VertiGIS Application Upgrade - Senior Project Manager

Project Overview

The VertiGIS Application Upgrade project within the Geospatial Ontario IT Program involves upgrading up to 18 business-critical geospatial applications from Geocortex to the next-generation VertiGIS platform. The project will preserve current functionality while upgrading the underlying technology and application codebase, ensuring alignment with GO-ITS standards, mitigating risks, and improving integration with modern GIS capabilities. The upgraded applications will address existing performance issues, support AODA compliance, and deliver an improved user experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Leads organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.
• Gathers and develops requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.
• Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met
• Experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope
• Ability to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies
• Demonstrated experience directing project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards
• Extensive experience coordinating and monitoring project processes, and developing/communicating guidelines and procedures
• Sources, selects and on-boards team members in various disciplines, clarify roles and responsibilities and set task/deliverable/performance expectations for resources that are both OPS unionized employees as well as fee for service (FFS) consultants.
• Resolves resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiates changes to resourcing, ensures knowledge is shared among team members such as project objectives and deliverables are met.
• Effectively manages large project budgets and ensures a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals.
• Proactively identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
• Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.
• Establishes and participates in steering committee and stakeholder forums
• Provides, project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.
• Uses appropriate strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of projects – concept, definition, planning, implementation and close-out.
• Promotes OPS I&IT standards and best practices for project management to facilitate control of system quality, adherence to standard methodology and the control of the use of I&IT resources.

Qualifications & Requirements

REQUIRED

• Must be able to work 5 days onsite per week at a locally available Ontario Public Service office.
• Experience leading projects involving Esri-based geospatial solutions, ArcGIS Portal, ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Image Server, GIS infrastructure, middleware, maintenance, services, applications, databases, monitoring, and tools.
• Experience leading projects involving integrated networking technologies, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Spatial, MS Fabric, midrange server, enterprise storage, and personal computer system technologies.

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience leading projects involving Esri-based geospatial solutions, ArcGIS Portal, ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Image Server, GIS infrastructure, middleware, maintenance, services, applications, databases, monitoring, and tools.
• Experience leading projects involving integrated networking technologies, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Spatial, MS Fabric, midrange server, enterprise storage, and personal computer system technologies.
• Knowledge and understanding of Project Management’s Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices
• Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
• Ability to make recommendations on the acquisition of software, hardware, and technology resources
• Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring, anticipates and troubleshoots issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolves problems and provides project effectiveness
• Ability to identify conflict between project and functional areas and develops responses to successfully address conflict
• Ability to handle client relationships to manage expectations, provides updates as required, identifies potential conflicts between project and functional areas

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Project Management Experience - 45 points

• Formal Project Management training
• Experience leading large, technically complex projects
• Experience identifying issues, risks, setting out project timelines, tracking, managing, and reporting progress
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary projects with IT groups, industry, and business clients

Communication Experience - 30 points

• Experience resolving conflict
• Experience communicating technical concepts to lay audiences
• Experience negotiating project direction to achieve consensus
• Experience coordinating Business Analysts and stakeholder engagement

Technical Experience - 20 points

• Experience leading GIS (Esri) based projects e.g, ArcGIS Portal and/or ArcGIS Online
• Experience leading IT Infrastructure modernization and maintenance focused projects
• Experience with Microsoft Azure infrastructure

IT Public Sector Experience - 5 points

• Experience leading projects in the Land and Resources I&IT Cluster (LRC)
• Experience overseeing Digital First Assessments, Cyber Security, Architecture reviews and other corporate reviews from within the Ontario Government
• Experience coordinating the design and implementation of new IT solutions within the Ontario Government

Key Skills & Competencies

Esri, ArcGIS Portal, ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Image Server, GIS, Middleware, Database Management, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Spatial, MS Fabric, Midrange Server, Enterprise Storage, Networking, Geocortex, VertiGIS, Geoprocessing