Team Lead Jobs

At Ontario Health, we are committed to developing a strong organizational culture that connects and inspires all team members across the province. Our vision is that together, we will be a leader in health and wellness for all. Our mission is to connect the health system to drive improved and equitable health outcomes, experiences and value. How we work together is reflected through our five values: integrity, inspiration, tenacity, humility and care.

What Ontario Health offers:

Achieving your career goals is a priority to us. Benefits of working at Ontario Health may include the following based on employment type:

• Career development opportunities
• Premium defined benefit pension plan
• Individual contributors start at 3 weeks’ vacation with 4 weeks at 2 yrs.
• A collaborative values-based team culture
• Participation in Communities of Inclusion
• A hybrid working model
• 3 personal days and 2 float days annually
• Health care spending account
• Wellness programs
• Fully paid medical, dental and vision coverage from your first day

Want to make a difference in your career? Consider this opportunity.

The Team Lead will be responsible for day-to-day management of their team including engaging across departments to embed digital-first practices, processes and tools. They will support the management of the end-to-end customer value lifecycle in a consistent, collaborative, lean, agile and strategic manner, applying digital and technology to the products and services they support to improve the user experience and delivery of value to patients/customers. They are responsible for supporting the Manager / Senior Manager in delivering one or more project/program/operational plans within a specific portfolio or functional area. As part of this role, the Team Lead acts as the lead support to the Manager in developing plans and deliverables, supervising resources, vendors and interacting with key internal and/or external stakeholders. The Team Lead may act on the Manager’s behalf in their absence.

Here is what you will be doing:

• Leads by example, demonstrating integrity, creativity, and enthusiasm in achieving results directly.
• Champions the portfolio's vision to re-imagine OH’s digital and virtual assets to create a better, more connected healthcare system, along with evolving and encouraging a citizen-centered, digital-first mindset within their teams.
• Collaborates with external stakeholders and government agencies with supervision.
• Directs, trains, mentors, and coaches transformation, customer value and product/service team members and functional experts to grow capabilities and key skills.
• Provides subject matter expertise on the use of digital and technology, as well as assisting with planning for long-term cost-effective sustainability.
• Contributes to the development of product strategies in collaboration with program partners and DxH colleagues and the development of roadmaps and the corresponding operational plan for products within the department.
• Ensures periodic reviews to ensure the products meet OH standards and practices.
• Manages a functional team for 2-7 individuals fostering a culture of teamwork, collaboration, and agility.
• Contributes to thought leadership on capturing the tactical and strategic enterprise goals through business models (including vision, goals, objectives, mission, tactics, roadmaps, plans, capability maps, value stream maps) that provide traceability through the organization and are mapped to metrics that provide ongoing governance.
• Effectively partners with Ontario Health clinical portfolios to ensure program strategies and plans are reflected in technical product strategies and roadmaps.
• Understands and discusses technical concepts, manages trade-offs, and evaluates opportunistic innovative ideas with internal and external partners.
• Establishes and maintains trusted working relationships with cross-functional areas within Digital Excellence in Health and across Ontario Health, as well as vendor partners to ensure appropriate planning and support requirements are identified and managed ensuring service level targets are achieved.
• Supports other Managers as required and performs other duties consistent with the job classification, as assigned or requested.
• Builds strong relationships across portfolios and with a diverse set of health system stakeholders and partners.
• Makes decisions where results have a critical impact across the organization requiring sophisticated solutions and long-term correction.
• Ensures privacy and security is embedded at every phase of the SDLC enabling development of secure products.
• Ensures business partners and stakeholders have visibility to the value their teams provide.
• Provides excellent service to internal and external clients by discovering and meeting their needs and building and maintaining positive and effective working relationships.
• Supports the development of the annual planning process in collaboration with program partners, DXH colleagues and the ministry.
• Bridges the gap between strategy and execution through road-mapping, setting up processes, models and metrics that facilitate collaboration between key partners and the achievement of set targets.
• Anticipates and remediates project bottlenecks and blockers in short term and long-term work to ensure smooth operation of their team.
• Empowers staff to take responsibility for their jobs and goals. Identifies and creates learning opportunities for their staff to continually enhance their functional area of knowledge. Delegates responsibility and expects accountability and regular feedback.
• Fosters a culture of engagement and high-performing teams that attracts, retains, develops, and motivates their team by fostering an inclusive work environment, communicating vison, organizational mission, vision, guiding principles, values, strategies and managing career or skill development planning for the team.
• Provides full scope of leadership responsibilities to a multifunctional team, including recruitment, setting/measuring performance outcomes, career development/counseling, approval of leadership and training opportunities, and performance management including effective performance feedback through employee recognition, rewards, and performance management with the assistance of Human Resources, when necessary.
• Acts independently with a low level of supervision. Possesses the ability to determine when to escalate broader impacting decisions to senior management.
• Provides technical expertise in the functional area.

Here is what you will need to be successful:

Education and Experience

• Excellent Knowledge of project delivery practices in a matrix environment.
• Excellent knowledge in the functional area of responsibility (engineering, security, product management, etc).
• Excellent knowledge of multiple agile methodologies and the capability to apply Shu and Ha level techniques.
• Excellent Knowledge of SDLC.
• Knowledge of user centric design and innovation.
• Experience with healthcare integration projects is an asset.
• Ability to manage simultaneous projects from initiation to completion.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in their functional area of expertise (Software Engineering, Quality Assurance, Security, etc.).
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Health-related fields, Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• CSPO, CSM, KMP, PMI, or ITIL certifications an asset.
• Experience of familiarity with Cloud-Based technologies.

Knowledge and Skills

• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills to collaborate with program partners and DxH colleagues; motivate the team to achieve higher goals and improve the impact of technology initiatives.
• Ability to present materials to large audiences.
• Capacity to be aware of, control, and express one’s emotions, to handle interpersonal relationships with product/project teams, cross-portfolio interaction, external stakeholder interaction and ministry stakeholders judiciously and empathetically.
• Strong communication skills, both orally and in writing, to clearly communicate and share solutions; discuss technical concepts.
• Ability to understand and apply new concepts.
• Excellent organizational and multitasking skills and ability to quickly shift priorities and adapt to changes to meet organizational and department requirements.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills to ensure that products meet OH standards and practices; remediate project bottlenecks and blockers; identify and meet client needs.
• Ability to make decisions where results have a critical impact across the organization.

Employment Type: Permanent Full Time

Salary Band: 6

Location: Ontario (currently hybrid; subject to change)

All applicants must be a resident of Ontario to be considered for roles at Ontario Health.

Ontario Health encourages applications from candidates who are First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and urban Indigenous; Francophone; Black and racialized; members of 2SLGBTQIA+ communities; trans and nonbinary; and disabled.

We encourage applicants with accessibility needs to notify us if they have any accommodation needs in the application and/or interview process.

Note: As part of the initial recruitment screening process, applicants must confirm that they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. If applicants are not fully vaccinated, they will be required to identify any accommodation needs pursuant to a protected ground under the Code. Applicants who identify an accommodation need will be required to provide supporting documentation with respect to their need for accommodation when requested by Ontario Health. If no such accommodation is identified, the applicant will not be eligible to proceed through the recruitment process.