An Initial AI Screening will be conducted for this role
Contract Duration: 12 months
Typical Day in Role:
The Project Manager will act as the primary coordination point between Scotiabank, Bell, business stakeholders, and branch teams to ensure successful delivery of migration activities.
Key responsibilities include
- Managing end-to-end planning and execution of branch network migrations
- Applying project management methodologies, governance, and best practices throughout delivery
- Acting as the primary liaison for the Data Workstream between Scotiabank and Bell
- Managing and refining migration schedules within a rolling 3-month planning horizon
- Working closely with Bell to finalize migration plans for upcoming 4–6 week deployment periods
- Ensuring migration communications are accurate, timely, and distributed to appropriate business stakeholders
- Monitoring migration readiness, deployment risks, equipment availability, and site dependencies
- Tracking progress against migration targets and delivery objectives
- Facilitating migration and cutover calls during evening deployment windows
- Escalating and resolving issues that may impact branch deployment schedules
- Coordinating remediation activities when site-specific issues arise
- Managing requests for accelerated or reprioritized branch migrations
- Collaborating with business lines that communicate migration impacts to individual branches
- Maintaining stakeholder alignment across technology, business, operations, and vendor teams
- Ensuring vendor adherence to service commitments, processes, and contractual SLAs
- Delivery Environment
- Current migration target: 64 branch migrations per month
- Stretch target: 72+ migrations per month
- Bell operates within a rolling 3-month deployment schedule
- Migration schedules may be impacted by equipment delays, site readiness concerns, remediation requirements, or changing business priorities
- Core infrastructure preparation, testing, data center readiness, equipment ordering,
and lab validation activities have already been completed, and the program is currently focused on large-scale migration execution
Must Have Skills:
1. 10+ years as an IT Project Manager leading complex technology projects
2. Migration project experience on a longer-term project, including:
- Demonstrated experience managing infrastructure, network, or technology migration programs over an extended project lifecycle
- Experience coordinating deployment schedules, cutovers, and implementation activities
1. Vendor management experience:
- Solid experience managing external vendors and delivery partners
- Experience working with telecommunications providers (Bell, Rogers, Telus, etc.) is considered a strong asset
1. Managed service provider project experience:
- Experience working within managed service delivery environments
- Ability to manage vendor commitments, performance metrics, and service-level obligations
1. Network technology project experience involving MPLS and/or SD-WAN technologies
Nice-To-Have Skills:
1. Testing management or test coordination experience
2. Financial services or banking industry experience
3. Experience supporting branch transformation or branch migration programs
4. Experience supporting geographically distributed deployments across multiple sites
Soft Skills Required:
- Ability to communicate effectively with technical infrastructure teams and understand migration impacts
- Exceptional stakeholder management capabilities
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent organizational and planning abilities
- Strong attention to detail
- Proven coordination and facilitation skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
- Strong problem-solving and issue management capabilities
- Ability to influence and drive alignment across technical, business, and vendor stakeholders
- Professional presence and confidence when leading executive and operational discussions
Education:
Experience is prioritized
PMI/PMP certifications are an asset
📌 IT Project Manager - Network Migration (Toronto)
🏢 FP
📍 Toronto