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Our client is looking for a Senior Program Manager for a 12 month contract in Toronto. This is an onsite role.
Job Responsibility:
Provide program management leadership and expertise of large scale, highly complex, high profile and high-risk initiatives that may be multi-jurisdictional and/or enterprise-wide
Ensure accountability for the program?s centralized group of projects and their successful full life cycle delivery
Ensure programs are delivered cost effectively and efficiently, and in compliance with organization's methodologies, standards and frameworks
Support CSC release and infrastructure solutions support sustainment activities, urgent priorities, changing needs, or time-sensitive infrastructure upgrades, or other sustainment activities supporting any CSC platforms overseen by the Cluster where annual work is required
Requirements:
Experience with business stakeholder management and status reporting at internal Manager, Director and Executive levels
Experience leading Identity Access Management (IAM) modernization initiatives, using technologies such as Microsoft Entra ID & Oracle IAM
10+ years of experience managing at a program/portfolio level, including release prioritization and planning for multiple applications, and infrastructure and resource planning
Experience creating roadmaps aligned with business strategic direction and goals
Experience introducing best practices, templates, SharePoint management sites for software development projects
Experience tracking project finances and burn rates, as well as resource allocation
Experience defining KPIs and supporting design of required reports to measure the business performance
Experience working on projects within a multi-client/partner environment
Demonstrated experience facilitating the resolution of I&IT and Business issues
Demonstrated experience with JAD facilitation, interpret business needs to technical requirements, project meetings for reviews, meeting minute creation
Demonstrated experience leading resource management activities, including time tracking, onboarding, project allocation
Demonstrated experience assessing applications for AODA compliance using tools such as Compliance Sheriff
Demonstrated technical experience in data collection application projects, business intelligence projects, database management projects, and projects/applications involving data flow, data warehousing, data management
Experience supporting the analysis of existing business processes, design and recommend process improvements
Experience working with system solutions related to funding calculations, financial information management, and web-based n-tier technology implementation
Experience conducting release readiness reviews, milestone reviews and business go/no-go reviews
Experience maintaining the release schedule for multiple applications and ensure alignment across key partners and vendors
Demonstrated experience coordinating cross-functional work teams toward task completion
Experience participating in discussions with Infrastructure Technology Services (ITS), Corporate Security Branch (CSB), Centre of Excellence for Accessibility and Information Privacy and Achieves (IPA) Office to ensure the application remains compliant with all applicable GO-ITS standards
Experience managing risks and resolving issues that impact release scope, schedule and quality
Experience measuring and monitoring progress to ensure releases are delivered on time and within budget and that they meet or exceed expectations
Demonstrated experience with requirement management, quality assurance, and change management
Demonstrated experience managing technical infrastructure, for example server capacity management, environment management
Demonstrated planning and executing detailed release strategies for COTS technology upgrade projects (for example, Oracle, Informatica, Cognos) across multiple applications using shared infrastructure
Demonstrated ability to deep dive into technical issues that may arise between solutions development and application operations during a release cycle
Demonstrated experience managing code deployment across environments using tools such as BuildMaster and TFS
Experience coordinating multiple projects with competing priorities and strict deadlines
Experience planning the release windows and cycles across assigned products
Experience producing Deployment Run Books and Implementation Plans
Experience maintaining the release schedule for assigned products and ensure alignment across key partners and vendors
Experience supporting business users working on projects or programs involving multiple highly inter-dependent applications and/or data sources
Experience leading infrastructure capacity review and future infrastructure planning activities
Working knowledge of Windows, Linux, Solaris, Informatica, Oracle, and Cognos
Experience providing clarification to designers, developers, and testers at various stages of SDLC to ensure that any changes or enhancements are fully regression tested and validated
Experience liaising with IT specialists and unit leads and work closely with support team members and relevant stakeholders
Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
verbal and written communication skills
interpersonal and negotiation skills
Experience working with both the business users and IT development teams to ensure business requirements are properly reflected in the system design and technical specifications
Experience working with both the business users and IT development teams to ensure project documentation is complete and accurate
Experience mentoring and coaching junior staff
Nice to have:
Experience working within the Public Sector, particularly with education ministries
Experience working with ITS and knowledge of the Public Sector ITS standards