Project Manager/Leader - Senior
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Summary
Senior Project Manager leading large-scale, high-risk I&IT modernization projects for the Ontario Public Service — owning planning, scope, budgets, risks, governance, and executive reporting across Agile and Waterfall, using tools like Azure DevOps, MS Project, and Visio.
Job Overview
The Senior Project Manager will lead large-scale, complex, high-profile, and high-risk I&IT projects within the Ontario Public Service (OPS). The role focuses on IT system modernization, technology transformation, project governance, stakeholder engagement, and successful delivery within scope, schedule, and budget.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead project planning, execution, monitoring, and delivery of complex I&IT initiatives.
- Manage project scope, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, and issues.
- Coordinate modernization of large, complex, multi-platform, multitier IT systems.
- Develop project documentation, including business cases, project charters, integrated project plans, migration plans, schedules, roadmaps, and release plans.
- Lead project teams and manage dedicated and shared resources across multiple work streams.
- Manage business stakeholders and provide project status reports to senior executives.
- Facilitate requirements-gathering sessions, JAD workshops, project meetings, and issue resolution.
- Monitor project finances, forecasts, burn rates, resource allocation, and budget performance.
- Coordinate Threat Risk Analysis (TRA), Privacy Impact Analysis (PIA), and mitigation activities.
- Manage change initiatives and ensure compliance with OPS/I&IT standards, methodologies, and AODA requirements.
- Promote project management best practices and maintain effective communication across stakeholders.
Must-Have Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience coordinating and planning the modernization of large, complex, multi-platform, multitier IT systems.
- Experience producing project planning and coordination documentation throughout the SDLC using Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
- Strong experience in business stakeholder management and executive-level status reporting.
Technical Skills
- Microsoft Azure DevOps, Microsoft Project, and MS Visio.
- Project planning, scheduling, budgeting, forecasting, and resource management.
- Experience with project charters, business cases, integrated project plans, migration plans, roadmaps, and release management.
- Requirements management, quality assurance, and change management.
- Experience with complex IT environments and interdependent applications or data sources.
- Knowledge of Threat Risk Analysis (TRA), Privacy Impact Analysis (PIA), and AODA compliance.
- MS Office tools, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Plan view.
- Previous public-sector experience in an organization comparable in size or complexity to the Ontario Public Service.
- Knowledge of PMI's Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK).
- Understanding of information management principles, policies, and practices.
- Experience managing technology-led transformation programs and multiple project teams.
- Strong communication, leadership, stakeholder management, consensus-building, and conflict-resolution skills.