Program Manager- GIS

Title:Program Manager

Location: Calgary, AB

Mode: Contract

Core Skills:

• Project leadership and delivery governance
• Project schedule management (MS Project, Jira, Azure DevOps)
• T&M contract governance
• Risk identification, change management and issue escalation
• Stakeholder communication and executive reporting
• Cutover and hypercare planning
• AMS transition planning and post-project handover planning
• Multi-vendor coordination (Esri, Oracle, VertiGIS, ArcFM)

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary client-facing point of contact for governance, status reporting, and change approvals across all project phases
• Own and protect the master project schedule, managing critical path dependencies across all phases, Oracle OCI provisioning, and integration partner timelines
• Govern T&M contract financials including milestone billing, and change order documentation
• Chair weekly steering meetings with clients (GIS, IT, and business stakeholders)
• Prepare written status reports and escalate blockers as needed
• Make or facilitate go/no-go decisions at major milestones (UAT sign-off, cutover readiness, hypercare entry and exit)
• Coordinate resource allocation across all team members and manage bandwidth risk across parallel workstreams
• Manage transition from project delivery to the AMS support team, including knowledge transfer sign-off