Manager, Digital Enablement

Alberta Pension Services Corporation; Edmonton; Hybrid; CAD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Alberta Pension Services Corporation is seeking a Manager, Digital Enablement to lead the digital enablement function, drive modernization, and govern AI intake and technical debt priorities.

You will collaborate with IST teams, product owners and business stakeholders, shaping opportunities and delivering decision-ready recommendations. The role demands eight years of relevant experience and strong leadership, with excellent communication in a regulated, data-driven environment.

Qualifications

• Degree or diploma in a related field, plus eight years of relevant digital enablement, application delivery/support or enterprise technology experience; equivalent combinations may be considered.
• Experience leading people, teams or cross-functional work, including planning, coaching and accountability.
• Strong judgement in assessing, prioritizing and preparing decision-ready technology recommendations.
• Knowledge of digital enablement, technology lifecycles, technical debt, AI intake and enterprise governance.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; experience in digital transformation, modernization, AI, data or regulated environments is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Lead APS’s digital enablement function and team, including work assignment, expectation setting, capacity planning, performance support and continuous improvement of operating practices.
• Maintain the methods, tools, templates and decision-support practices used to intake, assess, frame, track and report on digital opportunities across APS.
• Support technology modernization decisions by providing lifecycle, target-state, sequencing, dependency, readiness and governance analysis.
• Lead AI use case intake and prioritization practices, helping stakeholders shape opportunities, clarify outcomes, identify risks and prepare decision-ready recommendations.
• Manage technical debt assessment and prioritization approaches by coordinating input from technology leaders, architects, product owners and business stakeholders.
• Provide regular reporting, dashboards, analysis and recommendations on pipeline health, prioritization outcomes, readiness issues, trade-offs and matters requiring leadership direction.
• Build effective relationships with business areas, IST teams, product owners, architects, governance partners, delivery teams and external partners to support transparent, evidence-based decision-making.

Skills

People leadership

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder management

Digital enablement

AI governance

Communication

Education

Degree or diploma in a related field

Job description

What you’re passionate about

You are a strategic and operational thinker who can bring structure to ambiguity, balance competing priorities, and help others make informed technology decisions. You enjoy leading people, building practical methods, and creating clarity across complex digital, AI, modernization and technical debt opportunities. You are collaborative, credible and comfortable working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to connect business value, risk, cost, readiness and governance considerations. You bring sound judgement, curiosity and a continuous improvement mindset to work that strengthens enterprise capacity and supports responsible, sustainable change.

Responsibilities of the Manager, Digital Enablement

• Lead APS’s digital enablement function and team, including work assignment, expectation setting, capacity planning, performance support and continuous improvement of operating practices.
• Maintain the methods, tools, templates and decision-support practices used to intake, assess, frame, track and report on digital opportunities across APS.
• Support technology modernization decisions by providing lifecycle, target-state, sequencing, dependency, readiness and governance analysis.
• Lead AI use case intake and prioritization practices, helping stakeholders shape opportunities, clarify outcomes, identify risks and prepare decision-ready recommendations.
• Manage technical debt assessment and prioritization approaches by coordinating input from technology leaders, architects, product owners and business stakeholders.
• Provide regular reporting, dashboards, analysis and recommendations on pipeline health, prioritization outcomes, readiness issues, trade-offs and matters requiring leadership direction.
• Build effective relationships with business areas, IST teams, product owners, architects, governance partners, delivery teams and external partners to support transparent, evidence-based decision-making.

What you bring

• Degree or diploma in a related field, plus eight years of relevant digital enablement, application delivery/support or enterprise technology experience; equivalent combinations may be considered.
• Experience leading people, teams or cross-functional work, including planning, coaching and accountability.
• Strong judgement in assessing, prioritizing and preparing decision-ready technology recommendations.
• Knowledge of digital enablement, technology lifecycles, technical debt, AI intake and enterprise governance.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; experience in digital transformation, modernization, AI, data or regulated environments is an asset.