Title:  Delivery Lead, Development - Global Wealth Management

Requisition ID: 206312

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

The Global Wealth Engineering client technology team is transforming the digital experience for its clients. The team partners and works closely with the Scotia Digital team to bring world-class digital experiences for all Scotia Wealth Management channels.  The team plays a key role to help investor manage their investments and reach their financial goals.

Global Wealth Engineering Technology Team is looking for an energetic and results-oriented Delivery Lead, Development to join our team to help build our platform for our international wealth customers. The Delivery Lead works with one or multiple teams who are delivering business value to customers.  As a Delivery Lead, Development with a strong technical background in software development, you are passionate about Agile methodologies, communication, technical alignments, continuous improvement and coaching to deliver the digital production for customers.

Is this role right for you? In this role you will:

• Your role involves leading and managing a cross functional team. You should possess strong leadership skills to inspire, motivate, and guide team members to achieve their project goals.
• Bring in technical expertise for productive discussions with the already acquired technical skills in the area of software development with Architects and Technical Leads.
• Guide and participate with the team to get educated estimates with the technical background and solution design experience.
• Work with the team to identify roadmap/feature dependencies and impediments. Be accountable for tracking the dependencies and impediments and removing them to enable the team: surface, track, escalate.
• Facilitate discussion, decision-making, and conflict resolution. Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised and resolved.
• Assist in the identification and mitigation of project risks.
• Ensures all stakeholders are identified and included in scope definition activities, understand the program schedule and key milestones and update schedule status regularly.
• Identify and act on coaching opportunities at the individual and team level.
• Conduct regular assessments of a team’s 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, especially with respect to story grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks using Agile best practices and project deliverables.
• Forecast the number of deliverables based on evidence and reliable sources.
• Be an expert in estimating and planning. Know how to create useful, reliable, and practical plans for software development projects.
• Coordinate operation readiness activities with associated teams (security, infrastructure, network, etc.).
• Oversee and coordinate software release activities.
• Actively participate and assist in timely decision-making in defining the 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 identify/track dependencies between the teams.
• Provide regular, standardized reporting for team performance: velocity, stories completed, and project status.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We’d love to work with you if you have:

Must Have Skills:

• 10+ years of technical project management experience and/or leading large cross-functional/cross-regional teams on major organizational projects primarly dealing with software development releases.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent
• Good knowledge of software development processes and procedures to understand the team needs
• Proven experience as an IT Delivery Manager or in a similar role.
• Working experience in Digital solutions team in Banking/Wealth / Brokerage industry is an asset.
• Knows 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, Continuous Integration, Testing, etc.
• Proficiency in defining technical roadmaps, decisions on technology stacks and guiding teams on best practices.
• Proficiency in architecting, designing, and deploying applications in a cloud native environment.
• Strong understanding of strategic and business planning processes
• Demonstrated high level of analytical and problem-solving skills
• Working experience in JIRA/Confluence
• Hands-on experience leading release management activities for successful delivery of product launches

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Experience with Continuous Development or Continuous Integration is a plus
• Strong understanding of UI/UX principles and best practices.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Familiarity with the wealth domain is a nice to have.
• Proficient in Spanish Language is a plus

What's in it for you?

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship - We strive to create an inclusive culture where every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are, and are embraced through bias-free practices and inclusive values across Scotiabank. We embrace diversity and provide opportunities for all employee to learn, grow & participate through our various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability & veterans.
• Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations - We value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Scotiabank continues to locate, remove and prevent barriers so that we can build a diverse and inclusive environment while meeting accessibility requirements.  
• Upskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance. 
• Competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days and benefits will start on day one.
• Dynamic Ecosystem - Free tea & coffee, universal washrooms, and lots of space for team collaboration.
• Community Engagement - No matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons, contests, cooking with friends, Humans of Digital and much more!

Working location condition: Hybrid

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Location(s):  Canada : Ontario : Toronto 

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.  

At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.