Program ManagerDirector

Brampton - Canada

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 2 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Role: Program Manager/Director

Location: Brampton ON

Contract

Role Summary

The Program Director is a senior leadership role responsible for strategic planning orchestration and successful delivery of complex multi-year data and technology programs across the Residential IT portfolio. This role requires strong architectural and technical competence to understand how systems integrate how data flows and how design decisions impact delivery. Technical fluency is essential for managing interdependencies identifying risks and guiding issue resolution.

Key Responsibilities

Portfolio Management & Source Of Truth

Maintain an accurate continuously updated portfolio backlog including scope milestones business priorities risks dependencies and delivery status.
Support long-range planning ensuring alignment between business priorities capacity budgets and technical feasibility.
Provide insights on delivery performance emerging risks portfolio health and critical decision points.

Technical & Architectural Competence

Understand enterprise architecture data flows integration patterns and system interactions to guide decisions.
Interpret architecture diagrams data flow maps and platform capabilities to assess risks and delivery implications.
Engage with architects and engineers to validate technical feasibility and design alignment.
Evaluate technical debt impacts modernization approaches and platform constraints.

Delivery Leadership & Execution

Provide hands-on leadership across multi-year programs ensuring scope schedule budget and quality targets.
Direct teams in creating integrated delivery plans grounded in architectural realities.
Ensure execution follows governance frameworks engineering standards and best practices.
Drive continuous iteration of plans and features as business and technical requirements evolve.

Interdependency & Release Management

Identify track and manage interdependencies across domains.
Leverage architectural understanding to anticipate collisions sequencing conflicts and integration risks.
Facilitate integrated release planning with product business and technology stakeholders.

Business Alignment & Outcome Delivery

Ensure business outcomes guide solution design and delivery decisions.
Embed business partners within delivery teams.
Maintain focus on the Why How and Who will use this across all phases.
Validate delivered capabilities meet expected business and technical value.

Coaching Leadership & Team Enablement

Mentor PMs delivery leads analysts and engineers to raise delivery maturity.
Foster collaboration unblock teams and support skills development.
Build psychological safety and drive high-performance team culture.

Risk Issue & Decision Management

Identify risks early through architectural understanding and technical analysis.
Facilitate timely escalations and structured mitigation planning.
Maintain traceability of decisions and ensure transparency across leadership.

Governance & Executive Communication

Establish and evolve governance processes including architectural checkpoints and design reviews.
Provide structured reporting with clarity on risks decisions and financial position.
Maintain executive confidence through strong transparent communication.

Financial & Vendor Management

Own multi-year program financials forecasting and variance management.
Manage external vendor relationships and integration within delivery plans.
Ensure resource and financial alignment with strategic priorities.

Qualifications

15 years of progressive experience in technology program/project leadership.
Strong understanding of enterprise architecture data flows and integration patterns.
Demonstrated success leading large-scale multi-year programs.
Experience with data platforms APIs microservices cloud technologies and large-scale systems.
Strong communication executive presence and influencing skills.
Financial management and forecasting expertise.
PMP PgMP Agile/SAFe certifications considered an asset.

Core Competencies

Technical Fluency & Systems Thinking
Strategic Planning
Cross-Functional Leadership
Program Governance
Risk & Issue Management
Stakeholder Engagement
Coaching & Mentorship
Decision-Making & Influence

Success Measures

Portfolio commitments delivered on time and on budget.
Strong alignment between business outcomes and delivered technology.
Improved maturity in governance architecture-aware planning and delivery.
High stakeholder satisfaction and reduced escalations

Role: Program Manager/Director Location: Brampton ON Contract Role Summary The Program Director is a senior leadership role responsible for strategic planning orchestration and successful delivery of complex multi-year data and technology programs across the Residential IT portfolio. This role r...