senior project manager/leader.

We are seeking a highly sophisticated and visionary Senior Project Manager/Leader for an enterprise-level contract opportunity based in Toronto. In this role, you will lead the end-to-end strategy, execution, and delivery of large-scale, complex, and high-profile Data and AI initiatives.

As a senior technical leader, you will navigate a large, multi-stakeholder environment, seamlessly connecting business objectives with I&IT delivery. You will manage multi-million dollar budgets and guide cross-functional teams through the deployment of next-generation cloud architectures, ensuring all deliverables strictly align with rigorous quality, security, and enterprise standards.

Location: Toronto, ON (Onsite - 5 days/week)

Contract Duration: 9 months (with a high potential for contract extension)

Advantages
Cutting-Edge Technical Domain: Drive high-visibility initiatives centering on Large Language Models (LLMs), AI, and enterprise-scale Databricks architectures.

Significant Financial Scope: Direct multi-year, multi-million dollar project portfolios with sophisticated multi-channel funding dependencies.

Executive Impact: Influence corporate strategy through direct reporting and risk mitigation consulting at the senior executive and steering committee levels.

Extended Contract Potential: Establish yourself within a major program footprint featuring highly viable prospects for long-term contract extensions.

Responsibilities
Project Governance & Delivery: Provide robust project management for large-scale, complex, and high-risk enterprise cloud, data, and AI initiatives, ensuring milestones are achieved on time, within scope, and on budget.

Strategic Roadmap Execution: Lead organizational strategy development, business planning, and funding requests to successfully translate abstract data goals into actionable technical project plans.

Cloud & AI Integration: Oversee the definition, planning, and delivery of end-to-end electronic solutions leveraging advanced cloud databases, machine learning, and AI technologies.

Financial Management & Control: Develop, forecast, and manage complex, multi-million dollar budgets across multiple funding channels, maintaining tight fiscal control, estimations, and continuous cost reconciliation.

Team Leadership & Resource Allocation: Source, onboard, and direct multi-disciplinary team members (including internal staff and fee-for-service consultants), clarifying roles, resolving interpersonal conflicts, and managing project backlogs.

Risk & Change Management: Proactively identify potential risk events, articulate and prioritize issues for senior executive decision-makers, and use targeted change management strategies to overcome organizational resistance.

Procurement & Infrastructure Documentation: Lead large-scale technology infrastructure procurements and coordinate the creation of critical business cases, Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs), and Threat Risk Assessments (TRAs).

Stakeholder & Forum Management: Establish and actively participate in steering committees and multi-stakeholder forums, providing clear program/portfolio status reports to executive leadership.

Qualifications
Mandatory Requirements
Data & AI Domain Expertise: 15+ years of progressive experience shaping data & AI strategy, execution, and governance models within large, multi-stakeholder corporate environments.

Enterprise Project Management: 10+ years of dedicated Integrated Enterprise project management experience managing combined business and I&IT engineering teams.

Scale & Financial Acumen: Proven history of successfully managing massive, multi-year IT initiatives with multi-million dollar budgets.

Cloud & Advanced Tech Stack: Direct experience managing project lifecycles built upon Azure Cloud Data services (Data Factory, Databricks, Data Lake, Unity Catalog, SQL Warehouse) alongside hands-on familiarity with AI, LLM, and associated tools.

Core Documentation & PM Tooling: Master-level familiarity with Microsoft Office Suite (including Project, Visio, and PowerPoint) paired with hands-on experience tracking backlogs and sprints via Jira, Trello, or KanBan.

Professional & Operational Skills
Public Sector Frameworks: Strong familiarity with public sector ITIL processes (incident, release, and problem management), business gating procedures, and support models.

Methodology Mastery: Deep understanding of software development lifecycles, including Agile/Scrum frameworks and the deployment of scalable minimum viable products (MVPs).

Strategic Procurement: Experience leading technology site rollouts, QA validation processes, and initiating large-scale technology infrastructure procurements.

Regulatory Awareness: Solid comprehension of Information Management principles and digital accessibility standards and regulations.

Summary
If you're interested in the "Senior Project Manager/Leader" role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at
Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!

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