RQ11699 - Project Manager/Leader - Senior

Maarut; Toronto; On-site; CAD 129,000 - 203,000; Part time

Job summary

Maarut is seeking a Senior Project Manager/Leader to oversee large, high-risk OPS I&T programs from Toronto, delivering on time and within budget. The role requires experience with RFBs, governance, and strong executive communication.

You will manage cross-ministry priorities, budgets, and stakeholder alignment in a dynamic public sector environment. The candidate will lead distributed teams, coordinate data migration efforts, and ensure adherence to OPS standards while driving continuous

Qualifications

• Must have knowledge and experience leading RFBs (Request for Bid).
• Oversee governance and communication with executives.
• Strong communication with senior stakeholders is required.
• Experience managing resources for large data migration activities.

Responsibilities

• Provides project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high-risk OPS I&T initiatives.
• Ensures deliverables meet business requirements on time, scope and budget, with cost-efficiency and framework compliance.
• Manages two concurrent projects to be completed in parallel within a large OPS program.
• Develops project schedules, tracks costs, and provides executive reporting.
• Promotes standardized OPS I&T project management practices and governance.
• Leads teams to deliver deliverables on time while aligning with ministry standards.
• Coordinates resources across OPS union and FFS consultants and sets clear roles.
• Identifies risks early and proposes mitigation and escalation paths.
• Develops complex budgets across multiple funding channels and dependencies.
• Maintains steering committees and multi-stakeholder forums for updates.

Skills

Project management

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

RFBs knowledge

Public sector experience

Tools

MS DevOps

MS Teams

Job description

RQ11699 - Project Manager/Leader - Senior

Posted On 23/10/2026

Job Information

Term 123 days

Assigned Recruiter(s) Madhumitha Mulakaluri

Job Opening ID 11790

Technology

Number of Positions 1

Work Experience 7-10 Years

City Toronto

State/Province Ontario

M4C

Job 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 cost-effectiveness, efficiencies and compliance with OPS project management methodologies and frameworks.
  
• Provides project management to 2 concurrent projects to be completed and deployed in parallel of a 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.
  

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 on-boards 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 inter-personal 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 multi-stakeholders 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 close-out.
  
• 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.
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• Knowledge and experience leading, managing RFBs (Request for Bid)
  
• Oversee the governance and communication
  
• Must have strong communication skillset as the position will deal with executives.
  
• Experience managing resources for large data migration activities.
  

Nice to have:

• Public sector Experience or OPS experience.
  

Skill Set Requirements:

General Skills:

• Extensive proven experience gathering, developing and documenting business requirements and developing Business Cases.
  
• Proven skills to demonstrate in a Business Case: justification for undertaking a project, program or portfolio, describe vision of the future, demonstrate the value and benefits the project brings to the business, evaluate of the benefit, cost and risk of alternative options and provide a rationale for the preferred solution.
  
• Experience writing Business Cases using OPS methodology and templates is preferred.
  
• Extensive experience presenting the Business Case at various executive committees and obtaining its approvals.
  
• Extensive experience mapping business requirements to a new system. functionality, developing and executing test cases, tracking and monitoring application defects.
  
• Motivated and envelope pushing individual who can meet and exceed tight timelines.
  
• Ability to identify risks and gaps and provide solutions on how to mitigate those gaps.
  
• Experience leading organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.
  
• Experience developing and managing integrated project plan, schedule, deliverables and scope.
  
• Experience effectively managing project budgets, monitoring and forecasting project costs and providing reporting and input to ensure targets are met.
  

Technical Skills:

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