Senior IT Project Manager - Enterprise Delivery Leader

Socket.dev; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 101,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Job summary

OpenText in Mississauga, Canada, is seeking a Senior IT Project Manager to lead enterprise IT initiatives from inception through delivery. You will translate business needs into roadmaps, manage cross-functional teams, and maintain governance, schedule, and budget with a focus on value delivery and AI-enabled delivery practices.

You will mentor teams, drive continuous improvement, and partner with sponsors, domain leads, and vendors to ensure on-time, within-budget outcomes while maintaining

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Business, Engineering, Project Management, or a related field preferred; equivalent education and experience considered.
• 6+ years of progressive project management experience, preferably managing complex, cross-functional IT projects in a matrixed enterprise environment.
• Proven ability to deliver complex projects involving multiple stakeholders, technical teams, vendors, dependencies, risks, and competing priorities.
• Strong knowledge of project lifecycle management, governance, change control, risk and issue management, financial tracking, project reporting, and stakeholder communication.
• Well-versed in Waterfall, Agile, and hybrid delivery approaches.
• PMP certification preferred; PMI-ACP, ITIL, PRINCE2, or other relevant certifications considered an asset.

Responsibilities

• Manage complex IT projects from initiation through deployment and closure, ensuring delivery within approved scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations.
• Translate sponsor objectives, project requirements, and business needs into clear project charters, delivery plans, milestones, dependencies, and execution approaches.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and delivery partners to drive execution, resolve blockers, and maintain alignment with project objectives and expected business outcomes.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, including workstreams, milestones, dependencies, resource assumptions, financial tracking, and delivery constraints.
• Apply PMO methodology and Project Navigator practices to ensure required documentation, approvals, decision logs, change controls, and governance artifacts are complete and current.
• Support benefits definition and tracking by partnering with requestors and sponsors to clarify expected outcomes, success measures, and business value for assigned projects.
• Prepare clear, decision-oriented reporting for sponsors, Portfolio Managers, project governance forums, and stakeholders, highlighting delivery progress, risks, dependencies, and required actions.
• Proactively identify risks and issues, develop mitigation plans, drive timely resolution across business and technical teams.
• Serve as the primary project delivery contact for sponsors, Domain Leads, technical teams, business stakeholders, vendors, and PMO leadership.
• Communicate complex project information in a concise, audience-appropriate manner, ensuring stakeholders understand progress, risks, decisions, trade-offs, and next steps.
• Lead without direct authority by creating accountability, building trust, and enabling collaboration across cross-functional project teams.
• Contribute to continuous improvement by capturing lessons learned, identifying process gaps, and supporting PMO standards, templates, reporting practices, and tool adoption.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Waterfall methodology

Agile and hybrid delivery

Risk & issue management

Budget tracking

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT, Business, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Microsoft Teams

Project planning tools

PPM/reporting platforms

Collaboration technologies

Job description

OpenText in Mississauga, Canada, is seeking a Senior IT Project Manager to lead enterprise IT initiatives from inception through delivery. You will translate business needs into roadmaps, manage cross-functional teams, and maintain governance, schedule, and budget with a focus on value delivery and AI-enabled delivery practices.

You will mentor teams, drive continuous improvement, and partner with sponsors, domain leads, and vendors to ensure on-time, within-budget outcomes while maintaining