Intermediate Project Manager

Job Description

We are seeking a highly organized and detail-oriented Project Manager to support the planning, coordination, and execution of key projects and initiatives. This role is responsible for translating high-level project objectives into detailed activities, tasks, timelines, and deliverables while ensuring work is effectively managed, tracked, and communicated across stakeholders.

The Project Manager will work closely with project teams, functional leaders, and stakeholders to maintain project plans, monitor progress, identify risks and dependencies, and provide clear reporting that rolls up detailed work into an overall project view.

Responsibilities

• Decompose project objectives, deliverables, and milestones into detailed activities, tasks, and work packages that can be assigned, tracked, and managed.
• Develop and maintain detailed project schedules, ensuring alignment between day-to-day activities and overall project milestones.
• Drive task management across project teams by assigning work, tracking progress, monitoring deadlines, and ensuring accountability for deliverables.
• Facilitate regular project status meetings to review progress, address blockers, and align stakeholders on priorities and next steps.
• Collect, validate, and consolidate status updates from project team members and workstream leads.
• Maintain project plans in Microsoft Project (MPP), ensuring schedules, dependencies, milestones, and resource allocations remain current and accurate.

Must have requirements:

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• Proven experience successfully managing and delivering large-scale, complex projects using a Waterfall project delivery methodology, including detailed planning, milestone management, dependency tracking, and schedule governance.

Experience implementing Microsoft cloud-based solutions and platforms, including:

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• Microsoft Fabric, including Fabric OneLake and Fabric Data Factory

• Azure Data Factory (ADF)

• Power BI

• Microsoft Power Platform

• Microsoft Purview

• Azure DevOps

• Azure OpenAI Services

• Azure Integration Services and related Azure platform components

• Strong understanding of end-to-end data, analytics, AI, and cloud transformation initiatives within the Microsoft ecosystem.

• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and project governance capabilities.

• Work With Us

• At PLATO, we believe that great work happens when people feel supported, connected, and challenged in the right ways. You’ll be part of a collaborative environment where experienced professionals share knowledge, mentor others, and contribute to solving complex, real‑world client projects.

• We are committed to inclusive hiring practices and encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, including women, persons with disabilities, visible minorities, and Indigenous peoples. If you require accommodation at any stage of the recruitment process, we’re here to support you.

• PLATO respectfully acknowledges that we operate on treaty territories, unceded First Nations and Inuit territories, and within Métis homelands. We honour the long history of these lands and actively work toward reconciliation between Indigenous and non‑Indigenous peoples on Turtle Island.

• Department

• Consulting Services (Contractor)

Location

Remote in Canada

Remote status

Fully Remote

Contract rate

CAD84 - CAD96/hour

Employment type

Contract

Job Number:

CMP 008-265 (s)

Remote in Canada

About PLATO

PLATO is Canada’s largest Indigenous-owned software testing and technology services company. For nearly 30 years, we've been building expert teams that help our clients transform products into industry-leading experiences.

With a 100% Canada-based workforce, spanning coast to coast, our diverse team of professionals collaborates to solve complex challenges, support each other’s growth, and take pride in delivering meaningful results.

And behind our work is something bigger. At PLATO, we are committed to breaking down barriers for Indigenous people in the tech industry, while creating positive impact in the communities we serve.

Explore careers with PLATO and become part of a team where your work makes a difference!

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Consulting Services (Contractor)

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Remote in Canada

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Fully Remote

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