Senior Data & IT Project Manager
Location: Calgary, AB
Term: 1 Year Contract (with potential for extension)
Schedule: Monday to Friday, In Office
About the Role
The Senior Data & IT Project Manager is responsible for leading large-scale digital transformation initiatives by coordinating Data & IT (D&IT) deliverables, managing cross-functional dependencies, and driving collaboration between technical and business stakeholders.
This role serves as the primary liaison between business units and D&IT teams, ensuring projects are delivered safely, efficiently, on time, within budget, and aligned with organizational objectives.
Responsibilities
- Lead collaboration between D&IT teams and business stakeholders to support the successful delivery of digital transformation initiatives.
- Develop and maintain project roadmaps aligned with business objectives and technology strategies.
- Coordinate activities across multiple D&IT teams, ensuring priorities, deliverables, and timelines remain on track.
- Act as the primary point of accountability for D&IT project execution, issue resolution, and stakeholder engagement.
- Translate business requirements into actionable technical work packages and implementation plans.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks while proactively removing barriers to execution.
- Support innovation, research, and continuous improvement initiatives across business and technology teams.
- Prioritize competing project demands and optimize resource allocation to align with organizational priorities.
- Monitor project performance, milestones, budgets, and key performance indicators (KPIs).
- Prepare and deliver project updates, reports, and presentations to senior leadership and stakeholders.
- Lead organizational change and support adoption of new technologies, processes, and ways of working.
- Ensure project outcomes deliver measurable business value and align with long-term corporate objectives.
Qualifications
- Legally entitled to work in Canada.
- Post-secondary education in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Minimum 12-15 years of IT experience, including leadership responsibility for large-scale digital transformation programs.
- Proven experience delivering complex, multi-year technology projects from initiation through completion.
- Strong understanding of enterprise technologies, IT infrastructure, cloud platforms, ERP systems, and data governance frameworks.
- Experience managing projects using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
- Demonstrated ability to align technology solutions with business objectives and strategic priorities.
- Strong stakeholder management, negotiation, and communication skills with experience engaging executive leadership teams.
- Experience leading organizational change and technology adoption initiatives within complex environments.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and perform effectively in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
- PMP certification is considered an asset.
- Agile, Scrum, ITIL, or other relevant project management certifications are considered advantageous.
Key Competencies
- Leadership and stakeholder engagement
- Strategic planning and roadmap development
- Project and program management
- Business and technical alignment
- Risk management and problem-solving
- Change management and organizational transformation
- Communication and executive presentation skills
- Innovation and continuous improvement
- Results-oriented decision making
- Cross-functional collaboration and influence
