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

City of Toronto

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

1 day ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Job ID: 40250

Job Category:
Information & Technology

Division & Section:
Technology Services, Technology Standardization Delivery

Work Location:
Metro Hall, 55 John Street

Job Type & Duration:
Full-time, 1 Permanent, 1 Temporary (24 month) 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: 30-Aug-2023 to 14-Sep-2023

In this role you will provide expertise and advice in the areas of initiation, analysis, design, development, implementation, and sustainment of enterprise solutions.

You will contribute to the development of corporate system architecture, methodologies, standards, policies, procedures, and guidelines.

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, or the approved equivalent combination of education and/or experience.
Considerable experience in eliciting, driving and/or developing solution requirements to ensure that business needs and requirements have been adequately defined and/or the root cause of the problem accurately stated.
Experience using some of the technologies, equivalent tools and methodologies including: ITIL, IBM WebSphere, Oracle SQL Developer, Eclipse, Java, Python, Jython, Java Script, GitLab, LDAP, APIs, REST Calls, JSON, SOAP, XML, MS project, MS Visio and ESRI ArcGIS.

You must also have:

Maximo solution configuration and programming experience would be an asset
Excellent problemsolving, leadership, facilitation, and interpersonal skills.
Strong customer service orientation along with a demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective stakeholder relationships.
Demonstrated ability to work effectively as a member of a team, collaboratively with others in a multidisciplinary team environment and independently, as required.
Experience in coaching, training and/or providing work direction to team members and assessing outcomes.
Ability to work under pressure during the execution of project and operational activities.
Advanced time management and estimation capabilities and ability to perform several tasks and projects concurrently.
Ability to develop project plans, projections and cost/benefit analysis of proposed solutions.
Ability to develop, maintain and execute both test plans and disaster recovery plans.
Knowledge of current and emerging technologies, and skills to evaluate and recommend new technology for introduction into a complex technical environment.
Ability to work flexible hours including days, afternoons, nights, and weekends, as required.
Ability to be on call for support of production systems, as required.
Ability to travel across various office locations within the City of Toronto, as requ