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Job Description: RQ07823 – Project Manager/Leader – Intermediate
Submission Closing: Sept 13 11am
Start Date: 2024-10-01
End Date: 2025-03-31
Extension # of Days: 262.00
Max Extension Term(s): 3 Times
Assignment type: Hybrid
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Job Title: Project Manager/Leader
Description
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
Skills
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
MUST HAVE
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Experience working with the delivery of complex Cloud technology projects |
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Experience managing enterprise solutions with technologies that include IBM Portal, WebSphere, DataPower, OpenShift, Cloud Automation Manager, Ansible and Oracle Database. |
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10+ years experience in technology project management, at least 5+ years must include projects that required large technology procurements. |
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Demonstrated experience using the agile / scrum framework to promote best practices and awareness to the project team, clients and/or stakeholders. |
General and Project Management Skills – 30%
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 – 30%
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 – 25%
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%
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 – 5%
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
Supplier Comments
Closing Date/Time
2024-09-13, 11:00 a.m EST
Max no of submission- 1(one)
Hybrid work: will work in office 3 days per week and 2 days remotely