An Initial AI Screening will be conducted for this role
Contract Duration: 12 months
Typical Day in Role:
The Project Manager will act as the primary coordination point between Scotiabank, Bell, business stakeholders, and branch teams to ensure successful delivery of migration activities.
Key responsibilities include:
- Managing end-to-end planning and execution of branch network migrations
- Applying project management methodologies, governance, and best practices throughout delivery
- Acting as the primary liaison for the Data Workstream between Scotiabank and Bell
- Managing and refining migration schedules within a rolling 3-month planning horizon
- Working closely with Bell to finalize migration plans for upcoming 4–6 week deployment periods
- Ensuring migration communications are accurate, timely, and distributed to appropriate business stakeholders
- Monitoring migration readiness, deployment risks, equipment availability, and site dependencies
- Tracking progress against migration targets and delivery objectives
- Facilitating migration and cutover calls during evening deployment windows
- Escalating and resolving issues that may impact branch deployment schedules
- Coordinating remediation activities when site-specific issues arise
- Managing requests for accelerated or reprioritized branch migrations
- Collaborating with business lines that communicate migration impacts to individual branches
- Maintaining stakeholder alignment across technology, business, operations, and vendor teams
- Ensuring vendor adherence to service commitments, processes, and contractual SLAs
- Delivery Environment
- Current migration target: 64 branch migrations per month
- Stretch target: 72+ migrations per month
- Bell operates within a rolling 3-month deployment schedule
- Migration schedules may be impacted by equipment delays, site readiness concerns, remediation requirements, or changing business priorities
- Core infrastructure preparation, testing, data center readiness, equipment ordering, and lab validation activities have already been completed, and the program is currently focused on large-scale migration execution
Must Have Skills:
- 10+ years as an IT Project Manager leading complex technology projects
- Migration project experience on a longer-term project, including:
- Demonstrated experience managing infrastructure, network, or technology migration programs over an extended project lifecycle
- Experience coordinating deployment schedules, cutovers, and implementation activities
- Strong experience managing external vendors and delivery partners
- Experience working with telecommunications providers (Bell, Rogers, Telus, etc.) is considered a strong asset
- Managed service provider project experience:
- Experience working within managed service delivery environments
- Ability to manage vendor commitments, performance metrics, and service-level obligations
- Network technology project experience involving MPLS and/or SD-WAN technologies
Nice-To-Have Skills:
- Testing management or test coordination experience
- Financial services or banking industry experience
- Experience supporting branch transformation or branch migration programs
- Experience supporting geographically distributed deployments across multiple sites
Soft Skills Required:
- Ability to communicate effectively with technical infrastructure teams and understand migration impacts
- Exceptional stakeholder management capabilities
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent organizational and planning abilities
- Strong attention to detail
- Proven coordination and facilitation skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
- Strong problem-solving and issue management capabilities
- Ability to influence and drive alignment across technical, business, and vendor stakeholders
- Professional presence and confidence when leading executive and operational discussions
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