Job Description

Story Behind the Need:

• Business Group: Canadian Digital Banking Engineering - Applications - supports the mobile apps for client.
• Project: Project to support the Real Time Rail (RTR) Project. Currently at the middle of the project. RTR will provide a platform for innovation to allow Payments Canada members to offer new ways for Canadians and Canadian businesses to pay and be paid in real-time, and to make use of rich payment data. May be asked to work on other assignments as well.
• Candidate Value Proposition: The candidate will have the opportunity with work with the best in class project management expertise. The will have exposure to senior level management and stakeholders.

Typical Day in Role:

• 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
• 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)
• Regularly communicate with other scrum teams to ensure tactical story alignment and identifies/tracks dependencies between the team.
• 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

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

• 5+ years of previous experience as a Delivery Lead/Delivery Manager/Senior PM with Scrum experience
• Understands backlog tracking, Scrum and Kanban based metrics, task definition, story splitting.
• Good knowledge of software development processes and procedures to understand the team needs.
• Familiar with common development practices, service-oriented environments and agile practices
• Hands-on experience leading release management activities for successful delivery of product launches

Nice to have Skills:

• Previous experience as a Scrum Master
• Working experience in JIRA/Confluence
• Experience with System Design and work independent of Architect on creating pragmatic solutions to technical problems, working with the scrum team.
• Working experience in Digital solutions team in Finance industry is an asset

Soft Skills Required:

• Demonstrated high level of analytical and problem-solving skills
• Diplomatic yet willing to have hard conversations with team members, products owner and delivery partners when there are challenges, issues impeding delivery execution
• Solid analytical and critical thinking skills with an ability to communicate at levels with all key organizational partners
• Need to be able to hit the ground running
• Great communication skills -oral and written

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree
• Software Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent an asset.

Candidate Review & Selection:

• 1-2 interviews - MS Teams Video - 45 minutes

Job Details

9629

Contract

Toronto