Job Description

Our Banking client in TORONTO, Ontario is looking to hire a Delivery Manager for a 2-months contract role with strong possibility of extension for 5-6 extra months.

What you will be doing...

• 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.

What you will need to succeed...

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.

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