Project Manager (IT) – Senior

Job Title: Project Manager (IT) – Senior

Project: Artificial Intelligence Delivery and Enablement (AIDE)

Client: Government of Alberta

Location: Alberta, Canada (Remote; must reside and work within Alberta)

Work Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:15 AM–4:30 PM Alberta time

Work Arrangement: Remote, with onsite meetings as required

Contract Extension: Up to 24 months

Certification: PMP certification required

Job Overview

The Government of Alberta is seeking a Senior IT Project Manager to lead and coordinate enterprise-wide Artificial Intelligence (AI) enablement and IT delivery initiatives. The successful candidate will manage projects involving enterprise AI licensing, cloud platform implementation, system integrations, security and privacy compliance, and organizational change management.

The role will work closely with executive leadership, ministry stakeholders, technical teams, vendors, and business partners to move AI solutions from initial assessment and pilot stages into governed, secure, and fully supported enterprise services.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead multiple concurrent IT and AI enablement projects, ensuring delivery within approved scope, schedule, budget, and resource constraints.
• Develop project charters, business cases, project plans, schedules, budgets, risk registers, and stakeholder management plans.
• Manage enterprise AI licensing, allocation, provisioning, utilization reporting, consumption tracking, and cost-recovery initiatives.
• Coordinate cloud platform and integration projects involving Microsoft 365, Azure, Google Cloud, SaaS platforms, APIs, identity and access management, and data connectors.
• Manage project risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, interdependencies, and mitigation strategies across complex enterprise environments.
• Coordinate Security Threat and Risk Assessments (STRAs), Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs), information classification, data residency, and responsible AI compliance requirements.
• Oversee AI pilots and proofs of concept, including use-case identification, pilot evaluation, user feedback, readiness assessments, and recommendations for enterprise rollout.
• Plan and coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT), release readiness, implementation, and transition to operational support teams.
• Lead organizational change management, stakeholder communications, training coordination, and user adoption initiatives.
• Collaborate with ministry leaders, project sponsors, vendors, enterprise architecture, security, privacy, legal, procurement, and finance teams.
• Prepare project status reports, executive presentations, recommendations, and briefing materials for senior management and ministerial audiences.
• Monitor project performance against milestones, budgets, adoption targets, and expected business outcomes.
• Identify process improvements, document lessons learned, and establish reusable delivery practices across projects.

Mandatory Qualifications

• PMP certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI).
• Meet or exceed the client's specified education requirements.
• Minimum 8 years of experience developing and managing project schedules.
• Minimum 8 years of experience identifying, analyzing, and managing risks on large, complex projects.
• Minimum 2 years of experience implementing large-scale cloud-based projects and services.
• Minimum 3 years of experience delivering Microsoft 365 implementation projects involving multiple Office 365 services.
• Strong knowledge of project management methodologies, governance frameworks, risk management, budgeting, scheduling, and resource planning.
• Experience coordinating enterprise IT stakeholders, technical teams, vendors, and business sponsors.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level reporting and presentations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience delivering generative AI or agentic AI tools in an enterprise environment.
• Experience implementing chargeback, cost recovery, licensing utilization, and consumption/spend reporting.
• Experience leading enterprise-scale IT projects and programs.
• Experience with organizational change management, user adoption, and distributed business champion networks.
• Experience managing technology pilots or proofs of concept through enterprise implementation.
• Experience planning and coordinating UAT for enterprise technology projects.
• Experience managing enterprise AI licence rollout, allocation, and lifecycle processes.
• Experience coordinating security controls, privacy assessments, and responsible AI requirements.
• Experience in requirements gathering, process improvement, documentation, and policy analysis.
• Public-sector project delivery experience, preferably within a government environment.

Technical Knowledge

• Microsoft 365, Office 365, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
• Enterprise SaaS licensing, cloud subscriptions, and consumption-based pricing models.
• Identity and access management, APIs, cloud integrations, data connectors, and hybrid IT environments.
• Generative AI, AI agents, model selection, grounding, responsible AI risks, and AI service lifecycle management.
• ServiceNow request and provisioning workflows.
• Security and privacy assessment processes, including STRA and PIA.
• User Acceptance Testing, release management, operational handover, and IT change management.

Soft Skills

• Strong leadership, organization, and independent decision-making abilities.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities across multiple projects and sponsors.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, negotiation, and risk mitigation skills.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to business stakeholders and executive leadership.

Additional Requirements

• The resource must provide their own computer and related equipment compatible with Azure Virtual Desktop (Windows preferred).
• The successful candidate must work from within Alberta, Canada.
• Availability for onsite meetings in Alberta may be required, potentially up to 3–4 times per month.
• A criminal record check and mandatory government security and privacy training are required.
• All required experience must be clearly documented under the relevant employment or project entries on the resume, with dates formatted as MMM/YYYY to MMM/YYYY.