RQ08488 - Project Manager/Leader - Senior
Summary
The Senior Project Manager will lead large-scale, complex network security deployment and migration projects, including Palo Alto Prisma Access and VPN initiatives, for the Ontario Public Service. The role involves managing project lifecycles, ensuring compliance with methodologies, and coordinating with internal teams and vendors.
Description
Provides project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high-risk network-security focused deployment and migration projects for OPS I&IT initiatives.
Ensures project deliverables meet clients business requirements on time, scope, and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness, efficiencies and compliance with OPS project management methodologies and frameworks.
Works closely with internal OPS teams and vendors to ensure the successful acceptance, timely execution, and day-2 supportability and operability of all project changes and deliverables.
In this role the Senior Project Manager will:
- Provide senior project management oversight and support for cyber security platforms that are currently being deployed and rolled out within the OPS over 2025-26 fiscal year.
- In addition, to lead and provide project management support for smaller security-focused projects, initiatives or iterative improvements as required based on need and capacity throughout the year.
- Provide the resource capacity required to lead:
- Palo Alto Prisma Access, Always on VPN and Secure Service Edge related projects or sprints.
- Other Network security and firewall related migration and improvement related projects and initiatives
SkillsExperience and Skill Set Requirements
Strategic Planning - 85%
- Analytical - 20%
- Attention to Detail
- Calculating Costs for Implementation
- Critical Thinking
- Defining Mechanisms for Input
- Defining Purpose of the Strategic Planning Process
- Developing a Plan for Implementing Strategies
- Logical Thinking
- Communication - 25%
- Facilitating Group Discussion
- Creating Mission/Vision Statements
- Engaging Reluctant Members in Discussions
- Negotiation
- People Skills
- Persuasiveness
- Pitching
- Public Speaking
- Presentation / MS PowerPoint
- Active Listening
- Decisiveness - 15%
- Building Consensus
- Establishing Measurable Objectives for Goals/Projects
- Creating and Enforcing Timelines
- Prioritizing
- Goal Oriented
- Problem Solving - 25%
- Aligning Business Practices with Emerging Strategy
- Assessment
- Brainstorming
- Creativity
- Evaluation
- Identifying Obstacles
- Problem Sensitivity
- Multitasking
- Stress Tolerance
Agile Project Delivery - 15%
Experience working on agile project delivery teams
Working Experience with:
Backlog
User Stories
Scrum
Sprints
Provides project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high-risk network-security focused deployment and migration projects for OPS I&IT initiatives.