Title:  Senior Manager, Agile & Initiative Enablement

Requisition ID: 229608

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

Purpose

Contributes to the overall success of projects execution in the Technology, Project Governance, PMO & Reporting in Canada and LATAM countries ensuring that engineering tasks align with the organization’s objectives and goals, plans and initiatives are executed and delivered on time, quality, cost, and scope in an agile framework through collaboration, agile practices, and technical guidance. Ensures all activities conducted are following governing regulations, internal policies, and procedures.

Accountabilities

• Design, implement and execute all-bank wide projects that are aimed at advancing goals and priorities and ensuring roadmaps are met in terms of quality, time, and scope.
• Execute projects and initiatives at the All-Bank level with technology and business lines. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, design and develop roadmaps, issue identification, analysis to assess impact and presenting compelling recommendations.
• Lead the Engineering and/or Project teams through agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily standups, retrospectives, and backlog refinement, ensuring that the team is aligned with project goals.
• Act as the primary liaison between the Data Engineering team, Product Owners, and Teams to ensure that technical tasks are aligned with the roadmap, quality, expected scope and business priorities.
• Collaborate with Director PMO and Senior Managers PMO to translate business strategic objectives into actionable plans for technical teams.
• Provide technical direction and support to the data engineering team and project teams, ensuring that best practices in data pipeline development, ETL/ELT processes, and cloud architecture are followed.
• Lead discussions on architectural design, tool selection, and technical problem-solving, ensuring the team is equipped to handle complex challenges.
• Execute problem solving, with cross-functional teams, business lines and Technology, remove obstacles and escalate when necessary.
• Identify potential risks and roadblocks in the delivery of project tasks and work proactively to mitigate and solve them in collaboration with the team and other stakeholders and inform Director PMO and stakeholders.
• Apply implementation controls that manage trade-offs and keep deliverables and milestones on track and on time, including proactive mitigation of project risks.
• Control overall projects budget, accomplishing funding strategy and project efficiency, including budgeting, financial analysis, performance measurement, vendor and contract management and expense management.
• Implement IB Data Management Strategic Project to Establish an efficient, streamlined process for managing data across the region, working closely with the data engineering team to monitor and optimize the performance of data pipelines, ensuring that they meet performance, scalability, and reliability standards.
• Support the implementation of Data Management, Software Currency, Hardware Currency, Modernization and Transformation projects among others, across the region, working closely with project teams to monitor and optimize the performance of data, software currency, hardware currency, modernization, and Transformation pipelines, ensuring bank’s standards.
• Synthesize findings, report regular status, and present clear recommendations and implementation plans facilitating communication between technical and non-technical stakeholders to ensure impactful project outcomes to Director PMO and stakeholders.  
• Establish performance monitoring and optimization by key metrics, reviews, and project outcomes measurement.  
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement in project management, ensuring that lessons learned from previous projects are applied and optimize future projects, encouraging regular retrospectives to identify areas for improvement in both technical processes and agile practices.
• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of their respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational, compliance, AML/ATF/sanctions and conduct risk.
• Champions a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.

Education and Experience

• 5 years + of Experience in Project management
• 3 years + of relevant experience in banking industry
• Proven Experience running projects, with large group of cross-functional teams.
• Proven ability to make presentations to multiple stakeholders and communication skills to deal with all levels of management and cross-functional teams
• Experience in engaging with stakeholders at all levels, including executives.
• Ability to deliver results in a fast-paced, challenging, and dynamic business environment.
• Exceptional analytical and technical problem-solving skills, with ability to manage ambiguity.
• Engineering bachelor’s degree is optional but preferred.
• Formal Project Management education is desired
• PMP Certification is an asset

What's in it for you?

• We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity, curiosity, and celebrates success!
• We provide you with the tools and technology needed to create beautiful customer experiences.
• You will get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology companies around the world.
• Dress codes do not apply here, being comfortable does.
• We offer a competitive total rewards package that includes a base salary, a performance bonus, company matching programs (on pension & profit sharing), vacation, personal & sick days, personal development funding, maternity leave top-up, parental leave and much more.
   
  

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.