We are seeking a highly accomplished, strategic, and results-driven Senior Project Manager/Leader for an enterprise-level contract opportunity. In this role, you will take complete ownership of the planning, development, and delivery of high-impact technical initiatives in a highly regulated environment.
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As a senior leader, you will act as a critical bridge between business strategy and technical execution, orchestrating cross-functional teams to translate complex requirements into actionable product roadmaps. This position demands an expert who thrives under tight deadlines and high-pressure situations, managing multi-year, multi-million dollar budgets while maintaining alignment among diverse stakeholder groups.
Location: Toronto, ON (Onsite - 5 days/week)
Contract Duration: 12 months (with potential for extension)
Advantages
Scale & Scope: Own the deployment of high-visibility, multi-million dollar technology initiatives transforming large-scale service delivery.
Technical Breadth: Drive modern system architectures utilizing enterprise-tier Agile lifecycle tools and cloud-native assessment frameworks.
Strategic Leadership: Exercise full technical and operational autonomy while mentoring internal personnel and advising senior steering committees.
Contract Stability: Establish a long-term professional footprint with a solid 12-month foundational contract and strong extension prospects.
Responsibilities
End-to-End Project Governance: Lead the comprehensive planning, execution, and delivery of multi-phase technology projects, ensuring milestones are achieved within scope, on schedule, and on budget.
Roadmap & Lifecycle Execution: Define, prioritize, and manage strategic product roadmaps, detailing feature releases, application enhancements, and long-term delivery visions.
Cross-Functional Orchestration: Coordinate and guide technical and business project streams, facilitating unified collaboration among development teams, architects, and business stakeholders.
Proactive Risk Mitigation: Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks and bottlenecks to safeguard timelines, protect budgets, and ensure alignment with enterprise standards.
Financial & Budgetary Control: Manage multi-million dollar, multi-year project budgets, performing continuous financial tracking, scope control, and cost assessments.
Compliance & Documentation: Lead the creation of critical project documentation, including comprehensive business cases, Threat Risk Assessments (TRA), and Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA).
Agile Artifact Generation: Formulate standard Agile delivery artifacts such as release plans, epics, features, prioritized user stories, and backlog schedules.
Stakeholder Facilitation: Manage executive stakeholder communication, leading regular status updates and feedback sessions to maintain transparency across the project lifecycle.
Team Mentorship: Provide ongoing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to junior team members, fostering knowledge sharing and professional growth within an Agile framework.
Qualifications
Core Requirements
Transformational Leadership: Extensive hands-on experience successfully managing complex, multi-phase technology projects within highly regulated or public sector environments.
Financial & Scale Mastery: Proven track record of direct accountability over multi-year, multi-million dollar project budgets and multi-stakeholder engagements.
Risk & Scope Engineering: Elite capability in identifying structural project risks, establishing contingency plans, and executing strict scope controls under high-pressure conditions.
Communication Excellence: Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to influence decision-makers and lead multidisciplinary teams.
Technical & Operational Skills
Lifecycle Management Tooling: High proficiency tracking project backlogs, sprints, and lifecycles using tools like Jira, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Project, or Kanban boards.
Agile & Collaboration Expertise: Strong background in formulating Agile requirements and utilizing collaborative software (Miro, Confluence, Teams, Office 365).
Compliance Assessments: Demonstrated experience developing enterprise-level privacy, security, and financial documentation (such as PIAs, TRAs, and Requests for Service).
Framework Familiarity: Solid understanding of public sector governance frameworks, formal PMO stage-gate procedures, and ITIL processes (incident, release, and support management).
Cloud Platform Awareness: Basic foundational knowledge of cloud environments, preferably the Microsoft Azure platform.
Summary
If you're interested in the Senior Project Manager/Leader role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at www.randstad.ca. Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!
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.
This posting is for existing and upcoming vacancies.
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We are seeking a highly accomplished, strategic, and results-driven Senior Project Manager/Leader for an enterprise-level contract opportunity. In this role, you will take complete ownership of the planning, development, and delivery of high-impact technical initiatives in a highly regulated environment.
As a senior leader, you will act as a critical bridge between business strategy and technical execution, orchestrating cross-functional teams to translate complex requirements into actionable product roadmaps. This position demands an expert who thrives under tight deadlines and high-pressure situations, managing multi-year, multi-million dollar budgets while maintaining alignment among diverse stakeholder groups.
Location: Toronto, ON (Onsite - 5 days/week)
Contract Duration: 12 months (with potential for extension)
Advantages
Scale & Scope: Own the deployment of high-visibility, multi-million dollar technology initiatives transforming large-scale service delivery.
Technical Breadth: Drive modern system architectures utilizing enterprise-tier Agile lifecycle tools and cloud-native assessment frameworks.
...
Strategic Leadership: Exercise full technical and operational autonomy while mentoring internal personnel and advising senior steering committees.
Contract Stability: Establish a long-term professional footprint with a solid 12-month foundational contract and strong extension prospects.
Responsibilities
End-to-End Project Governance: Lead the comprehensive planning, execution, and delivery of multi-phase technology projects, ensuring milestones are achieved within scope, on schedule, and on budget.
Roadmap & Lifecycle Execution: Define, prioritize, and manage strategic product roadmaps, detailing feature releases, application enhancements, and long-term delivery visions.
Cross-Functional Orchestration: Coordinate and guide technical and business project streams, facilitating unified collaboration among development teams, architects, and business stakeholders.
Proactive Risk Mitigation: Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks and bottlenecks to safeguard timelines, protect budgets, and ensure alignment with enterprise standards.
Financial & Budgetary Control: Manage multi-million dollar, multi-year project budgets, performing continuous financial tracking, scope control, and cost assessments.
Compliance & Documentation: Lead the creation of critical project documentation, including comprehensive business cases, Threat Risk Assessments (TRA), and Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA).
Agile Artifact Generation: Formulate standard Agile delivery artifacts such as release plans, epics, features, prioritized user stories, and backlog schedules.
Stakeholder Facilitation: Manage executive stakeholder communication, leading regular status updates and feedback sessions to maintain transparency across the project lifecycle.
Team Mentorship: Provide ongoing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to junior team members, fostering knowledge sharing and professional growth within an Agile framework.
Qualifications
Core Requirements
Transformational Leadership: Extensive hands-on experience successfully managing complex, multi-phase technology projects within highly regulated or public sector environments.
Financial & Scale Mastery: Proven track record of direct accountability over multi-year, multi-million dollar project budgets and multi-stakeholder engagements.
Risk & Scope Engineering: Elite capability in identifying structural project risks, establishing contingency plans, and executing strict scope controls under high-pressure conditions.
Communication Excellence: Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to influence decision-makers and lead multidisciplinary teams.
Technical & Operational Skills
Lifecycle Management Tooling: High proficiency tracking project backlogs, sprints, and lifecycles using tools like Jira, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Project, or Kanban boards.
Agile & Collaboration Expertise: Strong background in formulating Agile requirements and utilizing collaborative software (Miro, Confluence, Teams, Office 365).
Compliance Assessments: Demonstrated experience developing enterprise-level privacy, security, and financial documentation (such as PIAs, TRAs, and Requests for Service).
Framework Familiarity: Solid understanding of public sector governance frameworks, formal PMO stage-gate procedures, and ITIL processes (incident, release, and support management).
Cloud Platform Awareness: Basic foundational knowledge of cloud environments, preferably the Microsoft Azure platform.
Summary
If you're interested in the Senior Project Manager/Leader role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at www.randstad.ca. Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!
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.
This posting is for existing and upcoming vacancies.
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