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CORPORATE APPLICATION TECHNICAL LEADER

  • Job ID: 57068
  • Job Category: Information & Technology
  • Division & Section: Technology Services, Enterprise Services & Operations
  • Work Location: 703 Don Mills Rd., North York, ON M3C 3N3  
  • Job Type & Duration: Full-time, Temporary (12 months) Vacancy
  • Hourly Rate: $56.11 - $61.51
  • Shift Information: Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week
  • Affiliation: L79 Full-time
  • Number of Positions Open: 1
  • Posting Period: 06-Oct-2025 to 21-Oct-2025


Job Summary:

Act as a Subject Matter Expert for supported Enterprise Application Platforms, performing daily operational activities and State of Good Repair of the platforms. Additional tasks would include client engagement, communications with stakeholders, and coordination of work with application support teams.

 

Job Functions:

  • Directs business and technical inter-divisional staff and professional services to deliver and sustain complex, critical enterprise business applications and information through the application 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 project 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 MFIPPA and legislation, 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 I&T 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.

Key Qualifications:

  1. Considerable experience with Day2 Red Hat OpenShift v4.x Administration/Support.
  2. Experience with Configuration Management, Infrastructure Management, and Build Automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible or equivalent tools.
  3. Experience with one or more scripting languages, such as Python, bash or PowerShell.
  4. Experience with JEE REST API development using Apache Camel, Spring Boot and PostgreSQL databases as well as developing/deploying to container platforms.

You Must Also Have:

  • Exposure to processes related to implementing infrastructure and cloud solutions, including data storage, networking, monitoring, and security.
  • Working knowledge of DevSecOps/CICD pipeline development for build, test, and deployment using GitLabCI, Ansible, Artifactory, or other tools.
  • Exposure to collaboration tools like JIRA, Confluence & Microsoft Teams.

 

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