RQ08488 - Project Manager/Leader - Senior

Rubicon Path; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading project management firm in Toronto is seeking a Senior Project Manager to oversee high-profile network-security deployment projects. The ideal candidate will manage timelines and budgets while ensuring compliance with methodologies. Strong strategic planning and analytical skills are essential for success in this role, along with experience in agile project delivery. This position offers an opportunity to impact critical projects within the organization.

Qualifications

• Experience in project management for large scale, complex network-security projects.
• Ability to ensure project deliverables meet business requirements on time and budget.
• Experience leading agile project delivery teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior project management oversight for cyber security platforms.
• Lead project management support for smaller security-focused projects.
• Ensure successful acceptance and execution of all project changes.

Skills

Strategic Planning

Analytical Skills

Communication

Decisiveness

Problem Solving

Agile Project Delivery

Job description

RQ08488 - Project Manager/Leader - Senior

About the job RQ08488 - Project Manager/Leader - Senior

Description

Provides project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high-risk network-security focused deployment and migration 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.

Works closely with internal OPS teams and vendors to ensure the successful acceptance, timely execution, and day-2 supportability and operability of all project changes and deliverables.

In this role the Senior Project Manager will:

• Provide senior project management oversight and support for cyber security platforms that are currently being deployed and rolled out within the OPS over 2025-26 fiscal year.
• In addition, to lead and provide project management support for smaller security-focused projects, initiatives or iterative improvements as required based on need and capacity throughout the year.
• Provide the resource capacity required to lead:
  • Palo Alto Prisma Access, Always on VPN and Secure Service Edge related projects or sprints.
  • Other Network security and firewall related migration and improvement related projects and initiatives

SkillsExperience and Skill Set Requirements

Strategic Planning - 85%

• Analytical - 20%
  • Attention to Detail
  • Calculating Costs for Implementation
  • Critical Thinking
  • Defining Mechanisms for Input
  • Defining Purpose of the Strategic Planning Process
  • Developing a Plan for Implementing Strategies
  • Logical Thinking
• Communication - 25%
  • Facilitating Group Discussion
  • Creating Mission/Vision Statements
  • Engaging Reluctant Members in Discussions
  • Negotiation
  • People Skills
  • Persuasiveness
  • Pitching
  • Public Speaking
  • Presentation / MS PowerPoint
  • Active Listening
• Decisiveness - 15%
  • Building Consensus
  • Establishing Measurable Objectives for Goals/Projects
  • Creating and Enforcing Timelines
  • Prioritizing
  • Goal Oriented
• Problem Solving - 25%
  • Aligning Business Practices with Emerging Strategy
  • Assessment
  • Brainstorming
  • Creativity
  • Evaluation
  • Identifying Obstacles
  • Problem Sensitivity
  • Multitasking
  • Stress Tolerance

Agile Project Delivery - 15%

Experience working on agile project delivery teams

Working Experience with:

Backlog

User Stories

Scrum

Sprints