RQ09812 Project ManagerLeader Intermediate

Toronto - Canada

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Experience Required: 5-8years

Posted on: 01-11-2025

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Responsibilities:

Provides project management on large scale high profile and high-risk projects for OPS I&IT initiatives.
Manage technical teams ensuring 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:

Project Management: Gathers requirements creates detailed project schedules monitors and forecasts project costs and manages project schedules deliverables and scope.
Leadership Experience: Strong in leading development and scrum teams. Plan and leads all phases of complex enterprise-wide projects scheduling activities explaining procedures and monitoring the work of assigned technical resources.
Coordination and Communication: Coordinates project processes develops guidelines clarifies roles resolves conflicts and ensures knowledge sharing.
Risk Management: Identifies and mitigates risks prioritizes issues and recommends strategies to senior executives.
Conflict Resolution: Ability to identify and address conflicts between project and functional areas.
Client Relationship Management: Skills in managing client expectations providing updates and resolving potential conflicts.
Stakeholder Engagement: Participates in steering committees provides reporting to senior executives and promotes best practices for project management.
Technology Recommendations: Ability to recommend software hardware and technology resources.

Desirable Skills:

Project Management Knowledge: Understanding of PMIs Project Management Body of Knowledge.
Accessibility Standards: Familiarity with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) and related regulations.

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must-haves:

Extensive experience managing stakeholders.
Project Management: Gathers requirements creates detailed project schedules monitors and forecasts project costs and manages project schedules deliverables and scope.
Coordination and Communication: Coordinates project processes develops guidelines clarifies roles resolves conflicts and ensures knowledge sharing.
Managing project budget and timelines.
Experience with Data & AI Governance processes and technologies
Experience with Azure and Databricks as well as AI technologies

Nice to have:

Experience with Azure Cloud Data services including Data Factory Databricks Data Lake Unity Catalogue SQL Warehouse
Experience with AI LLM and related technologies

Skill Set Requirements:

Presentation of a project:

As part of the selection process we invite all selected candidates to prepare a presentation that includes the following: A description of a project they personally managed
Main project challenges and risks and how they were resolved.
Any use of AI functionality to expedite the project timelines or reduce risk and cost.
Selected candidates will present their project as part of the interview process.

Project and Team Management:

Experience in managing Scrum or technical teams.
Leads project teams to deliver high-quality products and services.
Strong Knowledge and /or experience of using AI tools for Project Management
Resolves team impediments to increase the effectiveness of the development team.
Identifies areas for improvement to boost the productivity of the Scrum Team.
Facilitates and supports Daily Standup Sprint Planning Sprint Review and Retrospective.
Proficient in requirements refinement story point estimation velocity retrospection and other scrum techniques.
Identifies manages and reports risks and issues.

Communication and Collaboration:

Excellent ability to develop crisp concise and engaging reports and presentation material for various audience.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Collaborates with diverse teams and negotiates solutions with multiple stakeholders.
Manages client relationships providing updates and resolving potential conflicts.
Excellent analytical problem-solving and decision-making skills.
Effective interpersonal negotiation and conflict resolution skills.

Business and System Analysis:

Conducts review of business/system analysis to identify gaps in supporting software and product development.
Strong Knowledge and /or experience of using AI tools for Business Analysis
Collaborates with the Ministrys product owner to prioritize the product backlog.
Ability to recommend software hardware and technology resources.

Required Skills:

Experience and Skill Set Requirements: Must-haves: Extensive experience managing stakeholders. Project Management: Gathers requirements creates detailed project schedules monitors and forecasts project costs and manages project schedules deliverables and scope. Coordination and Communication: Coordinates project processes develops guidelines clarifies roles resolves conflicts and ensures knowledge sharing. Managing project budget and timelines. Experience with Data & AI Governance processes and technologies Experience with Azure and Databricks as well as AI technologies Nice to have: Experience with Azure Cloud Data services including Data Factory Databricks Data Lake Unity Catalogue SQL Warehouse Experience with AI LLM and related technologies Skill Set Requirements: Presentation of a project: As part of the selection process we invite all selected candidates to prepare a presentation that includes the following: A description of a project they personally managed Main project challenges and risks and how they were resolved. Any use of AI functionality to expedite the project timelines or reduce risk and cost. Selected candidates will present their project as part of the interview process. Project and Team Management: Experience in managing Scrum or technical teams. Leads project teams to deliver high-quality products and services. Strong Knowledge and /or experience of using AI tools for Project Management Resolves team impediments to increase the effectiveness of the development team. Identifies areas for improvement to boost the productivity of the Scrum Team. Facilitates and supports Daily Standup Sprint Planning Sprint Review and Retrospective. Proficient in requirements refinement story point estimation velocity retrospection and other scrum techniques. Identifies manages and reports risks and issues. Communication and Collaboration: Excellent ability to develop crisp concise and engaging reports and presentation material for various audience. Strong verbal and written communication skills. Collaborates with diverse teams and negotiates solutions with multiple stakeholders. Manages client relationships providing updates and resolving potential conflicts. Excellent analytical problem-solving and decision-making skills. Effective interpersonal negotiation and conflict resolution skills. Business and System Analysis: Conducts review of business/system analysis to identify gaps in supporting software and product development. Strong Knowledge and /or experience of using AI tools for Business Analysis Collaborates with the Ministrys product owner to prioritize the product backlog. Ability to recommend software hardware and technology resources.

Responsibilities:Provides project management on large scale high profile and high-risk projects for OPS I&IT initiatives.Manage technical teams ensuring project deliverables meet clients business requirements on time scope and budget with a focus on cost-effectiveness efficiencies and compliance wit...