CORPORATE APPLICATION TECHNICAL LEADER (WordPress Developer)

Full job description
Job ID: 55+7+
Job Category: Information Technology
Division Section: Technology Services, Technology Standardization Delivery
Work Location: Metro Hall, 55 John St, Toronto
Job Type Duration: Full-time, Temporary (12 month) vacancies
Hourly Rate: $56.11 - $61.51
Shift Information: Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week
Affiliation: L7+ Full-time
Number of Positions Open: 2
Posting Period: 03-Jul-2025 to 17-Jul-2025
Job Description:
As a Corporate Application Technical Lead (WordPress) you will contribute to the development of corporate WordPress systems, architecture, methodologies, standards, policies, and procedures. The Corporate Application Technical Lead will also contribute to the implementation and sustainment of front-end applications and corporate WordPress platforms.

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-IT 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 (Salesforce Developer) should describe your qualifications as they relate to:

Considerable experience in developing Word Press based websites, including PHP full stack development and being proficient with WordPress's features, themes, and plugins.
Considerable experience with coding in PHP, WordPress, Node and React.
Considerable experience with web technologies: HTMLS, JSON, JavaScript / jQuery, CSS, AJAX, Bootstrap and using REST APls, including JSON APls.
Experience with cloud infrastructure running WordPress on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Experience developing digital products that comply with accessibility standards and/or best practices (WCAG 2.x AA, AODA, WAI-ARIA).
Post-secondary education in computer science or a related discipline, or the approved equivalent combination of education and/or experience.
You must also have:
Strong inter-personal skills with the ability to work effectively as a member of a team, collaboratively with others in multidisciplinary project team environment and work independently, as required
Proven efficiency and effectiveness in teamwork, facilitation, communications, conflict resolution, problem solving, crisis management and team leadership in projects, assignments, and service engagements.
Strong interpersonal skills with ability to effectively communicate with team members and clients regarding technical and business requirements.
An understanding of SCRUM / rapid application development methodology is an asset.
Strong customer service orientation along with a demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective stakeholder relationships.
Knowledge of current and emerging technologies, and skills to evaluate and recommend new technology for introduction into a complex technical environment.
Advanced time management and estimation capabilities and ability to perform several tasks and projects concurrently.
Ability to prepare, organize and present business cases, proposals, solutions and or similar formal documents and statements to various audiences, including stakeholders, clients, and the public.
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 and 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.
Ability to work effectively as a member of a team, collaboratively with others in a multidisciplinary team environment and independently, as required.
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.
Excellent problem-solving, leadership, facilitation, and interpersonal skills.

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