Delivery Program Manager, Banking

Delivery Program Manager, Banking
6 Month Contract- highly extendable, perm potential
4 Days on site in Oakville, ON

The Delivery Program Manager plays an important role in orchestrating the successful delivery of multiple squads that collectively contribute to the organization's strategic objectives. The role requires strong leadership, communication, and delivery management skills to drive collaboration and ensure the program's overall success. This individual will support a portfolio of work aligned to CTFS banking initiatives, including regulatory-driven programs and modernization of core banking applications and systems.
Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop a comprehensive program plan that defines the program's objectives, scope, deliverables, timelines, and resource requirements
• Identify and engage stakeholders, including executives, Business sponsors, and team members. Maintain regular communication to manage expectations, gather feedback, and ensure buy-in for program initiative
• Establish program governance structures, including steering committees or advisory boards, to provide oversight and guidance
• Coordinate and allocate resources across multiple squads within the program
• Identify and assess program risks
• Monitor the progress of squad delivery within the program, tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) and milestones
• Oversee the management of changes in program scope, schedule, and budget
• Facilitate the closure of the program upon successful completion
• Training and guidance (Establish guidelines) to the team members across squads to establish consistency

Skills:

• Experience delivering technology programs  within regulated financial environments, with applied knowledge of OSFI expectations and hands-on delivery of core banking system modernization.
• Financial management:  Budgeting, Forecasting, Accruals and Invoice Management, Variance Analysis
• Scope Management: Establishing outcomes, MVP, epics, stories, releases and milestones
• Resource Management:  Building and managing resource plans to deliver on defined scope leveraging FTE and partner resources
• Risk Management: Anticipating, identifying, capturing risks; driving plans to mitigate impacts to scope, timeline, budget; escalating and communicating
• Good understanding of Agile methodologies including SAFe
• Scrum and Kanban
• Product Lifecycle Management

Soft Skills:

• Outcome Focused Mindset
• Action Orientation
• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
• Stakeholder management
• Effective Communication
• Facilitation Skills
• Collaboration
• Problem Solving
• Empathy and Emotional Intelligence

Tool Skills:

• Planview
• Excel
• PowerPoint
• Jira/ Jira align
• Lucid
• Confluence

Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging
 We are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do. We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification. We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.
 Accommodations 
 We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.