Corporate Application Technical Leader (Java/Front-End Developer)

Toronto Business Enterprise.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading governmental organization in Toronto is seeking a Corporate Application Technical Leader to manage and sustain critical business applications. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in Java, front-end development, and enterprise solutions, while providing key technical leadership on projects. This full-time role offers a competitive hourly rate, with responsibilities ranging from consulting to project management across various city services.

Benefits

Health benefits

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Considerable experience in Single Page Application architecture and development.
• Extensive experience with Java, J2EE web applications, and Spring Boot.
• Ability to provide technical leadership on large scale projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects and provide senior technical consulting and analysis.
• Direct day-to-day work output of staff to ensure service continuity.
• Analyze project requirements and recommend feasible options.

Skills

HTML5

CSS3

JavaScript

JQuery

Bootstrap

React

REST APIs

SQL

Spring MVC

Java

Education

Post-secondary education in computer science or related discipline

Tools

GitLab

Eclipse

WebSphere

Tomcat

Job description

Corporate Application Technical Leader (Java/Front-End Developer)

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Amendment #1

05/14/2025

Posting period extended

Job ID: 53197

Job Category: Information & Technology

Division & Section: Technology Services, Technology Standardization Delivery

Work Location: City Hall,100 Queen St. West, Toronto

Job Type & Duration: Temporary, Full-time, 12 month vacancy

Hourly Rate: $53.98 - $59.17 (2024 wages)

Shift Information: Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week

Affiliation: L79 Full-time

Number of Positions Open: 1

Posting Period: 05-May-2025 to 23-May-2025

Job Summary

As a Corporate Application Technical Leader (Java/Front-End 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 (Java/Front-End Developer) should describe your qualifications as they relate to:

• Considerable experience in Single Page Application architecture and development using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, Bootstrap, and frameworks such as Backbone, React as well as API integration with REST (JSON, XML) APIs.
• Extensive experience with Java, J2EE web application, Spring MVC framework/Spring Boot, SQL, WebSphere/Tomcat, Eclipse, GitLab, and TLS/SSL Certificates.
• Extensive experience working on and managing architecture diagrams, technical documents, risk assessment, digital accessibility compliance, and QA/UAT feedback.
• Extensive experience in root cause analysis during unanticipated outages by providing troubleshooting and debugging recommendations and support.
• Post-secondary education in computer science or a related discipline, or the approved equivalent combination of education and/or experience with the ability to provide technical leadership on large scale projects.
• Experience in coaching, training and/or providing work direction to team members and assessing outcomes.
  
  

You Must Also Have

• Experience in the following is an asset: Active Directory, Unix/Linux shell scripting, and/or Progress OpenEdge.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively communicate with team members and clients regarding technical and business requirements.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Experience developing and/or maintaining large scale information technology applications in a leadership role.
• Advanced time management and estimate capabilities, able to perform several tasks and projects concurrently.
• Experience in the public sector and/or the licensing and permitting industry is an asset.
• Experience working effectively with a group of multidisciplinary staff in a project team setting including the creation of related documentation as well as relevant training.
• Knowledge of current and emerging technologies, and skills to evaluate and recommend new technology for introduction into a complex technical environment.
• Willingness to occasionally work flexible hours for deployments as required.
  
  

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Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

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Accommodation

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Administrative

• Industries

  Government Administration

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