RQ09812 - Project Manager/Leader - Intermediate

Responsibilities:

• Provides project management on large scale, high profile and high-risk projects for OPS I&IT initiatives.
  
• Manage technical teams ensuring 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:

• Project Management: Gathers requirements, creates detailed project schedules, monitors and forecasts project costs, and manages project schedules, deliverables, and scope.
  
• Leadership Experience: Strong in leading development and scrum teams. Plan and leads all phases of complex enterprise-wide projects, scheduling activities, explaining procedures, and monitoring the work of assigned technical resources.
  
• Coordination and Communication: Coordinates project processes, develops guidelines, clarifies roles, resolves conflicts, and ensures knowledge sharing.
  
• Risk Management: Identifies and mitigates risks, prioritizes issues, and recommends strategies to senior executives.
  
• Conflict Resolution: Ability to identify and address conflicts between project and functional areas.
  
• Client Relationship Management: Skills in managing client expectations, providing updates, and resolving potential conflicts.
  
• Stakeholder Engagement: Participates in steering committees, provides reporting to senior executives, and promotes best practices for project management.
  
• Technology Recommendations: Ability to recommend software, hardware, and technology resources.
  

Desirable Skills:

• Project Management Knowledge: Understanding of PMI's Project Management Body of Knowledge.
  
• Accessibility Standards: Familiarity with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) and related regulations.
  

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must-haves:

• Extensive experience managing stakeholders.
  
• Project Management: Gathers requirements, creates detailed project schedules, monitors and forecasts project costs, and manages project schedules, deliverables, and scope.
  
• Coordination and Communication: Coordinates project processes, develops guidelines, clarifies roles, resolves conflicts, and ensures knowledge sharing.
  
• Managing project budget and timelines.
  
• Experience with Data & AI Governance processes and technologies
  
• Experience with Azure and Databricks as well as AI technologies
  

Nice to have:

• Experience with Azure Cloud Data services, including Data Factory, Databricks, Data Lake, Unity Catalogue, SQL Warehouse
  
• Experience with AI, LLM and related technologies
  

Skill Set Requirements:

Presentation of a project:

• As part of the selection process, we invite all selected candidates to prepare a presentation that includes the following: A description of a project they personally managed
  
• Main project challenges and risks and how they were resolved.
  
• Any use of AI functionality to expedite the project timelines or reduce risk and cost.
  
• Selected candidates will present their project as part of the interview process.
  

Project and Team Management:

• Experience in managing Scrum or technical teams.
  
• Leads project teams to deliver high-quality products and services.
  
• Strong Knowledge and /or experience of using AI tools for Project Management
  
• Resolves team impediments to increase the effectiveness of the development team.
  
• Identifies areas for improvement to boost the productivity of the Scrum Team.
  
• Facilitates and supports Daily Standup, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Retrospective.
  
• Proficient in requirements refinement, story point estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other scrum techniques.
  
• Identifies, manages, and reports risks and issues.
  

Communication and Collaboration:

• Excellent ability to develop crisp, concise, and engaging reports and presentation material for various audience.
  
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  
• Collaborates with diverse teams and negotiates solutions with multiple stakeholders.
  
• Manages client relationships, providing updates and resolving potential conflicts.
  
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
  
• Effective interpersonal, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills.
  

Business and System Analysis:

• Conducts review of business/system analysis to identify gaps in supporting software and product development.
  
• Strong Knowledge and /or experience of using AI tools for Business Analysis
  
• Collaborates with the Ministry's product owner to prioritize the product backlog.
  
• Ability to recommend software, hardware, and technology resources.