Project Manager (Project Governance) Category: Project Management
Main location: Canada, Ontario, Toronto
Position ID:J1026-0752
Employment Type: Full Time
Position Description: Role Summary
The Project Manager is accountable for the successful delivery of one or more projects within a broader modernization program, ensuring scope, schedule, budget, quality, and stakeholder commitments are met.
Working closely with Program Managers, Solution Architects, Product Owners, and delivery teams, this role drives day to day delivery execution, reporting, and issue resolution while maintaining control of project governance.
This role is part of an AI first software engineering organization where Artificial Intelligence is integrated throughout the software development lifecycle. Candidates must demonstrate practical experience leveraging AI to improve productivity, quality, and delivery outcomes using modern AI assisted development practices.
Your future duties and responsibilities: Key Responsibilities
. Provide leadership across project or program planning, governance, execution, and delivery tracking.
. Define and monitor scope, schedule, budget, dependencies, risks, issues, and change control actions.
. Maintain clear communication with executive stakeholders, delivery teams, and client counterparts.
. Track progress against milestones and provide actionable reporting on status, decisions, and escalations.
. Coordinate resources, vendors, and cross functional contributors to support delivery outcomes.
. Ensure delivery artifacts are complete, accurate, and aligned to contractual and organizational commitments.
. Support the adoption of AI enabled delivery practices, including AI SDLC and BMAD where applicable.
. Drive continuous improvement and support the resolution of delivery blockers and priority issues.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role: Required Qualifications
. 10+ years of experience in project or program management within complex enterprise environments.
. Demonstrated experience leading cross functional teams through large scale technology delivery.
. Strong capability in schedule, budget, issue, risk, and change management.
. Experience managing stakeholder expectations, governance forums, and executive reporting.
. Experience with both Agile and Waterfall delivery approaches, including hybrid models.
. Strong financial and commercial acumen, including forecasting, controls, and reporting.
. Demonstrated experience working within AI enabled Software Development Lifecycle (AI SDLC) environments.
. Understanding of the Business Model Assisted Development (BMAD) framework or comparable AI native delivery practices.
. Strong leadership, communication, facilitation, and conflict resolution skills.
. Experience in telecom, regulated, or mission critical environments is an asset.
Preferred Qualifications
. PMP, PgMP, or equivalent project/program management certification.
. Experience in telecommunications or other regulated industries.
. Experience with large scale modernization, migration, or cloud transformation programs.
. Experience with Agile frameworks such as SAFe or PMI ACP.
. Experience working with offshore, onshore, or distributed delivery teams.
. Experience leading AI enabled transformation initiatives.
CGI is providing a reasonable estimate of the pay range for this role. The determination of this range includes factors such as skill set level, geographic market, experience and training, and licenses and certifications. Compensation decisions depend on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $95,000-$145,000. This role is an existing vacancy.
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Skills: - Artificial Intelligence
- Client management
- English
- Project Management
- Requirements Analysis
- Stakeholder management
- Team Collaboration
