Liteline Corporation is a privately held Canadian commercial lighting manufacturer with more than 160 employees, selling across Canada and the United States. We are adding a Director of Business Technology to our leadership team, a senior, hands-on role with ownership of technology across the business.

The role has two halves. The first is the job every growing company needs: keep our technology running, secure and recoverable across roughly 130 computers, Microsoft 365, our server cluster and our network. The second is newer. Our own people, from the three Co-Presidents to staff in Finance, Product Development, Engineering and Customer Service, now build software tools with AI assistants. The Director of Business Technology will give that work a professional backbone: version control, permissions, backups and fast recovery.

This is an enabling role as much as a technical one. We want our people to keep building quickly. The person in this position will make sure what they build is safe, recoverable and well looked after, without slowing anyone down.

This is a build role. Liteline’s people are already creating their own tools with AI. We are looking for a leader who can keep the core IT environment solid, put the right platforms and guardrails under home‑built software, and teach non‑programmers to work safely.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Keep Things Running

- Own day-to-day IT across the business: computers, email, servers, networking, security and backups.
- Run Microsoft 365, including sign-in, multi-factor authentication (MFA), user access and licensing.
- Look after our on-premises server cluster, storage and network infrastructure.




- Oversee security monitoring and incident response together with our security monitoring partner.
- Maintain tested backups and the ability to restore systems and data quickly.
- Lead the help desk and set the service standards the business is held to.

Own the Platforms

- Set up and run, hands- on, the platforms our home‑built tools live on.
- Own Liteline’s company GitHub organization, where code is saved with full history, including structure, permissions, single sign‑on (SSO) and branch protection.
- Administer hosted databases (Supabase / Postgres), including access control, backups and recovery.
- Manage website and application hosting (Netlify), including deployments, domains and environments.
- Maintain a clear inventory of the tools in use, who owns each one and where it runs.

Govern and Teach

- Decide what AI assistants can access and set sensible guardrails for company data and credentials.
- Set light, practical rules that protect the business without getting in the way of the people building.
- Decide which home‑built tools are business‑critical and what level of protection each one needs.
- Run and rehearse restores so that recovery is proven, not assumed.
- Teach staff who are not programmers to work safely, for example explaining version control to someone in purchasing.
- Run training, enablement and “lunch and learn” sessions across the business.





Team and Partners

- Lead two on‑site IT staff.
- Manage our outside partners for managed services, security monitoring and backup.
- Own the technology budget, licensing and vendor relationships, and bring forward stronger options as the market moves.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are looking for a hands‑on technology leader who is equally comfortable running core IT and building platforms that sit under modern, AI‑assisted development.

The successful candidate will understand infrastructure, identity and security, and will also understand how software is built, saved, deployed and recovered. Just as importantly, you will be able to explain those ideas in plain language to people who have never written code and help them adopt habits that last.

Strong candidates will bring:

- Hands‑on experience setting up or administering a GitHub organization, including SSO and branch protection.
- Experience running a Microsoft Power Platform Centre of Excellence, citizen‑developer or low‑code programme.
- Hands‑on experience running Supabase, Postgres, Netlify, Vercel or similar platforms.
- Solid Microsoft 365, identity, MFA, endpoint and security fundamentals.
- A track record of training and enabling non‑technical staff, such as “lunch and learn” or enablement programmes.
- Experience building a function or process from scratch at a growing company.
- Transparent communication and sound judgment about when rules help and when they get in the way.

There is no single path to this role. You might be:

- An IT lead at a 100‑to‑500‑person manufacturer or distributor who personally ran a Po

📌 Director of Business Technology (Richmond Hill)
🏢 Liteline
📍 Richmond Hill