(Government of Ontario) - Ontario Publis Services need Project Manager/ Leader (Contract)

MUST have previous OPS (Ontario Publis Services) experience to apply for this role

 Manage multiple projects depending on size and capacity

 Participates in I&IT project phases (concept, definition, planning, and closeout of the UPM)

 At the solutions project level, identifies resource requirements and provides project

resources/cost estimates

 Oversee acquisition of technical resources and work with outsourcing partners and selects team

members from various disciplines

 Defines, clarifies roles and responsibilities and sets ask/deliverables/quality/ performance

expectations for project resources

 Proactively plans and prioritizes tasks effectively across resources in order to respond to

numerous and diverse challenges and demands

 Leads and develops the technical project schedule that decomposes the project scope into

measurable tasks, responsibilities, accountabilities, and dependencies. Technical team daily

tasks/deliverables are clearly identified in the schedule

 Resolves resourcing conflicts and negotiates changes to resourcing needs.

 Ensures availability of developer systems (for in-house development), required development

tools, setting up of source code repository and development workspaces with all depended

projects/components code, new network account creation and admin access needs, if required

 Validates costing based on work packages and use case points

 Validates estimations provided by technical team

 Validate the requirements along with Solution Designer to ensure requirements are detail enough

that there will be no further decomposition is needed.

 Manages all technical process aspects of approved I&IT projects, particularly the implementation

phase.

 Leads the design, development, testing and implementation in order to create and maintain a

―factory‖ project schedule and project budget.

 Leads project teams (outsourced work teams as needed) to work effectively and efficiently toward

project objectives in a complex and diverse environment with multiple stakeholders and changing priorities, ensuring high quality deliverables that are on time, within technical solution scope and do not exceed budget.

 Involves solution designer in getting technical issues resolved

 Ensures reusability of common components

 Ensures Dev/Test/Stage/Prod environment resource availability for new projects.

 Works with ITS in setting up infrastructure and stage/prod code deployments,

 Works with vendors in conducting POCs for any new tools/products that are introduced in

projects.

 Accountable for Kanban board updates and synchronizing with work items in Rational Team

Concert.

 Creates and manages all key SDLC documentation and deliverables for the implementation

 5+ years of experience as a Technical Project Lead / Manager.

 Ability to work directly with technical resources (developers, solution designers, DBAs, ITS etc)

 Demonstrated Project Management experience managing large, complex IT-related projects

 Demonstrated Project Management experience managing outsourced IT projects

 Must have technical skills in I&IT to understand the complexities and nuances associated with

systems development lifecycle.

 Ability to validate estimations provided by technical resources

 Leadership skills – ability to lead and motivate teams to deliver

 Strong understanding of both traditional System Development Life Cycle as well as Agile

development methodologies

 Coaching skills to promote staff development and growth through assignment opportunities.

 Identifying technical resource skills /expertise with solution opportunity requirements

 Experience developing and designing object-orientated applications using Java Enterprise Edition

 Experience in developing RUP logical design artifacts

 Web design and development experience, including HTML, AJAX, CSS

 Experience with JEE application Servers (Ex. IBM WebSphere Application Server)