Senior It Project Manager (Remote)

Senior It Project Manager | vTech Solution | Canada

Position Title – Project Manager (IT) – Senior

Job Type – Contract

Duration – 11 months

Location – Remote (must be available for onsite meeting once in 3-4 months if required)

Duties:
The Senior Project Manager will work with the Data Center of Excellence to provide project management services hat delivers services to enable data access, analytics and economy to support data-informed decision making.

This role will be responsible for managing new projects and projects in progress, which is designed to coordinate, analyze, and manage delivery of data products and analytical initiatives supporting the Data Center of Excellence. The role is key in defining and meeting all scope requirements, budgets, and timelines, and ensuring defined business and technical requirements are met. The role would provide hands on knowledge to team members to teach team members on implying the agile methodology acting as an agile coach.

• Aligning project scope, goals, and deliverables to business objectives in collaboration with the senior leadership team and internal stakeholders
• Managing effective and appropriate project governance for project(s)
• Producing and maintaining a project plan while conducting the project within constraints of the framework used by different delivery teams
• Developing and managing project artifacts and associated communications documents
• Planning and scheduling project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools
• Estimating the resources and participants required to achieve project goals
• Ensuring proper financial management of the project
• Ensuring proper risk management by documenting all risks and employing an effective mitigation strategy
• Ensuring proper decision management by documenting all decisions and employing an effective communication strategy
• Managing delivery team using agile methodologies and reconcile same with the project plan.
• Supporting other related project delivery team and business areas within the Data Center of Excellence along with various stakeholders.
• Applying knowledge of information and data management, privacy, and security legislation to guide project decisions.
• Contributing to the development of policies and procedures, ensuring they align with strategic objectives.
• Demonstrate a functional understanding of strategic planning processes to align project outcomes with organizational goals.
• Understand and apply principles of information and data systems development to ensure the successful delivery of data products.
• Advise the Manager of Data Product Delivery on all aspects of project delivery, providing expert insights and recommendations.
• Exhibit strong communication and team-building skills, fostering collaboration and influencing decisions that positively impact the organization.
• Support the Data product owners and Data product delivery analysts in delivery of data products and ensuring adherence to timelines.
• Lead the team in establishing agile best practices for resource utilization, product prioritization, value management, status delivery and project sizing.
• Manage various projects concurrently and communicate appropriate update to leadership team.

Qualification

Must Have

Education

Yes/No- Education and PM Exp…

Professional Licenses/Certification

Yes/No – Prosci change management certification or designation

Work Experience

Demonstrated experience working as a Change Manager on a large complex custom software…

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

Experience in coaching teams on Agile methodologies and…

Experience in the development of business cases for a wide variety of initiatives and…

Qualification

Assessment

Must Have

Education

Yes/No- Education and PM Exp…

Professional Licenses/Certification

Prosci change management certification or designation

Work Experience

Demonstrated experience working as a Change Manager on a large complex custom software…

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

Experience in coaching teams on Agile methodologies and…

Experience in the development of business cases for a wide variety of initiatives and…

Nice to Have

Professional Licenses/Certification

Currently active PMP or PGMP Certification as issued by the Project Management…

Soft Skills

Ability to learn quickly, problem solve, troubleshoot, work independently and as part…

Ability to manage stress and conflict.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact…

The ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with team members,…

Work Experience

Experience conducting, facilitating and interpreting impact and risk assessments…

Experience creating and managing project forecast and actual budgets.

Experience developing project deliverables including project charters, business cases…

Experience making decisions and recommendations on highly technical or complex issues…

Experience managing multiple projects concurrently.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $90.00-$100.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Dental care
• Flexible schedule
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• Project management: 8 years (required)
• Data center: 6 years (required)

Licence/Certification:

• PMP or PGMP Certification (required)
• Prosci (required)

Work Location: Remote

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