IT Technical Specialist, Billing Applications
LifeLabs LP
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Job summary
LifeLabs is looking for an IT Technical Specialist for Billing Applications to maintain and enhance enterprise billing systems. You will ensure reliability, resolve issues across Windows and Linux, and partner with business and technical teams on improvements.
Responsibilities include change management, documentation, and deployment readiness while contributing to secure, scalable application services in a healthcare-focused environment.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
- Minimum 3 years of production support for enterprise applications.
- Experience troubleshooting across application, database, and infrastructure layers.
Responsibilities
- Maintain, support, and enhance enterprise billing applications for reliability and performance.
- Troubleshoot issues across Windows and Linux environments.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver system enhancements and data integration.
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Education
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Job description
30 International Blvd, Etobicoke, ON M9W 1A2, Canada
Posted Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 4:00 AM | Expires Monday, August 24, 2026 at 3:59 AM
For over 50 years, LifeLabs has been Canada's leading provider of laboratory diagnostic information and digital health connectivity systems, enabling patients and healthcare practitioners to diagnose, treat, monitor and prevent disease. We are passionate about empowering healthier Canadians through accessible, accurate, and innovative diagnostic services.
We are committed innovators, operating Canada's first commercial genetics lab, and the country's largest online patient portal, with more than 8 million Canadians receiving their results online. More than 112 million laboratory tests come through LifeLabs' laboratories annually, and our team of more than 6,000 passionate, caring, and diverse professionals works together as one to provide high quality testing and results that Canadians can trust.
We know that behind every lab requisition, sample being tested, or investment in technology is an individual and their family counting on us. At LifeLabs, you can make a meaningful impact on Canadians' lives every day.
Our teams are at the heart of everything we do. We are proud to be recognized as one of Canada’s Best Employers, reflecting our deep commitment to our core values of caring, agility, teamwork, and a customer-centered approach. As part of this commitment, LifeLabs prioritizes the ongoing development of our diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) program to better serve the needs of our diverse workforce and the communities we serve. We continue to take steps to challenge ourselves to act with courage and integrity, and to create an environment where people can be their true selves.
These values are not just words on a page, they guide our actions and decisions every day and have come to define our team culture.
Reports to: Team Lead, Billing Applications
Vacancy status: This posting is for an existing position.
The IT Technical Specialist (Billing Applications) supports, maintains, and enhances enterprise billing applications that enable critical business operations. The role ensures application reliability, resolves technical issues, implements system enhancements, and partners with business and technical teams to deliver secure and efficient application services.
- Maintain, support, and enhance enterprise billing applications to ensure system availability, reliability, and operational performance through proactive monitoring, incident resolution, system enhancements, and continuous operational improvements.
- Monitor application performance and availability, proactively identifying and resolving issues to minimize business disruption.
- Troubleshoot and resolve application, infrastructure, and data-related issues across Windows and Linux environments.
- Perform root cause analysis and implement corrective and preventive actions.
- Develop, configure, and maintain application components, integrations, and automation scripts.
- Execute system changes, patches, upgrades, and releases following established change management processes.
- Maintain technical documentation, system configurations, and operational procedures.
- Support system integrations and data flows between enterprise applications.
- Identify opportunities to improve system stability, performance, and operational efficiency.
- Analyze business and technical requirements to design, develop, and implement application enhancements that align with business objectives and improve operational effectiveness.
- Collaborate with Business Relationship Management and stakeholders to gather and analyze requirements.
- Assess and prioritize enhancement requests based on business value and technical feasibility.
- Translate business requirements into functional and technical specifications.
- Participate in solution design and technical planning activities.
- Support the delivery of application enhancements, operational improvements, and defect resolution.
- Support successful implementation of application changes by coordinating testing, documentation, release activities, and user adoption while ensuring production readiness and business continuity.
- Coordinate and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
- Prepare and maintain technical and operational documentation.
- Communicate system changes and impacts to stakeholders.
- Provide user guidance and post-implementation support.
- Collaborate with QA, Infrastructure, and Operations teams to ensure production readiness.
- Participate in release planning, deployment activities, and post-release validation.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Minimum 3 years of experience supporting and maintaining enterprise applications in production environments.
- Proven experience troubleshooting and resolving complex issues across application, database, and infrastructure layers using structured root cause analysis techniques.
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft .NET technologies, including C#, ASP.NET, APIs, and PowerShell, with the ability to develop and implement application enhancements and automation solutions.
- Strong knowledge of relational databases, including Microsoft SQL Server (SQL, SSIS, SSRS); experience with Oracle (PL/SQL) is considered an asset.
- Experience working with IT Service Management (ITSM) processes and tools, including Incident, Problem, Change, and Release Management.
- Experience supporting mission- critical applications in operational environments, ensuring system stability, reliability, and performance.
- Familiarity with source control, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices using tools such as GitHub and Azure DevOps.
- Experience or exposure to modern front-end technologies such as React or Angular; experience with application integration technologies such as BizTalk is an asset.
- Knowledge of secure coding practices, application governance, and compliance requirements within regulated environments; healthcare industry experience is considered an asset.
- Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional technical and business teams to deliver enhancements, resolve issues, and support production operations.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Gemini, or similar technologies is considered an asset.
As an IT Technical Specialist (Billing Applications), you'll play a key role in supporting, maintaining, and enhancing enterprise billing applications that power critical business operations. Working closely with business stakeholders, technical teams, and support partners, you'll help ensure application reliability, resolve technical issues, and deliver system improvements that drive operational efficiency. This role offers the opportunity to strengthen your application support, troubleshooting, and solution delivery expertise while contributing to the continuous improvement of essential billing and enterprise systems in a dynamic technology environment.
$81,431 - $103,825 CAD annually (commensurate with experience).
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LifeLabs' compensation programs are commensurate based on the role, skill, effort, responsibility and working conditions, irrespective of gender, race, ethnicity, beliefs, age or any other personal characteristics. Pay programs are communicated regularly in an accessible and transparent manner.
LifeLabs is also proud to offer resources, opportunities, as well as a collaborative and supportive environment that enables our team members to thrive.
In addition to a competitive compensation package, LifeLabs provides a comprehensive total rewards program, specific to the job position. Your package may include:
- Employee Group Benefits: Competitive coverage for employees and their families to support their overall health and wellness needs, including Extended Health Care, Dental Care, and Life Insurance.
- Retirement Savings Plan
- Vacation and Wellness Days
- Employee Wellness and Giving Programs: Our award winning mental, physical and financial wellness programs aim to address the comprehensive well‑being of our team members, including resources like the Employee & Family Assistance Program, financial planning tools, and employee recognition initiatives.
- Professional development and membership reimbursement, access to preferred rates and discount programs, including WorkPerks, Home and Auto Insurance, Costco Membership, etc., and optional health-related benefits.
In accordance with LifeLabs' Accessibility Policy, and the applicable Accessibility Acts within the provinces we operate in, accommodations are available by request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruitment and selection process. For a confidential inquiry or to request an accommodation, please contact your recruiter or emailcareers@lifelabs.com.
Vaccinations are highly encouraged at LifeLabs'. Vaccinations and/or immunization screening may be mandatory for selected employees if regulated by provincial or regional governments, or through employer-led vaccination policies in the facilities we service. Please ensure you ask if this position requires the successful candidate to be vaccinated or undergo immunization screening.
30 International Blvd, Etobicoke, ON M9W 1A2, Canada
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