(Government of Ontario) - Ontario Publis Services need Project Manager/ Leader (Contract)

MUST have previous OPS (Ontario Publis Services) experience to apply for this role     Manage multiple projects depending on size and capacity       Participates in I&IT project phases (concept, definition, planning, and closeout of the UPM)       At the solutions project level, identifies resource requirements and provides project resources/cost estimates       Oversee acquisition of technical resources and work with outsourcing partners and selects team members from various disciplines       Defines, clarifies roles and responsibilities and sets ask/deliverables/quality/ performance expectations for project resources     Proactively plans and prioritizes tasks effectively across resources in order to respond to numerous and diverse challenges and demands       Leads and develops the technical project schedule that decomposes the project scope into measurable tasks, responsibilities, accountabilities, and dependencies. Technical team daily tasks/deliverables are clearly identified in the schedule       Resolves resourcing conflicts and negotiates changes to resourcing needs.       Ensures availability of developer systems (for in-house development), required development tools, setting up of source code repository and development workspaces with all depended projects/components code, new network account creation and admin access needs, if required       Validates costing based on work packages and use case points       Validates estimations provided by technical team       Validate the requirements along with Solution Designer to ensure requirements are detail enough that there will be no further decomposition is needed.       Manages all technical process aspects of approved I&IT projects, particularly the implementation phase.       Leads the design, development, testing and implementation in order to create and maintain a ―factory ‖ project schedule and project budget.       Leads project teams (outsourced work teams as needed) to work effectively and efficiently toward project objectives in a complex and diverse environment with multiple stakeholders and changing priorities, ensuring high quality deliverables that are on time, within technical solution scope and do not exceed budget.     Involves solution designer in getting technical issues resolved       Ensures reusability of common components       Ensures Dev/Test/Stage/Prod environment resource availability for new projects.       Works with ITS in setting up infrastructure and stage/prod code deployments,       Works with vendors in conducting POCs for any new tools/products that are introduced in projects.       Accountable for Kanban board updates and synchronizing with work items in Rational Team Concert.       Creates and manages all key SDLC documentation and deliverables for the implementation     5+ years of experience as a Technical Project Lead / Manager.       Ability to work directly with technical resources (developers, solution designers, DBAs, ITS etc)       Demonstrated Project Management experience managing large, complex IT-related projects       Demonstrated Project Management experience managing outsourced IT projects       Must have technical skills in I&IT to understand the complexities and nuances associated with systems development lifecycle.       Ability to validate estimations provided by technical resources       Leadership skills – ability to lead and motivate teams to deliver       Strong understanding of both traditional System Development Life Cycle as well as Agile development methodologies       Coaching skills to promote staff development and growth through assignment opportunities.       Identifying technical resource skills /expertise with solution opportunity requirements       Experience developing and designing object-orientated applications using Java Enterprise Edition       Experience in developing RUP logical design artifacts       Web design and development experience, including HTML, AJAX, CSS     Experience with JEE application Servers (Ex. IBM WebSphere Application Server)