Responsibilities:

• The GIS Delivery Platform (GDP) is a comprehensive suite of interconnected GIS related infrastructure. It includes the hardware, software, and networking components required to deliver corporate applications, web services, data, and geomatics tools.
  
• As of June, 2024, LIO, or Land Information Ontario, is now known as GEO, or Geospatial Ontario.
  
• All Geospatial Ontario IT Program projects are composed of both IT Source Fee-For-Service and Full Time Employee resources.
  
• Projects will maintain independent, as well as, Program, and Corporate level governance.
  

General Skills:

• Leads organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.
  
• Gathers and develops requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.
  
• Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met
  
• Experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope
  
• Ability to promote I&IT 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
  
• Sources, selects and on-boards team members in various disciplines, clarify roles and responsibilities and set task/deliverable/performance expectations for resources that are both OPS unionized employees as well as fee for service (FFS) consultants.
  
• Resolves resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiates changes to resourcing, ensures knowledge is shared among team members such as project objectives and deliverables are met.
  
• Effectively manages large project budgets and ensures a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals.
  
• 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&IT 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&IT resources.
  

Desirable Skills:

• Experience leading projects involving Esri-based geospatial solutions, ArcGIS Portal, ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Image Server, GIS infrastructure, middleware, maintenance, services, applications, databases, monitoring, and tools.
  
• Experience leading projects involving integrated networking technologies, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Spatial, MS Fabric, midrange server, enterprise storage, and personal computer system technologies.
  
• Knowledge and understanding of Project Management's Institute's Project Management Body of Knowledge
  
• 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
  
• Ability to make recommendations on the acquisition of software, hardware, and technology resources
  
• 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:

Must Haves:

• Experience leading projects involving Esri-based geospatial solutions, ArcGIS Portal, ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Image Server, GIS infrastructure, middleware, maintenance, services, applications, databases, monitoring, and tools.
  
• Experience leading projects involving integrated networking technologies, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Spatial, MS Fabric, midrange server, enterprise storage, and personal computer system technologies.
  

Skill Set Requirements:

Project Management Experience:

• Formal Project Management training
  
• Experience leading large, technically complex projects
  
• Experience identifying issues, risks, setting out project timelines, tracking, managing, and reporting progress
  
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary projects with IT groups, industry, and business clients
  

Communication Experience:

• Experience resolving conflict
  
• Experience communicating technical concepts to lay audiences
  
• Experience negotiating project direction to achieve consensus
  
• Experience coordinating Business Analysts and stakeholder engagement
  

Technical Experience:

• Experience leading GIS (Esri) based projects e.g, ArcGIS Portal and/or ArcGIS Online
  
• Experience leading IT Infrastructure modernization and maintenance focused projects
  
• Experience with Microsoft Azure infrastructure
  

IT Public Sector Experience:

• Experience leading projects in the Land and Resources I&IT Cluster (LRC)
  
• Experience overseeing Digital First Assessments, Cyber Security, Architecture reviews and other corporate reviews from within the Ontario Government
  
• Experience coordinating the design and implementation of new IT solutions within the Ontario Government.