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Web Application / Flex Developer
One Year Contract (Renewable)
Director’s Office

H.J.A. Brown Education Centre
5650 Hurontario Street
Mississauga, Ontario

We are seeking a Web Application Developer who will be responsible for the ongoing development and sustainment of the Peel District School Board’s Report Card for Student Success, School Success Planning, and Your Voice Counts web applications.

The Web Application Developer will be part of a large, cross-functional team, which is responsible for the full lifecycle development, from inception to implementation, of scalable n-tiered web applications. The candidate will collaborate with the technical team, business integration team, and project manager to develop, implement and sustain system-wide web applications. The successful candidate must have an understanding of common coding design patterns, object oriented programming, n-tiered infrastructure, data access and retrieval, and security.

Responsibilities will include: Collaborating with the technical team to ensure a seamless integration of the presentation, application, and database layers; working from business requirements and specifications to design and develop functionally rich, robust, user-friendly, and highly available web applications; collaborating with the business integration team to ensure the presentation layer meets the business requirements; providing estimates for assigned work to the project manager; analyzing, prototyping, and testing emerging web technologies to provide suggestions and recommendations on their use.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Degree in Computer Science, advanced diploma, or equivalent directly related work experience
• Must have an understanding of common coding design patterns and Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
• Minimum of 3 years experience of Rich Internet Application (RIA) development
• Adobe Flex SDK 3 or 4 with ActionScript 3
• (D)(X)HMTL, CSS, Javascript (including libraries such as jQuerie), AJAX, JSON, XML
• Minimum of 2 years experience using J2EE development
• Struts, JSP, Servlets, Web Services, Spring
• Working experience with: Adobe Flex or Flash Builder Beta, Adobe CS4 (Dreamweaver, Flash, Illustrator, and Photoshop), Oracle JDeveloper, and Microsoft Visual Source Safe
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Strong problem solving and decision making skills

• Strong interpersonal, time management & organization skills that facilitate team work

SALARY: C4-1 – Min. $58,595 – Max. $69,575 per annum

Duties are to commence as soon as possible.

Deadline for applications: no later than 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Quote file number: ASG #41 in the subject line

Forward resumes to:

Nicole Wilkins
Employee Relations Officer
Peel District School Board
Human Resources Department
5650 Hurontario Street
Mississauga, ON L5R 1C6
fax: 905-890-4955
email: job.postings@peelsb.com as text or as an attachment in word with a .doc extension

For the safety of students, all school board staff need to have a criminal record check.

We regret that we are only able to contact those candidates whom we will interview and we cannot keep resumes on file for future positions.

Peel District School Board is committed to equity in employment. We take pride in our fair hiring practices. The board will make any necessary accommodation to assist a person with disabilities in applying for a position. If you are contacted for an interview and require accommodations due to a disability, please inform the person setting up the interview.