On behalf of our public sector client, Affinity is seeking a Project Manager to lead the migration of an existing business-critical application from an on-premises environment to a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform. The successful candidate will work closely with business stakeholders, IT teams, vendors, and implementation partners to deliver the migration while ensuring business continuity, user adoption, and long-term operational support.

Responsibilities Project Management & Delivery

- Develop and execute a comprehensive project plan for the migration of an existing enterprise application to a SaaS platform, ensuring alignment with business objectives, IT strategy, and security policies.
- Define project scope, timelines, milestones, deliverables, budgets, and resource requirements.
- Manage project risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and mitigation strategies.
- Monitor project performance and proactively manage schedule, budget, and scope.
- Establish project governance, reporting frameworks, and decision-making processes.
- Develop post-implementation support and operational transition plans.

Stakeholder & Vendor Management
- Serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, IT teams, SaaS vendors, implementation partners, and third-party service providers.
- Facilitate workshops, steering committees, and stakeholder meetings.
- Coordinate vendor activities and monitor vendor performance against contractual commitments.
- Lead organizational change management activities, including communications, training, and user adoption planning.
- Support business readiness and transition planning activities.

Migration & Technical Oversight
- Oversee migration planning, including environment readiness, data migration, testing, cutover, and stabilization activities.
- Coordinate integration planning and implementation efforts involving both cloud and on-premises systems.
- Assess existing customizations, workflows,



reports, and interfaces to determine redesign, replacement, or retirement strategies.
- Work with technical teams to validate integration approaches, API compatibility, and solution architecture.
- Ensure security, privacy, compliance, and governance requirements are incorporated into project planning and execution.
- Oversee system, integration, and user acceptance testing activities.
- Support production deployment, go-live readiness assessments, and post-implementation stabilization.

Qualifications

- Minimum seven (7) years of experience managing enterprise technology projects.
- Demonstrated experience delivering SaaS implementation, cloud transformation, ERP modernization, or enterprise application migration initiatives.
- Experience managing multiple stakeholders across business and technology organizations.
- Strong understanding of SaaS platforms, cloud-delivered applications, and enterprise solution delivery.
- Experience overseeing data migration, systems integration, testing, deployment, and operational transition activities.
- Experience managing implementation vendors and third-party consulting organizations.
- Knowledge of project governance, budgeting, resource planning, procurement, and contract management.
- Familiarity with enterprise integration technologies, APIs, cloud services, and modern application architectures.
- Experience operating within a structured PMO environment and applying project governance best practices.
- Experience using Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid project delivery methodologies.




- Excellent leadership, communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience within public sector, municipal government, utilities, or large enterprise organizations is considered an asset.

The Successful Candidate Must Demonstrate The Ability To

- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders at all organizational levels.
- Provide sound advice and guidance regarding project delivery and risk management.
- Effectively communicate technical and business information to diverse audiences.
- Facilitate decision-making and manage competing priorities.
- Lead cross-functional teams through complex organizational and technical change.
- Work independently with minimal supervision.
- Maintain confidentiality and professionalism while handling sensitive information.

Nice To Have

- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Agile or Scrum certification
- Prosci Change Management Certification

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Job Number: 13801

📌 Project Manager (Burnaby)
🏢 Affinity
📍 Burnaby