Director leading Intact’s national forensic engineering team for complex property and casualty insurance claims. Driving governance, transformation, quality, budgets and dispersed - team performance across Canada.
About the role
- Directeur(trice) de projet senior pilotant des projets TI complexes et réglementés chez Wepoint. Coordination de la gouvernance, des partenaires et des livrables pour des organisations publiques et privées.
Responsibilities
- Manage project planning, execution, and reporting with internal and government stakeholders.
- Ensure a shared understanding of the project vision, governance, technology direction, scope, and schedule.
- Coordinate stakeholders, assess risks, and establish realistic timelines aligned with strategic objectives.
- Develop, maintain, and obtain approval for project plans, including objectives, deliverables, budgets, schedule, and governance structure.
- Lead kickoff, status, risk management, and project closure meetings.
- Oversee work progress and make the adjustments required to meet the schedule.
- Prepare status reports, project reviews, dashboards, and decision-support materials for governance bodies.
- Provide strategic recommendations and actively participate in decision-making.
- Present progress, critical risks, and issues requiring strategic intervention to senior management.
- Monitor project performance in terms of scope, costs, schedule, quality, risks, and outstanding items.
- Validate that delivered results comply with functional and technological requirements.
- Identify and manage risks, issues, and change requests; recommend and track corrective actions.
- Submit final deliverables for approval and prepare communications for senior management, institutional partners, or the media.
- Collaborate with external service providers and internal partners to resolve issues, optimize solutions, and maintain an architecture aligned with business needs.
- Serve as the liaison between technical teams, vendors, the primary service provider, and management.
- Participate in committees and working groups to identify issues, validate requirements, and coordinate activities.
- Optimize design, integration, and deployment processes with the primary service provider.
- Monitor change requests, incidents, and technical issues.
- Support the transition to operations, including knowledge transfer, application support preparation, and the definition and negotiation of service-level agreements.
- Plan, organize, direct, and supervise the work of internal and external teams.
- Recommend the optimal use of the hours bank and mobilize strategic internal expertise.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, business administration, management, or a related field.
- At least twelve (12) years of experience in information technology.
- At least ten (10) years of experience managing IT projects, including a minimum of five (5) years specifically managing complex, large-scale information technology projects.
- Proven experience managing cross-functional projects involving multidisciplinary teams and multiple stakeholders.
- Hands-on experience managing IT projects in diverse environments with multiple partners.
- Experience managing multiple project teams, each led by a different project manager.
- Participation in at least three (3) engagements involving 5,000 person-days completed within the past eight (8) years, in a comparable technological and organizational context.
- At least fifteen (15) years of experience managing large-scale projects.
- Demonstrated expertise in managing complex technology development projects and custom solutions.
- Proven experience managing projects involving complex technology architectures, multisystem integrations, and environments with significant operational interdependencies.
- Recognized expertise in risk management, strategic project governance, and coordinating deliverables from internal and external teams.
- Excellent ability to manage internal and external stakeholders, build strong client relationships, and ensure effective governance in complex, multidisciplinary environments.
- Only candidates legally authorized to work for any employer in Canada will be considered.
Benefits
- Minimum of 3 weeks of vacation starting from the first year
- Comprehensive group insurance with a generous employer contribution
- Employer contribution to a group RRSP
- Full remote work flexibility: Hybrid, Remote, or On-site
- A warm, bright, and welcoming office offering fresh fruit, coffee, beverages, occasional meals, etc.
- Annual IT equipment budget
- A balanced work environment with flexible working hours
- Career development: training and certifications, online or in-person learning, Wepoint Academy, etc.
- An international community of experts ready to share their knowledge
- A company culture focused on individuals’ needs and their belonging to a strong community
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