Technical Program Manager

Summary

• Experience Level: Level 4 (advanced): Minimum 7 years
• Duration: 12 Months Contract
• Location: Montreal
• Work Mode: Hybrid (in-office presence required 3x/week)

Responsibilities

• Partner with product and engineering teams to support development and execution of portfolio roadmap.
• Plan, coordinate, and support day-to-day execution of assigned programs and initiatives.
• Lead and facilitate large program planning activities to align objectives, timelines, and deliverables across initiatives.
• Track, monitor, and report program progress, risks, dependencies, and outcomes across multiple stakeholders.
• Ensure program execution aligns with enterprise and sector program management standards.
• Work with product and stakeholders to define requirements, manage schedules, identify risks, and communicate status and recommendations.
• Facilitate regular reviews with leadership to assess program progress and validate outcomes.
• Support engineering rigor by ensuring delivery aligns with agreed acceptance criteria and definitions of done.
• Identify and resolve impediments, escalating as appropriate through established governance channels.
• Apply facilitation and dependency-management techniques to drive cross-program and cross-team coordination.
• Maintain visibility into interdependencies and manage escalations to support delivery of business value.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and support change initiatives across programs.

Requirements

• Proven experience in enterprise program management, PMO leadership, process management, or large-scale software delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to run complex, high-visibility programs involving multiple workstreams and competing priorities.
• Strong PMO discipline, including governance, portfolio alignment, milestone planning, RAID management, and executive reporting.
• Experience managing difficult partners and challenging stakeholders while maintaining professionalism and driving alignment.
• Skilled at influencing without direct authority across product, engineering, risk, operations, business, and leadership teams.
• Experience delivering complex technical programs within cloud, cybersecurity, infrastructure, risk, or software engineering environments.
• Strong understanding of agile delivery practices, including Scrum, Kanban, and Scaled Agile frameworks.
• Ability to drive clarity from ambiguity by defining scope, success criteria, and measurable outcomes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex technical information into clear updates.
• Strong facilitation and negotiation skills, including the ability to lead working sessions and resolve blockers.
• Ability to manage risk, dependencies, delivery timelines, and resource constraints across multiple initiatives.

Preferred Skills

• One or more relevant certifications (e.g., PMP, PgMP, Scrum Master, Product Owner, Agile Coach, SAFe) preferred.
• Sufficient technical depth to facilitate architecture and system discussions and reviews.
• Experience in major public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), vulnerability management, application security, automation, and CI/CD tools.

This role is for an existing vacancy.