Director Integrated Release & Operations Permanent | Toronto/REMOTE, ON | February 14, 2025 Overview POSITION PURPOSE SUMMARY: The Director Integrated Release and Operations is a key trusted role, responsible for orchestrating the comprehensive release management and operational support processes for a suite of SaaS-based products, including Salesforce, Workday, Mulesoft, ServiceNow, Snowflake and OneIdentity. This role demands a strategic visionary who can elegantly integrate release cycles with operational efficiency to ensure the flawless delivery and support of IT services. Key deliverables include the development and execution of a robust release management strategy, the establishment of a streamlined release schedule, and the facilitation of cross-functional team coordination to ensure successful product deployments. The director will also collaborate with the existing ITSM team in support of the Change Advisory Board (CAB) processes, ensuring business continuity and minimizing impact on Front Lines. Major Accountabilities Strategic Planning and Execution: Spearhead the creation and implementation of strategic plans that align with the organization’s objectives, with a focus on optimizing operations processes. Make data-driven decisions to guide long-term success. Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless execution and continuous alignment with the company’s vision and goals. Oversee Comprehensive Release Management: Develop and implement a robust framework for planning, scheduling, and executing product releases, ensuring seamless integration with business operations. Lead Change Advisory Board (CAB): Collaborate with the ITSM team in support of CAB activities, ensuring business continuity and minimizing impact on Front Line ministries through thorough change assessment and communication. Ensure Quality and Compliance Excellence: Uphold stringent quality standards and regulatory compliance for all releases, while continuously refining processes to boost efficiency and minimize downtime. Foster and support an innovative culture, reducing risk through meticulous planning and a phased implementation approach. Team Leadership and Development: Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of release managers and operations professionals, fostering a positive and inclusive team culture and promoting professional growth and development opportunities. Responsibilities Collaborate with development and operational teams to create and execute release plans that optimize product delivery, enhance operational efficiency, and ensure responsiveness, while avoiding or mitigating potential conflicts. Guarantee that Product and Platform owners conduct comprehensive testing across multiple domains before release, ensuring rapid identification and resolution of any bugs or issues during deployment and adoption. Oversee and manage system cutovers and go-live events, ensuring meticulous planning and flawless execution to minimize disruptions. Evaluate risks associated with development and operational activities, developing robust contingency and back-out plans to address potential issues. Cultivate a culture of collaboration and excellence, ensuring that operational teams work together cohesively and effectively. Leverage deep technical acumen to address large-scale platform and infrastructure challenges, optimizing system performance and reliability. Provide strong leadership and mentorship to development and operational teams, driving high performance, accountability, and professional growth. Critical Relationship Management Internal IT leadership team, team leaders, and SMEs. Functional team leads and SMEs, and various office Units. Leaders of key technology initiatives. Managerial/Technical Leadership Responsibility Reports directly to: Senior Director, Managed IT Services. Direct reports for this position: TBD – information will be provided separately. Financial and Materials Management TBD – information will be provided separately. Working Conditions Work Environment and Travel: The role involves being part of a project and operational team with the flexibility to work remotely. However, there is an expectation to travel occasionally, including visits to the Territorial Headquarters or Office Units, which may require up to 5 days or more of travel per month. Education and Experience Qualifications Education, Qualifications and Certifications: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field. Certification in relevant IT disciplines (e.g., ITIL, PMP) preferred. Experience and Skills Requirements 5-7 years’ experience as an Operations Director or similar role, managing large-scale IT portfolios and operations across multiple domains. 5-7 years’ successful leadership of an IT operations team. Skills and Capabilities Strong technical acumen and expertise in managing integrated cloud-native systems in multiple environments (e.g., development, application support, infrastructure, integration, IT service management, IT operations management). Demonstrated success in leading the creation of new release management processes as part of a transformation to a Product Management organization. Extensive experience in coordinating and managing simultaneous system cutovers and go-lives, with an extraordinary sense of what needs to be done in what sequence for successful system cutovers. Solid Quality Assurance experience, with a strong focus on ensuring high-quality standards for user acceptance testing (UAT), practices and methodologies across multiple domains. Ability to assess operational risks, including identifying what is fraught with danger vs. routine, and develop effective risk mitigation strategies. Experience with Salesforce and/or Workday platforms preferred. Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to influence and drive change effectively. High learning agility and a fearless approach to tackling complex operational challenges. Current knowledge of cloud technology, including application platforms, infrastructure, related hardware, software, security, monitoring, and processes. Ability to get up to speed quickly and ensure a risk-based approach to the leadership and management of integrated development and operations. Proven track record in effectively managing IT budgets and resources to ensure cost-effective operations. Ability to develop and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders and executive leadership. Experience in implementing ITIL frameworks and best practices to optimize service delivery and support and ensure consistency in practices. Proven analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to analyze complex technical and business requirements. Strategic thinker with the ability to align IT operations with organizational goals and objectives. Experience in managing vendor relationships and negotiating contracts to ensure optimal service levels and pricing. Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment and drive teams to meet ambitious deadlines and milestones. Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment. Personal Attributes Driven: Highly motivated to personally achieve. Resilient: Tenacious, overcomes obstacles; recovers from, and gets beyond adversity quickly; incorporates lessons from obstacles and adapts approaches. People Smart: Understands how to interact with people; assesses and takes into consideration the audience and the context; knows what, when and how to communicate. Adaptive: Flexible; iterates and adjusts approach based on new information. Ability to make sound and logical judgments. Ability to present ideas in a user-friendly language. Keen attention to detail. Please note: If you are interested in this job, please submit a MS Word copy of your resume. #J-18808-Ljbffr
