Senior Delivery Lead

Scotiabank • Toronto, ON

1d • Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking a Senior Delivery Lead – Risk & Delivery to drive enterprise risk remediation and executive visibility across Cloud Platform Engineering. This role is responsible for end-to-end coordination of risk identification, tracking, and remediation, while enabling clear, data-driven insights for executive leadership.

Requirements

• 6-8 years' experience in managing and delivering complex software projects
• Demonstrates strong knowledge of Agile methodology while delivering IT projects.
• 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

Nice To Haves

• Ideally has Certified Scrum master certification (CSM / PSM)

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end lifecycle of risks (identify, assess, assign, remediate, close)
• Partner with engineering and product teams to drive timely resolution of risks
• Maintain a centralized risk tracker with clear ownership and accountability
• Escalate material risks with clear business impact and mitigation plans to leadership
• Ensure alignment with audit, compliance, and governance requirements
• Build and maintain executive dashboards using tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or Jira
• Provide concise updates on risk posture, trends, and remediation progress
• Translate technical risks into business-level insights and decision points
• Enable data-driven prioritization and decision-making for leadership
• Work across all Cloud Engineering teams to align ownership, timelines, and priorities
• Facilitate regular risk and delivery forums with stakeholders
• Remove blockers and enable teams to maintain delivery momentum
• Identify risk and issues that require CPE leadership attention
• Be able to articulate and clearly communicate complex problems and Solutions in a simple and logical manner following stakeholder field of expertise
• Be able to work effectively with engineering Sr Managers and Directors 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 happiness of the team
• Support squad team members in challenging situations (resource / release challenges, cross-team communication)
• Introduce agile engineering best practices
• Schedule ad-hoc meetings to solve for disagreements or ambiguities to reduce risk of jeopardizing milestones and or artifacts
• Ease conversations and promote constructive attitude
• Facilitate and ensure healthy communication between project team members
• Schedule and chair scrum ceremonies.
• Be accountable for conducting regular retros and addressing team’s feedback
• Monitor scrum team progress by preparing reports/charts
• Understand team strengths and weaknesses to improve each phase of the project lifecycle
• Provide feedback to help improve processes and tools
• Work on aligning best practices across delivery team
• work on 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

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.
• Community Engagement - no matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons, contests, Humans of Digital and much more!

What This Job Offers

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