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

Company Description

SCT resources have a broad range of skills in different technologies. The large skill-set has been made possible by a conscious focus on strengthening our skills base. Every person selected for our team brings something new, something that adds to our offerings. We learn continuously, both on the job and through formal training programs.

Job Description

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

Qualifications

 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)