Senior Banking Delivery Manager/ Scrum Master - supports the mobile apps for the bank - 35317

Location Address: Hybrid - 333 King Street E - 1-2/week (Tues, Wed, Thurs but team dependent/subject to change) Contract Duration: 6 months Possibility of extension & conversion to FTE Number of Positions: 1 Story Behind the Need Business group: Canadian Digital Banking Engineering - Applications - supports the mobile apps for bank. Project: PEGA migration - will be assisting with this, in initial phases - within the group will be leading 2 teams working on different workstreams within Marvel, with different deliverables but with same end goal for project Responsibilities: • Work with a team to identify roadmap/feature dependencies and impediments. Being accountable for tracking the dependencies and impediments and removing them to enable the team: surface, track, escalate • Guide and coach the team to follow agile practices • Regularly communicate with other Squads to ensure tactical story alignment and identifies/tracks dependencies between the team. • Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution. Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised and resolved. • Assists in the identification and mitigation of project risks. • Identifies and acts on coaching opportunities at the individual and team level. • Conducts regular assessments of a team Agile Maturity and uses the results to guide them to improved performance. • Facilitate agile ceremonies (Daily Scrum, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Retrospective) and longer-term planning exercises (Release Planning, Release Train Planning). • Support the Product Owner, especially with respect to story grooming and maintaining the product backlog. • Pro-actively identify and mitigate risks using Agile best practices and project deliverables • Needs to forecast the numbers of deliverables, which is based on evidence and reliable source. • Needs to be expert in estimating and planning. Knows how to create useful, reliable and practical plans for software development projects • Provide regular, standardized reporting for team performance: velocity, stories completed and project status. • Work closely with the Finance to ensure the alignment of budgets, spend and forecasts. Also, Support budget tracking and variance mitigation efforts for the delivery team • Coordinate operation readiness activities with associated teams (security, infrastructure, network, etc) • Oversee and coordinate software release activities. • Active participation and help assist in timely decision making in defining product backlog (working with Product Owner, Business Analyst); alignment to overall product architecture and technical design (working with Architect and Tech Leads) • Provide regular, standardized reporting for team performance: velocity, stories completed and project status. • Regularly reviewing sprint review and retrospective feedback and action items with them ensuring they are laser focused on efficient, quality engineering delivery Must Have Skills: 1. 10 years of previous combined experience as a Delivery Lead/Delivery Manager/Senior PM with Scrum experience 2. 5 years’ experience with backlog tracking, Scrum and Kanban based metrics, task definition, story splitting. 3. Demonstrated experience with software development processes and procedures to understand the team needs - SDLC 4. 3 years’ experience working in an Agile environment, with common development practices and in service-oriented environments 5. 3 years hands-on experience leading release management activities for successful delivery of product launches and working with the team on day-today activities Nice-To-Have Skills: 1. 2 years’ experience as a Scrum Master 2. Pega experience 3. A big plus is experience as Delivery Lead role for Digital 4. Experience as a Program Manager working with multiple complex initiatives, within banking 5. Working experience in JIRA/Confluence 6. Experience with System Design and work independent of Architect on creating pragmatic solutions to technical problems, working with the scrum team. Education: • Bachelor’s Degree - Software Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent an asset • CSM an asset • PMP an asset • Scrum At Scale an asset Best VS. Average Candidate: Someone who can handle multiple initiatives at this time, acting as a pseudo-program manager, has good knowledge of Agile and Scrum, and can lead a high performing Agile team. Has worked in Delivery Lead role for Bank Digital is a strong asset, or with Digital Channels in an FI; Pega experience would set them apart to be able to provide expertise on the project. Apply

Location: Toronto, CA

Posted Date: 11/2/2024