Sr. Project Manager/Leader in Toronto

About the job

Responsibilities

• Provide senior technical expertise, project leadership and coordination of activities in the technical design and delivery in the project.
• Provide technical advice to OPS and project team leveraging their PeopleSoft HCM technical knowledge and knowledge about Fluid UI and tools delivered as part of Fluid UI, to meet project goals and objectives ensuring efficiency.
• Provide specialized PeopleSoft HCM Technical expertise in leading the design and build of the technical solutions for the OPS PeopleSoft HCM project.
• Support WIN system enhancement planning and deliverables for Phase 2 of the WIN System Stability project by acting as the technical lead.
• Assist with WIN Optimization requirements planning for future onboarding process improvements.
• Contribute to the planning for an MVP for WIN mobile capabilities.
• Ability to analyze, evaluate and prioritize potential issues and provide advice on resolution.
• Suggest opportunities to improve design and build of PeopleSoft modules and functionalities in use.

Skills Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Must Have Skills:

• Experience leading technical teams to perform technical analysis, design, and implementation for entire project lifecycle - 25%
• In-depth knowledge of PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 upgrades: PUM and PeopleTools - 20%
• Knowledge of PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 suite with respect to Fluid and Classic Plus user interface - 15%
• Experience supporting system integration and user acceptance testing from technical perspectives - 15%
• Digital First approach to adopting digital processes using PeopleSoft HCM - 10%
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; organizational, creativity and perseverance skills; verbal and written communication skills; and interpersonal skills - 10%
• Knowledge of Single Sign-on authentication using Azure AD for PeopleSoft HCM - 5%

General Skills:

• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines.
• 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&IT 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 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.
• Proactively identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
• Promotes OPS I&IT 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&IT resources.