AWS Cloud App Migration Program Manager

at  CGI

This role is hybrid and requires you to be in our downtown Toronto office (250 Yonge Street) 2-3 times per week - subject to change at any time.
You are a highly motivated Program Manager who can drive Delivery in alignment with the organization mandate and goals. You are strong in program & project management practice and possess both business and technical acumen. You support the team and work to achieve results within the constraints of budget, schedule and scope. You are a leader, an influencer, a team player and a collaborator.

Skills & Experience Required:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• Highly motivated Program Manager who can drive delivery in alignment with the organizations mandate and goals.
• Proven experience in program & project management practices and posses both business and technical acumen.
• 10+ years’ experience as a Program & Project Manager managing projects with large budgets, complex solutions, and over multiple years.
• Experience overseeing multiple projects within a program structure.
• Excellent leadership, communication, management, and interpersonal skills.
• Cloud Domain knowledge is a must.
• Ability to lead efforts to compile a business case for AWS projects, with executive summary, cost, benefits, and feasibility.
• Proficiency in JIRFA and Confluence.
• Insurance knowledge is an asset but not mandatory

YOUR FUTURE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Program & Project Planning: Develop integrated project plans, including scope, timelines, budgets, and allocation of resources.

• Team Leadership: Lead project teams, including internal and external partners, ensuring alignment with project goals and objectives.
• Risk Management: Guide and support the team to identify potential project risks and develop mitigation plans to ensure successful project delivery.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Champion strong relationships with clients, vendors, and team members to improve collaboration and project success.
• Communication: Maintain clear and open communication channels with project partners, providing regular updates and reports.
• Scope Management: Work closely with the business to baseline and monitor project scope and activate change requests as needed.
• Financial Management: Produce cost models, maintain budgets and expenditures, making vital adjustments to stay within budget.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure project deliverables meet quality standards and best practices.
• Governance: Maintain project documentation, including project plans, status reports, and other artefacts.
• Critical thinking & Problem Solving: Identify and resolve project issues and obstacles to keep projects on track.
• Cloud Domain knowledge is a must
• Advise and direct cloud migration projects for legacy applications and databases to cloud systems.
• Manage Project team members for AWS environment.
• Perform IT assessment, cost reduction strategies, strategy development and system efficiency reviews.
• Direct teams for landing zone architecture, and re-platform applications to AWS.
• Lead the efforts to compile a business case for AWS project, with executive summary, cost , benefits, and feasibility.
• Initiate and manage IT rationalization projects for consolidation of data centers.
• Leverage AWS for data warehouse design, ETL operations and data mining.
• Collaborate with Architecture for performance, maintenance and security.
• Manage application transformation to cloud projects, including assessments, budgets, closings, emergency management, disaster recovery procedures for system resiliency and business continuity.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE

Skills & Experience Required:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• Highly motivated Program Manager who can drive delivery in alignment with the organizations mandate and goals.
• Proven experience in program & project management practices and posses both business and technical acumen.
• 10+ years’ experience as a Program & Project Manager managing projects with large budgets, complex solutions, and over multiple years.
• Experience overseeing multiple projects within a program structure.
• Excellent leadership, communication, management, and interpersonal skills.
• Cloud Domain knowledge is a must.
• Ability to lead efforts to compile a business case for AWS projects, with executive summary, cost, benefits, and feasibility.
• Proficiency in JIRFA and Confluence.
• Insurance knowledge is an asset but not mandatory.