Senior Technical Project Manager

I'm looking for several Senior Project Managers for a 6 month contract.

Reporting to the new PMO Director.

• - SR PM's only 10+ years experience
• - Pay Rate 100-110/hour - They are price conscious
• - 5 days per week on site in Calgary, AB
• - Projects they may be aligned to as approved:

1. Data integration
2. Infrastructure migration
3. SAP migrations (eventual upgrade to S4)
4. COTS and Custom Development

• Nice to have's: SAP experience, integration

What You Will Be Accountable For:

Project Initiation

• Identify and negotiate project resource requirements with delivery organizations (internal & external), set delivery expectations, and evaluate delivery performance;
• Work with technical and business leaders to define project investment opportunities, including scope, schedule, budget, and benefits

Project Delivery

• Facilitate cross-departmental project delivery activities, and gain commitment for delivery while managing competing demands, to ensure that project delivery dates are not compromised
• Develop project estimate basis using Agile software development estimation techniques
• Advanced project management practical expertise across knowledge areas: scope, time, cost, quality, human resource, communication, risk and procurement and integration management;
• Plan project implementations, facilitate implementation dry runs, and lead Go live activities to ensure production implementations do not adversely impact the production environment
• Escalate material issues and risks to leadership in a timely fashion
• Direct accountability for planning and executing one or more Agile or Waterfall projects as solution scope requires to project performance criteria (on time, within scope, on budget, and meeting quality standards) as defined in the project statement(s);
• Own the development and review of project requirements with Product Owners, Solution Architects, and Technical Leads to ensure project will deliver to the planned benefits
• Work with Product and resource owners to identify internal and external stakeholders, and then lead stakeholders management activities throughout the project life cycle;
• Ensure that Organizational Change Management activities are completed to drive product adoption
• Ensure that Transition to Support is planned for, completed, and approved so that the support organization can support all new or modified systems
• Facilitate interactions between Technical Leads, Project Delivery Staff, and QE Leads to ensure that project delivery and testing completion are aligned

Project Controls

• Create and maintain project financials across project cost budget managed in SAP, PPM and Excel; provide accurate and timely project financial submissions;
• Develop, monitor and control all aspects of project delivery in accordance with CPKC IS PMO and project management best practices
• Follow IS PMO processes regarding deliverables, stage gates, and controls in accordance with SOX and management controls compliance;
• Develop, and support the development, of presentations to senior management regarding project scope, schedule, budget, and current status updates.

What You’ll need

• Significant experience leading large, multi-stakeholder information systems projects;
• Managed Software and Technology Development, and/or Application Integration projects using primary Iterative, Agile or Waterfall Project methodologies;
• Post-secondary education (University, College), in Commerce/Business, Engineering, Technology or Computer Science;
• Demonstrated expertise of project management planning tools (MS Project preferred) and associated MS Office products (such as; Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint);
• Experience / successful track record, working in a team-oriented environment (demonstrated ability to develop and maintain collaborative working relationships);
• Decision and problem solving at the root cause and complexity level;
• Lead statement of work (SOW) development, participate in contract negotiations, and manage Vendors and materials delivery;
• Experience in understanding business / technical strategies and communicating these needs to the governing bodies, to ensure programs / projects and services are delivered as agreed.

Nice To Haves:

• Rapidly learn new business processes and operating practices, and apply this knowledge to improve project planning and delivery;
• Project Management Professional certificate (PMP);