Executive Director, Applications
About the role
Executive Director, Applications
XM3 Senior Manager 3
Regular/full-time
Innovation and New Technology
Digital and Technology Solutions / Applications
Winnipeg MB
Advertisement Number: 44306
Salary(s): XM3 $114,235.00 - $139,824.00 per year
Closing Date: June 22, 2025
The Manitoba government recognizes the importance of building an exemplary public service reflective of the citizens it serves, where diverse abilities, backgrounds, cultures, identities, languages and perspectives drives a high standard of service and innovation. The Manitoba government supports equitable employment practices and promotes representation of designated groups (women, Indigenous people, persons with disabilities, visible minorities).
Employment Equity is a factor in selection for this competition. Consideration will be given to women, Indigenous people and persons with disabilities.
A copy of the position description is available upon request.
Introduction
Digital and Technology Solutions (DTS) is the central agency with overall responsibility for Information Technology (IT) and Business Modernization strategy, policy and service delivery for the Government of Manitoba.
DTS provides strategic leadership to continuously improve the Manitoba government's Information and Communications Technology (ICT) environment through planning and implementing solutions to meet current and future ICT needs. Through its Legislative Building Information Systems area, DTS also provides a secure technological environment through highly responsive support services and reliable systems that address business requirements of diverse users within the legislative building environment, where the user community encompasses both government and non-government staff.
The Applications branch is responsible for ensuring all provincial applications perform in accordance with service level objectives and managing cross- functional teams to deliver new or enhancements to digital and technology solutions as defined by the product and technology portfolio roadmaps.
Conditions of Employment:
- Must be legally entitled to work in Canada
- Must provide and maintain a satisfactory Criminal Record Check
- Must be able to work overtime as required
Qualifications:
Essential:
- Post secondary degree or diploma in Management, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related business field.
- Extensive experience managing business applications and the processes they enable.
- Experience managing business application software development lifecycle.
- Experience building and maintaining strong customer relationships with an emphasis on managing customer expectations and organizational change.
- Proven ability as a leader with a commitment to create, support and sustain a diverse environment that enables staff to achieve results and to develop for the future.
- Demonstrated ability to leverage opportunities for innovation, find creative solutions to issues, and successfully manage change.
- Management experience with responsibility for human and financial resources.
- Experience translating strategic priorities into clear operational and business plans, and experience with strategic performance management and measurement systems (e.g. Key Performance Indicators, Balanced Scorecards).
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with experience managing internal and external stakeholder relationships.
- Political acumen demonstrated through experience providing strategic advice to senior leaders on complex topics and sensitive issues.
- Strong business acumen with experience in stakeholder, budgeting and financial management.
Duties:
As a member of the department’s management team, the Executive Director is responsible to lead and manage Applications branch, provide advice and support to the Assistant Deputy Minister and other government departments.
This critical role will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of a diverse range of applications, including but not limited to custom-built applications, enterprise resource planning (ERP), and customer relationship management (CRM) systems, as well as augmenting technologies.
Key responsibilities include:
- Build a respectful workplace culture that promotes diversity, learning and continuous improvement.
- Directly manage a team of staff to achieve service, operational or project objectives.
- Allocate work, support staff development, and monitor performance.
- Lead short and medium term financial, human resource and business planning for the organizational unit within allocated resources and consistent with department and divisional goals.
- Contributes to longer term planning for the entire province through the enablement of digital and technology solutions needed by departmental programs.
- Ensure all branch employees understand how their work connects to division and government objectives.
- Direct the management of the human and financial resources of the branch to deliver on operational and strategic mandates, ensuring the appropriate allocation of resources to maximize efficiency.
- Direct the preparation of authority seeking documents and/or ministerial correspondence.
- Establish collaborative relationships with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
- Develop and implement accountability mechanisms that include evaluation, performance measures (e.g. balanced scorecards), and reporting for the division.
- Monitor performance measures and outcomes, take corrective action where required, and report to senior leadership.
- Implement and oversee best practices for application lifecycle management, including maintenance, support, and continuous improvement. Manage master data across relevant applications.
