Pickering, ON, CA
Do you want to be part of a team helping to strengthen every community across Ontario? Are you interested in seeing the importance of your work firsthand? Do you have a passion for big data and cloud computing – and know the benefit of using data to improve business practices?
Become a Systems Integration Lead - Temporary Assignment up to 18 Months with MPAC
The Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC) is made up of a team of experts who understand local communities and assess every property in Ontario. What we do provides the very foundation that municipalities use to base the property taxes needed to pay for the services we use every day.
Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism
MPAC is committed to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism. We are taking important steps towards ensuring that all voices are respected, valued and being heard. MPAC is dedicated to fostering an environment where employees can bring their full, unique and authentic selves and are inspired to do their best work.
Our Commercial Software team works closely with clients outside of Ontario and internationally to design, build, and deliver innovative solutions within the property assessment industry. The way we think about technology is different, and our teams are proud to share their knowledge and contribute to meaningful, technology-enabled success stories that enhance operational intelligence and customer service delivery. We tackle complex problems collaboratively in an agile environment, and are committed to ensuring MPAC technology is consistently available, scalable, performance-based, and secure. We're a group of forward-thinking and talented professionals who stay ahead of the game by using open-source technology, cutting-edge cloud computing, advanced analytics and predictive and machine learning models.
Job Description
What makes you great for this role?
You provide overall project coordination, team leadership and control of activities related to the elaboration, construction and transition of a diverse range of IT solutions. You are able to convey technical expertise and advice to management and stakeholders to leverage IT solutions and applications that will meet program/service goals and objectives.
We have:
- A team of highly skilled, dedicated and collaborative staff to work with
- Leadership that supports you
- An enterprise that embraces change
- A work environment that has flexible work locations (including remote), hours of work and overall employee wellness support
You have:
- Diploma or Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
- 7+ years of progressive development experience in a senior technical capacity
- Advanced knowledge of IT technology, tools, skills, techniques and methods and microservices architecture
- 3+ years of experience in a team lead capacity
- Applied experience analyzing, designing and developing/configuring applications in one or more of the following: AWS Web Services (Cognito, DynamoDB, Lambda Functions)
- Practical experience using various programming languages: Python, Java, Groovy, Angular or ReactJS, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML and CSS, and RESTful APIs
- Experience with Git for version control and implementing Git-based CI/CD pipelines to automate testing and deployment
- Design patterns, Data Structures and Algorithms
- Unit Testing (Python, Typescript)
- Strong knowledge of database concepts with Relational Databases (+ for PostgreSQL), SQL, Cloud computing, Cloud Data Warehouse and Data Lake, NoSQL (DynamoDB)
- Containerization technology: Docker, ECS, Kubernetes
- Federated token-based authentication
- Effective conflict resolution, team building and client relationship management skills
- Analytical and interpretative reasoning skills to assess client needs and develop cost effective and efficient IT solutions
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills to communicate effectively to a wide variety of audiences
Nice to have:
- Certification, or working towards, in the above technologies
- Expertise in cloud computing and microservices architecture, including networking
- Experience in application framework: FastAPI, Next.js
- Experience in Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
- A practical understanding of Agile methodology
What you will do:
- Provide day-to-day technical leadership and accountability throughout the development process and lifecycle for the project team, ensuring successful delivery of development items
- Provide training and guidance to project team members
- Provide detailed and timely project status reports to management and stakeholders/customers
- Provide agile project plans and work task breakdowns, estimating effort and costs to identify resource requirements
- Utilize industry best practices to create integrated and compliant solutions
- Write high-quality, detailed documentation following defined standards
- Continuously research and seek cost-effective technology solutions to improve IT systems
- Participate in negotiations with servicing/acquisition providers
- Create and execute test strategies to validate design against business and performance requirements
- Work with management to oversee all phases of incident, problem, and change management processes
- Lead technical change and release activities associated with the deployment of systems or subsystems
Additional Information:
- Requisition ID: 2622
- Branch: Commercial Software
- Department: Commercial & Client Solutions
- Job Type: Union
- Closing Date: August 15, 2025
Ready to apply?
Please note, only applications submitted through the Applicant Tracking System will be accepted.
Successful candidates will be required to undergo a background verification with Mintz Global Screening. By applying to this job posting, you are providing your consent to MPAC to share your name, email address and phone number with Mintz, to conduct the criminal and driver abstract check and for Mintz to disclose the results to MPAC, should you be the successful incumbent.
MPAC is committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment where all employees and members of the public feel valued, respected and supported. We are dedicated to building a workforce that reflect the diversity of the public and communities we serve.
Persons with disability who need accommodation in the application process or those needing job postings in an alternative format may email their request to careers@mpac.ca.
We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.
Please note that MPAC prohibits employees from holding a current/valid real estate license and successful applicants must at least suspend their real estate licenses during their period of employment at MPAC as outlined in our Employee Code of Conduct.
Job advertisements for positions that have been designated bilingual will be posted in both English and French on our website. Positions that are not designated bilingual are not translated and are only posted in English on the English version of our website.
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