Delivery Lead, Scotia Digital

Requisition ID: 149637

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

As a Delivery Lead, you will act as the Scrum Master and Project Manager within an Agile environment. You will ensure the successful delivery of software products within Canadian Digital Banking. 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 Delivery Lead, you will also manage the budget, schedule, risks and issues.:
Is this role right for you?

Agile Project Management

• 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
• Pro-actively identify risks, maintain project risk tracker and communicate project risks to management
• Prepare work back schedules, roadmap, project status and capacity planning at a project level
• Accountable for tracking dependencies, impediments and removing them to enable the team: surface, track, escalate.
• Work closely with 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.)
• Ensure a balance between team capacity and workload is kept in order to achieve a successful project delivery
• Support app releases & rollout related activitie

Communication & Collaboration: Stakeholder Management

• Keep all stakeholders up to date on project status and roadblocks
• Ability to set expectations with all stakeholders, execute and communicate accordingly
• Diplomatic yet willing to have hard conversations with team members, products owner and delivery partners when there are challenges, issues impeding delivery execution
• Identification of risks and issues that require DF 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 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.

Communication & Collaboration: Scrum Master

• Contribute to the productivity and happiness 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 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
• Understanding team strengths and weaknesses in order to improve each phase of the project lifecycle
• Lead by example

Continuous Improvement

• Providing feedback to help improving processes and tools
• Working on aligning best practices across delivery team
• Continuous improvement and learning from other delivery team members
• Be able to adjust, learn and iterate frequently

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role?

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 3-4 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.
• Good knowledge of software development processes and procedures to understand the team needs.
• Working knowledge and experience on JIRA, confluence, Projects, and Office Suite
• 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.

What's in it for you?
- We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourage