TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER
Location: downtown Toronto – hybrid 3 days a week
Full-time: Career role Market rate +
Looking for Technical Project Manager to lead the delivery of technology initiatives within a fast-paced banking environment. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing multiple concurrent projects while partnering closely with business and technology stakeholders to ensure successful outcomes. In addition to strong project delivery capabilities, the role requires business analysis skills to support requirements gathering, stakeholder alignment, process analysis, and solution delivery. The ideal candidate combines strong organizational and communication skills with the ability to navigate both project execution and business engagement activities. They are comfortable operating across all phases of the project lifecycle, from planning and requirements definition through implementation and delivery.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Manage multiple concurrent technology initiatives, with projects of varying size, scope and complexity.
- Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, budgets, resource forecasts, status reports, and governance materials.
- Lead project governance activities, including stakeholder meetings, status reporting, issue management, and executive communications.
- Coordinate delivery efforts across business stakeholders, technology teams, vendors, and offshore resources.
- Facilitate requirements gathering sessions and stakeholder workshops to define business objectives, scope, and solution requirements.
- Document and manage business requirements, process flows, user stories, functional specifications, and project artifacts as required.
- Partner with business and technology teams to ensure requirements are clearly understood and translated into actionable delivery plans.
- Monitor project financials, including budget management, forecasting, resource planning, and variance reporting.
- Proactively identify, communicate, and manage project risks, issues, dependencies, and change requests.
- Support testing, business readiness, implementation planning, and stakeholder sign-off activities.
- Drive accountability across delivery teams to ensure commitments, milestones, and project objectives are achieved.
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE
- 7+ years of experience managing technology projects within large, complex organizations.
- Strong banking or financial services industry experience.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while balancing competing priorities and deadlines.
- Experience leading application, data, infrastructure, or enterprise technology initiatives.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively at both business and technology levels.
- Experience facilitating requirements gathering sessions and documenting business and functional requirements.
- Strong understanding of project financial management, including budgeting, forecasting, tracking, and reporting.
- Experience coordinating work across vendors, third-party partners, and offshore delivery teams.
- Proven ability to anticipate, assess, and mitigate project risks and dependencies.
- Experience working within Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery environments.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to bridge business and technology teams.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in asset management, wealth management, or capital markets organizations would be an asset.
- Experience using Clarity PPM for project governance, financial management, and portfolio reporting would be an asset.
