Currently ourInformation Technology division isseekingan experienced and talented Information Technology (IT) PortfolioLeadto join our team.

The IT Portfolio Lead in ourStrategy and Performance Departmentwillbe responsible forbuilding relationships across the business and partnering cross-functionally to support strategic planning and defining strategies to solve business problems. The IT Portfolio Lead willfacilitatebringing those business problems through our intake process to build the Enterprise Technology Portfolio of technology projects for execution.

This is a term positions which may be for a period of up to 60 months, offers a competitive compensation package and are located in our Tiverton, Ontario location.

Bruce Power remains committed to identifying top talent to support the continued growth of our organization. This posting is intended to establish a talent pipeline for future Term Opportunities across the site and may not be tied to a specific vacancy at this time.

Key Responsibilities:

• Establishing strong partnerships acrossportfolioof 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 andobjectivesof the business are met. Plays a key role in defining, implementing,maintainingand 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, userdocumentationand customer deliverables.

• Facilitate Portfolio level execution, escalate impediments, manageriskand help drivethe continuousimprovement at the Portfolio level.

• Individualmust be passionate about delivering the best leadership, insights, and technology by finding creative ways of aligningall ofthe delivery teams within the program to deliver maximum business value and continuously improve theirpractices 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,mediumand long-termproject, managing andoptimizingthe flow of value through the Product Team using various tools, such as the Program and SolutionKanbans

• 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 andestablishpriorities. 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 PIobjectivesinto Solution PI Objectives; publish them for visibility and transparency

• Assisttracking 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 andtimelycommunications.

• Facilitate periodic synchronization meetings at the Program Level and the value stream sync for Product Teams

• Assistwith economic decision-making byfacilitatingfeatureand capability estimation by teams and the roll-up to Epics

• Help manage risks and dependencies,escalatingand 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 meetlong termobjectives.

• 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 asrequired.

Knowledge and Skills(Considered an Asset):

• Excellent communication skills across all mediums and the ability to communicate across all levels in the organization.

• Proven experience in building strong partnerships with key stakeholders, including senior level executive sponsors

• Experience in defining strategicroadmapsandestablishingpriorities, with experience in managing competing needs of multiple stakeholders

• Ability to influence leaders, drive change and transformation while working across all levels of the organization

• Strong Knowledge of Agilemethodologyand frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, etc.

• Practical experience with implementation of hybrid agile models in an Enterprise IT context

• Hands on experience with Agile techniques: User Stories, Features, Capabilities and Epics development and refinement, Continuous Integration, Behavior Drive Development (BDD) test automation framework, Continuous Deployments, Regression Testing, Pair Programming, Burn Down Metrics, Velocity, etc.

• Hands on experience with software development processes and procedures to understand team needsincludesfundamentals of iterative and incremental development

• Solid conceptual understanding of technology components, DevOpstoolsand practices

• Experience with Lean Portfolio Management facilitation at the program,portfolioand executive level

• Resource Management Skills: ability todeterminesupply and demand and obtain necessary resources across a matrixed organization to complete the work successfully.

• Prior experience inan AgileTransformation in a large organization

• Manage financials across the release train to delivery complex solutions

• Capability to build empowered, self-managing, self-organizing teams

Education and Experience:

• This knowledgeis considered to benormallyacquiredthrough the completion of a4 YearUniversity degree in a related field such as IT, Engineering or Business Management.

• 6 years up to and including 8 years is considered necessary to gain this experience.

• Experience in Business Relationship Management would be an asset.

• Experience in an IT leadership Program or Portfolio Management would be an asset.

• Experience as a Release Train Engineer (RTE) and/or Scrum Master using Agile delivery frameworks would be an asset.