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City of Toronto CORPORATE APPLICATION TECHNICAL LEADER (Java/J2EE Developer) in Toronto, Ontario

CORPORATE APPLICATION TECHNICAL LEADER (Java/J2EE Developer)

Job ID: 49782

Job Category: Information & Technology

Division & Section: Technology Services, Technology Standardization Delivery

Work Location: 100 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M5H 2N2

Job Type & Duration: Full-time, Temporary Vacancy (12 months)

Hourly Rate and Wage Grade: $53.98 - $59.17

Shift Information: Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week

Affiliation: L79 Full-time

Number of Positions Open: 1

Posting Period: 29-Aug-2024 to 19-Sept-2024

As a Corporate Application Technical Leader (Java/J2EE Developer) and a key member of a small team, you will lead projects and provide senior technical consulting, analysis, development, testing, quality assurance, and project planning expertise to deliver and sustain critical business and animal licensing applications with hundreds of users, primarily for the Municipal Licensing & Standards (ML&S) Division.

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:

Your application for the role of Corporate Application Technical Leader should 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 toprovide technical leadership on large scale projects.

  2. Extensive experience with Java, J2EE web application, Spring MVC framework/Spring Boot, WebSphere/Tomcat server, SQL, Eclipse, Active Directory, GitLab, and TLS/SSL Certificates.

  3. Extensive experience with HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, and Bootstrap to create Responsible Web User Interfaces for mobile devices and desktop browsers.

  4. Extensive experience developing RESTful Services and using REST APIs, including JSON and XML APIs.

  5. Considerable experience developing digital products that comply with accessibility standards and/or best practices (WCAG 2.x AA, AODA, WAI-ARIA).

  6. Considerable experience in business system analysis, rapid application development and programming in a large, diverse computing environment.

  7. Considerable experience developing and/or maintaining large scale information technology applications.

  8. Considerable experience in security principles and cybersecurity practices.

You must also have:

  • Experience in the following is an asset: Unix shell scripting, Progress OpenEdge, and Microsoft SQL Server.

  • Experience in the public sector and/or the licensing and permitting industry is an asset.

  • Excellent communication skills to work with business clients and determine their requirements, analyze information processes, and recommend solutions.

  • Ability to be self-motivated and work with minimal supervision.

  • Strong analytical, problem solving, listening, and interacting skills.

  • Ability to work with competing demands, prioritize and meet deadlines.

  • Ability to elicit, drive and/or develop application requirements to ensure that business needs and requirements have been adequately defined and documented, and/or the root cause of the problem accurately stated.

  • Willingness to work flexible hours including days, afternoons, nights, and weekends, as required.

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