Job Description

Job ID: 38338 * Job Category: Information & Technology

• Division & Section: Technology Services, Technology Services Delivery
• Work Location: Metro Hall, 55 John Street
• Job Type & Duration: Full-time, Temporary (24 months) vacancy
• Salary: $112,000 - $144,200
• Shift Information: Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week
• Affiliation: Non-Union
• Number of Positions Open: 1
• Posting Period: 12-JUN-2023 to 26-JUN-2023

The City of Toronto has launched a major transformation of its financial information system to implement SAP S/4HANA for future-state financial recording, processing and reporting.

To support this transformation, reporting to the SAP Senior Enterprise Technical lead (Data & Migration), the Technical Data Lead will provide direction, leadership and guidance to design, integrate and implement systems remediation activities as we continue the journey to SAP S/4HANA. In this role you will provide specialized technical and business consulting skills and services to meet specific project needs including Business Process Reviews, Data and Application Architecture Designs Reviews and Technical Assessments.

In addition, you will contribute to the implementation of Analytics solutions and Technical Assessments there are alignment with City Analytics and Reporting strategic directions.

Major Responsibilities:

The primary responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:

• 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.

Key Qualifications:

Your application for the role of Senior Systems Integrators (Technical Data Lead) 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.
• Strong communication skills with Senior Management in large companies, including the ability to present and compose written documents appropriate for clients.
• Ability to conduct sophisticated and creative analysis of complex data and translate the results into actionable deliverables.
• Knowledge in agile BI methodology, change management process and leading teams through solution release cycles (sprints).
• Excellent interpersonal skills and an aptitude to work independently and collaboratively with others in a multidisciplinary team setting.
• Strong customer service orientation along with a demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective stakeholder relationships.
• Experience writing solution architecture documentation, using structured systems analysis and design techniques, systems development methodologies and templates, an asset.
• Excellent problem-solving, leadership, facilitation, presentation and interpersonal skills.
• 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 project plans, projections and cost/benefit analysis of proposed solutions.
• 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 travel across various office locations within the City of Toronto, as required.

Nice to have:

• Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with corporate clients using strong customer service and communications
• Ability to supervise/provide coaching, training and work direction to other project staff effectively, as well as appraise work outcomes and quality accurately and fairly as input to the manager.
• Ability to work smoothly and successfully with people of varied experience, skill levels, technical and business savvy, and personality type.
• Familiarity with of RFP, RFI, and RFQ processes
• Excellent problem-solving, leadership, facilitation, interpersonal and communication skills including the ability to effectively lead meetings, motivate the development team, and create effective documentation.
• Familiarity with government legislation in the area of Occupational Health and Safety.

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