RQ10355 Project ManagerLeader Intermediate

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
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

1. Technology Leadership 25%

• 1.1. 10 years experience in technology project management at least 5 years must include projects that required large technology procurements.
  
• 1.2. Demonstrated experience gathering and developing requirements in order to create and maintain project schedules and integrated plans.
  
• 1.3. Demonstrated experience using the agile / scrum framework to promote best practices and awareness to the project team clients and/or stakeholders in order to ensure success.
  
• 1.4. Demonstrated experience scheduling and facilitating agile / scrum events including but not limited to backlog management sprint planning daily stand-ups sprint reviews and retrospectives.
  
• 1.5. Demonstrated experience with identifying and defining architectural requirements.
  
• 1.6. Demonstrated experience with change management.
  
• 1.7. Demonstrated experience identifying risks and providing proper mitigation strategies.
  
• 1.8. Demonstrated experience managing the implementation of application infrastructure or migration activities.
  
• 1.9. Experience with Change Management and Release Management as processes supporting the implementation of large enterprise applications.
  
• 1.10. Experience with ITIL processes such as Service Level Management Problem Management Change Management Release Management and Capacity Management.
  

2. Technology Experience 25%

• 2.1. Demonstrated experience with the design of new enterprise and application layers
  
• 2.2. Ability to define identify and describe information architectural requirements with clients
  
• 2.3. Demonstrated experience with common consistent shareable re-usable and extensible data structures
  
• 2.4. Knowledge of application and infrastructure design
  
• 2.5. 5 years of experience with quality control and assurance methodologies and practices as applied to the implementation of large applications
  
• 2.6 Experience managing enterprise solutions with technologies that include IBM Portal WebSphere DataPower OpenShift Cloud Automation Manager Ansible and Oracle Database.
  
• 2.7 Experience managing enterprise solutions with application Software such as Urban Code Velocity Cognos Informatica and IBM APIC
  

3. Vendor Management Experience 25%

• 3.1. Demonstrated experience managing large procurements i.e. procurements resulting in multi-year contract durations and total values over $2M
  
• 3.2. Demonstrated experience with the full lifecycle of public procurements including requirements development Request for Bids (RFB) development publishing evaluation contract award and vendor onboarding.
  
• 3.3. Demonstrated experience working with and managing external vendor relationships.
  
• 3.4. Demonstrated experience drafting SOW Work orders and contract negotiations.
  
• 3.5. Demonstrated vendor management experience in OPS / government setting understanding of Procurement practices
  

4. Stakeholder Management 25%

• 4.1. Demonstrated experience effectively communicating with teams clients various stakeholders and senior Management.
  
• 4.2. Demonstrated experience reporting on progress of deliverables milestones issues and risks to various audiences including steering committees and formal status reporting.
  
• 4.3. Demonstrated experience preparing documentation such as Presentations other technical documentation/deliverables (i.e. technical strategy document option analysis) etc.
  
• 4.4. Experience providing updates and advice to senior management.
  
• 4.5. Experience presenting to executive steering committees responsible for project oversight and decision-making.
  

Must Have:

• Experience working with the delivery of complex Cloud technology projects
  
• Experience managing enterprise solutions with technologies that include IBM Portal WebSphere DataPower OpenShift Cloud Automation Manager Ansible and Oracle Database.
  
• 10 years experience in technology project management at least 5 years must include projects that required large technology procurements.
  
• Demonstrated experience using the agile / scrum framework to promote best practices and awareness to the project team clients and/or stakeholders.
  
• IT Service Management experience with ITIL Foundations certification