Senior IT Project Manager
- Toronto, ON, Canada
$60 USD / hour
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Senior IT Project Manager
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Summary
- Location: Toronto, ON
- Duration: 18 months
- Pay: $60 per hour
- Hybrid: Toronto office 3 days
- Lead the planning, coordination, and delivery of HR AI, automation, data-related, and HR technology enhancement initiatives from initiation through implementation.
- Develop and maintain integrated project plans covering milestones, deliverables, timelines, dependencies, assumptions, risks, issues, decisions, and resource requirements.
- Monitor project progress against approved scope, schedules, milestones, and quality expectations.
- Identify delivery variances and proactively coordinate corrective actions to maintain project timelines and objectives.
- Manage project scope, assumptions, dependencies, and change requests throughout the project lifecycle, escalating significant impacts when required.
- Elicit, analyze, document, and validate business and functional requirements in collaboration with HR stakeholders, subject-matter experts, delivery teams, and technology partners.
- Translate business needs into clear requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, prioritized backlog items, and measurable deliverables.
- Coordinate Agile delivery activities, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and release planning, as applicable.
- Coordinate stakeholders across HR, Corporate Technology, AI, data, and delivery teams to align expectations, resolve blockers, and facilitate timely decisions.
- Identify, assess, document, and actively manage project risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies.
- Coordinate testing, validation, user acceptance testing (UAT), implementation readiness, deployment, and transition activities.
- Maintain complete, organized, and traceable project documentation, including project plans, requirements, status reports, meeting minutes, decisions, risks, issues, and delivery outcomes.
- Demonstrated experience managing projects involving artificial intelligence, automation, data, analytics, or related technology solutions.
- Proven experience leading technology projects from initiation through implementation, including planning, requirements management, delivery coordination, risk management, and stakeholder communication.
- Strong requirements management skills, including eliciting, documenting, prioritizing, and validating business and functional requirements.
- Experience working with Agile methodologies and cross-functional delivery teams.
- Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps or a comparable project and work management platform for tracking backlogs, work items, dependencies, and delivery status.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex business and technical information into clear, actionable insights.
- Strong organizational, facilitation, analytical, problem-solving, and follow-through skills.
- Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and collaborate effectively in a remote or hybrid environment.
- Experience managing projects within HR, Human Resources technology, or a related business function.
- Experience delivering HR AI initiatives, HR automation solutions, or HR technology enhancements.
- Familiarity with Workday or other enterprise HR platforms.
- Knowledge of HR processes across recruitment, talent management, learning and development, employee experience, workforce planning, and HR operations.
- Experience supporting user acceptance testing, change readiness, implementation, adoption, and transition to operations.
- Experience coordinating delivery across business stakeholders, technology teams, data specialists, and external vendors.
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Responsibilities
Lead HR AI, automation, data, and technology enhancement projects from initiation through implementation, managing plans, scope, requirements, risks, and delivery progress. Coordinate cross-functional stakeholders and Agile activities, and oversee testing, implementation readiness, deployment, documentation, and transition.
Requirements
Requires proven experience leading technology projects through implementation, including requirements management, delivery coordination, risk management, stakeholder communication, and Agile delivery. Candidates should have experience with AI, automation, data, analytics, or related solutions and hands-on familiarity with Azure DevOps or a comparable work management platform.
Skills
- IT Project Management
- Project Planning
- Requirements Management
- Agile Methodologies
- Azure DevOps
- Stakeholder Management
- Risk Management
- Backlog Management
- User Acceptance Testing
- Artificial Intelligence
- Automation
- Data Analytics
- HR Technology
- Workday
- Change Readiness
- Implementation Coordination
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Categories
- Technology
- Management & Leadership
- Human Resources
- Data & Analytics
Keywords
- Artificial Intelligence
- Automation
- Data
- Analytics
- HR Technology
- Project Management
- Agile
- Azure DevOps
- Workday
- Requirements Management
- User Stories
- Acceptance Criteria
- Backlog Refinement
- Sprint Planning
- Risk Management
- Issue Management
- Stakeholder Coordination
- User Acceptance Testing
- Implementation Readiness
- Deployment
- Change Readiness
- Talent Management
- Recruitment
- Learning And Development
- Employee Experience
- Workforce Planning
- HR Operations
- Cross-Functional Teams
- Project Documentation