About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Project Manager / Project Leader to lead large-scale, complex application development initiatives. The successful candidate will oversee project delivery across scope, budget, timelines, risks, resources, and stakeholder engagement while ensuring successful outcomes in highly visible and mission-critical environments.
Responsibilities
- Lead large, complex application development projects from initiation through delivery.
- Manage Agile, Iterative, and Scrum-based project implementations.
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies including Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Backlog Refinement, Retrospectives, Customer Journey and Story Mapping.
- Utilize Jira and other project management tools to manage project backlogs and sprints.
- Develop and maintain project schedules, project plans, risk and issue logs, status reports, and project management artifacts.
- Manage project resources and align skills and experience to project tasks.
- Oversee multiple complex projects concurrently.
- Coordinate governance, architecture reviews, and project gating activities.
- Manage stakeholder expectations and project interdependencies.
- Ensure privacy, security, and compliance-related deliverables are completed successfully.
- Lead technical teams and facilitate collaboration across business and technical groups.
Requirements
- Minimum 10+ years of Project Management experience leading large application development initiatives.
- Demonstrated success leading Agile/Scrum projects.
- Advanced knowledge of project management principles, methodologies, and best practices.
- Experience managing governance approvals, architecture reviews, and project gating processes.
- Experience managing privacy and security-related project deliverables.
- Strong understanding of Agile concepts and methodologies.
- Experience leading technical teams.
- Experience running Scrum ceremonies.
- Strong stakeholder and dependency management experience.
- Strong business and technical aptitude.
- Exceptional attention to detail.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to manage multiple competing priorities and tight deadlines.
- 7+ years of experience managing Agile/Iterative/Scrum projects.
- 7+ years of experience facilitating Agile ceremonies and delivery activities.
- Experience using Jira for backlog and sprint management.
- Experience creating and managing project schedules, plans, risk logs, issue logs, and status reporting.
- Experience managing project resources and delivery teams.
- 3+ years of experience managing multiple complex public sector CRM platform projects concurrently.
- Experience managing governance, architecture review processes, and project approval checkpoints.
- Demonstrated ability to lead project teams in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver under aggressive timelines.
- Ability to communicate complex technical information to business stakeholders.
- Strong negotiation, facilitation, and consensus-building skills.
- Experience managing challenging stakeholder discussions and executive communications.
- 5+ years of experience managing technical resources engaged in solution design, development and configuration, data migration, testing, platform upgrades and maintenance, and application integrations.
- Understanding of CRM-based enterprise project delivery.
- Knowledge of enterprise software platforms and solution delivery practices.
- Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Visio, and Planview.
- Project rescue or project recovery experience.
- Previous public sector experience.
Skills
- Agile Project Management
- Agile ceremonies facilitation
- Jira
- Project schedules
- Project plans
- Risk and issue logs
- Status reports
- Project management artifacts
- Resource management
- Governance
- Architecture reviews
- Project gating
- Stakeholder management
- Dependency management
- Privacy
- Security
- Compliance
- Technical leadership
- Collaboration
- Microsoft Project
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Visio
- Planview
- Solution design
- Development and configuration
- Data migration
- Testing
- Platform upgrades
- Application integrations
- CRM
- Enterprise software platforms
- Negotiation
- Facilitation
- Consensus-building
Location
- Toronto, ON
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ years of hands-on Project Management experience
- 7+ years of experience managing Agile/Iterative/Scrum projects
- 7+ years of experience facilitating Agile ceremonies and delivery activities
- 3+ years of experience managing multiple complex public sector CRM platform projects concurrently
- 5+ years of experience managing technical resources
About the Company
- Symbiotic Digital provides the IT Experts you need that solve problems and get things done.
- See what the top 2% in their field can do for you.
- Symbiotic Digital is a division of Symbiotic Group Inc.
- We serve customers in two ways: we provide Digital Experts (IT Consulting expertise) and Recruitment (Find The Right People You Need).
- Serving IT & Business leaders, Symbiotic Digital provides a business system that enable us to provide the Expert Technical staff needed to solve challenging business and IT problems.
- IT leaders in the most reputable organizations in Canada have relied on Symbiotic Digital to help them staff difficult assignments with proven Experts uniquely evaluated by our proven QMS- Quality Management System Staff Development Model.
- We are a 100% Indigenous owned company.
- Learn more online at https://www.symbioticgroup.com/home-sd/.
- Please submit your most recent resume to: RecDep@symbioticgroup.com
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