IT Project Manager
Infrastructure Transition and SharePoint Migration
Location: Brampton, Ontario - on-site
Position Summary
We are seeking an experienced IT Project Manager to lead infrastructure transition, collaboration-platform migration, and data-service initiatives in a complex enterprise environment.
Initial projects include transitioning infrastructure from an external organization into the internal environment, migrating SharePoint 2013 to SharePoint Online, and delivering a Google Roads Management Insights (RMI) initiative.
The successful candidate will coordinate technical teams, vendors, and business stakeholders to deliver projects with clear governance, controlled risk, and minimal disruption to operations.
Key Responsibilities
Project Planning and Delivery
- Manage projects from initiation and planning through implementation, transition to support, and closure.
- Define scope, deliverables, schedules, resource requirements, budgets, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
- Maintain risk and issue logs, decision records, change requests, and project status reports.
- Identify delivery risks, coordinate mitigation plans, and escalate decisions promptly.
- Manage competing priorities and dependencies across multiple projects.
- Facilitate technical working sessions, stakeholder meetings, and leadership updates.
Infrastructure Transition
- Lead the transition of infrastructure and related services from an external organization into the internal environment.
- Coordinate discovery, readiness assessments, dependency mapping, and transition planning.
- Work with infrastructure, networking, identity, security, and application teams to sequence activities and establish ownership.
- Coordinate testing, cutover plans, rollback readiness, and post-transition stabilization.
- Ensure operational teams receive appropriate documentation and knowledge transfer.
SharePoint Migration
- Manage the migration from SharePoint 2013 to SharePoint Online.
- Coordinate assessments of existing sites, content, permissions, workflows, and integrations.
- Work with technical teams and business owners to identify remediation requirements and migration priorities.
- Manage migration waves, testing, business validation, and cutover activities.
- Coordinate communications, training, adoption, and transition to support.
Google Roads Management Insights
- Manage the Google Roads Management Insights initiative, supporting the organization’s use of aggregated traffic data.
- Work with business stakeholders to define use cases, deliverables, and acceptance criteria.
- Coordinate technical specialists and vendors on data access, integration requirements, testing, and operational readiness.
- Track dependencies involving data governance, security, privacy, and access approvals.
- Coordinate validation of project outputs and handover to the teams responsible for ongoing use and support.
Governance and Stakeholder Management
- Provide clear reporting on progress, budgets, risks, issues, and decisions.
- Coordinate security, privacy, procurement, and change-management activities with the responsible teams.
- Manage vendor deliverables and follow up on commitments.
- Maintain complete project documentation and obtain stakeholder acceptance.
- Plan implementation activities around operational requirements and approved change windows.
Required Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience managing enterprise IT infrastructure transitions and migration projects.
- Experience coordinating internal technical teams and external service providers.
- Experience delivering SharePoint migrations, preferably from SharePoint 2013 to SharePoint Online.
- Working knowledge of infrastructure, networking, identity and access management, cloud services, and application dependencies.
- Experience coordinating data integration or analytics-related technology projects.
- Strong project planning, scheduling, budgeting, risk management, and change-control skills.
- Ability to translate technical issues into clear business updates and actionable decisions.
- Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, documentation, and communication skills.
- Experience managing testing, cutovers, operational readiness, and transition to support.
- Ability to work on-site in Brampton, Ontario, throughout the engagement.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in regulated, security-sensitive, or operationally critical environments.
- Experience with infrastructure separation, service-provider transitions, or bringing externally managed services in-house.
- Familiarity with Microsoft 365 governance, SharePoint permissions, and content migration.
- Exposure to Google Maps Platform, Roads Management Insights, geospatial data, or traffic analytics.
- Experience coordinating cloud data platforms, APIs, or BigQuery-related initiatives.
- PMP, PRINCE2, or a comparable project management certification.
- Relevant postsecondary education in Information Technology, Business, Project Management, or equivalent practical experience.
