RQ00752 - Project Manager/Leader - Intermediate

Maarut•Toronto, ON

About The Position

The Technical Project Manager is expected to set direction on delivery, challenge assumptions and estimates, hold teams and vendors to their commitments, unblock dependencies, and escalate decisively while respecting clear accountability boundaries. Driving outcomes does not mean performing other teams’ work, it means ensuring that work is defined, resourced, sequenced, completed and verified. The role is responsible for: owning the end-to-end delivery plan and driving the initiative to Iteration 1 production go-live and beyond; working backwards from the target production date to sequence development and ETL completion, integration and configuration, UAT/QA, TRA and ARB approvals, cutover and early-life support, producing and defending realistic, evidence-based estimates, and challenging optimistic or unsupported timelines wherever they arise; driving completion of critical milestones across all parties - internal teams, vendors and partners, not merely reporting on them ensuring full technical due diligence for responsible adoption: architecture artefacts, ARB gates, Threat Risk Assessment (TRA), security and privacy assessments, and enterprise production-readiness criteria ensuring the solution meets Enterprise Technology standards, policies, architectural decisions and data sensitivity requirements supporting the Data and Analytics team as business owners of the platform, while holding the solution to appropriate Security and Technology standards establishing and enforcing a single authoritative source of truth for requirements and user stories, operationalizing the agreed RACI and guarding accountability boundaries so responsibilities are not silently shifted leading vendor and partner engagement, holding them to scope, deliverables and timelines, and catching misalignment early reporting status, risk and required decisions honestly and clearly to senior leadership, and driving delivery discussions toward facts and ownership, what is missing, who owns it, when it will be resolved. Core outcome: a governed, production-ready and sustainable Collibra implementation that is delivered through clear technical project management, completed due diligence, validated readiness, and accountable transition to business and operational ownership.

Requirements

7–10+ years of hands-on technical project management experience leading enterprise technology, SaaS, data platform, or complex system implementation initiatives from planning through production go-live.
Demonstrated ability to work backwards from the target production date to sequence development and ETL completion, integration and configuration, UAT/QA, TRA and ARB approvals, cutover, and early-life support.
Proven ability to produce and defend realistic, evidence-based estimates, and to challenge optimistic or unsupported timelines wherever they arise.
Experience implementing or operating Collibra, data intelligence, metadata management, data catalogue, data quality, lineage, or comparable platforms.
Strong understanding of data governance operating models, workflows, stewardship, ownership, and decision rights.
Ability to translate business and technical needs into executable project scope, requirements, milestones, dependencies, acceptance criteria, risks, decisions, and delivery outcomes.
Experience coordinating SaaS platform configuration, integrations, testing, releases, and operational transition.
Strong vendor, stakeholder, executive communication, facilitation, dependency management, escalation, and decision-management skills.
Ability to operate effectively in complex, multi-stakeholder, regulated environments.

Responsibilities

Owning the end-to-end delivery plan and driving the initiative to Iteration 1 production go-live and beyond.
Working backwards from the target production date to sequence development and ETL completion, integration and configuration, UAT/QA, TRA and ARB approvals, cutover and early-life support.
Producing and defending realistic, evidence-based estimates, and challenging optimistic or unsupported timelines wherever they arise.
Driving completion of critical milestones across all parties - internal teams, vendors and partners, not merely reporting on them.
Ensuring full technical due diligence for responsible adoption: architecture artefacts, ARB gates, Threat Risk Assessment (TRA), security and privacy assessments, and enterprise production-readiness criteria.
Ensuring the solution meets Enterprise Technology standards, policies, architectural decisions and data sensitivity requirements.
Supporting the Data and Analytics team as business owners of the platform, while holding the solution to appropriate Security and Technology standards.
Establishing and enforcing a single authoritative source of truth for requirements and user stories.
Operationalizing the agreed RACI and guarding accountability boundaries so responsibilities are not silently shifted.
Leading vendor and partner engagement, holding them to scope, deliverables and timelines, and catching misalignment early.
Reporting status, risk and required decisions honestly and clearly to senior leadership.
Driving delivery discussions toward facts and ownership, what is missing, who owns it, when it will be resolved.