A leading technology talent firm is seeking a Director of Integrated Release and Operations to manage release management and operations for SaaS products. This role requires strategic planning, oversight of release processes, and team leadership. The ideal candidate will have 5-7 years of experience in IT operations, strong technical and leadership skills, and the ability to work in a flexible remote environment. #J-18808-Ljbffr
Overview Applications Security Architect – CONTRACT – (2-3 days per week). We are looking for an Application Security Architect for a contract role requiring 2-3 days work per week. Onsite is required once every 2 weeks in GTA by Toronto Airport. Responsibilities Perform security assessments on new products and projects, Provide security architecture recommendations on new or planned updates to products, new projects or integration work. Contract details Contract | REMOTE - Toronto, ON | February 25, 2025 #J-18808-Ljbffr
A technology consulting firm is seeking an Applications Security Architect for a contract role requiring 2-3 days of work per week. Responsibilities include performing security assessments and providing security architecture recommendations for new products and projects. The position is primarily remote, with onsite requirements once every two weeks in the Greater Toronto Area, near Toronto Airport. #J-18808-Ljbffr
OverviewSenior PHP Application Developer – CONTRACT – CONTRACT | REMOTE/TORONTO, ON | February 14, 2025In this role you will plan, architect, design, develop, implement, test, and solve problems with complex applications involving authentication and databases used by the end users.You are expected to demonstrate innovation and leadership in developing and enhancing application services. As the Senior Application Developer, you participate in the future planning and direction of application services and serve as the resource on applications to other specialists, documenting code and for preparing project documentation that can be used for training purposes and for making future enhancements.ResponsibilitiesGuiding and modernizing team development efforts towards successful project delivery.Providing technical guidance to other developers through mentorship.Maintaining high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practicesand habits.Identifying and encouraging areas for growth and improvement within the team.Collaborating with other software developers and Product Delivery Leads to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain no code/low code web-based business forms and workflows and custom-based applications.Assisting in the collection and documentation of user requirements, development of user stories, estimates and work plans.Preparing reports, analytics, manuals and other documentation on the status, operation and maintenance of applications.Designing, developing, and unit testing applications in accordance with established standards.Participating in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code.Working with other developers in the migration of legacy applications to current technologies.Analyzing and resolving technical and application problems.Assessing opportunities for application and process improvement and prepare documentation of rationale to share with team members and IT management.Researching and evaluating a variety of software products.Executing institutional risk and security assessments with continuous improvement plans.Required SkillsBachelor’s degree in computer science or Computer/Electrical Engineering or an acceptable equivalent combination of education and experience.5+ years of recent and related experience in designing, developing and maintaining highly complex, multi-tier solutions, and enterprise-level programs in a networked environmentExperience in integrating databases with enterprise-grade Web technologies and projects is required.Experience in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Object- Oriented design architecture, and framework (e.g., Laravel).Highly proficient with Web technologies and servers. (e.g., Apache, Tomcat, etc.).Experience developing in Windows and Linux/Unix environments.Knowledge of Python and Perl will be an asset.Strong database back-end skills, including design, implementation, and testing of RDBMS, OLTP, and OLAP databases, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, and MySQL.Proven application development risk and security execution.Experience with debugging, performance profiling and optimization, automated testing, and Cloud technologiesExperience with agile development methodologies including Kanban and ScrumProven strong understanding of Git version control as systems and process.Experience with business process analysis, workflow modelling, software development lifecycle, secure development procedures, and creating user and technical specification documents.Proficiency in professional project management methodologies and best practices.Experience developing System Design documentation (SDS) and application architectureConvert functional requirement document into technical documentKnowledge of Incident, Problem and Change management processConduct root cause analysis and prepare incident reports for the management teamDemonstrated ability to utilize logic in the interpretation of guidelines.Superior analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities.Demonstrated excellent oral and written communication skills.Demonstrated training and presentation expertise.Demonstrated willingness to learn and develop in a new technology stack.If you have the required experience please forward a MS Word copy of your resume. #J-18808-Ljbffr
A leading tech consulting firm is seeking an experienced Data Architect with expertise in AWS Data Lake and Redshift. You will provide architectural direction for the Data Hub project, work closely with stakeholders, and develop data standards. Ideal candidates should have proven experience in data architecture and big data technologies like AWS. This contract position is located in Toronto and offers a dynamic work environment. #J-18808-Ljbffr
Data Architect with AWS Data Lake & Redshift
Contract | Toronto/GTA, ON | February 14, 2025
Responsibilities
As a member of the Applied Architecture group and working for the Data Hub project as a Data Architect, provides data architecture direction and delivers required architectural artifacts;
Works closely with various internal business and technical stakeholders to gather their input on data concepts and solutions;
Works with the Business areas to understand their needs and translate those needs into the appropriate conceptual, logical and physical data models
Implement the Data Assets in the Hub Data Lake/Warehouse environment (S3, Redshift, Redshift Spectrum, Glue, Athena, EMR) and Informatica Data Management platform (BDM, BDQ, EDC, Axon);
Develop data architectural standards, design patterns and schemas and conduct reviews to ensure their implementation.
