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About the Role

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.

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.

Requirements

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.
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.
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.

Skills

Agile
Scrum
Jira
Project Management
Stakeholder Management
Risk Management
Vendor Management
Communication
Facilitation
Negotiation
Conflict Resolution
Problem-Solving
Decision-Making
Collaboration
Organization

Location

Hybrid

Work Type

Hybrid
Contract
Full-time

Experience Level

5-7+ years

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Salary/Compensations

$60-70 per hour
$70-80 per hour (Incorporated Business Rate)

Benefits

12-month contract
37.5 hours per week

About the Company

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.