Job Title: Program Manager – IT III
Location: Toronto, ON
Estimated Duration: 12 Months

High-level Job Description – Program Manager, Data Governance Technology

Title Program Manager
Working Arrangement Hybrid (In Office on Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays)
Skill
  • Requirements Gathering
  • User Story
  • Agile Methodology
  • Business Technology
  • Software Development
  • Product Management
  • Full Stack Development
  • Business Analytics
  • Atlassian JIRA
  • Organizational Effectiveness
  • Product Development
  • Technology Strategies
Key Systems & Technologies
  • Databricks Unity Catalog
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Informatica IDMC
  • Power BI

Role Overview
Lead the delivery, adoption, and governance of enterprise data governance capabilities and technology products. Own strategy, roadmap planning, agile delivery, stakeholder engagement, change management, and business value realization across Data Governance initiatives.
Act as the primary liaison between Business, Technology, Engineering, Risk, Compliance, Privacy, and Operations teams to ensure governance products and capabilities are delivered, adopted, and aligned to enterprise priorities.
Core Responsibilities
1. Product Strategy & Roadmap Management

  • Define and execute vision, roadmap, priorities, and success measures for Data Governance capabilities.
  • Own backlog, feature prioritization, release planning, and delivery sequencing.
  • Partner with business and engineering teams to translate requirements into actionable epics, features, and user stories.
  • Evaluate new opportunities, business needs, and regulatory requirements to inform product direction.

2. Program & Agile Delivery Leadership

  • Lead end-to-end delivery of data governance initiatives, ensuring scope, schedule, budget, risks, and dependencies are managed effectively.
  • Coordinate agile ceremonies and support execution across multiple workstreams and delivery teams.
  • Track progress, manage issues and escalations, and provide leadership reporting.
  • Coordinate vendor and partner deliverables where applicable.

3. Data Governance & Operating Model Leadership

  • Drive implementation of data governance processes, controls, standards, and operating models.
  • Partner with governance stakeholders to establish roles, responsibilities, decision rights, and accountability.
  • Support governance initiatives related to metadata management, data quality, lineage, data access, data products, and data marketplace capabilities.
  • Ensure alignment with regulatory, risk, compliance, privacy, and audit expectations.

4. Stakeholder Engagement & Organizational Change Management

  • Build strong relationships across business, technology, risk, compliance, and executive stakeholder groups.
  • Lead stakeholder engagement, communications, and change management activities to support adoption.
  • Develop executive presentations, business cases, status updates, and leadership materials.
  • Facilitate alignment and drive decision-making across complex stakeholder groups.

5. Adoption, Training & Enablement

  • Lead onboarding and enablement for new team members and stakeholders.
  • Develop training materials, guidance, communications, and user adoption plans.
  • Support organizational readiness activities for new capabilities and processes.
  • Promote adoption and continuous improvement of governance products and practices.

6. Measurement & Value Realization

  • Define KPIs, success measures, and reporting mechanisms for governance products and initiatives.
  • Monitor adoption, outcomes, risks, and business value realization.
  • Identify opportunities for optimization, process improvement, and increased business impact.
  • Support budget planning, forecasting, and benefit tracking activities.

What we are looking for

  • Strong experience in Data, Analytics, Governance, Risk, or Technology platforms.
  • Strong understanding of data governance concepts, including metadata, data quality, lineage, data access, privacy, and regulatory compliance.
  • Experience in leading agile delivery teams and managing enterprise technology implementations.
  • Exceptional stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
  • Strong organizational, problem-solving, and strategic thinking capabilities.
  • Experience developing business cases, roadmaps, and operating models.

Comfortable working across business and technical teams while translating strategy into execution.

The pay range that the employer reasonably expects to pay for this position is between ¤92.00 and ¤102.00

Our voluntary benefits offering includes medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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