Senior Manager, IT

Senior Manager, IT

Location:  Pickering, Ontario
Status: Regular, Full – Time 
Education level: 4 Year university degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field 
Deadline to apply:  Friday, March 28, 2025
Travel: 10% 
 
Laurentis Energy Partners (LEP) is on a high growth trajectory. We offer an exciting combination of challenging opportunities and career diversity in a work environment where safety is a core value. We seek ambitious and intelligent leaders in the energy industry with the ability to think differently to find new ways to solve problems. Being an Laurentis employee means you can apply your knowledge, broaden your skills, and make a valuable contribution to enhancing Ontario's energy sector. Our values are our strengths, and they are fundamental truths about us that do not change. Safety. Integrity. Excellence. People and Citizenship.  Visit our website to know more about our services.
 
JOB OVERVIEW

Reporting to the VP Finance and IT, the Senior Manager, IT Services position is responsible for ensuring secure, compliant, and efficient IT systems that support business operations, regulatory requirements, and digital transformation initiatives. The role requires a strategic thinker with strong leadership skills that will collaborate with business to develop and implement IT strategies that drive business growth, efficiency, and security.  

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Working in accordance with prescribed safety procedures and regulations:
 

• Have a clear and thorough understanding of Laurentis’s business functions, processes and information management priorities as well as the IT systems and resources used to help the business optimize IT expenditures.
• Ensure delivery of high-quality and reliable IT services focused on maximizing return on investment for IT investments.
• Provide delivery/oversight of IT and telecom services leveraging Laurentis’s outsourcing partners.
• Lead Laurentis’s application and infrastructure outsourcing partners to manage the ongoing development, support and maintenance of Laurentis’s applications and infrastructure. This includes infrastructure planning, applications lifecycle planning, asset refresh and applications continuity management.
• Work with the business clients to establish and manage on an on-going basis, service level agreements for all information management services.
• Be the strategic interface for the business client group for resolution of information management issues with both internal and external IT service providers.
• Support the development of information management strategies to meet changing business objectives while maximizing the efficiency and effectiveness of information technology within the business groups.
• Maintain awareness of both internal and external trends in IT technology and services that could be used to enable or improve Laurentis’s management of information.
• Facilitate the identification and screening of business needs/outcomes and/or solutions and determine if capabilities can be delivered through a modification or enhancement to an existing system, execution of a formal project, or whether a non-technical solution (i.e. status quo, business processes change, etc.) would meet business objectives.
• Support the approval process for IT projects and provide technical input in preparation of requirements and business cases as required.
• Facilitate the IT decision making and prioritizing process by participating in Laurentis’s line of business management team meetings and/or other line of business forums.
• Initiate/support special IT initiatives/projects from time to time.
• Maintain the overall Laurentis information systems architecture and adapt as business needs change through design reviews with business and service providers.
• Establish and maintain Laurentis's information management policy and associated standards and provide oversight, guidance and support for the corporate document and records management programs.
• Establish and manage an IT security framework and a program that protects the confidentiality, integrity and availability of Laurentis's critical systems and data, and enables monitoring, compliance and incident investigation.
• Ensure the readiness and testing of the IT Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan.
• Identify the threat and associated vulnerabilities of IT operations and work with service-providers to implement cost-effective countermeasures to mitigate the risk.
• Work with service providers to establish a governance framework over IT operations to ensure it continues to meet or exceed established service levels and complies with all regulatory requirements.
• Maximize the value from our strategic IT vendors and service providers and maintain a strong focus on return on investment.
• Maintain a highly skilled, motivated and engaged workforce.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are seeking dynamic and results-driven professionals who have the following: 

• 10 years of progressive IT services leadership with a track record of delivering high-quality, cost-effective IT solutions in complex, multi-vendor environments.
• Proven ability to collaborate with business groups to define and oversee service level agreements that align IT operations with evolving business objectives.
• Strong background in developing and executing information management strategies, and IT security frameworks.
• Strong understanding of IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud computing, and digital transformation.
• Strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills 

APPLICATION PROCESS

Please submit your resume by Friday, March 28, 2025. Laurentis thanks all those who apply; however, only candidates considered for an interview will be contacted.

ACCOMMODATIONS

Laurentis is committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable, and accessible environment where all employees feel valued, respected, and supported. If you require accommodation during the application or interview process, please advise us as soon as possible so appropriate arrangements can be made.