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Delivery Manager

CB Canada
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
$20 an hour (estimated)
Full-time

Delivery Manager

On behalf of our client in the Banking Sector, PROCOM is looking for a Delivery Manager.

Delivery Manager Job Description

Project to support the Real Time Rail (RTR) Project

Currently in the middle of the project

RTR will provide a platform for innovation to allow Payments Canada members to offer new ways for Canadians and Canadian businesses to pay and be paid in real-time, and to make use of rich payment data

May be asked to work on other assignments as well

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

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 sources

Needs to be expert in estimating and planning

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 Finance to ensure the alignment of budgets, spending and forecasts

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)

Regularly communicate with other scrum teams to ensure tactical story alignment and identifies / tracks dependencies between the team

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

Delivery Manager Mandatory Skills

5+ years of previous experience as a Delivery Lead / Delivery Manager / Senior PM with Scrum experience

Understands backlog tracking, Scrum and Kanban based metrics, task definition, story splitting

Good knowledge of software development processes and procedures to understand the team's needs

Familiar with common development practices, service-oriented environments and agile practices

Hands-on experience leading release management activities for successful delivery of product launches

Demonstrated high level of analytical and problem-solving skills

Diplomatic yet willing to have hard conversations with team members, products owner and delivery partners when there are challenges, issues impeding delivery execution

Solid analytical and critical thinking skills with an ability to communicate at levels with all key organizational partners

Need to be able to hit the ground running

Great communication skills -oral and written

Bachelor's Degree

Delivery Manager - Nice to Have Skills

Previous experience as a Scrum Master

Working experience in JIRA / Confluence

Experience with System Design and work independent of Architect on creating pragmatic solutions to technical problems, working with the scrum team.

Working experience in Digital solutions team in Finance industry is an asset

Software Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent an asset

Delivery Manager - Assignment Start Date

ASAP 2 months to start

Delivery Manager - Assignment Location

Toronto, ON Work Remotely

11 days ago
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