First Canadian is a national organization and we are experiencing unprecedented growth!
We aim to hire bright, hard-working people who share our values. We seek employees who are committed to learning, career growth, and opportunity. We take pride in being an organization that our employees support long-term. We believe in our employees and celebrate their success by asking for employee opinions and feedback so that we continue to be a Great Place to Work.
We award our team with the following:
- Off work 1 hour early on Fridays.
- Earned Time-Off Program and vacation.
- Group Retirement Savings Plan with employer match.
- On-site gym including free weekly classes with a qualified trainer.
- Newly renovated facility with ergonomic desks/chairs.
- Educational assistance and career development.
- Employee benefits.
- Health and Wellness spending account.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Employee discount programs.
- A Culture Team dedicated to diversity, inclusion, and employee programs.
- Employee recognition and appreciation events.
- French is not required for this role but is an asset, an uplift of 5% is applied after the probationary period for qualified professional level French bilingualism (both spoken and written).
Check out our company page for all the information on why we believe First Canadian is an employer of choice!
If you are motivated to succeed by helping people, then this is the opportunity for you!
The Director of Enterprise Delivery, reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, is based in the Sherwood Park location. The role is responsible for establishing and leading the organization’s enterprise execution and delivery governance capability across business and technology functions.
This role exists to improve how work flows through the organization by strengthening enterprise prioritization, execution governance, delivery coordination, operational cadence, and organizational accountability across strategic initiatives and operational change activities.
The Director of Enterprise Delivery acts as the centralized enterprise execution leadership function responsible for improving organizational execution maturity, delivery predictability, governance visibility, portfolio alignment, and cross-functional coordination across the enterprise.
This role leads enterprise delivery functions including portfolio and delivery management, business analysis, enterprise PMO capabilities, and enterprise execution governance practices.
This is not a traditional PMO administration or project coordination role. The position is a transformational leadership role focused on establishing scalable execution models, improving enterprise alignment, and enabling sustainable organizational delivery as the company continues to modernize and grow.
The role works closely with executive leadership, operational stakeholders, enterprise architecture, business teams, and technology teams to establish governance structures, execution standards, prioritization discipline, and scalable operating practices that improve enterprise-wide execution effectiveness.
Essential Responsibilities:
Enterprise Execution Leadership & Governance
- Establish and evolve enterprise delivery governance frameworks, execution standards, operational cadence, and scalable delivery operating models.
- Lead the enterprise execution governance function across cross-functional business and technology initiatives.
- Improve enterprise-wide intake governance, prioritization discipline, dependency management, initiative sequencing, and execution transparency.
- Establish governance practices that improve execution predictability, accountability, and organizational visibility while balancing operational agility.
- Create organizational structure and execution clarity across complex initiatives with multiple stakeholders, dependencies, and competing priorities.
- Lead enterprise governance forums, operational review cadence, escalation management processes, and delivery health visibility mechanisms.
- Improve organizational visibility into delivery health, execution risks, operational constraints, dependency impacts, and initiative status.
- Introduce operational reporting, delivery metrics, executive dashboards, and portfolio visibility mechanisms that support data-informed decision-making.
- Reduce execution fragmentation, reactive coordination, unclear ownership, and inconsistent delivery practices across teams and departments.
- Establish scalable governance and accountability models that improve organizational execution maturity and operational sustainability.
Portfolio, PMO & Delivery Management
- Lead enterprise portfolio governance, delivery coordination, prioritization processes, and initiative execution alignment across the organization.
- Oversee enterprise PMO and delivery management capabilities supporting strategic initiatives and operational change activities.
- Ensure alignment between business priorities, operational realities, technology capacity, and enterprise delivery sequencing.
- Improve consistency in execution planning, delivery coordination, risk management, escalation management, and operational accountability practices.
- Establish repeatable execution practices that improve delivery maturity, organizational scalability, and execution sustainability.
- Support enterprise planning and execution activities through improved prioritization clarity, sequencing discipline, and delivery governance.
