Location Address : Hybrid - King Street E 1-2 / week (Tues, Wed, Thurs but team dependent / subject to change)
Contract Duration : 6 months
Possibility of extension & conversion to FTE
Number of Positions : 1
Story Behind the Need
Business group : Canadian Digital Banking Engineering Applications supports the mobile apps for bank.
Project : PEGA migration will be assisting with this, in initial phases - within the group will be leading 2 teams working on different workstreams within Marvel, with different deliverables but with same end goal for project
Responsibilities :
- 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
- Regularly communicate with other Squads to ensure tactical story alignment and identifies / tracks dependencies between the team.
- 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)
- 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
Must Have Skills :
1. 10+ years of previous combined experience as a Delivery Lead / Delivery Manager / Senior PM with Scrum experience
2. 5+ years’ experience with backlog tracking, Scrum and Kanban based metrics, task definition, story splitting.
3. Demonstrated experience with software development processes and procedures to understand the team needs - SDLC
4. 3+ years’ experience working in an Agile environment, with common development practices and in service-oriented environments
5. 3+ years hands-on experience leading release management activities for successful delivery of product launches and working with the team on day-today activities
Nice-To-Have Skills :
1. 2+ years’ experience as a Scrum Master
2. Pega experience
3. A big plus is experience as Delivery Lead role for Digital
4. Experience as a Program Manager working with multiple complex initiatives, within banking
5. Working experience in JIRA / Confluence
6. Experience with System Design and work independent of Architect on creating pragmatic solutions to technical problems, working with the scrum team.
Education :
- Bachelor’s Degree - Software Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent an asset
- CSM an asset
- PMP an asset
- Scrum At Scale an asset
Best VS. Average Candidate :
Someone who can handle multiple initiatives at this time, acting as a pseudo-program manager, has good knowledge of Agile and Scrum, and can lead a high performing Agile team.
Has worked in Delivery Lead role for Bank Digital is a strong asset, or with Digital Channels in an FI; Pega experience would set them apart to be able to provide expertise on the project.
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