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Maarut

RQ11699 - Project Manager/Leader - Senior

Toronto, ON, Canada

Contract

Within 25 km of Markham · About 20 km from the city centre

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Job details

Job type: Contract
Posted: Oct 23, 2026

Original job 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.
Provides project management to 2 concurrent projects to be completed and deployed in parallel of a 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.

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

Strong Vendor management experience.
Knowledge and experience leading, managing RFBs (Request for Bid)
Oversee the governance and communication
Must have strong communication skillset as the position will deal with executives.
Strong documentation experience
Experience managing resources for large data migration activities.

Nice to have:

Public sector Experience or OPS experience.

Skill Set Requirements:

General Skills:

Strong Project Management, Communication, Leadership, Organization, Planning, Problem-solving, Risk assessment/management skills.
Extensive proven experience gathering, developing and documenting business requirements and developing Business Cases.
Proven skills to demonstrate in a Business Case: justification for undertaking a project, program or portfolio, describe vision of the future, demonstrate the value and benefits the project brings to the business, evaluate of the benefit, cost and risk of alternative options and provide a rationale for the preferred solution.
Experience writing Business Cases using OPS methodology and templates is preferred.
Extensive experience presenting the Business Case at various executive committees and obtaining its approvals.
Strong vendor management skills.
Extensive experience mapping business requirements to a new system. functionality, developing and executing test cases, tracking and monitoring application defects.
Motivated and envelope pushing individual who can meet and exceed tight timelines.
Ability to identify risks and gaps and provide solutions on how to mitigate those gaps.
Experience leading organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.
Experience developing and managing integrated project plan, schedule, deliverables and scope.
Experience effectively managing project budgets, monitoring and forecasting project costs and providing reporting and input to ensure targets are met.

Technical Skills:

Preferred experience procuring and delivering Cloud solutions and data migration to Cloud solutions.
Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and GO-ITS standards.
Experience using MS DevOps, MS Teams for project management software.
Ability to make recommendations on the acquisition of software, hardware, and technology resources.
Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring, anticipate and troubleshoot issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolve problems and provide project effectiveness.

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Responsibilities

The Project Manager will lead large-scale, complex I&IT initiatives, ensuring deliverables meet business requirements within scope and budget. They are responsible for managing project teams, coordinating resources, and maintaining fiscal control while adhering to OPS project management methodologies.

Requirements

Candidates must have strong vendor management experience, expertise in leading RFBs, and a proven ability to manage large data migration projects. Excellent communication skills are required for executive-level reporting, along with experience in developing business cases and integrated project plans.

Skills

Project Management
Vendor Management
Budget Management
Risk Assessment
Business Case Development
Data Migration
Cloud Solutions
Leadership
Communication
Strategic Planning
Stakeholder Management
Requirement Gathering
MS DevOps
MS Teams
AODA Compliance
Governance

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Keywords

Project Management
I&IT
Vendor Management
RFB
Data Migration
Cloud Solutions
Budgeting
Risk Management
Business Case
Governance
Stakeholder Management
MS DevOps
MS Teams
AODA
GO-ITS
Strategic Planning
Resource Management
Requirement Gathering
System Quality
Change Management
Public Sector
OPS
Fiscal Control
Project Scheduling
Procurement

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