Job ID: 48632
Job Category: Information & Technology
Division & Section: Technology Services, Technology Standardization Delivery
Work Location: Metro Hall, 55 John St. Toronto
Job Type & Duration: Temporary, Full-Time, 12 month vacancy
Salary: $112,280.00 - $149,247.00 (2024 rate)
Shift Information: Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week
Affiliation: Non-Union
Number of Positions Open: 1
Posting Period: 22-Jan-2025 to 05-Feb-2025
As a key member of the Digital Government & Modernization team, the Senior Systems Integrator (Senior Frontend Lead Developer) for Technology Services plays a critical role in driving the city’s digital transformation. They excel as an expert frontend developer with deep knowledge of web application architecture and backend technologies. Their primary goal is to rapidly develop and deliver solutions to production. Responsibilities include developing web-based applications, Salesforce solutions, and managing both public-facing and internal web applications.

KEY QUALIFICATIONS:

Your application for the role of Senior Systems Integrator Technology Services (Senior Frontend Lead Developer) should describe your qualifications as they relate to:

• 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.
• Extensive experience working with minimal supervision as a front-end developer, with proven leadership, mentoring abilities, designing enterprise solutions and software components, with a strong consideration for solution designs that are highly configurable to help improve development efficiency.
• Extensive experience in developing using JavaScript, Web Components, ReactJs, HTML5, CSS3, responsive web design, hybrid mobile development (Cordova), and other JavaScript frameworks and technologies as well as understanding of integrating with server API(s) using REST (JSON) APIs.
• Experience developing and/or maintaining large scale information technology applications and working effectively with a group of multidisciplinary staff, following industry best practices such as source control (Git), Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD).
• 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) as well as automating function and digital accessibility testing.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment while delivering high-quality solutions under tight deadlines that meet functional and non-functional software requirements such as Security, Performance, Standardization, and Reusability. Proven ability of using communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills to conduct root cause analysis when troubleshooting issues in a large organization.
• Highly developed interpersonal skills with the ability to interact and communicate effectively at all organizational levels.
• Experience performing data analysis and statistics, is an asset.
• Demonstrated team supervisory and interpersonal skills working independently and collaboratively with others in a multidisciplinary team setting.
• Demonstrated efficiency and effectiveness in teamwork, facilitation, communications, conflict resolution, problem solving, crisis management and team leadership in projects, assignments, and service engagements.
• Demonstrated ability to prepare, organize and present business cases, proposals, solutions and budgets or similar formal documents and statements to various audiences, including stakeholders, clients, and the public.

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 of new technology trends on the effective use, acquisition and integration of technology by the City.
• Identifies and analyzes current business processes and practices in the context of evolving information architecture and performance measures; prepares feasibility study and recommends overall technical solutions for business initiatives and leverage existing enterprise infrastructure investments.
• Recommends and implements security, privacy and quality assurance requirements consistent with both the Municipal Freedom of Information Privacy and Protection Act (MFIPPA), and corporate and legislated standards regarding the storage, processing and retention of confidential data.
• 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 scalable multi-jurisdictional business and technical solutions that meet client and business requirements in the context of corporate standards, policies and procedures for information technologies and architectures. This includes determining requirements, conducting research and evaluations and obtaining all approvals and signoffs.
• 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.

Your application for the role of Senior Systems Integrator Technology Services (Senior Frontend Lead Developer) should describe your qualifications as they relate to:

• 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.
• Extensive experience working with minimal supervision as a front-end developer, with proven leadership, mentoring abilities, designing enterprise solutions and software components, with a strong consideration for solution designs that are highly configurable to help improve development efficiency.
• Extensive experience in developing using JavaScript, Web Components, ReactJs, HTML5, CSS3, responsive web design, hybrid mobile development (Cordova), and other JavaScript frameworks and technologies as well as understanding of integrating with server API(s) using REST (JSON) APIs.
• Experience developing and/or maintaining large scale information technology applications and working effectively with a group of multidisciplinary staff, following industry best practices such as source control (Git), Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD).
• 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) as well as automating function and digital accessibility testing.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment while delivering high-quality solutions under tight deadlines that meet functional and non-functional software requirements such as Security, Performance, Standardization, and Reusability. Proven ability of using communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills to conduct root cause analysis when troubleshooting issues in a large organization.
• Highly developed interpersonal skills with the ability to interact and communicate effectively at all organizational levels.
• Experience performing data analysis and statistics, is an asset.
• Demonstrated team supervisory and interpersonal skills working independently and collaboratively with others in a multidisciplinary team setting.
• Demonstrated efficiency and effectiveness in teamwork, facilitation, communications, conflict resolution, problem solving, crisis management and team leadership in projects, assignments, and service engagements.
• Demonstrated ability to prepare, organize and present business cases, proposals, solutions and budgets or similar formal documents and statements to various audiences, including stakeholders, clients, and the public