Project Manager IT-related Level 2 (12 month contract)

Location: Victoria, BC / Hybrid

Staffing Placement Opportunity

We are looking for an experienced Project Manager to support a large-scale payment systems transformation involving the transition from an existing payment processing provider to a new platform.

This initiative will impact multiple business units, technology environments, vendors, and payment channels, including both in-person payment solutions and e-commerce applications.

The Project The Project Manager will lead and coordinate a complex payment infrastructure transition involving:

- Approximately 480 merchant accounts
- Replacement of approximately 460 POS terminals
- Replacement of approximately 1,000 PIN pads
- Migration/reconfiguration of approximately 50 e-commerce applications
- Integration with financial and treasury management systems
- Coordination across business teams, technical teams, vendors, and other stakeholders
- Payment processing testing, certification, and production cutover
- PCI compliance and operational readiness

Key Responsibilities

- Establish project governance, resources, schedules, milestones, and stakeholder engagement plans.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, risk registers, and communication strategies.
- Coordinate activities across multiple business and technical teams and third-party vendors.
- Manage payment hardware migration, including POS terminals and PIN pads.
- Coordinate migration of online payment applications to the new payment gateway.
- Manage testing, certification, integration, and production cutover activities.
- Coordinate merchant account setup, financial-system integration, and reporting requirements.
- Manage project risks, dependencies, change requests, budgets, resources, and deliverables.




- Support operational readiness, user access, training, reporting, and documentation.
- Coordinate PCI compliance requirements and audit readiness.

Required Qualifications

- Minimum 3 years of Project Management experience within the last 7 years across areas such as integration, scope, schedule, cost, quality, communications, risk, and procurement management.
- Undergraduate degree in business, IT, engineering, technology, or a related field, or an accepted equivalent professional designation.
- Demonstrated experience on at least 3 projects lasting 8 months or longer.
- 3+ years of experience managing multidisciplinary teams.
- Strong experience working with multiple stakeholder groups, clients, technical teams, and external vendors.
- Experience developing project charters, master project plans, risk assessments, and risk-management strategies.
- Experience managing change and budget requests, including cost estimates, schedules, resources, deliverables, and project dependencies.
- Strong meeting facilitation, stakeholder management, and issue-resolution skills.
- Solid written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, and Excel.

Nice to Have

- PMP designation
- Experience with banking, credit card, or payment processing projects
- Experience delivering projects within government or broader public-sector environments
- Experience with POS, payment gateways, merchant systems, e-commerce, or financial-system integrations

Ideal Candidate The ideal candidate is a strong project leader who can successfully coordinate business, technology, and vendor stakeholders within a complex transformation environment. Experience with payment processing or banking projects will be a strong asset.

Note: this is an opportunity with a Microserve client

📌 Project Manager IT-related Level 2 (British Columbia)
🏢 Microserve
📍 British Columbia