Location: Toronto, ON - Hybrid, 3 to 4 days per week in office
Language: Excellent written and verbal English communication skills are required.
Duration: 6-month contract to start
Background Check Requirement: Background check required prior to employment.
About the Opportunity
Join a large, enterprise-scale public sector organization that is modernizing critical technology platforms to support essential services across Ontario. This is an opportunity to lead the delivery of complex cloud transformation initiatives while helping shape the future technology landscape through innovation, collaboration, and technical leadership.
Working closely with architects, delivery teams, business stakeholders, and external service providers, you'll play a key role in ensuring technology solutions are delivered with quality, scalability, and long-term business value. If you thrive in fast-paced environments where strategic thinking and hands-on technical leadership go hand in hand, this role offers meaningful impact.
What's In It for YouYour Responsibilities
• You'll provide technical leadership to multidisciplinary delivery teams, ensuring successful execution of complex technology initiatives from solution design through production release.
• You'll collaborate with enterprise architects and business stakeholders to translate long-term technology roadmaps into practical delivery plans.
• You'll oversee solution validation, technical governance, release readiness, and quality assurance to ensure business objectives are achieved.
• You'll lead discussions with vendors and service providers, managing technical expectations, delivery performance, and ongoing partnerships.
• You'll identify technical risks, resolve complex delivery challenges, and provide guidance throughout application lifecycle management.
• You'll champion cloud transformation initiatives, ensuring seamless migration of on-premises applications to modern cloud platforms.
Skills and Qualifications
• 8+ years of experience leading complex enterprise technology initiatives within large organizations.
• 10+ years of experience migrating on-premises applications to cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure.
• Proven experience leading technical discussions with vendors, service providers, and executive stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge of Azure architecture, enterprise application delivery, integration strategies, Agile methodologies, and DevOps practices.
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, application lifecycle management, release management, and enterprise solution validation.
• Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification is required. TOGAF certification is strongly preferred. PMP, PRINCE2, ITIL, Agile, or Scrum certifications are considered assets.
• Excellent leadership, communication, relationship management, negotiation, and problem-solving skills, with experience leading large virtual teams.
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