Manager, Digital Enablement

Alberta Pensions Services Corporation (APS); Edmonton; On-site; CAD 98,000 - 144,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation 20 days

Stat holidays

Extended health & dental

Employer-paid FSA

Career development

Wellness programs

Discount programs

Job summary

Alberta Pensions Services Corporation (APS) in Edmonton, Alberta, seeks a Manager, Digital Enablement to lead the digital enablement function, oversee opportunities, AI intake, and governance, and guide modernization initiatives across enterprise technology.

The role requires a degree or diploma and eight years of relevant experience, with strong leadership, stakeholder management, and ability to drive decision-ready technology recommendations for complex digital programs.

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

Leadership experience

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Strategic thinking

Digital enablement knowledge

Education

Degree or diploma in a related field

Job description

Position Type: Full-time, Permanent, Management

Location: Edmonton, Alberta

Classification: Pay Group VI

Salary Range: $97,950.00- $144,126.00

Closing Date: September 29, 2026 @ 4:00 p.m. MT

If turning digital opportunities into clear, decision-ready pathways is your strength,

and you’re energized by enabling modernization, AI and sustainable enterprise technology,

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.

Why choose APS

APS is made up of hard-working, respectful and talented people who understand and invite diversity to the workplace. We take pride in holding ourselves accountable and continuing to meet or exceed service levels for plan members, pensioners and employers. We ensure they receive quality services because they—along with our people—are the reason we endure and succeed.

And it sure feels good helping hard-working Albertans receive their well-deserved pensions.

What APS has to offer

• Community-minded workplace with a friendly team environment
• Vacation starting at 20 days per year, 13 statutory holidays, personal days, plus office closure between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Competitive benefit package featuring extended health and dental benefits and a 100% employer-paid flexible spending account
• In-house training programs, extensive career development and coaching program, access to external education opportunities and wellness programs
• Discount programs through various partner agencies