About the role
I am hiring Technical Lead, Application Development on behalf of a well-established organization in Toronto.
In your new role as Technical Lead, Application Development, you will mentor and lead a team of IT professionals to ensure the successful delivery of solutions to meet or exceed stakeholder business requirements. Through efficient approaches, development, support and deployment of all applications this individual will ensure the reliability and sustainability of those applications in alignment with the strategic direction of the Information Technology Department. This role will lead and manage the staff of the Application Support & Development section, which will include coaching, development and mentoring, recruitment and performance management.
What you will be doing:
- Lead application development teams responsible for enterprise platforms, integrations, and digital solutions, balancing hands-on technical leadership with people and delivery management.
- Act as a technical and escalation point for solution design, architecture decisions, and complex delivery challenges.
- Partner closely with technology analysts, enterprise architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data & analytics, and technology/business leaders to translate business priorities into scalable technical solutions.
- Provide delivery and technical oversight for major platforms including Salesforce, Workday Finance, and enterprise integration services.
- Drive modern development practices including cloud native design, event driven architectures, DevSecOps, and continuous delivery.
- Champion the responsible adoption of modern development practices and tools to improve developer productivity, code quality, and delivery predictability.
- Build, coach, and develop high performing technical teams, growing senior technical capability across administrators, developers and technical leads.
- Contribute to the application and integration technology roadmap, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with enterprise standards.
- Ensure production stability, operational excellence, and effective incident and release management across supported applications.
What you will need to succeed:
- Minimum 7 years progressive IT solution architecture experience application development, and system design.
- Minimum 7 years of experience delivering complex digital solutions and platforms (Salesforce and Workday) and integration environments.
- Demonstrated experience transitioning from a technical lead/architecture role into people leadership with strong coaching and mentorship capability.
- 5+ years in delivering custom Salesforce implementation and enhancements (Sales, Service, Marketing & Community Cloud)
- 5+ years’ experience with JEE and enterprise integration technologies (Java, JDBC, JMS, XML, SOAP, XSD, WSDL, SSL)
- 5+ years’ experience with event streaming, such as Confluent Kafka, Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams.
- 5+ years’ experience with Workday Financial Management, including integrations, reporting, data flows and platform extensions.
- 5+ years’ leading agile delivery teams, including architecture and development, system integration, testing, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices across cloud and SaaS platforms.
- Proven interest and experience to develop teams to safely and effectively use of digital analytics tools, while maintaining security and enterprise standards.
- 10 years experience working in agile scrum environment, collaborating with product owners and cross functional business stakeholders.
- Ability to nurture strong business and technical relationships in a fast-paced environment utilizing an agile methodology.
- Forward looking Manager who will help with technology roadmap for the company.
- Strong listening, negotiation and facilitation skills.
- Excellent presentation, written and oral communication skills
Not the right fit? Search for Technical Lead, Application Development jobs in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
About Hays
We are leaders in specialist recruitment and workforce solutions, offering advisory services such as learning and skill development, career transitions and employer brand positioning.
As the Leadership Partner to our customers, we invest in lifelong partnerships that empower people and businesses to succeed. We help you achieve your career goals and deliver your business needs by combining meaningful innovation with our global scale and insights.
Last year we helped over 280,000 people find their next career. Join the millions of people around the world that our specialist recruitment consultants provide with up-to-date information on career options, interesting insights and specific industry trends.
We help our customers define and implement strategies to create inclusive and equitable workplaces. Through harnessing and analysing data, we support business decision making and advise on how to access Talent Networks. We also assist in identifying attractive employer propositions by truly understanding a company’s identity, and support clients with all aspects of their Early Careers proposition, from strategic planning through to operational execution.
Hays is the market leader in the UK and Asia Pacific and one of the market leaders in Continental Europe and Latin America. The c.12,800 people we employ around the world partner with clients and candidates to power the world of work. Every day our expert consultants help thousands of candidates find their next role, and they also help clients reshape workforces and deal with talent shortages. In the year to 30 June 2021, we placed 77,000 people in permanent jobs and 244,000 people into temporary roles. For more information about our global network, strategy and Group financial results, visit www.haysplc.com
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About the role
I am hiring Technical Lead, Application Development on behalf of a well-established organization in Toronto.