- Establish and maintain service level agreements (SLAs) for key applications, aligning with business needs and ensuring that performance is monitored and reported.
- Identify opportunities for system modernization, integration, automation, and rationalization.
- Perform ongoing assessments of the application landscape to optimize value and reduce redundancy.
- Ensure contracts for application management and maintenance are proactively reviewed and renewed to manage the risks of legacy software and gain the benefits of modernization.
Apply Now:
Advertisement # 44306
Talent Acquisition - Executive Recruitment
Human Resource Services
608-330 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, MB, R3C 0C4
Phone: 204-945-6892
Fax: 204-945-0601
Email: PSCExecutivejobs@gov.mb.ca
Applicants may request reasonable accommodation related to the materials or activities used throughout the selection process. When applying to this position, please indicate the advertisement number and position title in the subject line and/or body of your email. Your cover letter, resumé and/or application must clearly indicate how you meet the qualifications.
Please be advised that job competitions for represented positions may be grieved by internal represented applicants. Should a selection grievance be filed, information from the competition file will be provided to the grievor's representative. Personal information irrelevant to the grievance and other information protected under legislation will be redacted.
We thank all who apply and advise that only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.
About Government of Manitoba
If you want to work in an organization where employee trust, integrity, respect, skill and dedication is valued, then a career with the Manitoba government may be right for you.
The Manitoba government offers rewarding careers to its employees who deliver hundreds of programs and services to the public. The government has a wide variety of departments, reflecting over 700 different types of jobs, located in communities across the province.
We are an employer that has a commitment to integrity, respect, diversity, inclusion and advancing reconciliation.
It is an exciting time to be a public servant in Manitoba. We are in a period of profound technological, environmental, and socioeconomic change that compels us to evaluate the nature of our work and the essence of our culture.
The province of Manitoba is home to almost 1.3 million people who have a well-deserved reputation for being among the friendliest in Canada.
Join us and together we can build a stronger province and make a positive contribution to the quality of life of all Manitobans.
Executive Director, Applications
About the role
Executive Director, Applications
XM3 Senior Manager 3
Regular/full-time
Innovation and New Technology
Digital and Technology Solutions / Applications
Winnipeg MB
Advertisement Number: 44306
Salary(s): XM3 $114,235.00 - $139,824.00 per year
Closing Date: June 22, 2025
The Manitoba government recognizes the importance of building an exemplary public service reflective of the citizens it serves, where diverse abilities, backgrounds, cultures, identities, languages and perspectives drives a high standard of service and innovation. The Manitoba government supports equitable employment practices and promotes representation of designated groups (women, Indigenous people, persons with disabilities, visible minorities).
Employment Equity is a factor in selection for this competition. Consideration will be given to women, Indigenous people and persons with disabilities.
A copy of the position description is available upon request.
Introduction
Digital and Technology Solutions (DTS) is the central agency with overall responsibility for Information Technology (IT) and Business Modernization strategy, policy and service delivery for the Government of Manitoba.
DTS provides strategic leadership to continuously improve the Manitoba government's Information and Communications Technology (ICT) environment through planning and implementing solutions to meet current and future ICT needs. Through its Legislative Building Information Systems area, DTS also provides a secure technological environment through highly responsive support services and reliable systems that address business requirements of diverse users within the legislative building environment, where the user community encompasses both government and non-government staff.
The Applications branch is responsible for ensuring all provincial applications perform in accordance with service level objectives and managing cross- functional teams to deliver new or enhancements to digital and technology solutions as defined by the product and technology portfolio roadmaps.
Conditions of Employment:
- Must be legally entitled to work in Canada
- Must provide and maintain a satisfactory Criminal Record Check
- Must be able to work overtime as required
Qualifications:
Essential:
- Post secondary degree or diploma in Management, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related business field.
- Extensive experience managing business applications and the processes they enable.
- Experience managing business application software development lifecycle.
- Experience building and maintaining strong customer relationships with an emphasis on managing customer expectations and organizational change.
