System Development Specialist - Toronto, Canada - City of Toronto

Description

• Job ID: 43631
• 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: $ $55.11, Wage Grade 16
• 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

Job Description:

We're looking for someone to join our growing Open Data team focused on delivering the City's first Open Data Master Plan which sets the strategic framework and roadmap to advance Toronto's vision for open data. As one of our Systems Development Specialists you will help us further grow our program through improving the City of Toronto's Open Data Portal.

A successful applicant will be someone comfortable in front end development and will work alongside technical and non-technical staff who are focusing on: envisioning, designing, and implementing a public open data request tracking dashboard; establishing a process to embed open data requirements as part of the process of writing staff reports to City Council; redesign our engagement approaches for City staff and the public; and other cool projects.

As a System Development Specialist, you will be joining the Open Data Team as part of the greater Digital Government Modernization directorate. We're at the forefront of developing new tools and approaches within the City. As a part of the team, you will get to work through all phases of the development life cycle and contribute to the development of corporate tools, system architectures, methodologies, standards, policies, procedures and guidelines.

Major Responsibilities:

• Performs analysis and design duties as well as programming, modeling and scripting, testing, documentation and deployment preparation.
• Coordinates and prepares needs analysis and detailed systems design.
• Conducts user interviews to determine detailed systems requirements.
• Completes preliminary analysis, system and functional design, workflow diagrams for quality systems development.
• Designs, codes, tests, implements and maintains enterprise systems.
• Sets up data queries, builds Extract, Transform and Load (ETLs), data pipelines and automates recurring analysis, and builds reusable scripts to speed up future analysis.
• Designs and develops systems that comply with access and privacy legislation.
• Coordinates and develops program specifications and documentation.
• Designs and conducts all levels of testing i.e. unit, system, integration, regression, performance, security, usability, optimization/configuration and coordinates user acceptance testing.
• Liaises and coordinates with internal and external consultants in detailed systems deliverables and technical problem resolution.
• Implements enterprise in-house developed/custom/packaged systems and systems changes.
• Tests integrated systems to ensure system compatibility and proper functional integration.
• Provides application maintenance and enhancement including implementation of vendor systems fixes and patches.
• Conducts quality assurance on departmental and external developments.
• Develops systems interfaces between enterprise and departmental systems.
• Performs information and application data conversions.
• Provides development support to users by providing technical assistance and troubleshooting.
• Provides documentation and instruction/training to users of the system.
• Designs and develops application security interfaces to enable clients in controlling and administering access to their systems.
• Provides expertise, advice and technical skills for information and application service delivery.
• Conducts research and evaluation of hardware/software/framework and makes recommendations.
• Recommends, presents and demonstrates system solutions to City management and corporate business clients.
• Conducts presentations, system demonstrations and system walk-throughs at project review meetings.
• Participates as a team member in the execution of project plans providing technical expertise and advice re: architecture, development tools, work effort estimates.
• Directs the activities of staff, mentors, and recommends training.
• Contributes to project charters, statements of work and project plans, project status reports and variance explanations, risk identification and mitigation planning.
• Conducts research, investigates and recommends best practices for information and application services.
• Contributes to post-implementation project reviews.
• Recommends improvements to current methodologies, processes, standards, policies and guidelines.
• Contributes in planning of future system growth and provides detailed work plans.
• Participates in enterprise projects.
• Conducts feasibility studies, business cases, RFI/P/Q's, technical reports by researching and participating in evaluations and recommending solutions.
• Determines user training needs.

Key Qualifications:

Your application must describe your qualifications as they relate to:

1. Post-secondary 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.
2. 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.
3. Experience in business system analysis, rapid application development and programming in a large, diverse computing environment.
4. Experience in root cause analysis during unanticipated outages by providing troubleshooting and debugging recommendations and support.
5. Experience developing and/or maintaining large scale information technology applications and working effectively with a group of multidisciplinary staff in a project team setting including the creation of related documentation as well as relevant training.
6. 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).
7. Experience with Python programming language and libraries and a range of data formats (Including CSV, XLS, XML, JSON and GeoJSON) in a variety of contexts (web-services, databases and files)
8. Experience with open data, open source, open government, co-production/co-development with the public, and civic tech initiatives.

You should also have:

• Interest in research and staying informed on news and events related to open data, especially situations/stories in which open data helped address civic issues
• Strong communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively as a member of a team, collaboratively with others in a multidisciplinary team environment and work independently, as required.
• Ability to be self-motivated and work with minimal supervision.
• Ability to negotiate effective resolution of conflicting business priorities with corporate business
• Strong analytical, problem solving, listening and interacting skills.
• Ability to work with competing demands, prioritize and meet deadlines.

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Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

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