Senior Project Manager

Vantix Systems Inc.; Edmonton; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks a Project Manager to coordinate IT projects, ensuring business objectives are met and maintaining project governance. The role requires managing multiple projects, developing project plans, and collaborating with various teams to deliver effective IT solutions. Suitable candidates need extensive project management experience, particularly in complex environments, and must reside in Canada.

Qualifications

• Experience on large complex data warehouse projects.
• Experience managing multiple projects concurrently.
• Experience developing project deliverables such as project charters and status reports.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and oversee IT projects, including setting deadlines and managing resources.
• Build and maintain relationships with team members and stakeholders.
• Document project status, risks, and ensure effective communication.

Skills

Project Management

Leadership

Client Relationship Management

Communication

Risk Management

Education

University graduation in business, management or related discipline

4-yr Project Management (PM) experience

2-yr diploma in business, management or related discipline

1-yr certificate in business, management or related discipline

Job description

Responsible for the coordination and completion of IT projects. Oversees all aspects of projects. Sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, and monitors and summarizes progress of project. Builds and maintains working relationships with team members, vendors, and other departments involved in the projects. Prepares reports for upper management regarding status of project.

• Compile project charters and business/project plans to support activities, including the most suitable approach to be used in the development of each applicable project, to ensure business objectives and data integrity are achieved.

• Manage project(s) that will document business requirements, design and deliver IT solutions that are compliant with and contribute to the Ministries’ enterprise architecture.

• Assist with the development of recommendations including providing details of resource requirements, dependencies, interdependencies, policy implications pertaining to internal/external influences and the methodology to be applied.

• Produce and package deliverables for presentation to various internal support teams, steering committee, and other project stakeholders.

• Manage multiple projects, project resources and project governance.

• Work with project sponsors to ensure that effective project communication exists through the duration of the project including escalation of risks as required.

• Take responsibility for ongoing client satisfaction – manage peer-level client relationships and overcome hurdles to ensure win-win solutions.

• Collaborate with business and IT leadership to develop a well-defined project plan that clearly states the project’s objectives, scope, assumptions, timeline, resource requirements, risks, benefits and budget.

• Work with project sponsors and the project management office to develop a project organization structure with clearly defined roles and responsibilities for all stakeholders.

• Document and report project status against established objectives, milestones, budget and resources and facilitate tracking and closure of issues and risks.

• Develop project schedule plans and strategies, estimate resource requirements, develop and monitor work plans and take corrective action for completion of project tasks.

• Provide guidance to project resources in establishing work priorities and prompt delivery of project tasks.

• Develop, as required, related requirements documentation.

• In collaboration with project sponsors, assess whether the project achieved stated outcomes and identify opportunities for improvement for future similar projects.

• Provide leadership and assistance to business and project teams that require change management and communication support.

• Work within the standards defined by the project management office and in the absence of standards work with the project management office to define new standards.

• Proposed resource must meet or exceed one of the following:
  University graduation in business, management or related discipline & 4-yr Project Management (PM) experience;
  OR 2-yr diploma in business, management or related discipline & 6-yr PM experience; OR 1-yr certificate in business, management or related discipline & 7-yr PM experience; OR 8-yr PM experience

• Experience working as a Project Manager on a large complex data warehouse development project in an environment of similar size and complexity to the Government of Alberta.

• Experience managing multiple projects concurrently.

• Experience defining project vision, scope and goals in collaboration with business stakeholders.

• Experience developing project deliverables including project charters, business cases, briefing notes, status reports, risk and decision logs, and project closure documents.

• Experience managing teams (of at least 5 team members) who develop custom data warehouse solutions.

• Experience successfully implementing IT solutions in an environment with project resources from across multiple teams or organizations.

• Proposed resource has agreed to an Enhanced Security Check upon contract award, which will be coordinated by GoA.

• MUST have the last 3 years continuous residency in either Canada or United States as minimum.

• Proposed resource MUST work from within Canada, due to network and data security issues.

Standard Hours of work are 08:15 - 16:30 Alberta time