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

City of Toronto

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

Job ID: 41706

Job Category:
Information & Technology

Division & Section:
Technology Services, Technology Standardization Delivery

Work Location:
Metro Hall, 55 John Street, 15th Floor

Job Type & Duration:
Full-time, Temporary (12 months) vacancies

Hourly Rate and Wage Grade:
$ $58.15

Shift Information:
Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week

Affiliation:
L79 Full-time

Number of Positions Open: 2

Posting Period: 31-Oct-2023 to 14-Nov-2023

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:

Extensive experience in root cause analysis during unanticipated outages by providing troubleshooting and debugging recommendations and support.
Extensive experience in developing Single Page Application development using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, Bootstrap, and frameworks such as Backbone, React as well as API integration with REST (JSON, XML) APIs.
Experience developing digital products that comply with accessibility standards and/or best practices (WCAG 2.x AA, AODA, WAI-ARIA) while optimizing accessibility features of the platform (Web, iOS, Android).
Postsecondary education in computer science or a related discipline, or the approved equivalent combination of education and/or experience with the ability to provide technical leadership on large scale projects.

You must also have:

Strong interpersonal skills with ability to effectively communicate with team members and clients regarding technical and business requirements.
Knowledge of DevSecOps methodologies, including infrastructure scripting such as Ansible, AWS Cloud Formation with GitLab following test driven development methodologies, is an asset.
Strong customer service orientation along with a demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective stakeholder relationships.
Ability to implement and support software products and/or reusable technical components that are integrated in business solutions, through modern integration technology using microservice architecture using Messagequeue technologies, including managing product/component release cycles.
Excellent problemsolving, leadership, facilitation and interpersonal skills.
Ability to work effectively as a member of a team, collaboratively with others in a multidisciplinary team environment and independently, as required.
Advanced time management and estimation capabilities and ability to perform several tasks and projects concurrently.
Knowledge of current and emerging technologies, and skills to evaluate and recommend new technology for introduction into a complex technical environment.
Ability to develop, maintain and execute both test plans and disaster recovery plans.
Ability to work flexible hours including days, afternoons, nights and weekends, as required.
Ability to be on call for support of production systems, as re