Senior Developer, Full Stack

Senior Developer, Full Stack - Cannabis IT
Information Systems R27
At the Liquor Distribution Branch our vision of 'Service. Relationships. Results.' is all about providing a valued service, building strong relationships with our stakeholders, and achieving greater results for the province.
The LDB is one of two branches of government responsible for the cannabis and liquor industry of We operate the wholesale distribution of beverage alcohol and non-medical cannabis within the province, as well as the household retail brands of BC Liquor Stores and BC Cannabis Stores.
We employ nearly 5,000 people in over 200 communities and have hundreds of career opportunities spanning our entire wholesale, retail and corporate operations - from supply chain logistics, to high-tech solutions, and everything in between. The LDB has been named one of BC's Top Employers 14 times over for offering exceptional places to work, flexible work hours and earned days off, extended health and dental benefits, maternity and parental leave top-up payments, a pension program, in-house professional and leadership development, and subsidies for professional accreditation.
The information technology team is highly customer focused and directly supports four distinct lines of business:
Retail liquor, wholesale liquor, cannabis, and corporate. These line of business IT teams are supported overall by both a Chief Information Security Officer and a Chief Technical Officer and their respective departments to ensure the organization prioritizes security and innovation.
At present the technology team consists of more than 200 full-time employees and has also adopted a multi-sourcing strategy and leverages external expertise, Cloud SaaS based services and government shared services as appropriate.
The teams integrate, maintain and enhance more than 80 business systems on a hybrid on-premises and cloud infrastructure. These include:
Merchandising and retail store systems that process 40 million plus customer transactions per year.
Wholesale, distribution and warehouse systems that enable the movement of 17 million plus cases per year.
Corporate finance systems to service an annual budget of approximately $3 billion and HR and payroll systems to service more than 5000 employees.
Applications vary in complexity, cost and business significance entailing both short and long term projects. Projectsbe either of a self-contained nature or ones which require assigning/coordinating/supervising work performed by other assigned Developers to support business information objectives in a multi-product, multi-outlet, high volume retail, wholesale, or corporate organization. The Senior Developers lead the development of systems and changes/enhancements through the various phases of the systems development life cycle. This position is leading or participating in the design, development, testing and implementation of assigned projects or work requests. The Senior Developers work with senior technical staff to ensure DA and DBA requirements are satisfied. This position also works with other Developers to ensure development and standards are maintained and required documents, configurations and code are delivered as necessary.
A criminal record check is required.
Retail business operating hours are 8:
00am-midnight, Monday - Saturday and 9:
00am - 9:
00pm, on Sundays. Wholesale business operating hours are Sunday 10:
30pm to Friday 11:
00pm 24 hours. The core business hours of IT are currently 8:
00am to 4:
30pm Monday to Friday and we are expanding those hours to better support the business and projects. The expectation is that the Senior Developer resources will be available to work core hours and with two weeks' notice cover expanded shifts during implementation roll-outs and stabilization periods. Those shifts would likely be 4pm - midnight, Monday - Saturday/ 1:
30pm - 9:
30pm Sunday. Shifts would be rotated.
An eligibility list for permanent or temporary future opportunities be established.
There are two vacancies for this position.
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Position Requirements:
Education and Experience:
A Degree or Diploma in information technology/computer science or similar field with a minimum of six years of recent, related experience*.
OR
A combination of training and experience be considered, 10 years of recent, related experience* with the formal coursework and/or certifications.
*Recent, related experience must have occurred within the last 10 years and must include the following:
Experience with agile software development using C# or Java.
Experience with Application Servers such as, Wildfly, Tomcat, WebLogic or JBoss.
Experience with Bootstrap, Spring, and/or Hibernate development.
Experience in SOAP or REST or RESTful APIs.
Experience in SOA Web Services, SOA
Certifications such as Microsoft Azure Certifications Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Azure Developer Associate
Scripting Languages C, C++, Perl, Important Company, Python, Ruby scripting, SQL, XML, YAML
Developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for build and deployment of services and components using Azure DevOps, OR Jenkins.
Experience with PL/SQL functions, packages, procedures, triggers, views etc.
Experience in managing GIT or GITHUB or SVN source controls.
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