JOB SUMMARY
The MPW Replatform project requires an experienced IT Project Manager with strong Scrum and Agile delivery experience to coordinate the end-to-end technology implementation. The role will provide delivery structure across business, technology, product, architecture, vendors, and other cross-functional stakeholders while managing plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and governance. The Project Manager will also facilitate Scrum ceremonies, partner with the Product Owner on priorities and backlog management, monitor vendor and technology deliverables, and provide clear project reporting and escalation to support successful execution of the replatform initiative.
Key Responsibilities
• Support the end-to-end technology delivery of the MPW Replatform project, translating project priorities into executable plans, milestones, dependencies, and measurable outcomes.
• Organize and facilitate key Scrum ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Partner closely with the Product Owner, business stakeholders, technology teams, architects, vendors, and other delivery partners to coordinate priorities and maintain delivery alignment.
• Manage project scope, schedule, resources, dependencies, risks, issues, assumptions, and deliverables.
• Maintain project plans, Agile/Scrum artifacts, dashboards, RAID items, status reporting, and governance materials to provide transparency into overall project health.
• Facilitate project governance and stakeholder discussions to support timely decision-making, issue resolution, and escalation.
• Coordinate and monitor vendor and partner deliverables, including commitments associated with contracts and statements of work.
• Promote Agile principles, continuous improvement, delivery discipline, accountability, and collaboration across the project team.
• Support project closeout, lessons learned, operational readiness, and knowledge transfer activities.
• Responsible for coordinating the platform transformation and overall project delivery.
• Managing Jira, facilitating Scrum calls, organizing meetings, tracking deliverables and coordinating stakeholders.
• Understanding business requirements and translating them into actionable IT deliverables.
• Involvement in the conversion of wealth management products.
• Supporting implementation of the new platform and eventual decommissioning of the existing platforms.
Required Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong knowledge of Agile, Scrum, hybrid delivery methodologies, project governance, risk management, and enterprise technology delivery.
• Scrum certification such as Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or SAFe is highly relevant.
• Strong communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, negotiation, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to work effectively across multiple stakeholder groups in a complex enterprise environment.
• Demonstrated project/program management experience delivering large-scale technology or transformation initiatives within complex enterprise environments.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional and distributed teams, with multiple business and technology stakeholder groups.
• Experience managing technology delivery using Agile/Scrum, including backlog coordination, sprint execution, delivery tracking, and continuous improvement.
• Experience managing vendors, partner deliverables, dependencies, risks, financial commitments, and statements of work.
• Hands-on experience with Jira and Agile project-management tools.
• Strong understanding of Agile metrics and analytics, including maintenance of Scrum artifacts such as burndown charts.
• Ability to develop and maintain integrated delivery plans, milestones, project reporting, and dashboards.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities with attention to detail.
• Ability to proactively identify and manage project risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and delivery trade-offs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with the ability to communicate effectively with business, technology, vendors, Product Owners, and senior stakeholders.
• Strong facilitation skills to run Scrum ceremonies, project meetings, governance discussions, and executive-level forums.
• Ability to influence and coordinate cross-functional teams without direct authority.
• Highly organized, able to manage competing priorities and operate effectively in an environment with changing demands and ambiguity.
• Strong collaboration, accountability, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Experience managing large-scale technology transformation projects.
• Strong vendor management experience and ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders.
• Good understanding of end-to-end project management, business processes and workflows.
• Experience managing project deliverables, timelines, dependencies and risks.
• Agile/Scrum experience and hands-on Jira knowledge.
• Strong stakeholder communication and coordination skills.
Preferred Qualifications
• PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe, or equivalent project-management certifications.
• Financial-services or another highly regulated industry experience is particularly relevant to the role.
• Experience with Confluence, Microsoft Project, Planner, and Power BI.
• Canadian investment management / wealth management organizations.
• Banking, financial services or investment platform transformation projects.
• Experience with enterprise platform migrations or vendor implementations.
• Continuous-improvement mindset, with the ability to coach teams on Agile principles and improve delivery practices.
Certifications
• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
• SAFe
