Project Manager/Leader – Senior
- Pay Rate: Flexible – Onsite
- Location: Toronto, Ontario
- Contract Length: 6 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
Product Management Experience– 50%
- Proven experience in product planning and lifecycle management.
- Skilled in defining and executing product vision and strategy.
- Ability to gather and prioritize customer and business requirements.
- Proficient in creating and managing detailed product roadmaps.
- Experience with OPS project assessments (e.g., TRA, PIA) and financial analysis for multi-year projects.
- Proven ability to manage multi-year, multi-million budget projects, including stakeholder management, risk mitigation, and scope control.
- Expertise in formulating business and technical requirements, solving business problems, and defining product visions and goals.
- Experience in coordinating cross-functional teams for product delivery.
Technical, Deployment and Project Integration Skills – 25%
- Basic knowledge of the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.
- Skilled in managing project life cycles using tools like Jira, Trello, Microsoft Project, Kanban, and Azure DevOps.
- Proficiency with online collaboration tools such as Miro, Microsoft Teams, Atlassian Confluence, Trello, Office 365, Google Drive, Zoom, and Slack.
Documentation Skills – 20%
- Experience creating privacy, financial, communication, and IT documentation including business cases, Privacy Impact Assessments, Threat Impact Assessments, and Requests for Service.
- Experience in creating Agile methodology artifacts such as roadmaps, release plans, epics/features/user stories.
Public Sector Experience – 5%
- Experience with public sector ITIL processes including incident management, release management, problem management, support models, etc.
- Familiarity with the PMO Stage Gate process as implemented in the Ontario Public Sector.
- Experience with Service Ontario/Ministry of Government and Consumer Services business processes, gating procedures, project management requirements, and business rules.
Must Have:
- Proven experience in product planning and lifecycle management.
- Skilled in defining and executing product vision and strategy.
- Ability to gather and prioritize customer and business requirements.
- Proficient in creating and managing detailed product roadmaps.
- Experience with OPS project assessments (e.g., TRA, PIA) and financial analysis for multi-year projects.
- Skilled in managing project life cycles using tools like Jira, Trello, Microsoft Project, Kanban, and Azure DevOps.
Nice to Have:
- Prior OPS/Public sector exp.
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