We are seeking a seasoned Senior Project Manager/Leader to direct large-scale, complex, and high-visibility enterprise application development initiatives. In this role, you will provide end-to-end project leadership across multidisciplinary business and technical teams, ensuring deliverables align with strategic objectives on time, within scope
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, and on budget. Leveraging deep expertise in Agile/Scrum methodologies, multi-million-dollar financial management, and technical delivery orchestration, you will oversee solution development, data migrations, platform upgrades, and production rollouts while navigating complex multi-stakeholder environments, regulatory governance gates, and vendor procurements.
Location: Toronto, ON (Fully Onsite – 5 days/week required)
Duration: 10-month contract.
Advantages
High-Impact Citizen Services: Lead mission-critical public-facing initiatives directly impacting communities across Ontario.
End-to-End Delivery Authority: Oversee multi-million-dollar budgets, technical teams, and full-lifecycle Agile application rollouts.
Cross-Functional Leadership: Bridge executive stakeholders, policy teams, legal/privacy specialists, and core engineering squads.
Collaborative Onsite Environment: Work directly alongside dedicated project teams and technical leads in a central Toronto office.
Responsibilities
Lead end-to-end project management for large, complex, and high-profile enterprise application development initiatives, ensuring delivery against scope, schedule, budget, and quality targets.
Plan, assign, and manage cross-functional technical resources by aligning team members' skills and experience with specific project tasks and milestones.
Direct Agile/Scrum and iterative delivery lifecycles, maintaining project backlogs, sprint tracking, and delivery roadmaps using tools such as Jira, Microsoft Project, and Kanban boards.
Oversee technical workstreams spanning solution design, coding, configuration, data migration, quality assurance testing, system integrations, platform upgrades/patching, and ongoing production support.
Manage multi-year, multi-million-dollar project budgets, validating financial forecasts, cost assumptions, and ongoing resource expenditure reconciliations.
Proactively manage project risks, issues, scope changes, cross-team dependencies, and stakeholder expectations in complex multi-stakeholder environments.
Facilitate seamless collaboration and communication across business, policy, IT, legal, communications, and privacy teams.
Author and coordinate critical project, governance, and compliance documentation, including business cases, Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA), Threat Risk Assessments (TRA), RFIs, and Requests for Service.
Lead large-scale technology infrastructure procurements, site deployments, and end-to-end electronic solution rollouts.
Coordinate release management, incident/problem management, and operational support models in alignment with ITIL and enterprise governance gating procedures.
Qualifications
Enterprise Project Management: 10+ years of demonstrated, hands-on project management experience leading large, complex application development projects across business and I&IT teams (Strictly Required).
Agile & Iterative Delivery: 7+ years of proven experience managing projects utilizing Agile, iterative, and Scrum methodologies (Strictly Required).
Public-Facing Citizen Initiatives: 3+ years of experience delivering multiple complex, public-facing vital events initiatives for citizens in Ontario (Strictly Required).
Resource & Technical Task Leadership: 5+ years of demonstrated experience managing technical resources and tasks across solution development (design, coding, configuration), data migration, testing, platform upgrades/patching, integration, and maintenance/support (Strictly Required).
Skill-Aligned Resource Management: Proven track record managing project teams by effectively matching individual technical skills and experience to project deliverables (Strictly Required).
Multi-Stakeholder Facilitation: Demonstrated leadership facilitating interactions with clients and cross-functional teams within complex, multi-stakeholder environments (Strictly Required).
Financial, Tooling & Governance Proficiency: Solid experience managing multi-million-dollar budgets, forecasting, and project documentation (PIAs, TRAs, business cases) using tools such as Microsoft Project, Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, and Jira (Strictly Required).
Nice-to-Have Assets:
Prior experience delivering large-scale I&IT projects within the Ontario Public Service (OPS) or broader public sector, including familiarity with formal gating procedures and business rules.
Technical familiarity with Oracle databases and deployment environments to effectively coordinate engineering activities.
Practical knowledge of ITIL service management processes (incident, release, and problem management) and infrastructure procurement.
Recognized project management and Agile certifications (e.g., PMP, PgMP, CSM, PMI-ACP).
