Senior Developer, Human Resources Digital Development Full-time Job

As a member of the HR Digital Development team, you will work with our internal client groups on change initiatives and projects within the scope of the People, Culture and Communications branch.

Responsibilities: 

• Work with internal client groups to identify opportunities for improvement through development of web applications. Facilitate working sessions to formalize business requirements.
• Co-create systems / software or support current systems pertinent to HR services (learning and development, performance management)
• Responsible for design, coding, testing, and implementation of web solutions
• Guide junior developers with code reviews and coding best practices. 
• Maintain overall team coding standards
• Be responsible for creating coding migration strategy.
• Maintain and enhance web solutions after implementation.
• Document technical and functional design.
• Employ best practices and established standards to ensure application is easy to use.
• Monitor system defects, flag those with a medium to high business impact and coordinate work-around solutions as appropriate with the business.
• Participate in weekly meetings with the internal service delivery team to track and prioritize work effort.
• Maintain security of internal access to HR data in accordance with Air Canada’s policies.
• Test strategies, plans and environment for stability and functionality
• Design and architect cloud-friendly applications using multiple cloud-based technologies
• Preparing and executing a strategy to migrate legacy applications to cloud-native and DevSecOps toolsets

Qualifications

• Strong Desire to solve problems, learn and improve relentlessly
  
• Experience with C#, ASP.NET, MS SQL and .Net Core is required
  
• Excellent understanding of object-oriented programming, relational database concepts, and coding standards.
  
• Proficiency in writing clean code, Data structures, Design patterns and SOLID principles
  
• Proficiency in data modeling and API design.
  
• Bachelor’s Degree in related field or equivalent work experience.
  
• Advanced understanding of coding frameworks like MVC.
  
• Experience working with application servers, administering, and configuring them. Preferably IIS. 
  
• Experience with Responsive Web Design techniques
  
• Experience with continuous integration.
  
• Ability and aptitude for cloud-based software development in a team environment
  
• Passion/self-motivation for on-going continuous learning
  
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
  
• Experience with version controlling software and administering them.
  
• Excellent SQL and TSQL coding skills.
  
• Experience with Blazor WebAssembly is an asset
  
• Substantial knowledge of application security and OWASP Top 10.
  
• Keen interest in the airline industry.
  
• Very strong business and logical analytical skills.
  
• Ability to anticipate client needs and present solutions.
  
• Ability to initiate, develop, and maintain effective working relationships with team members including client groups, cross branch colleague relationships.
  
• Basic understanding of core and corporate HR processes is considered an asset 
  
• Experience in gathering technical and functional design requirements is considered an asset
• Knowledge of application usability standards and modern UI design techniques is considered an asset     

Conditions of Employment:

• Candidates must be eligible to work in the country of interest, at the time any offer of employment is made and seeking any required work permits/visas or other authorizations which may be required is the sole responsibility of the candidates applying for this position.

Linguistic Requirements

Based on equal qualifications, preference will be given to bilingual candidates.

Air Canada is the flag carrier and the largest airline of Canada, by size and passengers carried. Air Canada is headquartered in the borough of Saint-Laurent, Montreal, Quebec. The airline, founded in 1937, provides scheduled and charter air transport for passengers and cargo to 222 destinations worldwide. It is a founding member of the Star Alliance.[10] Air Canada's major hubs are at Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ), MontréalTrudeau International Airport (YUL), and Vancouver International Airport (YVR).[11]