- Directs business and technical inter-divisional staff and professional services to deliver and sustain complex, critical enterprise integrations and common components through the life cycle and reports progress to manager, stakeholders and team members and ensures successful delivery of solutions adhering to project management methodology.
- Directs the day-to-day work output of staff and resources including the scheduling, assigning, and reviewing of work tasks to ensure a continuing and consistent service by sustaining complex, critical enterprise business applications and information.
- Negotiates amongst divisional business and technical stakeholders with multiple points of view to drive consensus for corporate-wide 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.
- Determines requirements, analyzes, and recommends feasible options, designs, builds and/or codes, acquires, tests, and implements enterprise information structures and applications, and sustains information technology solutions to meet critical City-wide and divisional business objectives and to provide scalable enterprise solutions.
- Applies technical expertise to recommend, develop and maintain corporate policies, procedures and standards that are consistent with legislation to ensure enterprise information and applications integrity.
- Applies technical expertise to ensure security, privacy and quality assurance requirements are implemented in a manner that delivers business requirements and is consistent with CISO guidelines, thereby ensuring the integrity of complex enterprise information and applications.
- 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-Technology Services Division positions e.g., divisional unit staff (management & bargaining-unit)
- 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.
- Develops and/or applies complex business and application models, information structures, data models, data schemas, technical program code, network and security interfaces, data and application design as governed by architectural frameworks, technology standards, information policies and legislative requirements.
- 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.
- Actively participates in corporate and cross-divisional initiatives to design, construct and implement business and application infrastructure solutions, such as: data warehousing, document management and electronic service delivery.
- 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 perform analysis, development and testing for new or enhancements to existing complex, critical enterprise business applications and information.
- Applies technical expertise to support the development and testing environments of complex computing solutions.
- Post-secondary education in computer science or a related discipline with several years of progressively more responsible experience in testing large-scale information technology systems or the approved equivalent combination of education and/or experience
- Extensive experience as an IT Technical Lead on large-scale information technology systems, including in all stages of large-scale system development life cycle with focus on Enterprise integration, Events data and messaging and data integration.
- Experience in designing and maintain application components that are seamlessly integrated into business solutions with the ability to utilize modern integration technologies, including REST APIs and message brokers.
- Extensive experience in Java, JEE web application, object-oriented methodology and design
- Experience in the following is an asset: Apache Camel, HTML5, CSS3, JQuery, Bootstrap, OData, Avro, SQL, and NoSQL databases.
- Experience in DevSecOps methodologies, including infrastructure scripting such as Ansible, AWS CloudFormation or Docker
- Extensive experience with Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)
- Experience in coaching, training and/or providing work direction to team members and assessing outcomes.
- Demonstrated efficiency and effectiveness in teamwork, facilitation, communications, conflict resolution, problem solving, crisis and risk management and team leadership in projects, assignments, and service engagements.
- Demonstrated ability to prepare, organize and present business cases, proposals, solutions and budgets or similar formal documents and statements to various audiences, including stakeholders, clients, and the public.
- Demonstrated business acumen to establish and maintain an effective consulting relationship with corporate clients and vendors, with a strong customer service orientation.
- Proven ability to negotiate effective resolution of conflicting business priorities with corporate business clients. Listening and interacting skills are essential.
- Strong interpersonal skills and an aptitude to work independently and collaboratively with others in a multidisciplinary team setting.
- Knowledge of mainstream and emerging architectures, technologies, or software products such as document management, data warehousing, and e-services.
- Ability to work with competing demands, prioritize and meet deadlines.
- Experience in the following is an asset: SAP PI/PO, SAP S4 Hana, SAP HCI, SAP BW, SAP Data-services.
CORPORATE APPLICATION TECHNICAL LEADER - Toronto, Canada - City of Toronto
Description
Job ID: 40861
Job Category: Information & Technology
Division & Section: Technology Services, Technology Standardization Delivery
Work Location: Metro Hall, 15th floor, 55 John St., Toronto, M5V 3C6
Job Type & Duration: Temporary, Full-Time (24 months)
Hourly Rate: $ $59.17
Shift Information: Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week per week
Affiliation: L79 Full-time
Number of Positions Open: 1
Posting Period: 11-MAR-2024 to 25-MAR-2024
Job Description
Your business acumen and extensive experience as a Technical Lead in delivering and sustaining complex, critical enterprise integration services (EIS), will have given you the solid foundation to excel in this critical leadership role with the Technology Services Division.
In this role you will lead technical teams and provide senior technical consulting and analysis, development, testing, quality assurance and work planning expertise to deliver, integrate and sustain EIS components.
Major Responsibilities:
Your primary responsibilities as a Corporate Application Technical Lead (Back-end Java Developer) will be varied, but you will be expected to:
Key Qualifications:
Your application must describe your qualifications as they relate to:
You must also have:
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