Director, Technology Portfolio Planning New

6 months ago

Toronto, Canada Definity Financial Corporation Full time

Job ID : 7313
Category : Technology Solutions
Brand : Definity
Regular/Temporary : Regular
Fulltime/Parttime : Full Time
Location : Toronto, Canada
Posting Range : $111,300 - $205,500

Definity is the parent company to some of Canada’s most long-standing and innovative insurance brands, including Economical Insurance, Sonnet Insurance, Family Insurance Solutions, and Petline Insurance. Our ambition is to be one of Canada’s leading and most innovative property and casualty insurers. We can’t do that without our people, so we embrace and encourage a culture that’s collaborative, ambitious, rewarding, and empowering.

We offer a flexible, hybrid work experience where employees work from the office and virtually depending on the type of work they are doing and who they are working with. Bring your true self and be a part of our journey. It’s better here.

The Director, Technology Portfolio Planning is the functional leader for Technology Solutions (TS) strategic planning and intake management in close partnership with Definity business and TS senior leadership. The Director’s leadership, consulting skills, and strong business acumen will be key for enabling strategic business opportunities within technology & architecture strategy and corporate business goals and objectives.

The Director will work closely with multiple stakeholder groups, such as the Enterprise Portfolio Steering Committee, Enterprise Project Management Office, Finance, Enterprise Risk, Enterprise Procurement, and Business Unit senior stakeholders to ensure Definity initiatives are initiated with well-defined benefits, cost and timeline estimates, and a solution architecture aligned with technology direction.

In addition to overseeing TS portfolio planning, the Director will also be responsible for managing technology demand and intake with business stakeholders; this includes overseeing incoming requests and managing priorities alongside in-year portfolio and operational objectives.

**Strategy & Portfolio Management**:

- Lead TS workstream of corporate planning processes and TS intake, ensuring that business cases are developed within estimation guidelines, architecture strategy, and value management practices.
- Build on the estimation framework to be able to quickly assess initiatives across key value levers, including a continuous feedback loop to improve estimation.
- Partner with Finance and Corporate Strategy to develop value management practices, including on-going mechanisms to track technology benefits in the business / operating plan.
- Support TS senior leadership with articulating intake and portfolio planning performance at Quarterly Business Reviews and applicable TS Steering Committees
- Partner with senior TS leaders to articulate platform architecture direction as a part of the Portfolio Annual Planning cycle and on-going TS multi-year roadmap discussions.
- Partner with business and TS leaders to explore new technologies and business capabilities through 3rd party vendor solutions and strategic partnerships.
- Support senior TS leaders with integrating business capability and business architecture practices into technology portfolio management practices.

**Technology Portfolio Delivery**:

- Facilitate Technology due-diligence and requirements gathering for portfolio initiatives, including intake.
- Be the point-of-contact for Technology Intake, including leading initiatives to support business and technology proof-of-concepts, architectural assessments, and project estimates.
- Ensure operational processes are in place to support TS engagement between Architecture, Business-Aligned Delivery Teams, and Information Security.
- Provide guidance, advisory services, and support to identify and quantify technology risk for upcoming business and technology projects, strategies, and roadmaps.
- Partner with executive sponsors to evolve strategic initiatives into business cases with a supported solution architecture that is aligned with the Enterprise technology direction.
- Partner with TS Business Management and business-aligned TS leaders to identify and forecast TS demand on resources in the outer-years.
- Partner with business-aligned TS delivery teams to develop project and program roadmaps
- Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, and Cyber-Security SMEs to ensure that all dimensions of the solution architecture are defined, accepted, and articulated
- Build collaborative relationships with TS and Business leadership to ensure delivery readiness according to planned implementation and portfolio planning milestones
- Ensure that TS solutions align to Enterprise Architecture strategy and long-term objectives.

**Portfolio Financial Management**:

- Supports the AVP, Technology Planning & Operations to manage and report on TS financial forecasts in support of annual Portfolio and Business Planning cycles
- Partners with TS Resource Management to develop processes that incorporate outer-year business

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