IT Project Manager / Scrum Master
Platform Transformation
Make an impact on a major transformation initiative in the insurance sector for our client.
This opportunity offers the chance to contribute to the modernization of a wealth management platform, collaborate with teams across the organization, and support an exciting transition to a new cloud-based environment.
What is in it for you:
- Salaried: $60-70 per hour.
- Incorporated Business Rate: $70-80 per hour.
- Hybrid schedule, 37.5 hours per week.
Responsibilities:
- Support the end-to-end technology delivery of the replatform transformation by translating project priorities into executable plans, milestones, dependencies, and measurable outcomes.
- Coordinate the platform transformation and overall project delivery.
- Organize and facilitate Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, Scrum calls, and project meetings.
- Partner with the Product Owner, business stakeholders, technology teams, architects, vendors, and other delivery partners to coordinate priorities and maintain delivery alignment.
- Understand business requirements and translate them into actionable IT deliverables.
- Manage project scope, schedules, resources, dependencies, risks, issues, assumptions, and deliverables.
- Maintain project plans, Agile and Scrum artifacts, Jira, 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.
- Support the conversion of wealth-management products, implementation of the new platform, and eventual decommissioning of the existing platforms.
- 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.
What you will need to succeed:
Required qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5-7+ years of experience.
- Demonstrated project or 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 and Scrum, including backlog coordination, sprint execution, delivery tracking, and continuous improvement.
- Experience managing vendors, partner deliverables, dependencies, risks, financial commitments, and statements of work.
- Experience managing project deliverables, timelines, dependencies, and risks.
- Strong knowledge of Agile, Scrum, hybrid delivery methodologies, project governance, risk management, and enterprise technology delivery.
- Good understanding of end-to-end project management, business processes, and workflows.
- Hands-on experience with Jira and Agile project-management tools.
- Strong understanding of Agile metrics and analytics, including Scrum artifacts such as burndown charts.
- Ability to develop and maintain integrated delivery plans, milestones, project reporting, and dashboards.
- Ability to proactively identify and manage project risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and delivery trade-offs.
Preferred qualifications
- Scrum certification such as Certified ScrumMaster or SAFe.
- PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe, or equivalent project-management certification.
- Experience in financial services or another highly regulated industry.
- Experience with Canadian investment management or wealth-management organizations.
- Experience with banking, financial services, or investment platform transformation projects.
- Experience with enterprise platform migrations or vendor implementations.
- Experience with Confluence, Microsoft Project, Planner, and Power BI.
Required soft skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong negotiation and conflict-resolution skills.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Ability to influence and coordinate cross-functional teams.
- Strong collaboration and accountability.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage competing priorities.
- Ability to work effectively in a complex and changing environment.
- Continuous-improvement mindset.
Why Recruit Action?
Recruit Action (agency permit: AP-2504511) provides recruitment services through quality support and a personalized approach. As part of the screening process, some applications may be reviewed using artificial intelligence tools. Only candidates who meet the hiring criteria will be contacted.
