Senior Specialized IT Consultant

We are seeking a Senior Specialized IT Consultant with 10+ years of experience to bridge the gap between business requirements and complex technical execution. This role is highly multifaceted, requiring a deep understanding of business analysis, cloud infrastructure (Azure), and end-to-end service management. You will act as a technical advisor, overseeing code implementations, managing environment readiness, and facilitating the transition of high-volume client/server systems from project teams to operations.

Pay Rate: $557.45-$592.98/Diem

Advantages
- Strategic Influence: Provide guidance to major organizations regarding IT infrastructure and major business process enablement.

- Diverse Technology Exposure: Work with a massive tech stack ranging from legacy Mainframe transactions to modern Cloud-native AKS environments.

- Project Breadth: Participate in a multi-project, multi-disciplinary enterprise environment.

Responsibilities
- Technical Analysis & Design: Lead business analysis to assess problems and opportunities, transforming them into detailed system requirements and acceptance criteria.

- Environment & Release Management: Oversee technical code drops into QA/UAT/Production environments and lead the maintenance of environment readiness (Security patching, NSG/Network, VPN, and VDI access).

- Cloud Infrastructure Support: Provide expertise in Azure hosting optimization, cloud pipeline configuration, and deployment support using Terraform and Ansible.

- Quality Assurance Coordination: Coordinate technical support for QA and UAT testing, including the completion of desktop package certification and legacy component connections.

- Service Management: Lead activities across the ITIL spectrum, including Release and Deployment, Change Management, Problem and Incident Management, and Capacity Management.

- Stakeholder Management: Work in partnership with clients and solution architects to facilitate agreement on technical enhancements and resolve system-wide issues.

- Documentation: Contribute subject matter expertise to solution concept documents, infrastructure build plans, and technical specifications for performance-integrated systems.

Qualifications
- Senior BA Experience: 10+ years leading business analysis, assessing client problems, and documenting requirements. Skilled in creating UML diagrams (Use Case, Activity, Class, Sequence) to visualize requirements.

- SDLC Mastery: Comprehensive understanding of Waterfall, Iterative, and Agile methodologies.

- Technical Stack: Senior-level experience with Oracle, .NET, Java, AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service), and Siebel.

- Automation & DevOps: Practical experience with DevOps toolsets, SonarQube, Terraform, and Ansible automation.

- Standards & Compliance: Knowledge of GO-ITS 25 (Security) and GO-ITS 56 (Architecture) standards, as well as OPS gating and architecture checkpoint processes.

- Systems Evaluation: Experience assessing the condition and capacity of existing systems to determine feasibility for expansion or replacement.

Summary
If you are interested in the Specialized IT Consultant role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at www.randstad.ca.

Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!

Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.

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