Senior Project Manager / Delivery Lead – Migration and Infrastructure projects

JOB DESCRIPTION

Location: Hybrid (Downtown, Toronto)

Duration: 12 months

Our client, a leading financial institution in Downtown Toronto, is looking for – Senior Project Manager / Delivery Lead – Migration and Infrastructure projects to be responsible for Tracking projects through each phase of the project lifecycle, facilitating scrum ceremonies. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with one of the Top 5 Banks in Canada.

Typical Day in role:

Agile Project Management

  • Work with all the dependent teams and prepare an execution plan, facilitating
  • Working with various teams to achieve end-to-end project delivery
  • 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 in order to achieve a successful project delivery
  • Support app releases & rollout workback related activities

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
  • Identification of risks and issues that require DF leadership attention
  • Ability to articulate and clearly communicate complex problems and Solutions simply and logically, following the stakeholder’s 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
  • Take active role on application audit related activities
  • Be able to adjust, learn and iterate frequently

Must-Have Skills:

  • 8-10 years of experience as a Project Manager or related industry experience
  • 5-7 years’ experience in managing and delivering complex software projects
  • 5+ years of recent experience with managing large volume of Migration and infrastructure projects
  • Demonstrates strong knowledge of Agile methodology while delivering IT projects. Ideally has Certified Scrum master certification (CSM / PSM)

Nice-To-Have Skills:

  • Previous experience with GCP cloud is highly preferred
  • Recent experience with CI/CD pipeline
  • Previous experience with Top 5 banks / Financial institutes in nice to have

Soft Skills Required:

  • 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.

Education:

  • Bachelor’s Degree level or above education, ideally in business, financial or technology
  • Certified Scrum master certification (CSM)
  • PMP certification

Finance professional is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong. We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities and we provide an accessible candidate experience. We advocate for you and welcome anyone regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, physical or mental disability, or age.