Job ID: 65792
Job Category: Information & Technology
Division & Section: Technology Services, Enterprise Services & Operations
Work Location: Metro Hall, 55 John Street, Toronto, ON
Job Type & Duration: Full-time, Permanent vacancy
Salary Range: $105,241.00 - $160.649.00
Shift Information: Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week per week
Affiliation: Non-Union
Number of Positions Open: 1
Posting Period: 27-Jul-2026 to 13-Aug-2026
Job Summary:
To provide senior technical leadership, architectural direction and governance for the design, implementation, integration and ongoing evolution of the City’s ServiceNow platform.
The Senior Systems Integrator Technology Services will define and maintain end-to-end ServiceNow architecture across IT Service Management, IT Operations Management and IT Asset Management, including ITSM, Discovery, Service Mapping, Event Management, Software Asset Management, Hardware Asset Management, CMDB and Common Service Data Model.
The position will establish platform architecture standards, integration patterns, development guardrails and governance controls to ensure ServiceNow solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, supportable and aligned with City technology standards. The role will also guide the responsible introduction of mobile-enabled services, workflow automation, Virtual Agent and AI-assisted capabilities that improve employee experience, operational efficiency and decision-making.
Working closely with Product Owners, Portfolio Management, Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, divisional technology teams, vendors and delivery partners, the position will provide architectural oversight throughout the solution lifecycle, reduce technical debt and support consistent enterprise service delivery across the City.
- Implements detailed plans and recommends policies/procedures regarding program specific requirements.
- Supervises, motivates and trains assigned staff, ensuring effective teamwork, high standards of work quality and organizational performance, continuous learning and encourages innovation in others.
- Supervises the day-to-day operation of all assigned staff including the scheduling, assigning and reviewing of work. Authorizes and co-ordinates vacation and overtime requests. Monitors and evaluates staff performance, approves salary increments, hears grievances and recommends disciplinary action when necessary.
- Provides input into and administers assigned budget, ensuring that expenditures are controlled and maintained within approved budget limitations.
- Leads, facilitates and contributes to the design, creation, development and sustainment of corporate standards for the division, including formalized project management and methodology, data warehousing architecture, data modeling, metadata, change management, and application development and migration.
- Responsible to senior management within the division, business and technical stakeholders for all aspects of assigned projects, including the project charter, project plan and schedule, progress, budget, risk management, issue management, change management, resource management, quality review/best practices.
- Provides project budget and financial management such as sole source requests; contract negotiations; leasing agreements; business cases; feasibility and cost/benefit analysis.
- Prepares and/or supervises the preparation of various formal contractual documents such as Request For Information/Proposal/Quotation (RFI/P/Q), Statement Of Work (SOW), Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) and Service Level Agreements (SLA).
- Provides leadership in the evaluation, selection and recommendation of technical solutions and professional services; manages vendors and contractors in the overall solution delivery process.
- Identifies and develops divisional/cross-divisional initiatives to produce synergies and economies of scale.
- Negotiates with senior management, clients and various stakeholders often with competing and conflicting goals, objectives and priorities.
- Provides assessments and recommendations of new technology trends on the effective use, acquisition and integration of technology by the City.
- Identifies and analyzes current business processes and practices in the context of evolving information architecture and performance measures; prepares feasibility study and recommends overall technical solutions for business initiatives and leverage existing enterprise infrastructure investments.
- Recommends and implements security, privacy and quality assurance requirements consistent with both the Municipal Freedom of Information Privacy and Protection Act (MFIPPA), and corporate and legislated standards regarding the storage, processing and retention of confidential data.
- Recommends, establishes, and sustains various project management structures that span one or more levels of government such as the Provincial Offence Act and Social Housing downloading initiatives.
- Assesses and recommends scalable multi-jurisdictional business and technical solutions that meet client and business requirements in the context of corporate standards, policies and procedures for information technologies and architectures. This includes determining requirements, conducting research and evaluations and obtaining all approvals and signoffs.
- Informs and educates senior managers, business users and technology peers on technology trends, and the effective use of business and technology solutions and information management.
Key Qualifications:
Your application for the role of Senior Systems Integrator Technology Services should describe your qualifications as they relate to:
- Extensive experience providing architecture and technical leadership for complex, enterprise-scale ServiceNow implementations across multiple modules, including ITSM and at least one of ITOM or ITAM.
- Extensive experience in designing and governing ServiceNow platform architecture, including CMDB, CSDM, Discovery, Service Mapping, application and integration architecture, data governance, platform security and technical standards.
- Extensive experience designing and implementing enterprise integrations with ServiceNow, including REST or SOAP APIs, IntegrationHub, MID Server, event ingestion, message queues and identity integrations using technologies such as SSO, SAML or OAuth.
- Extensive experience with ServiceNow development and configuration standards, including JavaScript, Glide APIs, Flow Designer, scoped applications, update sets, source control, Automated Test Framework, CI/CD and performance optimization.
- Valid ServiceNow Certified System Administrator certification, together with at least one of the following current ServiceNow certifications:
- Certified Application Developer;
- Certified Implementation Specialist – IT Service Management;
- Certified Implementation Specialist – IT Operations Management; or
- Certified Technical Architect or another recognized ServiceNow architect-level certification.
- Considerable experience establishing architecture governance, development guardrails and secure-by-design practices within a large, complex organization, including architecture reviews, technical decision records, release readiness, audit support and management of technical debt.
- Considerable experience leading multidisciplinary technical teams and providing architectural oversight to vendors and systems integrators, with demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions and communicate recommendations to senior technology and business stakeholders.
- Post-secondary degree or diploma in computer science, information technology, engineering, business administration or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and extensive relevant experience.
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