Senior IT Project Manager – Infrastructure / Technology Modernization

• Provide overall project leadership, direction, coordination, execution, monitoring, control, and successful completion of the Solaris Evergreening initiative.
  
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, schedules, resource estimates, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and status reports.
  
• Lead the transition of application databases from Solaris infrastructure to supported platforms.
  
• Coordinate database upgrades to current Oracle versions where applicable and compatible.
  
• Support the successful decommissioning of out-of-support Solaris infrastructure following migrations.
  
• Ensure project activities align with enterprise mandates, organizational objectives, strategies, and broader portfolio modernization initiatives.
  
• Lead cross-functional technical teams and coordinate activities across business, infrastructure, database, application, security, and other stakeholder groups.
  
• Facilitate client meetings, workshops, stakeholder discussions, and project governance sessions.
  
• Translate business needs and requirements into clear technical requirements and actionable project deliverables.
  
• Develop and execute strategic communication and change management strategies throughout all phases of the project.
  
• Build strong partnerships and manage stakeholders with diverse and sometimes competing perspectives.
  
• Develop project strategies, frameworks, risk mitigation plans, options, and recommendations by proactively identifying potential issues.
  
• Manage project risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and escalations in a timely and effective manner.
  
• Provide business analysis expertise, including requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, validation, and documentation.
  
• Conduct research, analyze organizational and industry trends, and develop recommendations for solution and process improvements.
  
• Produce executive briefing materials, presentations, dashboards, analytics, and status reporting for senior leadership.
  
• Manage privacy and security-related project deliverables.
  
• Apply Agile concepts and methodologies where appropriate within the project environment.
  
• Prepare and present project submissions, recommendations, options, and documentation for stakeholder and leadership approval.
  
• Manage multiple concurrent priorities and deliver high-quality results within extremely tight timelines.
  
• Foster collaboration, resolve conflicts, negotiate solutions, and maintain strong, trusting stakeholder relationships.
  

Requirements

• Minimum 10+ years of experience as a Project Manager.
  
• Advanced knowledge and practical experience applying project management principles, methodologies, theories, techniques, task estimation, scheduling, and project controls.
  
• Proven experience managing complex, enterprise-level I&IT projects from initiation through implementation and completion.
  
• Proven experience facilitating client meetings and workshops and translating business needs into technical requirements.
  
• Experience developing, documenting, and managing project plans, schedules, resource estimates, implementation plans, status reports, and project governance documentation.
  
• Experience leading and coordinating technical teams.
  
• Strong understanding of IT systems, infrastructure, tools, databases, and technical implementation planning.
  
• Experience managing project-related privacy and security deliverables.
  
• Experience with Agile development concepts and methodologies.
  
• Experience with requirements development, including requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, documentation, and validation.
  
• Strong technical and business aptitude with the ability to bridge business and technology perspectives.
  
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, conceptualization, and decision-making skills.
  
• Demonstrated experience in issues management, risk management, communication management, and organizational change management.
  
• Experience developing and executing strategic communication and change management strategies.
  
• Strong research capabilities with the ability to analyze information, identify emerging trends, develop options, and provide strategic recommendations.
  
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex and concurrent initiatives while meeting aggressive deadlines.
  
• Strong leadership and organizational skills with the ability to establish direction and drive teams toward successful project completion.
  
• Excellent stakeholder management, relationship-building, collaboration, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills.
  
• Political acuity and the ability to navigate sensitive situations and complex stakeholder environments.
  
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, including experience preparing executive briefings, presentations, dashboards, and project-related materials.
  
• Strong facilitation and presentation skills.
  
• Emotionally intelligent communication style with the ability to handle challenging conversations calmly, objectively, and professionally.
  
• Persistent attention to detail and strong time-management capabilities.
  
• Self-motivated leadership style with excellent interpersonal skills.
  
• Proven ability to resolve issues promptly and provide practical options and recommendations.
  
• Advanced proficiency with:
  
• Office 365
  
• Microsoft Teams
  
• Microsoft Project
  
• Microsoft Word
  
• Microsoft Excel
  
• Microsoft PowerPoint
  
• Microsoft Visio
  
• Planview
  

• Previous experience working within the Ontario Public Sector or government environment.
  
• Experience managing infrastructure modernization, technology migration, database migration, platform upgrades, or legacy system decommissioning initiatives.
  
• Experience working with Oracle databases and enterprise infrastructure environments.
  
• Experience managing enterprise technology transformation or evergreening programs.
  

• Senior-level project leadership
  
• Strategic and analytical thinking
  
• Technical and business acumen
  
• Change management expertise
  
• Stakeholder and relationship management
  
• Political acuity
  
• Risk and issues management
  
• Executive communication and presentation skills
  
• Facilitation and negotiation skills
  
• Cross-functional team leadership
  
• Strong decision-making and problem-solving abilities
  
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, high-priority environment