Technical Program Manager

Axelon Services Corporation; Montreal; Hybrid; CAD 110.000 - 150.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Axelon Services Corporation in Montreal is seeking an experienced Program Manager to lead large-scale, cross-functional initiatives. The role requires advanced expertise and a strong PMO discipline to govern multiple workstreams and align with enterprise standards.

You will partner with product and engineering to manage schedules, risks, and dependencies, while facilitating leadership reviews and delivering outcomes that drive business value.

Qualifikationen

• Proven experience in enterprise program management and PMO leadership.
• Experience running complex high-visibility programs with multiple workstreams.
• Strong PMO discipline including governance and executive reporting.
• Experience managing difficult partners and stakeholders while driving alignment.
• Ability to influence without direct authority across multiple teams.
• Experience delivering complex technical programs in cloud/security domains.
• Strong understanding of agile delivery practices (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe).
• Ability to define scope, success criteria and measurable outcomes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; synthesizing complex tech info.
• Strong facilitation and negotiation skills to resolve blockers.

Aufgaben

• Partner with product and engineering to support portfolio roadmap development.
• Plan, coordinate, and support day-to-day execution of programs.
• Lead large program planning activities across initiatives.
• Track progress, risks, dependencies, and outcomes among stakeholders.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise program management standards.
• Define requirements, manage schedules, identify risks, communicate status.
• Facilitate leadership reviews to assess progress and outcomes.
• Support engineering rigor by meeting acceptance criteria and done.
• Identify and resolve impediments; escalate through governance channels.
• Use dependency-management to drive cross-program coordination.
• Maintain visibility into interdependencies and escalate as needed.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and change initiatives.

Kenntnisse

Enterprise program management

PMO leadership

Portfolio management

Executive reporting

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Agile delivery

Facilitation

Communication

Cross-functional leadership

Ausbildung

PMP

PgMP

Scrum Master

Product Owner

Agile Coach

SAFe

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

CI/CD tools

Vulnerability management

Jobbeschreibung

• Experience Level: Level 4 (advanced): Minimum 7 years
• Duration: 12 Months Contract
• Location: Montreal
• Work Mode: Hybrid (in-office presence required 3x/week)
  

Summary

• Experience Level: Level 4 (advanced): Minimum 7 years
• Duration: 12 Months Contract
• Location: Montreal
• Work Mode: Hybrid (in-office presence required 3x/week)
  

Responsibilities

• 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.
  

Requirements

• 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.
  

Preferred Skills

• 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.
  

This role is for an existing vacancy.