Senior Project Manager POST NUMBER: 476497

About the Company
Our client is a leading Canadian energy organization with a strong presence across Ontario.  They operate critical infrastructure that supports millions of customers and drives economic growth.  

Why Work Here
Our client is engaging in ongoing transformation and investing in cutting-edge technologies and modernizing operations to meet the evolving needs of the energy sector.  By joining, you will be part of an organization that values collaboration, professional development, and making a meaningful impact on the future of clean energy.

About the Opportunity

• The Senior Project Manager (Contract) will lead a portfolio of IT initiatives and oversee multiple Project Managers to ensure projects are planned, governed, and delivered successfully.
• This role is highly hands-on: you’ll provide active coaching and “PM enablement” (as needed) to keep projects on track—removing blockers, strengthening execution, and ensuring consistent delivery practices across the program.
• You’ll manage complex workstreams such as application development, legacy application migrations to modern platforms, and data migration efforts.
• The ideal candidate is a well-rounded IT program leader who can work effectively across applications, data, and infrastructure teams—and who can manage budgets, forecasts, and resource plans with discipline.
• Program & Portfolio Leadership:

• Own end-to-end delivery for a portfolio of IT projects, ensuring alignment to business objectives, scope, schedule, and quality.
• Establish and maintain program governance: cadence, status reporting, RAID (Risks/Assumptions/Issues/Dependencies), decision logs, and executive updates.
• Drive cross-project dependency management and integrated planning across multiple teams and vendors.

• Project Manager Leadership & Coaching:

• Support Project Managers (contract and/or internal), setting expectations and ensuring consistent project controls.
• Provide hands-on guidance (“handholding” when needed) to strengthen PM execution—planning, stakeholder management, schedule discipline, and risk management.
• Standardize project delivery practices, templates, and reporting to improve predictability and transparency.

• IT Delivery (Apps, Migration, Data):

• Lead programs involving: Application development / SDLC delivery (Agile, hybrid, or waterfall)
• Legacy application modernization and migration to new platforms/systems
• Data migration planning and execution (mapping, cleansing, validation, reconciliation, cutover)
• Partner with architecture, infrastructure, security, and operations to ensure environment readiness, performance, reliability, and supportability.

• Commissioning the Project:
• Financial & Resource Management:

• Build and manage program budgets, forecasts, and burn rates; track actuals vs. plan and drive corrective actions.
• Follow the Project Control Office direction and processes in managing the project financials
• Manage resource planning across workstreams (internal teams, contractors, vendors), including capacity, allocation, and onboarding/offboarding.
• Support procurement activities (e.g., SOW review, vendor coordination) as applicable.

• Stakeholder & Executive Communication:

• Serve as the primary point of contact for program health, timeline, risks, and decisions.
• Produce crisp, action-oriented updates for leadership; escalate issues with recommended options and impacts.
• Facilitate steering committees and key decision forums.

About You

• 8 years of progressive experience in IT project/program management, including leading multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience managing Project Managers (directly or via dotted line) and improving delivery execution through coaching and governance.
• Proven delivery experience in at least two of the following: Application development / systems implementation
• Legacy application migration/modernization
• Data migration (planning, execution, validation, cutover)
• Strong working knowledge of IT domains (applications, data, and at least foundational infrastructure concepts).
• Solid financial management experience: budgets, forecasts, vendor spend tracking, and resource planning.
• Excellent communication skills: executive-level status reporting, facilitation, and stakeholder management.
• Strong command of delivery fundamentals: schedules, critical path, RAID management, dependency mapping, change control.

Pay Range
$87.58 - $97.58/hr

How to Apply
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You must currently reside within the Greater Toronto Area and be permitted to work in Canada to be considered for this opportunity. A recruiter will be in touch with you if your profile meets our client’s requirements for this role.

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco/Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to the individual’s skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, office location and other geographic considerations, as well as other business and organizational needs. With that said, as required by local law in geographies that require salary range disclosure, Vaco/Highspring notes the salary range for the role is noted in this job posting. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, and can participate in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company’s 401(k) retirement plan. Additional disclaimer: Unless otherwise noted in the job description, the position Vaco/Highspring is filing for is occupied. Please note, however, that Vaco/Highspring is regularly asked to provide talent to other organizations. By submitting to this position, you are agreeing to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions. Submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase within Vaco/Highspring will be otherwise assessed by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco/Highspring does not have knowledge of the tools used by its clients in making final hiring decisions and cannot opine on their use of AI products.