11790

Maarut; Toronto; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Ontario Public Service in Toronto is seeking a Senior Project Manager/Leader to drive large-scale OPS I&IT initiatives and ensure timely, on-budget delivery. You will lead cross-functional teams, develop schedules, and manage complex budgets while maintaining governance and accountability.

The role requires 7–10 years of experience, strong executive communication, and expertise in governance, risk, and data migration projects within a government framework.

Qualifications

• Experience leading large, complex projects with strict timelines and budgets.
• Ability to gather requirements and create detailed schedules.
• Strong communication with executives and stakeholders.
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, and governance processes.
• Proven record of managing multi-project portfolios and risk.
• Familiarity with cloud and data migration initiatives is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Provides project management on large scale, complex, high-risk OPS I&T initiatives.
• Ensures deliverables meet time, scope, and budget constraints with compliance to methodologies.
• Manages two concurrent projects and aligns with cross-ministry requirements.
• Leads governance, reporting, and steering committees for stakeholders.

Skills

Project leadership

Requirements gathering

Budget forecasting

Risk management

Stakeholder communication

Governance & funding requests

Tools

MS DevOps

MS Teams

Cloud migration planning

Job description

RQ11699 - Project Manager/Leader - Senior

• Assigned Recruiter(s) Madhumitha Mulakaluri
• Job Opening ID 11790
• City Toronto
• Country Canada
• Number of Positions 1
• Work Experience 7-10 Years

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Provides project management on large scale, complex, highprofile and high-risk projects for OPS I&IT initiatives.
  
• Ensures project deliverables meet clients’ businessrequirements on time, scope and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness,efficiencies and compliance with OPS project management methodologies andframeworks.
  
• Provides project management to 2 concurrent projects to becompleted and deployed in parallel of a large scale, complex, high profile andhigh risk projects for OPS I&IT initiatives.
  
• Ensures project deliverables meet clients’ businessrequirements on time, scope and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness,efficiencies and compliance with OPS project management methodologies andframeworks.
  

General Skills:

• Leads organizational development, strategy development,business planning, and Ministry funding requests.
  
• Gathers and develops requirements in order to create andmaintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.
  
• Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and providereporting and input to ensure targets are met
  
• Experience developing and managing project schedules,deliverables, and scope
  
• Ability to promote I&IT project management bestpractices and adherence to standard methodologies
  
• Demonstrated experience directing project teams to ensureproject deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government andministry standards
  
• Extensive experience coordinating and monitoring projectprocesses, and developing/communicating guidelines and procedures
  
• Sources, selects and on-boards team members in variousdisciplines, clarify roles and responsibilities and settask/deliverable/performance expectations for resources that are both OPSunionized employees as well as fee for service (FFS) consultants.
  
• Resolves resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiateschanges to resourcing, ensures knowledge is shared among team members such asproject objectives and deliverables are met.
  
• Develops complex project budgets based on multiple fundingchannels and cross ministry dependencies.
  
• Effectively manages large project budgets and ensures a highlevel of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts andreconciliation/confirmation of actuals.
  
• Proactively identifies potential risk events and issuesbefore they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
  
• Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at seniorexecutive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.
  
• Establishes and participates in steering committee andstakeholder forums.
  
• Provides, project, program, and/or portfolio reporting tomulti-stakeholders at senior executive levels.
  
• Uses appropriate strategies and actions to overcomeresistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during allstages of projects - concept, definition, planning, implementation andclose-out.
  
• Promotes OPS I&IT standards and best practices forproject management to facilitate control of system quality, adherence tostandard methodology and the control of the use of I&IT resources.
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• Knowledge and experience leading, managing RFBs (Request forBid)
  
• Oversee the governance and communication
  
• Must have strong communication skillset as the position willdeal with executives.
  
• Experience managing resources for large data migrationactivities.
  

Nice to have:

• Public sector Experience or OPS experience.
  

Skill Set Requirements:

General Skills:

• Extensive proven experience gathering, developing anddocumenting business requirements and developing Business Cases.
  
• Proven skills to demonstrate in a Business Case:justification for undertaking a project, program or portfolio, describe visionof the future, demonstrate the value and benefits the project brings to thebusiness, evaluate of the benefit, cost and risk of alternative options andprovide a rationale for the preferred solution.
  
• Experience writing Business Cases using OPS methodology andtemplates is preferred.
  
• Extensive experience presenting the Business Case at variousexecutive committees and obtaining its approvals.
  
• Extensive experience mapping business requirements to a newsystem. functionality, developing and executing test cases, tracking andmonitoring application defects.
  
• Motivated and envelope pushing individual who can meet andexceed tight timelines.
  
• Ability to identify risks and gaps and provide solutions onhow to mitigate those gaps.
  
• Experience leading organizational development, strategydevelopment, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.
  
• Experience developing and managing integrated project plan,schedule, deliverables and scope.
  
• Experience effectively managing project budgets, monitoringand forecasting project costs and providing reporting and input to ensuretargets are met.
  

Technical Skills:

• Preferred experience procuring and delivering Cloudsolutions and data migration to Cloud solutions.
  
• Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarianswith Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and GO-ITS standards.
  
• Experience using MS DevOps, MS Teams for project managementsoftware.
  
• Ability to make recommendations on the acquisition ofsoftware, hardware, and technology resources.
  
• Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring,anticipate and troubleshoot issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolveproblems and provide project effectiveness.