Agile Technical Lead

Scotiabank•Toronto, ON

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Contributes to the overall success of the Transaction Services Canadian Banking Engineering team, ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives. Ensures all activities conducted are in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures. This role is for an experienced lead with a keen interest in payments and retail payments core banking, who thrives in a fast-moving environment.

Requirements

Undergraduate Degree in Computer Science or technical equivalent
Minimum 4+ years’ experience in Software Delivery
Minimum 4+ years' of Mainframe/Host/Cloud development
Hands on experience using Agile framework and working in an agile environment
Excellent organizational and analytical skills
Capable of multi-tasking and managing concurrent tasks and initiatives
Operate with a sense of urgency and determination
Results driven; forward thinking with a problem solving mentality
Comfortable working in highly collaborative and changing environment
Must be reliable, pro-active, customer-focused, attentive to details, and a team player
Excellent communication skills, positive attitude with a strong commitment to

Responsibilities

Coordinate and support day to day development team activities as per the BNS policies/processes for critical retail payments core applications
Coordinate work in accordance with project implementation schedules
Pro-actively plan and manage diverse projects that differ in size and scope from their inception to delivery overseeing execution
Collaborate and plan work activities with application and support partners BNS (Release Management, GSOC, Kyndryl, QAT, etc.)
Work with the team and stakeholder to prioritize optimal value delivery within agreed upon timeframes
Interact with stakeholders to collaborate, align and resolve issues
Lead the team with a continuous improvement mindset, actively promote inclusivity and trust, promote an environment of curiosity and experimentation
Guide the team in adopting new ways of working, exploring enhancement in ways that align with the Bank’s strategic priorities while enabling the Agile mindset/framework
Off hours work is required to coordinate and facilitate releases, and support delivery and deployment activities , as well for production support/issues when the team gets paged
Act with urgency and criticality, evaluate problems blockers and bottlenecks, identify actions to be taken, assist the team to recommend/implement solutions