Job Description

One of our government clients is looking for an IT Project Manager - PMP + Azure + Cloud Data Enablement exp.
Length: Contract term is 3-4 months with strong possibility of extension
Location: Edmonton, AB (Remote though must be available for onsite meetings when required)

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Project Overview
The Technology and Innovation IMT requires Information Technology (IT) professional resource to provide Senior Project Management services for the project delivery of the Technology and Innovation IMT ministry projects to Modernize & Enhancements of Service Delivery within ministry of Technology and Innovation.

Initiatives to Modernize & Enhancements of Service Delivery of Department application including the following:
Responsible to lead and deliver data driven technology projects in collaboration with Data Engineering platform teams to provide a high-quality data and a data-product/data platform. This resource will also be responsible for setting up an operations framework/processes and managing for completed data projects and to manage the data platform. Current data platform is Microsoft Azure.
Senior Project Manager is required to plan, coordinate, analyze and manage multiple IMT projects. Key activities include requirements gathering, planning, coordinating, and project management to effectively support department priority project. The Senior Project Manager is to provide Project Management support of the mandated project by providing governance, prioritizing, monitoring, and reporting of the Initiative.
The Project Manager's primary role will be in the planning and coordinating of the development and delivery of data project deliverables.
The resource will support various IMT initiatives identified through intakes from the Business Relationship Management team and prioritized through IMT Governance mechanisms.

Description of Services
Responsible for the coordination and completion of IT projects. Oversees all aspects of projects.
Sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, and monitors and summarizes progress of project.
Builds and maintains working relationships with team members, vendors, and other departments involved in the projects.
Prepares reports for upper management regarding status of project.
Compile project charters and business/project plans to support activities, including the most suitable approach to be used in the development of each applicable project, to ensure business objectives and data integrity are achieved.
Manage project(s) that will document business requirements, design, and deliver IT solutions that are compliant with and contribute to the Ministries' enterprise architecture.
Assist with the development of recommendations including providing details of resource requirements, dependencies, interdependencies, policy implications pertaining to internal/external influences and the methodology to be applied.
Produce and package deliverables for presentation to various internal support teams, steering committee, and other project stakeholders.
Manage multiple projects, project resources and project governance.
Work with project sponsors to ensure that effective project communication exists through the duration of the project including escalation of risks as required.
Take responsibility for ongoing client satisfaction - manage peer-level client relationships and overcome hurdles to ensure win-win solutions.
Collaborate with business and IT leadership to develop a well-defined project plan that clearly states the project's objectives, scope, assumptions, timeline, resource requirements, risks, benefits and budget.
Work with project sponsors and the project management office to develop a project organization structure with clearly defined roles and responsibilities for all stakeholders.
Document and report project status against established objectives, milestones, budget and resources and facilitate tracking and closure of issues and risks.
Develop project schedule plans and strategies, estimate resource requirements, develop and monitor work plans and take corrective action for completion of project tasks.
Provide guidance to project resources in establishing work priorities and prompt delivery of project tasks.
Develop, as required, related requirements documentation.
In collaboration with project sponsors, assess whether the project achieved stated outcomes and identify opportunities for improvement for future similar projects.
Provide leadership and assistance to business and project teams that require change management and communication support.
Work within the standards defined by the project management office and in the absence of standards work with the project management office to define new standards.
Qualifications:
Education
University graduation in business, management, or related discipline & 4-yr Project Management (PM) experience.
OR
2-yr diploma in business, management, or related discipline & 6-yr PM experience.
OR
1-yr certificate in business, management, or related discipline & 7-yr PM experience.
OR
8-yr PM experience

MUST HAVE
Currently active PMP or PGMP Certification as issued by the Project Management Institute or equivalent (attach a copy of the certificate)
8+ years of experience working as a Project Manager on a large complex software application development project in an environment of similar size and complexity.
8+ years of experience managing multiple projects concurrently.
8+ years of experience defining project vision, scope, and goals in collaboration with business stakeholders.
8+ years of experience developing project deliverables including project charters, business cases, briefing notes, status reports, risk logs and project closures.
8+ years of experience managing custom application development projects with at least 5 team members.
8+ years of experience successfully implementing IT solutions in an environment with project resources from across multiple teams or organizations.
7+ years of experience developing and maintaining positive stakeholder relationships across and outside the organization, including executive level.
5+ years of experience leading project governance, change management and communication activities.
5+ years of experience as project manager managing agile projects.
3+ years of experience working on Data platform projects e.g., Microsoft Azure
4+ years of experience making decisions and recommendations on highly technical or complex business issues and without formal guidelines or precedents and exercises resourcefulness.
4+ years of experience conducting, facilitating, and interpreting impact and risk assessments.
4+ years of experience creating and managing project forecasts and budgets.

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