Senior Delivery Lead

Scotiabank • Toronto, ON

4d • Onsite

About The Position

As a Senior Delivery Lead, you will act as the Scrum Master and Delivery Manager within an Agile environment. You will ensure the successful delivery of software products within Global Wealth Management. 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 schedule, risks, issues, reporting and governance of projects.

Requirements

• 5 years' experience in managing and delivering complex software projects
• Demonstrates strong knowledge of Agile methodology while delivering IT projects. Ideally has Certified Scrum master certification (CSM / PSM)
• Expert knowledge and understanding of project management practices, disciplines, tools, and methodologies.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Tracking projects through each phase of project lifecycle
• Work with all the dependent teams and prepare execution plan
• Working with various teams to achieve end-to-end project delivery
• Ensure milestones are met and 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
• 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 ScotiaTech leadership attention
• Ability to articulate and clearly communicate complex problems and solutions in a simple and logical manner following stakeholder field of expertise
• Ability to work effectively with engineering Sr Managers and team 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.
• Contribute to the productivity and culture 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 conversations and 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

Benefits

• Upskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.
• Competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days and benefits will start on day one.
• Free tea & coffee, universal washrooms, and lots of space for team collaboration.
• Opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed