SENIOR SYSTEMS INTEGRATOR TECHNOLOGY SERVICES

 

  • Job ID: 51167
  • 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: Full-Time, Temporary Vacancy (12 months)
  • Salary: $112,280.00 - $149,247.00
  • Shift Information: Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week
  • Affiliation: Non-Union
  • Number of Positions Open: 2
  • Posting Period: 24-Feb-2025 to 10-Mar-2025


Major Responsibilities:

  • Implements detailed plans and recommends policies/procedures regarding program specific requirements.

  • Supervises, motivates and trains assigned staff, ensuring effective teamwork, high standards of work quality and organizational performance, continuous learning and encourages innovation in others.

  • Supervises the day-to-day operation of all assigned staff including the scheduling, assigning and reviewing of work.  Authorizes and co-ordinates vacation and overtime requests.  Monitors and evaluates staff performance, approves salary increments, hears grievances and recommends disciplinary action when necessary.

  • Provides input into and administers assigned budget, ensuring that expenditures are controlled and maintained within approved budget limitations.

  • Leads, facilitates, and contributes to the design, creation, development and sustainment of corporate standards for the division, including formalized project management and methodology, data warehousing architecture, data modeling, metadata, change management, and application development and migration.

  • Responsible to senior management within the division, business, and technical stakeholders for all aspects of assigned projects, including the project charter, project plan and schedule, progress, budget, risk management, issue management, change management, resource management, quality review/best practices. 

  • Provides project budget and financial management such as sole source requests; contract negotiations; leasing agreements; business cases; feasibility and cost/benefit analysis. 

  • Prepares and/or supervises the preparation of various formal contractual documents such as Request for Information/Proposal/Quotation (RFI/P/Q), Statement of Work (SOW), Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) and Service Level Agreements (SLA). 

  • Provides leadership in the evaluation, selection and recommendation of technical solutions and professional services; manages vendors and contractors in the overall solution delivery process.

  • Identifies and develops divisional/cross-divisional initiatives to produce synergies and economies of scale.

  • Negotiates with senior management, clients and various stakeholders often with competing and conflicting goals, objectives and priorities.

  • Provides assessments and recommendations regarding new technology trends in full stack software development, including frameworks, libraries, and development tools that can improve efficiency, scalability, and maintainability of the software..

  • Identifies and analyzes current business processes in the context of evolving software development practices, preparing feasibility studies and recommending end-to-end technical solutions for business initiatives that maximize existing infrastructure and integrate front-end and back-end systems.

  • Recommends and implements security, privacy, and quality assurance requirements consistent with corporate and legislated standards, ensuring compliance with data storage, processing, and retention requirements, particularly in the context of full stack applications.

  • Recommends, establishes, and sustains various project management structures that span one or more levels of government such as the Provincial Offence Act and Social Housing downloading initiatives.

  • Assesses and recommends technical solutions that meet business requirements for scalable multi-jurisdictional applications, ensuring alignment with full stack architecture principles and corporate standards.

  • Informs and educates senior managers, business users and technology peers on technology trends, and the effective use of business and technology solutions and information management.
     

Key Qualifications:​​​​​

  1. Experience in Java and Spring Boot, including building microservices, REST APIs, and enterprise-scale applications, ensuring seamless integration between front-end and back-end components.
  2. Experience with Apache NiFi for building data ingestion, ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes, and real-time data streaming, with integration capabilities to serve data to both front-end interfaces and back-end processing systems.
  3. Proficiency in front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and modern JavaScript frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.js, enabling the creation of responsive, user-friendly interfaces that integrate seamlessly with back-end systems.
  4. Extensive experience in automated testing, deployment, and continuous integration to streamline the software release process, improving the speed and quality of delivery for both front-end (UI tests, cross-browser testing) and back-end (unit tests, integration tests) components.
  5. Considerable experience in developing and deploying cloud-native applications on Red Hat OpenShift, with a strong understanding of containerized applications and deployment pipelines for both front-end (UI components) and back-end (APIs, microservices).
  6. Extensive experience in creating and managing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, and other CI/CD platforms to automate and streamline the development, testing, and deployment processes for both front-end and back-end code.
  7. Considerable experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure, with proficiency in deploying and managing containerized applications, serverless computing, and integration between front-end and back-end services in cloud environments.
  8. Experience in leading cross-functional teams, from initial requirements gathering through to design, development, testing, and deployment, ensuring collaboration between front-end (UI/UX design, front-end frameworks) and back-end (data processing, APIs) teams.
  9. Experience with Apache Lucene
  10. Strong understanding of UI/UX design principles, ensuring the development of intuitive, aesthetically pleasing, and accessible interfaces, enhancing user interaction with both front-end and back-end services.
  11. Strong communication skills to coordinate between technical teams and business stakeholders, ensuring alignment with project goals and objectives.
  12. Experience in Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban, ensuring projects are delivered on time and meet quality expectations.

 


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