- Proven ability as a leader with a commitment to create, support and sustain a diverse environment that enables staff to achieve results and to develop for the future.
- Demonstrated ability to leverage opportunities for innovation, find creative solutions to issues, and successfully manage change.
- Management experience with responsibility for human and financial resources.
- Experience translating strategic priorities into clear operational and business plans, and experience with strategic performance management and measurement systems (e.g. Key Performance Indicators, Balanced Scorecards).
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with experience managing internal and external stakeholder relationships.
- Political acumen demonstrated through experience providing strategic advice to senior leaders on complex topics and sensitive issues.
- Strong business acumen with experience in stakeholder, budgeting and financial management.
Duties:
As a member of the department’s management team, the Executive Director is responsible to lead and manage Applications branch, provide advice and support to the Assistant Deputy Minister and other government departments.
This critical role will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of a diverse range of applications, including but not limited to custom-built applications, enterprise resource planning (ERP), and customer relationship management (CRM) systems, as well as augmenting technologies.
Key responsibilities include:
- Build a respectful workplace culture that promotes diversity, learning and continuous improvement.
- Directly manage a team of staff to achieve service, operational or project objectives.
- Allocate work, support staff development, and monitor performance.
- Lead short and medium term financial, human resource and business planning for the organizational unit within allocated resources and consistent with department and divisional goals.
- Contributes to longer term planning for the entire province through the enablement of digital and technology solutions needed by departmental programs.
- Ensure all branch employees understand how their work connects to division and government objectives.
- Direct the management of the human and financial resources of the branch to deliver on operational and strategic mandates, ensuring the appropriate allocation of resources to maximize efficiency.
- Direct the preparation of authority seeking documents and/or ministerial correspondence.
- Establish collaborative relationships with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
- Develop and implement accountability mechanisms that include evaluation, performance measures (e.g. balanced scorecards), and reporting for the division.
- Monitor performance measures and outcomes, take corrective action where required, and report to senior leadership.
- Implement and oversee best practices for application lifecycle management, including maintenance, support, and continuous improvement. Manage master data across relevant applications.
- Establish and maintain service level agreements (SLAs) for key applications, aligning with business needs and ensuring that performance is monitored and reported.
- Identify opportunities for system modernization, integration, automation, and rationalization.
- Perform ongoing assessments of the application landscape to optimize value and reduce redundancy.
- Ensure contracts for application management and maintenance are proactively reviewed and renewed to manage the risks of legacy software and gain the benefits of modernization.
Apply Now:
Advertisement # 44306
Talent Acquisition - Executive Recruitment
Human Resource Services
608-330 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, MB, R3C 0C4
Phone: 204-945-6892
Fax: 204-945-0601
Email: PSCExecutivejobs@gov.mb.ca
Applicants may request reasonable accommodation related to the materials or activities used throughout the selection process. When applying to this position, please indicate the advertisement number and position title in the subject line and/or body of your email. Your cover letter, resumé and/or application must clearly indicate how you meet the qualifications.
Please be advised that job competitions for represented positions may be grieved by internal represented applicants. Should a selection grievance be filed, information from the competition file will be provided to the grievor's representative. Personal information irrelevant to the grievance and other information protected under legislation will be redacted.
We thank all who apply and advise that only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.
About Government of Manitoba
If you want to work in an organization where employee trust, integrity, respect, skill and dedication is valued, then a career with the Manitoba government may be right for you.
The Manitoba government offers rewarding careers to its employees who deliver hundreds of programs and services to the public. The government has a wide variety of departments, reflecting over 700 different types of jobs, located in communities across the province.
We are an employer that has a commitment to integrity, respect, diversity, inclusion and advancing reconciliation.
It is an exciting time to be a public servant in Manitoba. We are in a period of profound technological, environmental, and socioeconomic change that compels us to evaluate the nature of our work and the essence of our culture.
The province of Manitoba is home to almost 1.3 million people who have a well-deserved reputation for being among the friendliest in Canada.
Join us and together we can build a stronger province and make a positive contribution to the quality of life of all Manitobans.