Senior Program Manager (ONSITE) JP200
- Toronto, ON, Canada
Full-time
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Position Overview
The Senior Program Manager (IT) is responsible for leading large‑scale, complex, multi-year technology programs that span business areas, delivery teams, and vendor partners. This role provides strategic oversight, governance, and end-to-end delivery leadership to ensure programs meet business objectives, align with enterprise architecture standards, and deliver measurable value. The Senior Program Manager drives collaboration across cross-functional teams, manages risks and financials, and ensures solutions are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget.
Key Responsibilities
Program Leadership & Strategy
· Define program vision, scope, objectives, and success measures in alignment with enterprise and business strategies.
· Develop multi-year program roadmaps, integrating business priorities, technology strategy, budget constraints, and resource capacities.
· Provide leadership across multiple concurrent projects, ensuring cohesive and coordinated delivery.
Governance & Stakeholder Management
· Establish program governance, including decision-making forums, reporting structures, and performance metrics.
· Lead communication with senior executives, business partners, and technical leadership to ensure alignment and transparency.
· Manage competing priorities and negotiate acceptable solutions across stakeholder groups.
Program Delivery & Execution
· Oversee end-to-end planning, execution, monitoring, and closure of program components.
· Drive program status reporting, including progress, risks, issues, dependencies, and budget health.
· Ensure quality assurance practices, architectural alignment, and adherence to IT policies and standards.
Financial & Resource Management
· Develop and manage multi‑year program budgets, forecasts, and investment proposals.
· Allocate and optimize resources across project teams, vendor partners, and shared services.
· Oversee procurement activities, contracts, and vendor performance.
Risk & Issue Management
· Identify, document, and mitigate program risks and issues throughout the delivery lifecycle.
· Lead escalation management, cross-team dependency resolution, and scope change control.
· Implement best practices focused on proactive risk detection, transparent reporting, and strong program control frameworks.
Leadership & Team Development
· Provide coaching, guidance, and direction to project managers, business analysts, technical leads, and delivery teams.
· Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
· Champion diversity, inclusion, psychological safety, and high-performance team principles.
More about this job
Responsibilities
The Senior Program Manager at Pathlion will define program vision and multi-year roadmaps, govern delivery across several concurrent projects, and manage stakeholders, budgets, vendors and risks. The role also coaches project managers and delivery teams.
Requirements
Pathlion asks for senior experience leading large multi-year technology programs, strong governance and financial management skills, and experience managing vendors and cross-functional teams.
Skills
- Program management
- Multi-year roadmap planning
- Program governance
- Budget and forecast management
- Vendor and contract management
- Procurement
- Risk and issue management
- Stakeholder management
- Executive communication
- Resource allocation
- Enterprise architecture alignment
- Scope change control
- Program status reporting
- Team leadership and coaching
- Negotiation
- Quality assurance
Categories
- Management & Leadership
- Technology
- Consulting
Keywords
- Senior Program Manager
- IT program management
- program governance
- multi-year roadmap
- program budget
- vendor management
- procurement
- risk management
- stakeholder management
- enterprise architecture
- PMO
- change control
- escalation management
- Agile
- project portfolio management
- IT governance
Seniority
Senior