Project Overview The VertiGIS Application Upgrade project within the Geospatial Ontario IT Program involves upgrading up to 18 business-critical geospatial applications from Geocortex to the next-generation VertiGIS platform. The project will preserve current functionality while upgrading the underlying technology and application codebase, ensuring alignment with GO-ITS standards, mitigating risks, and improving integration with modern GIS capabilities. The upgraded applications will address existing performance issues, support AODA compliance, and deliver an improved user experience.

Key Responsibilities

Leads organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.

Gathers and develops requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.

Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met

Experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope

Ability to promote I⁢ project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies

Demonstrated experience directing project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards

Extensive experience coordinating and monitoring project processes, and developing/communicating guidelines and procedures

Sources, selects and on-boards team members in various disciplines, clarify roles and responsibilities and set task/deliverable/performance expectations for resources that are both OPS unionized employees as well as fee for service (FFS) consultants.

Resolves resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiates changes to resourcing, ensures knowledge is shared among team members such as project objectives and deliverables are met.

Effectively manages large project budgets and ensures a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals.

Proactively identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.

Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.





Establishes and participates in steering committee and stakeholder forums

Provides, project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.

Uses appropriate strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of projects – concept, definition, planning, implementation and close-out.

Promotes OPS I⁢ standards and best practices for project management to facilitate control of system quality, adherence to standard methodology and the control of the use of I⁢ resources.

Qualifications & Requirements

REQUIRED Must be able to work 5 days onsite per week at a locally available Ontario Public Service office.

Experience leading projects involving Esri-based geospatial solutions, ArcGIS Portal, ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Image Server, GIS infrastructure, middleware, maintenance, services, applications, databases, monitoring, and tools.

Experience leading projects involving integrated networking technologies, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Spatial, MS Fabric, midrange server, enterprise storage, and personal computer system technologies.

NICE TO HAVE Experience leading projects involving Esri-based geospatial solutions, ArcGIS Portal, ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Image Server, GIS infrastructure, middleware, maintenance, services, applications, databases, monitoring, and tools.

Experience leading projects involving integrated networking technologies, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Spatial, MS Fabric, midrange server, enterprise storage, and personal computer system technologies.

Knowledge and understanding of Project Management’s Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge

Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices





Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards

Ability to make recommendations on the acquisition of software, hardware, and technology resources

Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring, anticipates and troubleshoots issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolves problems and provides project effectiveness

Ability to identify conflict between project and functional areas and develops responses to successfully address conflict

Ability to handle client relationships to manage expectations, provides updates as required, identifies potential conflicts between project and functional areas

EVALUATION CRITERIA Project Management Experience - 45 points

Formal Project Management training

Experience leading large, technically complex projects

Experience identifying issues, risks, setting out project timelines, tracking, managing, and reporting progress

Experience leading multi-disciplinary projects with IT groups, industry, and business clients

Communication Experience - 30 points

Experience resolving conflict

Experience communicating technical concepts to lay audiences

Experience negotiating project direction to achieve consensus

Experience coordinating Business Analysts and stakeholder engagement

Technical Experience - 20 points

Experience leading GIS (Esri) based projects e.g, ArcGIS Portal and/or ArcGIS Online

Experience leading IT Infrastructure modernization and maintenance focused projects

Experience with Microsoft Azure infrastructure

IT Public Sector Experience - 5 points

Experience leading projects in the Land and Resources I⁢ Cluster (LRC)

Experience overseeing Digital First Assessments, Cyber Security, Architecture reviews and other corporate reviews from within the Ontario Government

Experience coordinating the design and implementation of current IT solutions within the Ontario Government

Key Skills & Competencies

Esri, ArcGIS Portal, ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Image Server, GIS, Middleware, Database Management, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Spatial, MS Fabric, Midrange Server, Enterprise Storage, Networking, Geocortex, VertiGIS, Geoprocessing

📌 VertiGIS Application Upgrade - Senior Project Manager (Deep River)
🏢 GovTech Talent Solutions
📍 Deep River