Project Manager 2

Project Manager 2

23 Oct
|
Cleo Consulting
|
Ontario

23 Oct

Cleo Consulting

Ontario

Assignment: RQ07718 - Project Manager/Leader - Senior Job Title: Sr. Project Manager 2 Requisition (SS): RQ07718 Start Date: 2024-11-04 End Date: 2025-03-31 Client: I⁢ Strategy and Cyber Security Office Location: 222 Jarvis St. Toronto, Ontario Organization: I⁢ Strategy and Cyber Security Extension # of Days: 50.00 Ministry: Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery (former MGCS) # Business Days: 102.00

Note: Hybrid - Onsite 3 days/ 2 days remote

Must Haves:

- Ensures project deliverables meet clients' business requirements on time, scope, and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness, efficiencies and compliance with OPS project management methodologies and frameworks.






- Enterprise VPN and Remote Access Solutions (Palo Alto Prisma Access - Preferred)
- Zero Trust Network Access implementation across an enterprise network
- Network Security Enhancements: example, upgrading and consolidating legacy firewall to Next Gen Firewall, firewall policy optimization.
- Cloud Security Integration, example implementation of Web Application Firewall and Firewall Policy Manager

Description

- Provides project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high-risk network-security focused deployment and migration projects for OPS I⁢ initiatives.
- Ensures project deliverables meet clients' business requirements on time, scope, and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness, efficiencies and compliance with OPS project management methodologies and frameworks.
- Works closely with internal OPS teams and vendors to ensure the successful acceptance, timely execution, and day-2 supportability and operability of all project changes and deliverables.

In this role the Senior Project Manager will:







- Provide senior project management oversight and support for cyber security platforms that are currently being deployed and rolled out within the OPS over 2024-25 fiscal year.
- In addition, to lead and provide project management support for smaller security-focused projects, initiatives or iterative improvements as required based on need and capacity throughout the year.
- Provide the resource capacity required to lead:
- Palo Alto Prisma Access, Always on VPN and Secure Service Edge related projects or sprints.
- Other Network security and firewall related migration and improvement related projects and initiatives

General Skills:







- Gathers and develops requirements and works with project stakeholders and ITS project managers to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.
- Experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope.
- Ability to promote I⁢ project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies.
- Demonstrated experience directing project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards.
- Extensive experience coordinating and monitoring project processes and developing/communicating guidelines and procedures.
- Ability to clarify roles and responsibilities and set task/deliverable/performance expectations for project team members.
- Proactively identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.






- Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.
- Establishes and participates in steering committee and stakeholder forums.
- Provides, project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.
- Uses appropriate strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of projects concept, definition, planning, implementation, and close-out.
- Promotes OPS I⁢ standards and best practices for project management to facilitate control of system quality, adherence to standard methodology and the control of the use of I⁢ resources.

Desirable Skills:







- Knowledge and understanding of Project Management's Institute's Project Management Body of Knowledge
- Demonstrated track record in leading large-scale network security deployment and migration projects.
- Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices.
- Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards.
- Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring, anticipates and troubleshoots issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolves problems, and provides project effectiveness.
- Ability to identify conflict between project and functional areas and develops responses to successfully address conflict.






- Ability to handle client relationships to manage expectations, provides updates as required, identifies potential conflicts between project and functional areas.

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

- Network Security experience: candidate to demonstrate advanced experience managing enterprise scale network security projects and deep understanding of network security technologies (40%):
- Enterprise VPN and Remote Access Solutions (Palo Alto Prisma Access - Preferred) (10%)
- Zero Trust Network Access implementation across an enterprise network (10%)
- Network Security Enhancements: example, upgrading and consolidating legacy firewall to Next Gen Firewall, firewall policy optimization. (10%)
- Cloud Security Integration,





example implementation of Web Application Firewall and Firewall Policy Manager (10%)
- Project Management skills candidate to demonstrate complex project management skills, and the ability to mitigate project risks in large-scale environments (60%)
- Analytical - 15%
- Attention to Detail
- Calculating Costs for Implementation
- Critical Thinking
- Defining Mechanisms for Input
- Defining Purpose of the Strategic Planning Process
- Developing a Plan for Implementing Strategies
- Logical Thinking

- Communication - 15%

- Facilitating Group Discussion
- Creating Mission/Vision Statements
- Engaging Reluctant Members in Discussions
- Negotiation
- People Skills
- Persuasiveness
- Pitching
- Public Speaking
- Presentation / MS PowerPoint
- Active Listening

- Decisiveness - 15%







- Building Consensus
- Establishing Measurable Objectives for Goals/Projects
- Creating and Enforcing Timelines
- Prioritizing
- Goal Oriented

- Problem Solving - 15%

- Aligning Business Practices with Emerging Strategy
- Assessment
- Brainstorming
- Creativity
- Evaluation
- Identifying Obstacles
- Problem Sensitivity
- Multitasking
- Stress Tolerance

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