Senior IT Project Manager

Cynet systems Inc; Remote; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT consultancy firm in Canada is looking for a Senior IT Project Manager to oversee large, complex IT projects. This role involves coordinating multiple teams, ensuring successful delivery of projects by managing scope, schedule, and vendor relationships. The ideal candidate will have over eight years of experience managing software development projects, strong leadership skills, and expertise in various project methodologies. A degree in IT or a related field is required, along with excellent communication and stakeholder management capabilities.

Qualifications

• Eight or more years of experience managing large, complex software or application development projects.
• Five or more years of experience managing vendor-led enterprise application implementations.
• Strong experience developing and maintaining complex project plans and schedules.

Responsibilities

• Provide delivery oversight and coordination across multiple workstreams.
• Act as the integrating delivery lead for agile sprint execution.
• Maintain a centralized project repository with version-controlled documentation.
• Manage scope, schedule, and budget controls and implement formal change management processes.

Skills

Project governance and delivery management

Agile, waterfall, and hybrid project methodologies

Vendor and contract management

Risk, issue, and dependency management

Stakeholder engagement and executive reporting

Quality assurance and release management

Change management and training coordination

Education

Degree or diploma in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field

Tools

Azure DevOps

Microsoft Project

Microsoft SharePoint Online

Microsoft Teams

Job description

Overview

The Senior IT Project Manager will provide leadership, coordination, and delivery oversight for large, complex IT initiatives. This role acts as the integrating delivery lead, aligning agile sprint execution with waterfall release planning to ensure successful delivery within scope, schedule, budget, and organizational standards. The role requires strong leadership, vendor management, governance, and stakeholder engagement capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Provide delivery oversight and coordination across multiple workstreams, teams, vendors, and organizational requirements.
• Act as the integrating delivery lead, aligning agile sprint execution with waterfall release plans while ensuring clear roles, responsibilities, and handoffs.
• Foster a collaborative and accountable team culture focused on outcomes, trust, communication, and problem-solving.
• Maintain a centralized project repository with version-controlled, auditable documentation aligned to PMO and industry standards.
• Develop and maintain core project artifacts including project charters, governance documents, schedules, RAID logs, financial tracking, dashboards, and status reports.
• Produce materials for presentation to committees and senior stakeholders.
• Partner with vendors to align sprint schedules, milestones, dependencies, and deliverable expectations.
• Hold vendors accountable for contractual commitments, timelines, quality standards, and outcomes.
• Maintain an integrated master schedule incorporating development, testing, training, data migration, change management, and technical readiness activities.
• Lead project governance, delivery, and working-level meetings with clear agendas, documented decisions, and action tracking.
• Manage scope, schedule, and budget controls and implement formal change management processes.
• Track and manage dependencies across development, infrastructure, security, privacy, data migration, and organizational readiness.
• Maintain and manage project risk and issue registers with mitigation plans across vendor and internal teams.
• Proactively identify risks related to vendor execution, resourcing, testing, data migration, and organizational readiness.
• Support quality assurance and testing strategies, ensuring defects are tracked, prioritized, and resolved within agreed timelines.
• Coordinate data migration planning, execution, reconciliation, and validation activities.
• Partner with change management and training teams to ensure readiness, adoption, and sequencing of deliverables.
• Ensure training materials are complete, accurate, and delivered in alignment with sprint releases and final implementation.
• Coordinate technical compliance activities related to security, privacy, accessibility, and information management.
• Provide clear, timely project reporting to leadership, including status, risks, budget, vendor performance, and required decisions.
• Lead go-live planning, cutover activities, readiness assessments, rollback planning, and go or no-go decisions.
• Support post-implementation stabilization, knowledge transfer, and transition to operational teams.
• Conduct post-implementation reviews and evaluate outcomes against scope, schedule, budget, quality, and business objectives.

Requirement/Must Have

• Degree or diploma in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to collaborate across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Strong leadership, negotiation, problem-solving, and conflict resolution skills.
• Extensive experience coordinating activities across business, technical, data, and delivery teams.
• Strong experience developing and maintaining complex project plans and schedules.
• Proven experience managing executive-level stakeholder relationships.
• Demonstrated experience developing project deliverables including charters, business cases, briefing notes, status reports, dashboards, and closure documents.
• Experience implementing recognized project management methodologies and standards.
• Strong experience managing vendor relationships, deliverables, and performance.
• Experience managing enterprise-scale application development projects using agile, waterfall, and hybrid delivery models.
• Working knowledge of system implementation lifecycle activities including development, testing, data migration, training, change management, and go-live support.

Experience

• Eight or more years of experience managing large, complex software or application development projects.
• Five or more years of experience managing vendor-led enterprise application implementations.

Skills

• Project governance and delivery management.
• Agile, waterfall, and hybrid project methodologies.
• Vendor and contract management.
• Risk, issue, and dependency management.
• Stakeholder engagement and executive reporting.
• Quality assurance and release management.
• Change management and training coordination.

Qualification And Education

• Degree or diploma in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related discipline.

Should Have

• Project Management Professional certification or equivalent.
• Agile certification.
• Experience coordinating privacy, security, and information management compliance within IT projects.
• Experience managing project budgets, forecasts, and financial controls.
• Experience leading post-implementation assessments and transition to operations.
• Experience working within public sector environments.
• Experience using Azure DevOps for sprint management.
• Experience using Microsoft Project for project planning.
• Experience using Microsoft SharePoint Online for documentation management.
• Experience using Microsoft Teams for project collaboration.