Sr. Principal Infrastr Eng.- Cloud Program Manager

Role Overview

Work Model

• Day-one onsite, then hybrid with three onsite days per week.
• Role location stated as Canada.

Program Delivery Responsibilities

• Build the integrated plan across mobilization, assessment and design, build and remediation, migration and validation, cutover, and stabilization.
• Define workstream ownership, milestones, dependencies, critical-path activities, deliverables, and phase exit criteria.
• Coordinate legacy AWS security remediation, target-environment provisioning, and migration preparation.
• Manage dependencies across AWS landing zones, EKS, IAM, networking, application upgrades, CI/CD, data pipelines, and vendor connectivity.
• Maintain backlog and RAID, decision, and change logs; assign actions and escalate blockers with options and business impacts.
• Coordinate security architecture reviews, Permit to Operate, New Application Certification, architecture approvals, recovery planning, and control reviews.
• Track resource onboarding, access readiness, capacity, allocation, and delivery commitments across teams and suppliers.
• Run delivery reviews and steering updates covering milestones, finances, risks, decisions, and recovery actions.
• Coordinate synchronization, integration and other testing, HA/DR validation, reconciliation, and readiness defect closure.
• Drive cutover planning, rehearsals, approvals, rollback readiness, communications, and go/no-go evidence.
• Coordinate stabilization, incident escalation, operational training, runbook handover, acceptance, and program closure or legacy decommissioning.

Required Skills and Experience

• Demonstrated delivery of complex AWS migration or cloud transformation programs across multiple technical workstreams.
• Strong program and project management in integrated scheduling, dependency management, RAID, resource planning, financial tracking, and change control.
• Working understanding of AWS infrastructure, IAM, networking, container platforms, databases, observability, resiliency, and disaster recovery.
• Experience coordinating application modernization, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD changes, data migration, and third-party integrations.
• Experience with production cutovers, rehearsals, rollback planning, business continuity, and post-go-live stabilization.
• Ability to translate technical issues into delivery impacts, secure timely decisions, and communicate with senior stakeholders.
• Experience with Agile and milestone-based delivery, using Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, or equivalent tools.
• Strong documentation and governance, including audit evidence, readiness reviews, and formal delivery acceptance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Banking, financial services, or similarly regulated enterprise experience is preferred.
• Acquisition-related integration and migration between separately governed AWS environments is preferred.
• PMP, PgMP, PRINCE2, or relevant Agile certification is an advantage; AWS foundational or architecture certification is also an advantage.

Key Deliverables