Senior IT Project Manager in Toronto

Location: Toronto, downtown (Hybrid – 1–2 days onsite per week, flexibility required)

Contract: 6-month contract to start (long term project - renewable)

Reports To: Director, Technology Infrastructure

Rate: 85/hr - 100/hr

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior IT Project Manager to lead a large, complex, multi-year technology infrastructure initiative supporting the buildout of a new corporate office. This requires a hands-on, highly engaged leader who brings true end-to-end project ownership from project inception and ideation through planning, execution, and delivery. We are looking for a proactive, sharp, and mature leader who understands the why behind the work, actively engages with content, asks the right technical questions, and drives outcomes. The Senior IT Project Manager will be accountable for delivery, rigor, and results.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end project delivery, from ideation and planning through execution, monitoring, and closure.
• Consolidate multiple project plans into a single, integrated view across workstreams.
• Provide leadership to a delivery team.
• Oversee diverse technology infrastructure workstreams, including Network implementation; Digital workspace solutions; Meeting room technology; End-user technology (monitors, printers, laptops, etc.).
• Ensure strong project management rigor, including Risk and issue management (risk logs, issue logs, mitigation plans); Artifact and documentation management; Status reporting and executive-ready communications; Financial tracking and forecasting.
• Maintain strong stakeholder engagement, ensuring clarity of objectives, priorities, and outcomes.
• Apply Waterfall project management methodology consistently and effectively.

What Success Looks Like

• The project manager is actively driving progress, not observing from the sidelines.
• Risks and issues are identified early, clearly communicated, and proactively managed.
• Leadership is visible, decisive, and trusted.
• Project artifacts, reporting, and financials are accurate, timely, and well-managed.
• Teams are aligned around what is being delivered and why, not just task sequencing.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• Must-Haves
• Proven experience delivering end-to-end IT projects, from inception through execution.
• Strong technology infrastructure or Application project experience (deep network expertise not required).
• Demonstrated ability to lead large, multi-layered project teams.
• Status reporting and governance.
• Solid understanding of formal project management practices (PMBOK-level knowledge).
• High degree of maturity, leadership presence, and accountability.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and facilitation skills.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, highly visible environment.
• Banking industry experience preferred.
• Strategic, outcome-driven mindset with a high degree of ownership.
• Strong leadership, takes full initiative, actively drives the project forward, and does not take a passive or reactive role.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and accountable under pressure.

Nice to Have

• PMP certification (not required; practical experience is valued more than certification).
• Project Management Tools: Microsoft Project; Microsoft PowerPoint; Microsoft Excel.
• Methodology: Waterfall.

Additional Notes

The Senior IT Project Manager must be deeply invested in the outcome, not simply managing tasks. Flexibility is required to support onsite needs during critical phases of the project.