CORPORATE APPLICATION TECHNICAL LEADER (Front-End Developer) Full-time Job

Major Responsibilities:

Your primary responsibilities as a Corporate Application Technical Leader (Front-End Developer) will be varied. Specifically, you will:
 

• 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. Extensive experience working independently with minimal supervision on application architecture and integration as well as managing architecture diagrams, technical documents, risk assessment, digital accessibility compliance, and QA/UAT feedback. 
2. Extensive experience in root cause analysis during unanticipated outages by providing troubleshooting and debugging recommendations and support. 
3. Extensive experience in developing Single Page Application development using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, Bootstrap, and frameworks such as Backbone, React as well as API integration with REST (JSON, XML) APIs.
4. Experience developing and/or maintaining large scale information technology applications and working effectively with a group of multidisciplinary staff in a project team setting including the creation of related documentation as well as relevant training. 
5. Experience developing digital products that comply with accessibility standards and/or best practices (WCAG 2.x AA, AODA, WAI-ARIA) while optimizing accessibility features of the platform (Web, iOS, Android). 
6. 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. 

You must also have:

• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to effectively communicate with team members and clients regarding technical and business requirements. 
• Knowledge of a variety of software packages, including MS Office (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint), process design software (e.g., MS Visio), software requirements management and quality assurance tools (e.g., Blueprint, HP Quality Center), data modelling (e.g., Oracle SQL Developer), project management software (e.g., MS Project) and software version control (e.g., Bitbucket, GitHub), Java, iOS mobile app development, Android mobile app development, OData, WebMethods, web communication, Scrum rapid application development methodology is an asset.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps methodologies, including infrastructure scripting such as Ansible, AWS Cloud Formation with GitLab following test driven development methodologies, is an asset.
• Strong customer service orientation along with a demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective stakeholder relationships.
• Ability to implement and support software products and/or reusable technical components that are integrated in business solutions, through modern integration technology using micro-service architecture using Message-queue technologies, including managing product/component release cycles.
• 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.
• Excellent problem-solving, leadership, facilitation and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work effectively as a member of a team, collaboratively with others in a multidisciplinary team environment and independently, as required.
• Advanced time management and estimation capabilities and ability to perform several tasks and projects concurrently.
• Knowledge of current and emerging technologies, and skills to evaluate and recommend new technology for introduction into a complex technical environment.
• Ability to develop, maintain and execute both test plans and disaster recovery plans.
• Ability to work flexible hours including days, afternoons, nights and weekends, as required.
• Ability to be on call for support of production systems, as required.
• Ability to travel across various office locations within the City of Toronto, as required.

Toronto, the capital of the province of Ontario, is a major Canadian city along Lake Ontarios northwestern shore. It's a dynamic metropolis with a core of soaring skyscrapers, all dwarfed by the iconic, free-standing CN Tower. Toronto also has many green spaces, from the orderly oval of Queens Park to 400-acre High Park and its trails, sports facilities and zoo.