Senior Project Manager/Scrum Master
About The Position
In this role, you will be working as a Senior Project Manager with a strong technical acumen delivering capabilities for Solutions Acceleration and Innovation, managing delivery of Proof of Technology, Proof of Concept or end-to-end delivery of new features and capabilities. These features are typically complex technical integration projects, involving changes and integration on various mid-tier or core systems within RBC, as well as the development of business requirements and user experience. You will also act as the Scrum Master responsible for your project’s agile events and overall well-being.
Requirements
- 7+ years of tech industry experience and/or project management experience of client facing products.
- Experience in Iterative Delivery and/or Agile, working with multiple partners, internal and external technology vendors as applicable, potentially in different time zones.
- Communication, organization, management and people skills - be able to communicate and present clearly to senior management and executives, as well as your project team.
- Experience managing several technical projects simultaneously and ability to thrive in ambiguity, both situational and procedural.
- High level understanding of system architecture, technical dependencies, and integration points across services.
- Working understanding of technical solution architecture from a product delivery perspective.
Nice To Haves
- Previous experience in banking or financial services in a Sr PM capacity.
- Previous experience managing delivery to a large public facing client base.
- Bachelor of Science in a technical discipline or equivalent experience.
- PMP and/or Scrum Master Certification.
Responsibilities
- Apply hands-on project management to manage all aspects of your project across different technology platforms internal and external to RBC, enabling successful feature-completion and launch.
- Drive and participate in recommending appropriate action plans with your understanding of the technical solution, communicating effectively with backend infrastructure and other technology teams, leveraging the team’s expertise
- Build and manage relationships with all project stakeholders both internal and external to your project, including communication to stakeholders and senior management on project status, issues and risks.
- Leverage risk and change management skills on projects - plan day-to-day coordination and quality assurance for projects and tasks.
- Deliver and own project outcomes that are aligned to established cost, timing, deliverable and scope objectives.
- Coordinate and run sprint events as per scrum best practices, while actively monitoring and improving the Scrum process and project progress, including identifying and resolving impediments in the development process.
- Foster self-organized and collaborative scrum team; sheltering the team from outside distractions to keep focus mainly on the agreed sprint goals.
- Evaluate technical proposals and design documents for feasibility, scalability, and alignment with program goals, while partnering with engineering leaders to contribute to informed technical trade-off decisions.
Benefits
- Ability to make a difference and lasting impact.
- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.
- Opportunities to do challenging work.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
