Project Manager/Leader – Senior
- Pay Rate: Flexible- Onsite
- Location: Toronto, Ontario
- Contract Length: 9 Months
We at Raise are hiring right now for one of our Clients. If you’re interested, apply below for your chance to join a great place to work.
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 foc
Skills
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
Evaluation Criteria:
Agile Project Management Experience – 50%
- 10+ years demonstrated hands-on Project Management experience managing large complex application development projects
- 7+ years demonstrated experience managing agile/iterative/scrum projects
- 7+ years facilitating and leading ceremonies including daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives and customer journey/story mapping
- Demonstrated experience using issue management tools such as Jira to manage backlogs and sprints
- Experience creating and managing project schedules, project plans, issue/risk logs, status reports and other project management artefacts
- Experience managing project resources by aligning skills/experience to project tasks
- 3+ years experience multiple complex Siebel Public Sector project concurrently
- Experience planning and managing OPS project gating, architecture and governance checkpoints/requirements
Leadership, Facilitation and Communication Skills – 30%
- Demonstrated experience leading project teams, facilitating interactions with clients and among the project team, especially in complex multi-stakeholder environments
- Excellent verbal and written skills
- Proven ability to handle multiple tasks and deliver within extremely tight and/or aggressive project timelines
- Strong communication skills to present complex or technical details to business clients
- Strong negotiation, consensus building and ability to manage/facilitate difficult conversations with team members, clients and/or executives
Technical Skills – 20%
- 5+ years demonstrated experience managing technical resources and tasks involving solution development (design, coding, configuration), data migration, testing, platform upgrades/patching, maintenance/support, integration
- Understanding of key phases and tasks of a Siebel based project
- Understanding of Oracle products/services, with an emphasis on Siebel Public Sector
- Advanced Microsoft Project, Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), Visio
Must Haves:
- Minimum 10+ years of experience as a Project Manager directly responsible for leading all aspects of large, complex Application Development initiatives
- Demonstrated hands on experience leading and managing agile projects, preferably following Scrum methodology
- Advanced knowledge of project management principles, methods and techniques
- Demonstrated experience successfully managing OPS governance Cluster and Corporate governance approval processes such as project gating, architecture governance points, digital first assessment
- Experience managing privacy and security deliverables
- Advanced knowledge and experience with Agile development concepts and methodologies
- Experience leading technical teams
- Experience running scrum ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives
- Demonstrated experience managing external and internal stakeholders and project interdependencies
- Strong technical and business aptitude
- Persistent attention to detail
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills (clear & concise)
- Self-motivated leader with strong interpersonal skills
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, and Visio, and Planview
- Proven ability to handle multiple tasks and deliver within extremely tight deadlines
- Project rescue/project triage experience is an asset
- Previous government experience is an asset
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