Job Description
Our Client (Government of Alberta) is seeking a Senior Project Manager with demonstrated experience in project management delivering IT solutions.
Project: The Justice Information Management System (JIMS) 3.0 is a data integration project aimed to amalgamate, re-design and implement several disjointed reporting data marts containing court data into an Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW).
The existing data marts extract, process, re-structure and aggregate data required for strategic, operational and ad-hoc reporting of court data stored in the Justice Online Information Network (JOIN) database. This project will replace the existing six stand-alone IBM Cognos BI data marts: JIMS 1.0, Crown File Ownership (CFO), Court Case Management (CCM), Courtroom Utilization, Courtroom Activity, and Case Adjournment) with a well-integrated data warehouse.
The goal of the project is to evolve availability, governance, and reporting of court data by implementing a more efficient, user-friendly, faster, and cost-effective reporting architecture.
The following benefits will be realized through the project:
Integrated and dynamic architecture
Interactive reporting
Reduced reporting lag
Preservation of historical data
Improved data governance
This Senior Project Manager role will be joining a project in progress. The successful candidate is expected to have a broad skill set and be capable of performing diverse functions and activities, including but not limited to:
Excellent organization and presentation skills
Firm knowledge of project management methodologies and tools
Ability to implement and support complex enterprise data warehouse systems
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
Excellent business client and vendor management, and negotiation skills
Ability to influence and foster an environment of transparency and shared accountability
Ability to collaborate with diverse people, processes, and systems
Ability to be flexible and highly adaptive in a fast-paced environment
Skills
PMP, Project Management, Public Sector
Type
Contract
Experience Required/Mandatory Skills
Proposed resource must meet or exceed one of the following:
University graduation in business, management or related discipline & 4-yr Project Management (PM) experience;
OR 2-yr diploma in business, management or related discipline & 6-yr PM experience; OR 1-yr certificate in business, management or related discipline & 7-yr PM experience; OR 8-yr PM experience
Experience working as a Project Manager on a large complex data warehouse development project in an environment of similar size and complexity to the Government of Alberta.
Experience managing multiple projects concurrently.
Experience defining project vision, scope and goals in collaboration with business stakeholders.
Experience developing project deliverables including project charters, business cases, briefing notes, status reports, risk and decision logs, and project closure documents.
Experience managing teams (of at least 5 team members) who develop custom data warehouse solutions.
Experience successfully implementing IT solutions in an environment with project resources from across multiple teams or organizations.
Proposed resource has agreed to an Enhanced Security Check upon contract award, which will be coordinated by GoA.
MUST have the last 3 years continuous residency in either Canada or United States as minimum.
Proposed resource MUST work from within Canada, due to network and data security issues.
Standard Hours of work are 08:15 - 16:30 Alberta time
Nice To Have Skills
Experience developing and maintaining positive stakeholder relationships across and outside the organization, including executive level.
Experience leading project governance, change management and communication activities.
Experience working in or for the public sector.
Experience working with information management and cybersecurity policies, directives, and guidelines within limited timelines.
Experience exercising resourcefulness when making recommendations on highly technical or complex business issues without formal guidelines or precedents.
Experience working with business and technical teams on complex IMT projects.
Experience conducting, facilitating and interpreting impact and risk assessments.
Experience creating and managing project forecast and actual budgets.
Experience managing projects where development follows an agile or hybrid approach to deliver value while managing a project plan to help manage scope, timelines and budget.
Currently active PMP or PGMP Certification as issued by the Project Management Institute or equivalent
Location
Edmonton/Remote
Work Environment
24 months
Hourly Rate
Negotiable
