Senior Project Manager
- Location: Toronto, ON – (Onsite)
- Contract Length: 12 months with the possibility of extension.
We at Raise are hiring a Senior Project Manager for one of our top clients. After establishing themselves as an industry leader, they’re now expanding their team to meet rising demand. We’re hiring right now; if you’re interested, apply below for your chance to join a great place to work.
Responsibilities:
As Technical Project Manager
- Apply hands-on technical project management for all phases of the software development lifecycle, across different technology platforms internal and external to banking, and enabling successful feature-completion & launch.
- Build and manage relationships with all project stakeholders, both internal and external to your project. This will include internal and external clients, senior management, and keeping stakeholders informed of progress and issues in order to demonstrate expectations on all project requirements and deliverables.
- Help to identify and communicate a clear vision of the project’s objectives and motivate the project team to achieve them.
- Create an environment that enables peak performance by team members, maintaining and growing our team culture.
- Communicate effectively with regards to backend infrastructure and other technology teams, leveraging the team’s expertise
- Drive and participate in recommending an appropriate action plans with your working understanding of the technical solution
- Leverage risk and change management skills on projects—plan day-to-day coordination and quality assurance for projects and tasks.
- Deliver and own project outcomes that are aligned to established cost, timing, deliverable, and scope objectives.
As Scrum Master
- Coordinate and run sprint events as per scrum best practices
- Monitor and improve the scrum process and project progress, helping solve impediments in the development process.
- Coach the scrum team to apply appropriate processes to create successful products, enable them to take charge and ownership of the squad’s deliverables
- Foster a self-organized and collaborative scrum team, sheltering the team from outside distractions to keep focus mainly on the agreed sprint goals.
- Ensure scrum principles and approaches are understood correctly by the development team and stakeholders, maximizing the performance of the team.
Must-have Skills:
- 7+ years of tech industry experience and/or project management experience of client-facing products
- Strong experience in digital banking or mobile banking
- Experience working with financial systems
- Experience working with legacy systems (not focused on payments)
- Proven experience in capacity management and handling multiple projects simultaneously
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to manage and influence multiple stakeholders effectively
- Hands-on experience with downstream flows and complex system integrations
Nice to Have:
- PMP or Scrum Master Certification (strongly preferred)
- Previous experience in banking or financial services in a Senior PM capacity
- Previous experience at a startup or running your own company
- Prior experience or education in software development or an equivalent technical background
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Raise is an established hiring firm with over 65 years of experience. We believe strongly in making the world a better place through work, which is why we’re a certified B Corporation and donate 10% of our profits to charity.
We strive to build teams that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply, including people from traditionally underrepresented groups such as women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, people identifying as LGBTQ2SI, veterans, and people with visible/nonvisible disabilities.
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