Hiring Manager: Senior Manager Development
Location Address: Hybrid – 333 King St W – currently fully remote – coming to office 1/month but open to 100% remote
Contract Duration: 6 months
Possibility for extension and conversion to FTE
Number of Positions: 1
Schedule Hours: 9-5 Mon-Fri, standard 37.5 hrs/week
Reason: New project
Story Behind the Need:
Business Group: Canadian Digital Banking Engineering – Applications – supports the mobile apps.
Project: Open Banking Project – connecting with other banks to process day to day banking; handling consent solutions for the project
Candidate Value Proposition: The candidate will have the opportunity to gain experience working in an Agile environment within the financial sector, working with Digital Channels on high visibility initiatives for one of the top 5 Canadian Banks
Typical Day in Role:
• 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 scrum teams 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
Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
1. 5+ years of previous 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 knowledge of 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
Nice to have Skills:
1. 2+ years’ experience as a Scrum Master
2. Experience as a Program Manager working with multiple complex initiatives, within banking
3. A big plus would be experience working in Digital Channels within Scotiabank
4. Working experience in JIRA/Confluence
5. Experience with System Design and work independent of Architect on creating pragmatic solutions to technical problems, working with the scrum team.
6. Working experience in Digital solutions team in Finance industry is an asset
Soft Skills Required:
• Great communication skills -oral and written
• 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 – people skills
• 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
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
10+ years is preferable but keeping at 5+ to be able to capture all levels. 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