Position: Senior IT Project Manager (Platform Migration)
Location: Toronto / on-site (Eaton Centre)
Job Type: 6-12 months contract, full-time (potential to extend)
Our Toronto-based client is seeking a Senior IT Project Manager to lead large-scale migration projects and ensuring successful, on-time delivery. This position requires working on-site 3-4 days per week Downtown Toronto.
Your New Role:
As the Senior IT Project Manager, you will be responsible for managing the migration from while also supporting additional smaller initiatives. You will be required to manage and coordinate the end-to-end project activities from initiation to implementation including project initiation with charter, kick-off, solution design, build, test, production implementation, post implementation review, issue resolution, status reporting and lessons learned. You work on multiple projects while leading and co-coordinating small teams of technicians responsible for the overall delivery of an assigned project.
Responsibilities:
- End-to-end project ownership from initiation to customer handover and project closure, with previous experience implementing enterprise class projects
- Lead and participate in project teams to implement project deliverables in line with stakeholder expectations
- Be responsible for project planning and resource allocation, working with virtual teams in a matrix organization
- Present status updates on project, with identification and management of Risks and Issues throughout the project
- Budget, receive invoices, and reconcile project costs
- Create meeting agendas as well as taking minutes tracking key discussions, action items and key decisions
- Control the project scope via change management process
- Manage the vendor relationship
- Work with vendor team to ensure adherence to SoW schedule and deliverables
- Manage handover of project to operational status
- Manage and delegate tasks to experienced and senior technicians
Required Experience and Skills:
- Must have at least 5+ years of full-time experience working as a project manager using Waterfall or Iterative project methodology and ideally (PMP certification required).
- Expertise in Infrastructure and ITSM, with proven experience in large-scale system migrations.
- Strong PM experience i.e. has managed project deliverables through all phases, managed project plans, delivery schedules, project financials
- Experience with scoping projects that have ambiguity
- Experience with managing enterprise-wide software implementation
- Experience with managing vendor PM to ensure adherence to SoW and schedule
- Strong communication skills, verbal and written
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills, identify early warning indicators
- Process documentation
- Working knowledge of data analytics concepts
- Knowledgeable of ITSM and ITIL concepts and be able to act as a bridge between functional and technical roles on projects
- Experienced in business solutions implementation
Interested? Please submit your resume to Zhanna Zajac at Zhanna.Zajac@quantum-qtr.com