Pod Director

at  Hydro One Networks Inc

49918 - Toronto - Regular - Ongoing
Hydro One is proud to be the largest electricity transmission and distribution provider in Ontario, serving nearly 1.5 million customers. We have a long history in the industry with our roots dating back over 110 years to 1906. Since then, we have worked to grow and evolve to meet the changing needs of our customers and communities across Ontario. Today, we’re focused on providing exceptional customer service and ensuring we are building safe communities where we live, work and play.
It’s an exciting time to join the team at Hydro One!
POD Directors to continue our journey. The POD Director is responsible for ensuring that IT requirements are met from project start through to sustainment and operation. The POD Director is accountable for one of the Work & Asset Management area for both Transmission and Distribution. The POD Director will report directly to the Vice President of Business Solutions.

SPECIFIC ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Oversee and deliver strategic projects that are crucial to Hydro One achieving its overall strategy within a functional domain.
• Accountable for managing budget and annual work program and investment plan allocation of POD.
• Delivering on Hydro One’s strategic objectives through the more effective use of information technologies and by transforming the business through improved business process, applications, integration, and technology. This includes ensuring that the IT strategy and POD agenda align with corporate strategy.
• Architect and drive productivity and cost effectiveness through innovation and demonstrate same to the ISD Leadership team through the application of broad knowledge in both business processes and enabling technologies.
• Own the lifecycle of the business application portfolio focusing on business outcomes.
• Manage the project intake, application design, build and deployment of IT systems and projects.
• Interface with senior management of assigned LOB to ensure IT requirements are successfully executed.
• Interface with leadership of supporting ISD groups to ensure alignment of efforts and successful implementation and execution of project and sustainment portfolio.
• Help define yearly strategic resource allocation related IT budget for LOB and allocation by service.
• Monitor and report on the ongoing performance of Pods to ensure objectives established and met.
• Provide quality assurance monitoring to assess IT compliance to established standards.
• Define service levels, balance business needs and allocate Pod budgets based on portfolio prioritization and investment plans.
• Oversee application sustainment metrics (e.g. uptime) and activities (e.g. patching).
• Responsible for implementation, management, supervision of all activities of the POD.
• Ensure outsourced service providers and other third parties (integrators, product vendors, etc.) meet expectations and deliver to project outcomes as contractually required

Please refer the Job description for details