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 seasoned Senior Project Manager/Leader to direct large-scale, complex, and high-visibility enterprise application development initiatives. In this role, you will provide end-to-end project leadership across multidisciplinary business and technical teams, ensuring deliverables align with strategic objectives on time, within scope, and on budget. Leveraging deep expertise in Agile/Scrum methodologies, multi-million-dollar financial management, and technical delivery orchestration, you will oversee solution development, data migrations, platform upgrades, and production rollouts while navigating complex multi-stakeholder environments, regulatory governance gates, and vendor procurements.
Location: Toronto, ON (Fully Onsite – 5 days/week required)
Duration: 10-month contract.
Advantages
High-Impact Citizen Services: Lead mission-critical public-facing initiatives directly impacting communities across Ontario.
End-to-End Delivery Authority: Oversee multi-million-dollar budgets, technical teams, and full-lifecycle Agile application rollouts.
Cross-Functional Leadership: Bridge executive stakeholders, policy teams, legal/privacy specialists, and core engineering squads.
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Collaborative Onsite Environment: Work directly alongside dedicated project teams and technical leads in a central Toronto office.
Responsibilities
Lead end-to-end project management for large, complex, and high-profile enterprise application development initiatives, ensuring delivery against scope, schedule, budget, and quality targets.
Plan, assign, and manage cross-functional technical resources by aligning team members' skills and experience with specific project tasks and milestones.
Direct Agile/Scrum and iterative delivery lifecycles, maintaining project backlogs, sprint tracking, and delivery roadmaps using tools such as Jira, Microsoft Project, and Kanban boards.
Oversee technical workstreams spanning solution design, coding, configuration, data migration, quality assurance testing, system integrations, platform upgrades/patching, and ongoing production support.
Manage multi-year, multi-million-dollar project budgets, validating financial forecasts, cost assumptions, and ongoing resource expenditure reconciliations.
Proactively manage project risks, issues, scope changes, cross-team dependencies, and stakeholder expectations in complex multi-stakeholder environments.
Facilitate seamless collaboration and communication across business, policy, IT, legal, communications, and privacy teams.
Author and coordinate critical project, governance, and compliance documentation, including business cases, Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA), Threat Risk Assessments (TRA), RFIs, and Requests for Service.
Lead large-scale technology infrastructure procurements, site deployments, and end-to-end electronic solution rollouts.
Coordinate release management, incident/problem management, and operational support models in alignment with ITIL and enterprise governance gating procedures.
Qualifications
Enterprise Project Management: 10+ years of demonstrated, hands-on project management experience leading large, complex application development projects across business and I&IT teams (Strictly Required).
Agile & Iterative Delivery: 7+ years of proven experience managing projects utilizing Agile, iterative, and Scrum methodologies (Strictly Required).
Public-Facing Citizen Initiatives: 3+ years of experience delivering multiple complex, public-facing vital events initiatives for citizens in Ontario (Strictly Required).
Resource & Technical Task Leadership: 5+ years of demonstrated experience managing technical resources and tasks across solution development (design, coding, configuration), data migration, testing, platform upgrades/patching, integration, and maintenance/support (Strictly Required).
Skill-Aligned Resource Management: Proven track record managing project teams by effectively matching individual technical skills and experience to project deliverables (Strictly Required).
Multi-Stakeholder Facilitation: Demonstrated leadership facilitating interactions with clients and cross-functional teams within complex, multi-stakeholder environments (Strictly Required).
Financial, Tooling & Governance Proficiency: Solid experience managing multi-million-dollar budgets, forecasting, and project documentation (PIAs, TRAs, business cases) using tools such as Microsoft Project, Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, and Jira (Strictly Required).
Nice-to-Have Assets:
Prior experience delivering large-scale I&IT projects within the Ontario Public Service (OPS) or broader public sector, including familiarity with formal gating procedures and business rules.
Technical familiarity with Oracle databases and deployment environments to effectively coordinate engineering activities.
Practical knowledge of ITIL service management processes (incident, release, and problem management) and infrastructure procurement.
Recognized project management and Agile certifications (e.g., PMP, PgMP, CSM, PMI-ACP).
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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