Must haves:

• University degree in computer science, health care, business or related discipline is required
• Directly/indirectly related work experience representing continuous learning and required for someone to perform this job competently is ten to fifteen years.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or actively working towards a designation is preferred
• Experience with Project Management Lifecycle, Software Development Lifecycle, Agile/Scrum
• Experience delivering I&IT projects, including promotion of applications and services through different environments
• Experience with of Microsoft Office Suite including Microsoft Project and Microsoft Project Server
• Sound knowledge of finance and project cost-accounting principles and practices with demonstrated experience with managing project budgets
• Demonstrated know-how to get projects delivered under challenging circumstances and tight timelines
• IT Infrastructure and ITIL experience an asset
• An ability to build strong relationships with clients, vendors and stakeholders
• Superior leadership and communication skills
• Well-developed analytical and dispute resolution skills
• Technical knowledge/expertise is an asset
• Experience with managing AWS cloud projects
• Experience managing API Gateway projects

 

Responsibilities:

• The Senior Project Manager is responsible to oversee projects and workstreams, including management of issues, risks and service change requests to ensure successful and on-time deployment of workstreams. 
• Develop and manage the Integrated Project Plan
•  Forecast, monitor and report dedicated budgets for approved projects within the portfolio
• Engage with vendors and stakeholders; handle client relationships to manage expectations
• Proactively identify potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed; identify potential conflicts between project and functional areas
• Work closely with Architecture, Standards, Privacy and Security teams within Ontario Health to refine business requirements
• Articulate and prioritize issues and risks and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers
• Use appropriate strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change in support of change during all stages of projects – concept, definition, planning, implementation and close-out
• Ensure go-live readiness: technical, configuration, conformance obligations and any workflow modifications
• Develop project status reports, deployment reporting/tracking and maintaining and monitoring status reporting logs for stakeholders within Ontario Health and the ministry
• Update and monitor project document repository to ensure all documents are reviewed and maintained in the repository

 

Desired Skills:

• Experience with Project Management Lifecycle, Software Development Lifecycle, Agile/Scrum
• Experience delivering I&IT projects, including promotion of applications and services through different environments
• Experience with of Microsoft Office Suite including Microsoft Project and Microsoft Project Server
• Sound knowledge of finance and project cost-accounting principles and practices with demonstrated experience with managing project budgets
• Demonstrated know-how to get projects delivered under challenging circumstances and tight timelines
• Experience with managing cloud projects (preferably AWS cloud)
• IT Infrastructure and ITIL experience an asset
• An ability to build strong relationships with clients, vendors and stakeholders
• Superior leadership and communication skills
• Well-developed analytical and dispute resolution skills
• Technical knowledge/expertise is an asset

 

Required Skills:

• Experience with Project Management Lifecycle, Software Development Lifecycle, Agile/Scrum
• Experience delivering I&IT projects, including promotion of applications and services through different environments
• Experience with of Microsoft Office Suite including Microsoft Project and Microsoft Project Server
• Sound knowledge of finance and project cost-accounting principles and practices with demonstrated experience with managing project budgets
• Demonstrated know-how to get projects delivered under challenging circumstances and tight timelines
• Experience with managing cloud projects (preferably AWS cloud)
• IT Infrastructure and ITIL experience an asset
• An ability to build strong relationships with clients, vendors and stakeholders
• Superior leadership and communication skills
• Well-developed analytical and dispute resolution skills
• Technical knowledge/expertise is an asset