Nexgedia

Role: Project Manager
Start date: as soon as possible
Duration: 12 months
Location: Hybride mode - 3days/week onsite, Greater Toronto area
Description: A Senior IT Project Manager is required to lead with managing and planning for the IAM migration and cloud migration work. The successful candidate will be expected to work with the technical team in understanding the authentication and authorization mechanisms, the application hosting infrastructure, the resourcing/constraints of each project, and using the information to prioritize and plan out the necessary activities for successful migrations.

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 cost-effectiveness, efficiencies and compliance with OPS project management methodologies and frameworks.

Required Skills and Experience: 

Core Skills

• Experience with business stakeholder management and status reporting at internal Manager, Director and Executive levels.
• Experience producing and maintaining Project Planning and Coordination documentations (Business Case, RAID log, Processes, Charter, Integrated Project Plan, Migration plans, Schedules, project kick off materials, roadmaps, etc.).
• Demonstrated experience working with IAM tools, such as Microsoft Entra ID or Oracle IAM.
• Demonstrated experience with IT migration projects, such as cloud migration and IAM modernization.
• Experience in the development of various deliverables of various roles including, but not limited to, project coordinator, release management, requirements analyst, system designer, system tester, trainer, etc. throughout SDLC.
• Experience defining KPIs and supporting design of required reports to measure the business performance,
• Experience working on projects within a multi-client/partner environment.
• Demonstrated experience facilitating the resolution of I&IT and Business issues.
• Demonstrated experience assessing applications for AODA compliance, or other accessibility standards such as WCAG 2.0
• Demonstrated technical experience in data collection application projects, business intelligence projects, database management projects, and projects/applications involving data flow, data warehousing, data management.
• Experience supporting the analysis of existing business processes, design and recommend process improvements to effectively harness the benefits of using the application(s).

Release Management / Coordination Skills

• Experience conducting release readiness reviews, milestone reviews and business go/no-go reviews
• Experience maintaining the release schedule for assigned products and ensure alignment across key partners and vendors
• Demonstrated experience coordinating cross-functional work teams toward task completion
• The following is an asset: Experience participating in discussions with Infrastructure Technology Services (ITS), Corporate Security Branch (CSB), Centre of Excellence for Accessibility and Information Privacy and Achieves (IPA) Office to ensure the application remains compliant with all applicable GO-ITS standards
• Experience managing risks and resolving issues that impact release scope, schedule and quality.
• Experience measuring and monitoring progress to ensure releases are delivered on time and within budget and that they meet or exceed expectations
• Demonstrated experience with requirement management, quality assurance, and change management
• Demonstrated planning and executing detailed release strategies for upgrade projects (for example, IAM upgrades) across multiple applications using shared infrastructure
• Demonstrated ability to deep dive into technical issues that may arise between solutions development and application operations during a release cycle Demonstrated experience developing and reporting Key Performance Indicators regarding releases, application performance, etc.
• Experience planning the release windows and cycles across assigned products
• Experience maintaining the release schedule for assigned products and ensure alignment across key partners and vendors
• Experience with managing large scale onboarding process for all users (internal & external)
• Experience supporting business users working on projects or programs involving multiple highly inter-dependent applications and/or data sources.

Communication Skills

• Experience providing clarification to designers, developers, and testers at various stages of SDLC to ensure that any changes or enhancements are fully regression tested and validated;
• Experience liaising with IT specialists and unit leads and work closely with support team members and relevant stakeholders
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• Experience working with both the business users and IT development teams to ensure business requirements are properly reflected in the system design and technical specifications.
• Experience working with both the business users and IT development teams to ensure project documentation is complete and accurate.
• Experience managing relationships and coordinating work between different teams at different locations.
• Experience mentoring and coaching junior staff.

Public Sector Experience

• Experience working within the Public Sector, particularly with education ministries, would be an asset
• Experience working with ITS and knowledge of the Public Sector ITS standards would be an asset