HM Note: This contract role is remote, and candidates work remotely. Candidates must reside in Ontario, Canada. Candidate resumes must include first and last name, email and telephone contact information. This role commences April 1, 2026.

Description

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 focus on cost-effectiveness, efficiencies and compliance with OPS project management methodologies and frameworks.

General Skills

• Leads organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.
• Gathers and develops requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.
• Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met
• Experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope
• Ability to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies
• Demonstrated experience directing project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards
• Extensive experience coordinating and monitoring project processes, and developing/communicating guidelines and procedures
• Sources, selects and on-boards team members in various disciplines, clarify roles and responsibilities and set task/deliverable/performance expectations for resources that are both OPS unionized employees as well as fee for service (FFS) consultants.
• Resolves resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiates changes to resourcing, ensures knowledge is shared among team members such as project objectives and deliverables are met.
• Develops complex project budgets based on multiple funding channels and cross ministry dependencies.
• Effectively manages large project budgets and ensures a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals.
• Proactively identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
• Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.
• Establishes and participates in steering committee and stakeholder forums.
• Provides, project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.
• Uses appropriate strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of projects - concept, definition, planning, implementation and close-out.
• Promotes OPS I&IT standards and best practices for project management to facilitate control of system quality, adherence to standard methodology and the control of the use of I&IT resources.

Desirable Skills

• Knowledge and understanding of Project Management's Institute's Project Management Body of Knowledge
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices
• Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
• Ability to make recommendations on the acquisition of software, hardware, and technology resources
• Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring, anticipates and troubleshoots issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolves problems and provides project effectiveness
• Ability to identify conflict between project and functional areas and develops responses to successfully address conflict
• Ability to handle client relationships to manage expectations, provides updates as required, identifies potential conflicts between project and functional areas

Skills

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

1. Technology Leadership 25%

1.1. 10+ years experience in technology project management, at least 5+ years must include projects that required large technology procurements.

1.2. Demonstrated experience gathering and developing requirements in order to create and maintain project schedules and integrated plans.

1.3. Demonstrated experience using the agile / scrum framework to promote best practices and awareness to the project team, clients and/or stakeholders in order to ensure success.

1.4. Demonstrated experience scheduling and facilitating agile / scrum events including but not limited to backlog management, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives.

1.5. Demonstrated experience with identifying and defining architectural requirements.

1.6. Demonstrated experience with change management.

1.7. Demonstrated experience identifying risks and providing proper mitigation strategies.

1.8. Demonstrated experience managing the implementation of application, infrastructure or migration activities.

1.9. Experience with Change Management and Release Management as processes supporting the implementation of large enterprise applications.

1.10. Experience with ITIL processes such as Service Level Management, Problem Management, Change Management, Release Management, and Capacity Management.

1. Technology Experience 25%

2.1. Demonstrated experience with the design of new enterprise and application layers

2.2. Ability to define, identify and describe information architectural requirements with clients

2.3. Demonstrated experience with common, consistent, shareable, re-usable and extensible data structures

2.4. Knowledge of application and infrastructure design

2.5. 5+ years of experience with quality control and assurance methodologies and practices as applied to the implementation of large applications

2.6 Experience managing enterprise solutions with technologies that include IBM Portal, WebSphere, DataPower, OpenShift, Cloud Automation Manager, Ansible and Oracle Database.

2.7 Experience managing enterprise solutions with application Software such as Urban Code, Velocity, Cognos, Informatica and IBM APIC

1. Vendor Management Experience 25%

3.1. Demonstrated experience managing large procurements, i.e. procurements resulting in multi-year contract durations and total values over $2M

3.2. Demonstrated experience with the full lifecycle of public procurements, including requirements development, Request for Bids (RFB) development, publishing, evaluation, contract award and vendor onboarding.

3.3. Demonstrated experience working with and managing external vendor relationships.

3.4. Demonstrated experience drafting SOW, Work orders and contract negotiations.

3.5. Demonstrated vendor management experience in OPS / government setting, understanding of Procurement practices

4. Stakeholder Management 25%

4.1. Demonstrated experience effectively communicating with teams, clients, various stakeholders and senior Management.

4.2. Demonstrated experience reporting on progress of deliverables, milestones, issues and risks to various audiences, including steering committees and formal status reporting.

4.3. Demonstrated experience preparing documentation such as Presentations, other technical documentation/deliverables (i.e. technical strategy document, option analysis) etc.

4.4. Experience providing updates and advice to senior management.

4.5. Experience presenting to executive steering committees responsible for project oversight and decision-making.

Must Have:

• Experience working with the delivery of complex Cloud technology projects
• Experience managing enterprise solutions with technologies that include IBM Portal, WebSphere, DataPower, OpenShift, Cloud Automation Manager, Ansible and Oracle Database.
• 10+ years experience in technology project management, at least 5+ years must include projects that required large technology procurements.
• Demonstrated experience using the agile / scrum framework to promote best practices and awareness to the project team, clients and/or stakeholders.
• IT Service Management experience with ITIL Foundations certification