Job Description

Description

Join our team and what we'll accomplish together

Our Senior Technical Program Manager position is a technology-leader role that influences how we operate at TELUS; responsible for not only ensuring that Technology initiatives are delivered on-plan, but also ensuring collaboration and enablement amongst our cross-functional teams.

As a Senior IT Project Manager you will drive highly visible strategic and tactical programs and projects that span across multi-disciplinary teams achieving an effective balance between business needs and transformational goals. This role is not just creating/managing plans, resolving issues and reporting status; it requires a leader with a deep rooted passion for technology who thrives in a fast paced environment and employs a unique personal commitment to the success of the team.

What you'll do

• Project management: Managing projects to plan, execute, monitor, and close system implementation projects
• Stakeholder Management: Establishing a great partnership with both technology and business teams to inform and influence decisions with senior leadership
• Leverage your technical acumen to work with key cross functional stakeholders on technical strategy and and solution designs that address both business and technical roadmaps.
• Build and inspire a culture of "everyday innovation" within our team
• Provide regular program updates to stakeholders, including executives
• Critical Thinking: In our fast-changing business, you will be required to deep dive into a new area, learn its complexities, present your findings and insights to the leadership team and execute on plan - all within tight timelines
• Ability to understand technical domain and leverage continuous improvement to enable flow.
• Coach and mentor high performing and developing team members

Qualifications

What you bring

• 5+ years of progressive experience in leading enterprise technology initiatives
• Fluency in program/project management and agile or lean practices
• Broad experience with software engineering practices and process evolution
• With your exceptional communication skills, you tactfully collaborate with teams across business areas and influence decisions with more senior-level audiences
• You have experience with establishing a performance management framework that identifies trends for impact and opportunity while aligning metrics / KPIs to strategies driving desirable outcomes
• Recognized for your exceptional interpersonal, problem-solving, financial, and negotiation skills
• A passion to seek out, understand and apply new technologies/practices that enable positive outcomes
• An entrepreneurial spirit and a proven ability to influence change within a large organization

Education and Experience

• Post secondary degree in Engineering or Software Development
• Professional designation in project/program management
• Agile and/or lean certification

A bit about us

We're a people-first, customer-first, purpose-driven team who works together every day to innovate and do good. We improve lives through our technology solutions and foster a culture of innovation that empowers team members to solve complex problems and create remarkable human outcomes in a digital world. When you join our team, you're helping us make the future friendly.

We're committed to diversity and equitable access to employment opportunities based on ability--your unique contributions and talents will be valued and respected here.

The health and safety of our team, customers and communities is paramount to TELUS. Accordingly, we require anyone joining our team to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19.

Technology Solutions

We're into seeing where technology can take us, so if you have ever imagined what the future of supply chain management, cybersecurity, the cloud and Internet of Things will look like, we want you to be part of the team that makes it happen.

We are honoured to be recognized

5G
TELUS's fastest network. 5G enables a superior experience with fast downloads and richer multimedia applications

6
Innovation centres across Canada that bring our team members together with customers, partners, start ups, universities, hospitals and fellow colleagues to tackle some of the biggest technological hurdles Canada will face in the near future.

1
Million active users logging into My TELUS per month (consumer mobility).

Accessibility

TELUS is proud to foster an inclusive culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to fair employment practices and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.

We offer accommodation for applicants with disabilities, as required, during the recruitment process.