Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for on time, on budget, and on scope completion of assigned projects that are compliant with applicable external legislation and internal policies and processes including project governance framework and project management methodology, and provide feedback for continuous improvement as requested
• Responsible for managing the resources, scope, budget, schedule, and quality of deliverables of the assigned projects
• Establish and maintain excellent working relationship and effective communication with the Sponsor(s), internal and external stakeholders, vendors and project team members
• Organize and lead project meetings
• Ensure effective project change control, including managing IT Requests for Change (RFCs) and deployments to the various environments, is in place
• Proactively identify and manage risks, and systematically resolve or escalate known issues
• Adhere to and promote Ontario Health policies and processes including Privacy, Security, and Record Management
• Manage release of the product/project/work package to an operational environment

• Demonstrated knowledge of project cost accounting principles and practices, and managing project budgets
• Superior leadership and communication skills
• Ability to build strong relationships with internal clients and external stakeholders, clients, and vendors
• Acumen to resolve conflicts at all levels with tact
• Well-developed analytical skills with a keen eye for details
• Expertise in Microsoft suite of products such as Office, Microsoft Project, and Sharepoint, and other productivity tools such as Jira and Confluence
• Program and Portfolio management knowledge is an asset
• IT Infrastructure and ITIL experience is an asset
• Knowledge/expertise of current technology trends is an asset
• Familiarity with legislation applicable to healthcare organizations such as PHIPA is an asset
• Experience with technologies including enterprise container platforms (e.g. OpenShift) and IBM API Connect Gateway, publishing of APIs on gateways, promotion of applications and services through different environments

• Develop project documentation including charter, integrated project plan, project schedule, status reports, meeting notes and other project artifacts as required
• Issue project change requests (PCRs) as applicable in response to changes in scope, schedule, budget, and release strategy (for multi-release projects)
• Provide financial forecasts and track actual costs against the approved budget
• Provide timely and up-to-date status and other progress reports/presentations to Executives, Sponsor(s), stakeholders, the project team, Project Management Office, and others as required that are clear, concise, transparent, and accurate manner so to eliminate any misunderstandings or cause incorrect decisions to be made

• Strong working knowledge of the Project Management and Software Development Life Cycles
• Demonstrated ability to deliver IT projects under challenging circumstances
• 8 - 10 years of project management experience delivering large-scale technology initiatives and complex IT solutions in a highly integrated setting