Technical Program Manager
- Montreal, QC, Canada
$75.86 USD / hour
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- $75.86 USD / hour
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- Experience Level: Level 4 (advanced): Minimum 7 years
- Posting language
- English
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Original job description
- Experience Level: Level 4 (advanced): Minimum 7 years
- Duration: 12 Months Contract
- Location: Montreal
- Work Mode: Hybrid (in-office presence required 3x/week)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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Responsibilities
Coordinate and lead complex programs across product and engineering teams, aligning roadmaps, objectives, schedules, deliverables, and dependencies. Monitor progress, risks, and outcomes; facilitate leadership reviews; resolve impediments; and ensure delivery meets agreed standards and acceptance criteria.
Requirements
Requires at least seven years of experience managing enterprise programs, PMO operations, or large-scale software delivery, including complex initiatives with multiple workstreams and stakeholders. Candidates should bring strong governance, agile delivery, risk and dependency management, communication, facilitation, and influencing skills; relevant certifications and technical experience with cloud, security, and CI/CD are preferred.
Skills
- Enterprise Program Management
- Portfolio Roadmap Planning
- Program Governance
- Milestone Planning
- RAID Management
- Executive Reporting
- Agile Delivery
- Scrum
- Kanban
- Scaled Agile Frameworks
- Stakeholder Management
- Risk Management
- Dependency Management
- Facilitation
- Cloud Platforms
- Software Delivery
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Categories
- Management & Leadership
- Technology
- Software
- Engineering
- Security & Safety
Keywords
- Enterprise Program Management
- PMO
- Portfolio Alignment
- Program Governance
- Milestone Planning
- RAID Management
- Executive Reporting
- Agile
- Scrum
- Kanban
- Scaled Agile Frameworks
- PMP
- PgMP
- Scrum Master
- Product Owner
- Agile Coach
- SAFe
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Vulnerability Management
- Application Security
- Automation
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Cybersecurity
- Infrastructure
- Software Engineering
- Risk Management
- Dependency Management