Senior Project Manager - Ottawa

at  Randstad

Are you a seasoned Senior Project Manager ready to take on a challenging role with a leading organization? Our client is seeking a dynamic individual to join their team and drive success in IT projects. As a Senior Project Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in assisting with creating and refining comprehensive working plans, ensuring alignment with lean agile software development principles. Your expertise will shine as you coordinate daily scrum huddles, fostering collaboration and efficiency among team members from various stakeholder groups. With a minimum of ten years’ demonstrated experience in large organizations, coupled with proficiency in JIRA, Confluence, and ServiceNow, you’ll excel in this role. Your ability to navigate through various testing phases, including disaster recovery and performance/load testing, will be instrumental in project success. Additional qualifications such as experience in Agile projects, IT infrastructure projects, and SaaS environments will be highly valued. If you’re ready to make a significant impact and thrive in a dynamic environment, apply now and be part of our client’s success story!
* This is a 12 month contract position with a 24 month option to extend
HYBRID: 8 days a month on-site in Ottawa
Candidates must be eligible for Government of Canada Reliability Security Clearance (5+ years in Canada) *

QUALIFICATIONS

• A minimum of ten (10) years demonstrated experience in assisting IT projects in large organizations.
• Demonstrated experience JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow and/or similar collaborative delivery tools.
• Demonstrated experience with supporting teams through various types of testing including, disaster recovery, performance/load, functional and full regression.

The following will also be considered:

• Demonstrated experience in Agile projects (SCRUM)
• Demonstrated experience with IT infrastructure projects
• Demonstrated experience with delivery in SaaS environments
• Demonstrated experience with DevOps (Jenkins, GitHUB)
• Software development background

SUMMARY

If you’re ready to take the next step in your career and make a meaningful impact, apply now to join our client’s team as a Senior Project Manager!
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

• Assist with creating the existing work breakdown into a comprehensive working plan
• Coordinate daily scrum huddles encouraging lean agile software development principles.
• Coordinate work with members of various stakeholder groups
• Highlight and escalate issues and blockers appropriately
• Assist with creating and maintaining a robust high-level Gantt and RAG status dashboard reporting to Senior management
• Other activities and deliverables, as required