207524 / Web Application Architect

Procom is a leading provider of professional IT services and staffing to businesses and governments in Canada.

With revenues over $500 million, the Branham Group has recognized Procom as the 3rd largest professional services firm in Canada and is now the largest “Canadian-Owned” IT staffing/consulting company.

Procom’s areas of staffing expertise include:
• Application Development
• Project Management
• Quality Assurance
• Business/Systems Analysis
• Datawarehouse & Business Intelligence
• Infrastructure & Network Services
• Risk Management & Compliance
• Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
• Security & Privacy

Specialties• Contract Staffing (Staff Augmentation)
• Permanent Placement (Staff Augmentation)
• ICAP (Contractor Payroll)
• Flextrack (Vendor Management System)

PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE UNABLE TO WORK WITH CANDIDATES THAT HAVE H1B VISA OR REPRESENTED BY THIRD PARTIES.

We are looking for an experienced Web Application Architect to develop an exceptional software distribution platform. High level responsibilities include assessing the business need and crafting robust and scalable application architecture, designing and documenting the solution architecture, leading a team of IT software development professionals, and acting as a 'working architect' by also playing a developer role on the team. 

This position is to support a group building a solution on Service-now to manage assets -Test and Validation equipment as well as silicon samples that are being validated. This specific engagement will be to build custom apps using Service-now. The resources should be able to provide prototypes or working websites that they developed to demonstrate the use of JQuery, HTML, Javascript, bootstrap, Angular and frame works. One year of experience with developing customizations on Service-now is highly desirable. 

The position requires a minimum of 5-7 years of industry experience in software architecture and writing solutions using Java technology skills and experience in a web-based application development environment. Experience with design patterns along with working knowledge of Unix/Linux/Windows is essential. The Architect should also have a strong knowledge of DBMS concepts from an application development perspective and experience in working with relational databases including SQL development skills. 

• BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent. 
• Experience on ServiceNow platform 
• Experience developing highly interactive Web applications with JavaScript 
• Excellent object-oriented JavaScript skills; experience with YUI3 or any other JavaScript framework such as Angular, Knockout, Backbone, or Jquery 
• Experience of modern web development toolkits and libraries such as Backbone, Underscore, Angular, Ember, JQuery, etc. 
• Knowledge of Unit Testing 
• Selenium / Fitnesse 

Nice to Have Skills

• Exceptional HTML and CSS 
• Experience of developing with RESTful JSON APIs 
• Ability to contribute to testing and implementation approach for presentation layer 
• Interest and ability to work further down the stack 
• Experience with responsive design principles 
• XML experience - Practical knowledge of working within a continuous build environment including working with a Source Control Management tool. 
• Atlassian suite of tools, Confluence and JIRA experience 
• Experience of agile development processes an advantage