Tech Lead (Hr /Workday Knowledge Required)

Position Description

We are Canada's largest independent information technology services firm, and after 45 years, we're still growing! Join Canada's largest IT Company as a Technical Lead in our Banking Services Division in Toronto.

Candidates must have strong collaboration skills to work with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to ensure requirements are translated into specific solutions.

Your future duties and responsibilities

• Communicate business vision / goal and portfolio priorities to team members (e.g., Application Owners / Development Managers, Business Systems Analysis, Platform / Service and/or Project Managers etc.)
• Oversee and report on project status, manage project team resources and assignments, ensure project milestones are met and up to standard.
• Provide formal reporting in line with identified processes and timescales; producing ad hoc reports on request.
• Identify and communicate any cross-area or cross-release issues that may affect other areas and lead resolution of escalated issues
• Ensure certainty of approach, responsibility and ownership where process is uncertain, or scope is not fully defined.
• Ensure operational, reputational, and intellectual risks are understood, and provide advice towards minimizing risk and escalate where appropriate
• Engages other Technology partners (Release Management, Risk Management, TS Operations, etc.) to manage technical requirements and standards.
• Create an environment to build effective working relationships with stakeholders and members of delivery teams.
• Effectively lead and manage third party suppliers to develop engagement, statement of works and delivery against those statements to quality, time and budget.
• Create and maintain project plans, taking account of internal and external dependencies, and interlocking with third parties and teams outside of Technology where appropriate.
• Employ and advocate the use of architecture frameworks, standards and patterns to facilitate consistent and secure solutions design and delivery
• Ensure compliance with technology architecture and design/operate processes to provide ongoing review of in-progress activity against technology architecture and development standards
• Assess change requests and issues across the portfolio and identify key items for reporting
• Work with technology partners to develop the content for development and solutions design deliverables, ensure project estimates cover all activities within scope, including project management and application development, software quality assurance reviews, and vendor and contract management activities.
• Support, promote and demonstrate CGI Values.
• Demonstrate and role-model the skills and behaviors to support the performance of the team and promote a culture of high-performance working. Prioritize and manage own workload and support workload of team members in order to deliver quality results and meet timelines.
• Be responsible for managing deliveries within allocated budgets, providing actual and forecast costs on a monthly basis, highlighting early any areas of concern, including but not limited to, ensuring delivery against original estimates provided by delivery teams.
• Works with Testing partners to manage defects, prioritize with stakeholders, and resolve with the delivery team.
• Ensure all requirements, project plans, and changes to commitment are communicated to all affected team members.
• Proactively drive the delivery of a portfolio of projects across Technology and Business adhering to processes.
• Lead and manage technical teams in order to deliver projects meeting agreed timescales, budgetary and quality requirements.
• Act as a role model within the business, displaying professional behaviors and promoting sound business and commercial ethics.

Required Qualifications To Be Successful In This Role

• Demonstrate high level of proactivity, initiative and strong ownership
• Experience working autonomously in a management role and can collaborate effectively with others to establish and execute on common goal
• Excellent stakeholder management (Across Business and Tech partners), presentation skills and communication skills, both verbal and written
• Experience within Human Resources domain and technologies
• 7+ years relevant experience managing integration and migration projects / application development/Infrastructure project delivery and end to end delivery process
• Experience in Workday is huge plus.
• Experience in managing multiple projects in the portfolio, managing the interrelationships and decision making
• Expertise in managing delivery of projects following the PMLC/SDLC standards Waterfall and Agile - 7 – 9 Years
• Proactive, highly organized, excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

Insights you can act on

While technology is at the heart of our clients’ digital transformation, we understand that people are at the heart of business success.

When you join CGI, you become a trusted advisor, collaborating with colleagues and clients to bring forward actionable insights that deliver meaningful and sustainable outcomes. We call our employees "members" because they are CGI shareholders and owners and owners who enjoy working and growing together to build a company we are proud of. This has been our Dream since 1976, and it has brought us to where we are today — one of the world’s largest independent providers of IT and business consulting services.

At CGI, we recognize the richness that diversity brings. We strive to create a work culture where all belong and collaborate with clients in building more inclusive communities. As an equal-opportunity employer, we want to empower all our members to succeed and grow. If you require an accommodation at any point during the recruitment process, please let us know. We will be happy to assist.

Ready to become part of our success story? Join CGI — where your ideas and actions make a difference.