Location: 44 King Street W (S-PLAZA)

Contract duration : ASAP to 12 months contract

Job Purpose:

As a Senior Project Manager / Delivery Lead, you will act as the Scrum Master and Project Manager within an Agile environment. You will ensure the successful delivery of software products within Canadian Digital Banking. You will lead and support an Agile scrum team (Product, Engineering, Design, Analytics) and ensure the Agile methodology and principles are executed effectively. You will identify, escalate, and remove release and team impediments. As a Senior Delivery Lead, you will also manage the budget, schedule, risks, and issues

Key Accountabilities

Agile Project Management

• Tracking projects through each phase of project lifecycle, facilitates scrum ceremonies
• Work with all the dependent teams and prepare an executionplan .
• Working with various teams to achieve end-to-end project delivery.
• Ensure milestones are met and the project has gone through all approval gates.
• Document project status & assist team in maintaining information repositories.
• Maintain project risk tracker and communicate project risks to management.
• Prepare work back schedules, roadmap and capacity planning at a project level.
• Ensure a balance between team capacity and workload is kept in order to achieve a successful project delivery.
• Support app releases & rollout related activities.

Communication & Collaboration: Stakeholder Management:

• Keep all stakeholders up to date on project status and roadblocks
• Ability to set expectations with all stakeholders, execute and communicate accordingly
• Identification of risks and issues that require DF leadership attention
• Ability to articulate and clearly communicate complex problems and Solutions in a simple and logical manner following stakeholder field of experties
• Ability to work effectively with engineering Sr Managers when needed to remediate risk around project delivery
• Engage stakeholders (e.g. risk, legal, audit) as needed for consultation throughout the course of the project.

Communication & Collaboration: Scrum Master

• Contribute to the productivity and happiness of the scrum team

• Supporting project team members in challenging situations (resource / release challenges, cross-team communication)

• Introduce agile engineering best practices

• Scheduling ad-hoc meetings to solve for disagreements or ambiguities in order to reduce risk of jeopardizing milestones and or artifacts

• Ease conversations and promote constructive attitude

• Facilitate and ensure healthy communication between project team members

• Scheduling and chairing scrum ceremonies.

• Accountable for conducting regular retros and addressing team’s feedback

• Monitor scrum team progress by preparing reports/charts

• Understanding team strengths and weaknesses in order to improve each phase of the project lifecycle

• Lead by example

Continuous Improvement

• Providing feedback to help improving processes and tools

• Working on aligning best practices across delivery team

• Continuous improvement and learning from other delivery team members

• Take active role on application audit related activities

• Be able to adjust, learn and iterate frequently

Must Have Skills:

1. 8-10 years of experience as a Project Manager or related industry experience

2. 5-7 years' experience in managing and delivering complex software projects

3. 5+ years of recent experience with managing large volume of Migration and infrastructure projects

4. Demonstrates strong knowledge of Agile methodology while delivering IT projects. Ideally has Certified Scrum master certification (CSM / PSM)

Nice-To-Have Skills:

1. Previous experience with GCP cloud is highly preferred

2. Recent experience with CI/CD pipeline

3. Previous experience with Top 5 banks / Financial institutes in nice to have

Soft Skills:

• Strong problem solving, critical thinking and analytical skills to rapidly assess problem situations.

• Demonstrates creativity and adaptability when identifying solutions.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with ability to communicate on a broad spectrum (from deep technical discussions to high level executive vision)

• Excellent interpersonal, negotiation and relationships management skills

• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple complex initiatives

• Demonstrates proactivity and accountability.

Degrees or certifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree level or above education, ideally in business, financial or technology

• Certified Scrum master certification (CSM) is must have

• PMP certification is must have