Degree/Certifications Required: Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or other technology fields. Certifications: Safe 6, Scale or Agile (asset)
Years of Overall Experience: 8+ years
Ideal Candidate Background: Ideally prior bank experience, banking or financial institution, infrastructure deployment projects
Selling Points of Position (CVP): long-term opportunity, very positive working culture and environment, working with multiple cloud technologies and opportunities working with AI in the future
Job Description:
We are looking for someone to build and maintain strong business relationships with our Wealth & bank Insurance technology partners, providing project management on technology solutions/services initiatives to meet business needs.
The position acts as IT Project Manager and SCRUM Master, leverages resources across functional or specialized technology areas to ensure end-to-end delivery of agreed upon solutions or services within planned forecasts and cost estimates.
This role will plan, coordinate and supervise complex informatics assignments. Design and apply new methods and procedures.
Coordinate systems development for major applications, define project requirements including information and data needs, business analysis and programming.
Develop, plan, analyze, evaluate, and assign priorities to deliverables and requirements.
Define project phases, set deadlines, and manage staff. Develop project plans with milestones.
Coordinate all meeting and interface with business units, staff and service providers.
The successful candidate will be responsible for the oversight and execution of multiple projects and project managers.
Accountable for managing broad and highly complex teams and projects involving significant scope and complexity.
Key accountabilities include:
Lead and manage a team of IT professionals who are responsible for end-to-end infrastructure technology delivery supporting our Wealth and bank Insurance technology business partners, with a clear focus on project planning, schedule management, scope, change and issues management, client communication and overall resourcing and financial costs on a longer-term basis.
Responsible for project delivery for application sets within their scope, commissioning projects to be executed by technology partners.
Act as a solutions integrator; provide a flexible approach by offering and negotiating options with clients that balance service levels, cost and risk.
Work with ITS partners to ensure they comply with the capacity forecasting process.
Report on project progress, status, overall health and individual applications.
Assess issues or change requests, determine what to report.
Lead the development of total cost of ownership estimates for applications and services, monitor and track to established project budget and plan.
Measure, monitor projects, stay within budget, meet or exceed expectations.
Assess work plans, identify scheduling issues, report and escalate, as needed.
Track major project deliverables; share updates; support initiatives aimed at cost reduction and faster time-to-market.
Ensure there’s understanding of operational, reputational, and intellectual risks, advise to minimize, escalate if necessary.
Know the competition, customer and industry trends, innovation; pinpoint relevant research opportunities.
Maintain high level of customer service, ensure commitments are met; recommend appropriate actions to enhance service levels, through effective service level management practices/ agreements
Sets direction at an operational level, works autonomously in the management of the unit and collaborates with other business heads to establish and execute on common goals.
Direct or manages large-scale applications, programs or projects across multiple product lines, involving significant scope and complexity. Ensures delivery of projects to the business partner, meeting the approved scope/cost/schedule/quality for the project. Perform a governing role for, ensuring that the proposal, execution, control, deployment, training and hand off, warranty support, and closure meet promised schedules.
Performs risk identification and mitigation activities, escalating unresolved issues to the Executive and / or Steering Committee where appropriate to secure their timely decisions/support.
Manages the acquisition and deployment of resources, including budget, by working with the Project Managers to secure the resources required for the project.
Ensures client satisfaction with the project process and project team by effective and timely communication including status reporting, continual risk/issue assessment/management and escalation, and resolution of issues as they arise.
The successful candidate will be required to work with and influence senior level leaders and partner with other IT Managers.
Must-Have Hard Skills:
8+ years of experience as a Scrum Master
Expertise in MS Project, Excel, Visio and Powerpoint
Very strong communication skills, relationship building skills (giving timely updates, working with stakeholders etc.)
Soft skills:
Team player
Strong interpersonal skills
Nice-To-Have:
PMI or ITIL certification, Safe6, scale, agile certs
Technical experience with infrastructure projects – including cloud technology deployments
Knowledge of insurance industry or wealth management
Job Details13522Contract6 monthsToronto
Expected salary
Location
Toronto, ON
Job date
Wed, 27 Aug 2025 22:39:57 GMT
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