Review existing data architectures, provide feedback and work on relevant Reference Architectures.
Contribute to the development of the overall architecture of the Data Hub platform and supporting technologies including data management platforms, information access, and health information applications.
Provide subject matter expertise and technical leadership on the data architecture discipline. Ensures that data solutions exhibit high levels of performance, consistency, security, scalability, redundancy, maintainability, appropriate reusability and reliability;
Ensures interoperability, performance and scalability, reliability and availability, data consistency, cost effectiveness, and technological risks are all addressed in the data architecture;
Ensure solutions are documented and communicated effectively for their intended audiences;
Support redesign and optimize Data Pipeline based on AWS Big Data technologies.
Support Reference Implementation for optimized Data Pipeline
Leverages Client strategic plan, goals, objectives, policies and procedures in creation of enterprise data architecture deliverables;
Overview
The Client’s Hub will implement an overarching architecture that holistically integrates, transforms and shares data. This architecture will address the Client’s current data management problems and has the following goals:
Increase Client’s data handling capacity by orders of magnitude (provide more data to consumers)
Make data accessible, shareable and understandable (democratize data and increase value extraction)
Provide data security and data access auditing
Streamline and automate data flows and business processes
Ability to adjust system capacity to meet variable demand
Support remarkable customer experiences with Company data
The vision of a Data Hub is based on many years of Client experience combined with modern data management paradigms. Data Hub is an architectural ecosystem based on “Big Data”, Cloud and BI/Data visualization technologies that enables the Client to solidify its position in today’s data-first world.
Contact
202-626 King St. W.
Toronto, ON, M5V 1M7
Canada
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Senior Azure AI Solution Architect
Permanent | Toronto, ON | October 14, 2025
As a Senior Azure AI Solution Architect, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve business issues, deliver high quality client service, and operational efficiency.
Responsibilities
Solution technology projects executed by Development teams
Provide technical guidance regarding tools, frameworks, and platforms
Design and optimize Azure application and infrastructure architectures
Lead the development and deployment of AI solutions
Be actively involved in business development activities to identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients.
Support the Enterprise Architecture processes
Shape and deliver digital products to meet clients’ expectations
Assist Enterprise Architects in assessing technology solutions
Supervise and support Vendor’s developers
Execute periodical code reviews
Required Experience
Experience working in agile teams and product delivery
Enterprise level solutions with a cloud-first approach
Proficiency in Azure services and tools like Azure DevOps
Exposure to working with leading Azure AI technologies like Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI Service, and Azure Databricks
AI development frameworks and their deployment on Azure
Building scalable AI assets that can be utilized through low / no-code platforms such as Copilot Studio
Understanding of application design and integration with Azure infrastructure
Service-oriented, event-driven, and microservices architectures and knowledge regarding GenAI technologies is highly desirable
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering
Azure solution Architect and Azure Developer certifications preferred
Location
202-626 King St. W.
Toronto, ON, M5V 1M7
Canada
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A specialized technology consulting firm in Toronto is looking for a Senior Azure AI Solution Architect to lead projects and drive AI solutions development. The role requires significant expertise in Azure technologies, cloud-first solutions, and strong Agile practices. The ideal candidate will have a relevant degree and may hold Azure certifications. This permanent position offers a chance to shape and deliver high-quality digital products for clients. #J-18808-Ljbffr
AI Developer – Azure Cognitive Services
Contract | REMOTE/Toronto, REMOTE/Canada | February 14, 2025
We are looking for an
AI Developer with Azure Cognitive Services
experience.
You should have real work experience developing applications with Azure Cognitive Services.
Ideally you have at least 5-10 years experience as a Developer combined with real Azure Cognitive Services project experience.
Location
202-626 King St. W., Toronto, ON, M5V 1M7, Canada
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