Position Summary
The Senior Technical Delivery Manager will lead
application-readiness coordination for a new retail store opening. The role will serve as the portfolio lead's hands-on program partner,
establishing a reliable view of the current landscape and driving multiple applications toward production readiness. This person will coordinate
application managers and cross-functional dependency teams, manage the critical
path, maintain governance and provide clear executive-level reporting in a
compressed delivery environment.
Key Responsibilities
· Program mobilization: Rapidly assess the
existing landscape, plans, documentation, risks, stakeholders and delivery
status; identify gaps and establish an integrated control structure.
· Integrated planning: Build and maintain
a workback plan from the production-readiness milestone, covering
configuration, application-readiness testing, integration testing, production
validation, training and hypercare dependencies.
· Application readiness: Coordinate
readiness across approximately 74 applications and the managers accountable for
their respective application areas.
· Critical-path management: Identify
prerequisite activities—such as master-data setup—and ensure that dependency
commitments are achieved before downstream configuration or testing is
affected.
· Cross-functional coordination: Work with
merchandising, finance, supply chain, master data, technology, business teams
and other partners to secure dates, resolve blockers and maintain alignment.
· Governance and reporting: Prepare
consolidated status reporting, facilitate governance forums and communicate
risks, decisions and required actions to managers, directors and senior
business and IT leaders.
· Risk and escalation: Identify emerging
schedule or readiness risks early, coordinate recovery actions and escalate
unresolved dependencies with clear impact analysis and recommendations.
· Program controls: Maintain the portfolio
charter, scope, RAID log, stakeholder map, application inventory, manager-level
checklists, decisions, dependencies and milestone evidence in line with DMO
guidelines.
· Playbook development: Create reusable
store-opening artifacts, checklists and lessons learned because prior internal
documentation and experienced store-opening resources are limited.
· Hypercare support: Coordinate
post-production validation, operational readiness and hypercare through the
store-opening period and any approved extension.
Requirements
Experience
· Senior-level experience
managing complex technical projects or programs involving multiple
applications, delivery teams and cross-functional dependencies.
· Demonstrated ability to take
ownership of an initiative already in progress, rapidly establish the true
status and create an executable recovery or delivery plan.
· Strong understanding of
application delivery lifecycles, including configuration, environment and data
dependencies, readiness testing, integration testing, production deployment and
hypercare.
· Proven experience identifying,
maintaining and communicating a critical path and translating dependency
slippage into schedule and business impact.
· Exceptional written and verbal
communication, including experience presenting to managers, directors, senior
directors and executive stakeholders.
· Strong stakeholder-management,
facilitation, negotiation, follow-up and escalation skills across business and
IT teams.
· Experience maintaining
program-management artifacts such as charters, integrated schedules, RAID logs,
RACI models, governance packs, decision logs and executive status reports.
· Highly proactive, organized and
hands-on, with the judgment to operate independently in an ambiguous and
time-sensitive environment.
Preferred Qualifications
· Program or project management
experience within retail.
· Experience supporting a new
store opening, retail-site launch or comparable operational go-live.
· Experience coordinating a large
application portfolio and cross-functional teams such as merchandising,
finance, supply chain and master data.
· Relevant
program/project-management certification or equivalent delivery experience.
· Experience working within an
enterprise DMO/PMO governance framework.
Benefits
Salary Range: CAD $115,000 - $120,000/year
The final compensation offered will depend on local market
conditions and geographic location, as well as job-related factors such as the
candidate’s knowledge, skills, qualifications, relevant experience, and
education/training. Compensation may also include additional components such as
benefits, and/or other incentives, where applicable. In accordance with new
employment standards requirements, we retain copies of this job posting and
applicant information for three (3) years after the posting is removed. We do
not use AI technology; all applications are also reviewed by our recruitment
team.
Infoya is an equal opportunity employer committed to
diversity and inclusion. We welcome applications from all qualified
individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation,
gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, aboriginal
status, or any other legally protected factors.