Responsibilities
- Provide project management expertise on large-scale, complex, high-profile, and high-risk projects for government I&IT initiatives.
- Ensure project deliverables align with clients’ business requirements, adhering to specified timelines, scope, and budget constraints.
- Focus on cost-effectiveness, efficiency, and compliance with project management methodologies and frameworks.
- Demonstrate highly skilled project management capabilities with a specialization in leading infrastructure projects, specifically the migration of legacy Oracle Forms applications to Oracle APEX.
- Thrive in a fast-paced environment, showcasing strong project management skills and a track record of successfully implementing Agile methodologies.
- Exhibit adaptability to changing priorities and a commitment to learning quickly in dynamic project environments.
- Lead technology projects encompassing Oracle Report Server, Form Server, Cognos, ETL processes, and Oracle databases.
- Facilitate effective collaboration between clients and development teams throughout the project lifecycle.
- Demonstrate the ability to work closely with cross-functional teams, fostering communication and coordination for seamless project execution.
- Utilize expertise to ensure the project’s focus on cost-effectiveness, efficiency, and compliance with project management methodologies.
- Uphold a commitment to delivering project outcomes that meet or exceed client expectations, with a keen focus on time, scope, and budget considerations.
Skills & Experience
Project management skills
- 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 unionized employees as well as fee for service 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 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.
Technical Experience
- Demonstrated success in steering infrastructure projects to completion, with a proven track record of delivering results.
- Extensive experience leading diverse projects, including those involving Oracle Forms, Oracle Report Server, legacy applications, remediation projects, Cognos, ETL, and Java-based applications.
- Proficient in leveraging Azure DevOps tools, or equivalent platforms, for effective project management, showcasing strong technical proficiency in modern project management solutions.
- Ability to make recommendations on the acquisition of software, hardware, and technology resources
Communication and Interpersonal Skills
- Demonstrated good personal, analytical and communication skills
- 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
- Excellent English language verbal and written communication skills
- Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring, anticipates and troubleshoots issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolves problems and provides project effectiveness
- Articulate, detail oriented, hard-working, team player being able to work under pressure
- Strong collaboration and negotiation skills.
- Good research skills and quick learner
Agile Experience
- Experience with Agile scrum methodologies
- Demonstrated experience with agile sprint management, bug tracking and testing life cycle management using Azure DevOps
- Thorough understanding of SDLC, specifically QA processes in agile development environments
Public Sector Experience
- Previous experience working in Government or Public Sector organizations
Must Haves:
- Demonstrated success in steering infrastructure projects to completion, with a proven track record of delivering results.
- Extensive experience leading diverse projects, including those involving Oracle Forms, Oracle Report Server, legacy applications, remediation projects, Cognos, ETL, and Java-based applications.
- Proficient in leveraging Azure DevOps tools, or equivalent platforms, for effective project management, showcasing strong technical proficiency in modern project management solutions.
- Ability to make recommendations on the acquisition of software, hardware, and technology resources
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