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Work environment

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is looking for talented and skilled individuals to join our dynamic team. We offer a diverse, inclusive, respectful and healthy work environment that offers flexible work arrangements to ensure work-life balance. If you value teamwork, challenging assignments and are innovative, collaborative and value high quality service to clients, we want to hear from you!

These positions are located at 1200 Vanier Parkway, Ottawa, Ontario.

There is a mandatory requirement to work in person in office five (5) days a week.

Intent of the process

Should a Civilian Member (CM) be found qualified and selected for appointment, the appointment will not result in a change of status to the Public Service (PS) category for the CM

Positions to be filled: 2

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

In order to be considered, your application must clearly explain how you meet the following (essential qualifications)

Education:
Graduation from a two-year program of study from a recognized post-secondary institution with acceptable specialization in computer science, information technology, information management or another specialty relevant to the position to be staffed OR an acceptable combination of education, training and/or experience.
Degree equivalency

The following will be applied / assessed at a later date (essential for the job)

English essential
Information on language requirements
Ability:
Ability to communicate effectively in writing.
Ability to communicate effectively orally.
Ability to implement and optimize Agile software development methodologies (e.g., Scrum or Kanban)
Ability to leverage Agile work management tools (e.g., Azure Dev Ops, Jira)
Personal Suitability:
Team Work
Client-Service Oriented
Innovation
Flexibility
Focus on Results

The following may be applied / assessed at a later date (may be needed for the job)

Asset Qualifications:

Experience:
Experience in one or more high-level programming languages such as Java, C/C++, C#, Python, SAS, or equivalent.
Experience in utilizing scripting and markup/template languages like BASH, Power Shell, YAML, JSON, Jinja, or similar technologies.
Experience understanding and applying digital evidence processing principles in software development for law enforcement applications.
Experience understanding and applying User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX) design.
Experience understanding and applying data analytics, data science, or machine learning methodologies into software applications.
Experience leading or providing substantial contributions to technology assessments and accreditation processes (e.g. Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA), Algorithmic Impact Assessments (AIA), Security Assessments & Accreditation (SA&A).
Operational requirements:
Willing and able to work overtime as and when required
Willing and able to travel as and when required
Required to work onsite on a full-time basis, in a high security zone

Conditions of employment

Top Secret security clearance
Required to work onsite on a full-time basis, in a high security zone.

Other information

The Public Service of Canada is committed to building a skilled and diverse workforce that reflects the Canadians we serve. We promote employment equity and encourage you to indicate if you belong to one of the designated groups when you apply.
Information on employment equity
Candidates must meet all essential qualifications to be appointed to a position. This will be determined through the use of various evaluation tools.

Candidates may be required to meet the asset qualifications or the organizational needs, depending on the requirements of the specific position being staffed.

You must provide proof of education credentials. If you obtained your degree outside Canada, it is your responsibility to demonstrate its equivalence, please take a look at the following link for more information: https://www.cicic.ca

Indeterminate employees at the same group and level, or equivalent may be considered for deployment, assignment/secondment prior to the assessment of other applicants.

Please identify clearly your substantive group and level and your employment status on your resume and/or application form.

Our means of communication with applicants is via e-mail. Please ensure to include a functional e-mail address, which will accept messages from unknown users (some e-mail systems block these types of e-mails). It is the responsibility of the candidate to ensure accurate contact information is provided and updated as required.

The Public Service of Canada is also committed to developing inclusive, barrier-free selection processes and work environments. If contacted in relation to a job opportunity or testing, you should advise the Public Service Commission or the departmental official in a timely fashion of the accommodation measures which must be taken to enable you to be assessed in a fair and equitable manner. Information received relating to accommodation measures will be addressed confidentially.

HOW TO APPLY:
You will be required to answer screening questions to demonstrate how you meet the Essential Qualifications (Education and all Essential Experiences).

When answering the screening questions, it is not sufficient to say that you have the required qualifications or to list your current or past responsibilities. Rather, you must provide concrete examples of tasks you have accomplished with significant details to explain the WHAT, WHEN, WHERE and HOW you acquired each qualification.

For each experience criteria, please provide the following information:

1- Name of the department or organization where the experience was acquired;
2- Title of the position occupied, group and level and the period(s) in which you performed the functions (M-Y to M-Y);
3- Specific details of tasks or projects demonstrating how the experience was acquired (Situation/Challenge, Tasks, Action and Result).

Should your responses to the screening questions contain insufficient details to demonstrate that you meet the screening criteria, your application will not be given further consideration in this process. Candidates will not be solicited for incomplete or possible missing information.

Preference

Preference will be given to veterans first and then to Canadian citizens and permanent residents, with the exception of a job located in Nunavut, where Nunavut Inuit will be appointed first.
Information on the preference to veterans
We thank all those who apply. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.