Job Title: Agile Delivery Manager
Location: Chicago
Start Date: July 1
Type: 6+m contract
About the Role:
We are seeking an experienced Agile Delivery Manager to lead the re-platforming of a customer-facing account opening platform for a major financial institution. This is a long-term, high-visibility project focused on bringing a proprietary, vendor-based solution in-house—impacting core banking services such as checking account setup, digital onboarding, and more.
You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including product owners, developers, testers, and executives, to ensure seamless delivery in an Agile environment.
Key Responsibilities:
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Drive the end-to-end Agile delivery of the account opening re-platforming initiative
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Manage and monitor project progress using JIRA and Clarity, ensuring alignment with business objectives
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Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders across product, technology, and business lines
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Facilitate Agile ceremonies and ensure Scrum best practices are followed
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Act as a liaison between Product Owners and delivery teams to ensure clear understanding of requirements
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Coordinate with vendors and internal teams on platform integration
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Adapt to fast-paced, evolving environments and remove impediments to delivery
Required Qualifications:
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5+ years of Agile Delivery or Project Management experience in the financial or banking industry
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Expertise with Agile/Scrum methodologies, including facilitating stand-ups, planning, and retrospectives
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Advanced JIRA skills (for tracking, reporting, and managing Agile backlogs)
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Experience with customer-facing digital platforms (account opening, online banking, deposits, lending, or credit card systems)
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Strong relationship-building and stakeholder management capabilities
Preferred Qualifications:
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Familiarity with Clarity PPM for portfolio and project tracking
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Experience working with vendor-based banking platforms
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Background in digital transformation and platform modernization projects
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Experience with re-platforming initiatives or migrating third-party solutions in-house
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Knowledge of deposit, credit, or lending products
The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is between $55.00 and $65.00
Our benefits offering includes medical, dental, vision and 401k.
Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.
Tundra Technical Solutions would like to thank you for the interest you have demonstrated in this opportunity. However, only candidates with the required skills will be contacted.
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Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Information Technology and Engineering staffing and consulting services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. Rather than continually trying to sell to new clients and companies and simply filling databases with candidates, we focus on developing stronger relationships and deeper knowledge of our existing clients’ challenges and opportunities. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
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