Assignment: RQ07823 Project Manager/Leader Intermediate
Job Title: Project Manager/Leader
Requisition (SS): RQ07823
Start Date:
End Date:
Client: Government Services Integration Cluster
Office Location: 222 Jarvis St Toronto
Organization: Government Services Integration Cluster
Extension # of Days: 262.00
Ministry: Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery (former MGCS)
# Business Days: 130.00
Note: Hybrid work: will work in office 3 days per week and 2 days remotely
MUST HAVE
- Experience working with the delivery of complex Cloud technology projects
- Experience managing enterprise solutions with technologies that include IBM Portal WebSphere DataPower OpenShift Cloud Automation Manager Ansible and Oracle Database.
- 10 years experience in technology project management at least 5 years must include projects that required large technology procurements.
- Demonstrated experience using the agile / scrum framework to promote best practices and awareness to the project team clients and/or stakeholders.
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 costeffectiveness 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 onboards 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 interpersonal 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 multistakeholders 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 closeout.
- 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 Managements Institutes 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
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
General and Project Management Skills 30%
- Demonstrated experience with setting up workshops with the business users Demonstrate strong communication facilitation negotiation consensus building and problemsolving 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 Multijurisdictional 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 enterprisewide projects
Implementation & Integration 25%
- 10 years of experience in the development of internet/intranet applications of enterprisewide large medium or small size multi platform ntier 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 Omnichannel design access control web services JAVA J2EE SAML and J2EE security
- Demonstrated experience with providing application and security architecture for complex enterprisewide 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