Description
1.0 Description of Assignment
City of Toronto requires a Senior Cloud Development and Administration Specialist to join the project team to design, develop, and integrate business solutions, and promote AI, Agile, and IT security strategies and best practices.
The candidate will support the Children’s Services’ strategic business initiatives, business and IT modernization, and other applicable assignments as directed by management.
This work assignment is mainly to implement new IT solutions to manage and support Toronto Early Learning & Child Care Services (TELCCS).
The estimated duration of the required services is for a period of six (6) months, with a possible extension of additional six (6) months.
The Specialist will be responsible for carrying out the duties described below, commencing on or about 7 September 2026.
The Specialist will be required to work at 55 John St., Metro Hall, or in a hybrid work mode as decided by the City.
2.0 Assignment Duties
1. Work with Development Lead to design and develop full stack solutions to meet changing business needs
2. Design and document technical components to implement business functions and integrate GenAI tools where applicable
3. Ensure application components align with architecture standards and meet quality goals including performance and scalability
4. Document technical requirements in compliance with corporate I&T directions and industry best practices
5. Perform data modeling based on business requirements and processes
6. Provide expert advice on technical feasibility and GenAI-assisted development approaches
7. Review and integrate all application requirements including functional, security, performance, integration, and operations
8. Identify risks, issues, and constraints associated with solutions and designs
9. Assist in re-engineering, enhancement, or replacement of business rules and technologies using AI-assisted insights
10. Ensure delivered mission-critical systems are high performing, secure, and scalable
11. Design and implement fault-tolerant and highly available microservices-based systems
12. Participate in daily Agile SCRUM meetings
13. Promote DevOps and CI/CD best practices
14. Champion Git workflow and administer Git repositories including GitHub Copilot integration
15. Maintain Jenkins build environments and related pipelines
16. Investigate and recommend cloud migration strategies
17. Update JIRA tasks in a timely manner
18. Contribute and review user stories, acceptance criteria, and test scenarios
19. Develop front-end, server-side, and data access logic including AI-assisted code generation
20. Implement unit tests and automated testing using Angular, Java, and Copilot where applicable
21. Participate in peer code and documentation reviews
22. Contribute to retrospectives and provide feedback to improve development processes
23. Share knowledge and lessons learned regularly to support team development
24. Coach and mentor team members in both traditional and AI-assisted development practices
25. Transition support to maintenance groups
26. Perform other duties as required by the project
3.0 Qualifications
It is important that the services be undertaken by the Specialist who can demonstrate expert knowledge of and experience in performing similar work for projects of comparable nature, size and scope as detailed below.
Qualifications and Experience:
8+ years of experience in mission-critical Java web application development
3+ years of experience in Angular or React frontend development
5+ years of experience with microservices architecture, Spring Boot, and faulttolerant system design
Experience in integrating GenAI/GitHub Copilot into development workflows, including customization with internal codebases and usage in code review or pair programming
Proficiency in REST APIs, JPA, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript/TypeScript
Strong background in data modeling and relational databases (SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle)
Hands-on experience with Agile methodologies and DevOps practices including CI/CD, Git, Jenkins
Solid understanding of software security and application performance optimization best practices
Experience with test automation and tools such as Selenium and Jest
BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent experience
Technical Capabilities:
Java, JPA, Spring Boot, REST API, Tomcat, Linux
GitHub Copilot, GenAI, AWS or Azure
SQL, Oracle
Angular/React, TypeScript, Node, Jest
DevOps, CI/CD, Jenkins, Git, SonarQube
The City may contact the references provided. Should any reference fail to confirm that the services listed in Section 3.0 were performed in a satisfactory manner, the Candidate may be declared non-compliant and not considered for the remainder of the evaluation process.
4.0 Deliverables
Design and document the technical components based on Application Architecture, Business Requirements
Perform system analysis, develop detailed designs and system specifications
Recommend and implement AI assisted software development practices
Ensure the application components align with the application architecture and meet various architecture quality goals
Define technical requirements and non-functional requirements of the system
Advise and provide expert knowledge on the technical feasibility of the proposed deliverables
Identify risks, issues and constraints associated with solutions and designs
Identify and assist in the re-engineering, enhancement or replacement of business rules and associated technologies
Review user stories, acceptance criteria, and prototype screens
Review application design, data modelling, peer code, and deployment plan
Code and unit test the business rules and functions
Perform automated testing
Set up and configure Git workflow and Jenkins Pipeline
Recommend Cloud migration strategies
Manage testbed and test data
Ensure the delivered mission critical system is high performing, secure, and scalable
Support various phases of testing, prepare for production implementation
Mentorship, knowledge sharing and transfer
Other deliverables as directed by management
