Position: Project Manager
Location: Toronto, ON
Job ID#: RQ11217
Duration: 9 Months
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Project Manager / Project Leader to lead large-scale, complex application development initiatives. The successful candidate will oversee project delivery across scope, budget, timelines, risks, resources, and stakeholder engagement while ensuring successful outcomes in highly visible and mission-critical environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead large, complex application development projects from initiation through delivery.
- Manage Agile, Iterative, and Scrum-based project implementations.
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies including
- Daily Stand-ups
- Sprint Planning
- Sprint Reviews
- Backlog Refinement
- Retrospectives
- Customer Journey and Story Mapping
- Utilize Jira and other project management tools to manage project backlogs and sprints.
- Develop and maintain
- Project schedules
- Project plans
- Risk and issue logs
- Status reports
- Project management artifacts
- Manage project resources and align skills and experience to project tasks.
- Oversee multiple complex projects concurrently.
- Coordinate governance, architecture reviews, and project gating activities.
- Manage stakeholder expectations and project interdependencies.
- Ensure privacy, security, and compliance-related deliverables are completed successfully.
- Lead technical teams and facilitate collaboration across business and technical groups.
Required Qualifications
Agile Project Management Experience
- 10+ years of hands-on Project Management experience managing large, complex application development projects.
- 7+ years of experience managing Agile/Iterative/Scrum projects.
- 7+ years of experience facilitating Agile ceremonies and delivery activities.
- Experience using Jira for backlog and sprint management.
- Experience creating and managing project schedules, plans,
risk logs, issue logs, and status reporting.
- Experience managing project resources and delivery teams.
- 3+ years of experience managing multiple complex public sector CRM platform projects concurrently.
- Experience managing governance, architecture review processes, and project approval checkpoints.
Leadership, Facilitation and Communication Skills
- Demonstrated ability to lead project teams in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver under aggressive timelines.
- Ability to communicate complex technical information to business stakeholders.
- Strong negotiation, facilitation, and consensus-building skills.
- Experience managing challenging stakeholder discussions and executive communications.
Technical Skills
- 5+ years of experience managing technical resources engaged in:
- Solution design
- Development and configuration
- Data migration
- Testing
- Platform upgrades and maintenance
- Application integrations
- Understanding of CRM-based enterprise project delivery.
- Knowledge of enterprise software platforms and solution delivery practices.
- Advanced proficiency with
- Microsoft Project
- Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Visio
- Planview
Must-Have Requirements
- Minimum 10+ years of Project Management experience leading large application development initiatives.
- Demonstrated success leading Agile/Scrum projects.
- Advanced knowledge of project management principles, methodologies, and best practices.
- Experience managing governance approvals, architecture reviews, and project gating processes.
- Experience managing privacy and security-related project deliverables.
- Robust understanding of Agile concepts and methodologies.
- Experience leading technical teams.
- Experience running Scrum ceremonies.
- Strong stakeholder and dependency management experience.
- Strong business and technical aptitude.
- Exceptional attention to detail.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to manage multiple competing priorities and tight deadlines.
Nice-to-Have Qualifications
- Project rescue or project recovery experience.
- Previous public sector experience.
About Symbiotic Digital.
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