Technology Portfolio Manager (Global Technology Solutions)

TMX Group • Toronto, ON

4d • CA$120,000 - CA$140,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Technology Portfolio Manager is a critical role responsible for overseeing the successful execution and delivery of projects and initiatives for a specific group or groups. This individual will bridge the gap between requirements and technical implementation, ensuring that solutions are delivered on time, within budget, and to the required quality and standards. This role is hybrid (2 - 3 days/week in the office) - based in Toronto, ON.

Requirements

• Possession of a Bachelor's Degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field of study.
• 7+ years of progressive experience in Project, Program, or Delivery Management within complex, technical Digital/IT environments.
• Proven track record of successfully managing and delivering multi-year, multi-team projects in excess of $2M from concept to completion.
• Direct experience managing SaaS-based initiatives, including major platforms such as Workday, ServiceNow, Salesforce, or the Google ecosystem.
• Mandatory PMP Certification.
• Proven ability to navigate and drive delivery excellence within complex, ambiguous, and fully matrixed organizational environments.
• Strong background in executing initiatives across SDLC, Iterative, and Agile delivery frameworks.
• Demonstrated capacity to motivate, lead, and effectively manage diverse cross-functional teams toward project success.
• Exceptional communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills, with a proven ability to influence stakeholders without direct authority.
• Ability to distill intricate technical or delivery complexities into clear, concise, and actionable intelligence for senior leadership.
• Highly proficient in identifying, visualizing, and proactively managing critical dependencies and risks across dozens of workstreams and teams.
• Advanced expertise in enterprise project management toolsets (e.g., SmartSheets, Google Suite, Jira) for sophisticated tracking and reporting.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience working with regulators and external clients
• Agile/Scrum certifications are highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• End-to-End Accountability: Own the delivery outcome of assigned initiatives from ideation/intake through execution, transition, and final close-out.
• Integrated Planning: Develop and maintain the integrated initiative roadmap and master schedule, identifying all cross-project and cross-team dependencies.
• Risk and Impediment Management: Proactively identify, prioritize, and manage critical risks, issues, and systemic impediments that threaten the overall initiative timeline or quality, escalating to the executive level as necessary.
• Scope & Change Control: Partner with GTS SLT to manage scope, define guardrails, and implement an efficient change management process to control scope creep.
• Executive Reporting: Provide timely, transparent, and concise status reporting to executive sponsors and governance bodies, focusing on progress against outcomes, key risks, and resource utilization.
• Cross-Functional Coordination: Act as the primary liaison between multiple execution teams to ensure alignment, resolve hand-off issues, and maintain a consistent delivery rhythm.
• Expectation Alignment: Manage expectations of all internal and external stakeholders regarding timelines, scope, quality, and resource availability.
• Resource Management: Work with functional managers and resource leads to forecast, secure, and monitor resource capacity and allocation across all initiative components.
• Financial Tracking: Oversee the initiative budget, tracking actual spend against forecast, and ensuring alignment with approved funding envelopes.
• Process Adherence: Ensure that all delivery teams adhere to established enterprise governance, risk management, and delivery methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid).
• Continuous Improvement: Lead retrospectives and post-mortem reviews at the initiative level to capture lessons learned and drive long-term process and framework improvements across the organization.
• Plan, control and execute upon approved projects by carrying out the following activities using TMX standard processes and toolsets
• Define the scope of the project in collaboration with senior management and identify the key drivers and measurements which will be used to evaluate the project upon completion
• Determine the resources (time, money, equipment, etc.) required to complete the project
• Create an integrated plan that details how scope, schedule, costs, communications, resources, dependencies, risks/issues, quality, change vendors (where applicable) and other key aspects of the project will be managed
• Develop a detailed schedule for the project that identifies and sequences the activities needed to successfully complete the project and effectively allocates the resources to the work
• Review the project schedule with senior management and all other staff that will be affected by the project activities; revise the schedule as required
• Execute the project according to the integrated plan
• Closely monitor approved project budget, scope and timelines, actioning variances on a timely basis, leveraging standard project change request processes
• Ensure that all project information is appropriately documented and approved and are stored centrally
• Monitor the progress of the project and adjust course where required to ensure successful delivery, escalating where appropriate
• Provide regular project status and steering committee reporting as per established TMX standards
• Lead the project team in re-estimating project effort and costs at the appropriate gates, obtaining approval on any revisions
• As a member of the PM Chapter is also responsible for ensuring the project management practice at TMX continues to improve by:
• Keeping documentation on the project management lifecycle (PMLC) processes up-to-date and relevant
• Enhancing templates and processes to make them more effective in meeting audit objectives and allowing project teams to deliver more efficiently.

Benefits

• Wellness - From empathetic leadership to a culture of flexibility and balance, we believe wellness at work creates the maximum yield and a stronger “we”. Plus, with a cloud-first and hybrid workstyle, as well as generous time-off and leaves, we support a life well lived!
• Growth - From a growth mindset in our work, to expansion in our business, TMX is home to action-takers energized by the achievement of ambitious growth.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior