Senior Project Manager

Job Description

What is the opportunity?

As the Technology Infrastructure Project Manager, you will be responsible for planning and executing programs with moderate to high level of value (benefit/cost), and at least a high level of complexity and uncertainty including managing program scope, requirements changes, multiple and competing demands and priorities as well as determining and conveying impact on budget, time and risk using appropriate fact-based metrics / assumptions.

What will you do?

• Seeks out industry trends and organizational knowledge to understand alternative approaches and/or solutions
• Facilitates joint planning with the client in the early stages of project formation
• Develops integrated baseline project/program plans applying estimated models; documents estimating assumptions, refines plans and manages performance against them
• Determines quality standards and oversees the execution / production of management documents
• Identifies and manages project costs and budgets anticipating operational and some tactical risks
• Raises and tracks issues and conflicts, removes barriers, resolves minor project issues and escalates them to immediate manager when required
• Facilitates schedule and cost forecasting; mentors project managers in determining risk based provisions

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have

• University degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent
• Good technology skills and experience in the areas of data centres, networks, telecoms, storage, servers, database and desktops
• Strong skills in change management and incident management
• People management and lead experience
• Experience and application in agile and scrum principles, practices and theory
• Proven leadership and experience leading programs at regional scale and/or high visibility programs/projects.
• Experience delivering medium to large scale Technology initiatives using appropriate methodologies (Waterfall / SDLC, Agile, etc)

Nice-to-have

• ITIL certification
• Project and/or Program Management certification

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JOB SUMMARY
City: Toronto
Address: Toronto
Work Hours/Week: 37.5
Work Environment: Office
Employment Type: Permanent
Career Level: Experienced Hire/Professional
Pay Type: Salary + Variable Bonus
Required Travel(%): 0-25
Exempt/Non-Exempt: N/A
People Manager: No
Application Deadline: 11/30/2021
Platform: Technology and Operations
Req ID: 405796
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