- Facilitate effective coordination across business, operational, architecture, technology, security, and support teams.
- Improve organizational execution predictability through stronger governance, operational cadence, delivery visibility, and dependency management.
Business Analysis & Execution Readiness
- Lead enterprise business analysis capabilities supporting strategic initiatives, operational change, and enterprise delivery activities.
- Establish business analysis standards, execution readiness practices, and initiative definition processes that improve delivery quality and organizational alignment.
- Ensure business requirements are translated into actionable, measurable, and operationally aligned delivery outcomes.
- Improve stakeholder alignment, initiative clarity, operational readiness, and business-to-technology coordination across enterprise initiatives.
- Support value realization tracking, initiative definition quality, and cross-functional execution planning.
- Partner with operational leaders, process stakeholders, and technology teams to improve delivery readiness and execution effectiveness.
Enterprise Architecture & Modernization Alignment
- Collaborate closely with Enterprise Architecture and Technology Leadership to ensure alignment between enterprise priorities, modernization initiatives, roadmap sequencing, and operational delivery capacity.
- Support roadmap governance, dependency visibility, operational feasibility assessments, and enterprise execution planning activities.
- Facilitate alignment between modernization initiatives, operational sustainability, governance standards, and enterprise execution priorities.
- Partner with architecture and technology leaders to improve organizational scalability, operational maturity, and long-term execution sustainability.
Leadership
- Build and lead a high-performing enterprise delivery organization focused on execution excellence, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Lead and develop enterprise delivery, PMO, and business analysis teams while establishing clear accountability, operational discipline, and execution standards.
- Foster a culture of ownership, transparency, operational maturity, and measurable business outcomes.
- Guide teams through organizational change, delivery transformation, governance evolution, and operational maturity initiatives.
- Navigate cross-functional complexity and fragmented ownership environments with strong organizational leadership and influence.
- Influence outcomes and drive alignment across teams and stakeholders without reliance on excessive hierarchy.
- Establish strong relationships with executive leadership, operational leaders, business stakeholders, and delivery teams.
- Support executive decision-making through governance visibility, operational insights, delivery reporting, and execution analysis.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, Business, or a related field is required.
- Minimum of 7+ years of leadership experience in enterprise delivery, PMO leadership, portfolio management, technology delivery, operational transformation, or enterprise execution leadership roles is required.
- Proven experience leading cross-functional business and technology initiatives within complex organizational environments is required.
- Strong understanding of enterprise delivery governance, portfolio management, prioritization, execution management, organizational planning, and operational transformation is required.
- Experience establishing enterprise delivery operating models, governance structures, execution standards, and scalable organizational practices is required.
- Proven experience leading PMO, delivery management, and business analysis functions is required.
- Proven ability to improve organizational execution maturity, governance visibility, accountability structures, and operational alignment is required.
- Experience improving delivery predictability, prioritization discipline, dependency management, and cross-functional coordination is required.
- Strong stakeholder management, executive communication, facilitation, organizational leadership, and influence capabilities are required.
- Experience operating within evolving environments, organizational transformation initiatives, or high-growth organizations is required.
- Demonstrated ability to create structure and operational clarity within environments with fragmented ownership, competing priorities, and evolving processes is required.
- Experience balancing operational execution, governance rigor, organizational change, modernization initiatives, and strategic delivery objectives is required.
- Experience collaborating with enterprise architecture, modernization programs, operational governance initiatives, and enterprise technology leadership is considered an asset.
- Financial services, insurance, banking, or other regulated industry experience is considered an asset.
- Proven ability in people leadership and organizational change management to drive a high-performing culture is required.
- Intermediate skill with Microsoft Office (Word/Excel/PowerPoint) is required.
- Fluent in English with proven competencies in verbal and written communication is required.
- Fluent in French with proven competencies in verbal and written communication is an asset.
- Successful completion of a credit check, criminal background check, education verification, and employment reference checks is required before employment.
Thank you for considering our organization.
If you are bilingual there will be a French and English assessment as a part of the recruitment process.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. Accommodations are available upon request.
