Technology Change Manager

Airswift is seeking a Technology Change Manager to work with one of our O&G clients in Calgary, AB on an initial 6-months contract with possibility of extension.

Description

We are seeking an experienced Technology Change Manager/Project Manager to lead complex Infrastructure and Cybersecurity projects and programs from initiation through implementation and transition to operations.

The successful candidate will bring strong project management discipline, technology experience, and exceptional communication and leadership skills. This role requires someone who can create structure around complex initiatives, bring diverse teams together around common outcomes, navigate organizational change, manage competing priorities and dependencies, and drive timely decisions and accountability.

The Project Manager must be an effective communicator who can tailor clear, timely communications to technical teams, business and field stakeholders, vendors, and senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead Infrastructure and Cybersecurity projects and programs from planning through implementation, operational transition, and closeout.
• Develop and manage scope, schedules, milestones, budgets, resources, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Build a strong sense of team and shared accountability across Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Technology Operations, business and field teams, and vendors.
• Proactively manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and decisions, ensuring clear ownership and timely escalation.
• Establish clear project governance and provide timely, audience-appropriate communications on progress, financials, risks, impacts, upcoming changes, and decisions required.
• Engage stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership, translating complex technical topics into clear business impacts, options, recommendations, and decisions.
• Apply effective organizational change management practices by identifying impacted stakeholders, preparing teams for change, and coordinating communications, readiness, and adoption activities.
• Facilitate cross-functional discussions, resolve ambiguity and competing priorities, and drive decisions and commitments to closure.
• Manage project budgets, forecasts, vendors, and third-party deliverables.
• Coordinate implementation, testing, operational readiness, documentation, and transition to support.
• Manage multiple concurrent initiatives while maintaining alignment with organizational priorities and interdependencies.

Requirements

• Proven success leading complex enterprise Infrastructure and/or Cybersecurity projects and programs.
• Strong project management capabilities across scope, schedule, budget, resources, risk, dependencies, governance, and change.
• Exceptional written, verbal, presentation, and facilitation skills, with demonstrated ability to communicate clearly and proactively with diverse audiences ranging from technical specialists and field personnel to senior leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to build collaborative, high-performing project teams, create alignment across organizational boundaries, and establish accountability without relying on direct authority.
• Strong understanding of organizational change management, including stakeholder engagement, change impacts, communications, readiness, and adoption.
• Strong understanding of enterprise IT infrastructure and cybersecurity concepts, with the technical fluency to work effectively with architects, engineers, security professionals, and technology vendors.
• Demonstrated ability to bring structure, clarity, and momentum to complex or ambiguous initiatives and manage multiple priorities effectively.
• Experience managing technology vendors, professional services partners, project financials, and forecasts.
• Strong judgment, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• PMP or equivalent project management certification preferred. Change management experience or certification is an asset.

Work Conditions

• Contract position based in the Calgary corporate office.