Sr. Project Manager/Leader

RQ10952 - Sr. Project Manager/Leader

9+ month contract - 183 business days) - possible extension

ONSITE 5 days - 222 Jarvis St.

Must have:

• 15+ years of experience in data & AI strategy and execution in a large multi-stakeholder environment
• Experience with Data & AI Governance processes and technologies
• Experience with Azure and Databricks, as well as AI technologies
• 10+ years of Integrated Enterprise project management experience across business and I&IT teams.
• Demonstrated experience with managing multi-year multi-million budget projects
• Experience with the management of Stakeholders, risks, changes, issues, time, scope and resources.
• Experience with Microsoft Office tools, including Visio, Project, PowerPoint, Word, Teams and other tools that support project management, collaboration and development of processes and plans
• Experience managing project life cycles, including assigning resources and maintaining the project backlogs and in-progress/completed tasks with collaboration tools like: Jira, Trello, Microsoft Project, KanBan, Workamajig, etc.
• Experience with Azure Cloud Data services, including Data Factory, Databricks, Data Lake, Unity Catalogue, SQL Warehouse
• Experience with AI, LLM and related technologies

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with OPS business processes, gating procedures, project management requirements and business rules.

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 Management's Institute's 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

• AI Disclaimer: Source Code may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist in certain aspects of its recruiting and business operations.

• Note: The higher end of the range is intended for absolutely exceptional candidates who meet all must-have requirements and most or all nice-to-have qualifications. The client will evaluate candidates based on both rate expectations and overall skill set when shortlisting.

• INCORPORATED RATE RANGE (7.25 billable hours per day)

• $96.65/hr - $115.98/hr Inc.

• T4 RATE RANGE (7.25 billable hours per day)

• $77.32/hr - $92.78/hr T4