Senior Manager Program Management in Canberra

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting, and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity.

As a Senior Manager, Delivery Lead, you will take ownership of delivery across an established federal government engagement focused on Microsoft-enabled data and AI transformation. You will lead multiple Scrum teams, bring clarity to complex delivery environments and work closely with client executives and delivery stakeholders to turn transformation priorities into reliable, measurable outcomes. This is a hands-on delivery leadership role for someone who can step into an existing engagement, build confidence quickly and keep several connected workstreams moving in the same direction.

Your Impact:

• Own end-to-end delivery across multiple Data, AI and Microsoft transformation workstreams within an established federal government engagement.
• Lead multiple Scrum teams, creating alignment across priorities, dependencies, delivery milestones and shared outcomes.
• Apply Agile and SAFe practices pragmatically to improve flow, transparency, predictability and value delivery across teams.
• Partner with client executives and senior stakeholders to provide clear delivery direction, surface decisions and maintain confidence in outcomes.
• Mobilise and support multidisciplinary teams spanning delivery, product, data, AI, Microsoft technology, engineering, architecture, security and change.
• Turn complex transformation priorities into achievable delivery plans, sequenced work and clear team accountabilities.
• Anticipate and remove blockers across teams, including dependencies, data readiness, technical integration, security, environment and adoption challenges.
• Establish effective delivery rhythms across planning, prioritisation, program increments, Scrum of Scrums, demonstrations, retrospectives and executive reviews.
• Own delivery health and commercial performance, making informed trade-offs across customer outcomes, quality, pace, team capacity, scope and financial commitments.
• Maintain appropriate governance for a protected government environment, including delivery risk, security, privacy, responsible AI and assurance considerations.
• Create an inclusive, high-accountability team environment where different disciplines work together and decisions are made at the right level.
• Use working outcomes and delivery insight to identify issues early, support timely decisions and continuously improve delivery performance.
• Strengthen the customer relationship by understanding emerging needs and shaping practical follow-on opportunities grounded in delivery value.

What You’ll Bring:

• Significant experience leading complex technology delivery in federal government environments, with accountability across multiple teams or workstreams.
• Current or previous experience delivering Microsoft-enabled transformation and data or AI initiatives.
• Significant Agile and SAFe experience, including coordinating multiple Scrum teams within a broader program or value stream.
• Experience working with federal government delivery, security, governance and stakeholder environments.
• Strong executive engagement skills, with the ability to communicate delivery status, risk, trade-offs and decisions clearly and credibly.
• Confidence stepping into an established engagement, understanding the delivery context quickly and providing visible leadership from the outset.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams across product, experience, data, AI, engineering, architecture, security and change.
• A pragmatic delivery mindset, using frameworks and governance to enable outcomes rather than create unnecessary process.
• Commercial awareness, including managing delivery commitments, team capacity, scope and financial performance.
• An inclusive leadership style that builds trust, encourages different perspectives and creates shared accountability for outcomes.

Set Yourself Apart With:

• Experience delivering transformation using Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Power Platform, Dynamics 365, Azure AI or related Microsoft technologies.
• Strong background in Lean Portfolio Management and Agile budgeting.
• Ability to drive Agile maturity assessments and continuous improvement initiatives.

Additional information:

• An inclusive workplace that promotes diversity and collaboration.
• Access to ongoing learning and development opportunities.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Flexibility to support work-life balance.
• Generous paid leave and holidays.
• Wellness program and employee assistance.

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures.