Application Analyst

Closure Date: September 4, 2026 at 11:59 PM

Position #: 190409

Union: Saskatchewan Government and General Employees Union

Bargaining Unit: SGEU - Saskatchewan Cancer Agency

City/Town: Regina or Saskatoon

Facility: SCA - Corporate Services

Department: Information Management Services

Type: Full-time Regular

Expected Start Date: October 6, 2026

FTE: 1

Shift Information: Days

Number of Hours per Rotation: In a 3 week rotation : 14 shift(s) of 7.77 hours 

Salary or Pay Band: Pay Band 8, $42.412 to $49.295 (5 step range)

GENERAL ACCOUNTABILITY:

Reporting to the Provincial Manager, Application Services, Application Analysts are client-focused programmers/analysts responsible for: developing an understanding of business enterprise requirements and workflows, standards and nomenclature; business analysis (or working with the business analyst); assessing, designing and modifying software applications; modifying vendor software, documenting business rules; providing training of other analysts and business unit staff; providing ongoing technical management of specified applications; and, providing support to project teams or other applications analysts.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education: 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, business administration, or engineering plus 2 years directly related experience or a diploma in computer technology or engineering plus 5 years directly related experience.  
• Certification in various operating systems/software applications as required.  
   

Experience: 

• Experience in an application analyst role in a highly integrated IT environment.  
• HL7 experience preferred.
• Preferred experience with Microsoft's application development ecosystem including Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse), Power BI, Azure DevOps, Git source control, CI/CD pipelines, and YAML-based automation for enterprise application delivery.

Skills:

• Ability to manage multiple applications and/or assignments concurrently while maintaining high levels of quality and effectiveness. 
• Ability to work as part of a team including those led by a project manager or peers. 
• Ability to work effectively within application/business enterprise architectural and Data Base management guidelines. 
• Human relations skills are required to interact with a variety of individuals internal and external to the Agency 
• Ability to provide leadership to others involved in the development of specific applications, where full project management methodology is not required. 
• Ability to quickly develop an understanding of current SCA business enterprise applications, SCA security policy and applications, Health privacy legislation (HIPA). 
• Judgment and problem solving ability is required to identify and analyze technological issues and develop appropriate IM solutions to complex business problems. 
• Communication skills are required to develop and present complex information including written documentation and verbal presentations to audiences with varying levels of comprehension ability. 
• Demonstrated analytical skill and ability to assess, develop, configure, code, test, document, implement and maintain business enterprise applications. 
• Knowledge of and ability to research industry best practices and software solutions. 
• Intermediate to advanced ASP.NET/C# programming skills 
• Knowledge of different operating systems in SCA (Windows/UNIX/Citrix). 
• Understanding of statistics, data warehousing and data cleansing and ability to write SQL-based (or other language-based) queries and generate reports, ensuring patient privacy. 
• Understanding of PL/SQL tools, TOAD, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, SAS, Oracle, etc. 
• Work with the System Integration Analyst to achieve interoperability of, applications and systems within SCA guidelines.