At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead complex tech initiatives and bring teams together for high-quality solutions.
- Company: Join a leading financial services company focused on innovation and customer-centric solutions.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, flexible work environment, and comprehensive health benefits.
- Other info: Great opportunities for career growth and a supportive, inclusive workplace.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by solving complex challenges in a dynamic digital transformation.
- Qualifications: 3+ years in technical program management and strong communication skills required.
The predicted salary is between 135000 - 165000 $ per year.
Are you a self-starter who thrives on solving complex technical and delivery challenges? Are you passionate about bringing teams together to deliver high-quality solutions? If so, then we want to hear from you! We are seeking an experienced Technical Program Manager to lead complex, cross-functional technology initiatives supporting our omni-channel communications and document management platform. Your leadership will be critical to coordinating work across teams, maintaining delivery momentum, and ensuring technology solutions achieve intended business and customer outcomes.
Position Responsibilities:
- Lead the end-to-end lifecycle of complex technology initiatives, from planning and mobilization through delivery, implementation, and post-implementation review.
- Define program scope, objectives, outcomes, milestones, delivery plans, governance, and success measures in partnership with business and technology stakeholders.
- Coordinate work across engineering, architecture, product, operations, security, risk, and vendor teams to maintain alignment and delivery momentum.
- Build and maintain integrated program plans that identify milestones, resources, cross-team dependencies, critical paths, and delivery commitments.
- Proactively identify, assess, and manage risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies, driving mitigation plans and escalating decisions when needed.
- Establish clear governance, reporting, and decision-making forums to provide stakeholders and leaders with timely visibility into program health, progress, tradeoffs, and outcomes.
- Facilitate planning sessions, status reviews, dependency discussions, and retrospectives that result in clear decisions, actions, owners, and target dates.
- Partner with technical leads to understand solution architecture, delivery constraints, implementation sequencing, operational readiness, and nonfunctional requirements.
- Manage changes to scope, schedule, and delivery approach through transparent impact assessment, stakeholder alignment, and documented decisions.
- Track program performance and delivery metrics, using data and insights to improve predictability, quality, and execution.
- Ensure implementation, release, change management, and operational readiness activities are coordinated and completed successfully.
- Lead post-implementation reviews, capture lessons learned, and drive continuous improvement across program delivery practices.
- Bring an innovative mindset to improving delivery processes, team collaboration, and technology outcomes.
Required Qualifications:
- Minimum 3+ years of experience in technical program management, technical project management, technology delivery, or a similar role.
- Experience with program and project tracking tools such as Jira, Confluence, or similar platforms.
- Experience with Agile, hybrid, and traditional program delivery methodologies.
- Experience managing large, complex initiatives spanning multiple teams, systems, vendors, or business areas.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, collaboration, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to translate complex technical information into clear plans, decisions, and updates for technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Ability to influence without direct authority, create accountability, and drive progress in a matrixed environment.
- Experience developing executive-level status reporting, delivery metrics, risk assessments, and decision materials.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Business, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- PMP certified.
- Knowledge of life insurance or financial services workflows and regulatory considerations is an asset.
When you join our team:
- We’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.
- We’ll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.
- As part of our global team, we’ll support you in shaping the future you want to see.
Technical Program Manager in Toronto employer: Société Financière Manuvie
At Manulife, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer that fosters a culture of inclusivity and growth. Our hybrid work environment in Toronto allows for flexibility while providing comprehensive benefits, including customizable health plans and generous paid leave. We are committed to empowering our employees to shape their careers and support their well-being, making us an ideal place for those seeking meaningful and rewarding employment.
Contact Details:
Société Financière Manuvie Recruitment Team
