Corporate Application Technical Leader; Python Developer

Corporate Application Technical Leader (Python Developer)

• Job : 60547
• Job Category: Information & Technology
• Division & Section: Technology Services, Office of the Chief Technology Officer
• Job Type & Duration:Full-time, Permanent Vacancy
• Hourly Rate: $58.30 - $63.91
• Shift Information: Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week
• Affiliation: L79 Full-time
• Number of Positions Open: 1
• Posting Period: 26-Feb-2026 to 12-Mar-2026

Join the Open Data team within the new Enterprise Data and AI unit of the Technology Services Division. You will be joining a growing team that includes developers, service designers, business transformation leads and the communications leads who all drive the modernization and vision for Toronto’s world class Open Data program.

The Toronto Open Data program has a mandate to publish data from within the City – anyone who can access the site can access any published dataset without even making an account. This data is aggregated, organized, and maintained by open-source technology (CKAN) that the successful applicant to this Python Developer role will help to enhance and maintain.

This is a primarily backend role. Succeeding in this will not only require a solid grasp of writing scalable and clean Python code, but also an understanding of moving, storing, managing, and presenting data in a variety of contexts. In addition, the developer will need to be comfortable with version control, basic Unix terminal commands, the basics of HTTP requests, and ideally be comfortable with basic SQL.

To boot, the ideal candidate will have experience working with data in a number of both geographic and nongeographic formats.

As the team services the public and each of the city bureaucracy’s various divisions, an ideal candidate will be comfortable working in teams with a variety of skillsets and backgrounds and should be able to understand and articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Operations that the developer will contribute to include the enhancement of our Open Data catalog and its metadata, upgrades to the ways we provide data, upgrades to our API, and maintenance of the portal’s various dependencies. This role comes with the opportunity to contribute work to the broader CKAN and Open Source community, as most of our code is publicly available.

• 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…