Posted 4 days ago
IT Project Manager / Scrum Master – Platform Transformation
@ Recrute Action
Ontario
Overview
Recrute Action is hiring a contract IT Project Manager and Scrum Master for a platform transformation at an insurance-sector client, modernizing a wealth management platform and moving it to a cloud-based environment. The role coordinates delivery, Agile ceremonies and vendor commitments on a 12-month contract, hybrid at 37.5 hours per week, paid $60-70 per hour salaried or $70-80 incorporated.
Pay:
$60–$80 an hour
Responsibilities:
- Coordinate end-to-end platform transformation delivery and milestones
- Run Scrum ceremonies and project governance meetings
- Manage scope, schedules, risks, issues and dependencies
- Coordinate vendor deliverables and statements of work
- Support platform conversion, implementation and decommissioning
Requirements summary:
- 5-7+ years of large-scale technology project management
- Hands-on Agile and Scrum delivery experience
- Experience managing vendors, financial commitments and SOWs
- Hands-on Jira experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
Tools & skills
Source and dates
Source type not verified · zoho
- Employer posting date
- 2026-11-02
- First seen by our source
- 2026-11-03
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-03
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Software development |
| Experience | 5+ years |
| Hours per week | 37.5 |
| Schedule | day |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Education | Bachelor’s degree (required) |
| Fields of study | Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business |
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Recrute Action
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Our mission: Recruit Action provides quality recruitment services through support and a personalized approach for both job seekers and businesses. Doing business with Recruit Action ensures: • Peace of mind • Professional, personalized, and courteous service • Follow-ups according to your needs (daily or weekly) • A partnership • Working with passionate head hunters who have a thorough knowledge of the job market • Service focused on quality Our success is linked to the success of both our corporate clients and job seekers, whom we consider as partners. • We offer a specialized service and we understand the needs of our customers. • We recognize that today's market is complex and requires personalized services. • We understand the importance for companies to hire a person who shares the organization's values. • We understand the importance for job seekers to find the job that’s right for them in the long term.
- LinkedIn followers
- 12,348
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 11
- Reported office locations
- 3 Place Ville-Marie, 4ième étage, Montréal, Québec H3B 2e3, CA
- Business categories
- Consulting
- Recruiting
- Staffing Agency
- Other recorded names
- Recruit Action inc.
- Recrute Action
- Specialties
- Recrutement
- Chasseur de tête
- mandats contractuels
- and mandats permanents
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- Yes
- Reported total investment
- 0
Currency and observation date were not supplied; this is not a current valuation or a funding round.
Our mission: Recruit Action provides quality recruitment services through support and a personalized approach for both job seekers and businesses. Doing business with Recruit Action ensures: • Peace of mind • Professional, personalized, and courteous service • Follow-ups according to your needs (daily or weekly) • A partnership • Working with passionate head hunters who have a thorough knowledge of the job market •…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Staffing and Recruiting |
| Company size | 2-10 employees |
| Headquarters | Montréal, Québec |
| Organization type | Partnership |
| Year founded | 2009 |
| Specialties | RecrutementChasseur de têtemandats contractuelsand mandats permanents |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 38 |
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IT Project Manager / Scrum Master
Platform Transformation
Make an impact on a major transformation initiative in the insurance sector for our client.
This opportunity offers the chance to contribute to the modernization of a wealth management platform, collaborate with teams across the organization, and support an exciting transition to a new cloud-based environment.
What is in it for you:
• Salaried: $60-70 per hour.
• Incorporated Business Rate: $70-80 per hour.
• 12-month contract.
• Hybrid schedule, 37.5 hours per week.
Responsibilities:
• Support the end-to-end technology delivery of the replatform transformation by translating project priorities into executable plans, milestones, dependencies, and measurable outcomes.
• Coordinate the platform transformation and overall project delivery.
• Organize and facilitate Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, Scrum calls, and project meetings.
• Partner with the Product Owner, business stakeholders, technology teams, architects, vendors, and other delivery partners to coordinate priorities and maintain delivery alignment.
• Understand business requirements and translate them into actionable IT deliverables.
• Manage project scope, schedules, resources, dependencies, risks, issues, assumptions, and deliverables.
• Maintain project plans, Agile and Scrum artifacts, Jira, dashboards, RAID items, status reporting, and governance materials to provide transparency into overall project health.
• Facilitate project governance and stakeholder discussions to support timely decision-making, issue resolution, and escalation.
• Coordinate and monitor vendor and partner deliverables, including commitments associated with contracts and statements of work.
• Support the conversion of wealth-management products, implementation of the new platform, and eventual decommissioning of the existing platforms.
• Promote Agile principles, continuous improvement, delivery discipline, accountability, and collaboration across the project team.
• Support project closeout, lessons learned, operational readiness, and knowledge-transfer activities.
What you will need to succeed:
Required qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5-7+ years of experience.
• Demonstrated project or program management experience delivering large-scale technology or transformation initiatives within complex enterprise environments.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional and distributed teams with multiple business and technology stakeholder groups.
• Experience managing technology delivery using Agile and Scrum, including backlog coordination, sprint execution, delivery tracking, and continuous improvement.
• Experience managing vendors, partner deliverables, dependencies, risks, financial commitments, and statements of work.
• Experience managing project deliverables, timelines, dependencies, and risks.
• Strong knowledge of Agile, Scrum, hybrid delivery methodologies, project governance, risk management, and enterprise technology delivery.
• Good understanding of end-to-end project management, business processes, and workflows.
• Hands-on experience with Jira and Agile project-management tools.
• Strong understanding of Agile metrics and analytics, including Scrum artifacts such as burndown charts.
• Ability to develop and maintain integrated delivery plans, milestones, project reporting, and dashboards.
• Ability to proactively identify and manage project risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and delivery trade-offs.
Preferred qualifications
• Scrum certification such as Certified ScrumMaster or SAFe.
• PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe, or equivalent project-management certification.
• Experience in financial services or another highly regulated industry.
• Experience with Canadian investment management or wealth-management organizations.
• Experience with banking, financial services, or investment platform transformation projects.
• Experience with enterprise platform migrations or vendor implementations.
• Experience with Confluence, Microsoft Project, Planner, and Power BI.
Required soft skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong negotiation and conflict-resolution skills.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to influence and coordinate cross-functional teams.
• Strong collaboration and accountability.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage competing priorities.
• Ability to work effectively in a complex and changing environment.
• Continuous-improvement mindset.
Why Recruit Action?
Recruit Action (agency permit: AP-2504511) provides recruitment services through quality support and a personalized approach. As part of the screening process, some applications may be reviewed using artificial intelligence tools. Only candidates who meet the hiring criteria will be contacted.
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