26-051 Senior Project Manager

Job Description

Title:Senior Project Manager

Resume Due Date:Friday May 1^st 2026 (5:00PM EST)
Number of Vacancies: 1

Level: MP6 $90/hr - $100/hr INC

Duration: 12 Months

Hours of work:35 Hours

Location: 1908 Colonel Sam Drive Oshawa (Hybrid 2 days remote)

Job Overview

• The Senior Project Manager (Contract) will lead a portfolio of IT initiatives and oversee multiple Project Managers to ensure projects are planned governed and delivered successfully.
• This role is highly hands-on: youll provide active coaching and PM enablement (as needed) to keep projects on trackremoving blockers strengthening execution and ensuring consistent delivery practices across the program.
• Youll manage complex workstreams such as application development legacy application migrations to modern platforms and data migration efforts.
• The ideal candidate is a well-rounded IT program leader who can work effectively across applications data and infrastructure teamsand who can manage budgets forecasts and resource plans with discipline.

Program & Portfolio Leadership

• Own end-to-end delivery for a portfolio of IT projects ensuring alignment to business objectives scope schedule and quality.
• Establish and maintain program governance: cadence status reporting RAID (Risks/Assumptions/Issues/Dependencies) decision logs and executive updates.
• Drive cross-project dependency management and integrated planning across multiple teams and vendors.

Project Manager Leadership & Coaching

• Support Project Managers (contract and/or internal) setting expectations and ensuring consistent project controls.
• Provide hands-on guidance (hand-holding when needed) to strengthen PM executionplanning stakeholder management schedule discipline and risk management.
• Standardize project delivery practices templates and reporting to improve predictability and transparency.

IT Delivery (Apps Migration Data)

• Lead programs involving: Application development / SDLC delivery (Agile hybrid or waterfall)
• Legacy application modernization and migration to new platforms/systems
• Data migration planning and execution (mapping cleansing validation reconciliation cutover)
• Partner with architecture infrastructure security and operations to ensure environment readiness performance reliability and supportability.
• Commissioning the project

Financial & Resource Management

• Build and manage program budgets forecasts and burn rates; track actuals vs. plan and drive corrective actions.
• Follow the Project Control Office direction and processes in managing the project financials
• Manage resource planning across workstreams (internal teams contractors vendors) including capacity allocation and onboarding/offboarding.
• Support procurement activities (e.g. SOW review vendor coordination) as applicable.

Stakeholder & Executive Communication

• Serve as the primary point of contact for program health timeline risks and decisions.
• Produce crisp action-oriented updates for leadership; escalate issues with recommended options and impacts.
• Facilitate steering committees and key decision forums.

Qualifications

• 8 years of progressive experience in IT project/program management including leading multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience managing Project Managers (directly or via dotted-line) and improving delivery execution through coaching and governance.
• Proven delivery experience in at least two of the following: Application development / systems implementation
• Legacy application migration/modernization
• Data migration (planning execution validation cutover)
• Strong working knowledge of IT domains (applications data and at least foundational infrastructure concepts).
• Solid financial management experience: budgets forecasts vendor spend tracking and resource planning.
• Excellent communication skills: executive-level status reporting facilitation and stakeholder management.
• Strong command of delivery fundamentals: schedules critical path RAID management dependency mapping change control.

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