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Description

The Senior Project Manager for Telecom initiatives at National Bank plays a crucial role in orchestrating and delivering complex, large-scale technology projects. This position demands strong leadership, exceptional organizational skills, and experience in Agile/SAFe project delivery to ensure projects align with technological strategy, contribute to overall security, and foster a motivating work environment. Responsibilities include managing project implementation, anticipating cybersecurity and compliance impacts, optimizing resource utilization, resolving complex issues, and proactively managing risks. The role also involves producing progress reports, ensuring IT and business alignment, and influencing senior management and strategic suppliers.

What We're Looking For

Manage and implement large-scale technology projects with high complexity and strategic impact, ensuring cross-functional scope contributes to technological strategy and security.,Anticipate impacts on cybersecurity, compliance, and service continuity.,Optimize resource utilization.,Diagnose and resolve complex issues.,Proactively manage operational and financial risks and challenges.,Produce progress reports and adapt communication to various audiences.,Ensure alignment between IT and Business teams and maintain a cross-functional organizational vision.,Act as a transformation agent, promote organizational values, and ensure constant communication with all internal and external stakeholders.,Influence and exercise governance with senior management.,Negotiate with strategic suppliers.,Influence technological directions and initiate long-term standards and policies.

Ideal Candidate

Bachelor's degree and 7 years of relevant experience or Master's degree and 5 years of relevant experience.,Minimum 7 years as a manager of large-scale projects in a major company.,Experience in workshop facilitation, coaching, Agile/SAFe mode.,Proficiency with Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence).,Demonstrated leadership in complex and cross-functional contexts.,Ability to support a technical team in developing their practices and achieving a high level of organizational performance.,PMP (Project Management Professional) certification (required or strongly desired).,Cloud certification (AWS or Azure) or certification in progress (required or strongly desired).

Minimum Education

Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree

Hard Skills

Agile Methodologies
Project Governance
Project Management
Risk Management
Network protocols (TCP/IP
MPLS
VLAN
VPN (IPSec
SSL)
SD-WAN)
Network infrastructure (LAN/WAN
Wi-Fi
firewalls
routers
switches)
Cybersecurity (network segmentation
IDS/IPS
cryptography
vulnerability management)
ISO/IEC 27001
NIST
CIS Controls
Compliance
Service continuity
Atlassian tools (JIRA
Confluence)
Cloud (AWS
Azure)

Soft Skills

Change Management
Coaching
Driving Results
Emotional Intelligence
Negotiation
Organization Skills
Problem Solving
Influence
Mobilization
Resiliency
Team Alignment
Leadership

Work Hours

Full-Time (flexible, adaptable schedule)

Benefits

Health and wellness program
Flexible group insurance
Generous pension plan
Employee Share Ownership Plan
Employee and Family Assistance Program
Preferential banking services
Opportunities to get involved in community initiatives
Telemedicine service
Virtual sleep clinic

About the Company

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National Bank of Canada

National Bank of Canada is one of the six systemically important banks in Canada, providing a comprehensive range of financial services to individuals, businesses, and institutional clients. Headquartered in Montreal, it is the leading financial institution in Quebec and holds strong positions across the country and internationally. The bank is committed to a people-first approach, fostering an entrepreneurial culture and sustainable growth for its communities.

Entrepreneurial
Inclusive
People-centric
Agile
Impactful
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