Senior Project Manager

Position: Senior Project Manager

Location: Toronto, ON

Job ID#: RQ11699

Duration: 6 Months

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead large-scale, high-profile, and complex technology initiatives. The successful candidate will manage multiple concurrent projects, oversee vendors and stakeholders, and ensure successful delivery within scope, budget, and timelines while adhering to established project management frameworks and standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide project management leadership for large-scale, complex, high-risk technology initiatives.
  
• Manage two concurrent projects being delivered in parallel.
  
• Ensure project deliverables meet business requirements while maintaining timelines, scope, budget, and quality standards.
  
• Lead organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and funding request activities.
  
• Gather and develop business requirements and maintain detailed project schedules and integrated project plans.
  
• Monitor project costs, forecasts, budgets, and reporting to ensure financial targets are achieved.
  
• Promote project management best practices and standard methodologies.
  
• Direct project teams to ensure timely delivery and adherence to organizational standards.
  
• Coordinate project processes and develop guidelines and procedures.
  
• Source, onboard, and manage project resources across multiple disciplines.
  
• Resolve resource conflicts and ensure effective knowledge sharing among team members.
  
• Develop and manage complex project budgets involving multiple funding streams and dependencies.
  
• Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks and issues.
  
• Present project status, risks, and recommendations to executive stakeholders.
  
• Facilitate steering committees and stakeholder engagement forums.
  
• Drive organizational change management activities throughout the project lifecycle.
  
• Support project governance, reporting, and executive communications.
  
• Manage vendor relationships and procurement-related activities, including bid processes.
  
• Oversee large-scale data migration initiatives and associated resources.
  

Required Qualifications

General Skills

• Strong project management, leadership, communication, planning, organizational, problem-solving, and risk management skills.
  
• Extensive experience gathering, documenting, and managing business requirements.
  
• Experience developing comprehensive business cases, including cost-benefit analysis, risk assessments, and solution recommendations.
  
• Experience presenting business cases to executive committees and obtaining approvals.
  
• Strong vendor management experience.
  
• Experience mapping business requirements to system functionality.
  
• Experience developing and executing test cases and monitoring application defects.
  
• Ability to identify project risks and develop mitigation strategies.
  
• Experience leading organizational development and business planning initiatives.
  
• Experience managing integrated project plans, schedules, deliverables, and scope.
  
• Experience managing project budgets, forecasting costs, and reporting on financial performance.
  
• Strong documentation and governance experience.
  
• Excellent executive-level communication skills.
  

Technical Skills

• Experience delivering cloud-based solutions and data migration initiatives.
  
• Knowledge of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) requirements and related standards.
  
• Experience using Microsoft DevOps and Microsoft Teams.
  
• Ability to evaluate and recommend software, hardware, and technology solutions.
  
• Experience monitoring project performance, troubleshooting issues, and driving successful project outcomes.
  
• Experience managing resources supporting large-scale data migration initiatives.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with public sector environments.
  
• Experience working within Ontario government organizations.
  
• Experience preparing business cases using government methodologies and templates.
  

Work Arrangement

• Onsite role in Toronto, Ontario.
  
• Work will be performed from multiple office locations within the Greater Toronto Area.
  

About Symbiotic Digital.

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