Technical Delivery Manager (Infrastructure Project Delivery)

The ideal candidate has a Technology background and experience in transformational and modernization projects within the financial industry and proven technical project delivery experience.  The Technical Delivery Manager must demonstrate a strong understanding of the application and Infrastructure Management Life Cycle as well as project management processes and execution. This role is accountable for ensuring the timely delivery of quality deliverables related to enhancing, supporting, maintaining, and monitoring information systems.

• Directs and manages the delivery of technology project deliverables from beginning to end.
• Defines technology project scope and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management, PMO and other stakeholders.
• Develops full-scale project plans and associated communications documents as required.
• Effectively communicates project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
• Estimates the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.
• Determines and assesses need for additional staff and/or consultants and make the appropriate recruitments if necessary during project cycle.
• Sets and continually manages project expectations with team members, PMO and other stakeholders.
• Identifies and resolves issues and conflicts within the project team.
• Identifies and manages project dependencies and critical path.
• Plans, schedules and tracks project timelines, milestones and deliverables using appropriate tools.
• Proactively manages changes in project scope, identifies potential crises, and devises contingency plans.
• In collaboration with business line PMO, provides input to define project success criteria and disseminates them to involved parties throughout project life cycle.
• Coaches, mentors, motivates and supervises project team members and contractors, and influences them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.
• Conducts project post mortems and creates a recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.
• Develops best practices and tools for project execution and management.

• University degree in a related field and 6 to 10 years of experience, including 2 to 3 years of experience in a management role, or
• College Diploma in a related field and 9 to 12 years of experience, including 2 to 3 years experience in a management role.
• Bachelors or Masters Degree in computer sciences, technical or business discipline or related experience preferred.
• Hands on technical experience in managing and deploying network infrastructure technology
• Minimum 10 years experience managing project deliveries across multiple applications and technologies preferred.
• Strong grasp of Technical Project Management methodologies and proven experience managing and delivering concurrent regulatory or strategic projects.
• Strong analytical and project management skills; including the ability to interpret both business and technical needs.
• Demonstrated success in leading projects from initiation through implementation and support.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with diverse groups, managers, and subject matter experts and ability to negotiate (able to express oneself clearly and concisely both verbally and in writing) effectively to manage project delivery and project coordination of complex activities.
• Extensive experience with aligning stakeholders and communicating information that enables leaders, teams and stakeholders to have transparency on the underlying issues and potential solutions.
• Excellent knowledge of project management methodologies/process including requirements management, analysis and design, testing, implementation, deployment, change configuration, and management, etc.
• Effective leadership skills to plan, develop and implement projects, as well as, lead project, monitor, evaluate and assess progress.
• High proficiency in MS Office Suite, in particular MS Excel, MS-Project, MS-Word, MS-Visio, Sharepoint.
• Strong presentation, facilitation, analysis, and problem solving skills.
• Demonstrated experience managing or delivering IT Projects within outsourced and managed services environments.
• Has worked a multiple client accounts to gain experience in working with and handling different type of clients; strong client facing abilities including the ability to handle scope issues.
• Has an understanding of the technology to be deployed and managed.
• Excellent written and oral communication and interpersonal skills.
• Must possess strategic thinking, analytical, organizational, and planning skills.
• Strong ability to lead others (direct and indirect) - motivate, negotiate, and persuade others.
• Ability to identify and manage numerous shifting priorities, deadlines and resource issues to achieve results.
• Familiarity with 5S, Kaizen Principles, Six Sigma or other Continuous Improvement methodologies is an asset.
• Bilingual (French/English) is an asset.