Technical Delivery Lead

Technical Delivery Lead Scotiabank Toronto

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

Retail Deposits and Investments Technology within GWM is looking for a Technical Navigator/Delivery Lead to work on a strategic application suite. If you are excited to work on a business-critical application suite that demands high quality work in rolling out new applications, enhancements to the existing applications both with the speed, quality and assure production stability, this is the place for you.

Reporting to the Senior Manager Development, this Technical Navigator role is responsible for delivering and implementing applications for Investment Platform. You will be working closely with the Delivery Lead, Technical Lead, Solution Architect, and other SMEs.

Your role includes supporting a squad of developers QA and BSA while maintaining communication with business product owners, vendor and management. You will be contributing to the development of world-class digital products and experiences touching millions of Scotiabank customers every day. By joining our team, you will make an impact on our customers and the banking industry.
* 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.
* Identify and act on coaching opportunities at the individual and team level.
* Conduct regular assessments of a team Agile Maturity and use 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 and BSA 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)
* 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.
* Know about Lean, eliminating waste, focusing on value delivery, small batch production, frequent delivery of working software, adapting to change
* Understands backlog tracking, Scrum and Kanban based metrics, task definition, story splitting.
* Knowledge and experience with Agile techniques – Automated Testing, User Stories, TDD, Continuous Integration, Testing, etc.
* Good working knowledge of software development processes and procedures to understand the team needs.
* Familiar with common development practices, service-oriented environments and agile practices
* Demonstrated high level of analytical and problem-solving skills
* Working experience in JIRA/Confluence
* Experience with System Design and work independent…