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CORPORATE APPLICATION TECHNICAL LEADER

  • Job ID: 55982
  • Job Category: Information & Technology
  • Division & Section: Technology Services, Technology Standardization Delivery
  • Work Location: Metro Hall, 55 John St, Toronto, ON M5V 3C6
  • Job Type & Duration: 2 Full-Time, Temporary (12 month) vacancies
  • Hourly Rate: $56.11 - $61.51
  • Shift Information: Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week
  • Affiliation: L79 Full-time
  • Number of Positions Open: 2
  • Posting Period: 26-Jun-2025 to 11-Jul-2025


Job Description

We are seeking a Corporate Application Technical Lead to lead the design, development, and maintenance of Java-based applications. This role involves writing clean, maintainable code, implementing new features, optimizing performance, and ensuring scalability. The ideal candidate will mentor junior developers, conduct code reviews, and advocate for best practices like TDD and CI. You will work closely with business stakeholders, product managers, and technical teams to deliver high-quality solutions, integrate with databases and APIs, and ensure security and performance best practices.


Major Responsibilities:

  • 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. 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.
  2. Extensive experience in microservices architecture and its implementation, with comprehensive knowledge of distributed systems principles such as scalability, consistency, and fault tolerance.
  3. Extensive experience in Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data JPA, and Spring Security
  4. Experience with industry-specific requirements and standards, with a strong focus on security best practices in integration and distributed systems, including OAuth, JWT, SSL/TLS, etc.
  5. Experience with containerization technologies, including Docker, and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
  6. Experience in DevSecOps methodologies, including infrastructure scripting with tools such as Ansible and AWS CloudFormation.
  7. Experience with  Oracle , PostgreSQL, and NoSQL databases, with the ability to integrate them into enterprise architectures.
  8. Experience in Apache Camel, HTML5, CSS3, JQuery, Bootstrap, and OData to integrate and build scalable solutions.
  9. Experience  to lead and mentor teams, providing technical direction, coaching, and fostering a collaborative environment to deliver high-quality outcomes.


You must also have:

  1. Proficiency with Apache Camel, HTML5, CSS3, JQuery, Bootstrap, and OData to integrate and build scalable solutions.
  2. Analytical and problem-solving skills to troubleshoot and optimize integration and distributed solutions, including performance tuning.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Demonstrated business acumen to establish and maintain an effective consulting relationship with corporate clients and vendors, with a strong customer service orientation.
  6. Proven ability to negotiate effective resolution of conflicting business priorities with corporate business clients. Listening and interacting skills are essential.
  7. Strong interpersonal skills and an aptitude to work independently and collaboratively with others in a multidisciplinary team setting
  8. Knowledge of mainstream and emerging architectures, technologies or software products such as document management, data warehousing, and e-services.
  9. Ability to work with competing demands, prioritize and meet deadlines.

 

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