Requisition ID: 275318
The role:As a Senior Delivery Manager (Execution Lead), you will be accountable for the end-to-end delivery of one or more teams within a large-scale Agile program, acting as a Scrum Master and Project Manager within the Cloud & Developer Enablement portfolio. You will ensure the successful delivery of products within a portfolio. You will lead and support Agile scrum teams, ensuring Agile methodology and principles are executed effectively. You will identify, escalate, and remove release and team impediments. As a Senior Execution Lead, you will also manage schedule, risks, and issues.
What will you do?Agile Project Management• Accountable for the end-to-end delivery of Cloud and Developer Enablement product/capabilities
• Manages projects through each phase of project lifecycle, facilitates scrum ceremonies
• Work with all the dependent teams and prepare an execution plan
• Ensure milestones are met and the project has gone through all approval gates
• Document project status & assist team in maintaining information repositories
• Maintain project risk tracker and communicate project risks to management
• Prepare work back schedules, roadmap and capacity planning at a project level
• Ensure a balance between team capacity and workload is kept to achieve a successful project delivery
• Support app releases & rollout related activities
Communication & Collaboration: Stakeholder Management• Accountable for all project reporting- daily, weekly, monthly
• Able to set expectations with all stakeholders, execute and communicate accordingly
• Identify risks and issues that require 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 and products 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• Maintain agile engineering best practices
• Supporting project team members in challenging situations (resource / release challenges, cross-team communication)
• Scheduling ad-hoc meetings to solve disagreements or ambiguities in order to reduce risk of jeopardizing milestones and artifacts
• 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 improve processes and tools
• Working on aligning best practices across delivery team
• Continuous improvement and learning from other delivery team members
• Take active role on application audit related activities
• Be able to adjust, learn and iterate frequently
What do you need to succeed?- 5-7 years' experience in managing and delivering complex software projects, with experience in Cloud and Developer Enablement programs
- Demonstrate 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.
- Strong problem solving, critical thinking and analytical skills to rapidly assess problem situations.
- Demonstrate 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; Demonstrate proactivity and accountability.
What's in it for you?- We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity and curiosity and celebrates success
- We provide you with the tools and technology needed to create meaningful customer experiences
- You'll get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology companies around the world
- We hire you for your talent - not just a job - so you can grow with us. We'll equip you for success not only in your role, but also in your career as a whole
- Access to thousands of online and in-person courses so you can hone your current skills, or learn new ones
- A competitive rewards package that includes a base salary, a performance bonus, company matching programs on pension and profit sharing, paid vacation, personal & sick days, medical, vision, and dental and much more
Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto
