Manager, Techna

Union: Non-Union

Number of Vacancies: 1

New or Replacement Position: Replacement

Site: R. Fraser Elliott Building, Toronto General Hospital, 190 Elizabeth St., Toronto, ON Department: TECHNA

Reports to: Project Director

Salary Range

$105,476 - $155,476 per annum

Hours: 37.5 Hours Per Week

Shifts: Monday to Friday

Status: Permanent Full-Time

Closing Date: November 4, 2026

Position Summary

This is a challenging, impactful, and highly collaborative position. You will be working as part of the Data Science and Health Informatics Research teams that sits at the intersection of FAIR data management and machine learning and is responsible for developing innovative health data applications and tools. You will actively solve novel problems, make improvements, troubleshoot independently and with your team.

You will be responsible for managing the product roadmap and development, as well as, guiding and mentoring your development team. To guide development teams, you will leverage existing ideas and develop new insights based on your industry experience and your contact with customers and key opinion leaders.

To do this, you should have a unique blend of business and technical savvy, be a good observer and listener, and be able to connect unmet customer needs with product design.

You will be working with Software Developers, Architects, Business Analysts, Designers, and other managers to ensure the success of your product portfolio and drive the technical roadmap with a premier focus on correctness and innovation.

The ideal candidate should have experience as a product manager in health sciences and bioinformatics. This role requires experience in using a range of different technologies and frameworks to create innovative healthcare solutions. You will work on novel health technologies that will help accelerate research, including health data interoperability platforms and integrated predictive models.

You will be working within a dynamic team, and you will learn and adapt rapidly while working in Agile mode.

Duties

• Identify new technological opportunities and work with leadership to prioritize and execute to achieve defined outcomes
• Translate business needs into technical requirement documentation and related resources
• Measure and track progress, success, and failures for internal stakeholders to demonstrate the value created by the team
• Use a data-informed decision-making process, and identify new opportunities and provide sound reasoning for strategy decisions from that data
• Leverage strong problem-solving skills - deal with ambiguity, gather information, prioritize, and drive execution on objectives, ensuring they ladder up to key strategies in an iterative and incremental way
• Communicating and presenting key project developments, progress, and outcomes to stakeholders
• Develop and communicate product insights, positioning, and value proposition throughout the organization creating alignment around the goals.
• Lead and oversee all aspects and day to day operational and administrative functions of our National projects in the Data Science Team
• Collaborate with research programs, principal investigators and other stakeholders in enabling research and optimizing clinical care at UHN and partner organizations
• Work closely with the Techna leadership team in the development and implementation of operational and strategic initiatives
• Supervise the technical staff, fostering a positive, collaborative, customer-oriented working environment
• Ensure efficient operational processes, and effective allocation of resources

Team responsibilities

• Help create a culture of learning and experimentation within your team, effectively gathering feedback and data on product features
• Facilitate discussions and workshops to drive forward the technical roadmap
• Work openly and collaboratively with other teams in the Techna department;
• Share knowledge with enthusiasm and empower your colleagues;
• Show respect and appreciation for your colleagues’ needs and appreciate differences as much similarities;
• Work on multiple concurrent projects and products, effectively following timelines, goals, and cross-functional collaborations;
• Work in a process-oriented but agile mode;
• Take responsibility for your personal and professional development.
• Masters Degree, or recognized equivalent, in Health Science, Computer Science, Health Administration or related field
• At minimum, up to five (5) years of relevant and/or related experience in health related field
• At minimum, two (2) years of experience in supervising and mentoring staff, ideally software developers and engineers
• At minimum, two (2) years of experience as a Product Manager on SaaS enterprise products or platforms with technically complex infrastructures
• A background as a software engineer or have experience building data pipelines and working with modern data infrastructure (e.g. Kubernetes, data processing engines such as Spark or Beam, massively scalable databases such as Redshift or BigQuery)
• A proven track record in bringing clarity to a complex domain and drive agreement between technical and data teams, and the business
• Demonstrated experience supporting complex research and clinical environments.
• Familiarity with data-driven or AI-enabled initiatives in healthcare, and the ability to translate clinical or research needs into data and technology requirements.
• Working knowledge of regulatory and institutional requirements, including REB, Health Canada, or equivalent, is considered an asset.
• Successfully taken new features from conception, through launch to adoption, engagement, and retention
• A technically curious approach to product management; systematically self-educating on our tech stack and relevant literature on the technology you are representing
• Experienced in project management with familiarity on both Agile and Waterfall methodologies and to be able to apply them where best suited
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence others.
• Experience influencing cross-functional teams to achieve outcomes over outputs
• Experience working directly with highly technical stakeholders
• Solid understanding of software development lifecycle
• Experience with Java, SQL, Oracle, Mongo, RDF, HL7, FHIR, Javascript, Angular an asset

Why join UHN?

In addition to working alongside some of the most talented and inspiring healthcare professionals in the world, UHN offers a wide range of benefits, programs and perks. It is the comprehensiveness of these offerings that makes it a differentiating factor, allowing you to find value where it matters most to you, now and throughout your career at UHN.

• Competitive offer packages
• Government organization and a member of the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP https://hoopp.com/ )
• Close access to Transit and UHN shuttle service
• A flexible work environment
• Opportunities for development and promotions within a large organization
• Additional perks (multiple corporate discounts including: travel, restaurants, parking, phone plans, auto insurance discounts, on-site gyms, etc.)

Current UHN employees must have successfully completed their probationary period, have a good employee record along with satisfactory attendance in accordance with UHN's attendance management program, to be eligible for consideration.

All applications must be submitted before the posting close date.

UHN uses email to communicate with selected candidates. Please ensure you check your email regularly. At University Health Network (UHN), artificial intelligence technologies may be used to assist in the screening, assessment, and selection of candidates for this position.

Please be advised that a Criminal Record Check may be required of the successful candidate. Should it be determined that any information provided by a candidate be misleading, inaccurate or incorrect, UHN reserves the right to discontinue with the consideration of their application.

UHN is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive recruitment process and workplace. Requests for accommodation can be made at any stage of the recruitment process. Applicants need to make their requirements known.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.