Project Manager

Halifax, NS (Hybrid)

Contract

Senior Project Manager to join Quantitative & Technology Services' (QTS) Data, Compute & Cloud team. This is a deep engineering function developing high performance data and compute capabilities used across all of Capital Market's technology. Our products operate at massive scale, for example Burst/ Grid computation across 150k cores supporting risk calculations in Equities and Fixed Income. Our foundational Capital Markets Data Fabric is being extended into the Cloud as part our strategy for large scale cloud-based data analytics and ML/AI.

Mobilization

• Agree business objectives with senior stakeholders (e.g., GSREP Program)
• Defining specific project goals, scope, budget requirements (inc. headcount and other spend)
• Conduct project planning workshops for each to define and refine delivery scope
• Secure approvals (Architecture, IT Risk, Financial, etc.) as part of RBC CM processes, e.g., Project Approval Review (PAR)

Project Planning

• Collaborate with stakeholders and the delivery team to break down the items of work and develop an executable Project Plan - with L1/ L2 milestones described on an outcome basis in plain language
• Developing a Resource Plan - i.e., the required skills and team composition
• Documenting and maintaining Risks, Issues, Assumptions, Dependencies in a formal RAID log
• Identifying the Critical Path, i.e., what is the sequence of sequential activities that has the greatest bearing on timelines and hence must remain on-track

Project Delivery

• Work closely with engineering, vendors, etc. to coordinate and drive project execution and ensure deliverables are delivered on-time
• Identify potential blockers/ risks, capture in RAID, and eliminate (and/ or escalating as needed)
• Collaborate with Quality Engineering to ensure automation for test capabilities
• Defining appropriate Performance Metrics; monitor to provide visibility on delivery against agreed outcomes

Governance & Communications

• Producing Project Status Reports and communicating to stakeholders in a formal governance forum, on a recurring basis (e.g. monthly)
• Status reporting to include:
• Qualitative updates in progress in past month, and objectives for next month
• Delivery tracking against L1/L2 milestones with RAG status
• Performance Metrics
• Key Risks and Issues
• Regularly communicating internally to the team on progress and ensuring everyone understands the business goals and how their work fits in

Minimum Requirements

• Ability to work independently, apply critical and strategic thinking to issues, and manage deadlines while balancing competing priorities.
• Effective stakeholder & relationship management, and strong collaboration
• 10+ years of working on medium-to-high complexity initiatives with Project / Program delivery
• Project Management Certification (PMP or equivalent)
• Experience working with multi-site teams
• Business domain understanding of Financial Services/ Capital Markets