Corporate Application Technical Leader - Toronto, Canada - City of Toronto

City of Toronto

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Toronto, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Job ID: 43632

Job Category:
Information & Technology

Division & Section:
Technology Services, Technology Standardization Delivery

Work Location:
Metro Hall, 55 John Street, Toronto, ON

Job Type & Duration:
Full-time, Temporary Vacancy, 12 months

Hourly Rate and Wage Grade:
$ $58.15, Wage Grade 17

Shift Information:
Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week

Affiliation:
L79 Full-time

Number of Positions Open: 1

Posting Period: 11-Mar-2024 to 25-Mar-2024

As a Corporate Application Technical Leader on the team you will also be embedded within the Data Integration and Access unit and collaborating alongside on-premise and cloud infrastructure teams to design, establish, and operationalize new corporate-wide data platforms residing on both cloud and on-premise cloud infrastructure.

This will specifically include helping establish tooling and standards for integration tools used in the Open Data program and corporately; as well as, additional foundational elements of a robust data platform ecosystem.

Working alongside technical and non-technical staff some of the activities the Open Data team will focus on include: envisioning, designing, and implementing a public open data request tracking dashboard; establishing a process to embed open data requirements and coordinate the access/storage of data as part of the process of writing staff reports to City Council; and enhancing the foundational Open Data technology suite that supports our data pipelines and open data portal.

Major Responsibilities:

Negotiates amongst divisional business and technical stakeholders with multiple points of view to drive consensus for corporatewide solution designs.
Brings together multiple stakeholders from across all divisions and provides expert advice within the context of corporate architectures, standards, policies, procedures and emerging technologies.
Applies project management expertise to lead and/or input to project management and procurement processes including the evaluation and recommendation of complex technical solutions and professional services.
On a project basis, provides direction and assigns work to non I&T positions e.g. divisional unit staff (management & bargainingunit).
Applies technical expertise to develop and/or input to procurement and project management documentation. Examples include business cases, RFI/P/Qs, Sole Sources, statements of work, service level agreements, project charters, project plans, status reports, issue logs, change orders, resource plans, budgets, migration plans, contingency plans and risk assessments.
Communicates effectively e.g. leading and facilitating meetings, preparing and delivering presentations and reports. Audiences include business/project managers, project team members and other orders of government and external parties.
Applies a strong understanding of information and technology industry and City priorities over both the short and longer term to advise, develop and maintain City infrastructures, methodologies, tools and techniques; ensures conformance and adherence in daily practice among business and technical teams.
Analyzes and recommends changes to current business practices, business and information processes, data flows, performance measures, information delivery and knowledge utilization toward a more efficiently managed and coherently integrated information environment for all divisions in the City.
Generates the plan and directs the project team in the execution of software upgrade activities.
Applies technical expertise to support the development and testing environments of complex computing solutions.

Key Qualifications:

Postsecondary education in Computer Science or a related discipline with several years of progressive experience in leading the design, development, configuration and testing of enterprise solutions or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
Extensive experience as a Data Management Technical Lead on largescale information technology systems in the data management areas including ETL, data quality, data integration, data migration, data virtualization, data modelling, master data management and data warehousing.
Considerable experience in Continuous Integration/Delivery methods and platforms, such as GitLab/GitHub/BitBucket, and containerbased orchestration & automation, such as docker/podman, and Linux commandline scripting, such as bash.
Experience in the design, implementation, options analysis, and app/tool configuration for data platforms (public cloud and/or onpremise cloud)
Experience with REST APIs, Python, SQL, ETL and task orchestration tools (eg. Airflow, NiFi, FME, Talend)
Experience with a range of data types and formats including tabular, geospatial, web services, real time, and JSON.

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