RQ08715 Project ManagerLeader

Job title:

RQ08715 Project ManagerLeader

Company

Randstad

Job description

We are seeking a Project Manager (3 days onsite, 2 days remote) to oversee highly technical cross-functional projects with a focus on cyber maturity assessment and evolving security measures within public safety. This role involves end-to-end project management of critical data and telecommunication initiatives, including CAD applications, ensuring alignment with recognized methodologies and agile/waterfall SDLC processes.Advantages

• High-Impact Leadership: Direct and coordinate vital projects that shape emergency health service technology and address emerging cyber risks.
• Diverse Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with senior executives, multiple functional teams, and vendors to manage complex project needs.
• Agile & Waterfall Methods: Apply combined project management best practices (PMI) and agile tools to deliver on-time, secure, and high-quality solutions.
• Release Path Ownership: Oversee readiness and Go/No-Go checkpoints, driving project decisions and scoping across multiple integrated platforms.
• Public Safety Context: Leverage experience with Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) and telephony to safeguard critical 911 operations and sensitive data.

Responsibilities

• Develop project plans, schedules, and charters, managing resources while maintaining scope within time and budget constraints.
• Conduct risk assessments, propose mitigation strategies, and update stakeholders on status and solutions.
• Collaborate with legal, procurement, and various technical teams, ensuring deliverables align with strategic priorities.
• Manage backlog, user stories, scrum processes, and sprints for agile-based tasks, while also adapting waterfall phases when needed.
• Provide clear, regular updates to senior executives and steering committees, anticipating objections and influencing resolutions.
• Identify skilled technical resources, clarify roles and responsibilities, and lead presentations for stakeholders.
• Guide multiple teams through release checkpoints, ensuring readiness and ownership of Go/No-Go decisions across different products and platforms.
• Track and document all release activities in tools like Jira and Confluence, managing fixed versions and relevant artifacts.
• Direct complex data analytics, ETL, BI, or PowerBI initiatives within cloud environments, ensuring security compliance.
• Handle advanced problem-solving, bridging business needs and enterprise-wide technology considerations.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of technical project management experience, covering all SDLC phases in complex IT contexts.
• Demonstrated agility with PMI and Agile methodologies, plus strong budget and risk control.
• In-depth knowledge of CAD applications or telephony/radio technologies in critical 911 or public safety environments.
• Proven release path management skills, driving cross-team alignment and go/no-go checkpoints.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (MS Azure), data dashboards (PowerBI), and near real-time solutions.
• Expertise in advanced analytics and DevOps integration for large-scale digital transformation.

Summary
This Project Manager role offers a unique opportunity to shape the cyber maturity agenda within a critical public safety setting. By integrating agile/waterfall expertise, steering release paths, and optimizing advanced data solutions, you’ll ensure robust, timely project outcomes that protect essential health services.Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada’s workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.

Expected salary

Location

North York, ON

Job date

Fri, 07 Feb 2025 05:15:15 GMT

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