Senior Program Manager

Senior Program Manager - Level 3 - ICS (Migration of OpenVMS and Red Hat KVM exp)

Toronto, ON/Onsite

Contract Role

5 days onsite per week

Ideal Pay Rate: CAD /Hr (Depending upon experience)

Work Schedule

Primarily 7.25 hours per day but overtime may be required on occasion.

Must Have:

• 10+ years experience in the following:
• Deep experience in infrastructure modernization (e.g., migrating from legacy OpenVMS to modern hardware and Red Hat KVM) with a strong understanding of operational continuity for existing applications.
• A proven track record of establishing agile governance in hybrid delivery environments (Agile + Waterfall)
• A strong ability to influence and coach long-tenured technical staff unfamiliar with agile or cross-functional ways of working.
• Effective in facilitating large group work sessions; with excellent communication and executive presentation skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with all levels of staff and management, in particular senior management, and technology executives, influencing across organizational boundaries
• Proven ability to manage highly sensitive vendor relationships (incl legal)
• Project/ program manager background
• Need to be able to speak with stakeholders- for example C-Suite
• Agile delivery experience- able to tune the
• Coaching experience
• Scrum experience
• Kanban

Nice to have

• NICE to have – transformation experience
• NICE To have - vast experience migrating legacy VMS to Redhat KVM within Government sector

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