost effective and operationally appropriate solutions for user needs.
- Continuous Improvement: Provides recommendations to improve and enhance existing standards and procedures and improve the quality of the services provided to the users.
- Data Security: Responsible for ensuring confidentiality, security and accessibility of institutional data. The incumbent complies with and promotes any controls put in place to protect and secure data and exhibits due diligence in following the established information security and privacy policies as well as related standards.

What you will bring:

- University degree in Computer Science or a related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Minimum 3 years of experience in the development and implementation of system and software programs.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in both official languages (French and English).
- Knowledge of University policies, guidelines and standards regarding system and software development and deployment.
- Experience working with Salesforce development languages (such as Apex, LWC and Node.js) (asset) or other programming languages (such as PHP and TypeScript).
- Experience working with databases and query languages such as SOQL, SQL, GraphQL or similar.
- Experience migrating and transforming data between systems, including data mapping, validation, and error handling.
- Experience developing and implementing API integrations using REST, JSON, and in

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