• Job ID: 62425
• Job Category: Information & Technology
• Division & Section: Technology Services, Enterprise Application Solutions
• Work Location: North York Civic Centre, 5100 Yonge St, Toronto, M2N 5V7
• Job Type & Duration: Full-time, Permanent Vacancy
• Hourly Rate: $55.29 - $60.55
• Shift Information: Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week
• Affiliation: L79 Full-time
• Number of Positions Open: 1
• Posting Period: 02-Mar-2026 to 23-Mar-2026

As a System Development Specialist supporting Revenue Services IT, you will play a key role in maintaining and enhancing two mission-critical enterprise applications that support the billing and collection of property taxes, water, and solid waste services across the City of Toronto.

You will collaborate with a skilled technical team to deliver system enhancements, resolve complex issues, and contribute to major initiatives that directly impact essential City services.

Major Responsibilities:

Your primary responsibilities as a System Development Specialist will be varied. Specifically, you will:

• Perform analysis, design, programming duties as well as testing, documentation, and deployment preparation.

• Conduct user interviews to determine detailed systems requirements.

• Complete analysis, system and functional design, workflow diagrams for quality systems development.

• Design, code, test, implement, and maintain enterprise systems.

• Design and develop systems that comply with access and privacy legislation.

• Coordinate and develop program specifications and documentation.

• Design and conduct all levels of testing i.e. unit, system, integration, regression, performance, security, usability, optimization/configuration, and coordinates user acceptance testing.

• Liaise and coordinate with internal and external consultants in detailed systems deliverables and technical problem resolution.

• Implement enterprise in-house developed/custom/packaged systems and systems changes.

• Test integrated systems to ensure system compatibility and proper functional integration.

• Provide application maintenance and enhancement including implementation of vendor systems fixes and patches.

• Conduct quality assurance on departmental and external developments.

• Develop systems interfaces between enterprise and departmental systems.

• Perform information and application data conversions.

• Provide development support to users by providing technical assistance and troubleshooting.

• Provide documentation and instruction/training to users of the system.

• Design and develop application security interfaces to enable clients in controlling and administering access to their systems.

• Provide expertise, advice and technical skills for information and application service delivery.

• Recommend, present, and demonstrate system solutions to City management and corporate business clients.

• Conduct research and evaluation of hardware/software/framework and make recommendations.

• Conduct presentations, system demonstrations and system walk-throughs at project review meetings.

• Participate as a team member in the execution of project plans providing technical expertise and advice re: architecture, development tools, work effort estimates.

• Direct the activities of staff, mentors, and recommends training.

• Contribute to project charters, statements of work and project plans, project status reports and variance explanations, risk identification and mitigation planning.

• Conduct research, investigate, and recommend best practices for information and application services.

• Contribute to post-implementation project reviews.

• Recommend improvements to current methodologies, processes, standards, policies, and guidelines.

• Contribute to planning of future system growth and provides detailed work plans.

• Participate in enterprise projects.

• Conduct feasibility studies, business cases, RFI/P/Q’s, technical reports by researching and participating in evaluations and recommending solutions.

• Determine user training needs.

Key Qualifications:

Your application for the role of System Development Specialist should describe your qualifications as they relate to:

• Post-secondary education in computer science, information technology, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.

• Considerable experience working with enterprise relational databases (Oracle), including advanced SQL development, stored procedures, performance tuning, and database design. Oracle certification would be considered an asset.

• Considerable experience developing and maintaining applications using PowerBuilder.

• Considerable experience in the design, development, testing, system integration, and deployment of enterprise-level applications.

You must also have:

• Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership within project teams, including guiding technical activities, contributing to project planning and documentation, and supporting the successful delivery of technical components.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to engage business clients, understand requirements, present findings, and build and maintain effective working relationships across the organization.

• Strong analytical and diagnostic abilities, including identifying root causes of issues, recommending effective technical solutions, and implementing long-term preventative measures.

• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities, meet deadlines, work independently with minimal supervision, and contribute effectively within multidisciplinary technical project teams.

• Ability to develop and document technology standards, methodologies, and product specifications in support of enterprise systems and solutions.

• Ability to travel across various City locations and flexibility to work non-standard hours, overtime, and provide on-call support as required to support critical service delivery.

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Accommodation

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