RQ10952 Sr. Project ManagerLeader

RQ10952 - Sr. Project Manager/Leader

9 month contract - 183 business days) - possible extension

ONSITE 5 days - 222 Jarvis St.

Must have:

1. 15 years of experience in data & AI strategy and execution in a large multi-stakeholder environment
2. Experience with Data & AI Governance processes and technologies
3. Experience with Azure and Databricks as well as AI technologies
4. 10 years of Integrated Enterprise project management experience across business and I&IT teams.
5. Demonstrated experience with managing multi-year multi-million budget projects
6. Experience with the management of Stakeholders risks changes issues time scope and resources.
7. Experience with Microsoft Office tools including Visio Project PowerPoint Word Teams and other tools that support project management collaboration and development of processes and plans
8. Experience managing project life cycles including assigning resources and maintaining the project backlogs and in-progress/completed tasks with collaboration tools like: Jira Trello Microsoft Project KanBan Workamajig etc.
9. Experience with Azure Cloud Data services including Data Factory Databricks Data Lake Unity Catalogue SQL Warehouse
10. Experience with AI LLM and related technologies

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with OPS business processes gating procedures project management requirements and business rules.

Responsibilities

• Provides project management on large scale complex high profile and high risk 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.

General Skills

• Leads organizational development strategy development business planning and Ministry funding requests.
• Gathers and develops requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.
• Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met
• Experience developing and managing project schedules deliverables and scope
• Ability to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies
• Demonstrated experience directing project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards
• Extensive experience coordinating and monitoring project processes and developing/communicating guidelines and procedures
• Sources selects and on-boards team members in various disciplines clarify roles and responsibilities and set task/deliverable/performance expectations for resources that are both OPS unionized employees as well as fee for service (FFS) consultants.
• Resolves resourcing and inter-personal conflicts negotiates changes to resourcing ensures knowledge is shared among team members such as project objectives and deliverables are met.
• Develops complex project budgets based on multiple funding channels and cross ministry dependencies.
• Effectively manages large project budgets and ensures a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals.
• Proactively identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
• Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.
• Establishes and participates in steering committee and stakeholder forums.
• Provides project program and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.
• Uses appropriate strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of projects - concept definition planning implementation and close-out.
• Promotes OPS I&IT standards and best practices for project management to facilitate control of system quality adherence to standard methodology and the control of the use of I&IT resources.

Desirable Skills:

• Knowledge and understanding of Project Managements Institutes Project Management Body of Knowledge
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles concepts policies and practices
• Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
• Ability to make recommendations on the acquisition of software hardware and technology resources
• Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring anticipates and troubleshoots issues provides ongoing expertise resolves problems and provides project effectiveness
• Ability to identify conflict between project and functional areas and develops responses to successfully address conflict
• Ability to handle client relationships to manage expectations provides updates as required identifies potential conflicts between project and functional areas

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Note: The higher end of the range is intended for absolutely exceptional candidates who meet all must-have requirements and most or all nice-to-have qualifications. The client will evaluate candidates based on both rate expectations and overall skill set when shortlisting.

INCORPORATED RATE RANGE (7.25 billable hours per day)

• $96.65/hr - $115.98/hr Inc.

T4 RATE RANGE (7.25 billable hours per day)

• $77.32/hr - $92.78/hr T4