Senior Project Manager​/Delivery Lead

Senior Project Manager / Delivery Lead - 38862

Hybrid: 2 days in-office (will increase to 4 days in future)

Contract Duration: ASAP to 12 months contract

Possibility of extension:
Yes, based on performance and business needs

Conversion to FTE:
May be, based on performance and business needs

Number of Positions: 1

Schedule

Hours:

9am-5pm Monday-Friday; standard 37.5 hrs/week

Business group:
Cloud Engineering - The Cloud Engineering group is retiring an existing deployment platform and introducing a modernized solution to support cloud‑based application delivery. This initiative requires a full end‑to‑end migration, coordination across three engineering teams, and ongoing compliance oversight post‑migration.

Project:
The incoming Senior Project Manager / Delivery Lead will provide day‑to‑day leadership, ensuring visibility into all work streams, identifying the critical path, and enabling successful execution of a replacement CI/CD deployment pipeline. This role requires someone who can speak confidently about cloud deployment pipelines, technology lifecycle transitions, and hands‑on cloud project delivery.

The successful candidate will join a top 5 Canadian bank and lead a high‑visibility, enterprise‑scale cloud modernization initiative within a dynamic environment.

• Tracking projects through each phase of project lifecycle, facilitates scrum ceremonies
• Work with all the dependent teams and prepare an execution plan
• Working with various teams to achieve end‑to‑end project delivery
• Ensure milestones are met and the project has gone through all approval gates
• Document project status & assist team in maintaining information repositories
• Maintain project risk tracker and communicate project risks to management
• Prepare work back schedules, roadmap and capacity planning at a project level
• Ensure a balance between team capacity and workload is kept in order to achieve a successful project delivery
• Support app releases & rollout related activities

• Keep all stakeholders up to date on project status and roadblocks
• Ability to set expectations with all stakeholders, execute and communicate accordingly
• Identification of risks and issues that require DF leadership attention
• Ability to articulate and clearly communicate complex problems and Solutions in a simple and logical manner following stakeholder field of expertise
• Ability to work effectively with engineering Sr Managers when needed to remediate risk around project delivery.
• Engage stakeholders (e.g. risk, legal, audit) as needed for consultation throughout the course of the project.

• Contribute to the productivity and happiness of the scrum team
• Supporting project team members in challenging situations (resource / release challenges, cross‑team communication)
• Introduce agile engineering best practices
• Scheduling ad‑hoc meetings to solve for disagreements or ambiguities in order to reduce risk of jeopardizing milestones and or artifacts
• Ease conversations and promote constructive attitude
• Facilitate and ensure healthy communication between project team members
• Scheduling and chairing scrum ceremonies.
• Accountable for conducting regular retros and addressing team’s feedback
• Monitor scrum team progress by preparing reports/charts
• Understanding team strengths and weaknesses in order to improve each phase of the project lifecycle
• Lead by example

• Providing feedback to help improving processes and tools
• Working on aligning best practices across delivery team
• Continuous improvement and learning from other delivery team members
• Take active role on application audit related activities
• Be able to adjust, learn and iterate frequently

• 8-10 years of experience as a Project Manager or related industry experience
• 5+ years of experience with cloud technologies (GCP (preferred), Azure, AWS)
• 5+ years of recent experience managing large-scale migration and infrastructure projects, ideally involving platform retirement or cloud re‑platforming.
• 5–7 years of experience…