In your new role as Technical Lead, Application Development, you will mentor and lead a team of IT professionals to ensure the successful delivery of solutions to meet or exceed stakeholder business requirements. Through efficient approaches, development, support and deployment of all applications this individual will ensure the reliability and sustainability of those applications in alignment with the strategic direction of the Information Technology Department. This role will lead and manage the staff of the Application Support & Development section, which will include coaching, development and mentoring, recruitment and performance management.
What you will be doing:
- Lead application development teams responsible for enterprise platforms, integrations, and digital solutions, balancing hands-on technical leadership with people and delivery management.
- Act as a technical and escalation point for solution design, architecture decisions, and complex delivery challenges.
- Partner closely with technology analysts, enterprise architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data & analytics, and technology/business leaders to translate business priorities into scalable technical solutions.
- Provide delivery and technical oversight for major platforms including Salesforce, Workday Finance, and enterprise integration services.
- Drive modern development practices including cloud native design, event driven architectures, DevSecOps, and continuous delivery.
- Champion the responsible adoption of modern development practices and tools to improve developer productivity, code quality, and delivery predictability.
- Build, coach, and develop high performing technical teams, growing senior technical capability across administrators, developers and technical leads.
- Contribute to the application and integration technology roadmap, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with enterprise standards.
- Ensure production stability, operational excellence, and effective incident and release management across supported applications.
What you will need to succeed:
- Minimum 7 years progressive IT solution architecture experience application development, and system design.
- Minimum 7 years of experience delivering complex digital solutions and platforms (Salesforce and Workday) and integration environments.
- Demonstrated experience transitioning from a technical lead/architecture role into people leadership with strong coaching and mentorship capability.
- 5+ years in delivering custom Salesforce implementation and enhancements (Sales, Service, Marketing & Community Cloud)
- 5+ years’ experience with JEE and enterprise integration technologies (Java, JDBC, JMS, XML, SOAP, XSD, WSDL, SSL)
- 5+ years’ experience with event streaming, such as Confluent Kafka, Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams.
- 5+ years’ experience with Workday Financial Management, including integrations, reporting, data flows and platform extensions.
- 5+ years’ leading agile delivery teams, including architecture and development, system integration, testing, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices across cloud and SaaS platforms.
- Proven interest and experience to develop teams to safely and effectively use of digital analytics tools, while maintaining security and enterprise standards.
- 10 years experience working in agile scrum environment, collaborating with product owners and cross functional business stakeholders.
- Ability to nurture strong business and technical relationships in a fast-paced environment utilizing an agile methodology.
- Forward looking Manager who will help with technology roadmap for the company.
- Strong listening, negotiation and facilitation skills.
- Excellent presentation, written and oral communication skills
Not the right fit? Search for Technical Lead, Application Development jobs in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
About Hays
We are leaders in specialist recruitment and workforce solutions, offering advisory services such as learning and skill development, career transitions and employer brand positioning.
As the Leadership Partner to our customers, we invest in lifelong partnerships that empower people and businesses to succeed. We help you achieve your career goals and deliver your business needs by combining meaningful innovation with our global scale and insights.
Last year we helped over 280,000 people find their next career. Join the millions of people around the world that our specialist recruitment consultants provide with up-to-date information on career options, interesting insights and specific industry trends.
We help our customers define and implement strategies to create inclusive and equitable workplaces. Through harnessing and analysing data, we support business decision making and advise on how to access Talent Networks. We also assist in identifying attractive employer propositions by truly understanding a company’s identity, and support clients with all aspects of their Early Careers proposition, from strategic planning through to operational execution.
Hays is the market leader in the UK and Asia Pacific and one of the market leaders in Continental Europe and Latin America. The c.12,800 people we employ around the world partner with clients and candidates to power the world of work. Every day our expert consultants help thousands of candidates find their next role, and they also help clients reshape workforces and deal with talent shortages. In the year to 30 June 2021, we placed 77,000 people in permanent jobs and 244,000 people into temporary roles. For more information about our global network, strategy and Group financial results, visit www.haysplc.com