RQ10863 Program Manager Senior

Responsibilities:

• Provide program management leadership and expertise of large scale highly complex high profile and high-risk initiatives that may be multi-jurisdictional and/or enterprise-wide.
  
• Ensure accountability for the programs centralized group of projects and their successful full life cycle delivery.
  
• Ensure programs are delivered cost effectively and efficiently and in compliance with organizations methodologies standards and frameworks.
  

General Skills:

• Demonstrated experience leading and overseeing program strategy development from inception through to project close-out and any required transition to operations business planning benefits identification and organization funding requests for I&IT programs.
  
• Demonstrated experience understanding and articulating I&IT executive expectations and translating into program deliverables
  
• Experience directing managing and leading multidisciplinary project teams including multiple Project Managers each responsible for an element of the project and associated matrix team members
  
• Experience monitoring and managing the cost risk schedule governance technical performance and program impact of each of the component projects
  
• Experience providing a program/portfolio view of project inter-dependencies and external project dependencies monitoring and reporting on exposure levels
  
• Exercises a range of leadership responsibilities including the role of coach and developer of talent
  
• Experience developing complex budgets based on multiple funding channels and cross organization dependencies.
  
• Experience analyzing program and organizations environments to identify potential risks and issues; articulates and prioritizes issues and risks to senior executives; recommends mitigation strategies to decision-makers to ensure projects are delivered on schedule
  
• Uses significant innovation in the planning analysis and execution of tasks
  
• Experience directing stakeholder consultation facilitation and consensus building.
  
• Provides program portfolio and/or project reporting to multiple stakeholders
  
• Experience leading strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change
  
• Experience seeking new and unique business processes technologies and products to benefit programs portfolios and projects
  
• Experience supervising the development and communication of program related updates including through media relations social media etc.
  
• Experience building positive relationships within the team and external parties
  
• Experience contributing to improvements in life cycle based on lessons learned and past experience Adheres to organizations standards and best practices for program
  
• Experience scheduling and organizing meetings/events and maintaining agenda
  
• Ensures technology is used correctly for all operations (video conferencing presentations etc.).
  

Desirable Skills:

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• 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
  

Skill Set Requirements:

General and Project Management Skills:

• Demonstrated experience with setting up workshops with the business users Demonstrate strong communication facilitation negotiation consensus building and problem-solving skills
  
• Demonstrated experience with planning and implementation of releases Demonstrated experience with developing project charters and project plans Experience with change management
  
• Experience with Project Management in leading Multi-jurisdictional Enterprise level projects
  
• Experience working in human resource communications or organizational development role
  

Enterprise Architecture Skills:

• Demonstrated competency and experience with the Zachman framework Demonstrated knowledge and experience with business/information/application/ technology/security architectures with enterprise architecture
  
• Extensive experience providing application and security architecture for complex enterprise-wide projects
  

Implementation & Integration:

• 10 years of experience in the development of internet/intranet applications of enterprise-wide large medium or small size multi platform n-tier multi component applications
  
• 5 years of demonstrated competency and experience in implementing physical infrastructure environments and integrating IBM WebSphere process server WebSphere Application Server and Oracle DB
  
• Demonstrated experience with AODA
  

Enterprise Security Solution & Java Application Development:

• 10 years of experience in enterprise application development focused around the use of features such as SOA Service BUS Identity service Single Sign On Digital Identity Identity Access management communication interface Omni-channel design access control web services JAVA J2EE SAML and J2EE security
  
• Demonstrated experience with providing application and security architecture for complex enterprise-wide projects
  
• Demonstrated architecture experience with business process management applications specifically with Java / BPEL
  

OPS Experience:

• Experience with the Public Sector Enterprise Architecture Approval process (ACT / ARB) and the Public Sector IT gating process would be an asset
  
• Knowledge of the GSIC support organization and ITSM processes adopted in Public Sector including standards process and procedures