RQ07730 - Project Manager/Leader

Must Haves:

• Experience leading GIS (Esri) based projects
• Experience leading IT Infrastructure modernization and maintenance focused projects
• Experience with ArcGIS Portal and/or ArcGIS Online

Nice to have skills:

• Experience with the OPS

Responsibilities:

Provides project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high risk projects for OPS I&IT initiatives.

Ensures project deliverables meet clients business requirements on time, scope and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness, efficiencies and compliance with OPS project management methodologies and frameworks.

In this role, the successful candidate will be required to lead 3 projects under the Geospatial Ontario IT Program (please see attachments for more information):

1. LIO Modernize Data Maintenance (LIO Editor) (38.5% allocation or 25 days of effort)
   1. This project aims to review the data editing and maintenance requirements of users and data owners across the province. Results should be combined with the discovery outcomes of items 204, and 205 to design a replacement for the legacy LIO Editor/Mapper/Reporter toolset; i.e., recommend new Geospatial Ontario data maintenance solution(s).
2. Providing Access to OPS GIS to LIO Warehouse (30.8% allocation or 20 days of effort)
   1. This project aims to review the Geospatial Ontario Warehouse (authoritative geospatial data database) data access solutions against the needs of their users. The objective is to identify solutions available for decommissioning, design recommended solutions for development, as well as, inform the development of new data modelling standards, and/or the new data maintenance solution(s) (LIO Editor/Mapper/Reporter replacement).
3. LIO Data Modelling Standards (30.8% allocation or 20 days of effort)
   1. This project aims to understand data owner required data model control, what, and how those data models need to change, and how those changes can support future user data access, and data maintenance (LIO Editor/Mapper/Reporter replacement) solutioning.

All Geospatial Ontario IT Program projects are composed of both IT Source Fee-For-Service and Full Time Employee resources.

Projects will maintain independent, as well as, Program, and Corporate level governance.

General Skills:

• Leads organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.
• Gathers and develops requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.
• Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met
• Experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope
• Ability to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies
• Demonstrated experience directing project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards
• Extensive experience coordinating and monitoring project processes, and developing/communicating guidelines and procedures
• Resolves resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiates changes to resourcing, ensures knowledge is shared among team members such as project objectives and deliverables are met.
• Effectively manages large project budgets and ensures a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals.
• Proactively identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
• Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.
• Establishes and participates in steering committee and stakeholder forums
• Provides, project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.
• Uses appropriate strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of projects concept, definition, planning, implementation and close-out.
• Promotes OPS I&IT standards and best practices for project management to facilitate control of system quality, adherence to standard methodology and the control of the use of I&IT resources.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience leading projects involving Esri-based geospatial solutions, ArcGIS Portal, ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Image Server, GIS infrastructure, middleware, maintenance, services, applications, databases, monitoring, and tools.
• Experience leading projects involving integrated networking technologies, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Spatial, MS Fabric, midrange server, enterprise storage, and personal computer system technologies.
• integrated networking technologies, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Spatial, MS Fabric, midrange server, enterprise storage, and personal computer system technologies.
• Knowledge and understanding of Project Managements Institutes Project Management Body of Knowledge
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices
• Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
• Ability to make recommendations on the acquisition of software, hardware, and technology resources
• Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring, anticipates and troubleshoots issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolves problems and provides project effectiveness
• Ability to identify conflict between project and functional areas and develops responses to successfully address conflict
• Ability to handle client relationships to manage expectations, provides updates as required, identifies potential conflicts between project and functional areas

Hybrid work arrangements are supported.

SkillsExperience and Skill Set Requirements

Project Management Experience - 45

• Formal Project Management training
• Experience leading large, technically complex projects
• Experience identifying issues, risks, setting out project timelines, tracking, managing, and reporting progress
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary projects with IT groups, industry, and business clients

Technical Experience - 25

• Experience leading GIS (Esri) based projects
• Experience leading IT Infrastructure modernization and maintenance focused projects
• Experience with ArcGIS Portal and/or ArcGIS Online
• Experience with Microsoft Azure infrastructure

Communication Experience - 25

• Experience resolving conflict
• Experience communicating technical concepts to lay audiences
• Experience negotiating project direction to achieve consensus
• Experience coordinating Business Analysts and stakeholder engagement

Public Sector Experience - 5

• Experience leading IT projects though gaiting processes, and working with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Experience overseeing business needs discovery, options analysis, and solution recommendations within the Public Sector.
• Experience coordinating the implementation of new IT solutions within the Public Sector