IT Portfolio Lead - Tiverton, Canada - Bruce Power

Bruce Power

Verified Company

Tiverton, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Job Posting Start Date:
February 13, 2023

Job Posting End Date:
March 5, 2023

Are you looking for a meaningful career that makes a difference in your community? Would you enjoy an opportunity to contribute to our innovation and growth by bringing personal perspectives and experiences to your everyday work?

Working at Bruce Power, you can enjoy the benefits of small-town living with outdoor adventures and a rewarding career.

As part of our progressive, diverse, and inclusive workplace, you will work in a Safety-First environment, supporting challenging and impactful nuclear projects like our Life Extension Program and medical isotope production.

Ongoing training and development are part of every job, offering constant growth and skill-building potential.

To help achieve our business goals, Bruce Power Information Technology division is looking for experienced and talented Information Technology Portfolio Lead to join our team.

The Information Technology Portfolio Lead in our Strategy and Performance Department will be responsible for building relationships across the business and partnering cross-functionally to support strategic planning and defining strategies to solve business problems.

The IT Portfolio Lead facilitates bringing those business problems through our intake process to build the Enterprise Technology Portfolio of technology projects for execution.

This is a permanent, full-time position which offers a competitive benefits, compensation and pension package and is located on site in Tiverton, Ontario.

What will you be responsible for?

Establishing strong partnerships across portfolio of business customers and IT to support strategic technology discussions with key stakeholders.
Facilitate portfolio processes and execution in a hybrid delivery environment.
Responsible for managing a defined portfolio and ensuring the overall goals and objectives of the business are met. Plays a key role in defining, implementing, maintaining and improving processes, tools, and metrics that govern and support the development and continuous improvement of the portfolio.
Responsible for overseeing the work needed to achieve business and technical requirements development, effort and cost estimates, scheduling, design, implementation, testing, approvals, user documentation and customer deliverables.
Facilitate Portfolio level execution, escalate impediments, manage risk and help drive the continuous improvement at the Portfolio level.
Individual must be passionate about delivering the best leadership, insights, and technology by finding creative ways of aligning all of the delivery teams within the program to deliver maximum business value and continuously improve their practices to reduce time to market for new capabilities as well as mean time to recover from unexpected system down time.

Specific Accountabilities:

Provide strategic planning and oversight for short, medium and longterm project, managing and optimizing the flow of value through the Product Team using various tools, such as the Program and Solution Kanbans
Establish and communicate the annual calendars for Iterations and Program Increments (PI), working closely with key stakeholders, including senior level executive sponsors, to define roadmaps and establish priorities. Manage the competing needs of multiple stakeholders.
Facilitate PI Planning readiness by fostering a Continuous Exploration process which drives the synthesis of a Vision, a Roadmap, and Backlogs, and through Pre

- and Post-PI Planning meetings

Facilitate the PI planning event
Summarize Team PI Objectives into Program PI Objectives and summarize program PI objectives into Solution PI Objectives; publish them for visibility and transparency
Assist tracking the execution of features and capabilities, ensuring robust delivery plans with respect to time, budget, scope, transition into production, etc.
Keep IT and Business stakeholders informed of program status, risks, and key decisions. Ensure transparent and timely communications.
Facilitate periodic synchronization meetings at the Program Level and the value stream sync for Product Teams
Assist with economic decisionmaking by facilitating feature and capability estimation by teams and the rollup to Epics
Help manage risks and dependencies, escalating and tracking impediments
Provide input on resourcing to address critical bottlenecks
Encourage collaboration between teams and Solution Architects, ensuring that IT solutions align to defined business strategies and meet long term objectives.
Work with Product Leads, Product Owners, and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment
Maintain overall accountability for financial and resource management of all release train deliverables from small enhancements to large programs.
Promote team successes on a regular basis.
Perform other duties as required.

Education, Skills and Experience