RQ11491 - Product Manager - Senior

Source Code; Toronto; On-site; CAD 184,000 - 221,000; Full time

Job summary

Source Code is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead strategy, roadmap, and delivery for complex IT and digital service initiatives in a dual Toronto/Peterborough onsite environment. The role requires translating business needs into actionable requirements, guiding discovery, and steering Agile teams to deliver user-centered products with strong governance and compliance.

You will ensure enterprise architecture alignment, cloud services, APIs, and integration patterns to achieve modernization

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience in IT or digital services.
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture, cloud services, APIs, and integration patterns.
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Azure, and Dataverse.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills.
• Experience with OPS IT project and architectural governance.
• Proven experience leading large-scale digital or IT transformation projects delivering user-centric products.
• Hands-on Agile delivery with Scrum and Lean, and working with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to translate business needs into clear requirements and user stories.
• Ability to define and communicate a clear product vision and conduct discovery work.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the product vision, objectives, and roadmap.
• Align product priorities with business goals, strategic objectives, and enterprise direction.
• Identify opportunities for modernization, and process improvement.
• Develop business cases, value propositions, and product investment recommendations.
• Establish product success measures, KPIs, and outcome-based performance metrics.
• Engage business partners, executives, subject matter experts, and technology teams to understand business needs and priorities.
• Lead product discovery activities, workshops, and stakeholder consultations.
• Build consensus among diverse stakeholder groups and manage competing priorities.
• Communicate product status, roadmap updates, risks, decisions, and outcomes.
• Manage stakeholder expectations throughout the product lifecycle.
• Own and prioritize the product backlog based on business value and strategic objectives.
• Translate business requirements into user stories, acceptance criteria, and product features.
• Collaborate with Agile delivery teams during planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, testing, and releases.
• Support quality assurance, user acceptance testing, and release readiness activities.
• Ensure delivered solutions meet business, operational, security, accessibility, and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with architects, developers, and technical teams to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture and digital standards.
• Evaluate solution options, balancing business value, cost, risk, scalability, and sustainability.
• Monitor product performance, customer feedback, and operational metrics.
• Drive continuous product enhancements and long-term product evolution.
• Support technology modernization initiatives leveraging cloud and enterprise platforms.
• Lead governance artifacts: project charters, PCRs, risk registers, and executive briefings.
• Identify, assess, and manage product risks, issues, dependencies, and mitigation strategies.
• Ensure compliance with security, privacy, accessibility, and regulatory requirements.
• Lead or support privacy impact assessments and security risk assessments.
• Participate in governance, investment planning, architecture review, and portfolio management processes.
• Maintain governance artifacts, status reporting, financial tracking, and portfolio information.

Skills

Product management

Enterprise architecture

Cloud services

APIs

Integration patterns

Dynamics 365

Power Platform

Azure

Dataverse

Stakeholder management

IT governance

Digital transformation

Agile / Scrum / Lean

User stories

Discovery & product vision

Tools

Dynamics 365

Power Platform

Azure

Dataverse

Job description

RQ11491 - Product Manager - Senior

Duration: 6+ Months (135 Business Days) + 1 Extension

Location: 40 St Clair Ave W (Toronto)/300 Water Street (Peterborough)

Onsite

No Clearance Required

Must Have Skills:

• 5+ years of product management experience in IT or digital services
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture, cloud services, APIs, and integration patterns.
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Azure, and Dataverse.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills.
• Experience with OPS IT project and architectural governance
• Proven experience leading large-scale digital or IT transformation projects of delivering user-centric products in complex environments
• Hands-on experience with Agile delivery, Scrum, and Lean product development and working with cross-functional teams
• Ability to translate business needs into clear, actionable requirements and user stories
• Ability to define and communicate a clear product vision and strategy conducting discovery work

Nice to have skills:

• Knowledge of OPS Digital Standards, privacy requirements, and cybersecurity practices.
• Previous OPS/public sector exp.
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO), PMP, or equivalent certification.
• Experience delivering products using Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform.
• Experience supporting large-scale digital transformation and modernization initiatives.

Description

Key Responsibilities

1. Product Strategy & Roadmap

• Define and maintain the product vision, objectives, and roadmap.
• Align product priorities with business goals, strategic objectives, and enterprise direction.
• Identify opportunities for innovation, modernization, and process improvement.
• Develop business cases, value propositions, and product investment recommendations.
• Establish product success measures, KPIs, and outcome-based performance metrics.

2. Stakeholder & Business Relationship Management

• Engage business partners, executives, subject matter experts, and technology teams to understand business needs and priorities.
• Lead product discovery activities, workshops, and stakeholder consultations.
• Build consensus among diverse stakeholder groups and manage competing priorities.
• Communicate product status, roadmap updates, risks, decisions, and outcomes.
• Manage stakeholder expectations throughout the product lifecycle.

3. Product Delivery & Agile Leadership

• Own and prioritize the product backlog based on business value and strategic objectives.
• Translate business requirements into user stories, acceptance criteria, and product features.
• Collaborate with Agile delivery teams during planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, testing, and releases.
• Support quality assurance, user acceptance testing, and release readiness activities.
• Ensure delivered solutions meet business, operational, security, accessibility, and regulatory requirements.

4. Technology Leadership & Continuous Improvement

• Collaborate with architects, developers, and technical teams to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture and digital standards.
• Evaluate solution options, balancing business value, cost, risk, scalability, and sustainability.
• Monitor product performance, customer feedback, and operational metrics.
• Drive continuous product enhancements and long-term product evolution.
• Support technology modernization initiatives leveraging cloud and enterprise platforms.

5. Governance, Risk & Compliance

• Lead the development and maintenance of project governance artifacts, including Project Charters, Project Change Requests (PCRs), business cases, decision records, risk registers, status reports, and executive briefing materials.
• Identify, assess, and manage product risks, issues, dependencies, and mitigation strategies.
• Ensure compliance with security, privacy, accessibility, and regulatory requirements.
• Lead or support Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA), Threat Risk Assessments (TRA), Security Risk Assessments, and other governance reviews.
• Participate in governance, investment planning, architecture review, and portfolio management processes.
• Maintain governance artifacts, status reporting, financial tracking, and portfolio information within approved tools (e.g., Planview).

Technical Knowledge

• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture principles, cloud technologies, APIs, integration patterns, and application modernization.
• Experience with Microsoft technologies including:
  • Dynamics 365
  • Power Platform
  • Azure
  • Dataverse
• Experience overseeing or participating in PIA, TRA, and related risk and compliance activities.
• Strong understanding of product lifecycle management and digital service delivery.

Communication & Leadership

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven facilitation, negotiation, stakeholder engagement, and conflict resolution skills.
• Ability to present complex concepts to executives, business stakeholders, and technical audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to produce high-quality documentation, presentations, and executive briefings.

AI Disclaimer: Source Code may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist in certain aspects of its recruiting and business operations.

Note: The higher end of the range is intended for absolutely exceptional candidates who meet all must-have requirements and most or all nice-to-have qualifications. The client will evaluate candidates based on both rate expectations and overall skill set when shortlisting.

INCORPORATED RATE RANGE (7.25 billable hours per day)

• $88.64/hr - $106.37/hr Inc.

T4 RATE RANGE (7.25 billable hours per day)

• $70.91/hr - $85.10/hr T4