Senior IT Project Manager - Edmonton, AB - SDAB

Job Title: Senior IT Project Manager
Location: (Remote with 15% onsite) - Edmonton, AB, Canada
Job Type: Contract
Duration: 11 Months
Shift & Schedule: Day Shift | Monday–Friday | 8:15 AM–4:30 PM Alberta Time

Pay Rate: $80 to $90/hr

Note: This job doesn't offer any benefits.

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior IT Project Manager to lead multiple IT modernization initiatives involving cybersecurity, application migration, regulatory systems, and enterprise technology transformation.

Required Qualifications

• University graduation in business, management, or a related discipline with 4 years of project management experience; OR a two-year diploma with 6 years; OR a one-year certificate with 7 years; OR 8 years of project management experience.

• 4 years of experience managing ADX Studio and Dynamics CRM migrations to Power Apps and Dataverse.

• 8 years of experience defining project scope and goals in collaboration with business stakeholders.

• 8 years of experience developing project deliverables, including project charters, business cases, briefing notes, status reports, risk logs, project closure documents, and dashboards.

• 8 years of experience managing multiple projects concurrently.

• 8 years of experience managing large, complex, custom software application development projects in an environment comparable in size and complexity to the Government of Alberta.

• Experience managing IT projects from initiation through planning, execution, monitoring, implementation, and closure.

• Experience developing project plans, schedules, resource estimates, budgets, risk assessments, and governance documentation.

• Experience coordinating business stakeholders, technical teams, vendors, project sponsors, and cross-departmental partners.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3 years of experience conducting, facilitating, and interpreting risk and impact assessments across multiple scenarios.

• 3 years of experience creating and managing project forecasts and actual budgets.

• 3 years of experience leading and facilitating stakeholder meetings at all organizational levels.

• 3 years of experience working in or with the public sector.

• 3 years of experience delivering mandated or legislated projects within short timelines.

• Experience with Microsoft Power Pages, Power Apps, Dataverse, Dynamics CRM, and application modernization.

• Experience with cybersecurity remediation, legacy infrastructure upgrades, and enterprise system integration.

• Experience with energy-sector, royalty-management, financial, regulatory, or government business systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple IT projects from initiation through completion, ensuring project objectives, scope, timelines, and deliverables are met.

• Manage ADX Studio migration to Microsoft Power Pages and Dataverse, including planning, architecture coordination, workflow development, user acceptance testing, change management, and go-live.

• Coordinate Natural Gas Royalty-in-Kind (GRIK) initiatives involving MRIS, Client ESG, Petrinex, and CARS to support physical volume tracking, reconciliation, and financial integration.

• Oversee Bitumen Royalty-in-Kind (BRIK) modernization involving ETS, OASIS, CARS, RFM, and EAD, including process improvements, system enhancements, and integration.

• Manage Enhanced Hydrocarbon Recovery Program (EHRP) modernization across the Research and Commercialization Stream (RACS), Enhanced Hydrocarbon Recovery (EHR) Stream, and Innovative Technology Program (ITP) Stream.

• Develop project charters, business plans, schedules, budgets, resource plans, requirements documentation, and delivery strategies.

• Coordinate project resources, vendors, business teams, IT teams, project sponsors, and cross-departmental stakeholders.

• Identify, assess, and manage project risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, interdependencies, and policy implications.

• Monitor project progress against scope, milestones, budget, resources, and expected outcomes, taking corrective action when required.

• Prepare status reports, dashboards, briefing notes, risk logs, and steering committee presentations for senior management and stakeholders.

• Track budget forecasts and actual expenditures, analyze variances, and report financial status.

• Establish project governance, define stakeholder roles and responsibilities, and maintain effective project communication.

• Support business requirements documentation and ensure IT solutions align with enterprise architecture and applicable standards.

• Lead change management and communication activities in collaboration with business and project teams.

• Evaluate project outcomes, support closure activities, and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.