RQ11604 - Project Manager/Leader - Senior

Responsibilities: • Provide senior functional expertise, project leadership and coordination of activities in the functional design and delivery of the project. • Provide functional advice to clients and team leveraging their PeopleSoft HCM functional knowledge to meet project Human Capital Management functional knowledge to meet goals and objectives ensuring efficiency. • Provide specialized PeopleSoft HCM Functional expertise in leading the analysis, design and configuration of the Ontario Public Service (OPS) enterprise HR/Payroll system. • Ability to analyze, evaluate and prioritize potential issues and provide advice on resolution. • Suggest opportunities to improve design and configuration of PeopleSoft modules in use • Lead system analysts and senior functional analysts' team for both OPS and Fee-for-service resources. • Experience with quality assurance principles, practices, tools and structure methodology, including defect tracking and handling. • Provide senior technical expertise, project leadership and coordination of activities in the testing of I&IT solutions -Peoplesoft PUM upgrade, Tools upgrade and turning on new features including UI changes • Provide technical advice to clients and leverage OPS I&IT solutions and applications to meet program/service goals and objectives ensuring efficiency • Provides specialized PeopleSoft HCM technical expertise in leading the testing the OPS enterprise HR/Payroll system • Ability to analyze, evaluate and prioritize potential defects • Suggests opportunities to improve testing quality or effort Requirements Experience and Skill Set Requirements: Must Haves: • Provide senior functional expertise, project leadership and coordination of activities in the functional design and delivery of the project. • Provide functional advice to clients and team leveraging their PeopleSoft HCM functional knowledge to meet project Human Capital Management functional knowledge to meet goals and objectives ensuring efficiency. • PeopleSoft HCM Functional expertise in leading the analysis, design and configuration. • Significant Knowledge of Human Resources and Payroll business functions especially as it related to the OraclePeopleSoft 9.2+ HCM applications and integration points, e.g. fluid, PUM upgrade, PS tools upgrade, including onboarding, benefits enrolment and life event management • Experience leading functional teams to perform analysis, design and configuration for entire project lifecycle. • Experience leading functional tests, system integration, load, performance, user acceptance, and payroll parallel testing for the PeopleSoft HCM application • Experience with quality assurance principles, practices, tools and structure methodology, including defect tracking and handling. • Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; organizational, creativity and perseverance skills; verbal and written communication skills; and interpersonal skills. • Should have a minimum of 5+ years of functional lead experience and 5+ years of experience as a QA. Nice to have: • PeopleSoft HCM Functional expertise in leading the analysis, design and configuration of the Ontario Public Service (OPS) enterprise HR/Payroll system or at a Public Service client. Skill Set Requirements: • Significant Knowledge of Human Resources and Payroll business functions especially as it related to the OraclePeopleSoft 9.2+ HCM applications and integration points, e.g. fluid, PUM upgrade, PS tools upgrade, including onboarding, benefits enrolment and life event management • Experience leading functional teams to perform analysis, design and configuration for entire project lifecycle. • Experience leading functional tests, system integration, load, performance, user acceptance, and payroll parallel testing for the PeopleSoft HCM application • Experience with quality assurance principles, practices, tools and structure methodology, including defect tracking and handling. • Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; organizational, creativity and perseverance skills; verbal and written communication skills; and interpersonal skills Desirable Skills: • 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